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Genesis 7:21

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21 And destruction came on every living thing moving on the earth, birds and cattle and beasts and everything which went on the earth, and every man.

from the Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg

 

Arcana Coelestia #771

Studere hoc loco

  
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771. As every expression in the Word is from the Lord, and therefore has what is Divine within it, it is evident that there is no word, nor even an iota, that does not signify and involve something. And so it is here, when it is said “three wives” and the wives “of his sons” and also “with them.” But what the particulars involve it would take too long to explain. It is sufficient to give only a general idea of their most general import.

  
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