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Genesis 11:25

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25 A živ byl Náchor po zplození Táre sto a devatenácte let; a plodil syny a dcery.

from the Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg

 

Arcana Coelestia #1359

Studere hoc loco

  
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1359. Verse 27 And these are the generations of Terah: Terah begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran, and Haran begot Lot.

'These are the generations of Terah' means the origins and derivatives of the idolatry, from which a representative Church emerged. Terah was the son of Nahor, and also a nation that was named after him as its forefather. He means idolatrous worship. Abram, Nahor, and Haran were the sons of Terah and also nations that were named after them as their forefathers. Here they mean forms of idolatrous worship stemming from them. From Lot also two nations descended which were idolaters.

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.