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Lord, saith he, be not angry, I beseech thee, if I speak: What if thirty shall be found there? He answered: I will not do it, if I And thirty there.
2224. That 'Jehovah said' means perception is clear from the meaning of 'saying' as perceiving, dealt with already in 1898, 1919, 2080. Here, the words being 'Jehovah said', the meaning is that the Lord perceived from the Divine.
Studere hoc loco
Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.