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Genezo 7:19

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19 Kaj la akvo treege fortigxis kaj tre multigxis sur la tero; kaj kovrigxis cxiuj altaj montoj, kiuj estas sub la cxielo.

from the Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg

 

Arcana Coelestia #738

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738. Noah is here called “a son of six hundred years” because a “son” signifies truth of the understanding, as before shown. But in the eleventh verse he (Genesis 7:11) is not called a “son” because there his temptation as to things of the will is treated of.

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

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Genesis 7:11

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11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day all the fountains of the great deep were burst open, and the sky's windows were opened.