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1 Mose 7:6

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6 Er war aber sechshundert Jahre alt, da das Wasser der Sintflut auf Erden kam.

from the Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg

 

Arcana Coelestia #759

Studere hoc loco

  
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759. That the “rain” here is temptation is evident from what has been said and shown above, concerning a “flood” and an “inundation;” and also from the signification of the “fountains of the deep were broken up” and the “cataracts of heaven were opened” as being temptations.

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