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Genesi 4:25

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25 E Adamo conobbe ancora la sua moglie, ed essa partorì un figliuolo, a cui pose nome Seth, "perché" ella disse, "Iddio m’ha dato un altro figliuolo al posto d’Abele, che Caino ha ucciso".

from the Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg

 

Arcana Coelestia #432

Studere hoc loco

  
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432. Verse 24. If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold. These words signify that they had extinguished the faith meant by “Cain” to do violence to which was sacrilege, and at the same time had extinguished the charity which should be born through faith, a far greater sacrilege, and that for this there was condemnation, that is, a “seventy and sevenfold avengement.”

  
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