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Genesis 13:10

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10 Lot lifted up his eyes, and saw all the plain of the Jordan, that it was well-watered everywhere, before Yahweh destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like the garden of Yahweh, like the land of Egypt, as you go to Zoar.

from the Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg

 

Arcana Coelestia #1544

Studere hoc loco

  
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1544. It has already been shown that here, in the internal sense, “Abram” is the Lord while still a child, and that “Egypt” is memory-knowledge.

  
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