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Genesis 18:28

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28 What if there will lack five of the fifty righteous? Will you destroy all the city for lack of five?" He said, "I will not destroy it, if I find forty-five there."

from the Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg

 

Arcana Coelestia #2200

Studere hoc loco

  
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2200. That 'it had ceased to be with Sarah in the way it is with women' means that [the state of rational truth] could remain so no longer is clear from what has now been stated, and so without explanation.

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