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But he made his request more strongly, so they went with him into his house; and he got food ready for them, and made unleavened bread, of which they took.
Genesis 19:3
Arcana Coelestia #2374
2374. They pressed upon the man. That this signifies that they desired to offer violence to truth, is evident from the signification of a man [vir], as being the intellectual and rational in man, and consequently truth (see n. 158, 1007). To offer violence to truth is to pervert the things of faith; and these are perverted when they are separated from charity, and when it is denied that they lead to the good of life.
