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peradventure there shall lack five of the fiftyrighteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said, I will not destroy it, if I find there forty and five.
2267. That 'perhaps the fifty righteous persons will lack five' means if it were something less is clear from the meaning of 'five' as small or less. The meaning of this number is dealt with in Volume One, in 649; and what 'the fifty righteous persons' means has been shown above in 2252.
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