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Genesis 18:5

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5 and I will fetch a morsel of bread, and strengthen ye your heart; after that ye shall pass on: forasmuch as ye are come to your servant. And they said, So do, as thou hast said.

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Arcana Coelestia #2263

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2263. Verse 27 And Abraham answered and said, Behold now' I have undertaken to speak to my Lord, and I am [but] dust and ashes. 'Abraham answered and said' means the Lord's thought from the human. 'Behold now, I have undertaken to speak to my Lord, and I am [but] dust and ashes' means [the state of] humiliation in the human as to what the human was in comparison.

  
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