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Genesis 3:1

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1 Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which Jehovah God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of any tree of the garden?

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Arcana Coelestia #285

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285. The sixth and seventh generations' being separated from knowledge of good and truth and being left to their own foul loves and persuasions and the consequent provision made to prevent their profaning the holy things of faith, which is meant by 'being cast out and causing cherubim with the flame of a sword to dwell there to guard the way to the tree of life, 1 is dealt with in verse 24.

Footnotes:

1. literally, of lives

  
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