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Genesis 19:18

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18 And Lot said to them, Not so, O my Lord;

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Arcana Coelestia #2415

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2415. That 'so it was, when they were leading them away outside' means a state when they were to be withheld from falsity and evil is clear from what has been stated just above in 2413, as well as from what is stated in 2388, 2411.

  
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