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Genesis 6:3

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3 And the Lord said, My spirit will not be in man for ever, for he is only flesh; so the days of his life will be a hundred and twenty years.

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Arcana Coelestia #667

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667. Thou shalt enter into the ark, thou and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons’ wives with thee. That this signifies that he would be saved, is evident from what has been said before and from what follows: that he was saved because regenerated.

  
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