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创世记 23:12

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12 亚伯拉罕就在那的人民面前下拜,

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Arcana Coelestia #2938

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2938. 'Let him give it to me in the midst of you as a possession for a grave' means possession gained thus through regeneration. This becomes clear without explanation, for 'a grave' is regeneration, as shown above in 2916.

  
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Genesis 23:4

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4 "I am a stranger and a foreigner living with you. Give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight."