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创世记 6:3

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3 耶和华:人既属乎血气,我的灵就不永远住在他里面;然而他的日子还可到一二十年。

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Arcana Coelestia #758

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758. Verse it And there was rain over the earth for forty days and forty nights means the time this temptation lasted, 'rain' being temptation, 'forty days and nights' its duration.

  
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