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Genesis 14:8

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8 And the king of Sodom and the king of Gomorrah, and the king of Admah, and the king of Zeboim, and the king of Bela, which is Zoar, went out, and they joined battle with them in the vale of Siddim,

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The Inner Meaning of the Prophets and Psalms #416

  
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416. Internal Meaning of Genesis, Chapter 15

1-6 Since there was as yet only multiplication of truth, and not the fructification of good, and thus not the church, He was urgent that the church might exist with Him;

7-21 but it is foretold what the church and its conjunction with the Lord would be, namely, that it would be perverted.

  
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