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Genesis 21:32

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32 And they made a covenant at Beer-sheba. And Abimelech rose up, and Phichol the captain of his host, and returned into the land of the Philistines.

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Arcana Coelestia #2680

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2680. Verse 15 And the water from the flask was used up, and she put the boy under one of the shrubs.

'The water from the flask was used up' means the desolation of truth. 'And she put the boy under one of the shrubs' means despair that no truth or good at all was perceived.

  
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