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Genesis 6:16

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16 A light shalt thou make to the ark; and to a cubit high shalt thou finish it above. And the door of the ark shalt thou set in its side: [with] a lower, second, and third [story] shalt thou make it.

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Arcana Coelestia #631

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631. That the end of all flesh is come before Me signifies that the human race could not but perish, is evident from the words themselves, and from the signification of “flesh” which means every man in general, and specifically the corporeal man, as already shown.

  
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