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Genesis 6:5

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5 And Jehovah saw that the wickedness of Man was great on the earth, and every imagination of the thoughts of his heart only evil continually.

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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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