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Genesis 15:13

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13 And it was said unto him: Know thou beforehand that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land not their own, and they shall bring them under bondage, and afflict them four hundred years.

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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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