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Genesis 15:14

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14 But I will judge the nation which they shall serve, and after this they shall come out with great substance.

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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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Genesis 14:8

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8 The king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrah, and the king of Admah, and the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (the same is Zoar) went out; and they set the battle in array against them in the valley of Siddim;