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Genesis 16:11

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11 And again: Behold, said he, thou art with child, and thou shalt bring forth a son: and thou shalt call his name Ismael, because the Lord hath heard thy affliction.

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Arcana Coelestia #1916

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1916. That 'I am despised in her eyes' means that at its conception this rational despised truth itself that was allied to good is clear from what has been stated just above in 1911, 1914.

  
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