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Genesis 19:1

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1 And the two angels came to Sodom ii in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gate of the city. And seeing them, he rose up and went to meet them: and worshipped prostrate to the ground,

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Arcana Coelestia #2394

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2394. Verse 13 For we are destroying this place, for their cry has become great before Jehovah; and Jehovah has sent us to destroy it.

'For we are destroying this place' means that the state of evil which was theirs would condemn them. 'For their cry has become great before Jehovah' means because falsity deriving from evil is so extensive. 'And Jehovah has sent us to destroy it' means that they must inevitably perish.

  
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