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Genesis 19:28

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28 En hij zag naar Sodom en Gomorra toe, en naar het ganse land van die vlakte; en hij zag, en ziet, er ging een rook van het land op, gelijk de rook eens ovens.

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Arcana Coelestia #2370

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2370. 'Stand back' means their angry threats, that is, threats against the good that flows from charity. This is clear from the meaning of 'Lot' as the good that flows from charity, to whom, and concerning whom, these words were addressed. That they are angry threats is evident from these words themselves and from those that follow. It may also be evident that they embody the consideration that if he spoke about or commended that good any further they would utterly reject it, meant by 'stand back'.

  
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