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Ja hän matkusti edespäin etelästä BetEliin asti, hamaan siihen paikkaan, jossa hänen majansa oli ennen ollut, BetElin ja Ain vaiheella:
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Ja hän matkusti edespäin etelästä BetEliin asti, hamaan siihen paikkaan, jossa hänen majansa oli ennen ollut, BetElin ja Ain vaiheella:
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1600. The men of Sodom were wicked and sinners against Jehovah exceedingly. That this signifies the cupidities to which the memory-knowledges extended themselves, is evident from the signification of “Sodom,” explained before, as being cupidities; and from the signification of “the men [viri],” as being intellectual and rational things, here, memory-knowledges, because they are predicated of the external man when separated from the internal. That “men” signify intellectual and rational things, was also shown above (n. 265, 749, 1007). Memory-knowledges are said to extend themselves to cupidities, when they are learned with no other end than that the man may become great; not that they may serve him for use, that he may thereby become good. All memory-knowledges are for the end that a man may become rational, and thus wise; and that thereby he may serve the internal man.