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1 Mose 13:18

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18 Und Abram schlug Zelte auf, und kam und wohnte unter den Terebinthen Mamres, die bei Hebron sind; und er baute daselbst Jehova einen Altar.

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Arcana Coelestia #1655

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1655. Apparent truths and goods, which are not in themselves truths and goods, took possession of the external man (verse 12); and the rational man which is “Abram the Hebrew,” perceiving this, laid claim to it and liberated it (verses 13 to 16).

  
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