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1 Mose 16:15

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15 Und Hagar gebar dem Abram einen Sohn; und Abram gab seinem Sohne, den Hagar geboren hatte, den Namen Ismael.

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Arcana Coelestia #1948

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1948. Verse 12. And he shall be a wild-ass [onager] man; his hand against all, and the hand of all against him; and he shall dwell against the faces of all his brethren. “He shall be a wild-ass man,” signifies rational truth, which is described; “his hand against all,” signifies that it will wage war upon whatever is not true; “and the hand of all against him,” signifies that falsities will fight back; “and he shall dwell against the faces of all his brethren,” signifies that there will be continual contentions about matters of faith; but that nevertheless it will be a conqueror.

  
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