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1 Mose 26:10

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10 Abimelech sprach: Warum hast du das getan? Es wäre leicht geschehen, daß jemand vom Volk sich zu deinem Weibe gelegt hätte, und hättest also eine Schuld auf uns gebracht.

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Arcana Coelestia #3410

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3410. And the Philistines envied him. That this signifies that they who were in the mere memory-knowledge of knowledges did not apprehend, is evident from the signification of “envying,” as being here not to apprehend, as is evident from what follows; and from the signification of “Philistia,” as being the memory-knowledge of knowledges; thus by the “Philistines” are meant those who are in this memory-knowledge (n. 1197, 1198).

  
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