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1 Mózes 17:1

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1 Mikor Ábrám kilenczvenkilencz esztendõs vala, megjelenék az Úr Ábrámnak, és monda néki: Én a mindenható Isten vagyok, járj én elõttem, és légy tökéletes.

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Arcana Coelestia #2014

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2014. That 'I will make nations of you' means that all good comes from Him is clear from the meaning of 'nations' in its genuine and primary sense as good, dealt with in Volume One, in 1259, 1260, 1416, 1849.

  
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Arcana Coelestia #1260

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1260. Since 'nations' in the Most Ancient Church and in the Ancient Church meant goods or good persons, therefore also in the contrary sense they mean evils or evil persons Similarly with 'peoples'; since these meant truths, therefore also in the contrary sense they mean falsities. For in a corrupted Church good is turned into evil, and truth into falsity, as a consequence of which the meaning of nations and peoples in that contrary sense occurs many times in the Word, as in Isaiah 13:4; 14:6; 18:2, 7; 30:28; 34:1-2; Ezekiel 20:13; and in many other places.

  
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