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Genesi 16:11

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11 E l’angelo dell’Eterno le disse ancora: "Ecco, tu sei incinta, e partorirai un figliuolo, al quale porrai nome Ismaele, perché l’Eterno t’ha ascoltata nella tua afflizione;

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Arcana Coelestia #1915

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1915. And she saw that she conceived. That this signifies the first life of the rational, is evident from the signification of “conception” as being the first life (here as before, n. 1910).

  
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