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Genesis 18:18

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18 Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?

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Arcana Coelestia #2215

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2215. That 'Sarah denied it, saying, I did not laugh; for she was afraid' means that human rational truth wished to make excuses for itself because it realized that it was not such as it ought to have been becomes clear without explanation.

  
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