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Genesis 1:17

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17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,

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Arcana Coelestia #3280

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3280. 'Abraham begot Isaac' means that the Divine itself begot the Divine Rational. This is clear from the representation of 'Abraham' as the Divine itself, and from the representation of 'Isaac' as the Divine Rational, often dealt with already.

  
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Genesis 25:20

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20 And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padan-aram, the sister to Laban the Syrian.