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Genesis 1:29

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29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.

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Arcana Coelestia #738

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738. He is called 'a son of six hundred years' here because, as shown already, 'son' means intellectual truth. He is not however referred to as a son in verse 11 below because there the subject is his temptation as regards things of the will.

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.

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2 Samuel 5:4

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4 David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years.

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