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Genesis 20:3

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3 But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, Behold, thou art but a dead man, for the woman which thou hast taken; for she is a man's wife.

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Arcana Coelestia #2582

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2582. 'And his wife' means as regards truth. This is clear from the meaning of 'a wife' as truth, dealt with immediately above in 2581.

  
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