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Genesis 21:16

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16 And she went, and sat her down over against him a good way off, as it were a bowshot: for she said, Let me not see the death of the child. And she sat over against him, and lift up her voice, and wept.

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Arcana Coelestia #2647

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2647. 'And was weaned' means separation of the merely human rational. This is clear from the meaning of 'being weaned' as being separated in the way infants are from their mothers' breasts. The separation of the merely human rational is described further still in this chapter and is represented by Hagar's son being cast out of the house.

  
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