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Genesis 7:17

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17 And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth.

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Arcana Coelestia #763

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763. Thus far temptations have been treated of; and now follows the end or purpose of the temptation, which was that a new church might arise.

  
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