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Genesis 9:23

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23 And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness.

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Arcana Coelestia #1061

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1061. That 'Noah's sons who went out of the ark' means those who constituted the Ancient Church, and 'who went out of the ark' those who had been regenerated, is clear from all that follows; for what is involved will be evident from this.

  
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