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창세기 16:4

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4 아브람이 하갈과 동침하였더니 하갈이 잉태하매 그가 자기의 잉태함을 깨닫고 그 여주인을 멸시한지라

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Arcana Coelestia #1892

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1892. THE INTERNAL SENSE

Verse 1 And Sarai, Abram's wife, bore him no child. And she had an Egyptian servant-girl, and her name was Hagar.

'Sarai, Abram's wife, bore him no child' means that the Rational Man did not as yet exist, 'Sarai' being truth allied to good, 'Abram' the Lord's Internal Man, which is Jehovah. 'And she had an Egyptian servant-girl' means the affection for knowledge. 'And her name was Hagar' means the life of the exterior or natural man.

  
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