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Genesis 7:2

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2 ἀπὸ δὲ τῶν κτηνῶν τῶν καθαρῶν εἰσάγαγε πρὸς σὲ ἑπτὰ ἑπτά ἄρσεν καὶ θῆλυ ἀπὸ δὲ τῶν κτηνῶν τῶν μὴ καθαρῶν δύο δύο ἄρσεν καὶ θῆλυ

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Arcana Coelestia #786

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786. That by “forty days” is signified the duration of the church called “Noah” was shown above (at verse 4). Here it is “forty days” there “forty days and forty nights;” because in that place the duration of temptation was signified, in which the “nights” are anxieties.

  
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