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Genesis 12:7

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7 καί-C ὁράω-VVI-API3S κύριος-N2--NSM ὁ- A--DSM *αβραμ-N---DSM καί-C εἶπον-VBI-AAI3S αὐτός- D--DSM ὁ- A--DSN σπέρμα-N3M-DSN σύ- P--GS δίδωμι-VF--FAI1S ὁ- A--ASF γῆ-N1--ASF οὗτος- D--ASF καί-C οἰκοδομέω-VAI-AAI3S ἐκεῖ-D *αβραμ-N---NSM θυσιαστήριον-N2N-ASN κύριος-N2--DSM ὁ- A--DSM ὁράω-VV--APPDSM αὐτός- D--DSM

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Arcana Coelestia #1485

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1485. And he did well unto Abram for her sake. That this signifies that memory-knowledges were multiplied with the Lord, is evident from the signification of “doing well unto,” as being to enrich. This is said of the memory-knowledge that is signified by “Pharaoh,” that it did well unto Abram, that is to the Lord when a child; and this for her sake, that is, for the sake of the intellectual truth that He desired. It was this desire for truth from which the enriching came.

  
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