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Genesis 25:12

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12 οὗτος- D--NPF δέ-X ὁ- A--NPF γένεσις-N3I-NPF *ισμαηλ-N---GSM ὁ- A--GSM υἱός-N2--GSM *αβρααμ-N---GSM ὅς- --ASM τίκτω-VBI-AAI3S *αγαρ-N---NSF ὁ- A--NSF παιδίσκη-N1--NSF *σαρρα-N---GSF ὁ- A--DSM *αβρααμ-N---DSM

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Arcana Coelestia #3664

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3664. 'Go to Paddan Aram' means the cognitions of such truth. This is clear from the meaning of 'Aram' or Syria as cognitions, dealt with in 1232, 1234, 3249. The reason 'Paddan Aram' means cognitions of truth is that it was situated in Syria of the [Two] Rivers, where Nahor, Bethuel, and Laban lived; for 'Syria' means the cognitions of truth, see 3051. Paddan Aram has also been referred to previously in 25:20, and is mentioned again in 31:18 below; and in those places too it means cognitions of truth.

  
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