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Genesis 11:5

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5 και-C καταβαινω-VZI-AAI3S κυριος-N2--NSM οραω-VB--AAN ο- A--ASF πολις-N3I-ASF και-C ο- A--ASM πυργος-N2--ASM ος- --ASM οικοδομεω-VAI-AAI3P ο- A--NPM υιος-N2--NPM ο- A--GPM ανθρωπος-N2--GPM

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Arcana Coelestia #1337

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1337. That these things are signified, calls for no confirmation, being evident from the signification of the same words as given above. I shall merely state that the internal worship of this church was no other than a kind of memory-knowledge [scientificum], thus a kind of love which may be called a love of truth. For when this church began, there was scarcely any charity left, and therefore scarcely any faith, which comes solely from charity; as also is evident from what was said just before concerning the city and the tower of Babel, in that Jehovah did confound the lip of all the earth (verse 9).

  
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