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1 Mosebok 19:22

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22 Skynd dig, fly dit! For jeg kan intet gjøre før du kommer dit. Derfor kaller de den by Soar*. / {* d.e. småby.}

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Arcana Coelestia #2314

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2314. Besides this, 'the inhabitants of Sodom' describes, in the internal sense, the state of those people inside the same Church who are averse to the good of charity, and describes how evil and falsity among them increases with the passage of time until nothing but evil and falsity are theirs.

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.

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Genesis 19:30

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30 Lot went up out of Zoar, and lived in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he was afraid to live in Zoar. He lived in a cave with his two daughters.