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1 Mosebok 19:29

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29 Således gikk det til at da Gud ødela byene på sletten, da kom Gud Abraham i hu og førte Lot midt ut av ødeleggelsen - dengang han ødela de byer som Lot hadde bodd i.

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Arcana Coelestia #2460

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2460. And dwelt in the mountain. That this signifies that they then betook themselves to a kind of good, is evident from the signification of a “mountain,” as being love in every sense, namely, celestial and spiritual love (n. 795, 1430); and also the love of self and of the world (n. 1691); and this because most things in the Word have also an opposite sense. And as all good is of some love, by the “mountain” is here signified good; but what kind of good is described in what follows, namely, that it was obscure, and became impure; for it is presently said that he “dwelt in a cave,” and afterwards that profane things took place there.

  
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