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1 Mosebok 28:13

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13 Och se, HERREN stod framför honom och sade: »Jag är HERREN, Abrahams, din faders, Gud och Isaks Gud. Det land där du ligger skall jag giva åt dig och din säd.

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Arcana Coelestia #3572

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3572. And Isaac his father said unto him, Come near I pray. That this signifies a degree of perception still more interior, is evident from the signification of “saying that he should come near,” as being a degree of more interior perception from presence; “to come near” has no other signification.

  
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