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Genesis 16:1

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1 Now Sarai, Abram's wife, bore him no children: and she had a handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.

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Arcana Coelestia #1958

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1958. Behold it is between Kadesh and Bared. That this signifies the quality-that is that He saw of what quality this truth was, and thus what the quality of the rational was-is evident from the signification of “Kadesh” and of “Bared.” That “Kadesh” signifies truth, and also contentions about truths, has been shown before (n. 1678); but “Bared” signifies what is below, and thus truth in the form of memory-knowledge, 1 from which also comes the rational. (That names in the Word signify actual things, may be seen above, n. 1876, 1888, 1889; also n. 1224, 1264.)

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1. Verum scientificum—that is, truth in the external memory [REVISER.]

  
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