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And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.
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And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.
2374. They pressed upon the man. That this signifies that they desired to offer violence to truth, is evident from the signification of a man [vir], as being the intellectual and rational in man, and consequently truth (see n. 158, 1007). To offer violence to truth is to pervert the things of faith; and these are perverted when they are separated from charity, and when it is denied that they lead to the good of life.