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Genesis 19:33

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33 And they made their father drink wine that night: and the first-born went in and lay with her father; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.

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Arcana Coelestia #2392

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2392. That “whomsoever thou hast in the city,” denotes whatever derives anything from truth, is evident from the signification of a “city,” as being what is doctrinal, thus truth in its complex (see n. 402, 2268).

  
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