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Genesis 3:1

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1 Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made: and he said to the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

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Arcana Coelestia #240

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240. Then their turning away from everything of faith and love is described, and that, this being their condition, from being human they ceased to be so any longer, verse 19.

  
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