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Genesis 15:17

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17 It came to pass that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold, a smoking furnace, and a flaming torch passed between these pieces.

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Arcana Coelestia #1833

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1833. Verse 11. And the fowls came down upon the bodies, and Abram drove them away. “The fowls came down upon the bodies,” signifies evils and the falsities thence derived, that were desirous to destroy; “and Abram drove them away,” signifies that the Lord put them to flight.

  
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