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Genesis 17:15

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15 God said to Abraham, "As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but her name will be Sarah.

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Arcana Coelestia #2064

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2064. Verse 16 And I will bless her, and I will also give you a son by her. And I will bless him, and he will become nations; kings of peoples will be from her.

'I will bless her' means the multiplication of truth. 'And I will also give you a son by her means the Rational. 'And I will bless him' means the multiplication of this. 'And he will become nations' means resulting goods. 'Kings of peoples will be from her' means truths that are the product of truths and goods joined together, meant by 'kings and peoples'.

  
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