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Genesis 17:4

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4 "As for me, behold, my covenant is with you. You will be the father of a multitude of nations.

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Arcana Coelestia #2032

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2032. That 'God said to Abraham' means perception is clear from the meaning in the historical sense of the Word of 'God saying' as perception, dealt with already in 1602, 1791, 1815, 1819, 1822.

  
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