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Genesis 18:25

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25 Be it far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be like the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn't the Judge of all the earth do right?"

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Arcana Coelestia #2202

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2202. Sarah laughed within herself. That this signifies the affection of that rational truth in regard to its being so done, is evident from the signification of “laughing” or of “laughter,” as being the affection of truth (spoken of before, n. 2072). What these things involve now follows.

  
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