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Genesis 11:4

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4 And they say, `Give help, let us build for ourselves a city and tower, and its head in the heavens, and make for ourselves a name, lest we be scattered over the face of all the earth.'

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Arcana Coelestia #1338

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1338. That 'begetting sons and daughters' means matters of doctrine is clear from the meaning of 'sons', dealt with already in 264, 489-491, 533.

  
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Zechariah 9:13

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13 For indeed I bend Judah as a bow for me. I have filled the bow with Ephraim; and I will stir up your sons, Zion, against your sons, Greece, and will make you like the sword of a mighty man.