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Genesis 19:22

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22 haste, escape thither, for I am not able to do anything till thine entering thither;' therefore hath he calleth the name of the city Zoar.

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Arcana Coelestia #2396

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2396. 'For their cry has become great before Jehovah' means because falsity deriving from evil is so extensive. This becomes clear from the meaning of 'a cry', dealt with in 2240. 'Cry' has reference to falsity, here to falsity deriving from evil, 2351.

  
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