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Genesis 25:21

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21 And Isaac maketh entreaty to Jehovah before his wife, for she [is] barren: and Jehovah is entreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceiveth,

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Arcana Coelestia #3319

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3319. And Esau said to Jacob. That this signifies the Lord’s perception from the good of the natural, is evident from the signification of “saying,” as being to perceive (n. 1791, 1815, 1819, 1822, 1898, 1919, 2080, 2862); and from the representation of Esau, as being the Lord as to the good of the natural (see n. 3300, 3302, and below concerning Edom); and from the representation of Jacob, as being the truth of the natural (n. 3305), concerning which there is now perception.

  
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