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Genesis 25:23

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23 And Jehovah saith to her, `Two nations [are] in thy womb, and Two peoples from thy bowels are parted; and the [one] people than the [other] people is stronger; and the elder doth serve the younger.'

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Arcana Coelestia #3262

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3262. Verse 12. And these are the births of Ishmael the son of Abraham, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s handmaid, bare unto Abraham. “And these are the births of Ishmael the son of Abraham,” signifies the derivations of the spiritual church represented by Ishmael; “whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s handmaid, bare unto Abraham,” signifies the birth of the spiritual man from Divine influx into the affection of memory-knowledges.

  
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