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Genesis 25:7

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7 And these [are] the days of the years of the life of Abraham, which he lived, a hundred and seventy and five years;

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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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