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Genesis 5:20

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20 And all the days of Jared are nine hundred and sixty and two years, and he dieth.

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Arcana Coelestia #526

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526. Verse 28. And Lamech lived a hundred eighty and ten years, and begat a son. By “Lamech” is here signified a ninth church, wherein the perception of truth and good was so general and obscure that it was next to none, so that the church was vastated. By the “son” is signified the rise of a new church.

  
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