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Secrets of Heaven #1284

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1284. Genesis 11:1. And the whole earth had one language and the same words.

The whole earth had one language means that a single broad view of doctrine existed everywhere. A language is doctrine; the earth is the church. And the same words means that a single detailed view of doctrine existed.

  
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Genesis 11:1

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1 And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.