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Secrets of Heaven #804

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804. The added phrase every human means that these things existed in the people under discussion. It is a general closure that embraces everything before it. Such tags occur in many places. 1

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1. Swedenborg describes Genesis 7:10; 8:14, 18-19; 9:7; 10:30; 20:16; 22:18, 23; 27:17, 45; 29:13; 37:1; and Exodus 15:9 as offering summations by means of a particular phrase, though many different phrases are used, and they do not always appear in final position in translations of the Bible. See §§753, 899, 915, 916, 1018, 1249, 2578, 2854, 2866, 3546, 3617, 3810, 4667:1, 9483. [LHC]

  
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Genesis 22:18

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18 And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice.