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Genesis 16:5

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5 And Sarai saith unto Abram, `My violence [is] for thee; I -- I have given mine handmaid into thy bosom, and she seeth that she hath conceived, and I am lightly esteemed in her eyes; Jehovah doth judge between me and thee.'

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Arcana Coelestia #1934

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1934. Verse 9 And the angel of Jehovah said to her, Return to your mistress and humble yourself beneath her hands.

'The angel of Jehovah said' means the reply given by the Lord's Interior Man. 'Return to your mistress' means that the reply indicated that it ought not to place trust in itself but in interior truth and the affection for it. 'And humble yourself beneath her hands' means that it ought by self-compulsion to place itself under the controlling power of that interior truth.

  
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