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and I have given to thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land of thy sojournings, the whole land of Canaan, for a possession age-during, and I have become their God.'
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and I have given to thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land of thy sojournings, the whole land of Canaan, for a possession age-during, and I have become their God.'
2106. That 'Abraham was a son of ninety-nine years' means the state and the period of time prior to the union of the Lord's Divine Essence with His Human Essence is clear from the meaning of 'ninety-nine years' as the period of time before the Lord fully joined the Internal Man to the Rational, dealt with above in 1988. The Lord's Internal Man, as stated frequently already, was Jehovah Himself, that is, the Divine Itself which, once united to the Human, is the Rational, for the human begins in the inmost part of the rational and from there extends itself to one's external.