19
behold now, thy servant has found favour in thine eyes, and thou hast magnified thy goodness, which thou hast shewn to me in preserving my soul alive; but I cannot escape to the mountain, lest calamity lay hold on me, that I die.
2393. 'Place' is a state of evil. This is clear from the meaning of 'place' as state, dealt with in 1273-1275, 1377, here a state of evil, since the place was Sodom, by which evil in general is meant, 2220, 2246, 2322.
学习本章节
Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.
