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If my father shall feel me, and perceive it, I fear lest he will think I would have mocked him, and I shall bring upon me a curse instead of a blessing.
3523. 'Before his death' means awakening in the natural. This is clear from the meaning of 'death' as awakening, also dealt with above in 3498, 3505 - an awakening, it is evident, in the natural.
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