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Perhaps there may want five of the fiftyrighteous: wilt thou destroy all the city on account of the five? And he said, If I shall findforty-five there, I will not destroy [it].
2285. I will not destroy it for ten’s sake. That this signifies that they will be saved, is evident from the series of the things in the internal sense, and thus without any unfolding of the meaning.
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Foundation for the permission to use this translation.