Arcana Coelestia (Elliott) n. 733

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733. Verse 6 And Noah was a son of six hundred years, and a flood of waters came to be over the earth.

'Noah was a son of six hundred years' means his initial state of temptation. 'A flood of waters over the earth' means the onset of temptation.


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