Arcana Coelestia (Elliott) n. 5372

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5372. 'And the famine was becoming great in the land of Egypt' means an increasing severity, that is to say, of the desolation. This is clear from the meaning of 'the famine' and 'the land of Egypt' as a desolation within the natural, the increasing severity of which is meant by its 'becoming great'.


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