127. * But Abraham, with a voice that I heard, altogether refused this; presumably Jacob likewise, who had held onto the heel of Esau-which subject you may see discussed earlier [WE 351].
[See WE 4476-77, explaining Exod. 21:5-6.] * A state of bondage is also seeing and recognizing the best goal, yet not being moved by it, but wishing to be moved by it, and not being able. This state of bondage existed with myself, when these things
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