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281 | GEN 1:26,who are us and our ? | Gen 1:26 | Ray | 63158 | ||
Hi prayon, Excuse me if I correct what I think is a typographical mistake on your part. You typed "our" in lower case; and I would like to talk about why I would make it "Our" likeness. I would have people recognize also that it doesn't say Our "likenesses", plural. The triune God is one. But I would also have people recognize that Jesus in the beginning was One. John 1:2, "He [This One] was in the beginning with God." This One in the gospel of John was the One who separated the light from the darkness in Genesis, I would think. I would also have people know that Jesus came to earth in the likeness of men but He came as the Righteous One, even the Man Jesus Christ. Scepter35, I see the triune God in the Man Jesus Christ as He says in Genesis 1:26, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness." I don't see (as the Amplified suggests or at least infers) the triune God in each capitalized pronoun of Us, Our, Our. Rather, I see each of the three Persons represented by a single pronoun. I would compare Genesis 1:26 with Galatians 4:4 Gen. 1:26, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness..." Galatians 4:4, "But when the fulness of the time came, God sent forth His Son,..." Even though born of a woman, Jesus was God's Son. We also can be "sons" of God when we have the Spirit of God within us. From the heart, Ray |
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282 | was the second day a good day for God | Gen 1:31 | Ray | 47344 | ||
Hi Raven, Good point made. However, you missed verse 21 which would make it at the end a very good, complete, perfect creation. Seven, the number of completion and perfection. From the heart, Ray |
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283 | was dust meaning dirt or mud? | Gen 2:7 | Ray | 154808 | ||
Hi Makarios, Good work in responding in patience and helpfulness. It will be good if you get a response from him for what he has in mind with his question. In my reading, what sticks with me is what MacArthur writes in his notes. "Made from dirt, a man's value is not in the physical components that form his body, but in the quality of life which forms his soul (see Job 33:4)." Job 33:4, "The Spirit of the Lord has made me, And the breath of the Almighty gives me life. 5 Refute me if you can, Array yourselves before me, take your stand. 6 Behold, I belong to God like you; I too have been formed out of the clay." From the heart, Ray |
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284 | Do you believe in being chosen? | Gen 2:9 | Ray | 126122 | ||
Hi Tim, May I make a correction on your typing of 1 Peter 3:9 when you meant 2 Peter 3:9? I would like to comment on the context of 2 Peter. I see in 2 Peter the interest of receiving a faith that is equally precious to all of us. It is concerned with knowledge, words, utterances, prophetic words, true words versus false words. It talks of arrogant words and true proverbs. It talks of words spoken beforehand by the holy prophets and the commandment of the Lord and Savior spoken by the apostles. It speaks of the promise of the Word and His words. To me, it speaks of these things and pronouns. 2 Peter 3:9 says to me that we need to interpret, apply, and respond in repentance because of these words of promise and spirit. And that is up to us in that we have to fill ourselves with these words. 2 Peter 3:14, "Therefore, beloved, since you look for these things, be diligent to be found by Him in peace, spotless and blameless, and regard the patience of our Lord to be salvation;...18 but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory, both now and to the day of eternity. Amen." From the heart, Ray |
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285 | Freewill before the fall? | Gen 2:9 | Ray | 127869 | ||
Hi mommapbs, I will be asking a question on Acts 26:18 if I find that it has not been discussed already. Your comments have made me reconsider the Light as found in Acts and in John 12:46. From the heart, Ray |
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286 | Man Could Have Been Made Solitary | Gen 2:18 | Ray | 49022 | ||
Hi Lionstrong, You have an interesting meditation. It makes me aware that we do not have all the answers to questions and makes me wonder how much we need to know and just how much will we come to know about His creation. Could it indeed be that Adam was made bisexual at the beginning? Could it be that God is both male and female but male in His image? In Genesis 1:27, Genesis 5:1, the mixure of man, him, and them, male and female, is difficult. It is good that Christianity recognizes "mankind", male and female, and that all are one in Christ. How does the new NIV fit it all in this mix of him, man, and them? Another question I have is about the first-born Cain, i.e.gotten one, and the significance of the marginal footnote in my NASB study bible. Genesis 4:1b, "I have gotten a manchild [Or, man,the LORD] with the help of the Lord." We know that this was not the Lord who was born, but rather that he was born with the help of the Lord. Here is where they became one flesh and where mankind became possible. We know that this "gotten one" of the first Adam was not God's son when we consider 1 John 3:10, "By this this the children of God and the children of the devil are obvious: anyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, NOR the one who does not love his brother. For this is the message which you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another; not as Cain, who was of the evil one, and slew his brother." I praise God for the second Adam, the one Man, Jesus Christ; the only begotten Son of God. From the heart,Ray |
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287 | Man Could Have Been Made Solitary | Gen 2:18 | Ray | 49132 | ||
Hi Lionstrong, C.S. Lewis in his "Screwtape Letter" showed that he knew a lot about spirits. I read that as required reading in college some forty years ago. However, I haven't read much more than that of his. But I believe that God is a Spirit, capital s and is different from the spirits. True, the spirits do not have bodies, nor given in marriage, nor do they procreate. But if God does not have a body, He sure does give the impression that He does. Heart, bowels, arm, hand, and finger come to mind just off hand. I don't think we can know too much about the sexuality of God, but I do know that He does not have an aversion to it. The procreation of the earth was one of the things included in the seven "good" days of His creation. Also, as we have been thinking of a time when this evidently was not available to Adam in the first chapter of Genesis, even though there were male and females there. It is not until Adam is still alone and in the garden that God had planted, that God determined that it was not good, (sufficient, satisfactory, see Amplified version) that Adam was alone. A single man can be an especially good and devoted worker for the Lord. He should be always available and eager to please Him in his life. But I think God wanted Adam to be of some earthly significance also in keeping the world going. I am glad that this man was good enough at that time that God wanted to arrange for duplicates. I see also in Genesis 2:23 that this man and woman were already one flesh. God took the rib out of Adam but evidently "this one" had been taken out of Adam also. Gen 2:23, "And the man said, "This is now bone of my bones, And flesh of my flesh; She [this one] shall be called Woman, Because she [this one] was taken out of Man." Verse 24, "For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and they shall become one flesh. verse 25, And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed." God has no aversion to sexuality. And sexuality was not involved in the fall of mankind. Sexuality was involved in the penalty for their sin. Time of pregnancy and pain of birth were increased or multiplied.The question could be asked here, "Did Adam and Eve know each other before the fall?" If pain was increased what was it increased from? Or, "Who was Cain's wife?" It is here BEFORE chapter 4 and the birth of Cain, that Adam called his wife Eve, i.e. living; or life, because she was the mother of all the living. So it could very well be that there were children who were not included in the lists of mankind. But Cain was the first "gotten one" after the fall, with the help of the Lord. The Lord will be required and His will and sovereignty realized after the fall in regards to how much mankind grows in number. Not everyone will be able to have children. I have strayed from your topic as we sometimes are prone to do on the forum.:) I hope that my thoughts will be found to have some value. From the heart, Ray |
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288 | How to compare Genesis 3 with John 19 ? | Gen 3:15 | Ray | 80362 | ||
Hi Emmaus, In Genesis 3:15 we have the question again of whether we think of an offspring or an Offspring. The NASB thinks of the passage as seeing the offspring while the Amplified and NKJ see the Offspring. I will be interested in seeing your comparisons of the details but here are some of mine. Genesis 3:15, "And *I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; he shall bruise you on the head, and you shall bruise him on the heel....20 Now the man called his wife's name Eve, because she was the mother of all the living. And the Lord/God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife, and clothed them. Then the Lord (God) said, "Behold, the man has become like one of *Us, knowing good and evil;..." Genesis 1:26, "Then (God) said, "Let *Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness."" Romans 8:3, "For what the Law could not do, weak as it was through the flesh, *God did: sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh as an offering for sin,..." Galatians 4:4, "But when the fulness of the time came, *God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the Law, in order that He might redeem those who were under the Law, that we might receive the adoption as sons. And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit/ of His Son into our hearts, crying (Abba), *Father!" Galatians 5:5, "For we through the Spirit,/ by faith, are waiting for the hope of righteousness." John 19:7, "The Jews answered him, "We have a law, and by that law He ought to die because He made Himself/ out to be the Son of God." When Pilate therefore heard this statement, he was the more afraid; and he entered into the Praetorium again, and said to (Jesus), "Where are *You from?" But Jesus gave him no answer." It is difficult to know the blend of the triune God in the Scriptures. But we know that Jesus was a Man in the likeness of men and that He was God with us. What are your thoughts? From the heart, Ray |
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289 | What is God saying in this verse? | Gen 3:15 | Ray | 107813 | ||
Hi JCrichton, Thank you for your thoughts here and your connection between Revelation 12:17 and Genesis 3:15. I also find these to be good passages for comparison/contrast. But I come to a different conclusion. The first part of Genesis 3:15 I would compare with Revelation 12:13. Genesis 3:15, "**And **I will put enmity Between you and the woman,..." Revelation 12:13, "And when the dragon saw that he was thrown down to the earth, he persecuted the woman who gave birth to the male **Child." In Revelation 12:9-12 we see that the devil had been thrown down to the earth, along with his angels, and that he realized that he had a very short time. He was deceiving the whole inhabited earth. Now in Revelation 12:13, I see the dragon, Satan, "persecuted the woman who gave birth to the male **Child." Depending on how you understand Revelation, one can see this as the persecution of Eve or of Mary; depending on one's understanding and application. But the bottom line is indeed found in verse 11 where it says, "And they overcame him because of the blood of the Lamb..." Revelation 12:13 talks about the birth of the male Child and then I see that the dragon was enraged with the woman, and went off to make war with the rest of her offspring, verse 17. Verse seventeen I would compare with the enmity between the devil and her seed, her offspring, her descendents. Genesis 3:15b. So I see these passages as not a perfect match but good passages for contrast and application. From the heart, Ray |
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290 | How does Gen 4:4-5 relate to Heb 4:11 | Gen 4:5 | Ray | 99651 | ||
Hi Searcher56, You are probably correct in thinking that he meant Hebrew 11:4 rather than 4:11. In my thinking about the three passages I thought about Cain being told by God that he must master sin and he failed. We too are told to be diligent lest we fall through following examples of disobedience. But we are to be men of faith who not draw back, but will believe for salvation. Genesis 4:7, "If you do well, will not your countenance be lifted up? And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door; and its desire is for you, but you must master it." Hebrews 4:11, "Let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest, lest anyone fall through following the same example of disobedience." Hebrews 10:36-11:2, "For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised. FOR YET IN A LITTLE WHILE, HE WHO IS COMING WILL COME, AND WILL NOT DELAY. BUT MY RIGHTEOUS ONE SHALL LIVE BY FAITH; AND IF HE SHRINKS BACK, MY SOUL HAS NO PLEASURE IN HIM. But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the preserving of the soul. Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. For by it the men of old gained approval." We want to hear at the end a "Well done" do we not? If we do well we live in joy. If we live by faith, He will be pleased with us. From the heart, Ray |
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291 | Who cried out to God from the grave? | Gen 4:10 | Ray | 136228 | ||
Hi Kalos, Good answer, my friend. I noticed that Study Bible references for that verse include Numbers 35:33, Deut 21:1-9, Heb 12:24, and Rev 6:9,10. I think that Hebrews 12:24 is significant for we have come ... Hebrews 12:23, "...to God, the Judge of all, and to the spirits of righteous men made perfect, 24 and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood, which speaks better than the blood of Abel. 25 See to it that you do not refuse Him who is speaking..." From the heart, Ray |
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292 | Can angels have human babies? | Gen 6:4 | Ray | 2097 | ||
Hi JVH, I really want to answer a question and compare scriptures and I can't find what they were. Can you answer here what scriptures we were discusssing? Here I would only say that there is only one Son of God, if you know my capitalization. Somewhere I spoke about Adam and the belief I had that Adam wasn't the Son or son of God; but in this sense I guess he and all the males after Adam were sons of God. I had been speaking about Jesus, being supposedly the Son of Joseph, son of, son of,...son of Adam,-- but actually the Son of God. Later, Ray V.H. |
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293 | Can angels have human babies? | Gen 6:4 | Ray | 2158 | ||
Dear Minister, Thank you for your input here. Malachi 2:10 reads,"Do we not all have one Father? Has not one God created us?"NKJ The capitalization of father is up for debate, it seems for the NASB is not capitalized. It is certainly true that we can have only one father. Jesus even, can not be the son of Joseph and the Son of God in my mind. There can only be one father and there is only one God as Malachi says, the Creator. So I agree, a son can produce a son but I can't agree that a son can produce a Son unless in a spiritual sense as Jesus discussed with the Pharisees about David, or in Jesus case when it was by the Holy Spirit. Not only then is Jesus the Son of Joseph in the spiritual sense but He is the Son of David, and the Son of Abraham per Matthew l:l in my mind. But back to Adam and the Creator. Adam was made out of the dust of the ground; created, made. He is not a Son. He was pronounced good. He was called Man. But we know he sinned and died spiritually. In a sense then, he bacame a man. But initially, he was made. Job 38:28 says, "Has the rain a father? Or who has begotten the drops of dew? From whose womb has come the ice? And the frost of heaven, who has given it birth?" In Adam's case also there didn't have to be a father, just a Creator. In your references I didn't find any reference to angels or fallen angels. I found children of God, adopted sons of the spirit, and in my mind Daniel spoke of one like the Son of God. Matthew 4 spoke of His angels but not in reference to the sons of God. But we can certainly put our amen to Matthew 14:33 This is certainly God's Son. Looking at 1 Cor 15:20, "But now Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who are asleep. For since by a man (fallen Adam) came death, by a man (the Man Jesus) also came the resurrection of the dead." Parenthesis mine The twenty second verse echoes this contrast of man and Man. You said that due to the earthly laws he "was considered as" the son of Joseph. This could be another reading of "being supposedly the son of Joseph." But I believe that the correct reading of scripture would be "being, as was supposed, the Son of Joseph. Scripture translators have had no problem in calling Him the Son of David; why not the Son of Joseph and Son of Abraham, or even of the Man, Adam? The second Adam. I don't think an earthly example carries any weight here. Later, Ray V.H. |
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294 | Can angels have human babies? | Gen 6:4 | Ray | 2160 | ||
P.S. I meant to suggest an interpretation or thought about Job 38:7. First, with verse 4, "Where were you (Job, or whoever darkens counsel by words without knowledge)when I laid the foundation of the earth?...and all the sons of God shouted for joy?" There was no one around shouting for joy when the foundation of the earth was laid, not even Job. | ||||||
295 | Can angels have human babies? | Gen 6:4 | Ray | 2417 | ||
Dear JVH, I'm going to have to change my thoughts or at least clarify what I was saying. Thanks for writing. I was reading in the Greek/English Interlinear New Testament published by Tyndale that the phrase "being as was supposed the son of Joseph" is literally, "being (the) son, as it was being thought, of Joseph, the (son) of Heli, the (son) of Matthat,...the (son) of Adam, the (son) of God." Now all of that is written in capitals so you have to interpret as you see fit. Like I've said in the past, we all individually have to decide who this Person is. I want to point out two things. The word "BEING" means that it is true. The correct reading is not "being supposedly" but "being, as was supposed" or here in the Greek, being the Son, as it was being thought, of Joseph". Now of course the capital S is my interpretation. But Joseph knew he wasn't the father, and Jesus in the temple was doing His Father's business, so nothing was being denied. I've said that one can only have one father. Joseph had sons, God sent His Son. Spiritually He is the Son of Joseph, Son of David, and the Son of Abraham per Matthew's gospel verse one. NASB Matthew 1:20b, "Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary as your wife; for the Child who has been conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit. She will bear a Son;...""God with us." Scripture is one of contrasts;Spirit or spirit-flesh,light-darkness, God-gods,and not least Man-man, Son-sons. We have to have that in the scriptures to understand what it is saying. When I talked earlier about Adam being a Man, I was thinking that he was made good, and in a sense after the fall he was just a man. a sinner just like you and me. But continuing to think about it and of course reading Genesis 1:26 and Gen 5:2 we can see that God created man, male and female, and named them Man in the day when they were created. So, you're right, he was always a man. Now, let's go back to the Greek and look at the Son of Joseph. You asked where it was stated that Jesus was the Son of Joseph. See Mark 6:3 , Son of Mary, and Matthew 13:53, "Where did this man get this wisdom and these miraculous powers? Is not this the carpenter's son? is not His mother called Mary, and His brothers, James and Joseph and Simon and Judas?"NASB Of course I would interpret it Man and Son. The New King James has it Man and son, yet they both capitalize He. Where is the consistency here? NASB says Jesus came to His hometown yet in Matt 13:57 it seems that the story is about "his hometown". Again where is the consistency? I got off the track. Look at the Greek, and the New King James version where the words that are not in the Greek are in italics. It's like I typed it at the start of this long writing, sorry. The words in italics are in parenthesis. So we see (the) Son of Joseph, of Eli, of ...David..Abraham...of Adam, of God." Now do you see that the Son of Joseph is referred back to when it says, "of Adam, (the Son) of God." In other words, "being, as was supposed, the Son of Joseph,...but actually the Son of God." Or with punctuation, "being, as was supposed, the Son of Joseph, ...of Adam,--the Son of God." Later, Ray V.H. |
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296 | Can angels have human babies? | Gen 6:4 | Ray | 2426 | ||
Dear Minister, You might read Jude 6 and 7 again and consider that verse seven is not talking about the angels, but rather it is linking the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah with "the cities around them." Also verse 8, links the men under consideration in the book with Sodom and Gomorrah. |
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297 | Gen 6:7 and Num 23:19 contradictory? | Gen 6:7 | Ray | 10222 | ||
Hi Nolan, I happened upon this thread and thought I might make a comment. And as you would expect from me, it will center around the capitalization of Deity. I doubt if "THE CROSS" will get anything from this but here goes. "Risen" should be interested in it because He knows the Truth. In Genesis, the Lord grieved over sin and its consequences, not over any mistake He had made. The comment I would make would be about Numbers 23:19 and the fact of God not being a man, nor a son of man. We have talked together about the Prophet Jesus and the Child who was born to us. We see Him as a Man and as the Truth. But here in Numbers it says that He is not "a son of man, that He should repent." In this lower case it is saying to me that God was not Joseph's son when He came to earth. It also tells me that He will make it good and won't turn from it. See Jer 4:28 But the verse says that He is "not" a son of man. How confusing is that when we know that Scripture says that the Son of Man came to save that which was lost. Or the KJV says that the Son of man came. Here in Numbers it says that God was not a Son of Man in my mind. Jesus was not a man, that He should lie when He said He was the Son of God. Nor was Jesus (God) a Son of Man, that we should think of God as the "Big Man in the sky". God is Spirit. So, Nolan, I think that Jesus was more than a Prophet, more than the Son of Man (the perfect Man), He was God Himself (Spirit) in human flesh. |
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298 | Genesis 11:7 Who is "Us"? | Gen 11:7 | Ray | 68319 | ||
Hi celestine6869, As a person who studies with the NKJ and NASB because of their capitalization of pronouns of Deity, I would like to point out some things as a "capitalizer". The word Us is not the same as "us" and the Word is not the same as the "word" and God is not the same as "god". Aside from that clarification of capitalization may I say also that the three Persons are usually listed as the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. They are all one God. They are all one Lord. They are all one Spirit. To my mind Genesis 11:7 is the speaking of the one God. Just as the people were one, with one lip, with the same language; so the one God said, "Come, let Us/ go down and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech." [Literally, lip] As an aside, may I say that people are the same no matter what language they speak or what skin color they have; but it was in God's interest to limit them by allowing different languages and scattering them. Do you know what language God speaks? I think He speaks the language of the Holy Spirit. 1 Corinthians 12:3b, "...and no one can say, "Jesus is Lord"/, except by the Holy Spirit. Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same (Spirit)." But let me talk more about capitalization in the Scriptures.:) James 2:19, "You believe that God/ is one. You do well; the demons also believe, and shudder." Mark 12:32, "And the scribe said to Him, "Right, Teacher, You have truly stated that He is One;/ and there is no one else besides Him; and to love Him with all the heart and with all the understanding and with all the strength, and to love one's neighbor as himself, is much more than all burnt offerings and sacrifices." John 10:30, "I and the Father are one." John 14:1, "Let not your heart be troubled; believe in God, believe also in Me." Romans 4:17b, "...in the sight of Him whom he believed, even God, who gives life to the dead and calls into being that which does not exist." Exodus 20:1, "Then God spoke all these words, saying, "I/ am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. You shall have no other gods before (Me)." Mark 12:29b, "Hear, O Israel! The Lord/ our God is one Lord;" Colossians 3:10, "and have put on the new self who is being renewed to a true knowlege according to the image of the One/ who created him..." 1 Corinthians 8:4, "...and that there is no God/ but one. For even if there are so-called gods whether in heaven or on earth, as indeed there are many gods and many lords, yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom are all things, and we exist for (Him); and one Lord, Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we exist through Him." 1 Corinthians 14:2, "For one who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men, but to (God);..." From the heart, Ray |
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299 | Genesis 11:7 Who is "Us"? | Gen 11:7 | Ray | 68344 | ||
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300 | wHO WAS DAVID TALKING TO IN PSALMS 133:1 | Gen 13:8 | Ray | 65017 | ||
Hi brotherreverb, I love your name and having fun trying to figure out what it means. Are you a reverend or do you plan to reverberate? Anyway, here is a question for you. Scriptures talk about David speaking in the Spirit. You have written that David was moved by the Holy Spirit. What verse were you thinking of there? Are there any Scriptures that come to your mind in which a lower case "spirit" would apply? For instance, how about Psalm 139:7? "Where can I go from Thy Spirit? [spirit?] Or where can I flee from Thy presence?" Personally, I see that as a lower case spirit and presence. From the heart, Ray |
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