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Deuteronomy 4:19

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19 and lest thou lift thine eyes to the heavens, and thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, all the army of the heavens, and be impelled to worship them, and serve them, which Jehovah thy God has imparted to all the peoples under all the heavens.


Thanks to the Kempton Project for the permission to use this New Church translation of the Word.

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Male and female

  

Because of their understanding of spiritual marriage, the people of the Most Ancient church perceived 'male and female' as two faculties in the spiritual self: 'male' refers to the understanding and 'female,' to the will. When these faculties act as one, they called it 'marriage.'