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The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;
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The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;
881. That “seven” signifies what is holy, because charity is now treated of, is evident from the signification of “seven” (concerning which above, n. 395, 716. Moreover “seven” is inserted here for the coherence of all things historically, as “seven” and “seven days” in the natural sense add nothing but a certain holiness, which this second state has from the celestial, that is, from charity.