Arcana Coelestia # 791
791. Thus far “Noah” has been treated of, or the regenerate men called “Noah” who were in the “ark” and were “lifted up above the waters.” The subject will now be those descendants of the Most Ancient Church who were under the waters, or were submerged by the waters.
Isaiah 18:1-2
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Ah, the land of the rustling of wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia;
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that sends ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of papyrus on the waters, saying, "Go, you swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth, to a people awesome from their beginning onward, a nation that measures out and treads down, whose land the rivers divide!"
