Arcana Coelestia #63
63. Meanwhile the Lord is constantly fighting on his behalf against evils and falsities and by these conflicts is confirming him in truth and good. The hour of conflict is the hour when the Lord is at work, which is why in the Prophets a regenerate person is called 'the work of God's fingers'. Nor does He rest until love is playing the leading part, at which point conflict ceases. When that work has reached the point where faith has been joined to love, it is then called 'very good', for the Lord then moves him to be a likeness of Himself. At the end of the sixth day evil spirits go away and good ones take their place; then the person is led into heaven, or the heavenly paradise, which is the subject of the next chapter.
Psalms 114
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When Israel went forth out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of foreign language;
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Judah became his sanctuary, Israel his dominion.
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The sea saw it, and fled. The Jordan was driven back.
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The mountains skipped like rams, the little hills like lambs.
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What was it, you sea, that you fled? You Jordan, that you turned back?
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You mountains, that you skipped like rams; you little hills, like lambs?
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Tremble, you earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob,
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who turned the rock into a pool of water, the flint into a spring of waters.
