Secrets of Heaven #405

By Emanuel Swedenborg

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405. Genesis 4:19. And Lamech took two wives to himself, the name of one being Adah and the name of the other Zillah.

Lamech, the sixth descendant in order, beginning with Cain, symbolizes devastation — a condition in which there is no more faith. The two wives symbolize the origin of a new church; Adah stands as the mother of that church's heavenly and spiritual attributes, Zillah as the mother of its earthly attributes.

  
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