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Arcana Coelestia #84

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84. Verses 2-3 And on the seventh day God finished His work which He had made, and rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had made. And God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, for on that day He rested from all His work which God had created when making it.

The celestial man is 'the seventh day'; and because throughout the six days it has been the Lord at work, that man is called 'His work'. In addition, because conflict at that point ceases, the Lord is said 'to rest from all His work'. It was for this reason that the seventh day was made holy and was called the Sabbath from a word for 'rest'; and it was in this manner that man was created, formed, and made, as may be seen plainly from the words themselves.

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.

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To dawn from Seir

  

In Deuteronomy 33:2, this means that the Lord made even the Natural in Himself Divine in order that this also might be a source of light, that is, of intelligence and wisdom. (Arcana Coelestia 4240)

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Judges 1:21

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21 The children of Benjamin did not drive out the Jebusites who inhabited Jerusalem; but the Jebusites dwell with the children of Benjamin in Jerusalem to this day.