Arcana Coelestia #19
19. 'The Spirit of God' is used to mean the Lord's mercy, which is said 'to hover', like a hen over eggs, over what the Lord stores away in man and which in the Word are frequently called 'remnants'. These remnants are cognitions of truth and good which never come to light or into daylight until external things have been laid waste. These cognitions are here called 'the face 1 of the waters'.
Bilješke:
1. literally, the faces
2 Corinthians 10:3-6
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For though we walk in the flesh, we don't wage war according to the flesh;
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for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the throwing down of strongholds,
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throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ;
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and being in readiness to avenge all disobedience, when your obedience will be made full.
