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Bereshit 9:14

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14 וְהָיָה בְּעַנְנִי עָןָן עַל־הָאָרֶץ וְנִרְאֲתָה הַקֶּשֶׁת בֶּעָןָן׃

from the Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg

 

Arcana Coelestia #973

Studere hoc loco

  
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973. Next the subject is the state of the man after the Flood, whom the Lord formed in such a way that He would be able to be present with him by means of charity. The Lord being present in this way, man would not from then on perish, as the final descendants of the Most Ancient Church had done, verses 8-11.

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

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Revelation 18:1-4

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1 After these things, I saw another angel coming down out of the sky, having great authority. The earth was illuminated with his glory.

2 He cried with a mighty voice, saying, "Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, and she has become a habitation of demons, a prison of every unclean spirit, and a prison of every unclean and hateful bird!

3 For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her sexual immorality, the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth grew rich from the abundance of her luxury."

4 I heard another voice from heaven, saying, "Come out of her, my people, that you have no participation in her sins, and that you don't receive of her plagues,