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Genesis 1:10

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10 And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.

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Midst

  

The "midst" of something in the Bible represents the thing that is most central and most important to the spiritual state being described, the motivation that drives everything else. In general this will be something we love or feel, because at the core of things we are what we love; our loves define us.

(Notae: Apocalypse Revealed 44, 90, 268; Arcana Coelestia 2252, 2940, 10153, 10365, 10557, 10635, 10641)

from the Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg

 

Arcana Coelestia #223

Studere hoc loco

  
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223. Since the Lord's face is mercy, peace, and all good, it is clear that He always looks with mercy on anybody, and never turns His face away from anybody. Instead it is man, when governed by evil, who turns away his face, as the Lord has said through Isaiah,

Your iniquities are what separate you from your God, and your sins what cause His face 1 to hide from you. Isaiah 59:2.

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1. literally, faces

The same applies in this verse which states that 'they hid themselves from the face of Jehovah because they were naked'.

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