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Genesis 1:13

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13 And the evening and the morning were the third day.

from the Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg

 

Arcana Coelestia #21

Studere hoc loco

  
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21. Verses 4-5 And God saw that the light was good; and God made a distinction between the light and the darkness. And God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night.

The light is called good, because it comes from the Lord, who is good itself. 'The darkness' is those things which were there prior to the person's new conception and birth. They were seen as light, because evil was seen as good, and falsity as truth. But in reality they are darkness and things proper to that person which are lingering on. All things that are the Lord's, being things of light, are compared to the day, and all that are man's own, being those of thick darkness, are compared to the night, as is done many times in the Word.

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

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Ecclesiastes 3:11

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11 He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.