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Genesis 1:26

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26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

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Psalms 104:6

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6 Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: the waters stood above the mountains.

from the Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg

 

Arcana Coelestia #6016

Studere hoc loco

  
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6016. 'And took their livestock' means forms of the good of truth. This is clear from the meaning of 'livestock' as the good of truth. For 'livestock' is used to mean both flocks and herds, and also horses, camels, mules, and asses; and since 'flocks' in the internal sense are interior forms of good and 'herds' exterior ones, while 'horses, camels, mules, and asses are powers of the understanding, all of which are associated with truths, 'livestock' means the good of truth.

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