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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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Resurrection, the first

  

'The first resurrection,' mentioned in Revelation 20:5, 6, does not mean a first resurrection, but the essence and primary part of resurrection, which is salvation and eternal life. There is only one resurrection to life. A second does not happen, and is not mentioned anywhere in the Bible.

(Notae: Apocalypse Explained 6; Apocalypse Revealed 851; Revelation 20:5-6)

from the Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg

 

Arcana Coelestia #8070

Studere hoc loco

  
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8070. 'And you shall keep this statute at the appointed time from year to year' means that this law of order shall always hold for that state. This is clear from the meaning of 'statute' as a law of order, dealt with in 7884, 7995; from the meaning of 'time' as state, dealt with in 2625, 2788, 2837, 3254, 3356, 3404, 3827, 3938, 4814, 4882, 4901, 4916, 6110, 7381, so that 'at the appointed time' means in that state; and from the meaning of 'year' as a whole period from start to finish, dealt with in 2906, so that 'from year to year' means always.

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