Arcana Coelestia #19
19. 'The Spirit of God' is used to mean the Lord's mercy, which is said 'to hover', like a hen over eggs, over what the Lord stores away in man and which in the Word are frequently called 'remnants'. These remnants are cognitions of truth and good which never come to light or into daylight until external things have been laid waste. These cognitions are here called 'the face 1 of the waters'.
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1. literally, the faces
Matthew 19:4-6
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He answered, "Haven't you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female,
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and said, 'For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall join to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?'
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So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, don't let man tear apart."
