Bibliorum

 

Genesis 4:4

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4 And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock, and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect to Abel, and to his offering:

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Reveal

  

In Deuteronomy 29:29, Isaiah 22:14, Matthew 10:26, Luke 17:30, and Revelation 1:1, symbolizes predictions from the Lord regarding Himself and His church, what the church will be like at its end, and what it will be like thereafter, both in heaven and on the earth. (Apocalypse Revealed 2)

In Amos 3:7, this signifies that knowledge about God and so the acknowledgment of God, are not possible without revelation which opens the interiors of the Word. (Apocalypse Revealed 601-608; True Christian Religion 11)

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Woman, wife, bride, virgin, and daughter

  

The church is called 'a woman,' 'a wife,' 'a bride,' 'a virgin,' and 'a daughter,' when it has a celestial and angelic proprium, or selfhood.

(Notae: Arcana Coelestia 253)