Arcana Coelestia #193
193. But they perceived that they were in evil; from which remnant of perception, signified by their “eyes being opened” and by their “hearing the voice of Jehovah” (verses 7-8), and from the fig-leaves of which they made themselves girdles (verse 7), and from their shame or hiding in the midst of the tree of the garden (verses 8-9), as well as from their acknowledgment and confession (verses 10-13), it is evident that natural goodness still remained in them.
Genesis 3:7-8
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The eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked. They sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
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They heard the voice of Yahweh God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Yahweh God among the trees of the garden.
