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Genesis 2:6

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6 But a spring rose out the earth, watering all the surface of the earth.

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Arcana Coelestia #127

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127. A desire to investigate the mysteries of faith by means of the things of sense and of the memory, was not only the cause of the fall of the posterity of the Most Ancient Church, as treated of in the following chapter, but it is also the cause of the fall of every church; for hence come not only falsities, but also evils of life.

  
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