The Bible

Genesis 7:22

²² And all things wherein there is the breath of life on the earth, died.

From Swedenborg's Works

The Inner Meaning of the Prophets and Psalms #408

408. Internal Meaning of Genesis, Chapter 7

1-24 The destruction of the Most Ancient Church is described by the flood, and the beginning of a new one, by the ark and its preservation.

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