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1 Mose 7:14

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14 sie und alles Getier nach seiner Art und alles Vieh nach seiner Art und alles Gewürm, das sich auf der Erde regt, nach seiner Art und alles Gevögel nach seiner Art, jeder Vogel von allerlei Gefieder.

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Arcana Coelestia #780

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780. Of all flesh wherein is the breath of lives. That this signifies a new creature, or that they received new life from the Lord, is evident from the signification of “flesh” as being in general all mankind, and specifically the corporeal man, as before said and shown. Hence “flesh wherein is the breath of lives” signifies a regenerated man, for in his Own there is the Lord’s life, which is the life of charity and faith. Every man is only “flesh;” but when the life of charity and faith is breathed into him by the Lord, the flesh is made alive, and becomes spiritual and celestial, and is called a “new creature” (Mark 16:15), from having been created anew.

  
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