The Bible

 

Johannes 1:28

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28 Dies geschah zu Bethanien, jenseit des Jordan, wo Johannes taufte.

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On the Athanasian Creed #145

  
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145. The extension of the Divine into the universe is what can be predicated of the Divine Proceeding, which is the Divine Truth and is called the Word. By this were all things made which were made and the world was created from it, according to the words in John, chapter 1. But an idea is to be held concerning the Divine Itself, the idea as of a Man whose Divine Love appears as a Sun from which the light is Divine Truth and the heat Divine Good. But still the idea of extension is applicable only to the natural world but not to the spiritual world, in which, extension as space and distance is only an appearance concerning which see the work on HEAVEN AND HELL in the chapter dealing with space.

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.