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Genesis 1:10

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10 And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.

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Arcana Coelestia #9743

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9743. 'The hangings for the court' means the truths of that heaven. This is clear from the meaning of 'curtains' as truths, dealt with in 9595, 9596, thus also of 'hangings'; and from the meaning of 'the court' as the lowest heaven, dealt with above in 9741.

  
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