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Genesis 1:11

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11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.

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In John 8:2-11, when the woman taken in adultery was brought before him, the Lord wrote twice on the ground. This signifies the condemnation of the scribes and Pharisees for adulteries in a spiritual sense, they having adulterated the goods and falsified the truths of the Word. (Apocalypse Explained 222)

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Heaven and Hell #116

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116. THE SUN IN HEAVEN.

In heaven neither the sun of the world, nor anything from that sun, is seen, because it is wholly natural. For nature has its beginning from that sun, and whatever is produced by means of it is called natural. But the spiritual, to which heaven belongs, is above nature and wholly distinct from what is natural; and there is no communication between the two except by correspondences. What the distinction between them is may be understood from what has been already said about degrees (38), and what the communication is from what has been said in the two preceding chapters about correspondences.

  
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