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Genesis 1:12

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12 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

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Apocalypse Explained #784

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784. Verse 3. And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded unto death; and his death stroke was healed, and the whole earth wondered after the beast.

"And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded unto death," signifies the discordance of their doctrinals with the Word, in which love, life, and works, are so often mentioned, which do not at all agree with that religious persuasion; "and his death stroke was healed," signifies the discordance apparently removed by assumed conjunctions of works with faith; "and the whole earth wondered after the beast," signifies acceptance by the more learned in the church, and a remote reception by those who are less learned.

  
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Translation by Isaiah Tansley. Many thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.

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Revelation 6:15

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15 The kings of the earth, the princes, the commanding officers, the rich, the strong, and every slave and free person, hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains.