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Genesis 1:13

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13 And the evening and the morning were the third day.

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Arcana Coelestia #709

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709. The name Jehovah is used because now the subject is charity. From verse 9 to the end of the previous chapter Jehovah is not used but God, the reason being that there the subject is the preparation of Noah, or the member of the Church called Noah, as regards things of his understanding, which are matters of faith. Here however it is the preparation of him as regards the things of his will, which are matters of love. When the subject is the things of the understanding, that is, the truths of faith, the name God is used, but when it is those of the will, that is, goods stemming from love, Jehovah is used. For it is not things of the understanding, that is, of faith, that constitute the Church but those of the will which are matters of love. Jehovah is present within love and charity, but not within faith except faith that inheres in love or charity. This also is why in the Word faith is compared to the night, but love to the daytime, as in Genesis 1 where the great lights are mentioned; the greater light, which is the sun and means love, has dominion over the day, while the lesser light, which is the moon and means faith, has dominion over the night, Genesis 1:14, 16. Similarly in the Prophets, Jeremiah 31:35; 33:20; Psalms 136:8-9; also Revelation 8:12.

  
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Apocalypse Revealed #384

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384. "And lead them to living fountains of waters." This symbolically means, and lead them by the truths in the Word to conjunction with Him.

Since a living fountain of waters symbolizes the Lord and also the Word, and waters symbolize truths (no. 50), and because when Divine truths in the Word are applied to life, which happens when a person lives in accordance with them, they bring about a conjunction with the Lord, therefore to lead people to living fountains of waters means, symbolically, to lead them by the truths in the Word to conjunction with the Lord.

That a fountain or fountains symbolize the Lord and also the Word is clear from these passages:

All my fountains are in You (Jehovah). (Psalms 87:7)

...they have forsaken Jehovah, the fountain of living waters. (Jeremiah 17:13)

(The people) have forsaken Me, the fountain of living waters... (Jeremiah 2:13)

...You give them drink from the river of Your delights, for with You is the fountain of life. (Psalms 36:8-9)

On that day a fountain shall be opened... for the inhabitants of Jerusalem... (Zechariah 13:1)

Israel dwelt alone in safety at the fountain of Jacob. (Deuteronomy 33:28)

(When the Lord sat by Jacob's well, He said to the woman,) "The water that I shall give... will become... a fountain of water springing up into eternal life." (John 4:5-20)

Joseph is a fruitful son... by a fountain. (Genesis 49:22)

Bless... the Lord, from the fountain of Israel. (Psalms 68:26)

Then with joy you will draw waters from the fountains of salvation. (Isaiah 12:3)

To him who thirsts I will give of the fountain of the water of life freely. (Revelation 21:6)

I will lead them to fountains of waters by a straight way... (Jeremiah 31:9)

Words like these here and just above in the book of Revelation are found also in Isaiah:

They shall neither hunger nor thirst, neither shall heat... strike them; for He who has mercy on them will lead them, even to springs of waters... (Isaiah 49:10)

  
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Many thanks to the General Church of the New Jerusalem, and to Rev. N.B. Rogers, translator, for the permission to use this translation.