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Genesis 1:14

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14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:

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Brimstone and salt

  

In Deuteronomy 29:33, this signifies the vastation of good and truth, for these destroy the earth and its produce as lusts destroy goods and falsities destroy truths. (Arcana Coelestia 1666)

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Arcana Coelestia #5641

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5641. 'Bring the men to the house' means that the truths in the natural were to be introduced into it. This is clear from the meaning of 'the sons of Jacob' as the truths known to the Church that were present in the natural, dealt with in 5403, 5419, 5427, 5428, 5512 - their introduction into the external Church being meant by 'bring them to the house'.

  
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