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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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Arcana Coelestia #2703

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2703. 'And filled the flask with water' means truths from that source. This is clear from the meaning of 'water' as truth, dealt with just above.

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.

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Jeremiah 17:7-8

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7 Blessed is the man who trusts in Yahweh, and whose trust Yahweh is.

8 For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, who spreads out its roots by the river, and shall not fear when heat comes, but its leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.