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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 #8509

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8509. 'And so it was on the seventh day' means a state when good and truth have been joined together. This is clear from the meaning of 'the seventh day', or the sabbath, as the joining together of good and truth, as above in 8507.

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

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Psalms 139:11-12

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11 If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me.

12 Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee.