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Genesis 1:15

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15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.

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Job 12:6

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6 The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth abundantly.

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Arcana Coelestia #11

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11. The fifth state is when he speaks from faith and in so doing confirms himself in truth and good. What he brings forth at this point are animate and are called the fish of the sea and the birds of the air. 1

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1. literally, birds of the heavens (or the skies)

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