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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.

Commentary

 

Midwife

  

'Midwives,' as in Exodus 1:15-21, signify receptions of truth in the natural principle. 'A midwife,' as in Genesis 26, signifies the natural level.

(References: Arcana Coelestia 4588, Genesis 1, 15)


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Jeremiah 31:35-36

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35 Thus says Yahweh, who gives the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, who stirs up the sea, so that its waves roar; Yahweh of Armies is his name:

36 If these ordinances depart from before me, says Yahweh, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me forever.