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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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Return to Egypt

  

In Exodus 4:18, this signifies the continuation of the previous life. (Arcana Coelestia 7014)

In Exodus 13:17, this signifies to fall into falsities. (Arcana Coelestia 8097)

In John 13:3, this signifies to be conceived and to exist from the Divine in Himself, and to be united to Him as soul to body. (Arcana Coelestia 852[9])

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Arcana Coelestia #860

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860. From these considerations it also becomes clear that all regeneration advances from evening to morning, as is mentioned six times in Genesis 1 where the regeneration of man is the subject. Here the evening is described in verses 2-3, the morning in verses 4-5. The present verse describes the first ray of light or the morning of this state as 'the tops of the mountains appearing'.

  
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