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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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Apocalypse Explained #760

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760. That she might fly into the wilderness unto her place.- That this signifies as yet among a few, because among those who are not in the life of charity, in order that the church in the meantime might be provided for among many, is evident from the explanations above (n. 730, 731), where similar things are said, only with this difference, that there the woman is said to have fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared by God, but here, that she might fly into the wilderness unto her place.

  
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Translation by Isaiah Tansley. Many thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.

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Revelation 12:14

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14 And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.