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Genesis 1:16

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16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.

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Arcana Coelestia #26

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26. Verse 8 And there was evening, and there was morning, a second day.

What 'evening', 'morning', and 'day' mean, has been shown already at verse 5.

  
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Arcana Coelestia #8335

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8335. 'And the children of Israel went on dry ground through the middle of the sea' means that those governed by the good of truth and guided by the truth of good passed over in safety through the region of that hell. This is clear from the explanations in 8099 and 8185.

  
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