The Bible

Genesis 1:16

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.

From Swedenborg's Works

Arcana Coelestia #603

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603. He was to be preserved when the rest would perish in a deluge of evil and falsity, verse 17.

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