The Bible

 

Genesis 1:17

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17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,

Commentary

 

Return to his place

  

'To return to his place' refers to returning to a previous state.

(References: Arcana Coelestia 2288, Genesis 18:33)

From Swedenborg's Works

 

Marriage #34

  
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34. (19) Conjugial love depends upon the wife's love, and such too is the husband's love reciprocally; the wife's love does not depend on her husband's love. The reason is that just as the will acts on the understanding, good acts on truth; that is why it is said that a man ought to cleave to his wife. The reverse is true of those who are not in conjugial love.

  
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