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Genesis 1:17

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

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Sand, treasures hid

  

'Treasures hid in the sand,' as in Deuteronomy 33:19, signify spiritual things hidden in the literal sense of the Word.

(References: Apocalypse Explained 445)

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Isaiah 50:2

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2 Why, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it can't redeem? or have I no power to deliver? Behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stink, because there is no water, and die for thirst.