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Genesis 1:18

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18 And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.

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1 Corinthians 15:38

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38 But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body.

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Arcana Coelestia #107

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107. Verse 10 And a river was going out of Eden to water the garden, and from there it divided and became four heads.

'A river was going out of Eden 'means wisdom deriving from love, which is Eden. 'To water the garden' is to confer intelligence. 'From there to divide into four heads' describes intelligence coming through four rivers, as below.

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