The Bible

 

Genesis 1:20

Study

       

20 And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.

From Swedenborg's Works

 

Arcana Coelestia #3967

Study this Passage

  
/ 10837  
  

3967. 'And opened her womb' means the ability to receive and acknowledge. This is clear from the meaning of 'opening the womb' as conferring the ability to conceive and bear, and so in the internal sense the ability to receive and acknowledge the goods of truth and the truths of good. For 'conceiving and bearing' means reception and acknowledgement, as shown in various places above.

  
/ 10837  
  

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