The Bible

 

Genesis 1:21

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21 And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

From Swedenborg's Works

 

Marriage #49

  
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49. They heard conjugial love described by angels in its delights and pleasures, and that it lasts to eternity, with unending variety of delights and pleasures; and they were amazed. Consequently many of them received faith concerning the Lord and were sent among the angels of the Christian heaven. They were instructed about the Lord and in the doctrine of love and faith in Him.

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

Commentary

 

Midst

  

The "midst" of something in the Bible represents the thing that is most central and most important to the spiritual state being described, the motivation that drives everything else. In general this will be something we love or feel, because at the core of things we are what we love; our loves define us.

(References: Apocalypse Revealed 44, 90, 268; Arcana Coelestia 2252, 2940, 10153, 10365, 10557, 10635, 10641)