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Genesis 1:22

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22 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.

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Psalms 104:14

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14 He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth;

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Arcana Coelestia #7837

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7837. 'A perfect member' means spotless innocence. This is clear from the meaning of 'a member of the flock' as innocence, dealt with above in 7832; and from the meaning of 'perfect' as without blemishes, and so spotless. The reason why it had to be without blemishes and spotless was that any blemish means in the spiritual world some falsity or evil.

  
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