The Bible

 

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.

Commentary

 

Upon or over

  

'Upon' or 'over' signifies being spiritually higher, or interior.

(References: Apocalypse Revealed 900)

From Swedenborg's Works

 

Arcana Coelestia #5543

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5543. 'If I do not bring him back to you' means if no joining of the intermediary takes place. This is clear from the representation of Benjamin, to whom the one he would bring back refers here, as the intermediary, dealt with in 5411, 5413, 5443, 5539; and from the meaning of 'bringing back' as being joined.

  
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