The Inner Meaning of the Prophets and Psalms #386
386. Internal Meaning of Psalm 136
1-3 Let them confess the Lord, who alone is God and Lord,6 (16)
4-6 who, by means of the Divine truth, has formed heaven and the church, (12)
7-9 from whom is all truth of doctrine, and good of love, and knowledge (cognitio) of these; (12)
10-22 who delivers the natural man from falsities of evil, and there establishes the church, and dissipates evils of every kind. (11, 12, 17)
23-26 Celebration and confession of Him who delivers from falsities and evils, and grants truths and goods,6, (16, 12)
2 Peter 3:5
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For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:
