The Bible

 

Genesis 1:23

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23 And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.

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)

From Swedenborg's Works

 

Arcana Coelestia #10364

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10364. 'Everyone who does work on that day' means those who turn away from heavenly loves to bodily and worldly loves. This is clear from what has been shown just above in 10362.

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