Arcana Coelestia #62
62. The stages and states of the regeneration of man - both of mankind and of the individual person - divide into six and are called the days of his creation. Gradually from being no man at all, he first becomes something, though only little, then something more, until the sixth day is reached, when he becomes 'an image'.
Romans 7:22-25
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For I delight in God's law after the inward man,
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but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members.
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What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of the body of this death?
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I thank God through Jesus Christ, our Lord! So then with the mind, I myself serve God's law, but with the flesh, the sin's law.
