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Genesis 1:25

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25 And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

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Genesis 9:6

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6 Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.

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Apocalypse Explained #508

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508. Verses 8, 9. And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea; and the third part of the sea became blood. And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had lives, died; and the third part of the ships perished.- "And the second angel sounded," signifies influx out of heaven, and the second change which came upon the evil; "and as it were a great mountain burning with fire," signifies the love of self, and thence of [one's] own intelligence; "was cast into the sea," signifies into the natural man; "and the third part of the sea became blood," signifies that everything became falsity of evil. "And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had lives, died," signifies that every living scientific in the natural man perished; "and the third part of the ships perished," signifies also that all the cognitions of truth and good from the Word, and the doctrines therefrom, perished.

  
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Translation by Isaiah Tansley. Many thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.