The Bible

 

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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Resurrection, the first

  

'The first resurrection,' mentioned in Revelation 20:5, 6, does not mean a first resurrection, but the essence and primary part of resurrection, which is salvation and eternal life. There is only one resurrection to life. A second does not happen, and is not mentioned anywhere in the Bible.

(References: Apocalypse Explained 6; Apocalypse Revealed 851; Revelation 20:5-6)

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Arcana Coelestia #10527

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10527. 'Which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, To your seed I will give it' means the Church promised to those who have within themselves from the Lord the good of love and the truths of faith. This is clear from the meaning of 'swearing', when done by Jehovah, as confirmation from the Divine, within the internal man, dealt with in 2842, 3375, 9166, thus also a promise made by the Divine, for what has been promised by the Divine is also confirmed by Him; from the representation of 'Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob' in the highest sense as the Lord in respect of the Divine itself and the Divine Human, and in the relative sense as heaven and the Church, dealt with in 3245, 3251, 3305(end), 4615, 6098, 6185, 6276, 6804, 6847, 10445; and from the meaning of 'their seed' as those who have within themselves the good of love and the truths of faith from the Lord, and so in the abstract sense as the good of love and the truth of faith, dealt with in 3373, 10445.

  
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