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.

Commentary

 

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 #6412

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6412. 'Naphtali' means the state following temptations. This is clear from the representation of 'Naphtali' as temptation and also the state following temptations, dealt with in 3927, 3928; besides which he was given the name Naphtali by derivation from 'wrestlings', which in the spiritual sense are temptations.

  
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