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Genesis 1:26

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26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

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Brimstone and salt

  

In Deuteronomy 29:33, this signifies the vastation of good and truth, for these destroy the earth and its produce as lusts destroy goods and falsities destroy truths. (Arcana Coelestia 1666)

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John 20:21-22

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21 Jesus therefore said to them again, "Peace be to you. As the Father has sent me, even so I send you."

22 When he had said this, he breathed on them, and said to them, "Receive the Holy Spirit!