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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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Arcana Coelestia #669

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669. Verse 19 And of every living creature of all flesh, pairs of all, you shall cause to enter the ark, to keep them alive with you; male and female they shall be.

'Living creature' 1 means things of the understanding, 'all flesh' those of the will. 'Pairs of all you shall cause to enter the ark' means the regeneration of these. 'Male' means truth, 'female' good.

Footnotes:

1. literally, living soul

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.

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Apocalypse Explained #346

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346. And power, to ages of ages. That this signifies that to Him alone belongs Omnipotence to eternity, is clear from the signification of power, when predicated of the Lord, as denoting Omnipotence; and because Omnipotence belongs to the Lord from the Divine good by means of the Divine truth, it is therefore said, "honour, and glory, and power"; for by honour and glory are signified the Divine good and the Divine truth. That the Divine good has all power by means of the Divine truth, may be seen in the work concerning Heaven and Hell 231, 232, 539; and above, n. 209, 333. Power is here mentioned last, and by the angels of the ultimate heaven, because power, when the Lord is treated of, is said of the Divine Power in its fulness, and it is in its fulness in ultimates. (That the Divine in ultimates is in its fulness, thus in its power, may be seen in the Arcana Coelestia 5897, 6451, 8603, 9828, 9836, 10099, 10548; and in the work concerning Heaven and Hell 315.)

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