The Bible

Genesis 1:28

²⁸ And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

Commentary

Birds

Photo by Brita Conroy

"Birds" represent rational concepts in the external man and intellectual concepts in the internal man.

Commentary

Vines and laurels

By New Christian Bible Study Staff

'Vines and laurels' correspond to the affection of truth and its uses.

(References: Heaven and Hell 520)