The Bible

 

Genesis 1:28

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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

 

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)

From Swedenborg's Works

 

The Inner Meaning of the Prophets and Psalms #354

  
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354. Internal Meaning of Psalm 104

Song in praise of the Lord. (16, 3)

1-4 From Him are Divine truths, or the Word. (16)

5-9 Of the sense of the letter of the Word, on which the church is founded: 16, (16, 11)

10-23 from this all are taught, everyone according to the state of His intelligence;, (16, 11)

24-30 from this are the knowledges [cognitiones] of truth and good, from which is spiritual nourishment 16, (16, 11)

31-35 May the good be saved, and the evil perish! (17, 11)

  
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