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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.

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Wild beasts

  

'Wild beasts' denote affections and lusts.

(References: Arcana Coelestia 45-46 [3])

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Luke 4:1

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1 And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness,