The Bible

 

Genesis 1:3

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3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

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

 

Arcana Coelestia #7776

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7776. 'About midnight' means when vastation is completed. This is clear from the meaning of 'midnight' as the time of thickest darkness, that is, utter falsity. For 'night' means a state of falsity, 2353, 6000, and 'the middle' of it is the peak, so that 'midnight' is when vastation is completed.

  
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