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Genesis 1:30

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30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.

From Swedenborg's Works

 

Marriage #35

  
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35. (to) A wife wishes to think and will what her husband does, and a husband what his wife does, and because each wishes this, each is led by the Lord as if they were one, and the two are a single angel. For when one's will and understanding is not one's own, but another's, and this is mutually so in turn, they cannot but be led by the Lord as if one.

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

Commentary

 

Fowl

  

Fowl signify spiritual truth; a bird, natural truth; and a winged thing, sensual truth. Fowl of heaven, as in Hosea 2:18, signify the affections of truth; and reptiles of the earth, the affection of the knowledges of truth and good. Fowl signify thoughts, and all that creeps on the ground, the sensual principle. Fowl signify intellectual things.

(References: Arcana Coelestia 777; Hosea 2)