The Bible

Genesis 1:31

³¹ And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

The Bible

Psalms 115:16

¹⁶ The heaven, even the heavens, are the LORD's: but the earth hath he given to the children of men.

Commentary

Spreading themselves

'Spreading themselves on the earth,' as in Genesis 8:17, signifies the internal self operating on the external.

(References: Arcana Coelestia 913)