The Bible

 

Genesis 1:8

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8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.

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

 

Apocalypse Explained #311

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311. To open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof. That this signifies that He knows and has cognisance of all men and every man, and the most secret things of every one, is evident from what was shown above, n. 299, 303, 304, where similar things occur.

  
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Translation by Isaiah Tansley. Many thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.