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

 

The Inner Meaning of the Prophets and Psalms #354

  
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354. Internal Meaning of Psalm 104

Song in praise of the Lord. (16, 3)

1-4 From Him are Divine truths, or the Word. (16)

5-9 Of the sense of the letter of the Word, on which the church is founded: 16, (16, 11)

10-23 from this all are taught, everyone according to the state of His intelligence;, (16, 11)

24-30 from this are the knowledges [cognitiones] of truth and good, from which is spiritual nourishment 16, (16, 11)

31-35 May the good be saved, and the evil perish! (17, 11)

  
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