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

 

Spreading themselves

  

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

(References: Arcana Coelestia 913)

Commentary

 

Girgashites and Jebusites

  

In Genesis 15:21, these peoples signify falsities from evils. (Arcana Coelestia 1867)