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Genesis 1:9

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9 And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.

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Psalms 104:6

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6 Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: the waters stood above the mountains.

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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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