The Bible

 

John 1:1-5

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1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

2 The same was in the beginning with God.

3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.

4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men.

5 And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.

  

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Marriage #39

  
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39. (24) The angels of heaven in direct conversation confirmed that conjugial love is such a love, that there is such a delight, that they have such wisdom, that there is heaven in it, and that they are to that extent human beings. - Afterwards they looked into hell, and said that there is all filth, and that the worst adulterers and adulteresses appear like swine and hogs, and like swine and hogs they take delight in dung; and they said that one of them was so delighted with dung that he wanted to eat it. This is a coincidence with the prophet who was ordered to make himself a cake of excrement.

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.