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1 Mosebok 2:5

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5 Då bar jorden ännu ingen buske på marken, och ingen ört hade ännu skjutit upp på marken, ty HERREN Gud hade icke låtit regna på jorden, och ingen människa fanns, som kunde bruka jorden;

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Arcana Coelestia #111

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111. It is extremely difficult however to present these matters as they stand in their interior sense because nowadays people do not know what faith deriving from love is, what wisdom is, and what intelligence from wisdom is. For external people are hardly aware of anything except knowledge which they call intelligence and wisdom, and even faith. They do not even know what love is. And many people do not know what will and understanding are, or that they comprise a single mind. Yet these are distinct and separate entities, totally distinct and separate. And the whole of heaven is ordered by the Lord quite distinctly and separately according to differences of love and faith, which are countless.

  
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