The Bible

 

Genesis 2:14

Study

       

14 And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: which floweth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates.

From Swedenborg's Works

 

Arcana Coelestia #122

Study this Passage

  
/ 10837  
  

122. Verse 15 And Jehovah God took the man and placed him in the garden of Eden, to till it and to care for it.

'The garden of Eden' means all the qualities of the celestial man which are the subject here. 'Tilling it and caring for it' means that he is allowed to enjoy all these things but not to possess them as his own, since they are the Lord's.

  
/ 10837  
  

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