The Bible

Genesis 3:5

⁵ For God doth know, that in the day ye eat of it, then your eyes shall be opened: and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

From Swedenborg's Works

Arcana Coelestia #240

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240. Next, their aversion to everything of faith and love; and that thus from being man they became not men (verse 19).

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