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Genesis 1:2

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2 Now the earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep. God's Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.

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Arcana Coelestia #860

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860. From these things it is also evident that all regeneration proceeds from evening to morning, as is stated six times over in 1:0, where the regeneration of man is treated of, and where evening is described in verses 2-3; and morning in verses 4-5. In the present verse the first dawning of light, or the morning of this state, is described by “the tops of the mountains appearing.”

  
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