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Genesis 2:7

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7 And Jehovah God formeth the man -- dust from the ground, and breatheth into his nostrils breath of life, and the man becometh a living creature.

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Arcana Coelestia #106

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106. More will be said later on regarding what the tree of the garden, or perception, is; what the tree of life, 1 or love and faith deriving from love, is; and what the tree of knowledge, or faith based on sensory evidence and on knowledge.

Footnotes:

1. literally, of lives

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