The Bible

 

Genesis 4:11

Study

       

11 and now, cursed [art] thou from the ground, which hath opened her mouth to receive the blood of thy brother from thy hand;

From Swedenborg's Works

 

Arcana Coelestia #400

Study this Passage

  
/ 10837  
  

400. That “Cain knew his wife, and she conceived, and bare Enoch” signifies that this schism or heresy produced another from itself, is evident from what has been previously said, as well as from what is stated in the first verse, that the Man and Eve his wife produced Cain; so that the things which now follow are similar conceptions and births, whether of the church, or of heresies, whereof they formed a genealogy, for these are similarly related to each other. From one heresy that is conceived there are born a host of them.

  
/ 10837  
  

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