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We use a calendar that has 12 months and 365 days in it. As it nears December 31st, we feel as though something is getting close to an end, and yet on January 1st it feels like a new beginning. Our life is composed of many endings and beginnings. We may live one life, but within this one life we have many different journeys.

(References: Habakkuk 3:17)

366. Since zeal in outward respects appears the same in both a good man and an evil one, and because the outmost sense of the Word consists of correspondent images and appearances, it is quite often said of Jehovah there that He becomes angry, is wrathful, takes vengeance, punishes, casts into hell, and many other things, which are the ways zeal appears in its outward manifestations. It is for the same reason, too, that He is called jealous. And this, even though there is not a particle of anger, wrath and vengeance in Him. For He is the essence of mercy, grace and clemency, thus the essence of goodness, in whom nothing like what has been described is possible. (But for more on this subject, see in the book, Heaven and Hell, nos. 545-550, and in The Apocalypse Revealed, nos. 494, 498, 525, 714, 806.)