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Sacred Scripture #8

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8. Since the Word is inwardly spiritual and heavenly, it was composed using nothing but correspondences; and when something is written by means of nothing but correspondences, its outermost written sense takes on the kind of style we find in the prophets and in the Gospels, a style that has divine wisdom and everything angelic hidden within it even though it seems to be commonplace.

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

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1 Kings 14:24

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24 And there were also sodomites in the land: and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.

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Revelation 21:5

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5 And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.