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Genesis 1:16

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16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.

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Marriage #48

  
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48. Those of them who are in the heaven of the Mohammedans have only one wife, having rejected more. For there is a Mohammedan heaven distinct from the Christian heaven. But those who eventually, as many do, acknowledge the Lord as one with the Father are separated and are in heavens which communicate with the Christian heavens; and they have conjugial love.

  
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Arcana Coelestia #6678

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6678. 'And the midwives feared God' means that true factual knowledge was kept safe because it was kept so by the Divine. This is clear from the meaning of 'fearing God' as keeping what the Divine has commanded, for people who fear God keep His commandments, though - since all holy fear, and consequently obedience to and keeping of commandments, have a Divine and not at all human origin - a keeping by the Divine is what is meant by 'feared God'; and from the meaning of 'the midwives' as the natural where true factual knowledge resides, dealt within 4588, 6673, 6675.

  
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