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Genesis 1:24

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24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.

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Marriage #20

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20. (7) Heavenly joy is founded upon conjugial love.

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

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Whale

  

'A whale,' as in Jeremiah 51:34, signifies people who possess the universal aspects of the knowledges of faith, as known, and apply them to evil purposes. 'Whales,' or 'great fishes,' are sometimes mentioned in the prophets, and are used to signify the universal aspects of knowledges

(Referenties: Arcana Coelestia 42)