Genesis 1:24-31; 41:32; Leviticus 4:13; Deuteronomy 1:14. Every thing in the Word is what its subject is. (Arcana Coelestia 801).
Nothing that comes forth in the universe is a thing unless it is from the Divine Good through Divine Truth; so words are also things. (Arcana Coelestia 5075).
As the Divine Providence is in the smallest particulars of things. so insignificant, why should it not be in the important matters of peace and war in the world? (Divine Providence 212).
In the spiritual or internal sense, the idea of person is turned into that of things; for in the spiritual world, not persons, but things are considered, for persons limit the idea, but things do not. (Arcana Coelestia 5225).
