Arcana Coelestia # 19
19. 'The Spirit of God' is used to mean the Lord's mercy, which is said 'to hover', like a hen over eggs, over what the Lord stores away in man and which in the Word are frequently called 'remnants'. These remnants are cognitions of truth and good which never come to light or into daylight until external things have been laid waste. These cognitions are here called 'the face 1 of the waters'.
Mga talababa:
1. literally, the faces
2 Timothy 2:25
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in gentleness correcting those who oppose him: perhaps God may give them repentance leading to a full knowledge of the truth,
