Doc. of Sacred Scripture (Dick) n. 27

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27.

III

The sense of the Letter of the Word is the basis, the containant and the support of the spiritual and celestial senses

In every Divine work there is a first, a middle and a last; the first passes through the middle to the last, and so exists and subsists; consequently, the last is the basis. Again, the first is in the middle, and by means of the middle in the last, and thus the last is the containant; and because the last is the containant and the basis, it is also the support.


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