Arcana Coelestia (Elliott) n. 860

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860. From these considerations it also becomes clear that all regeneration advances from evening to morning, as is mentioned six times in Genesis 1 where the regeneration of man is the subject. Here the evening is described in verses 2, 3, the morning in verses 4, 5. The present verse describes the first ray of light or the morning of this state as 'the tops of the mountains appearing'.


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