The Heavenly Arcana (Volume 1-2); Contained in the Holy Scripture, or Word of the Lord, Unfolded in an Exposition of Genesis and Exodus, Together with

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 2o. And the man gave names to every beast and to the fowl of the heavens, and to every wild animal of the field; and for man He found not a help as it were with himself. 21. And Jehovah God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he fell asleep; and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in the place thereof. 22. And Jehovah God builded the rib which He had taken from the man, into a woman, and brought her unto the man. 23. And the man said, This now is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; for this she shall be called Wife, because she was taken out of man. 24. Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife, and they shall be one flesh. 25. And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed. CONTENTS. 131. The posterity of the Most Ancient Church is now treated of, which desired proprium [or the sense of being their own]. 132. Because man is such as not to be content to be led by the Lord, but desires to be led also by himself and the world, or from his proprium, this proprium is here treated of, as being granted to him ?verse 18. 133. And first it is given him to become acquainted with affections of good and knowledges, of truth, which are given him by the Lord; but still he craves a proprium ? verses 19, 2o. 134. He is therefore let into the state of the proprium and the proprium is given him. This is described by the rib built into a woman ? verses 2i, 23. 135. Celestial and spiritual life also were adjoined to the proprium, so as to appear as one ? verse 24. 136. And innocence was insinuated into the proprium by the Lord, so that it might still be not unacceptable ? verse 25. INTERNAL SENSE. 137. In the first three chapters of Genesis, in general, the Most A...