Arcana Coelestia (Elliott) n. 279

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279. What all these verses in sequence embody is this: The sensory part turned away from what is celestial, verse 14. The Lord would come into the world to unite them, verse 15. Because the external man turned away, conflict resulted, verse 16. This led to wretchedness, verse 17, condemnation, verse 18, and at length hell, verse 19. These followed consecutively in that Church from the fourth generation down to the Flood.

GENESIS 3:20-24

  1. And the man called the name of his wife Eve, because she was to be the mother of all living.
  2. And Jehovah God made for the man and his wife coats of skin and clothed them.
  3. And Jehovah God said, Behold, the man has become as one of Us, in knowing good and evil; and now by chance he will put out his hand and also take from the tree of lifea and eat, and live forever.
  4. And Jehovah God sent him out of the garden of Eden to till the ground from which he had been taken.
  5. So He expelled the man, and away from the east towards the garden of Eden He caused the cherubim to dwell, and the flame of as word turning itself this way and that to guard the way to the tree of life.a

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