Arcana Coelestia (Elliott) n. 877

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877. 'The waters were over the facea of the earth' means that falsities were still there to overflowing. This is clear from the meaning of 'the waters of the flood' as falsities, as shown adequately already, and so from the very words themselves.

Notes

a lit. the faces


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