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So in David:—

{{smaller block|By the word of Jehovah were the heavens made, and all the army of them by the breath of His mouth (Ps. xxxiii. 6).

And again:—

{{smaller block|Thou gatherest their breath, they expire, and return to their dust; Thou sendest forth Thy spirit, they are created, and Thou renewest the faces of the ground (Ps. civ. 29, 30).}}

That the "breath (spiraculum)" is used for the life of faith and of love, appears from Job:—

{{smaller block|He is the spirit in man, and the breath of Shaddai giveth them understanding (xxxii. 8).}}

Again in the same:—

{{smaller block|The Spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of Shaddai hath given me life (xxxiii. 4).}}

{{anchor+|98}}. Verse 8. And Jehovah God planted a garden eastward (ab oriente) in Eden, and there He put the man whom He had formed. By a "garden" is signified intelligence; by "Eden," love; by the "east," the Lord; consequently by the "garden of Eden eastward," is signified the intelligence of the celestial man, which flows in from the Lord through love.

{{anchor+|99}}. Life, or the order of life, with the spiritual man, is such that although the Lord flows in, through faith, into the things of his understanding, reason, and memory (in ejus intellectualia, rationalia, et scientifica), yet as his external man fights against his internal man, it appears as if intelligence did not flow in from the Lord, but from the man himself, through the things of memory and reason (per scientifica et rationalia). But the life, or order of life, of the celestial man, is such that the Lord flows in through love and the faith of love into the things of his understanding, reason, and memory (in ejus intellectualia, rationalia, et scientifica), and as there is no combat between, the internal and the external man, he perceives that this is really so. Thus the order which up to this point had been inverted with the spiritual man, is now described as restored with the celestial man, and this order, or man, is called