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40—42.] in Hosea, speaking of a new church, or of a regenerate man: "And in that day will I make a covenant for them, with the wild beast of the field, and with the fowls of heaven, and with the creeping things of the ground," (ii. 18.) That wild beast here does not signify wild beast, nor bird—bird, must be evident to every one, inasmuch as the Lord is said to make a new covenant with them.

41. Whatsoever belongs to the proprium of man has no life in itself, and whensoever it is made manifest to the sight, it appears hard, like a bony and black substance; but, whatsoever is from the Lord has life, containing in it a spiritual and celestial principle, which to the sight appears as a human living principle. It may possibly seem incredible, but it is nevertheless most true, that every single expression, every single idea, and every the least principle of thought in an angelic spirit, has life, containing in each particular an affection proceeding from the Lord, who is life itself. For whatsoever things are from the Lord have life in themselves, because they contain faith towards him, and are here signified by the living soul: they have also a species of body, here signified by what moves itself, or creeps. These truths, however, are as yet arcana to man, and are now only mentioned because the living soul, and the thing moving itself, are treated of.

42. Verse 21. ''And God created great whales, and every living soul that creepeth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after its kind: And God saw that it was good. Fishes, as was said above, signify scientifics, now animated by faith from the Lord, and thus living''. Whales signify their general principles, in subordination to which, and of which, particulars consist; for there is not a single thing existing in the universe, which is not in subordination to some general principle, as a means of its existence and subsistence. Whales or great fishes are sometimes mentioned by the prophets, and are used to signify the general principles of scientifics, as in Ezekiel: "Behold, I am against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great whale that lieth in the midst of his rivers, which hath said, My river is mine own, and I have made it for myself," (xxix. 3.) And in another place: "Take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say unto him, thou art as a whale in the seas, and thou camest forth with thy rivers, and troubledst the seas with thy feet," (xxxii. 2;) by which are signified such persons as desire to enter into the mysteries of faith by scientifics,—that is, of themselves. Again, in Isaiah: "In that day the Lord, with his hard and great and strong sword, shall punish leviathan the piercing [oblongum] serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent, and he shall slay the whales that are in the sea," (xxvii. 1.) By slaying the whales that are in the sea, is signified that such persons are