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Heaven and its Wonders and Hell by Emanuel Swedenborg
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119. This is why in the Word the Lord in respect to love is likened
to the sun, and in respect to faith to the moon; also that the "sun"
signifies love from the Lord to the Lord, and the "moon" signifies
faith from the Lord in the Lord, as in the following passages:

The light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun,
and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light
of seven days (Isa. 30:26).

And when I shall extinguish thee I will cover the heavens
and make the stars thereof dark; I will cover the sun with
a cloud, and the moon shall not make her light to shine.
All luminaries of light in the heavens will I make dark
over thee, and I will set darkness upon thy land (Ezek.
32:7, 8).

I will darken the sun in his going forth, and the moon
shall not make her light to shine (Isa. 13:10)

The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars
shall withdraw their shining. The sun shall be turned into
darkness and the moon into blood (Joel 2:2, 10, 31; 3:16).

The sun became black as sackcloth and hair, and the moon
became as blood, and the stars fell unto the earth (Apoc.
6:12, 13).

Immediately after the affliction of those days the sun
shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light,
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