"Light" signifies the truth of faith (n.
3195, 3485, 3636, 3643, 3993, 4302, 4413, 4415, 9548, 9684).
{Footnote 3} The sight of the left eye corresponds to truths of
faith, and the sight of the right eye to their goods (n. 4410,
6923).
{Footnote 4} The things on man's right have relation to good
from which is truth, and those on his left to truth from good
(n. 9495, 9604).
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).
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