{Footnote 1} The first and Most Ancient Church on this earth
was that which is described in the first chapters of Genesis,
and that church above all others was celestial (n. 607, 895,
920, 1121-1124, 2896, 4493, 8891, 9942, 10545). What the
celestial are in heaven (n. 1114-1125). There were various
churches after the flood which are called ancient churches (n.
1125-1127, 1327, 10355). What the men of the Ancient Church
were (n. 609, 895). The ancient churches were representative
churches (n. 519, 521, 2896). In the Ancient Church there was a
Word, but it has been lost (n. 2897). The character of the
Ancient Church when it began to decline (n. 1128). The
difference between the Most Ancient Church and the Ancient
Church (n. 597, 607, 640, 641, 765, 784, 895, 4493). The
statutes, the judgments, and the laws, which were commanded in
the Jewish Church, were in part like those in the Ancient
Church (n. 4288, 4449, 10149). The God of the Most Ancient
Church and of the Ancient Church was the Lord, and He was
called Jehovah (n. 1343, 6846).
328. That the church of the Lord is spread over all the globe, and is
thus universal; and that all those are in it who have lived in the
good of charity in accordance with their religion; and that the
church, where the Word is and by means of it the Lord is known, is in
relation to those who are out of the church like the heart and lungs
in man, from which all the viscera and members of the body have their
life, variously according to their forms, positions, and
conjunctions, may be seen above (n.
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