213. “知道自己赤身露体”, 表示他们发现并承认自己已落入恶中, 不再像从前那样天真无邪. 因为上一章最后一节说, “夫妻二人赤身露体, 并不羞耻”, 乃表示他们天真无邪. 此处觉得羞耻, “便编织无花果树的叶子, 为自己作裙子”, 自然就表示他们已不再天真无邪. 因为当天真失落了, 赤身就被认为是一种羞耻, 因有邪恶的思想意识在其中.

是故, 在圣经中, “赤身” 被用来代表羞耻和罪恶, 描述一个已颠倒的教会, 例如: “你赤身露体, 滚在血中.” (以西结书 16:22) 又如: “留下你赤身露体, 裸体暴露.” (以西结书 23:29) 再如: “我劝你买白衣穿上, 叫你赤身的羞耻不露出来.” (启示录 3:18) 再如: “那警醒, 看守衣服, 免得赤身而行, 叫人见他羞耻的, 有福了.” (启示录 16:15) 这是说末后的日子. 再如: “人若发现妻子有什么赤裸之事, 就可以写休书休她.” (申命记 24:1) 因同样的缘故, 亚伦和他的儿子在就近祭坛供职时, 要穿细麻布的裤子, “以遮掩赤身, 免得担罪而死” (出埃及记 28:42–43).

Chaldea was a land lying along the Euphrates river near its mouth, south of Babylon, part of what is now southern Iraq. It was a land of the Lord's second great church, the Ancient Church, which at its height had a wealth of knoweldge through its own sacred scriptures and the correspondences of nature. But as this church declined Chaldea came to represent people who use truths for evil purposes and thus profane and falsify them. Abram was born in Chaldea because of the greatness it had represented, but had to leave because of what it had become.