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1 Stalo se pak, když se počali množiti lidé na zemi, a dcery se jim zrodily,

2 Že vidouce synové Boží dcery lidské, any krásné jsou, brali sobě ženy ze všech, kteréž oblibovali.

3 Pročež řekl Hospodin: Nebude se nesnaditi duch můj s člověkem na věky, proto že také tělo jest, a bude dnů jeho sto a dvadceti let.

4 Obrové pak byli na zemi v těch dnech; ano i potom, když vcházeli synové Boží k dcerám lidským, ony rodily jim. To jsou ti mocní, kteříž zdávna byli, muži na slovo vzatí.

5 Ale když viděl Hospodin, an se rozmnožuje zlost lidská na zemi, a že by všeliké myšlení srdce jejich nebylo než zlé po všecken čas,

6 Litoval Hospodin, že učinil člověka na zemi, a bolest měl v srdci svém.

7 Tedy řekl Hospodin: Vyhladím z země člověka, kteréhož jsem stvořil, od člověka až do hovada, až do zeměplazu, až i do ptactva nebeského; nebo líto mi, že jsem je učinil.

8 Ale Noé našel milost před Hospodinem.

9 Tito jsou příběhové Noé: Noé muž spravedlivý, dokonalý byl za svého věku, s Bohem ustavičně chodil Noé.

10 (Zplodil pak Noé tři syny: Sema, Chama a Jáfeta.)

11 Ale země byla porušena před Bohem, a naplněna byla země nepravostí.

12 Viděl tedy Bůh zemi, a aj, porušena byla, nebo bylo porušilo všeliké tělo cestu svou na zemi.

13 Protož řekl Bůh k Noé: Konec všelikého těla přichází přede mne, nebo naplněna jest země nepravostí od nich; z té příčiny, hle, již zkazím je s zemí.

14 Učiň sobě koráb z dříví gofer; příhrady zděláš v tom korábu, a oklejuješ jej vnitř i zevnitř klím.

15 A na tento způsob uděláš jej: Tří set loktů bude dlouhost toho korábu, padesáti loktů širokost jeho a třidceti loktů vysokost jeho.

16 Okno uděláš v korábu, a svrchkem na loket vysokým zavřeš jej; dvéře také korábu v boku jeho postavíš, a pokoje spodní, druhé i třetí zděláš v něm.

17 Já pak, aj, já uvedu potopu vod na zemi, aby zkaženo bylo všeliké tělo, v němž jest duch života pod nebem. Cožkoli bude na zemi, umře.

18 S tebou však učiním smlouvu svou; a vejdeš do korábu, ty i synové tvoji, žena tvá i ženy synů tvých s tebou.

19 A ze všech živočichů všelikého těla, po dvém z každého uvedeš do korábu, abys je živé zachoval s sebou; samec a samice budou.

20 Z ptactva podlé pokolení jeho, a z hovad podlé pokolení jejich, ze všelikého také zeměplazu podlé pokolení jeho, po dvém z každého vejdou k tobě, aby živi zůstali.

21 Ty pak nabeř s sebou všeliké potravy, kteráž se jísti může, a shromažď sobě, aby byla tobě i jim ku pokrmu.

22 I učinil Noé podlé všeho, jakž mu rozkázal Bůh, tak učinil.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 1673

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1673. 'And they smote the Rephaim in Ashteroth Karnaim, and the Zuzim in Ham, and the Emim in Shaveh Kiriathaim' means false persuasions or the hells of such persuasions which the Lord overcame. This is clear from the meaning of the Rephaim, the Zuzim, and the Emim, as those of a similar kind to the Nephilim mentioned in Genesis 6:4 - the Nephilim, as was shown more than adequately at that verse, meaning false persuasions or those people who because they were persuaded of their own superiority and pre-eminence regarded all things that were holy and true as worthless, and who plunged falsities into evil desires, see 581 - and from the following places quoted in that paragraph, Numbers 13:33; Deuteronomy 2:10; Isaiah 14:9; 26:14, 19; Psalms 88:10. Here it is the different kinds of false persuasions that are meant by these three, and also by 'the Horites in Mount Seir', for there are many kinds of false persuasions, each kind varying not only according to the falsities but also according to the evil desires to which those falsities are allied or into which they are plunged, or from which they stem and are produced. The nature of such false persuasions cannot possibly become clear to anyone who knows scarcely anything more about false persuasion or evil desire than that such things exist; but in the next life they are arranged quite distinctly and separately into their own genera and their own species.

[2] Among those who lived before the Flood, especially among those called the Nephilim, most dreadful false persuasions existed. The Nephilim were such that in the next life by their persuasions they deprive other spirits they encounter of their whole ability to think. As a result it seems to those spirits as though they are scarcely alive, let alone capable of thinking anything true. For in the next life, as has been shown, there is a communication of the thoughts of all; and therefore when persuasiveness such as this flows in, it inevitably kills so to speak all power to think that the others have. Such were the unspeakably horrible nations against whom the Lord fought in earliest childhood and whom He overcame. And unless the Lord by His Coming into the world had overcome them, nobody at all would be alive today on this planet, for everyone is governed by the Lord through spirits. Today those same people, on account of their delusions, are hemmed in all round by what looks like a misty rock, out of which they are constantly endeavouring to rise up, though to no avail - see 1265-1272, and in many places before that. They and their like are also the people meant by Isaiah,

The dead will not live, the Rephaim will not rise. To the end that You have visited and destroyed them, and wiped out all remembrance of them. Isaiah 26:14.

[3] And in David,

Will you work a wonder for the dead? Will the Rephaim rise up and confess You? Psalms 88:10.

'The dead' here is not used to mean the dead but the condemned. At the present day too, especially from the Christian world, there are people who in a similar way have persuasions, but not of so dreadful a nature as those possessed by people before the Flood. False persuasions which occupy both the will and the understanding parts of man's mind - as did the persuasions of those before the Flood, and of those meant by the Rephaim, Zuzim, and Emim - are of one kind. But false persuasions that occupy only the understanding part, having their origin in false assumptions confirmed within oneself, are of another kind. The latter kind are not so powerful as the former, nor so deadly, but they nevertheless cause much annoyance to the other spirits in the next life, partially taking away from them their capacity to think. Spirits such as these arouse in man outright confirmations of falsity, so that a person inevitably sees falsity as truth, and evil as good. It is their sphere which is of such a nature. As soon as any truth is called forth by angels those spirits smother and extinguish it.

[4] A person can discover whether such spirits govern him by merely considering whether he thinks the truths of the Word to be falsities and confirms himself in this so that he is not able to see otherwise. He can in that case be quite sure that such spirits reside with him and have dominion. It is similar with those who persuade themselves that all private gain is the common good, and who imagine that nothing contributes to the common good if it is not to their own private gain. Evil spirits residing with such a person supply so many confirmations that he does not see otherwise. Such people as regard all private gain as the common good, or who disguise it with the appearance of its being the common good, in the next life act in much the same way with regard to the common good there. That this is the nature of the influx of the spirits residing with man I have been given to know to the life from uninterrupted experience.

  
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