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1 Kaj kiam la homoj komencis multigxi sur la tero kaj al ili naskigxis filinoj,

2 tiam la filoj de Dio vidis la filinojn de la homoj, ke ili estas belaj; kaj ili prenis al si edzinojn el cxiuj, kiujn ili elektis.

3 Kaj la Eternulo diris: Ne regos Mia spirito inter la homoj eterne, pro iliaj pekoj, cxar ili estas karno; ilia vivo estu cent dudek jaroj.

4 Gigantoj estis sur la tero en tiu tempo, ecx post kiam la filoj de Dio venis al la filinoj de la homoj kaj cxi tiuj naskis al ili. Tio estis la fortuloj, tre famaj de plej antikva tempo.

5 Kaj la Eternulo vidis, ke granda estas la malboneco de la homoj sur la tero kaj ke cxiuj pensoj kaj intencoj de iliaj koroj estas nur malbono en cxiu tempo;

6 tiam la Eternulo pentis, ke Li kreis la homon sur la tero, kaj Li afliktigxis en Sia koro.

7 Kaj la Eternulo diris: Mi ekstermos de sur la tero la homon, kiun Mi kreis, de la homo gxis la brutoj, gxis la rampajxoj, kaj gxis la birdoj de la cxielo; cxar Mi pentas, ke Mi ilin kreis.

8 Sed Noa akiris placxon en la okuloj de la Eternulo.

9 Jen estas la historio de Noa: Noa estis homo virta kaj senmakula en sia generacio; kun Dio Noa iradis.

10 Kaj naskigxis al Noa tri filoj: SXem, HXam, kaj Jafet.

11 Kaj la tero malvirtigxis antaux Dio, kaj la tero plenigxis de maljustajxoj.

12 Kaj Dio vidis la teron, ke gxi malvirtigxis, cxar cxiu karno malvirtigis sian vojon sur la tero.

13 Kaj Dio diris al Noa: La fino de cxiu karno venis antaux Min, cxar la tero plenigxis de maljustajxoj per ili, kaj jen Mi pereigos ilin kun la tero.

14 Faru al vi arkeon el ligno gofera; apartajxojn faru en la arkeo, kaj sxmiru gxin per pecxo interne kaj ekstere.

15 Kaj faru gxin tiamaniere: tricent ulnoj estu la longo de la arkeo, kvindek ulnoj gxia largxo, kaj tridek ulnoj gxia alto.

16 Fenestron faru en la arkeo, supre, kun la alto de unu ulno, kaj la pordon de la arkeo vi faros en la flanko; malsupran spacon, duan spacon, kaj trian spacon faru en gxi.

17 Kaj jen Mi venigos akvan diluvon sur la teron, por ekstermi cxiun karnon, kiu havas en si spiriton de vivo sub la cxielo; cxio, kio estas sur la tero, pereos.

18 Kaj Mi starigos Mian interligon kun vi; kaj vi eniros en la arkeon, vi kaj viaj filoj kaj via edzino kaj la edzinoj de viaj filoj kune kun vi.

19 Kaj el cxiuj vivajxoj, el cxiu karno, enkonduku po unu paro el cxiuj en la arkeon, ke ili restu vivaj kun vi; virbesto kaj virinbesto ili estu.

20 El la birdoj laux iliaj specoj, kaj el la brutoj laux iliaj specoj, el cxiuj rampajxoj de la tero laux iliaj specoj, po paro el cxiuj eniru kun vi, por resti vivaj.

21 Kaj vi prenu al vi el cxiuj mangxajxoj, kiuj estas mangxataj, kaj kolektu al vi; kaj gxi estu por vi kaj por ili por mangxi.

22 Kaj Noa tion faris; cxion, kiel Dio al li ordonis, tiel li faris.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 710

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710. 'Enter, you and all your house, into the ark' means things that constitute the will. This is clear from what has just been stated. In the previous chapter, which dealt with things of the understanding, verse 18 reads differently, namely 'You shall enter into the ark, you, and your sons, and your wife, and your sons' wives with you'. That 'a house' means the will and what constitutes the will is clear from various places in the Word, as in Jeremiah,

Their houses will be turned over to others, their fields and wives together. Jeremiah 6:11.

Here both 'houses' and 'fields and wives' refers to things of the will. In the same prophet,

Build houses and dwell in them; and plant gardens and eat their fruit. Jeremiah 29:5, 28.

Here 'building and dwelling in houses' has to do with the will, 'planting gardens' with the understanding. The same applies in other places. And frequently 'the house of Jehovah' stands for the Church where love is the chief thing. 'The house of Judah' stands for the celestial Church, 'the house of Israel' for the spiritual Church, because 'a house' means the Church. Consequently the mind of the member of the Church, which has within it things of the will and those of the understanding, that is, of charity and of faith, is meant by 'a house'.

  
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Arcana Coelestia # 6717

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6717. 'And married a daughter of Levi' means its being joined to good. This is clear from the meaning of 'marrying a daughter' as a joining together; and from the representation of 'Levi' as good, dealt with immediately above in 6716. How to understand the idea that truth which had its origin in good was joined to good must be stated. The truth that is instilled by the Lord into a person who is being regenerated traces its origin back to good. Initially good does not reveal itself because it is in the internal man; but truth does reveal itself because it is in the external and because the internal acts on the external, and not vice versa, 6322. Good is that which acts on truth and makes it its own, since nothing else than good acknowledges and receives truth. This becomes apparent in the affection for truth that is present with a person who is being regenerated. The affection derives from the good, for an affection that is a mark of love cannot come from any other source. But this truth that is received at this initial stage, that is, before regeneration, is not the genuine truth of good; rather, it is the truth of doctrine. For at this stage a person does not ponder on whether it is the truth but accepts it because it is part of the teaching of the Church. And as long as he does not ponder on whether it is the truth and then accept it, it is neither his own nor thereby comes to be his own. This state is the first for a person who is being regenerated.

[2] But once he has been regenerated the good reveals itself, in particular through the fact that he loves to lead his life in accordance with the truth which of his own accord he acknowledges to be the truth. At this point because he wills and acts on the truth he accepts, it comes to be his own. The reason for this is that it is not merely in his understanding, as it was previously, but is also in his will; and what is in the will has come to be his own. And since the understanding now makes one with the will - for the understanding accepts and the will puts into practice - there is a joining together of the two, that is to say, of good and truth. Once the joining together has been effected, then as if from a marriage offspring are born repeatedly, such offspring being truths and forms of good, and all the blessing and delight that accompanies them. These two states are what are meant by truth that has its origin in good and by truth joined to good.

[3] But the truth that is joined to good, meant here by 'a man from the house of Levi went and married a daughter of Levi', is not the kind of truth that a person receives in the first state; for what he receives then is the truth of doctrine taught by the Church in which he was born. Rather, it is truth itself, for the subject in the highest sense is the way in which the Lord as to His Human became the law of God, the truth embodied in this law being what is meant by truth itself. The reason why the origin of such truth is good is that it was the Divine - what was the Lord's inmost Self and the Being (Esse) of His life - that gave rise to that truth in His Human. This was how that truth came to be joined to good, for the Divine is nothing other than good.

  
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