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Genèse 3

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1 Or le serpent était le plus fin de tous les animaux des champs que l'Eternel Dieu avait faits; et il dit à la femme : Quoi! Dieu a dit, vous ne mangerez point de tout arbre du jardin?

2 Et la femme répondit au serpent : Nous mangeons du fruit des arbres du jardin;

3 Mais quant au fruit de l'arbre qui est au milieu du jardin, Dieu a dit : Vous n'en mangerez point, et vous ne le toucherez point, de peur que vous ne mouriez.

4 Alors le serpent dit à la femme : Vous ne mourrez nullement;

5 Mais Dieu sait qu'au jour que vous en mangerez, vos yeux seront ouverts, et vous serez comme des Dieux, sachant le bien et le mal.

6 La femme donc voyant que [le fruit] de l'arbre était bon à manger, et qu'il était agréable à la vue, et que [cet] arbre était désirable pour donner de la science, en prit du fruit, et en mangea, et elle en donna aussi à son mari [qui était] avec elle, et il en mangea.

7 Et les yeux de tous deux furent ouverts; ils connurent qu'ils étaient nus, et ils cousirent ensemble des feuilles de figuier, et s'en firent des ceintures.

8 Alors ils ouïrent au vent du jour la voix de l'Eternel Dieu qui se promenait par le jardin; et Adam et sa femme se cachèrent de devant l'Eternel Dieu, parmi les arbres du jardin.

9 Mais l'Eternel Dieu appela Adam, et lui dit : Où es-tu?

10 Et il répondit : J'ai entendu ta voix dans le jardin, et j'ai craint, parce que j'étais nu, et je me suis caché.

11 Et [Dieu] dit : Qui t'a montré que tu [étais] nu? N'as-tu pas mangé [du fruit] de l'arbre dont je t'avais défendu de manger?

12 Et Adam répondit : La femme que tu m'as donnée [pour être] avec moi, m'a donné [du fruit] de l'arbre, et j'en ai mangé.

13 Et l'Eternel Dieu dit à la femme : Pourquoi as-tu fait cela? Et la femme répondit : Le serpent m'a séduite, et j'en ai mangé.

14 Alors l'Eternel Dieu dit au serpent : Parce que tu as fait cela, tu seras maudit entre tout le bétail, et entre toutes les bêtes des champs; tu marcheras sur ton ventre, et tu mangeras la poussière tous les jours de ta vie.

15 Et je mettrai inimitié entre toi et la femme, et entre ta semence et la semence de la femme; cette [semence] te brisera la tête, et tu lui briseras le talon.

16 [Et] il dit à la femme : J'augmenterai beaucoup ton travail et ta grossesse; tu enfanteras en travail les enfants; tes désirs se [rapporteront] à ton mari, et il dominera sur toi.

17 Puis il dit à Adam : Parce que tu as obéi à la parole de ta femme, et que tu as mangé [du fruit] de l'arbre duquel je t'avais commandé, en disant : Tu n'en mangeras point, la terre sera maudite à cause de toi; tu en mangeras [les fruits] en travail, tous les jours de ta vie.

18 Et elle te produira des épines, et des chardons; et tu mangeras l'herbe des champs.

19 Tu mangeras le pain à la sueur de ton visage, jusqu'à ce que tu retournes en la terre, car tu en as été pris; parce que tu es poudre, tu retourneras aussi en poudre.

20 Et Adam appela sa femme Eve; parce qu'elle a été la mère de tous les vivants.

21 Et l'Eternel Dieu fit à Adam et à sa femme des robes de peaux, et les en revêtit.

22 Et l'Eternel Dieu dit : Voici, l'homme est devenu comme l'un de nous, sachant le bien et le mal; mais maintenant [il faut prendre garde] qu'il n'avance sa main, et aussi qu'il ne prenne de l'arbre de vie, et qu'il n'en mange, et ne vive à toujours.

23 Et l'Eternel Dieu le mit hors du jardin d'Héden, pour labourer la terre, de laquelle il avait été pris.

24 Ainsi il chassa l'homme, et mit des Chérubins vers l'Orient du jardin d'Héden, avec une lame d'épée qui se tournait çà et là, pour garder le chemin de l'arbre de vie.

   

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Exploring the Meaning of Genesis 3

Napsal(a) New Christian Bible Study Staff

Here are some excerpts from Swedenborg's "Arcana Coelestia" that help explain the inner meaning of this chapter:

AC 190. The third state of the Most Ancient Church is treated of, which so desired its Own as to love it.

AC 191. Because from the love of self, that is, their own love, they began to believe nothing that they did not apprehend by the senses, the sensuous part is represented by the "serpent;" the love of self, or their own love, by the "woman;" and the rational by the "man."

AC 192. Hence the "serpent," or sensuous part, persuaded the woman to inquire into matters pertaining to faith in the Lord in order to see whether they are really so, which is signified by "eating of the tree of knowledge;" and that the rational of man consented, is signified by "the man that he did eat" (verses 1-6).

AC 193. But they perceived that they were in evil; from which remnant of perception, signified by their "eyes being opened," and by their "hearing the voice of Jehovah" (verses 7, 8), and from the fig-leaves of which they made themselves girdles (verse 7), and from their shame or hiding in the midst of the tree of the garden (verses 8, 9), as well as from their acknowledgment and confession (verses 10-13), it is evident that natural goodness still remained in them.

AC 234. The subsequent state of the church down to the flood is here described; and as at that time the church utterly destroyed itself, it is foretold that the Lord would come into the world and save the human race.

AC 235. Being unwilling to believe anything that could not be apprehended by the senses, the sensuous part which is the "serpent," cursed itself, and became infernal (verse 14).

AC 236. Therefore to prevent all mankind from rushing into hell, the Lord promised that He would come into the world (verse 15).

AC 237. The church is further described by the "woman," which so loved self or the Own as to be no longer capable of apprehending truth, although a rational was given them that should "rule" (verse 16).

AC 238. The quality of the rational is then described, in that it consented, and thus cursed itself, and became infernal, so that reason no longer remained, but ratiocination (verse 17).

AC 239. The curse and vastation are described, and also their ferine nature (verse 18).

AC 240. Next, their aversion to everything of faith and love; and that thus from being man they became not men (verse 19).

AC 280. The Most Ancient Church, and those who fell away, are here summarily treated of; thus also its posterity down to the flood, when it expired.

AC 281. Of the Most Ancient Church which was celestial, and from the life of faith in the Lord, called "Eve," and the "mother of all living" (verse 20).

AC 282. Of its first posterity, in which there was celestial spiritual good; and of its second and third, in which there was natural good, signified by the "coat of skin which Jehovah God made for the man and his wife" (verse 21).

AC 283. Of the fourth posterity, in which natural good began to be dissipated, and which, had they been created anew or instructed in the celestial things of faith, would have perished, which is meant by, "Lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of lives, and eat, and live to eternity" (verse 22).

AC 284. Of the fifth posterity, which was deprived of all good and truth, and was reduced to the state in which they had been previous to regeneration, which is meant by his being "sent forth out of the garden of Eden to till the ground from which he was taken" (verse 23).

AC 285. Of the sixth and seventh posterities, in that they were deprived of all memory-knowledge (scientia) of what is good and true, and were left to their own filthy loves and persuasions; this being provided lest they should profane the holy things of faith,-which is signified by his being "driven out, and cherubim being made to dwell at the garden, with the flame of a sword, to keep the way of the tree of lives" (verse 24).

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285. The sixth and seventh generations' being separated from knowledge of good and truth and being left to their own foul loves and persuasions and the consequent provision made to prevent their profaning the holy things of faith, which is meant by 'being cast out and causing cherubim with the flame of a sword to dwell there to guard the way to the tree of life, 1 is dealt with in verse 24.

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1. literally, of lives

  
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