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Genèse 8

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1 Or Dieu se souvint de Noé, et de toutes les bêtes, et de tout le bétail qui était avec lui dans l'arche; et Dieu fit passer un vent sur la terre, et les eaux s'arrêtèrent.

2 Car les sources de l'abîme, et les bondes des cieux avaient été refermées, et la pluie des cieux avait été retenue.

3 Et au bout de cent cinquante jours les eaux se retirèrent sans interruption de dessus la terre, et diminuèrent.

4 Et le dix-septième jour du septième mois l'arche s'arrêta sur les montagnes d'Ararat.

5 Et les eaux allèrent en diminuant de plus en plus jusqu'au dixième mois; et au premier jour du dixième mois les sommets des montagnes se montrèrent.

6 Et il arriva qu'au bout de quarante jours Noé ouvrit la fenêtre de l'arche qu'il avait faite.

7 Et il lâcha le corbeau, qui sortit allant et revenant, jusqu'à ce que les eaux se fussent desséchées sur la terre.

8 Il lâcha aussi d'avec soi un pigeon, pour voir si les eaux étaient allégées sur la terre.

9 Mais le pigeon ne trouvant pas sur quoi poser la plante de son pied, retourna à lui dans l'arche; car les eaux étaient sur toute la terre; [et Noé] avançant sa main le reprit, et le retira à soi dans l'arche.

10 Et quand il eut attendu encore sept autres jours, il lâcha encore le pigeon hors de l'arche.

11 Et sur le soir le pigeon revint à lui; et voici il avait dans son bec une feuille d'olivier qu'il avait arrachée; et Noé connut que les eaux étaient diminuées de dessus la terre.

12 Et il attendit encore sept autres jours, puis il lâcha le pigeon, qui ne retourna plus à lui.

13 Et il arriva qu'en l'an six cent et un [de l'âge de Noé], au premier jour du premier mois les eaux se furent desséchées de dessus la terre; et Noé ôtant la couverture de l'arche, regarda, et voici, la surface de la terre se séchait.

14 Et au vingt-septième jour du second mois la terre fut sèche.

15 Puis Dieu parla à Noé, en disant :

16 Sors de l'arche, toi et ta femme, tes fils, et les femmes de tes fils avec toi.

17 Fais sortir avec toi toutes les bêtes qui sont avec toi, de toute chair, tant des oiseaux que des bêtes à quatre pieds, et tous les reptiles qui rampent sur la terre; qu'ils peuplent en abondance la terre, et qu'ils foisonnent et multiplient sur la terre.

18 Noé donc sortit, [et] avec lui ses fils, sa femme, et les femmes de ses fils.

19 Toutes les bêtes à quatre pieds, tous les reptiles, tous les oiseaux, tout ce qui se meut sur la terre, selon leurs espèces, sortirent de l'arche.

20 Et Noé bâtit un autel à l'Eternel, et prit de toute bête nette, et de tout oiseau net, et il en offrit des holocaustes sur l'autel.

21 Et l'Eternel flaira une odeur d'apaisement, et dit en son cœur; je ne maudirai plus la terre à l'occasion des hommes, quoique l'imagination du cœur des hommes soit mauvaise dès leur jeunesse; et je ne frapperai plus toute chose vivante, comme j'ai fait.

22 [Mais] tant que la terre sera, les semailles et les moissons, le froid et le chaud, l'été et l'hiver, le jour et la nuit ne cesseront point.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 893

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893. Verse 13 And it happened in the six hundred and first year, at the beginning, on the first of the month, that the waters dried up from over the earth, and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and saw out, and behold, the face 1 of the ground was dry.

'It happened in the six hundred and first year' means a finishing point. 'At the beginning, on the first of the month' means a starting point. 'The waters dried up from over the earth' means that falsities were not at that time apparent. 'And Noah removed the covering of the ark, and saw out' means the light, once falsities had been removed, shed by the truths of faith, which he acknowledged and in which he had faith. 'And behold, the face 1 of the ground was dry' means regeneration.

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1. literally, the faces

[893a] 1 That 'it happened in the six hundred and first year means a finishing point is clear from the meaning of the number six hundred, dealt with at Chapter 7:6, in 737, as a beginning, and in particular in that verse as the beginning of temptation. The end of it is specified by the same number, with a whole year having now passed by. It took place therefore at the end of a year, and this also is why the words are added 'at the beginning, on the first of the month', meaning a starting point. In the Word any complete period is specified either by a day, or a week, or a month, or a year, and even by a hundred or a thousand years - for example, 'the days' mentioned in Genesis 1, which meant stages in the regeneration of the member of the Most Ancient Church. For in the internal sense day and year mean nothing else than a period of time; and meaning a period of time they also mean a state. Consequently a year stands in the Word for a period of time and for a state, as in Isaiah,

To proclaim the year of Jehovah's good pleasure, and the day of vengeance for our God; to comfort all who mourn. Isaiah 61:2.

This refers to the Lord's Coming. In the same prophet,

The day of vengeance was in My heart, and the year of My redeemed had come. Isaiah 63:4.

Here too 'day' and 'year' stand for a period of time and for a state. In Habakkuk,

Your work, O Jehovah, in the midst of the years make it live, in the midst of the years do You make it known. Habakkuk 3:2.

Here 'years' stands for a period of time and for a state. In David,

'You are God Himself, and Your years have no end. Psalms 102:27.

This statement, in which 'years' stands for periods of time, means that time does not exist with God. The same applies in the present verse where 'the year' of the flood in no way means any one particular year but a period of time that is not determined by a specific number of years. At the same time it means a state. See what has been said already about 'years' in 482, 487, 488, 493.

1. This paragraph is not numbered in the Latin.

  
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Arcana Coelestia # 488

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488. As has been stated, 'days' means states in general, and 'years' states in particular. This too becomes clear from the Word, as in Ezekiel,

You have brought your days near, and you have come even to your years. Ezekiel 22:4.

This refers to people who behave abominably and sin to the fullest extent, and so 'days' has reference in this case to such people's state in general, 'years' to that state in particular.

In David,

You will add days to the king's days; and his years as generation after generation! Psalms 61:6.

This refers to the Lord and His kingdom, where again 'days' and 'years' stand for the state of His kingdom.

In the same author,

I have considered the days of old, the years of long ago. Psalms 77:5.

Here 'days of old' is states of the Most Ancient Church, and 'years of long ago' states of the Ancient Church. In Isaiah,

The day of vengeance was in My heart, and the year of My redeemed has come. Isaiah 63:4.

This stands for the final times, where 'the day of vengeance' stands for a state of condemnation, and 'the year of the redeemed' for a state of blessedness.

Similarly, in the same prophet,

To proclaim the year of Jehovah's good pleasure, and the day of vengeance for our God; to comfort all who mourn. Isaiah 61:2.

Here again 'days' and also 'years' are mentioned and mean states.

In Jeremiah,

Renew our days as of old. Lamentations 5:21.

Here 'days' plainly stands for state.

[2] In Joel,

The day of Jehovah is coming, for it is near, a day of darkness and thick darkness, a tiny of cloud and gloom, as has never happened of old, nor will be again after it through the years of generation after generation. Joel 2:1-2, 11.

Here 'day' stands for a state of darkness, thick darkness, cloud and gloom - a state of individuals in particular and of all in general.

In Zechariah,

I will remove the iniquity of this land in a single day. On that day you will shout, each to his companion, under his vine and under his fig tree. Zechariah 3:9-10.

And elsewhere in Zechariah,

There will be one tiny, it is known to Jehovah, which is neither day nor night, and at evening time there will be light. Zechariah 14:7.

State is clearly meant here, for it is said that 'it will be a day, which is neither day nor night; at evening time there will be light'.

The same meaning is also clear from the following in the Decalogue,

Honour your father and your mother, that your days may be prolonged, and that it may be well with you in the land. Deuteronomy 5:16; 25:15.

Here 'a prolonging of days' does not mean living on into old age but a state that is happy.

[3] In the sense of the letter 'day' cannot be seen to mean anything other than a period of time, but in the internal sense it means a state. Angels, who abide in the internal sense of the Word, do not know what a period of time is, for the activity of the sun and moon with them does not produce divisions of time. As a consequence they do not know what a day or a year is, but only what states and changes of state are. This is why among angels, who abide in the internal sense of the Word, anything connected with matter, space, and time, goes unnoticed, as with the following usages in the sense of the letter in Ezekiel,

The day is near, even the day of Jehovah is near, a day of cloud; it will be a time of the nations. Ezekiel 30:3.

And in Joel,

Alas for the day! For the day of Jehovah is near, and as destruction. Joel 1:15.

Here 'a day of cloud' stands for cloud or falsity, 'a day of the nations' for the nations or wickedness, and 'the day of Jehovah' for vastation. When the concept of time is removed there remains the concept of the state of the things existing during that period of time. The same applies to the days and the years that are mentioned so many times in this chapter.

  
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