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Genèse 9

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1 Et Dieu bénit Noé, et ses fils, et leur dit : Foisonnez, et multipliez, et remplissez la terre.

2 Et que toutes les bêtes de la terre, tous les oiseaux des cieux, avec tout ce qui se meut sur la terre, et tous les poissons de la mer vous craignent et vous redoutent; ils sont mis entre vos mains.

3 Tout ce qui se meut et qui a vie, vous sera pour viande; je vous ai donné toutes ces choses comme l'herbe verte.

4 Toutefois vous ne mangerez point de chair avec son âme, [c'est-à-dire], son sang.

5 Et certes je redemanderai votre sang, [le sang] de vos âmes, je le redemanderai de la main de toutes les bêtes, et de la main de l'homme, même de la main de chacun de ses frères je redemanderai l'âme de l'homme.

6 Celui qui aura répandu le sang de l'homme dans l'homme, son sang sera répandu; car Dieu a fait l'homme à son image.

7 Vous donc, foisonnez, multipliez, croissez [en toute abondance] sur la terre, et multipliez sur elle.

8 Dieu parla aussi à Noé et à ses fils qui étaient avec lui, en disant :

9 Et quant à moi, voici, j'établis mon alliance avec vous, et avec votre race après vous.

10 Et avec tout animal vivant qui est avec vous, tant des oiseaux, que du bétail, et de toutes les bêtes de la terre qui sont avec vous, de toutes celles qui sont sorties de l'arche, jusqu'à toutes les bêtes de la terre.

11 J'établis donc mon alliance avec vous, et nulle chair ne sera plus exterminée par les eaux du déluge, et il n'y aura plus de déluge pour détruire la terre.

12 Puis Dieu dit : C'est ici le signe que je donne de l'alliance entre moi et vous, et entre toute créature vivante qui est avec vous, pour durer à toujours;

13 Je mettrai mon arc en la nuée, et il sera pour signe de l'alliance entre moi et la terre.

14 Et quand il arrivera que j'aurai couvert la terre de nuées, l'arc paraîtra dans la nuée.

15 Et je me souviendrai de mon alliance qui est entre moi et vous, entre tout animal qui vit en quelque chair que ce soit; et les eaux ne feront plus de déluge pour détruire toute chair.

16 L'arc donc sera dans la nuée, et je le regarderai, afin qu'il me souvienne de l'alliance perpétuelle entre Dieu et tout animal vivant, en quelque chair qui soit sur la terre.

17 Dieu donc dit à Noé : C'est là le signe de l'alliance que j'ai établie entre moi et toute chair qui est sur la terre.

18 Et les fils de Noé qui sortirent de l'arche, furent Sem, Cam, et Japheth. Et Cam fut père de Canaan.

19 Ce sont là les trois fils de Noé, desquels toute la terre fut peuplée.

20 Et Noé, laboureur de la terre, commença de planter la vigne.

21 Et il en but du vin, et s'enivra, et il se découvrit au milieu de sa tente.

22 Et Cam, le père de Canaan, ayant vu la nudité de son père, le déclara dehors à ses deux frères.

23 Et Sem et Japheth prirent un manteau qu'ils mirent sur leurs deux épaules, et marchant en arrière, ils couvrirent la nudité de leur père; et leurs visages [étaient tournés] en arrière, de sorte qu'ils ne virent point la nudité de leur père.

24 Et Noé réveillé de son vin, sut ce que son fils le plus petit lui avait fait.

25 C'est pourquoi il dit : Maudit soit Canaan; il sera serviteur des serviteurs de ses frères.

26 Il dit aussi : Béni soit l'Eternel, Dieu de Sem; et que Canaan leur soit fait serviteur.

27 Que Dieu attire en douceur Japheth, et que [Japheth] loge dans les tabernacles de Sem; et que Canaan leur soit fait serviteur.

28 Et Noé vécut après le déluge trois cent cinquante ans.

29 Tout le temps donc que Noé vécut, fut neuf cent cinquante ans; puis il mourut.

   

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Apocalypse Explained # 639

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639. Standing before the God of the earth, signifies which are the Divine things proceeding from the Lord, and are His in heaven and in the church. This is evident from the signification of "the God of the earth," as being the Lord, who is the God of heaven and earth, and particularly the God of the church in heaven and in the world; for in the Word "the earth" signifies the church, and the church is both in heaven and in the world. "The earth" means heaven and also the church there, because there are lands in the spiritual world, like as in the natural world, and in external appearance they are altogether similar in that world as in this; this is why "the God of the earth" means the God of heaven and earth, and particularly the God of the church in heaven and in the world. That the Lord is the God of heaven and earth He Himself teaches in Matthew:

Jesus said, All power hath been given unto Me in heaven and on earth (Matthew 28:18).

The above is evident also from the signification of "standing before Him," as meaning the being [esse] from Him, and thus what is His in heaven and in the church.

[2] In the Word it is here and there said of angels and of the men of the church that "they stand before God," also that "they walk before Him," and in the spiritual sense "to stand before God" signifies being from Him, and "to walk before God" signifies to live according to being [esse] from Him; for all the being [esse] of heaven and the world proceeds from the Lord; for it is the Divine proceeding that has created and formed all things of heaven and the world; this Divine proceeding is called "the Word" in John 1:1-3; and "the Word" there is the Divine proceeding, which is called Divine truth, from which all things were made and created. Because this extends itself in every direction about the Lord as a sun, it is properly said "to stand before Him," for it looks to the Lord as its common center, from every quarter and from every boundary. This is, in its essence, the Lord in heaven, for it is the Divine proceeding, and that which proceeds is of Him from whom it proceeds, and indeed is Himself; just as the heat and light that proceed from the sun are of the sun. For this reason all angels, who are recipients of this Divine proceeding, which is called Divine truth, turn themselves to the Lord, and thus are continually in His presence; for, as was said, the Divine proceeding looks to the Lord as its center from which it is and to which it looks; so also do the angels, who are the recipients of Divine truths, and are as it were Divine truths in form. This is why angels are said "to stand before the Lord," for "to stand" is properly predicated of Divine truth, because this stands about the Lord as a sun.

[3] "To stand before God" signifies to be in Divine truth, and thus with the Lord, also in the following passages. In Luke:

The angel said, I am Gabriel, that standeth before God (Luke 1:19).

In the first book of Kings:

I saw Jehovah sitting on His throne, and all the hosts of the heavens standing beside Him on His right hand and on His left (1 Kings 22:19).

In Jeremiah:

There shall not be cut off from Jonadab a man to stand before Me all the days (Jeremiah 35:19).

In David:

On my right hand standeth the queen in the best gold of Ophir (Psalms 45:9).

In Luke:

Be ye wakeful at every season, that ye may be accounted worthy to stand before the Son of man (Luke 21:36).

In Revelation:

The great day of His anger is come, and who is able to stand? (Revelation 6:17)

All the angels stood around the throne, and the elders and the four animals (Revelation 7:11).

I saw the seven angels who stood before God (Revelation 8:2).

In Zechariah:

The two olive trees and two berries of olives, which are the two sons of the olive tree standing beside the Lord of the whole earth (Zechariah 4:11, 12, 14).

And in other places. It is also said of the Lord Himself that "He stood to judge," because it is said of the Divine proceeding from the Lord, which is called the Divine truth, for judgment is from it. Thus it is said in Isaiah:

Jehovah hath stood up to plead, and standeth to judge (Isaiah 3:13).

And in David:

God stood in the congregation of God, in the midst of the gods He will judge (Psalms 82:1.)

"The congregation of God," and the "gods" in the midst of whom Jehovah stood, mean the angels, by whom in the spiritual sense Divine truths are signified; and because the Lord in heaven is the Divine truth He is here said "to stand." This makes clear that "to stand before the God of the earth" signifies the Divine proceeding from the Lord, which is His in heaven and in the church; that this, and those who are in this, are meant can be seen also from this, "to stand before the God of the earth" is predicated of "the two olive trees" and "the two lampstands," and these signify good and truth, and thus the Divine proceeding. (See also in the preceding article, n. 638)

  
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Arcana Coelestia # 2691

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2691. 'God heard the boy's voice' means help at that point. This is clear from the meaning in the internal sense of 'God hearing the voice 'the words used in the historical sense - as bringing help, and from the meaning of 'the boy' as spiritual truth, dealt with already. Here a state is meant in which the spiritual as regards truth existed, for it is said that 'He heard the boy's voice' and soon after in this verse that 'He heard the boy's voice where he was', that is to say, where he was as to state. And, in the explanations of the verses immediately before, this state was shown to be one of utmost grief because truth had been taken away. The reason it was the boy's voice, not Hagar's, that God is said to have heard is that the state of the spiritual man is the subject. 'The boy', or Ishmael, represents the member of the spiritual Church, 'Hagar his mother' the affection for cognitions of truth, it being within this affection that the grief was felt. Man's rational is born from the affection for factual knowledge as a mother, 1895, 1896, 1902, 1910, 2094, 2524, but his spiritual is born from the affection for cognitions of truth acquired from doctrine, chiefly from the Word. Here the spiritual itself is 'the boy', and the affection for cognitions of truth is 'Hagar'.

  
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