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1 Mose 7

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1 Und Jehova sprach zu Noah: Gehe in die Arche, du und dein ganzes Haus; denn dich habe ich gerecht vor mir erfunden in diesem Geschlecht.

2 Von allem reinen Vieh sollst du sieben und sieben zu dir nehmen, ein Männchen und sein Weibchen; und von dem Vieh, das nicht rein ist, zwei, ein Männchen und sein Weibchen;

3 auch von dem Gevögel des Himmels sieben und sieben, ein Männliches und ein Weibliches: um Samen am Leben zu erhalten auf der Fläche der ganzen Erde.

4 Denn in noch sieben Tagen, so lasse ich auf die Erde regnen vierzig Tage und vierzig Nächte und werde vertilgen von der Fläche des Erdbodens alles Bestehende, das ich gemacht habe. -

5 Und Noah tat nach allem, was Jehova ihm geboten hatte.

6 Und Noah war sechshundert Jahre alt, als die Flut kam, Wasser über die Erde.

7 Und Noah und seine Söhne und sein Weib und die Weiber seiner Söhne mit ihm gingen in die Arche vor den Wassern der Flut.

8 Von dem reinen Vieh und von dem Vieh, das nicht rein ist, und von dem Gevögel und von allem, was sich auf dem Erdboden regt,

9 kamen zwei und zwei zu Noah in die Arche, ein Männliches und ein Weibliches, wie Gott dem Noah geboten hatte.

10 Und es geschah nach sieben Tagen, da kamen die Wasser der Flut über die Erde.

11 Im sechshundertsten Jahre des Lebens Noahs, im zweiten Monat, am siebzehnten Tage des Monats, an diesem Tage brachen auf alle Quellen der großen Tiefe, und die Fenster des Himmels taten sich auf.

12 Und der Regen fiel auf die Erde vierzig Tage und vierzig Nächte.

13 An ebendemselben Tage gingen Noah und Sem und Ham und Japhet, die Söhne Noahs, und das Weib Noahs und die drei Weiber seiner Söhne mit ihnen in die Arche:

14 sie und alles Getier nach seiner Art und alles Vieh nach seiner Art und alles Gewürm, das sich auf der Erde regt, nach seiner Art und alles Gevögel nach seiner Art, jeder Vogel von allerlei Gefieder.

15 Und sie gingen zu Noah in die Arche, je zwei und zwei von allem Fleische, in welchem ein Hauch des Lebens war.

16 Und die hineingingen, waren ein Männliches und ein Weibliches von allem Fleische, wie Gott ihm geboten hatte. Und Jehova schloß hinter ihm zu.

17 Und die Flut kam vierzig Tage lang über die Erde. Und die Wasser mehrten sich und hoben die Arche empor; und sie erhob sich über die Erde.

18 Und die Wasser nahmen überhand und mehrten sich sehr auf der Erde; und die Arche fuhr auf der Fläche der Wasser.

19 Und die Wasser nahmen gar sehr überhand auf der Erde, und es wurden bedeckt alle hohen Berge, die unter dem ganzen Himmel sind.

20 Fünfzehn Ellen darüber nahmen die Wasser überhand, und die Berge wurden bedeckt.

21 Da verschied alles Fleisch, das sich auf der Erde regte, an Gevögel und an Vieh und an Getier und an allem Gewimmel, das auf der Erde wimmelte, und alle Menschen;

22 alles starb, in dessen Nase ein Odem des Lebenshauches war, von allem, was auf dem Trockenen war.

23 Und vertilgt wurde alles Bestehende, das auf der Fläche des Erdbodens war, vom Menschen bis zum Vieh, bis zum Gewürm und bis zum Gevögel des Himmels; und sie wurden vertilgt von der Erde. Und nur Noah blieb übrig und was mit ihm in der Arche war.

24 Und die Wasser hatten überhand auf der Erde hundertfünfzig Tage.

   

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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 # 3469

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3469. 'Esau was a son of forty years' means a state of temptation as regards the natural good of truth. This is clear from the representation of 'Esau' as natural good of truth, dealt with in 3300, 3302, 3322, and from the meaning of 'forty years' as a state of temptation - 'forty' meaning temptations, see 730, 862, 2272, and 'years' states, 487, 488, 493, 893. The reason why these details concerning Esau are added immediately after what has been told regarding Abimelech and Isaac is that the subject has been those who do the good of truth, that is, those who live in accordance with matters of doctrine drawn from the literal sense of the Word; for such people were meant by Abimelech, Ahuzzath, and Phicol, as stated above in various places.

[2] People therefore who do the good of truth, or who live in accordance with matters of doctrine, are regenerate as regards interior things, which are their rational concepts, but not yet as regards exterior, which are their natural things. For a person is regenerated as to the rational part of his mind before being regenerated as to the natural part, 3286, 3288. The natural exists wholly in this world, and it is on the natural as their foundation that the person's thought and will are based. This is the reason why, while being regenerated, a person is aware of conflict between his rational or internal man and his natural or external man, and why his external is regenerated much later and with far more difficulty than the internal. Indeed what is closer to the world and closer to the body cannot be easily rendered subservient to the internal man except over a considerable period of time and by means of very many new states into which it has to be brought. These states are states of self-recognition and of recognition of the Lord, that is to say, of his own miserable condition and of the Lord's mercy, and so of humiliation, through conflicts brought about by temptations. This being so, there is immediately added at this point the reference to Esau and his two wives, by which such things are meant in the internal sense.

[3] It is well known to anyone what natural good is, namely the good into which a person is born. But what the natural good of truth is, is known to few, if anyone. There are four types of natural good, or good that one is born with. These are, natural good that stems from the love of good; natural good that stems from the love of truth; also natural good that stems from the love of evil; and natural good that stems from the love of falsity. A person derives the good that he is born with from his parents, whether from father or from mother. For every characteristic which parents have acquired from frequent practice and conduct, that is, which they have taken into themselves by their own actions in life until with them they have become so habitual as to appear natural, is passed on to their children and becomes hereditary. If parents have led a good life from a love of good and have experienced delight and blessedness in that life, and if this is their state when they conceive an offspring, their offspring acquires from them an inclination towards this same form of good. If parents have led a good life from a love of truth - for which good, see 3459, 3463 - and have experienced delight in that life, and if this is their state when they conceive an offspring, their offspring acquires from them an inclination towards that same form of good. And the same applies to those who by heredity receive the good that stems from a love of evil and the good that stems from a love of falsity.

[4] The latter are called good because the kinds of good done by them seem in outward appearance to be good, despite the fact that there is nothing good at all about them. Very many with whom natural good is apparent possess this type of good. Those with whom natural good that stems from love of evil is present tend and incline towards evils of every kind, for they readily allow themselves to be led astray. That good is the source of their susceptibility especially towards foul delights, different kinds of adultery, and also of cruelty. Those with whom natural good stemming from a love of falsity is present incline towards falsities of every kind. Because of that good they seize on false persuasion, especially that used by hypocrites and deceivers, who know how to win people's attention, worm their way into affections, and feign innocence. Into these so-called forms of good - of good that stems from evil or from falsity - the majority are born at the present day in the Christian world, in whom natural good exists, the reason being that their parents have acquired a delight in evil and a delight in falsity through their own actions in life, and in this way have implanted it in their children, and so in their descendants.

  
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