Apocalypse Explained # 68
68. And His eyes as a flame of fire, signifies Divine Providence from His Divine love. This is evident from the signification of "eyes," as being the understanding (See above, n. 37); and in reference to the Lord, as meaning presence, and thus providence (See Arcana Coelestia 3869[1-14], 10569) of which in what follows; also from the signification of "a flame of fire," as meaning, in reference to the Lord, Divine love. "A flame of fire" means Divine love because from heaven the Lord appears as a sun, and the Divine that proceeds from Him as light, flaming light in the inmost or third heaven, and bright white light in the middle or second heaven. The Divine love itself is what thus appears. From this it is that in the Word "fire" and "flame" signify love (as can be seen from what is shown in the Arcana Coelestia, namely, that in the Word "fire" signifies love in each sense, n. 934, 4906, 5215. That sacred and celestial fire is Divine love, and every affection which is of that love, see n. 934, 6314, 6832. That there are two origins of heat, one the sun of the world, from which all things vegetate upon the earth, the other the sun of heaven, which is the Lord, from which angels and men derive the all of life, see n. 3338, 5215, 7324. That love is the fire of life, and that life itself is actually therefrom, see n. 4906, 5071, 6032, 6314. That flame is truth from the good of the inmost heaven, and light truth from the good of the middle heaven, see n. 3222, 6832; the reason is, that light in the inmost heaven appears flaming, and in the middle heaven bright white, see n. 9570; and likewise in the work on Heaven and Hell 116-140. In reference to the Lord, "eyes" signify Divine Providence, because, in reference to man, they signify understanding; and the Divine understanding, because it is infinite, is Divine Providence. Nothing else is signified by the "eyes" of Jehovah in Isaiah:
Incline thine ear, O Jehovah, and hear; and open thine eyes, O Jehovah, and see (Isaiah 37:17).
In Jeremiah:
I will set Mine eye upon them for good, and I will bring them again to their land, 1 and I will build them (Jeremiah 24:6).
In David:
Behold the eye of Jehovah is upon them that fear Him (Psalms 33:18);
and in the same:
Jehovah is in the temple of His holiness, His eyes behold, and His eyelids prove the sons of man (Psalms 11:4);
and elsewhere. (What Divine Providence is, see The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem 267-279.)
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1. Hebrew: "this land," as also found in Apocalypse Explained 403; but Arcana Coelestia 10569 has "their land."
Genesis 11
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The whole earth was of one language and of one speech.
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It happened, as they traveled east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they lived there.
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They said one to another, "Come, let's make bricks, and burn them thoroughly." They had brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar.
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They said, "Come, let's build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top reaches to the sky, and let's make ourselves a name, lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth."
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Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.
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Yahweh said, "Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is what they begin to do. Now nothing will be withheld from them, which they intend to do.
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Come, let's go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech."
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So Yahweh scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth. They stopped building the city.
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Therefore its name was called Babel, because there Yahweh confused the language of all the earth. From there, Yahweh scattered them abroad on the surface of all the earth.
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This is the history of the generations of Shem. Shem was one hundred years old and became the father of Arpachshad two years after the flood.
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Shem lived five hundred years after he became the father of Arpachshad, and became the father of sons and daughters.
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Arpachshad lived thirty-five years and became the father of Shelah.
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Arpachshad lived four hundred three years after he became the father of Shelah, and became the father of sons and daughters.
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Shelah lived thirty years, and became the father of Eber:
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and Shelah lived four hundred three years after he became the father of Eber, and became the father of sons and daughters.
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Eber lived thirty-four years, and became the father of Peleg.
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Eber lived four hundred thirty years after he became the father of Peleg, and became the father of sons and daughters.
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Peleg lived thirty years, and became the father of Reu.
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Peleg lived two hundred nine years after he became the father of Reu, and became the father of sons and daughters.
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Reu lived thirty-two years, and became the father of Serug.
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Reu lived two hundred seven years after he became the father of Serug, and became the father of sons and daughters.
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Serug lived thirty years, and became the father of Nahor.
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Serug lived two hundred years after he became the father of Nahor, and became the father of sons and daughters.
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Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and became the father of Terah.
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Nahor lived one hundred nineteen years after he became the father of Terah, and became the father of sons and daughters.
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Terah lived seventy years, and became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
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Now this is the history of the generations of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran became the father of Lot.
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Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldees.
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Abram and Nahor took wives. The name of Abram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran who was also the father of Iscah.
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Sarai was barren. She had no child.
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Terah took Abram his son, Lot the son of Haran, his son's son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife. They went forth from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan. They came to Haran and lived there.
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The days of Terah were two hundred five years. Terah died in Haran.
