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1 Mosebok 9

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1 Og Gud velsignet Noah og hans sønner, og sa til dem: Vær fruktbare og bli mange og opfyll jorden!

2 Og frykt og redsel for eder skal være over alle dyr på jorden og over alle fugler under himmelen, over alt det som rører sig på jorden, og over alle fiskene i havet; i eders hånd er de gitt.

3 Alt det som rører sig og lever, skal I ha til føde; likesom jeg gav eder de grønne urter, gir jeg eder alt dette.

4 Men kjøtt med dets sjel i, det er dets blod, skal I ikke ete.

5 Men for eders eget blod vil jeg kreve hevn; av hvert dyr vil jeg kreve hevn for det, og av mennesket, av enhvers bror, vil jeg kreve hevn for menneskets liv.

6 Den som utøser menneskets blod, ved mennesket skal hans blod utøses; for i Guds billede skapte han* mennesket. / {* Gud.}

7 Og vær I fruktbare og bli mange, vrimle på jorden og bli mange på den!

8 Og Gud sa til Noah og til hans sønner, som var med ham:

9 Nu vil jeg oprette min pakt med eder og med eders efterkommere,

10 og med alt levende som er hos eder, både fugler og fe og alle de ville dyr som er hos eder, alt som gikk ut av arken, alt som lever på jorden.

11 Jeg opretter min pakt med eder, og aldri mere skal alt kjød utryddes ved vannflom, og aldri mere skal der komme en vannflom som ødelegger jorden.

12 Og Gud sa: Dette er tegnet på den pakt som jeg gjør mellem mig og eder og alt levende som er hos eder, til evige tider:

13 Min bue setter jeg i skyen, og den skal være et tegn på pakten mellem mig og jorden.

14 Og når jeg fører skyer over jorden, og buen sees i skyen,

15 da vil jeg komme i hu den pakt som er mellem mig og eder og alt levende av alt kjød, og vannet skal aldri mere bli en flom som ødelegger alt kjød.

16 Og buen skal stå i skyen, og jeg vil se på den og komme i hu den evige pakt mellem Gud og alt levende av alt kjød som er på jorden.

17 Og Gud sa til Noah: Dette er tegnet på den pakt jeg har oprettet mellem mig og alt kjød som er på jorden.

18 Noahs sønner, som gikk ut av arken, var Sem, Kam og Jafet; og Kam var far til Kana'an.

19 Disse tre var Noahs sønner, og fra dem bredte menneskene sig ut over hele jorden.

20 Og Noah var jorddyrker, og han var den første som plantet en vingård.

21 Og han drakk av vinen og blev drukken, og han klædde sig naken inne i sitt telt.

22 Og da Kam, Kana'ans far, så sin far ligge naken, fortalte han det til begge sine brødre, som var utenfor.

23 Da tok Sem og Jafet et klæde og la det på sine skuldrer og gikk baklengs inn og dekket over sin fars blusel; og de vendte sine øine bort, så de ikke så sin fars blusel.

24 Da så Noah våknet av sitt rus, fikk han vite hvad hans yngste sønn hadde gjort imot ham.

25 Da sa han: Forbannet være Kana'an! trælers træl skal han være for sine brødre.

26 sa han: Lovet være Herren, Sems Gud, og Kana'an være deres træl!

27 Gud gjøre det vidt for Jafet, han skal bo i Sems telter, og Kana'an være deres træl!

28 Efter vannflommen levde Noah ennu tre hundre og femti år.

29 Og alle Noahs dager blev ni hundre og femti år; så døde han.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 1042

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1042. 'I have given My bow in the cloud' means the state of a regenerate spiritual person, who is like a rainbow. Anyone may wonder that in the Word 'the bow in the cloud', or the rainbow, is taken as a sign of the covenant, for the rainbow is nothing else than something produced by the conversion of rays of sunlight in raindrops. It is a wholly natural phenomenon, unlike other signs of the covenant in the Church mentioned just above. But the fact that 'the bow in the cloud' represents regeneration and means the state of a regenerate spiritual person, nobody is able to know unless he is allowed to see and consequently know what exactly is involved. When spiritual angels, who have all been regenerate members of the spiritual Church, are in the next life manifested visibly as such, there appears around their head a rainbow so to speak. But the rainbows which appear accord completely with their state, and from this also their characters are recognized in heaven and in the world of spirits. The reason the likeness of a rainbow appears is that their natural things corresponding to spiritual present such visible shape. It is a conversion of spiritual light from the Lord within their natural things. These angels are those said to have been 'regenerated by water and the spirit' while celestial angels are those said to have been 'regenerated with fire'.

[2] In the case of; natural things, so that colour may be produced something dark and light, or black and white, is necessary. When rays of light from the sun fall on this, depending on the varying composition of the dark and light, or black and white, colours are produced from the modification of the inflowing rays of light. Some of those colours draw more, others less, on the dark and black, and some more, or less, on the light and white; and this is what gives rise to diversity of colour. Something comparable to this exists in spiritual things. In their case the intellectual side of the proprium, or falsity, constitutes 'the dark', and the will side of the proprium, or evil, which absorbs and extinguishes rays of light constitutes 'the black'. As for the 'light and white', these are the truth or good which a person imagines he does from himself, which reflects and casts back from itself the rays of light. The rays of light which fall on those things and so to speak modify them come from the Lord as the Sun of wisdom and intelligence; for the rays of spiritual light are no other and have no other source. It is because natural things correspond to spiritual that when in the next life that which is around a regenerate spiritual person is manifested visibly, there appears that which is similar to a bow in a cloud. This bow is a representation of the spiritual things present within his natural things. With the regenerate spiritual person an intellectual side of the proprium exists into which the Lord instills innocence, charity, and mercy. As is the person's reception of these gifts so is the appearance of his rainbow when manifested visibly - the more beautiful the more that the will side of his proprium has been taken away, disciplined, and reduced to a state of obedience.

[3] When the prophets had a vision of God, a bow as if in a cloud was also seen by them, as in Ezekiel's vision,

Above the firmament that was over the heads of the cherubim, in appearance like a sapphire stone, there was the likeness of a throne, and above the likeness of a throne, there was a likeness as it were of the appearance of a Man (Homo) upon it above. And I saw as it were the shape of coal burning bright, as the appearance of fire, within it round about from the appearance of His loins upwards. And from the appearance of His loins and downwards I saw as it were the appearance of fire, whose brightness was round about it, like the appearance of the bow when it is in the cloud on the day of rain; so was the appearance of brightness round about; this was the appearance of the likeness of the Glory of Jehovah. Ezekiel 1:26-28.

It may be clear to anyone that it was the Lord who was seen in this vision, and that on that occasion He represented heaven, for He Himself is heaven, that is, the All in all of heaven. He Himself is the 'Man' mentioned here, 'the throne' is heaven, 'the coal burning bright, as the appearance of fire, from the loins upwards' is the celestial element of love, 'the brightness of fire round about from the loins downwards, like the bow in the cloud' is the celestial-spiritual. In this way the celestial heaven, or heaven of celestial angels, was represented from the loins upwards, and the spiritual heaven, or heaven of spiritual angels, from the loins downwards. In fact the things that are below, from the loins down to the soles of the feet, mean in the Grand Man natural things. From this it is also clear that, when thus enlightened by spiritual light from the Lord, the natural things in man take on the appearance of 'the bow in the cloud'. The same appeased to John as well, see Revelation 4:2-3; 10:1.

  
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