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Gênesis 6

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1 Sucedeu que, quando os homens começaram a multiplicar-se sobre a terra, e lhes nasceram filhas,

2 viram os filhos de Deus que as filhas dos homens eram formosas; e tomaram para si mulheres de todas as que escolheram.

3 Então disse o Senhor: O meu Espírito não permanecerá para sempre no homem, porquanto ele é carne, mas os seus dias serão cento e vinte anos.

4 Naqueles dias estavam os nefilins na terra, e também depois, quando os filhos de Deus conheceram as filhas dos homens, as quais lhes deram filhos. Esses nefilins eram os valentes, os homens de renome, que houve na antigüidade.

5 Viu o Senhor que era grande a maldade do homem na terra, e que toda a imaginação dos pensamentos de seu coração era má continuamente.

6 Então arrependeu-se o Senhor de haver feito o homem na terra, e isso lhe pesou no coração

7 E disse o Senhor: Destruirei da face da terra o homem que criei, tanto o homem como o animal, os répteis e as aves do céu; porque me arrependo de os haver feito.

8 Noé, porém, achou graça aos olhos do Senhor.

9 Estas são as gerações de Noé. Era homem justo e perfeito em suas gerações, e andava com Deus.

10 Gerou Noé três filhos: Sem, Cão e Jafé.

11 A terra, porém, estava corrompida diante de Deus, e cheia de violência.

12 Viu Deus a terra, e eis que estava corrompida; porque toda a carne havia corrompido o seu caminho sobre a terra.

13 Então disse Deus a Noé: O fim de toda carne é chegado perante mim; porque a terra está cheia da violência dos homens; eis que os destruirei juntamente com a terra.

14 Faze para ti uma arca de madeira de gôfer: farás compartimentos na arca, e a revestirás de betume por dentro e por fora.

15 Desta maneira a farás: o comprimento da arca será de trezentos côvados, a sua largura de cinqüenta e a sua altura de trinta.

16 Farás na arca uma janela e lhe darás um côvado de altura; e a porta da arca porás no seu lado; fá-la-ás com andares, baixo, segundo e terceiro.

17 Porque eis que eu trago o dilúvio sobre a terra, para destruir, de debaixo do céu, toda a carne em que há espírito de vida; tudo o que há na terra expirará.

18 Mas contigo estabelecerei o meu pacto; entrarás na arca, tu e contigo teus filhos, tua mulher e as mulheres de teus filhos.

19 De tudo o que vive, de toda a carne, dois de cada espécie, farás entrar na arca, para os conservares vivos contigo; macho e fêmea serão.

20 Das aves segundo as suas espécies, do gado segundo as suas espécies, de todo réptil da terra segundo as suas espécies, dois de cada espécie virão a ti, para os conservares em vida.

21 Leva contigo de tudo o que se come, e ajunta-o para ti; e te será para alimento, a ti e a eles.

22 Assim fez Noé; segundo tudo o que Deus lhe mandou, assim o fez.

   

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627. 'For all flesh had corrupted its way upon the earth 1 ' means that man's bodily-mindedness destroyed all understanding of truth. This is clear from the meaning of 'flesh', dealt with already at verse 3, as in general the whole of mankind, and in particular the bodily-minded man, or everything of a bodily nature; and from the meaning of 'way' as the understanding of truth, or truth itself. The fact that 'way' has reference to the understanding of truth, or to truth itself, becomes clear from the examples already quoted in several places as well as from the following,

Jehovah said, Get up, go down quickly from here, for your people have corrupted themselves. They have suddenly turned aside from the way which I commanded them. They have cast for themselves a metal image. Deuteronomy 9:11, 16.

This means that they forsook His commandments, which are truths.

[2] In Jeremiah,

Whose eyes have been opened upon all the ways of the sons of man, giving to every man (vir) according to his ways and according to the fruit of his works. Jeremiah 32:19.

'Ways' means life according to the commandments, 'fruit of his works' life based on charity. 'Way' accordingly has reference to truths, which comprise commandments and ordinances, and so do 'son of man' and 'man' (vir), as shown above. Jeremiah 7:3; 17:10, also contain similar usages.

In Hosea,

I will visit upon him his ways, and require him for his works. Hosea 4:9.

In Zechariah,

Return from your evil ways and from your evil works. As Jehovah Zebaoth thought to deal with us for our ways and for our works. Zechariah 1:4, 6.

Similar phrases appear here, yet they are the contrary in meaning to those mentioned before them, since they are 'evil ways' and 'evil works'.

In Jeremiah,

I will give them one heart and one way. Jeremiah 32:39.

'Heart' stands for goods, 'way' for truths. In David,

Make me understand the way of Your commandments. Take from me the way of untruth, and graciously grant me Your law. I have chosen the way of truth. I will run in the way of Your precepts. Psalms 119:26-27, 29-30, 32, 35.

Here 'the way of the commandments and precepts' is called 'the way of truth', and the contrary of this, 'the way of untruth'.

[3] In the same author,

Make Your ways known to me, O Jehovah, teach me Your paths, guide my way in Your truth, and teach me. Psalms 25:4-5.

This in like manner plainly stands for the truth. In Isaiah,

With whom did Jehovah consult, and he instructed Him, and taught Him the path of judgement, and taught Him knowledge, and made Him know the way of understanding? Isaiah 40:14.

This plainly stands for an understanding of truth. In Jeremiah,

Thus said Jehovah, Stand upon the highways and look, and ask concerning the paths of old, which is the good way, and go in it. Jeremiah 6:16.

This in like manner stands for an understanding of truth. In Isaiah,

I will lead the blind in a way they do not know; and in paths they do not know I will guide them. Isaiah 42:16.

The expressions way, by-path, pathway, road, and street all have reference to truths because they lead to what is true, as also in Jeremiah,

They have caused them to stumble in their ways, in the pathways of old, going into by-paths and not the highway. Jeremiah 18:15.

Similarly in the Book of Judges,

In the days of Jael pathways ceased to be. And those who went along the paths kept to twisting pathways; the streets in Israel ceased to be. Judges 5:6-7.

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