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创世记 4

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1 有一日,那和他妻子夏娃同房,夏娃就怀孕,生了该隐(就是得的意思),便耶和华使我得了一个子。

2 又生了该隐兄弟亚伯亚伯是牧的;该隐是种地的。

3 有一日,该隐拿地里的出产为供物献给耶和华

4 亚伯也将他羊群中头生的和的脂油献上。耶和华看中了亚伯和他的供物,

5 只是看不中该隐和他的供物。该隐就大大的发怒,变了脸色。

6 耶和华该隐:你为甚麽发怒呢?你为甚麽变了脸色呢?

7 你若行得好,岂不蒙悦纳?你若行得不好,就伏在前。他必恋慕你,你却要制伏他。

8 该隐与他兄弟亚伯话;二人正在田间。该隐起来打他兄弟亚伯,把他杀了。

9 耶和华该隐:你兄弟亚伯在那里?他:我不知道!我岂是看守我兄弟的麽?

10 耶和华:你作了甚麽事呢?你兄弟的血有声音从地里向我哀告。

11 开了,从你里接受你兄弟的血。现在你必从这地受咒诅。

12 你种不再你效力;你必流离飘荡在上。

13 该隐耶和华:我的刑罚太重,过於我所能当的。

14 你如今赶逐我离开这,以致不见你面;我必流离飘荡在上,凡遇见我的必杀我。

15 耶和华对他:凡杀该隐的,必遭报七倍。耶和华就给该隐立一个记号,免得人遇见他就杀他。

16 於是该隐离开耶和华的面,去在伊甸东边挪得之

17 该隐妻子同房,他妻子就怀孕,生了以诺该隐建造了一座城,就按着他儿子的名将那城以诺

18 以诺生以拿;以拿生米户雅利;米户雅利生玛土撒利;玛土撒利生拉麦。

19 拉麦娶了两个妻:个名叫亚大,个名叫洗拉。

20 亚大生雅八;雅八就是帐棚、牧养牲畜之人的祖师。

21 雅八的兄弟名叫犹八;他是一切弹琴吹箫之人的祖师。

22 洗拉又生了土八该隐;他是打造各样铜利器的(或作:是铜匠匠的祖师)。土八该隐的妹子是拿玛。

23 拉麦对他两个妻子:亚大、洗拉,我的声音;拉麦的妻子,细我的话语:壮年伤我,我把他杀了;少年损我,我把他害了(或作我杀壮士却伤自己,我害幼童却损本身。)

24 若杀该隐,遭报七倍,杀拉麦,必遭报七倍

25 亚当又与妻子同房,他就生了一个儿子,起名塞特,意思另给我立了一个儿子代替亚伯,因为该隐杀了他。

26 塞特也生了一个儿子,起名以挪士。那时候,人才求告耶和华的名。

   

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Arcana Coelestia #348

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348. 'The fruit of the ground' is used to mean the works of faith devoid of charity. This also is evident from what follows. In effect the works of faith devoid of charity are the works of no faith at all. In themselves they are dead since they belong purely to the external man. Such works are referred to in Jeremiah as follows,

Why does the way of the wicked prosper? You have planted them, they have also taken root, they have gone on, they are also producing fruit. You are near in their mouth but far from their heart. 1 How long will the land mourn and the grass of every field wither? Jeremiah 12:1-2, 4.

'Near in their mouth but far from their heart' 1 means adherents to faith separated from charity, of whom it is said that 'the land mourns'. They are also called in the same prophet 'the fruit of works',

The heart is deceitful above all, and is something hopeless. Who knows it? I Jehovah who searches the heart and tries the reins, to give to everyone according to his ways, according to the fruit of his works. Jeremiah 17:9-10.

In Micah,

The earth will be a desolation because of its inhabitants, for the fruit of their works. Micah 7:13.

But the fact that this kind of fruit is no fruit at all, that is, a work that is dead, and that both this fruit and root perish, is stated in Amos,

I destroyed the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and whose strength was like the oaks. Yet I destroyed his fruit above and his roots beneath. Amos 2:9.

And in David,

You will destroy their fruit from the earth and their seed from the sons of man. Psalms 21:10.

But works that stem from charity are alive, and are referred to as 'taking root below' and 'yielding fruit above', as in Isaiah,

And the surviving remnant of the house of Judah will take root downwards and bear fruit upwards. Isaiah 37:31.

'Producing fruit upwards' is doing so from charity. In the same prophet such fruit is called 'a fruit that is excellent',

On that day the branch of Jehovah will be beauty and glory, and the fruit of the land will be excellence and an adornment for the survivors of Israel. Isaiah 4:2.

It is also 'the fruit of salvation', as it is called in the same prophet,

Shower, O heavens, from above, and let the skies rain with righteousness; let the earth open, and let them bear the fruit of salvation, and let righteousness spring up together. I Jehovah will create it. Isaiah 45:8.

Fußnoten:

1. literally, reins or kidneys

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.