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创世记 7

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1 耶和华挪亚:你和你的全家都要进入方舟;因为在这世代中,我见你在我面前是人。

2 凡洁净的畜类,你要带母;不洁净的畜类,你要带一公一母;

3 空中的飞也要带母,可以留种,活在全上;

4 因为再过,我要降四十昼夜,把我所造的各种活物都从上除灭。

5 挪亚就遵着耶和华所吩咐的行了。

6 洪水泛滥在上的时候,挪亚整岁。

7 挪亚就同他的妻和儿子儿妇都进入方舟,躲避洪水。

8 洁净的畜类和不洁净的畜类,飞并地上一切的昆虫,

9 是一对一对的,有公有母,到挪亚那里进入方舟,正如所吩咐挪亚的。

10 过了那洪水泛滥在上。

11 当挪亚岁,二十七日那一天,大渊的泉源都裂开了上的窗户也敞开了

12 四十昼夜降大雨在上。

13 正当那日,挪亚和他个儿子、含、雅弗,并挪亚的妻子个儿妇,都进入方舟。

14 他们和百,各从其类,一切牲畜,各从其类,爬在上的昆虫,各从其类,一切禽,各从其类,都进入方舟。

15 凡有血、有气息的活物,一对一对地到挪亚那里,进入方舟。

16 凡有血进入方舟的,都是有公有母,正如所吩咐挪亚的。耶和华就把他在方舟里头。

17 洪水泛滥在四十,水往上长,把方舟从上漂起。

18 水势浩大,在上大大往上长,方舟在水面上漂来漂去。

19 水势在上极其浩大,都淹没了。

20 势比高过十五肘,岭都淹没了。

21 凡在上有血动物,就是飞牲畜、走,和爬在上的昆虫,以及所有的人,都死了。

22 凡在旱地上、鼻孔有气息的生灵都死了

23 上各类的活物,连人带牲畜、昆虫,以及空中的飞,都从上除灭了,只留下挪亚和那些与他同在方舟里的。

24 水势浩大,在上共一五十

   

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739. That by the “flood of waters” is signified the beginning of temptation, is evident from temptation as to things of the understanding being here treated of, which temptation precedes, and, as before said, is light; and for this reason it is called a “flood of waters” and not simply “a flood” as in the seventeenth verse (Genesis 7:17). For “waters” signify especially the spiritual things of man, the intellectual things of faith, and the opposites of these, which are falsities; as may be confirmed by very many passages from the Word.

[2] That a “flood” or “inundation” of waters signifies temptation, is evident from what was shown in the introduction to this chapter. So also in Ezekiel:

Thus saith the Lord Jehovih, I will make a stormy wind to break through in My fury, and an inundating rain shall there be in Mine anger, and hailstones in wrath, unto the consummation, that I may destroy the wall that ye have daubed with what is unfit (Ezekiel 13:13-14).

Here a “stormy wind” and an “inundating rain” denote the desolation of falsities; the “wall daubed with what is unfit” denotes fiction appearing as truth.

In Isaiah:

Jehovah God is a protection from inundation, a shadow from the heat, for the breath of the violent is as an inundation against the wall (Isaiah 25:4).

An “inundation” here denotes temptation as to things of the understanding, and is distinguished from temptation as to things of the will, which is called “heat.”

[3] Again:

Behold the Lord hath a mighty and strong one, as an inundation of hail, a destroying storm, as an inundation of mighty waters, overflowing (Isaiah 28:2),

where degrees of temptation are described. And again:

When thou passest through the waters I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee; when thou walkest through the fire thou shalt not be burned, and the flame shall not kindle upon thee (Isaiah 43:2).

“Waters” and “rivers” here denote falsities and phantasies, “fire” and “flame” evils and cupidities.

In David:

For this shall everyone that is holy pray unto Thee at a time of finding; so that in the inundation of many waters they shall not reach unto him; Thou art my hiding place; Thou wilt preserve me from trouble (Psalms 32:6-7),where the “inundation of waters” denotes temptation which is also called a “flood.” In the same:

Jehovah sitteth at the flood; yea, Jehovah sitteth King forever (Psalms 29:10).

From these passages, and from what was premised at the beginning of this chapter, it is evident that a “flood” or “inundation” of waters signifies nothing else than temptations and vastations, although described historically, after the manner of the most ancient people.

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