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1 起初，神創造天地。

2 地是空虛混沌，淵面黑暗；神的靈運行在水面上。

3 神說：要有光，就有了光。

4 神看光是好的，就把光暗分開了。

5 神稱光為晝，稱暗為夜。有晚上，有早晨，這是頭一日。

6 神說：諸水之間要有空氣，將水分為上下。

7 神就造出空氣，將空氣以下的水、空氣以上的水分開了。事就這樣成了。

8 神稱空氣為天。有晚上，有早晨，是第二日。

9 神說：天下的水要聚在一處，使旱地露出來。事就這樣成了。

10 神稱旱地為地，稱水的聚處為海。神看著是好的。

11 神說：地要發生青草和結種子的菜蔬，並結果子的樹木，各從其類，果子都包著核。事就這樣成了。

12 於是地發生了青草和結種子的菜蔬，各從其類；並結果子的樹木，各從其類；果子都包著核。神看著是好的。

13 有晚上，有早晨，是第三日。

14 神說：天上要有光體，可以分晝夜，作記號，定節令、日子、年歲，

15 並要發光在天空，普照在地上。事就這樣成了。

16 於是神造了兩個大光，大的管晝，小的管夜，又造眾星，

17 就把這些光擺列在天空，普照在地上，

18 管理晝夜，分別明暗。神看著是好的。

19 有晚上，有早晨，是第四日。

20 神說：水要多多滋生有生命的物；要有雀鳥飛在地面以上，天空之中。

21 神就造出大魚和水中所滋生各樣有生命的動物，各從其類；又造出各樣飛鳥，各從其類。神看著是好的。

22 神就賜福給這一切，說：滋生繁多，充滿海中的水；雀鳥也要多生在地上。

23 有晚上，有早晨，是第五日。

24 神說：地要生出活物來，各從其類；牲畜、昆蟲、地上的野獸，各從其類。事就這樣成了。

25 於是神造出野獸，各從其類；牲畜，各從其類；地上一切昆蟲，各從其類。神看著是好的。

26 神說：我們要照著我們的形像、按著我們的樣式造人，使他們管理海裡的魚、空中的鳥、地上的牲畜，和全地，並地上所爬的一切昆蟲。

27 神就照著自己的形像造人，乃是照著他的形像造男造女。

28 神就賜福給他們，又對他們說：要生養眾多，遍滿地面，治理這地，也要管理海裡的魚、空中的鳥，和地上各樣行動的活物。

29 神說：看哪，我將遍地上一切結種子的菜蔬和一切樹上所結有核的果子全賜給你們作食物。

30 至於地上的走獸和空中的飛鳥，並各樣爬在地上有生命的物，我將青草賜給他們作食物。事就這樣成了。

31 神看著一切所造的都甚好。有晚上，有早晨，是第六日。

Aus Swedenborgs Werken

 

Arcana Coelestia #50

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50. What the Most Ancient Church understood by 'the image of the Lord' exceeds everything one can say about it. Man is totally unaware of the fact that the Lord is governing him by means of angels and spirits, and that at least two spirits and two angels are present with everyone. By means of the spirits he is in communication with the world of spirits, and by means of the angels with heaven. Without this communication with the world of spirits by means of the spirits, and with heaven by means of the angels, and so by means of heaven with the Lord, a person cannot exist at all. His entire life depends upon that link, and if the spirits and angels were to withdraw he would perish instantly.

[2] As long as a person remains unregenerate he is governed in an entirely different way from when he is regenerate. As long as he is unregenerate, evil spirits reside with him, who have such dominion over him that angels, though present, can accomplish little more than simply distract him from plunging into utter evil and so divert him towards something good. Indeed they use his own unregenerate desires to divert him towards good, and his illusions of the senses to do so towards truth. At that point he is in communication with the world of spirits by means of the spirits who reside with him, but not in the same way with heaven, for the reason that evil spirits have dominion and angels simply forestall them.

[3] When however he is regenerate it is the angels who then have dominion, and they breathe into him every kind of good and truth, as well as a horror and dread of evils and falsifies. Angels do indeed lead, yet they are but servants, for it is the Lord alone who, by means of angels and spirits, governs a person. Now because this is done through the ministry of angels, it is said here, in the plural first of all, 'Let Us make man in Our image'. Yet because it is still He alone who rules and disposes, it is said in the following verse, in the singular, 'God created him in His image'. This the Lord also states plainly in Isaiah,

Thus said Jehovah, your Redeemer, He who formed you from the womb, I Jehovah make all things, stretching out the heavens Alone, spreading out the earth by Myself. Isaiah 44:24.

Angels themselves also profess that no power at all resides with themselves but that they act from the Lord alone.

  
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