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1 Kaj Adam ekkonis Evan, sian edzinon, kaj sxi gravedigxis, kaj sxi naskis Kainon; kaj sxi diris: Mi akiris homon de la Eternulo.

2 Kaj plue sxi naskis lian fraton Habel. Kaj Habel farigxis sxafpasxtisto, kaj Kain farigxis terlaboristo.

3 Kaj post ia tempo farigxis, ke Kain alportis el la fruktoj de la tero donacoferon al la Eternulo.

4 Kaj Habel ankaux alportis el la unuenaskitoj de siaj sxafoj kaj el ilia graso. Kaj la Eternulo atentis Habelon kaj lian donacoferon;

5 sed Kainon kaj lian donacoferon Li ne atentis. Kaj Kain tre ekkoleris, kaj lia vizagxo klinigxis.

6 Kaj la Eternulo diris al Kain: Kial vi koleras? kaj kial klinigxis via vizagxo?

7 Ja se vi agos bone, vi estos forta; sed se vi agos malbone, la peko kusxos cxe la pordo, kaj vin gxi aspiros, sed vi regu super gxi.

8 Kaj Kain parolis kun sia frato Habel; kaj kiam ili estis sur la kampo, Kain levigxis kontraux sian fraton Habel kaj mortigis lin.

9 Kaj la Eternulo diris al Kain: Kie estas via frato Habel? Kaj tiu diris: Mi ne scias; cxu mi estas gardisto de mia frato?

10 Kaj Li diris: Kion vi faris? la vocxo de la sango de via frato krias al Mi de la tero.

11 Kaj nun estu malbenita de sur la tero, kiu malfermis sian busxon, por preni la sangon de via frato el via mano.

12 Kiam vi prilaboros la teron, gxi ne plu donos al vi sian forton; vaganto kaj forkuranto vi estos sur la tero.

13 Kaj Kain diris al la Eternulo: Pli granda estas mia puno, ol kiom mi povos elporti.

14 Jen Vi forpelas min hodiaux de sur la tero, kaj mi devas min kasxi de antaux Via vizagxo, kaj mi estos vaganto kaj forkuranto sur la tero, kaj iu ajn, kiu min renkontos, mortigos min.

15 Kaj la Eternulo diris al li: Sciu, ke al iu, kiu mortigos Kainon, estos vengxite sepoble. Kaj la Eternulo faris sur Kain signon, ke ne mortigu lin iu, kiu lin renkontos.

16 Kaj Kain foriris de antaux la Eternulo, kaj logxigxis en la lando Nod, oriente de Eden.

17 Kaj Kain ekkonis sian edzinon, kaj sxi gravedigxis, kaj sxi naskis HXanohxon. Kaj li konstruis urbon, kaj li donis al la urbo nomon laux la nomo de sia filo: HXanohx.

18 Kaj al HXanohx naskigxis Irad, kaj al Irad naskigxis Mehxujael, kaj al Mehxujael naskigxis Metusxael, kaj al Metusxael naskigxis Lemehx.

19 Kaj Lemehx prenis al si du edzinojn: unu havis la nomon Ada, kaj la dua havis la nomon Cila.

20 Kaj Ada naskis Jabalon; li estis la patro de tiuj, kiuj logxas en tendoj kaj pasxtas brutojn.

21 Kaj la nomo de lia frato estis Jubal; li estis la patro de cxiuj, kiuj ludas harpon kaj fluton.

22 Cila ankaux naskis Tubal-Kainon, forgxanton de diversaj majstrajxoj el kupro kaj fero. Kaj la fratino de Tubal-Kain estis Naama.

23 Kaj Lemehx diris al siaj edzinoj Ada kaj Cila:

24 Auxskultu mian vocxon, edzinoj de Lemehx, Atentu mian parolon! CXar viron mi mortigis por vundo al mi Kaj junulon por tubero al mi; Se sepoble estos vengxite por Kain, Por Lemehx estos sepdek-sepoble.

25 Kaj denove Adam ekkonis sian edzinon, kaj sxi naskis filon, kaj donis al li la nomon Set: CXar Dio metis al mi alian semon anstataux Habel, kiun mortigis Kain.

26 Kaj al Set ankaux naskigxis filo, kaj li donis al li la nomon Enosx. Tiam oni komencis alvokadi la nomon de la Eternulo.

   

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2417. 'Do not look back behind you' means that he was not to look to matters of doctrine. This is clear from the meaning of 'looking back behind him' when the city was behind him and the mountain in front of him; for 'a city' means doctrinal teaching, 402, 2268, 2451, while 'a mountain' means love and charity, 795, 1430. That this is the meaning will be evident in the explanation at verse 26, where it is said that his wife looked back behind him and she became a pillar of salt. Anyone may recognize that these words - 'looking back behind him' - have some Divine arcanum within them and that this lies too far down to be visible. For looking back behind him seems to involve nothing reprehensible at all, and yet it is of such great importance that it is said that he was to escape for his life, that is, he was to be concerned about his life to eternity by not looking back behind him. What is meant by looking to matters of doctrine however will be seen in what follows.

[2] Here let it be merely stated what doctrinal teaching is. Such teaching is twofold: one kind has to do with love and charity, the other with faith. Each of the Lord's Churches at the outset, while still very young and virginal, neither possesses nor desires any other doctrinal teaching than that which has to do with charity, for this has to do with life. In course of time however a Church turns away from this kind of teaching until it starts to despise it and at length to reject it, at which point it acknowledges no other kind of teaching than that called the doctrine of faith. And when it separates faith from charity such doctrinal teaching colludes with a life of evil.

[3] This was so with the Primitive or gentile Church after the Lord's Coming. At the outset it possessed no other doctrinal teaching than that which had to do with love and charity, for such is what the Lord Himself taught, see 2371 (end). But after His time, as love and charity started to grow cold, doctrinal teaching regarding faith gradually crept in, and with it disagreements and heresies which increased as men leant more and more towards that kind of teaching.

[4] Something similar had happened to the Ancient Church which came after the Flood and which was spread throughout so many kingdoms, 2385. This Church at the outset knew no other teaching than that which had to do with charity, for that teaching looked towards and permeated life; and so they were concerned about their eternal welfare. After a time however some people started to foster doctrinal teaching about faith which they at length separated from charity. Members of this Church called such people 'Ham' however because they led a life of evil, see 1062, 1063, 1076.

[5] The Most Ancient Church which existed before the Flood and which was pre-eminently called Man enjoyed the perception itself of love to the Lord and charity towards the neighbour, and so had teaching about love and charity inscribed within them. But there also existed at that time those who fostered faith, and when these at length separated it from charity they were called Cain, for Cain means such faith, and Abel whom he killed means charity; see the explanation to Genesis 4.

[6] From this it becomes clear that doctrinal teaching is twofold, one kind having to do with charity, the other with faith, although in themselves the two are one, for teaching to do with charity includes everything to do with faith. But when doctrinal teaching comes to be drawn solely from things to do with faith, such teaching is said to be twofold because faith is separated from charity. Their separation at the present day becomes clear from the consideration that what charity is, and what the neighbour, is utterly unknown. People whose teaching is solely about faith know of charity towards the neighbour as nothing other than giving what is their own to others and taking pity on everyone, for they call everyone their neighbour indiscriminately, when in fact charity consists in all the good residing with the individual - in his affection, and in his ardent zeal, and consequently in his life - while the neighbour consists in all the good residing with people which affects the individual. Consequently the neighbour consists in people with whom good resides - and quite distinctly and separately from one person to the next.

[7] For example, charity and mercy are present with him who exercises righteousness and judgement by punishing the evil and rewarding the good. Charity resides within the punishment of the evil, for he who imposes the punishment is moved by a strong desire to correct the one who is punished and at the same time to protect others from the evil he may do to them. For when he imposes it he is concerned about and desires the good of him who does evil or is an enemy, as well as being concerned about and desiring the good of others and of the state, which concern and desire spring from charity towards the neighbour. The same holds true with every other kind of good of life, for such good cannot possibly exist if it does not spring from charity towards the neighbour, since this is what charity looks to and embodies within itself.

[8] There being so much obscurity, as has been stated, as to what charity is and what the neighbour, it is plain that after doctrinal teaching to do with faith has seized the chief position, teaching to do with charity is then one of those things that have been lost. Yet it was the latter teaching alone that was fostered in the Ancient Church. They went so far as to categorize all kinds of good that flow from charity towards the neighbour, that is, to categorize all in whom good was present. In doing so they made many distinctions to which they gave names, calling them the poor, the wretched, the oppressed, the sick, the naked, the hungry, the thirsty, the prisoners or those in prison, the. sojourners, the orphans, and the widows. Some they also called the lame, the blind, the deaf, the dumb, and the maimed, and many other names besides these. It was in accordance with this kind of teaching that the Lord spoke in the Old Testament Word, and it explains why such expressions occur so frequently there; and it was in accordance with the same that the Lord Himself spoke, as in Matthew 25:35-36, 38-40, 42-45; Luke 14:13, 21; and many times elsewhere. This is why those names have quite a different meaning in the internal sense. So that doctrinal teaching regarding charity may be restored therefore, some discussion will in the Lord's Divine mercy appear further on as to who such people are, and what charity is, and what the neighbour, generally and specifically.

  
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