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創世記 9

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1 ノアとその子らとを祝福して彼らに言われた、「生めよ、ふえよ、地に満ちよ。

2 地のすべての獣、空のすべての、地に這うすべてのもの、のすべての魚は恐れおののいて、あなたがたの支配に服し、

3 すべて生きて動くものはあなたがたの食物となるであろう。さきに青をあなたがたに与えたように、わたしはこれらのものを皆あなたがたに与える

4 しかしを、その命であるのままで、食べてはならない。

5 あなたがたの命のを流すものには、わたしは必ず報復するであろう。いかなる獣にも報復する。兄弟である人にも、わたしは人の命のために、報復するであろう。

6 人のを流すものは、人にを流される、自分のかたちに人を造られたゆえに。

7 あなたがたは、生めよ、ふえよ、地に群がり、地の上にふえよ」。

8 ノアおよび共にいる子らに言われた、

9 「わたしはあなたがた及びあなたがたのの子孫と契約を立てる。

10 またあなたがたと共にいるすべての生き物、あなたがたと共にいる、家畜、地のすべての、すなわち、すべて箱舟から出たものは、地のすべてのにいたるまで、わたしはそれと契約を立てよう。

11 わたしがあなたがたと立てるこの契約により、すべてなる者は、もはや洪水によって滅ぼされることはなく、また地を滅ぼす洪水は、再び起らないであろう」。

12 さらには言われた、「これはわたしと、あなたがた及びあなたがたと共にいるすべての生き物との間に代々かぎりなく、わたしが立てる契約のしるしである。

13 すなわち、わたしはの中に、にじを置く。これがわたしと地との間の契約のしるしとなる。

14 わたしがを地の上に起すとき、にじはの中に現れる。

15 こうして、わたしは、わたしとあなたがた、及びすべてなるあらゆる生き物との間に立てた契約を思いおこすゆえ、水はふたたび、すべてなる者を滅ぼす洪水とはならない。

16 にじがの中に現れるとき、わたしはこれを見てが地上にあるすべてなるあらゆる生き物との間に立てた永遠の契約を思いおこすであろう」。

17 そしてノアに言われた、「これがわたしと地にあるすべてなるものとの間に、わたしが立てた契約のしるしである」。

18 箱舟から出たノアの子らはセム、ハム、ヤペテであった。ハムはカナンの父である。

19 この人はノアの子らで、全地の民は彼らから出て、広がったのである。

20 さてノアは農となり、ぶどう畑をつくり始めたが、

21 彼はぶどう酒を飲んで酔い、天幕の中でになっていた。

22 カナンの父ハムは父の見て、外にいるふたりの兄弟に告げた。

23 セムとヤペテとは着物を取って、肩にかけ、うしろ向きに歩み寄って、父のをおおい、をそむけて父のを見なかった。

24 やがてノアは酔いがさめて、末のが彼にした事を知ったとき、

25 彼は言った、「カナンはのろわれよ。彼はしもべのしもべとなって、その兄弟たちに仕える」。

26 また言った、「セムはほむべきかな、カナンはそのしもべとなれ。

27 はヤペテを大いならしめ、セムの天幕に彼を住まわせられるように。カナンはそのしもべとなれ」。

28 ノアは洪水の、なお五十年生きた。

29 ノアの年は合わせて五十歳であった。そして彼は死んだ。

   

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1093. That 'cursed be Canaan' means that external worship separated from internal turned itself away from the Lord is clear from the meaning of 'Canaan' and from the meaning of 'being cursed'. That 'Canaan' is external worship separated from internal is clear from what has been stated already about Canaan, also from his being called 'cursed'; and from what follows about his being 'a slave of slaves'. And being a slave both to Shem and to Japheth cannot mean anything other than something separated from the Church itself, such as worship that is wholly external. This is clear from the meaning of 'being cursed' as turning oneself away, for the Lord in no way curses anybody, or is even angry. Instead it is man who brings the curse upon himself by turning himself away from the Lord. On these points see what has been shown already in 223, 245, 592. The Lord is as far from cursing or being angry with anyone as the sky is from the earth. Who can believe that the Lord, who is all-knowing and all-powerful, who with wisdom rules the universe, and so who is infinitely superior to all [human] weaknesses, is angry with such pitifully worthless dust, that is, with human beings who scarcely know anything of what they do and who of themselves are incapable of anything other than evil? With the Lord therefore anger is never present, only mercy.

[2] That arcana are contained here can be seen merely from the consideration that even though it was Ham who saw his father's nakedness and pointed it out to his brothers, he was not cursed but his son Canaan, who was not his only son nor even the firstborn but the fourth in line, as is clear from Chapter 10, verse 6 later on, where the sons of Ham are mentioned as being Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan. It can in addition be seen from the Divine Law that no son was to bear his father's iniquity, as is clear in Ezekiel,

The soul that has sinned will die. The son will not bear the iniquity of the father, nor will the father bear the iniquity of the son. Ezekiel 18:20; Deuteronomy 14:16; 2 Kings 14:6.

And the same can also be seen from the consideration that this iniquity of merely seeing his father's nakedness and pointing it out to his brothers seems too slight for all of his descendants ever to have been cursed on that account. From these considerations it is clear that arcana are contained here.

[3] The reason Ham is not mentioned here but Canaan is that Ham means faith separated from charity in the spiritual Church, which cannot be cursed because in that Church faith has holiness present within it because truth is present there. And although there is no faith when there is no charity, it is still possible - since it is by means of the cognitions of faith that a person is regenerated - for separated faith to be allied to charity, and in this way to be in some sense 'a brother' or may become one. This was why Canaan was cursed and not Ham. Furthermore the inhabitants of the land of Canaan were for the most part people such as made all worship consist in external things, the Jews there as much as the gentiles. These are the arcana contained here, but for which Canaan would never have been substituted for Ham. That external worship separated from internal turns itself away and so brings a curse on itself is quite clear from the fact that people whose worship is external have no regard for anything other than worldly, bodily, and earthly things. Thus they look downwards, and immerse their minds (animus) and life in those things; such will be dealt with a little further on.

  
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