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Бытие 1

Lernen

1 Въ началј Богъ сотворилъ небеса и землю.

2 Но земля была не образована и пуста, и тьма надъ бездною, и Духъ Божій носился надъ водами.

3 И сказалъ Богъ: да будетъ свјтъ; и сталъ свјтъ.

4 Богъ увидјлъ, что свјтъ хорошъ; и отдјлилъ Богъ свјтъ отъ тьмы.

5 И назвалъ Богъ свјтъ днемъ, а тьму назвалъ ночью. И былъ вечеръ, и было утро: день одинъ.

6 Потомъ Богъ сказалъ: да будетъ твердь посреди водъ; и да отдјляетъ она воды отъ водъ.

7 И создалъ Богъ твердь; и отдјлилъ воды, которыя подъ твердію, отъ водъ, которыя надъ твердію: и стало такъ.

8 И назвалъ Богъ твердь небомъ. И былъ вечеръ, и было утро: день вторый.

9 Потомъ Богъ сказалъ: да соберутся воды подъ небесами въ одно мјсто: и да явится суша: и стало такъ.

10 И назвалъ Богъ сушу землею, а собраніе водъ назвалъ моремъ: и увидјлъ Богъ, что это хорошо.

11 И сказалъ Богъ: да произраститъ земля зелень, траву, сјющую сјмя, дерева плодовитыя, приносящія по роду своему плодъ, въ которомъ сјмя ихъ на землј: и стало такъ.

12 И произвела земля зелень, сјющую сјмя по роду ея, и дерева приносящія плодъ, въ которомъ сјмя ихъ по роду ихъ. И Богъ увидјлъ, что это хорошо.

13 И былъ вечеръ и было утро: день третій.

14 Потомъ Богъ сказалъ: да будутъ свјтила на тверди небесной, для отдјленія дня отъ ночи, и для знаменій, и временъ, и дней и годовъ;

15 и да будутъ они свјтильниками на тверди небесной, чтобы свјтить на землю: и стало такъ.

16 И создалъ Богъ два свјтила великія: свјтило большое для управленія днемъ, и свјтило меньшое для управленія ночью, и звјзды:

17 и поставилъ ихъ Богъ на тверди небесной, чтобы свјтили на землю.

18 И чтобы управляли днемъ и ночью, и чтобы отдјляли свјтъ отъ тьмы. И Богъ увидјлъ, что это хорошо.

19 И былъ вечеръ, и было утро: день четвертый.

20 Потомъ Богъ сказалъ: да породятъ воды пресмыкающихся, души живыя; и птицы да полетятъ надъ землею по тверди небесной.

21 И сотворилъ Богъ большія морскія чудовища, и всякія животныя, живыя пресмыкающіяся, которыя породили воды, по роду ихъ, и всјхъ птицъ пернатыхъ, по роду ихъ: и Богъ увидјлъ, что это хорошо.

22 И благословилъ ихъ Богъ, говоря: плодитесь и размножайтесь и наполняйте воды въ моряхъ, и птицы да размножаются на землј.

23 И былъ вечеръ и было утро: день пятый.

24 Потомъ Богъ сказалъ: да произведетъ земля животныя живыя по роду ихъ, скотъ и гадовъ, и звјрей земпыхъ по роду ихъ: и стало такъ.

25 И создалъ Богъ звјрей земныхъ по роду ихъ, и скотъ по роду его, и всјхъ гадовъ земныхъ по роду ихъ: и увидјлъ Богъ, что это хорошо.

26 И сказалъ Богъ: сотворимъ человјка по образу Нашему, по подобію Нашему; и да владычествуютъ они надъ рыбами морскими, н надъ птицами небесными, и падъ скотомъ, и надъ всею землею, и надъ всјми гадами, пресмыкающимися по землј.

27 И сотворилъ Богъ человјка по образу Своему, по образу Божію сотворилъ его, мущину и женщину сотворилъ ихъ.

28 И Богъ благословилъ ихъ, и сказалъ имъ Богъ: плодитесь и размножайтесь, и наполняйте землю, и обладайте ею, и владычествуйте надъ рыбами морскими, и надъ птицами небесными, и надъ всякимъ животнымъ пресмыкающимся по землј.

29 И сказалъ Богъ: се, Я даю вамъ всякую траву сјющую сјмя, какая есть на всей землј, и всякое дерево, отъ котораго есть плодъ древесный, сјющій сјмя; вамъ сіе да будетъ въ пищу.

30 И всјмъ звјрямъ земнымъ и всјмъ птицамъ небеснымъ и всякому пресмыкающемуся по землј, въ которомъ есть душа живая, даю Я всю зеленјющую траву въ пищу: и стало такъ.

31 И увидјлъ Богъ все, что ни создалъ, и вотъ, весьма хорошо. И былъ вечеръ, и было утро: день шестый.

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3623. Wherefore have I lives? That this signifies that thus there would not be conjunction, is evident from the signification of “lives,” as being conjunction through truths and goods; for when no truth from a common stock or genuine source could be adjoined to natural truth, then neither would there be the adjunction of the natural to the truth of the rational; thus to the rational its life would appear as no life (n. 3493, 3620); hence by the words, “wherefore have I lives?” is signified that thus there would not be conjunction. The reason why here and in other passages lives are spoken of in the plural, is that there are two faculties of life in man; one of which is called the understanding, and is of truth; and the other of which is called the will, and is of good; these two lives or faculties of life make a one when the understanding is of the will, or what is the same, when truth is of good. This is the reason why in the Hebrew tongue frequent mention is made of “life,” and also of “lives.” That mention is made of “lives,” is evident from the following passages in Genesis:

And Jehovah God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of lives, and man became a living soul (Genesis 2:7).

And out of the ground made Jehovah God to grow every tree that is desirable to the sight, and good for food; and the tree of lives in the midst of the garden (Genesis 2:9).

Behold I do bring the flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh wherein is the breath of lives (Genesis 6:17).

And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two, two, of all flesh wherein is the breath of lives (Genesis 7:15, n. 780).

All in whose nostrils was the breathing of the breath of lives died (Genesis 6:22).

And in David:

I believe to see the goodness of Jehovah in the land of lives (Psalms 27:13).

Again:

What man is he that desireth lives, and loveth days that he may see good (Psalms 34:12)?

Again:

With Thee is the fountain of lives; in Thy light shall we see light (Psalms 36:9).

In Malachi:

My covenant was with Leviticus of lives and peace (Malachi 2:5).

In Jeremiah:

Thus saith Jehovah, Behold I set before you the way of lives, and the way of death (Jeremiah 21:8).

In Moses:

To love Jehovah thy God, and to obey His voice, and to cleave unto Him for He Is thy lives, and the length of thy days; that thou mayest dwell in the land (Deuteronomy 30:20).

And again:

It is not a vain word from you, because it is your lives, and through this word ye shall prolong your days upon the land (Deuteronomy 32:47); and in other places.

“Lives” are spoken of in the plural because they are two, as was said, and yet a one; as also in the Hebrew tongue are “heavens,” which are many, and yet a one; in like manner “waters,” those above and those beneath (Genesis 1:6-7, 9), which are spiritual things pertaining to the rational and the natural, and which also are to be a one through conjunction. In respect to “lives,” they signify in the plural both what is of the will and what is of the understanding, consequently what is of good and what is of truth; for the life of man is nothing else than good and truth wherein is life from the Lord, inasmuch as man, without good and truth, and life therein, is no man; for man without these would not be able to will anything or think anything, all his faculty of willing being from what is good or what is not good, and his faculty of thinking from what is true or what is not true; hence man has lives, which are one life when his thinking is from his willing, that is, when the truth which is of faith is from the good which is of love.

  
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