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1 Ấy vậy, trời đất và muôn vật đã dựng nên xong rồi.

2 Ngày thứ bảy, Ðức Chúa Trời làm xong các công việc Ngài đã làm, và Ngày thứ bảy, Ngài nghỉ các công việc Ngài đã làm.

3 ồi, Ngài ban phước cho ngày thứ bảy, đặt là ngày thánh; vì trong ngày đó, Ngài nghỉ các công việc đã dựng nên và đã làm xong rồi.

4 Ấy là gốc tích trời và đất khi đã dựng nên, trong lúc Giê-hô-va Ðức Chúa Trời dựng nên trời và đất.

5 Vả, lúc đó, chưa có một cây nhỏ nào mọc ngoài đồng, và cũng chưa có một ngọn cỏ nào mọc ngoài ruộng, vì Giê-hô-va Ðức Chúa Trời chưa có cho mưa xuống trên đất, và cũng chẳng có một người nào cày cấy đất nữa.

6 Song có hơi nước dưới đất bay lên tưới khắp cùng mặt đất,

7 Giê-hô-va Ðức Chúa Trời bèn lấy bụi đất nắn nên hình người, hà sanh khí vào lỗ mũi; thì người trở nên một loài sanh linh.

8 Ðoạn, Giê-hô-va Ðức Chúa Trời lập một cảnh vườn tại Ê-đen, ở về hướng Ðông, và đặt người mà Ngài vừa dựng nên ở đó.

9 Giê-hô-va Ðức Chúa Trời khiến đất mọc lên các thứ cây đẹp mắt, và trái thì ăn ngon; giữa vườn lại có cây sự sống cùng cây biết điều thiện và điều ác.

10 Một con sông từ Ê-đen chảy ra đặng tưới vườn; rồi từ đó chia ra làm bốn ngả.

11 Tên ngả thứ nhứt là Bi-sôn; ngả đó chảy quanh xứ Ha-vi-la, là nơi có vàng.

12 Vàng xứ nầy rất cao; đó lại có nhũ hương và bính ngọc.

13 Tên sông thứ nhì là Ghi-hôn, chảy quanh xứ Cu-sơ.

14 Tên sông thứ ba là Hi-đê-ke, chảy về phía đông bờ cõi A-si-ri. Còn sông thứ tưsông Ơ-phơ-rát.

15 Giê-hô-va Ðức Chúa Trời đem người ở vào cảnh vườn Ê-đen để trồng và giữ vườn.

16 ồi, Giê-hô-va Ðức Chúa Trời phán dạy rằng: Ngươi được tự do ăn hoa quả các thứ cây trong vườn;

17 nhưng về cây biết điều thiện và điều ác thì chớ hề ăn đến; vì một mai ngươi ăn chắc sẽ chết.

18 Giê-hô-va Ðức Chúa Trời phán rằng: Loài người ở một mình thì không tốt; ta sẽ làm nên một kẻ giúp đỡ giống như nó.

19 Giê-hô-va Ðức Chúa Trời lấy đất nắn nên các loài thú đồng, các loài chim trời, rồi dẫn đến trước mặt A-đam đặng thử xem người đặt tên chúng nó làm sao, hầu cho tên nào A-đam đặt cho mỗi vật sống, đều thành tên riêng cho nó.

20 A-đam đặt tên các loài súc vật, các loài chim trời cùng các loài thú đồng; nhưng về phần A-đam, thì chẳng tìm được một ai giúp đỡ giống như mình hết.

21 Giê-hô-va Ðức Chúa Trời làm cho A-đam ngủ mê, bèn lấy một xương sường, rồi lấp thịt thế vào.

22 Giê-hô-va Ðức Chúa Trời dùng xương sường đã lấy nơi A-đam làm nên một người nữ, đưa đến cùng A-đam.

23 A-đam nói rằng: Người nầy là xương bởi xương tôi, thịt bởi thịt tôi mà ra. Người nầy sẽ được gọi là người nữ, vì nó do nơi người nam mà có.

24 Bởi vậy cho nên người nam sẽ lìa cha mẹ mà dính díu cùng vợ mình, và cả hai sẽ trở nên một thịt.

25 Vả, A-đam và vợ, cả hai đều trần truồng, mà chẳng hổ thẹn.

   

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Arcana Coelestia #8286

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8286. And with the wind of Thy nostrils the waters were heaped up. That this signifies that falsities were gathered together into a one through the presence of heaven, is evident from the signification of “the wind of Thy nostrils,” as being heaven (of which in what follows); from the signification of “to be heaped up,” as being to be gathered together into a one; and from the signification of “waters,” as being falsities (see n. 7307, 8137, 8138). (That damnation and casting into hell is a gathering together of all falsities derived from evil and an environment by them, see n. 8146, 8210, 8232; and that this is effected by the mere presence of the Lord, n. 8265.) That “the wind of the nostrils of Jehovah,” or of the Lord, denotes heaven, is because by it is meant the breath of life, thus the Divine life, and as this makes the life of heaven, by “the wind of the nostrils of Jehovah” is signified heaven; hence also it is that the same word in the original tongue means both “wind” and “spirit.”

[2] That by “the wind of Jehovah,” or “His breath,” is signified the life that belongs to heaven, and that belongs to the man who is in heaven, that is, to one who is regenerate, is evident in David:

By the Word of Jehovah were the heavens made, and all the army of them by the breath [wind] of His mouth (Psalms 33:6).

Thou gatherest their breath, they expire, and return to their dust; Thou sendest forth Thy spirit [wind], they are created (Psalms 104:29-30).

Jehovah said unto me, Will these bones live? Then said He, Prophesy upon the breath, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus said the Lord Jehovih, Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe into these slain, that they may live; and the breath came into them, and they revived (Ezekiel 37:3, 9-10).

I saw four angels standing upon the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow upon the earth, nor upon the sea, nor upon any tree (Revelation 7:1);

“the wind” here denotes the life of heaven, that is, Divine life, as also in Job:

The spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of Shaddai hath vivified me (33:4).

[3] As “wind” signifies life, therefore, when the Lord teaches about the regeneration of man, He also says:

The spirit (or wind) bloweth where it willeth, and thou hearest the voice thereof, yet knowest not whence it cometh, or whither it goeth; so is everyone that is begotten of the spirit (John 3:8).

And because by the “wind of Jehovah,” or “His breath,” was signified life from the Divine, therefore where the new life of Adam is treated of, it is said:

Jehovah breathed into his nostrils the breath of lives, and man became a living soul (Genesis 2:7);

it is said “through the nostrils,” because through them respiration is effected, and through respiration, life, as in Isaiah:

Cease ye from man, in whose nose is breath (Isaiah 2:22).

The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of Jehovah, was taken in their pits; of whom we had said, In his shadow we shall live among the nations (Lam. 4:20);

“the anointed of Jehovah” denotes the Lord; “the breath of our nostrils,” life from Him.

In Job:

As long as my breath (anima) is in me, and the wind of God is in my nose (27:3).

[4] As, then, by “the wind of the nostrils of Jehovah” is signified the life which is from the Lord, and thus in the universal sense, heaven; and as by the presence of the Lord, or by the presence of heaven where the Lord is, evils and falsities are cast into hell (n. 8265); therefore also this effect is signified by “the wind of the nostrils of Jehovah” in David:

The channels of the sea appeared, the foundations of the world were revealed, at the rebuke of Jehovah, at the blast of the breath of His nose (Psalms 18:8, 15; 2 Samuel 22:16).

The blast of Jehovah, like a stream of sulphur, doth kindle it (Isaiah 30:33).

Nay, they are not planted; nay, they are not sown; nay, their trunk is not rooted in the earth; and He even bloweth on them, and they wither, that the whirlwind may take them away like stubble (Isaiah 40:24).

He sendeth His word, and melteth them; He causeth His wind to blow, the waters flow (Psalms 147:18).

Hence also it is, that by “the nose,” when predicated of Jehovah or the Lord, is also signified wrath, thus the punishment, vastation, and damnation of those who are in evils and falsities (as in Numbers 25:4; Deuteronomy 7:4; Judges 2:14Isaiah 9:21; Jeremiah 4:8; Hosea 14:4; Psalms 6:1; 86:15; 103:8; 145:8; and in many other passages); and also by “blowing with the nostrils,” or “breathing,” is signified to be angry (Deuteronomy 4:21; Isaiah 12:1; Psalms 2:12 6:1; 60:3; 79:5; 85:5).

  
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Ezekiel 38

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1 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

2 Son of man, set your face toward Gog, of the land of Magog, the prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal, and prophesy against him,

3 and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against you, Gog, prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal:

4 and I will turn you around, and put hooks into your jaws, and I will bring you forth, with all your army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed in full armor, a great company with buckler and shield, all of them handling swords;

5 Persia, Cush, and Put with them, all of them with shield and helmet;

6 Gomer, and all his hordes; the house of Togarmah in the uttermost parts of the north, and all his hordes; even many peoples with you.

7 Be prepared, yes, prepare yourself, you, and all your companies who are assembled to you, and be a guard to them.

8 After many days you shall be visited: in the latter years you shall come into the land that is brought back from the sword, that is gathered out of many peoples, on the mountains of Israel, which have been a continual waste; but it is brought forth out of the peoples, and they shall dwell securely, all of them.

9 You shall ascend, you shall come like a storm, you shall be like a cloud to cover the land, you, and all your hordes, and many peoples with you.

10 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: It shall happen in that day, that things shall come into your mind, and you shall devise an evil device:

11 and you shall say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to those who are at rest, who dwell securely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates;

12 to take the spoil and to take the prey; to turn your hand against the waste places that are [now] inhabited, and against the people who are gathered out of the nations, who have gotten livestock and goods, who dwell in the middle of the earth.

13 Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions of it, shall tell you, Have you come to take the spoil? have you assembled your company to take the prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away livestock and goods, to take great spoil?

14 Therefore, son of man, prophesy, and tell Gog, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: In that day when my people Israel dwells securely, shall you not know it?

15 You shall come from your place out of the uttermost parts of the north, you, and many peoples with you, all of them riding on horses, a great company and a mighty army;

16 and you shall come up against my people Israel, as a cloud to cover the land: it shall happen in the latter days, that I will bring you against my land, that the nations may know me, when I shall be sanctified in you, Gog, before their eyes.

17 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Are you he of whom I spoke in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, who prophesied in those days for [many] years that I would bring you against them?

18 It shall happen in that day, when Gog shall come against the land of Israel, says the Lord Yahweh, that my wrath shall come up into my nostrils.

19 For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath have I spoken, Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel;

20 so that the fish of the sea, and the birds of the sky, and the animals of the field, and all creeping things who creep on the earth, and all the men who are on the surface of the earth, shall shake at my presence, and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground.

21 I will call for a sword against him to all my mountains, says the Lord Yahweh: every man's sword shall be against his brother.

22 With pestilence and with blood will I enter into judgment with him; and I will rain on him, and on his hordes, and on the many peoples who are with him, an overflowing shower, and great hailstones, fire, and sulfur.

23 I will magnify myself, and sanctify myself, and I will make myself known in the eyes of many nations; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.