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1 Ito nga ang sali't saling lahi ng mga anak ni Noe: si Sem, si Cham, at si Japhet: at sila'y nangagkaanak pagkaraan ng bahang gumunaw.

2 Ang mga anak ni Japhet; si Gomer, at si Magog, at si Madai, at si Javan, at si Tubal, at si Meshech, at si Tiras.

3 At ang mga anak ni Gomer: si Azkenaz, at si Rifat, at si Togarma.

4 At ang mga anak ni Javan; si Elisa, at si Tarsis, si Cittim, at si Dodanim.

5 Sa mga ito nangabahagi ang mga pulo ng mga bansa, sa kanilang mga lupain, na bawa't isa'y ayon sa kanikaniyang wika; ayon sa kanikanilang angkan, sa kanikanilang bansa.

6 At ang mga anak ni Cham; si Cush, at si Mizraim, at si Phut, at si Canaan.

7 At ang mga anak ni Cush; si Seba, at si Havila, at si Sabta, at si Raama, at si Sabtech: at ang mga anak ni Raama; si Sheba, at si Dedan.

8 At naging anak ni Cush si Nimrod: siyang napasimulang maging makapangyarihan sa lupa.

9 Siya'y makapangyarihang mangangaso sa harap ng Panginoon kaya't karaniwang sabihin: Gaya ni Nimrod, na makapangyarihang mangangaso sa harap ng Panginoon.

10 At ang pinagsimulan ng kaniyang kaharian ay ang Babel, at ang Erech, at ang Accad, at ang Calneh, sa lupain ng Shinar.

11 Buhat sa lupaing yaon ay napasa Asiria at itinayo ang Ninive, at ang Rehobotir, at ang Calah,

12 At ang Ressen, sa pagitan ng Ninive at ng Calah (na siyang malaking bayan).

13 At naging anak ni Mizraim si Ludim, at si Anamim, at si Lehabim, at si Naphtuhim.

14 At si Pathrusim, at si Casluim (na siyang pinagbuhatan ng mga Filisteo), at ang Caphtorim.

15 At naging anak ni Canaan si Sidon, na kaniyang panganay, at si Heth.

16 At ang Jebuseo, at ang Amorrheo, at ang Gergeseo;

17 At ang Heveo, at ang Araceo, at ang Sineo.

18 At ang Aradio, at ang Samareo at ang Amatheo: at pagkatapos ay kumalat ang mga angkan ng Cananeo.

19 At ang hangganan ng Cananeo ay mula sa Sidon, kung patungo sa Gerar, hanggang sa Gaza; kung patungo sa Sodoma at Gomorra, at Adma, at Zeboim hanggang Lasa.

20 Ito ang mga anak ni Cham, ayon sa kanikanilang angkan, ayon sa kanikanilang wika, sa kanikanilang mga lupain, sa kanilang mga bansa.

21 At nagkaroon din naman ng mga anak si Sem, na ama ng lahat ng mga anak ni Heber, na siya ring lalong matandang kapatid ni Japhet.

22 Ang mga anak ni Sem; si Elam, at si Assur, at si Arphaxad, at si Lud, at si Aram.

23 At ang mga anak ni Aram: si Uz, at si Hul, at si Gether, at si Mas.

24 At naging anak ni Arphaxad si Sala; at naging anak ni Sala si Heber.

25 At nagkaanak si Heber ng dalawang lalake; ang pangalan ng una'y Peleg; sapagka't sa mga araw niya'y nahati ang lupa; at ang pangalan ng kaniyang kapatid ay Joctan.

26 At naging anak ni Joctan si Almodad, at si Sheleph, at si Hazarmavet, at si Jerah;

27 At si Hadoram, at si Uzal, at si Dicla.

28 At si Obal, at si Abimael, at si Sheba.

29 At si Ophir, at si Havila, at si Jobad: lahat ng ito ay mga naging anak ni Joctan.

30 At ang naging tahanan nila ay mula sa Mesa, kung patungo sa Sephar, na siyang bundok sa silanganan.

31 Ito ang mga anak ni Sem, ayon sa kanikanilang angkan, ayon sa kanikanilang wika, sa kanikanilang lupain, ayon sa kanikanilang bansa.

32 Ito ang mga angkan ng mga anak ni Noe, ayon sa kanikanilang lahi, sa kanikanilang bansa: at sa mga ito nangabahagi ang mga bansa pagkatapos ng bahang gumunaw.

   

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Ezekiel 27:20

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20 Naging iyong mangangalakal ang Dedan sa mga mahalagang kayo na ukol sa pangangabayo.

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Arcana Coelestia #4156

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4156. 'And put them in the camel's straw' means in facts. This is clear from the meaning of 'the camel's straw' as facts, 3114. These are called straw not only because straw is the food for camels but also because facts, compared with rational ideas, are coarse and lacking in order. For the same reason too facts are meant by 'the entangled boughs of trees and of the wood', 2831. Also 'camels' means general facts that belong to the natural man, see 3048, 3071, 3143, 3145.

[2] As to the assertion that facts, compared with rational ideas, are coarse and lacking in order and for that reason are meant by 'straw' and also by 'entangled boughs', as has been stated, this idea is not open to those who rely solely on facts and are on that account reputed to be learned. They believe that the amount a person knows, that is, how much knowledge he possesses, determines how wise he is. But the situation is quite different, as has been made clear to me from those in the next life who, when they lived in the world, relied solely on facts and as a result acquired a name and reputation for being learned. Such people are sometimes far more stupid than those who have not possessed any skill in the use of factual knowledge. The reason for that stupidity has also been disclosed to me, which is this: Facts are indeed a means towards becoming wise, but they can also be a means towards becoming insane. For people who are leading a good life facts are a means to becoming wise, but for those leading an evil life they are a means to becoming insane since they use facts to support not only a life of evil but also false assumptions, which they do arrogantly and convincingly because they believe that they are wiser than others.

[3] This leads to the destruction of their rational. It is not the person who is able to reason from facts, doing so sometimes in a seemingly more masterly way than others, who is endowed with rationality. This skill which he possesses is the product of a wholly illusory light. But that person has the proper gift of rationality who is able to see clearly that good is good and truth is truth, and as a consequence that evil is evil and falsity is falsity. But anyone who looks on good as evil and on evil as good, and who also looks on truth as falsity and falsity as truth, cannot in any sense be called rational, but rather irrational, no matter how capable he is at reasoning. With the person who sees clearly that good is good and that truth is truth, and conversely that evil is evil and falsity is falsity, there is light flowing in from heaven and enlightening the area of his understanding and causing reasons which he sees with the understanding to be just so many rays of that light. The same light also gives light to facts so that they serve to support those reasons, besides imposing order and the heavenly form on such facts. People however who stand opposed to good and truth, as all do who are leading an evil life, do not allow that heavenly light in. Instead they take delight solely in their own illusory light, whose nature is such that one sees things rather like a person in the dark who sees streaks on a wall, and is deluded into making all kinds of shapes out of them, when yet they are not shapes, for as daylight falls on them they are seen to be merely streaks.

[4] From all this it may be seen that facts are a means to becoming wise and also a means to becoming insane; that is, that they are a means to perfecting the rational or else a means to destroying it. Those therefore who have destroyed the rational by means of facts are in the next life far more stupid than those who have not possessed any skill in the use of factual knowledge. The coarseness of facts compared with rational ideas is evident from the consideration that they belong to the natural or external man, and that the rational which is cultivated by means of them belongs to the spiritual or internal man. How far facts are different from and distant from the rational as regards purity can be known from what has been stated and shown about the two memories in 2469-2494.

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.