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创世记 2

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1 万物都造齐了。

2 第七日,造物的工已经完毕,就在第七日歇了他一切的工,安息了。

3 赐福给第七日,定为日;因为在这日,歇了他一切创造的工,就安息了。

4 创造的来历,在耶和华的日子,乃是这样,

5 还没有木,田间的菜蔬还没有长起来;因为耶和华还没有降上,也没有人耕

6 但有雾气从上腾,滋润遍

7 耶和华用地上的尘土造人,将生气吹在他鼻孔里,他就成了有灵的活人,名叫亚当。

8 耶和华在东方的伊甸立了一个园子,把所造的人安置在那里。

9 耶和华使各样的从地里长出来,可以悦人的眼目,其上的果子作食物。园子当中又有生命和分别善恶的

10 从伊甸流出来,滋润那园子,从那里分为道:

11 道名叫比逊,就是环绕哈腓拉全的。在那里有子,

12 并且那子是的;在那里又有珍珠和红玛瑙。

13 第二道名叫基训,就是环绕古实全的。

14 第三名叫底格里斯,流在亚述的东边。第四就是伯拉

15 耶和华将那人安置在伊甸园,使他修理,看守。

16 耶和华吩咐他说:园中各样上的果子,你可以随意

17 只是分别善恶上的果子,你不可,因为你的日子必定

18 耶和华:那人独居不,我要为他造一个配偶帮助他。

19 耶和华用土所造成的野地各样走兽和空中各样飞到那人面前,甚麽。那人怎样各样的活物,那就是他的名字

20 那人便给一切牲畜和空中飞、野地走都起了名;只是那人没有遇见配偶帮助他。

21 耶和华使他沉睡,他就睡了;於是取下他的肋骨,又把合起来。

22 耶和华就用那人身上所取的肋骨造成一个女人,领他到那人跟前。

23 :这是我中的中的,可以称他为女人,因为他是从男人身上取出来的。

24 因此,要离开父母,与妻子连合,二成为体。

25 当时夫妻人赤身露体,并不羞耻。

   

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Arcana Coelestia #85

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85. That the celestial man is the seventh day, and that the seventh day was for that reason made holy and called the Sabbath from a word for 'rest', are as yet undisclosed arcana. This is because people have not known what the celestial man is, and few what the spiritual man is. In their ignorance they could not avoid making the latter the same as the celestial, when in fact there is a vast difference between them; see 81. As regards the seventh day and the celestial man's being the seventh day or Sabbath, this is clear from the fact that the Lord Himself is the Sabbath, for which reason He also says,

The Son of Man is Lord also of the Sabbath. Mark 2:28.

These words embody the concept that the Lord is Man himself, and the Sabbath itself. He gives the name Sabbath, or eternal peace and rest, to His kingdom in heaven and on earth. The Most Ancient Church, which is the subject here, was the Lord's Sabbath more than any subsequent Church.

[2] Every subsequent inmost Church has been a Sabbath of the Lord, and so is every regenerate person when he becomes celestial, since he is a likeness of the Lord. Six days of conflict or labour precede this. In the Jewish Church these things were represented by the work days, and by the seventh which was the Sabbath; for in that Church, everything that had been ordained was representative of the Lord and His kingdom. The Ark too had a similar representation when it was travelling and when it came to rest. Its travels through the wilderness represented conflicts and temptations, and its resting represented states of peace. This is why when it travelled Moses said,

Arise, O Jehovah, and let Your enemies be scattered, and let those who hate You flee from Your face. 1 And when it came to rest he said, Return, O Jehovah, to the myriads of the thousands of Israel. Numbers 10:35-36.

The same portion of Scripture speaks of the Ark 'travelling from the mountain of Jehovah to search out rest for them'. ibid. Verse 33.

[3] The Sabbath is used to describe the celestial man's rest in Isaiah,

If you turn back your foot from the Sabbath, so that you do not your desire on My holy day, and you call the things which belong to the Sabbath delights honourable to the Holiness of Jehovah, and you honour it so that you do not your own ways, nor find your own desire and speak your own words, then you will be delightful to Jehovah, and I will have you carried over the high places of the earth, and I will feed you with the heritage of Jacob. Isaiah 58:13-14.

The celestial man is such that he does not base his actions on his own desires but on what pleases the Lord; this is his desire. In this way he enjoys inward peace and happiness, here expressed by 'being carried up over the high places of the earth'. At the same time he enjoys outward contentment and joy, meant by 'being fed with the heritage of Jacob'.

Footnotes:

1. literally, faces

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