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创世记 6

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1 当人在世上多起来又生女儿的时候,

2 儿子见人的女子美貌,就随意挑选,娶来为妻。

3 耶和华:人既属乎血气,我的灵就不永远住在他里面;然而他的日子还可到一二十年。

4 那时候有伟人在上,儿子们和人的女子们交合生子;那就是上古英武有名的人。

5 耶和华见人在上罪恶很大,终日所思想的尽都是恶,

6 耶和华就後悔造人在上,中忧伤。

7 耶和华:我要将所造的人和走,并昆虫,以及空中的飞,都从地上除灭,因为我造他们後悔了。

8 惟有挪亚在耶和华眼前蒙恩。

9 挪亚的後记在下面。挪亚是个,在当时的世代是个完全。挪亚与同行。

10 挪亚生了个儿子,就是、含、雅弗。

11 世界在面前败坏,上满了强暴.。

12 世界,见是败坏了;凡有血气的人在上.都败坏了行为。

13 就对挪亚:凡有血气的人,他的尽头已经到我面前;因为上满了他们的强暴,我要把他们和一并毁灭。

14 你要用歌斐造一只方舟,分一间一间地造,里外抹上松香。

15 方舟的造法乃是这样:要长肘,宽五十肘,三十肘。

16 方舟上边要留透光处,一肘。方舟的要开在旁边。方舟要分上、中、下层。

17 看哪,我要使洪水泛滥在上,毁灭;凡上有血、有气息的活物,无一不死。

18 我却要与你立约;你同你的妻,与儿子儿妇,都要进入方舟。

19 凡有血的活物,每样两个,一公一母,你要进方舟,好在你那里保全生命。

20 各从其类,牲畜各从其类,地上的昆虫各从其类,每样两个,要到你那里,好保全生命。

21 你要拿各样食物积蓄起来,好作你和他们的食物。

22 挪亚就这样行。凡所吩咐的,他都照样行了。

   

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Arcana Coelestia #655

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655. That the “window” which was to be “made perfect to a cubit from above” signifies the intellectual part, anyone may see from what has now been said; and also from the fact that when the construction of the ark is being treated of, and by the “ark” is signified the man of the church, the intellectual part cannot be otherwise compared than to a “window from above.” And so in other parts of the Word: the intellectual part of man, that is, his internal sight, whether it be reason, or mere reasoning, is called a “window.” Thus in Isaiah:

O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest and not comforted, I will make thy suns (windows) of rubies, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy border of pleasant stones (Isaiah 54:11-12).

Here “suns” are put for “windows” from the light that is admitted, or transmitted. The “suns” or “windows” in this passage are intellectual things that come from charity, and therefore they are likened to a “ruby;” the “gates” are rational things thence derived; and the “border” is that which is of knowledge and the senses [scientificum et sensuale]. The Lord’s church is here treated of.

[2] All the windows of the temple at Jerusalem represented the same: the highest of them the intellectual things; the middle, rational things; and the lowest, the things of knowledge and the senses; for there were three stories (1 Kings 6:4, 6, 8). Likewise the windows of the new Jerusalem in Ezekiel 40:16, 22, 25, 33, 36).

In Jeremiah:

Death is come up into our windows, it is entered into our palaces; to cut off the little child from the street, the young men from the streets [vicis] (Jeremiah 9:21).

Windows of the middle story are here meant, which are rational things, it being meant that they are extinguished; the “little child in the street” is truth beginning.

[3] Because “windows” signify things intellectual and rational that are of truth, they signify also reasonings that are of falsity. Thus in the same Prophet:

Woe unto him that buildeth his house in what is not righteousness, and his chambers in what is not judgment; who saith, I will build me a house of measures, and spacious chambers, and he cutteth him out windows, and it is floored with cedar, and painted with vermilion (Jeremiah 22:13-14).

Here “windows” denote principles of falsity.

In Zephaniah:

Droves of beasts shall lie down in the midst of her, every wild animal of his kind [gentis], both the cormorant and the bittern [chippod] shall lodge in the pomegranates thereof; a voice shall sing in the window; wasting shall be upon the threshold (Zephaniah 2:14).

This is said of Asshur and Nineveh; “Asshur” denotes the understanding, here vastated; a “voice singing in the windows” reasonings from phantasies.

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