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创世记 9

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1 赐福给挪亚和他的儿子,对他们:你们要生养众多,遍满了

2 上的走兽和空中的飞都必惊恐,惧怕你们,连上一切的昆虫并里一切的鱼都交付你们的

3 凡活着的动物都可以作你们的食物。这一切我都赐你们,如同菜蔬一样。

4 惟独带着血,那就是他的生命,你们不可

5 流你们血、害你们命的,无论是兽是,我必讨他的罪,就是向各的弟兄也是如此。

6 凡流人血的,他的血也必被人所流,因为造人是照自己的形像造的。

7 你们要生养众多,在上昌盛繁茂。

8 晓谕挪亚和他的儿子

9 我与你们和你们的裔立约,

10 并与你们这里的一切活物─就是飞牲畜、走,凡从方舟里出来的活物─立约。

11 我与你们立约,凡有血的,不再被洪水灭绝,也不再有洪水毁坏了。

12 :我与你们并你们这里的各样活物所立的永约是有记号的。

13 我把虹放在彩中,这就可作我与立约的记号了。

14 我使彩盖的时候,必有虹现在彩中,

15 我便记念我与你们和各样有血的活物所立的约,水就再不泛滥、毁坏一切有血的物了。

16 虹必现在彩中,我见,就要记念我与上各样有血的活物所立的永约。

17 对挪亚:这就是我与上一切有血之物立约的记号了。

18 出方舟挪亚的儿子就是、含、雅弗。含是迦南父亲

19 这是挪亚的个儿子,他们的後裔分散在全

20 挪亚作起农夫来,栽了一个葡萄园

21 了园中的酒便了,在帐棚里赤着身子。

22 迦南父亲见他父亲赤身,就到外边告诉他两个弟兄。

23 於是和雅弗拿件衣服搭在肩上,倒退着进去,给他父亲盖上;他们背着脸就不见父亲的赤身。

24 挪亚醒了酒,知道儿子向他所作的事,

25 迦南当受咒诅,必给他弟兄作奴仆的奴仆;

26 耶和华是应当称颂的!愿迦南的奴仆。

27 使雅弗扩张,使他住在的帐棚里;又愿迦南作他的奴仆。

28 洪水以,挪亚又活了五十年。

29 挪亚共活了五十岁就死了

   

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Arcana Coelestia #1063

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1063. 'Ham was the father of Canaan' means that from the corrupted Church arose worship in external things devoid of internal, which worship is meant by Canaan. This similarly is clear from what follows, for the content of this verse is introductory to what follows. That Ham means the corrupted Church, that is, people who make faith separated from charity the chief thing of religion, is clear in David,

He smote all the firstborn in Egypt, the beginning of strength in the tents of Ham. Psalms 78:51.

'The firstborn of Egypt' represented faith devoid of charity. That faith is called 'the firstborn of Egypt', see what has appeared already in 352, 367; and that faith is consequently called 'the beginning of strength', as it is here in David, see Genesis 49:3, which refers to Reuben, who, being Jacob's firstborn, represented faith and is called 'the beginning of strength'. 'The tents of Ham' is worship arising out of such faith. That 'tents' means worship, see what has appeared already in 414. Egypt is for this reason called 'the land of Ham' in Psalms 105:23, 27; 106:22.

[2] Because such people, who in the Ancient Church were called 'Ham', led lives that consisted of every evil desire, and merely babbled on about their being able to be saved by faith no matter how they lived, the ancients saw them as having, from the heat of evil desires, a black appearance; hence they were called Ham 1 '. The reason Ham is called 'the father of Canaan' is that such people do not care at all how a person lives, provided he attends religious services, for they still have the desire for worship of some kind. External worship is the only worship for them. Internal worship, which belongs solely to charity, they reject; which is why Ham is called 'the father of Canaan'.

Footnotes:

1. The Hebrew adjective ham means hot.

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