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創世記 2

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1 萬物都造齊了。

2 第七日,造物的工已經完畢,就在第七日歇了他一切的工,安息了。

3 賜福給第七日,定為日;因為在這日,歇了他一切創造的工,就安息了。

4 創造的來歷,在耶和華的日子,乃是這樣,

5 還沒有木,田間的菜蔬還沒有長起來;因為耶和華還沒有降上,也沒有人耕

6 但有霧氣從上騰,滋潤遍

7 耶和華用地上的塵土造人,將生氣吹在他鼻孔裡,他就成了有靈的活人,名叫亞當。

8 耶和華在東方的伊甸立了一個園子,把所造的人安置在那裡。

9 耶和華使各樣的從地裡長出來,可以悅人的眼目,其上的果子作食物。園子當中又有生命和分別善惡的

10 從伊甸流出來,滋潤那園子,從那裡分為道:

11 道名叫比遜,就是環繞哈腓拉全的。在那裡有子,

12 並且那子是的;在那裡又有珍珠和紅瑪瑙。

13 第二道名叫基訓,就是環繞古實全的。

14 第三名叫底格里斯,流在亞述的東邊。第四就是伯拉

15 耶和華將那人安置在伊甸園,使他修理,看守。

16 耶和華吩咐他說:園中各樣上的果子,你可以隨意

17 只是分別善惡上的果子,你不可,因為你的日子必定

18 耶和華:那人獨居不,我要為他造一個配偶幫助他。

19 耶和華用土所造成的野地各樣走獸和空中各樣飛到那人面前,甚麼。那人怎樣各樣的活物,那就是他的名字

20 那人便給一切牲畜和空中飛、野地走都起了名;只是那人沒有遇見配偶幫助他。

21 耶和華使他沉睡,他就睡了;於是取下他的肋骨,又把合起來。

22 耶和華就用那人身上所取的肋骨造成一個女人,領他到那人跟前。

23 :這是我中的中的,可以稱他為女人,因為他是從男人身上取出來的。

24 因此,要離開父母,與妻子連合,二成為體。

25 當時夫妻人赤身露體,並不羞恥。

   

From Swedenborg's Works

 

Marriage #66

  
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66. Truly conjugial love is naked

It is the angels of the third heaven who above all are in the heavenly marriage, for they are in love to the Lord, and consequently in the marriage of good and truth. For this reason they are more than other angels in conjugial love, innocence, and chastity. They walk about out of doors with a girdle about their loins, but go without the girdle at home. Yet in their nakedness they see their wives as wives without any lasciviousness. They said that seeing their wives clothed takes away the idea of marriage. What is remarkable, nakedness does not excite or fire them, yet there is a kind of external bond of conjugial love. They lie together in bed as they were created, and sleep like that. They say they could not do otherwise, because conjugial love itself which is perpetual brings them together; and thus the life of one communicates with the life of the other, and the wife makes the husband's life her own. So it is as we read of Adam when he saw Eve his wife: 'Behold my bone and my flesh'; as also that they were naked and not ashamed, that is, there was no lasciviousness. But as soon as through his wife Adam departed from love to the Lord, which is meant by the tree of life in the garden (on which see there and on Revelation 2:7, which happened through acting of themselves and from their proprium, that is, from the knowledge and pleasure of the natural man, then the marriage of good and truth was destroyed; hence nakedness became lascivious when the chastity of marriage ceased; and that is why they were ashamed of their nakedness and dressed themselves in fig-leaves, and afterwards in sheepskins. Hence nakedness in the Word is understood as standing for lasciviousness such as that of adultery as...[Revelation 3:18, 16:15] 1

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1. The sentence is left unfinished.

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