736. As for Noah, or the member of this new Church, he was such that he believed with simplicity those things which he had come to possess from the Most Ancient Church. These were items of doctrine that had been gathered together and converted into a kind of doctrinal form by those called Enoch. The disposition of the people meant by Noah however was entirely different from those before the Flood who perished, called the Nephilim. For they immersed doctrinal matters concerning faith in their own filthy desires and in this way strove after dreadful persuasions from which they were unwilling to draw back even though they were taught by others and were shown that these were falsities. This dual genius or disposition also exists among people today. The former can be regenerated easily, but the latter with difficulty.

In Exodus 18:22, this signifies corruption from falsities. (Arcana Coelestia 7109)

In Jeremiah 17:24, this signifies not to admit what is of the selfhood, but to he led by the Lord. (Apocalypse Explained 208[7])

In Matthew 11:30, this signifies that the regenerated man is led by the Lord through delights, not by domination. (Arcana Coelestia 905)

(References: Apocalypse Explained 208; Jeremiah 17:4)