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1 여호와께서 노아에게 이르시되 너와 네 온 집은 방주로 들어가라 네가 이 세대에 내 앞에서 의로움을 내가 보았음이니라 !

2 너는 모든 정결한 짐승은 암수 일곱씩 부정한 것은 암수 둘씩을 네게로 취하며

3 공중의 새도 암수 일곱씩을 취하여 그 씨를 온 지면에 유전케하라

4 지금부터 칠일이면 내가 사십 주야를 땅에 비를 내려 나의 지은 모든 생물을 지면에서 쓸어 버리리라

5 노아가 여호와께서 자기에게 명하신 대로 다 준행하였더라 !

6 홍수가 땅에 있을 때에 노아가 육백세라

7 노아가 아들들과 아내와 자부들과 함께 홍수를 피하여 방주에 들어갔고

8 정결한 짐승과 부정한 짐승과 새와 땅에 기는 모든 것이

9 하나님이 노아에게 명하신 대로 암수 둘씩 노아에게 나아와 방주로 들어갔더니

10 칠일 후에 홍수가 땅에 덮이니

11 노아 육백세 되던 해 이월 곧 그 달 십 칠일이라 그날에 큰 깊음의 샘들이 터지며 하늘의 창들이 열려

12 사십 주야를 비가 땅에 쏟아졌더라

13 곧 그 날에 노아와 그의 아들 셈, 함, 야벳과 노아의 처와 세 자부가 다 방주로 들어갔고

14 그들과 모든 들짐승이 그 종류대로, 모든 육축이 그 종류대로, 땅에 기는 모든 것이 그 종류대로, 모든 새 곧 각양의 새가 그 종류대로

15 무릇 기식이 있는 육체가 둘씩 노아에게 나아와 방주로 들어갔으니

16 들어간 것들은 모든 것의 암,수라 하나님이 그에게 명하신대로 들어가매 여호와께서 그를 닫아 넣으시니라

17 홍수가 땅에 사십일을 있었는지라 물이 많아져 방주가 땅에서 올랐고

18 물이 더 많아져 땅에 창일하매 방주가 물 위에 떠 다녔으며

19 물이 땅에 더욱 창일하매 천하에 높은 산이 다 덮였더니

20 물이 불어서 십오 규빗이 오르매 산들이 덮인지라

21 땅위에 움직이는 생물이 다 죽었으니 곧 새와 육축과 들짐승과 땅에 기는 모든 것과 모든 사람이라

22 육지에 있어 코로 생물의 기식을 호흡하는 것은 다 죽었더라

23 지면의 모든 생물을 쓸어버리시니 곧 사람과 짐승과 기는 것과 공중의 새까지라 이들은 땅에서 쓸어버림을 당하였으되 홀로 노아와 그와 함께 방주에 있던 자만 남았더라

24 물이 일백 오십일을 땅에 창일하였더라

   

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Arcana Coelestia #661

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661. 'To destroy all flesh in which there is the spirit of life 1 [from] under the heavens' means that all the descendants of the Most Ancient Church would destroy themselves. This is clear from what has just been stated and also from the description of them given already to the effect that step by step they obtained by heredity from their forefathers a mental constitution that resulted in their being steeped more than anybody else in most dreadful persuasions. This came about chiefly because they plunged into their desires the doctrinal matters concerning faith which they had in their possession; and in so doing became such. The situation has been utterly different with people who have no doctrinal matters concerning faith in their possession and who live altogether in ignorance. They are incapable of doing the same, and so are incapable of profaning holy things, and in so doing of closing off the road for remnants. Consequently they are not capable of driving the Lord's angels away from themselves.

[2] As has been stated, remnants are all things of innocence, all those of charity, all those of mercy, and all those of the truth of faith, which a person has acquired from the Lord and learned since early childhood. Every single one of them lies stored away. And if a person did not acquire them, no innocence, charity, or mercy could possibly be present in his thinking and actions, and so no good and truth at all could be present. He would then be worse than any fierce monster, as he would also be if he did possess remnants of such things and yet so blocked their path with filthy desires and dreadful false persuasions that they could not do their work. Such was the nature of the people before the Flood who destroyed themselves and who are meant by 'all flesh in which there is the spirit of life 1 [from] under the heavens'. As shown already, 'flesh' means the whole of mankind in general and the bodily-minded man in particular. 'The spirit of life 1 ' means all life in general, but in a strict sense it was the life in people who had been regenerated. Here therefore the final descendants of the Most Ancient Church are meant. They are here called 'the spirit of life 1 ' or, as in Chapter 7:22 below, 'in whose nostrils is the breath of the spirit of life 1 ' because although no life of faith remained with them they nevertheless derived from their forefathers something of that Church's seed, which they stifled. 'Flesh under the heavens' means that which is merely bodily, 'the heavens' being things constituting man's understanding of truth and his will for good. When these have been separated from what is bodily, a person can stay alive no longer. That which sustains him is his conjunction with heaven, that is, with the Lord by way of heaven.

Footnotes:

1. literally, of lives.

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