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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 #904

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904. That 'God spoke to Noah' means the Lord's presence with the member of the Church becomes clear from the internal sense of the Word. The Lord speaks to everybody, for whatever good and truth a person wills and thinks comes from the Lord. With everyone there are at least two evil spirits and two angels. The former activate his evils whereas the latter instill goods and truths. Every good or truth that angels instill is the Lord's; in this way the Lord is constantly speaking to man, though quite differently from one person to the next. To people who allow themselves to be carried away by evil spirits the Lord speaks as though He were not present, or so far away that He can hardly be said to be speaking. But to those who are being led by the Lord, the Lord speaks as one who is quite present. This becomes clear enough from the fact that nobody can possibly think of anything good and true except from the Lord.

[2] The Lord's presence is relative to the state of love towards the neighbour and of faith present in a person. It is in love towards the neighbour that the Lord is present, for He is present in all good, and not so much in so-called faith that is devoid of love. Faith devoid of love and charity is something severed or disjoined. Wherever conjunction exists there has to be a conjoining agency, which is exclusively love and charity. This may become clear to anyone from the fact that the Lord has compassion on everybody, loves everyone, and wishes to make everyone eternally happy. A person therefore who is devoid of the kind of love that leads him to have compassion on others, to love them, and to wish to make them happy, cannot be joined to the Lord because he is not at all like Him, and is in no sense the image of Him. Looking to the Lord by means of that which goes by the name of faith while hating the neighbour amounts not only to standing a long way off, but also to having between himself and the Lord a hell-like chasm into which the person would fall if he wished to go any nearer. For it is hatred towards the neighbour that constitutes that intervening hell-like chasm.

[3] The Lord is present with a person the moment he starts to love the neighbour. It is in love that the Lord is present, and to the extent that a person has love the Lord is present. And to the extent that the Lord is present He speaks to man. No one knows anything other than that he thinks from himself. Yet he possesses not one single idea of thought, not even the shred of an idea, from himself. Rather that which is evil and false he possesses through evil spirits from hell, and that which is good and true through angels from the Lord. Such is influx, the channel by which a person's life comes and by which consequently his soul interacts with the body. All these considerations make clear what 'God spoke to Noah' means. 'Saying to someone' means one thing, as in Genesis 1:29; 3:13-14, 17; 4:6, 9, 15; 6:13; 7:1, while 'speaking to someone' means another. Here speaking to Noah' means His being present, for the subject now is the regenerate person, who has had charity conferred on him.

  
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