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Gênesis 5

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1 Este é o livro das gerações de Adão. No dia em que Deus criou o homem, à semelhança de Deus o fez.

2 Homem e mulher os criou; e os abençoou, e os chamou pelo nome de homem, no dia em que foram criados.

3 Adão viveu cento e trinta anos, e gerou um filho à sua semelhança, conforme a sua imagem, e pôs-lhe o nome de Sete.

4 E foram os dias de Adão, depois que gerou a Sete, oitocentos anos; e gerou filhos e filhas.

5 Todos os dias que Adão viveu foram novecentos e trinta anos; e morreu.

6 Sete viveu cento e cinco anos, e gerou a Enos.

7 Viveu Sete, depois que gerou a Enos, oitocentos e Sete anos; e gerou filhos e filhas.

8 Todos os dias de Sete foram novecentos e doze anos; e morreu.

9 Enos viveu noventa anos, e gerou a Quenã.

10 viveu Enos, depois que gerou a Quenã, oitocentos e quinze anos; e gerou filhos e filhas.

11 Todos os dias de Enos foram novecentos e cinco anos; e morreu.

12 Quenã viveu setenta anos, e gerou a Maalalel.

13 Viveu Quenã, depois que gerou a Maalalel, oitocentos e quarenta anos, e gerou filhos e filhas.

14 Todos os dias de Quenã foram novecentos e dez anos; e morreu.

15 Maalalel viveu sessenta e cinco anos, e gerou a Jarede.

16 Viveu Maalalel, depois que gerou a Jarede, oitocentos e trinta anos; e gerou filhos e filhas.

17 Todos os dias de Maalalel foram oitocentos e noventa e cinco anos; e morreu.

18 Jarede viveu cento e sessenta e dois anos, e gerou a Enoque.

19 Viveu Jarede, depois que gerou a Enoque, oitocentos anos; e gerou filhos e filhas.

20 Todos os dias de Jarede foram novecentos e sessenta e dois anos; e morreu.

21 Enoque viveu sessenta e cinco anos, e gerou a Matusalém.

22 Andou Enoque com Deus, depois que gerou a Matusalém, trezentos anos; e gerou filhos e filhas.

23 Todos os dias de Enoque foram trezentos e sessenta e cinco anos;

24 Enoque andou com Deus; e não apareceu mais, porquanto Deus o tomou.

25 Matusalém viveu cento e oitenta e sete anos, e gerou a Lameque.

26 Viveu Matusalém, depois que gerou a Lameque, setecentos e oitenta e dois anos; e gerou filhos e filhas.

27 Todos os dias de Matusalém foram novecentos e sessenta e nove anos; e morreu.

28 Lameque viveu cento e oitenta e dois anos, e gerou um filho,

29 a quem chamou Noé, dizendo: Este nos consolará acerca de nossas obras e do trabalho de nossas mãos, os quais provêm da terra que o Senhor amaldiçoou.

30 Viveu Lameque, depois que gerou a Noé, quinhentos e noventa e cinco anos; e gerou filhos e filhas.

31 Todos os dias de Lameque foram setecentos e setenta e sete anos; e morreu.

32 E era Noé da idade de quinhentos anos; e gerou Noé a Sem, Cão e Jafé.

   

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Apocalypse Explained #728

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728. And her child was caught up unto God and His throne.- That this signifies the protection of the doctrine by the Lord, because it is for the New Church, is evident from the signification of the child or male child, which was brought forth by the woman who was encompassed with the sun, under whose feet was the moon, and on whose head was a crown of twelve stars, as denoting doctrine from the Word, and in fact the doctrine of truth, that is, the doctrine of love to the Lord and of charity towards the neighbour, and lastly of faith; and from the signification of being caught up unto God and His throne, as denoting protection by the Lord from the dragon, that stood before the woman who was about to bring forth, with the intention and desire of devouring that which should be brought forth. Such protection by the Lord against those who are meant by the dragon is signified here by these words. And as that doctrine is to be the doctrine of the church which is called the New Jerusalem, therefore it is said to be protected because it is for the New Church. It is said, "Caught up unto God and His throne," God meaning the Lord, and His throne heaven; it is caught up unto the Lord and to heaven, because that doctrine is from the Lord, and heaven is in that doctrine.

[2] An expression is also used of Enoch, the son of Jared, similar to that applied here to the child born of the woman, which it is said "was caught up unto God," but in these words "Enoch walked with God, and was no more, because God took him" (Genesis 5:24). Who are meant by this Enoch, and what Enoch signifies has been disclosed to me from heaven, namely, that they were those of the Most Ancient Church who collected together the representatives and correspondences of natural things with spiritual. For the men of the Most Ancient Church had a spiritual understanding and perception of all things which they saw with their eyes, and thus from the objects in the world they clearly perceived the spiritual things to which they corresponded. And because the Lord foresaw that this spiritual perception would perish with their posterity, and with this perception also the knowledge of correspondences, through which the human race has conjunction with heaven, therefore the Lord provided that some of those who lived among the most ancient people should make a compilation of correspondences and reduce them to book form (in codicem conferrent); these are meant by Enoch, and it is this book that is here signified. Because this book was to furnish the coming churches, to be established by the Lord after the deluge, with a knowledge (scientia) and cognition of what is spiritual in natural things, therefore it was preserved by the Lord for their use, and also guarded lest the final posterity of the Most Ancient Church, who were evil, should do injury to it. This therefore is the signification, in the spiritual sense, of Enoch being no more, because God took him. From these things it is evident what is signified by the child of the woman being caught up unto God and His throne.

  
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Translation by Isaiah Tansley. Many thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.