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1 Ali zmija beše lukava mimo sve zveri poljske, koje stvori Gospod Bog; pa reče ženi: Je li istina da je Bog kazao da ne jedete sa svakog drveta u vrtu?

2 A žena reče zmiji: Mi jedemo rod sa svakog drveta u vrtu;

3 Samo rod s onog drveta usred vrta, kazao je Bog, ne jedite i ne dirajte u nj, da ne umrete.

4 A zmija reče ženi: Nećete vi umreti;

5 Nego zna Bog da će vam se u onaj dan kad okusite s njega otvoriti oči, pa ćete postati kao bogovi i znati šta je dobro šta li zlo.

6 I žena videći da je rod na drvetu dobar za jelo i da ga je milina gledati i da je drvo vrlo drago radi znanja, uzabra rod s njega i okusi, pa dade i mužu svom, te i on okusi.

7 Tada im se otvoriše oči, i videše da su goli; pa spletoše lišća smokovog i načiniše sebi pregače.

8 I začuše glas Gospoda Boga, koji iđaše po vrtu kad zahladi; i sakri se Adam i žena mu ispred Gospoda Boga među drveta u vrtu.

9 A Gospod Bog viknu Adama i reče mu: Gde si?

10 A on reče: Čuh glas Tvoj u vrtu, pa se poplaših, jer sam go, te se sakrih.

11 A Bog reče: Ko ti kaza da si go? Da nisi jeo s onog drveta što sam ti zabranio da ne jedeš s njega?

12 A Adam reče: Žena koju si udružio sa mnom, ona mi dade s drveta, te jedoh.

13 A Gospod Bog reče ženi: Zašto si to učinila? A žena odgovori: Zmija me prevari, te jedoh.

14 Tada reče Gospod Bog zmiji: Kad si to učinila, da si prokleta mimo svako živinče i mimo sve zveri poljske; na trbuhu da se vučeš i prah da jedeš do svog veka.

15 I još mećem neprijateljstvo između tebe i žene i između semena tvog i semena njenog; ono će ti na glavu stajati a ti ćeš ga u petu ujedati.

16 A ženi reče: Tebi ću mnoge muke zadati kad zatrudniš, s mukama ćeš decu rađati, i volja će tvoja stajati pod vlašću muža tvog, i on će ti biti gospodar.

17 Pa onda reče Adamu: Što si poslušao ženu i okusio s drveta s kog sam ti zabranio rekavši da ne jedeš s njega, zemlja da je prokleta s tebe, s mukom ćeš se od nje hraniti do svog veka;

18 Trnje i korov će ti rađati, a ti ćeš jesti zelje poljsko;

19 Sa znojem lica svog ješćeš hleb, dokle se ne vratiš u zemlju od koje si uzet; jer si prah, i u prah ćeš se vratiti.

20 I Adam nadede ženi svojoj ime Jeva, zato što je ona mati svima živima.

21 I načini Gospod Bog Adamu i ženi njegovoj haljine od kože, i obuče ih u njih.

22 I reče Gospod Bog: Eto, čovek posta kao jedan od nas znajući šta je dobro šta li zlo; ali sada da ne pruži ruku svoju i uzbere i s drveta od života, i okusi, te do veka živi.

23 I Gospod Bog izagna ga iz vrta edemskog da radi zemlju, od koje bi uzet;

24 I izagnav čoveka postavi pred vrtom edemskim heruvima s plamenim mačem, koji se vijaše i tamo i amo, da čuva put ka drvetu od života.

   

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Arcana Coelestia #303

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303. Man makes a life for himself out of all his convictions, that is, out of what he acknowledges and believes. The things of which he is not convinced, that is, which he does not acknowledge and believe, have no influence at all on his mind. Consequently nobody is capable of profaning holy things except him who has been convinced of them and so acknowledges them and yet denies them. People who do not acknowledge are capable of knowing, but they are in the same position as those who do not know. They are like people who know things which are nothing at all. Of such a nature were the Jews around the time of the Lord's Coming. And when people are such they are in the Word called 'vastated', that is, faith no longer exists. That being so, no harm is done if the inner contents of the Word are disclosed to them, for they are in that case like the people who seeing do not see, and like the people who hearing do not hear and who have a heart made fat, to whom the Lord referred through Isaiah,

Go and say to this people, Hearing hear, but do not understand; and seeing see, but do not comprehend. Make the heart of this people fat and their ears heavy, and plaster over their eyes, lest they see with their eyes and hear with their ears, and their heart understands, and they turn again to be healed. Isaiah 6:9-10.

[2] Furthermore mysteries of faith are not disclosed until people reach this point, that is to say, have been so vastated that they no longer believe, the purpose of the vastation being, as has been stated, to make them incapable of profaning. This too the Lord states plainly in Isaiah in the verses immediately following those quoted above,

I said, How long, O Lord? And He said, Until cities are made so desolate that they have no inhabitant, and houses have no man; and the land will be made utterly desolate, and Jehovah will remove man far away. Isaiah 6:11-12.

'Man' refers to the person who is wise, that is, who acknowledges and believes. Such was the condition of the Jews, as has been stated, around the time of the Lord's Coming. And they are for the same reason still kept by means of their desires, in particular by their avarice, in such a state of vastation that if they heard a thousand times over about the Lord and heard that in every detail the representatives of the Church with them mean the Lord, they would still acknowledge and believe nothing. This then was the reason why the people before the Flood were expelled from the garden of Eden and were vastated, even to the point of their being incapable of acknowledging anything that was true.

  
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