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Génesis 9

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1 Y bendijo Dios a Noé y a sus hijos, y les dijo: Fructificad, y multiplicaos, y llenad la tierra;

2 y vuestro temor y vuestro pavor será sobre todo animal de la tierra, y sobre toda ave de los cielos, en todo lo que se moverá en la tierra, y en todos los peces del mar; en vuestra mano son entregados.

3 Todo lo que se mueve, que es vivo, os será para mantenimiento; así como la verdura de hierba, os lo he dado todo.

4 Pero la carne con su alma (o vida ), que es su sangre, no comeréis.

5 Porque ciertamente vuestra sangre que es vuestra alma, yo la demandaré; de mano de todo animal la demandaré, y de mano del hombre; de mano del varón su hermano demandaré el alma del hombre.

6 El que derramare sangre de hombre en el hombre, su sangre será derramada; porque a imagen de Dios es hecho el hombre.

7 Mas vosotros fructificad, y multiplicaos; y andad en la tierra, y multiplicaos en ella.

8 Y habló Dios a Noé y a sus hijos con él, diciendo:

9 He aquí, que yo establezco mi pacto con vosotros, y con vuestra simiente después de vosotros;

10 y con toda alma viviente que está con vosotros, en aves, en animales, y en toda bestia de la tierra que está con vosotros; desde todos los que salieron del arca hasta todo animal de la tierra.

11 Que yo estableceré mi pacto con vosotros, que no será talada más toda carne con aguas de diluvio; y que no habrá más diluvio para destruir la tierra.

12 Y dijo Dios: Esta será la señal del pacto que yo pongo entre mí y vosotros y toda alma viviente que está con vosotros, por siglos perpetuos:

13 Mi arco pondré en las nubes, el cual será por señal de pacto entre mí y la tierra.

14 Y será, que cuando anublare sobre la tierra, entonces mi arco aparecerá en las nubes.

15 Y me acordaré de mi pacto que está entre mí y vosotros y toda alma viviente en toda carne; y no serán más las aguas por diluvio para destruir a toda carne.

16 Y estará el arco en las nubes, y lo veré para acordarme del pacto perpetuo entre Dios y toda alma viviente, con toda carne que está sobre la tierra.

17 Dijo más Dios a Noé: Esta será la señal del pacto que he establecido entre mí y toda carne, que está sobre la tierra.

18 Y los hijos de Noé que salieron del arca fueron Sem, Cam y Jafet; y Cam es el padre de Canaán.

19 Estos tres son los hijos de Noé; y de ellos fue llena toda la tierra.

20 Y comenzó Noé a labrar la tierra, y plantó una viña;

21 y bebió del vino, y se embriagó, y se descubrió en medio de su tienda.

22 Y Cam, padre de Canaán, vio la desnudez de su padre, y lo dijo a sus dos hermanos que estaban fuera.

23 Entonces Sem y Jafet tomaron la ropa, y la pusieron sobre los hombros de ambos, y andando hacia atrás, cubrieron la desnudez de su padre teniendo vueltos los rostros, que no vieron la desnudez de su padre.

24 Y despertó Noé de su vino, y supo lo que había hecho con él su hijo el más joven;

25 y dijo: Maldito sea Canaán; siervo de siervos será a sus hermanos.

26 Dijo más: Bendito el SEÑOR, el Dios de Sem, y sea Canaán su siervo.

27 Ensanche Dios a Jafet, y habite en las tiendas de Sem, y sea Canaán su siervo.

28 Y vivió Noé después del diluvio trescientos cincuenta años.

29 Y fueron todos los días de Noé novecientos cincuenta años; y murió.

   

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Arcana Coelestia #868

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868. 'Until the waters dried up from over the earth' means the apparent dispersal of falsities. This is clear from a person's state when he is being regenerated. Nowadays everyone imagines that evils and falsities with a person are totally dispersed and done away with when he is being regenerated, so that when he has been regenerated no evil or falsity is left, and he is therefore clean and righteous, like someone washed and made clean with water. But this is completely false. Not a single evil nor a single falsity is ever dispersed so as to be done away with. Instead everything fixed in him by heredity since infancy and everything he has acquired through his own actions remains. As a consequence, even though he has been regenerated a person is still nothing but evil and falsity, as is forcibly demonstrated to souls after death. From this it also becomes quite clear that no one has any good or any truth at all unless it derives from the Lord, and that all a person's evil and falsity derive from the proprium, and that man, a spirit too, and even an angel, if left in the smallest degree to himself, of himself rushes headlong towards hell. This also is why in the Word it is said that heaven is not pure. 1 This the angels acknowledge, and anyone who does not do so cannot be among them. It is the Lord's mercy alone which gives them freedom, indeed it raises them up from hell, and withholds them from it and from rushing back there if left to themselves. The fact that they are withheld by the Lord to prevent them rushing into hell, angels perceive clearly, as also do good spirits to a limited extent. Evil spirits however, like men, do not believe this, even though they have been shown it many times, as in the Lord's Divine mercy will be described from experience further on.

[2] Man's state therefore being such that no evil or falsity can possibly be so dispersed as to be done away with, because the life which is his own consists in evil and falsity, the Lord in His Divine mercy so subdues a person's evils and falsities by means of temptations while He is regenerating him that they do seem to be dead. They are not dead however, only subdued so that they are unable to fight against the goods and truths that have been derived from the Lord. At that time by means of temptations the Lord also gives him a new ability to receive goods and truths. He does so by granting him ideas of and affections for good and truth towards which evils and falsities can be turned, and by instilling into his general concepts of things - dealt with already - the details and the finer points to such details, which have been stored away in the individual and of which he knows nothing at all, since they are interior to the sphere of his comprehension and perception. The nature of these things is such that they are able to serve as receptacles or vessels, so that charity can be instilled in them by the Lord, and innocence in charity. Through the remarkable combination of these things with a man, spirit, or angel, a kind of rainbow can be represented, and this is why the rainbow became a sign of the covenant, see Chapter 9:12-16, to be dealt with, in the Lord's Divine mercy, when those verses are explained. When a person has been so formed he is said to be regenerated. All his evils and falsities still remain, as also do all his truths and goods that have been preserved. In the case of an evil person, all his evils and falsities, exactly as these existed with him during his lifetime, reappear in the next life and are converted into delusions and hellish punishments. But in the case of a good person, all his states of good and truth, such as those of friendship, charity, and innocence, together with their joys and delights - now increased and multiplied immensely - are recalled in the next life. These are the things meant by 'the waters drying up', namely the apparent dispersal of falsities.

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