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创世记第1章

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1 起初创造

2 是空虚混沌,渊面黑暗的灵运行在水面上。

3 :要有,就有了

4 的,就把分开了。

5 为昼,称为夜。有晚上,有早晨,这是头日。

6 :诸水之间要有空气,将水分为上下。

7 就造出空气,将空气以的水、空气以上的水分开了。事就这样成了。

8 空气。有晚上,有早晨,是第二日。

9 的水要聚在处,使旱地露出来。事就这样成了。

10 称旱,称水的聚处为着是的。

11 要发生青和结种子的菜蔬,并结果子的树木,各从其类,果子都包着核。事就这样成了。

12 於是发生了青和结种子的菜蔬,各从其类;并结果子的树木,各从其类;果子都包着核。着是的。

13 晚上,有早晨,是第三日。

14 上要有体,可以分昼夜,作记号,定节令、日子、年岁,

15 并要发天空,普照在上。事就这样成了。

16 於是造了两个的管昼,小的管夜,又造众

17 就把这些光摆列在天空,普照在上,

18 管理昼夜,分别明着是的。

19 晚上,有早晨,是第四日。

20 要多多滋生有生命的物;要有雀地面以上,天空之中。

21 就造出鱼和水中所滋生各样有生命的动物,各从其类;又造出各样飞,各从其类。着是的。

22 就赐福给这一切,说:滋生繁多,充满中的水;雀也要多生在上。

23 晚上,有早晨,是第五日。

24 要生出活物来,各从其类;牲畜、昆虫、上的野兽,各从其类。事就这样成了。

25 於是造出野兽,各从其类;牲畜,各从其类;上一切昆虫,各从其类。着是的。

26 我们要照着我们的形像、按着我们的样式造人,使他们管理里的鱼、空中的上的牲畜,和全,并上所爬的一切昆虫。

27 就照着自己的形像造人,乃是照着他的形像造男造

28 就赐福给他们,又对他们:要生养众多,遍满地面,治理这,也要管理里的鱼、空中的,和上各样行动的活物。

29 :看哪,我将遍上一切结种子的菜蔬和一切上所结有核的果子全赐你们作食物。

30 至於上的走兽和空中的飞,并各样爬在上有生命的物,我将青赐给他们作食物。事就这样成了。

31 着一切所造的都甚。有晚上,有早晨,是第六日。

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Arcana Coelestia#32

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32. Love and faith are first called 'the great lights', then love is called 'the greater light' and faith 'the lesser light'. In reference to love it is said that it will have dominion over the day, and in reference to faith that it will have dominion over the night. Because these are arcana and have become hidden, especially at this end of an epoch, in the Lord's Divine mercy let the whole subject be opened up. The reason they have become hidden, especially at this present end of an epoch, is that now is the close of the age, when love is almost non-existent, and consequently faith too, just as the Lord Himself foretold in the Gospels with these words,

The sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken. Matthew 24:29.

Here 'the sun' is used to mean love, which is 'darkened', 'the moon' faith which does not give its light, 'the stars' cognitions of faith which fall from heaven, and which are the various 'powers of the heavens'. The Most Ancient Church acknowledged no other faith than love itself; celestial angels as well do not know what faith is except faith which stems from love. Love pervades the whole of heaven, for in the heavens no other life is found except the life that belongs to love. This is the source of all happiness in heaven, a happiness so great that no aspect of it can be described or in any way captured in human concepts. People in whom this love is present love the Lord wholeheartedly. Yet they realize, say, and perceive that all love, thus all life, which belongs exclusively to love, and so all happiness, come from the Lord and nowhere else, and that they derive not one trace of love, life, and happiness from themselves. The Lord's being the source of all love was again represented by the greater light, that is, the sun, at the Transfiguration, for His face shone like the sun, and His garments became white as the light, Matthew 17:2. What is inmost is meant by His face, and what emanates from the inmost by His garments. Thus His Divinity is meant by the sun or love, and His Humanity by the light or wisdom coming from love.

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