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創世記第3章

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1 耶和華所造的,惟有比田野一切的活物更狡猾。女人豈是真不許你們園中所有上的果子麼?

2 女人:園中上的果子,我們可以

3 惟有園當中那棵上的果子,:你們不可,也不可摸,免得你們

4 女人:你們不一定

5 因為知道,你們的日子眼睛就明亮了,你們便如知道善惡。

6 於是女人見那棵的果子作食物,也悅人的眼目,且是可喜愛的,能使人有智慧,就摘下果子來吃了,又丈夫,他丈夫吃了

7 他們人的眼睛就明亮了,才知道自己是赤身露體,便拿無花果樹子為自己編作裙子。

8 起了涼耶和華在園中行走。那人和他妻子的聲音,就藏在園裡的樹木中,躲避耶和華的面。

9 耶和華呼喚那人,對他:你在那裡?

10 :我在園中見你的聲音,我就害怕;因為我赤身露體,我便藏了。

11 耶和華:誰告訴你赤身露體呢?莫非你吃了我吩咐你不可的那上的果子嗎?

12 那人:你所賜我與我同居的女人,他把那上的果子我,我就吃了

13 耶和華女人:你作的是甚麼事呢?女人:那引誘我,我就吃了

14 耶和華:你既作了這事,就必受咒詛,比一切的牲畜野獸更甚。你必用肚子行走,終身土。

15 我又要叫你和女人彼此為仇;你的後裔和女人的後裔也彼此為仇。女人的後裔要傷你的;你要傷他的腳跟

16 又對女人:我必多多加增你懷胎的苦楚;你生產兒女必多受苦楚。你必戀慕你丈夫;你丈夫必管轄你。

17 又對亞當:你既聽從妻子的話,吃了我所吩咐你不可的那上的果子,地必為你的緣故受咒詛;你必終身勞苦才能從地裡得的。

18 地必給你長出荊棘和蒺藜來;你也要田間的菜蔬。

19 你必汗流滿面才得糊口,直到你歸了土,因為你是從土而出的。你本是塵土,仍要歸於塵土。

20 亞當給他妻子起名夏娃,因為他是眾生之母。

21 耶和華為亞當和他妻子子作衣服給他們穿。

22 耶和華:那人已經與我們相似,能知道善惡;現在恐怕他伸又摘生命的果子,就永遠活著。

23 耶和華便打發他出伊甸園去,耕種他所自出之土。

24 於是把他趕出去了;又在伊甸園的東邊安設基路伯和四面動發火燄的,要把守生命道路

   

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Charity#204

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204. 4. In so far as anyone does not shun evils as sins, he remains in them.

Man was created into the image and likeness of God, and made so that he might be a recipient of the Lord's love and wisdom. But, because he did not want to be a recipient, but wanted to be actual love and wisdom, and thus like God, he consequently inverted his form, and so turned away his affections and thoughts from the Lord to himself, and so began to love, even to worship, himself more than the Lord. In this way he estranged himself from the Lord, and looked backwards away from Him, thereby perverting the image and likeness of God in himself, and making it into an image and likeness of hell. This is signified by his eating of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. 1 By the serpent which he obeyed is signified the sensual, which is the ultimate of the natural man, and its lust. The sensual, because it exists in the world, and admits therefrom the objects it desires, loves the things of the world; and, if it is allowed to rule, it draws the mind [mens] away from the objects of heaven, which are goods of love and truths of wisdom, in themselves Divine. This is the origin of man being, in respect of his proprium, nothing but evil, and of his being born into it from parents. But means have been provided by the Lord, so that he may not perish on account of this; and these are, to look to the Lord and acknowledge that every good of love and every truth of wisdom is from Him, and nothing from man himself. In this way man inverts his form, turning away from himself and turning round to the Lord; thus he returns to the state into which he was created, which was, as has been said, that he might be a recipient of good and truth from the Lord, not from himself at all. Man's proprium having, by this inversion, become evil only, there is the other means of recovering the image of God, shunning evils as sins. For if a man does not shun evils as sins, but only shuns them as hurtful, he is still not looking to the Lord, but to himself, and so continues in a perverted state. When, however, he shuns evils as sins, he is also shunning them because they are against the Lord and contrary to His Divine laws; and then he beseeches the Lord for help and for power to resist them; and this power, when besought, is never denied. It is by these two means that a man is purified from his innate evils. Consequently, if he does not adopt these two means, he cannot but remain such as he was born. He cannot be purified from evils if he only looks to God and prays; for in that case he believes, after having prayed, either that he is entirely without sins, or that they have been remitted, by which he understands that they have been taken away. But in that case he still remains in them; and to remain in them is to increase them; for they are like a disease that eats away everything round about it and brings death. Nor are evils removed by only shunning them; for in that case the man is looking to himself, and he thereby strengthens the origin of evil, which was, that he turned himself backwards, away from the Lord, and round towards himself.

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