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創世記第8章

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1 記念挪亞和挪亞方舟裡的一切走牲畜,水勢漸落。

2 淵源和上的窗戶都閉塞了,上的大雨也止住了。

3 水從上漸退。過了一五十,水就漸消。

4 日,方舟停在亞拉臘上。

5 水又漸消,到十初一日,頂都現出來了。

6 過了四十,挪亞開了方舟的窗戶,

7 放出一隻烏鴉去;那烏鴉飛來飛去,直到上的水都乾了。

8 他又放出一隻鴿子去,要水從地上退了沒有。

9 但遍上都是水,鴿子不著落,就回到方舟挪亞那裡,挪亞伸鴿子接進方舟

10 他又等了,再把鴿子從方舟放出去。

11 到了晚上鴿子回到他那裡,嘴裡叼著一個新擰下橄欖子,挪亞就知道上的水退了。

12 他又等了,放出鴿子去,鴿子就不再回來了。

13 到挪亞零一歲,正初一日,上的水都乾了。挪亞撤去方舟的蓋觀,便見地面上乾了。

14 到了二二十日,就都乾了。

15 對挪亞

16 你和你的妻子、兒子、兒婦都可以出方舟。

17 在你那裡凡有血的活物,就是飛牲畜,和一切爬在上的昆蟲,都要帶出來,叫他在上多多滋生,大大興旺。

18 於是挪亞和他的妻子、兒子、兒婦都出來了。

19 一切走、昆蟲、飛,和上所有的動物,各從其類,也都出了方舟。

20 挪亞為耶和華築了一座,拿各類潔淨的牲畜、飛獻在上為燔祭。

21 耶和華那馨之氣,就:我不再因人的緣故咒詛地(人從小時裡懷著惡念),也不再按著我才行的滅各種的活物了。

22 還存留的時候,稼穡、寒暑、冬夏、晝夜就永不停息了。

   

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Arcana Coelestia#851

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851. That 'the ark rested' means regeneration becomes clear from the fact that 'the ark' means the member of this Church, and all that was in the ark means all that resided with that member, as shown extensively already. When therefore the ark is said 'to rest' it means that this member was being regenerated. The train of thought in the sense of the letter does indeed seem to imply that 'the ark's resting' means that the fluctuations following temptation, dealt with in the previous verse, have come to an end. But fluctuations, which are doubt and haziness concerning truths and goods, do not in that manner come to an end but persist for a long time, as will also be clear later on. From this it is clear that the continuity of thought in the internal sense is different. The substance of that thought, being arcana, can be revealed here, namely this: After he has undergone temptations the spiritual man becomes the Lord's 'rest' in the same way as the celestial man does. In the same way also he becomes 'the seventh', not however the seventh day, as the celestial man does, but 'the seventh month'. For details concerning the celestial man's being the Lord's rest or sabbath, and the seventh day, see 84-88. But as a celestial man and a spiritual man are different from each other the celestial man's rest is expressed in the original language by a word meaning the sabbath, whereas the spiritual man's rest is expressed by a different word, from which the name Noah derives which specifically means rest.

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