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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#895

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895. 'The waters dried up from over the earth' means that falsities were not at that time apparent. This is clear from what has been stated. In particular these words mean that falsities had been separated from things of the will belonging to the member of this Church. The statement 'the waters dried up from over the earth' occurs at this point because here 'earth' means the person's will, which is nothing but evil desire. As stated already, the ground is situated in the understanding part of man's mind, in which part truths are sown. No sowing ever takes place in the will part, which in the spiritual man has been separated from the understanding part. This is why in the last part of this verse it is said that 'the face 1 of the ground was dry'. With the member of the Most Ancient Church there was ground in the will part of his mind, where the Lord implanted goods. It was from goods therefore that he was able to know and perceive truth, that is, it was from love that he was able to possess faith. If the same thing were to happen today however, a person would inevitably and eternally perish, for his will is utterly corrupted. What implantation in the will part entails and what in the understanding part becomes clear from the consideration that the member of the Most Ancient Church had in fact enjoyed revelations through which from early childhood onwards he was led into a perception of goods and truths. But since they used to be implanted in the will part of his mind he perceived without any further instruction the countless aspects of any one general matter. He knew from the Lord the details and the finer points which nowadays men must learn before knowing about them. And even then they can know scarcely one thousandth of them. For the member of the spiritual Church knows nothing unless he acquires it by learning; and what he gets to know in this fashion he retains and believes to be true. Indeed if he learns something false and this is impressed on him as though it were true, he believes that as well, for he has no other perception than that a thing is true because he has in that way been persuaded of it. People who possess conscience derive from conscience a certain dictate. Yet with them a thing is true only because they have heard and learned that it is. This is what constitutes their conscience, as becomes clear from people who have a conscience of what is false.

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1. literally, the faces

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