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1 Тогда Богъ вспомнилъ о Ној, и о всјхъ звјряхъ, и о всемъ скотј, бывшихъ съ нимь въ ковчегј; и навелъ Богъ вјтеръ на землю, и воды остановились.

2 И закрылись источники бездны и окна небесныя, и пересталъ дождь съ неба.

3 И начали воды возвращаться съ земли, и шли обратно; и стали убывать воды по окончаніи ста пятидесяти дней.

4 Въ седьмомъ мјсяцј, въ семнадцатый день мјсяца, ковчегъ остановился на горахъ Араратскихъ.

5 Воды убывали до десятаго мјсяца; въ первый день десятаго мјсяца показалісь верхи горъ.

6 По прошествіи сорока дней, Ной открылъ сдјланное имъ окно у ковчега.

7 И выпустилъ ворона, который, вылетјвъ, отлеталъ и прилеталъ, пока осушилась земля отъ воды.

8 Потомъ выпустилъ отъ себя голубя, чтобы узнать, стекла ли вода съ лица земли.

9 Но голубь не нашелъ, гдј поставить ногу свою, и возвратился къ нему въ ковчегъ; ибо вода была еще по всей землј: и потому онъ простеръ руку свою, и взялъ его, и принялъ его въ ковчегъ.

10 И помедлилъ еще семь дней другихъ: и опять выпустилъ голубя изъ ковчега.

11 Голубь возвратился къ нему въ вечернее время; и вотъ, свјжій масличный листъ во рту у него: тогда Ной узналъ, что воды стекли съ земли.

12 Онъ помедлилъ еще семь дней, и выпустилъ голубя; и онъ уже не возвратился къ нему.

13 Шесть сотъ перваго года къ первому дню перваго мјсяца изсякла вода на землј: тогда Ной, открывъ кровлю ковчега, посмотрјлъ, и увидјлъ, что изсякли воды съ лица земли.

14 И во второмъ мјсяцј, къ двадцать седьмому дню мјсяца, осушилась земля.

15 И сказалъ Богъ Ною:

16 выйди изъ ковчега ты, и съ тобою жена твоя, и сыновья твои, и жены сыновъ твоихъ.

17 Выведи съ собою и всј животныя, которыя съ тобою, изъ всякой плоти, изъ птицъ, и изъ скота, и изъ всјхъ гадовъ пресмыкаюшихся по землј; пусть разойдутся онј по землј, и пусть плодятся и размножаются на землј.

18 И вышелъ Ной, и съ нимъ сыновья его, и жена его, и жены сыновъ его.

19 Всј звјри, и всј гады, и всј птицы, и все движущееся по землј, по породамъ своимъ, вышли изъ ковчега.

20 И создалъ Ной жертвенникъ Іеговј, и взялъ отъ всякаго скота чистаго, и изъ всјхъ птицъ чистыхъ, и принесъ всесожженія на жертвенникј.

21 И обонялъ Іегова благоуханіе успокоенія, и сказалъ Іегова въ сердцј Своемъ: отнынј Я уже не буду проклинать земли за человјка, потому что помышленія сердца человјческаго есть зло отъ юности его: и не буду болје поражать всего живущаго, какъ Я то сдјлалъ.

22 Впредь во всј дни земли сјяніе и жатва, холодъ и зной, лјто и зима, дни и ночи не пресјкутся.

   

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Arcana Coelestia#885

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885. That 'a leaf' means truth is clear from various places in the Word, where man is compared to or actually called a tree. 'Fruit' in those contexts means the good that stems from charity, and 'leaf' the truth deriving from this, for these are indeed like fruit and leaves, as in Ezekiel,

Beside the river there is rising up upon its bank, on this side and on that, every tree for food, whose leaf does not fall, nor its fruit fail, but is reborn monthly, for its waters flow out from the Sanctuary, and its fruit will be for food, and its leaf for medicine. Ezekiel 47:11; Revelation 22:1.

Here 'tree' stands for the member of the Church who has the Lord's kingdom within him, 'fruit' stands for the good that stems from love and charity, 'leaf' for truths deriving from that good which serve to instruct the human race and to regenerate it. And because truths do this the leaf is said to be 'for medicine'. In the same prophet,

Will He not pull up its roots and cut off its fruit so that it withers? And all the plucked off (leaves) from its off-shoot will wither. Ezekiel 17:9.

The subject here is the vine, which is the Church, when it has been vastated, whose good, which is 'the fruit', and its truth, which is that 'plucked off from its off-shoot', thus wither away.

[2] In Jeremiah,

Blessed is the man who trusts in Jehovah. He will be like a tree planted beside the waters. His leaf will be green, and in the year of scarcity he will not be anxious. Nor will he cease to bear fruit. Jeremiah 17:7-8.

'Green leaf' stands for the truth of faith, and so for faith itself which derives from charity. The same applies in David, Psalms 1:3. In the same prophet,

There will be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and its leaf has fallen. Jeremiah 8:13.

'Grapes on the vine' stands for spiritual good, 'figs on the fig tree' for natural good, 'leaf' for truth, which has accordingly fallen. Likewise in Isaiah 34:4. Similar things were meant by 'the fig tree' that Jesus saw, which was made to wither away when He found nothing but leaves on it, Matthew 21:20; Mark 11:13-14. The Jewish Church in particular was what 'the fig tree' was used to mean on that occasion. With this Church no natural good existed any longer, only that preserved with them which was meant by 'a leaf', namely doctrine, or truth, concerning faith. A Church that has been vastated is one that knows truth but has no wish to understand it. They are like people who say they know the truth, or matters of faith, but who possess no good at all that stems from charity. They are merely 'fig leaves', and they wither away.

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