Arcana Coelestia#7454
7454. 'It is ill-advised to do so, for we would be sacrificing the abomination of the Egyptians to Jehovah our God' means that what was vile, foul, and hellish would enter in. This is clear from the meaning of 'ill-advised to do so' as something that cannot be done; from the meaning of 'the abomination' as what is vile, foul, and hellish; and from the meaning of 'sacrificing to Jehovah God' as worshipping their God, dealt with above in 7452. Consequently 'sacrificing to Jehovah God the abomination of the Egyptians' means that they would be worshipping God with a type of worship which was abominated by those steeped in falsities because of a hellish influence that was antagonistic to that worship and would molest it. What all this entails is also evident from things that reveal themselves in the next life. Each spirit there, and especially each community, is encompassed by a sphere consisting of his or its own faith and life. This sphere is a spiritual sphere, and from it the character of the spirit is recognized, and especially that of the community; for those who have the gift of perception perceive it, sometimes from quite a long way off. They can perceive it even though they may be hidden from view and make no contact through thought or speech. This spiritual sphere may be compared to the material sphere which surrounds a person's body in the world. This sphere is a sphere consisting of odours emanating from him, and is detected by keen-scented animals. Regarding the spiritual sphere surrounding spirits, see 1048, 1053, 1316, 1504, 1519, 2401, 2489, 4464, 5179, 6206 (end).
[2] From all this it becomes clear that if hellish spirits were present near where people offering Divine worship were they would by means of their sphere molest those people; for in those circumstances those people offering Divine worship would perceive what was vile and abominable. This shows how one should understand the explanation that what was vile, foul, and hellish would enter in if they worshipped God in a place near them. From what has been stated about the spiritual sphere, or sphere consisting of faith and life, which emanates from each spirit, and especially from each community of spirits, it may also be recognized that nothing whatever of a person s thought, speech, or action in the world is hidden but is open to view, since they are what constitute that sphere. Such a sphere also emanates from a person's spirit while he is in the body, in the world. And from this too one knows what kind of person he is. Do not suppose therefore that the things which a person thinks in secret or does in secret are hidden. They are as plainly evident in heaven as things seen in the light of the midday sun, as accords with the Lord's words in Luke,
Nothing has been hidden that will not be revealed, or concealed that will not be made known. Therefore whatever you have said in the dark will be heard in the light; and what you have spoken in the ear in bedchambers will be proclaimed on the housetops. Luke 12:1, 7.
Genesis第9章
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God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, "Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.
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The fear of you and the dread of you will be on every animal of the earth, and on every bird of the sky. Everything that the ground teems with, and all the fish of the sea are delivered into your hand.
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Every moving thing that lives will be food for you. As the green herb, I have given everything to you.
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But flesh with its life, its blood, you shall not eat.
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I will surely require your blood of your lives. At the hand of every animal I will require it. At the hand of man, even at the hand of every man's brother, I will require the life of man.
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Whoever sheds man's blood, his blood will be shed by man, for God made man in his own image.
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Be fruitful and multiply. Bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply in it."
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God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying,
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"As for me, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your offspring after you,
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and with every living creature that is with you: the birds, the livestock, and every animal of the earth with you, of all that go out of the ship, even every animal of the earth.
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I will establish my covenant with you: all flesh will not be cut off any more by the waters of the flood, neither will there ever again be a flood to destroy the earth."
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God said, "This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:
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I set my rainbow in the cloud, and it will be for a sign of a covenant between me and the earth.
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It will happen, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow will be seen in the cloud,
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and I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh, and the waters will no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
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The rainbow will be in the cloud. I will look at it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth."
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God said to Noah, "This is the token of the covenant which I have established between me and all flesh that is on the earth."
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The sons of Noah who went forth from the ship were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Ham is the father of Canaan.
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These three were the sons of Noah, and from these, the whole earth was populated.
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Noah began to be a farmer, and planted a vineyard.
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He drank of the wine and got drunk. He was uncovered within his tent.
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Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside.
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Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it on both their shoulders, went in backwards, and covered the nakedness of their father. Their faces were backwards, and they didn't see their father's nakedness.
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Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his youngest son had done to him.
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He said, "Canaan is cursed. He will be servant of servants to his brothers."
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He said, "Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Shem. Let Canaan be his servant.
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May God enlarge Japheth. Let him dwell in the tents of Shem. Let Canaan be his servant."
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Noah lived three hundred fifty years after the flood.
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All the days of Noah were nine hundred fifty years, then he died.
