AC.337, 창4 배경 (AC.324-337)

337

As this chapter treats of the degeneration of the most ancient church, or the falsification of its doctrine, and consequently of its heresies and sects, under the names of Cain and his descendants, it is to be observed that there is no possibility of understanding how doctrine was falsified, or what was the nature of the heresies and sects of that church, unless the nature of the true church be rightly understood. Enough has been said above concerning the most ancient church, showing that it was a celestial man, and that it acknowledged no other faith than that which was of love to the Lord and toward the neighbor. Through this love they had faith from the Lord, or a perception of all the things that belonged to faith, and for this reason they were unwilling to mention faith, lest it should be separated from love, as was shown above. (n. 200, 203)

 

[2] Such is the celestial man, and such he is described by representatives in David, where the Lord is spoken of as the king, and the celestial man as the king’s son:

 

1하나님이여 주의 판단력을 왕에게 주시고 주의 공의를 왕의 아들에게 주소서, 3의로 말미암아 산들이 백성에게 평강을 주며 작은 산들도 그리하리로다, 5그들이 해가 있을 동안에도 주를 두려워하며 달이 있을 동안에도 대대로 그리하리로다, 7그의 날에 의인이 흥왕하여 평강의 풍성함이 달이 다할 때까지 이르리로다 (시72:1, 3, 5, 7) Give the king thy judgments, and thy righteousness to the king’s son. The mountains shall bring peace to the people, and the hills in righteousness. They shall fear thee with the sun, and toward the faces of the moon, generation of generations. In his days shall the righteous flourish, and abundance of peace, until there be no moon. (Ps. 72:1, 3, 5, 7)

 

By the “sun” is signified love; by the “moon,” faith; by “mountains” and “hills,” the most ancient church; by “generation of generations,” the churches after the flood; “until there be no moon” is said because faith shall be love. (See also what is said in Isaiah 30:26.)

 

여호와께서 자기 백성의 상처를 싸매시며 그들의 맞은 자리를 고치시는 날에는 달빛은 햇빛 같겠고 햇빛은 일곱 배가 되어 일곱 날의 빛과 같으리라 (사30:26)

 

[3] Such was the most ancient church, and such was its doctrine. But the case is far different at this day, for now faith takes precedence over charity, but still through faith charity is given by the Lord, and then charity becomes the principal. It follows from this that in the most ancient time doctrine was falsified when they made confession of faith, and thus separated it from love. Those who falsified doctrine in this way, or separated faith from love, or made confession of faith alone, were then called “Cain”; and such a thing was then regarded as an enormity.