AC.345, 창4:2, '그가 또 가인의 아우 아벨을 낳았는데' (AC.341-345)

2절, 그가 또 가인의 아우 아벨을 낳았는데 아벨은 양 치는 자였고 가인은 농사하는 자였더라 And she added to bear his brother Abel; and Abel was a shepherd of the flock, and Cain was a tiller of the ground.

 

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That a “tiller of the ground” is one who is devoid of charity, however much he may be in faith separated from love, which is no faith, is evident from what follows: that Jehovah had no respect to his offering, and that he slew his brother, that is, destroyed charity, signified by “Abel.” Those were said to “till the ground” who look to bodily and earthly things, as is evident from what is said in Gen. 3:19, 23, where we read that the man was “cast out of the garden of Eden to till the ground.”

 

19네가 흙으로 돌아갈 때까지 얼굴에 땀을 흘려야 먹을 것을 먹으리니 네가 그것에서 취함을 입었음이라 너는 흙이니 흙으로 돌아갈 것이니라 하시니라, 23여호와 하나님이 에덴동산에서 그를 내보내어 그의 근원이 된 땅을 갈게 하시니라 (창3:19, 23)