AC.468, '창5 및 노아를 이해하기 위한 속뜻 배경 설명' (AC.460-468)

창5 및 노아를 이해하기 위한 속뜻 배경 설명

 

468

From what has been said and shown in the foregoing chapter, it is evident that by names are signified heresies and doctrines. Hence it may be seen that by the names in this chapter are not meant persons, but things, and in the present instance doctrines, or churches, which were preserved, notwithstanding the changes they underwent, from the time of the most ancient church even to “Noah.” But the case with every church is that in course of time it decreases, and at last remains among a few; and the few with whom it remained at the time of the flood were called “Noah.”

 

[2] That the true church decreases and remains with but few, is evident from other churches which have thus decreased. Those who are left are in the Word called “remains,” and a “remnant,” and are said to be “in the midst,” or “middle,” “of the land.” And as this is the case in the universal, so also it is in the particular, or as it is with the church, so it is with every individual man; for unless remains were preserved by the Lord in everyone, he must needs perish eternally, since spiritual and celestial life are in the remains. So also in the general or universal—if there were not always some with whom the church, or true faith, remained, the human race would perish; for, as is generally known, a city, nay, sometimes a whole kingdom, is saved for the sake of a few. It is in this respect with the church as it is with the human body; so long as the heart is sound, life is possible for the neighboring viscera, but when the heart is enfeebled, the other parts of the body cease to be nourished, and the man dies. The last remains are those which are signified by “Noah”; for (as appears from Gen. 6:12, as well as from other places) the whole earth had become corrupt.

 

하나님이 보신즉 땅이 부패하였으니 이는 땅에서 모든 혈육 있는 자의 행위가 부패함이었더라 (창6:12)

 

[3] Of remains as existing in each individual as well as in the church in general, much is said in the prophets; as in Isaiah:

 

3시온에 남아 있는 자, 예루살렘에 머물러 있는 자 곧 예루살렘 안에 생존한 자 중 기록된 모든 사람은 거룩하다 칭함을 얻으리니 4이는 주께서 심판하는 영과 소멸하는 영으로 시온의 딸들의 더러움을 씻기시며 예루살렘의 피를 그중에서 청결하게 하실 때가 됨이라 (사4:3-4) He that is left in Zion, and he that remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be called holy to him, even everyone that is written unto lives in Jerusalem, when the Lord shall have washed the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have washed away the bloods of Jerusalem from the midst thereof, (Isa. 4:3–4)

 

in which passage holiness is predicated of the remains, by which are signified the remains of the church, and also of a man of the church; for “those left” in Zion and Jerusalem could not be holy merely because they were “left.” Again:

 

20그날에 이스라엘의 남은 자와 야곱 족속의 피난한 자들이 다시는 자기를 친 자를 의지하지 아니하고 이스라엘의 거룩하신 이 여호와를 진실하게 의지하리니 21남은 자 곧 야곱의 남은 자가 능하신 하나님께로 돌아올 것이라 (사10:20-21) It shall come to pass in that day, that the remains of Israel, and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again stay upon him that smote them, but shall stay upon Jehovah the holy one of Israel in truth. The remains shall return, the remains of Jacob, unto the mighty God. (Isa. 10:20–21)

 

In Jeremiah:

 

그날 그때에는 이스라엘의 죄악을 찾을지라도 없겠고 유다의 죄를 찾을지라도 찾아내지 못하리니 이는 내가 남긴 자를 용서할 것임이라 (렘50:20) In those days, and in that time, the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none; and the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found; for I will pardon him whom I shall make a remnant. (Jer. 50:20)

 

In Micah:

 

야곱의 남은 자는 많은 백성 가운데 있으리니 그들은 여호와께로부터 내리는 이슬 같고 풀 위에 내리는 단비 같아서 (미5:7) The remains of Jacob shall be in the midst of many peoples, as the dew from Jehovah, as the showers upon the grass. (Micah 5:7)

 

[4] The residue or remains of a man, or of the church, were also represented by the tenths, which were holy; hence also a number with ten in it was holy, and “ten” is therefore predicated of remains; as in Isaiah:

 

12여호와께서 사람들을 멀리 옮기셔서 이 땅 가운데에 황폐한 곳이 많을 때까지니라 13그중에 십 분의 일이 아직 남아 있을지라도 이것도 황폐하게 될 것이나 밤나무와 상수리나무가 베임을 당하여도 그 그루터기는 남아 있는 것 같이 거룩한 씨가 이 땅의 그루터기니라 하시더라 (사6:12-13) Jehovah shall remove man, and many things [shall be] left in the midst of the land; and yet in it [shall be] a tenth part, and it shall return, and shall be for exterminating; as an oak, and an ilex, when the stock is cast forth from them, the holy seed is the stock thereof; (Isa. 6:12–13)

 

where the residue is called a “seed of holiness.” And in Amos:

 

주 여호와께서 이와 같이 말씀하시되 이스라엘 중에서 천 명이 행군해 나가던 성읍에는 백 명만 남고 백 명이 행군해 나가던 성읍에는 열 명만 남으리라 하셨느니라 (암5:3) Thus saith the Lord Jehovah, The city that goeth forth a thousand shall have a hundred left, and that which goeth forth a hundred shall have ten left to the house of Israel. (Amos 5:3)

 

In these and many other passages, in the internal sense are signified the “remains” of which we have been speaking. That a city is preserved for the sake of the remains of the church, is evident from what was said to Abraham concerning Sodom:

 

아브라함이 또 이르되 거기서 십 명을 찾으시면 어찌하려 하시나이까 이르시되 내가 십 명으로 말미암아 멸하지 아니하리라 (창18:32) Abraham said, Peradventure ten may be found there; and he said, I will not destroy it for ten’s sake. (Gen. 18:32)