AC.476, 창5:2, '남자와 여자를 창조하셨고' (AC.475-480)

2절, 남자와 여자를 창조하셨고 그들이 창조되던 날에 하나님이 그들에게 복을 주시고 그들의 이름을 사람이라 일컬으셨더라 Male and female created he them, and blessed them, and called their name man, in the day when they were created.

 

476

That by “male and female” is signified the marriage between faith and love was declared and proved above, where it was shown that the male or man [vir] signifies the understanding and whatever belongs to it, consequently everything of faith; and that the female or woman signifies the will, or the things appertaining to the will, consequently whatever has relation to love; wherefore she was called Eve, a name signifying life, which is of love alone. By the female therefore is also signified the church, as has been previously shown; and by the male, a man [vir] of the church. The subject here is the state of the church when it was spiritual, and which was afterwards made celestial, wherefore “male” is mentioned before “female,” as also in chapter 1:26–27.

 

26하나님이 이르시되 우리의 형상을 따라 우리의 모양대로 우리가 사람을 만들고 그들로 바다의 물고기와 하늘의 새와 가축과 온 땅과 땅에 기는 모든 것을 다스리게 하자 하시고 27하나님이 자기 형상 곧 하나님의 형상대로 사람을 창조하시되 남자와 여자를 창조하시고 (창1:26-27)

 

The expression to “create” also has reference to the spiritual man; but afterwards when the marriage has been effected, that is, when the church has been made celestial, it is not said “male and female,” but “man” [homo], who, by reason of their marriage, signifies both; wherefore it presently follows, “and he called their name man,” by which is signified the church.