AC.494, 창5:5, '그는 구백삼십 세를 살고 죽었더라' (AC.492-495)

5절, 그는 구백삼십 세를 살고 죽었더라 And all the days that man lived were nine hundred and thirty years, and he died.

 

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That he “died” signifies that there was no longer such perception is evident from the signification of the word “die,” which is, that a thing ceases to be such as it has been. Thus in John:

 

1사데 교회의 사자에게 편지하라 하나님의 일곱 영과 일곱 별을 가지신 이가 이르시되 내가 네 행위를 아노니 네가 살았다 하는 이름은 가졌으나 죽은 자로다 2너는 일깨어 그 남은 바 죽게 된 것을 굳건하게 하라 내 하나님 앞에 네 행위의 온전한 것을 찾지 못하였노니 (계3:1-2) Unto the angel of the church in Sardis write, These things saith he that hath the seven spirits, and the seven stars; I know thy works, that thou art said to live, but art dead; be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die; for I have not found thy works perfect before God. (Rev. 3:1–2)

 

In Jeremiah:

 

내가 너와 너를 낳은 어머니를 너희가 나지 아니한 다른 지방으로 쫓아내리니 너희가 거기에서 죽으리라 (렘22:26) I will cast out thy mother that bare thee, into another country where ye were not begotten, and there shall ye die, (Jer. 22:26)

 

where “mother” signifies the church. For as we have said, the case with the church is that it decreases and degenerates, and loses its pristine integrity, chiefly by reason of the increase of hereditary evil, for every succeeding parent adds new evil to that which he has inherited. All the actual evil in the parents puts on a kind of nature, and when it often recurs, becomes natural to them, and is added to their hereditary evil, and is transmitted into their children, and so to posterity. In this way the hereditary evil is immensely increased in the descendants. That this is so is evident from the fact that the evil dispositions of children are exactly like those of their progenitors. Quite false is the opinion of those who think that there is no hereditary evil except that which they allege to have been implanted in us from Adam (see n. 313). The truth is that everyone makes hereditary evil by his own actual sins, and adds it to the evils that he has inherited, and in this way it accumulates, and remains in all the descendants, nor is it abated except in those who are being regenerated by the Lord. In every church this is the principal cause of degeneration, and it was so in the most ancient church.