AC.568, 창6:1, '사람이 땅 위에 번성하기 시작할 때에' (AC.564-568)

1절, 사람이 땅 위에 번성하기 시작할 때에 그들에게서 딸들이 나니 And it came to pass that man began to multiply himself upon the faces of the ground, and daughters were born unto them.

 

568

That “daughters” signify such things as are of the will of that man, consequently yearnings, is evident from what was said and shown concerning “sons and daughters” in the preceding chapter (Gen. 5:4), where “sons” signify truths, and “daughters,” goods.

 

아담은 셋을 낳은 후 팔백 년을 지내며 자녀들을 낳았으며 (창5:4)

 

“Daughters,” or goods, are of the will, but such as a man is, such is his understanding and such his will, thus such are the “sons and daughters.” The present passage treats of man in a corrupt state, who has no will, but mere cupidity instead of will, which is supposed by him to be will, and is also so called. What is predicated is in accordance with the quality of the thing whereof it is predicated, and that the man of whom the daughters are here predicated was a corrupt man, has been shown before. The reason why “daughters” signify the things of the will, and, where there is no will of good, yearnings; and why “sons” signify the things of the understanding, and, where there is no understanding of truth, fantasies, is that the female sex is such, and so formed, that the will or cupidity reigns in them more than the understanding. Such is the entire disposition of their fibers, and such their nature, whereas the male sex is so formed that the intellect or reason rules, such also being the disposition of their fibers and such their nature. Hence the marriage of the two is like that of the will and the understanding in every man; and since at this day there is no will of good, but only cupidity, and still something intellectual, or rational, can be given, this is why so many laws were enacted in the Jewish church concerning the prerogative of the husband [vir], and the obedience of the wife.