AC.592, 창6:7, '이르시되 내가 창조한 사람을' (AC.591-595)

7절, 이르시되 내가 창조한 사람을 내가 지면에서 쓸어버리되 사람으로부터 가축과 기는 것과 공중의 새까지 그리하리니 이는 내가 그것들을 지었음을 한탄함이니라 하시니라 And Jehovah said, I will destroy man whom I have created, from upon the faces of the ground, both man and beast, and creeping thing, and fowl of the heavens; for it repenteth me that I have made him.

 

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이르시되 내가 사람을 쓸어버리되 Jehovah said, I will destroy man.

 

That this signifies that man would extinguish himself is evident from what has been explained before, namely, that it is predicated of Jehovah or the Lord that he punishes, that he tempts, that he does evil, that he destroys or kills, and that he curses. As for example, that he slew Er, Judah’s firstborn; and Onan, another son of Judah (Gen. 38:7, 10); that Jehovah smote all the firstborn of Egypt (Exod. 12:12, 29).

 

7유다의 장자 엘이 여호와가 보시기에 악하므로 여호와께서 그를 죽이신지라, 10그 일이 여호와가 보시기에 악하므로 여호와께서 그도 죽이시니 (창38:7, 10)

 

12내가 그 밤에 애굽 땅에 두루 다니며 사람이나 짐승을 막론하고 애굽 땅에 있는 모든 처음 난 것을 다 치고 애굽의 모든 신을 내가 심판하리라 나는 여호와라, 29밤중에 여호와께서 애굽 땅에서 모든 처음 난 것 곧 왕위에 앉은 바로의 장자로부터 옥에 갇힌 사람의 장자까지와 가축의 처음 난 것을 다 치시매 (출12:12, 29)

 

And so in Jeremiah:

 

싸우려 하였으나 내가 나의 노여움과 분함으로 그들을 죽이고 그들의 시체로 이 성을 채우게 하였나니 이는 그들의 모든 악행으로 말미암아 나의 얼굴을 가리어 이 성을 돌아보지 아니하였음이라 (렘33:5) Whom I have slain in mine anger and in my wrath. (Jer. 33:5)

 

In David:

 

그의 맹렬한 노여움과 진노와 분노와 고난 곧 재앙의 천사들을 그들에게 내려보내셨으며 (시78:49) He cast upon them the wrath of his anger; vehement anger, and fury and straitness, a sending of evil angels. (Ps. 78:49)

 

In Amos:

 

성읍에서 나팔이 울리는데 백성이 어찌 두려워하지 아니하겠으며 여호와의 행하심이 없는데 재앙이 어찌 성읍에 임하겠느냐 (암3:6) Shall evil befall a city, and Jehovah hath not done it? (Amos 3:6)

 

In John:

 

1또 하늘에 크고 이상한 다른 이적을 보매 일곱 천사가 일곱 재앙을 가졌으니 곧 마지막 재앙이라 하나님의 진노가 이것으로 마치리로다, 7네 생물 중의 하나가 영원토록 살아 계신 하나님의 진노를 가득히 담은 금 대접 일곱을 그 일곱 천사들에게 주니; 1또 내가 들으니 성전에서 큰 음성이 나서 일곱 천사에게 말하되 너희는 가서 하나님의 진노의 일곱 대접을 땅에 쏟으라 하더라 (계15:1, 7; 16:1) Seven golden vials full of the wrath of God who liveth forever and ever. (Rev. 15:1, 7; 16:1)

 

All these things are predicated of Jehovah, although entirely contrary to his nature. They are predicated of him for the reason explained before; and also in order that men may first form the very general idea that the Lord governs and disposes all things both in general and in particular; and may afterwards learn that nothing of evil is from the Lord, much less does he kill; but that it is man who brings evil upon himself, and ruins and destroys himself—although it is not man, but evil spirits who excite and lead him; and yet it is man, because he believes that he is himself the doer. So now here it is said of Jehovah that he would “destroy man,” when in fact it was man who would destroy and extinguish himself.

 

[2] The state of the case may be very evident from those in the other life who are in torment and in hell, and who are continually lamenting and attributing all the evil of punishment to the Lord. So in the world of evil spirits there are those who make it their delight, even their greatest delight, to hurt and punish others; and those who are hurt and punished think it is from the Lord. But they are told, and it is shown them, that not the least of evil is from the Lord, but they bring it upon themselves; for such is the state and such the equilibrium of all things in the other life that evil returns upon him who does evil, and becomes the evil of punishment; and for the same reason it is inevitable. This is said to be permitted for the sake of the amendment of the evil. But still the Lord turns all the evil of punishment into good; so that there is never anything but good from the Lord. But hitherto no one has known what permission is; what is permitted is believed to be done by him who permits, because he permits. But the fact is quite otherwise, concerning which, of the Lord’s Divine mercy hereafter.