28、创世记1:10.神称旱地为地，称水的聚处为海。神看着是好的。
“水”表示知识或认知，无论宗教的还是世俗的，“海”表示知识的聚集或体系，这在圣言中是很常见的。如以赛亚书：
地要充满对耶和华的认识，好像水覆盖海洋一般。（以赛亚书11:9）
以赛亚书同样描述了两种知识的缺乏：
水必从海中绝尽，河也消没干涸，溪流要消退。（以赛亚书19:5-6）
哈该书论到一个新教会说：
我必震动天地，海洋与旱地；我必震动一切民族；一切民族所渴慕的必来到；我就使这房屋满了荣耀。（哈该书2:6-7）
关于在重生过程中的人，撒迦利亚书：
必有一日，是耶和华所知道的。不是白昼，也不是黑夜。到了晚上的时候才有光明；在那日，必有活水从耶路撒冷出来，一半往东海流，一半往西海流。（撒迦利亚书14:7-8）
大卫诗篇也描述了一个即将重生，将要敬拜主的荒废之人：
耶和华不藐视被囚的人；愿天和地，海和一切爬在其中的都赞美祂。（诗篇69:33-34）
“地”表示一个接受者，这一点从撒迦利亚书明显看出来：
耶和华铺张诸天，建立地基，在人中间形成人的灵。（撒迦利亚书12:1）
New Century Edition
Cooper(2008,2013)
[NCE]28. Genesis 1:10. And God called the dry land earth, and the gathering of waters he called seas; and God saw that it was good.
To find waters symbolizing religious and secular knowledge, and seas symbolizing a body of such knowledge, is quite common in the Word. In Isaiah:
The earth will be full with the awareness of Jehovah, like the waters covering the sea. (Isaiah 11:9)
In the same prophet, where both kinds of knowledge are portrayed as lacking:
The water will disappear from the sea, the river will drain away and dry up, and the streams will recede. (Isaiah 19:5-6)
In Haggai, where a new church is the subject:
I am shaking the heavens and the earth, and the sea and the dry land; and I will shake all the nations, and those who are the desire of every nation will come, and I will fill this House{*1} with glory. (Haggai 2:6-7)
And in Zechariah, on the regenerating individual:
That will be a single day; it is known to Jehovah; it is not day or night. And it will happen that at the time of evening there will be light. And it will happen on that day that living water will go out from Jerusalem, part of it to the eastern sea and part of it to the western sea.{*2} (Zechariah 14:7-8)
In a passage in David depicting a devastated person who is being reborn and will come to revere the Lord:
Jehovah does not despise his prisoners; the heavens and the earth, the seas and every creeping thing in them will praise him. (Psalms 69:33-34)
In the following passage in Zechariah, the earth symbolizes that which receives something put into it:
Jehovah is stretching out the heavens and founding the earth and forming the human spirit in the middle of it. (Zechariah 12:1)
Footnotes:
{*1} The "House" means the Temple in Jerusalem, here and in later quotations in 109, 308:2, 576:3, 680:5; and in Swedenborg's general reference in 710. [JSR]
{*2} The "eastern" sea here, from the perspective of Jerusalem, refers to the Dead Sea, and the "western" sea refers to the Mediterranean. [JSR]
Potts(1905-1910) 28
28. Verse 10. And God called the dry [land] earth, and the gathering together of the waters called He seas; and God saw that it was good. It is a very common thing in the Word for "waters" to signify knowledges [cognitiones et scientifica], and consequently for "seas" to signify a collection of knowledges. As in Isaiah:
The earth shall be full of the knowledge [scientia] of Jehovah, as the waters cover the sea (Isa. 11:9). And in the same Prophet, where a lack of knowledges [cognitionum et scientificorum] is treated of:
The waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be dried up and become utterly dry, and the streams shall recede (Isa. 19:5-6). In Haggai, speaking of a new church:
I will shake the heavens and the earth, and the sea and the dry [land]; and I will shake all nations; and the desire of all nations shall come; and I will fill this house with glory (Hag. 2:6-7). And concerning man in the process of regeneration, in Zechariah:
There shall be one day, it is known to Jehovah; not day, nor night; but it shall come to pass that at evening time it shall be light; and it shall be in that day that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem, part of them toward the eastern sea, and part of them toward the hinder sea (Zech. 14:7-8).David also, describing a vastated man who is to be regenerated and who will worship the Lord:
Jehovah despiseth not His prisoners; let the heavens and the earth praise Him, the seas and everything that creepeth therein (Ps. 69:33-34). That the "earth" signifies a recipient, appears from Zechariah:
Jehovah stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man in the midst of him (Zech. 12:1).
Elliott(1983-1999) 28
28. Verse 10 And God called the dry land Earth, and the gathering together of the waters He called Seas; and God saw that it was good.
It is very common in the Word for 'waters' to mean cognitions and facts, and consequently for 'seas' to mean a gathering together of them, as in Isaiah,
The earth will be full of the knowledge of Jehovah as the waters covering the sea. Isa 11:9.
And in the same prophet, with reference to a lack of cognitions and facts,
The waters will dry up from the sea, the river will be parched and dry, and the streams will diminish. Isa 19:5, 6.
In Haggai, with reference to a new Church,
I will shake the heavens and the earth, and the sea and the dry land; and I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations will come, and I will fill this house with glory. Hagg 2:6, 7.
And with reference to someone who is to be regenerated, in Zechariah,
There will be one day - it is known to Jehovah - not day and not night, for at evening time there will be light; and on that day living waters will flow out from Jerusalem, part of them to the eastern sea, and part of them to the western sea. Zech 14:7, 8.
In David where the person is described who, having been vastated, is to be regenerated, and to worship the Lord, Jehovah does not despise His bound ones. Heaven and earth will praise Him, the seas and everything that creeps in them! Ps 69:73, 34.
That 'the earth' means that which receives is seen in Zechariah, Jehovah is He who stretches out the heavens, and founds the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him. Zech 12:1.
Latin(1748-1756) 28
28. Vers. 10. Et vocavit Deus aridam, terram, et congregationem aquarum vocavit maria; et vidit Deus quod bonum. Quod 'aquae' significent cognitiones et scientifica, communissimum est in Verbo, inde quod 'maria' collectionem earum, ut apud Esaiam, Plena erit terta scientia Jehovae, sicut aquae mare contegentes, xi 9:et apud eundem prophetam, ubi de defectu cognitionum et scientificorum agitur, Deficient aquae de mari, fluvius exsiccabitur et exarescet et recedent flumina, xix 5, 6:
apud Haggaium, ubi de Ecclesia nova, Ego commovens caelos et terram, et mare et aridam; et commovebo omnes gentes, et venient desiderium omnium gentium, et implebo domum hanc gloria, ii 6, 7:
et de homine regenerando apud Zachariam, Erit dies unus ille, notus est Jehovae, non dies, nec nox, et erit, ad tempus vesperae erit lux, et erit in die illo, exibunt aquae vivae a Hierosolyma, pars earum ad mare orientale, et pars earum ad mare posterum, xiv 7, 8:
per Davidem, ubi describitur homo vastatus qui regenerandus, Dominum adoraturus, Jehovah vinctos suos non spernit, laudabunt Ipsum caeli et terra, maria et omne reptans in iis, Ps. lxix 35 [A.V. 34]. Quod 'terra' significet receptaculum, apud Zachariam, Jehovah extendens caelos, et fundans terram, et formans spiritum hominis in medio ejus, xii I.