36. For the inward spiritual government stands in great humility in an angelical form; whereunto God also created man. If he had but remained in Paradise, then he would have had no need of the hunter; but seeing he would be a beast, God ordained him also a hunter, who might keep under the wild unruly bestial men. And the hunter and [the] beast are both alike before God in this world's bestial property; but seeing it may not be any otherwise, God holds it for his natural order; for he has given every thing its government [station and order].
37. But it is to be lamented that this hunter does hunt, slay and devour the tame human beasts, which do not belong to his game. But what shall we say, or wherewith shall the children of God excuse themselves, or quit themselves of this hunter, before God? Seeing every man bears externally the hunter's hind on him, over which the hunter of nature has power, the inward spiritual man must leave his outward beast unto the hunter; for his outward beast is also evil.
38. The spirit of Moses sets under Ham's lineage twenty-nine names, which came from Ham. Which intimate the twenty-nine properties proceeding from the third Principle, viz. From the spirit of the outward world; hinting how the formed word would be manifested through the outward nature; both in tongues and properties, whence the governments and orders of countries and nations have had their rise; albeit each property has again its extern birth, like as one branch or sprout of a tree does produce and bring forth other twigs. Yet the spirit in Moses does point at the chief head-root, and the properties under these names; showing what kind of people would arise from thence, and what their alterations and their final conclusions would be; all this lies hidden under their names.
39. Thus Ham has twenty-nine names of his children, and he is the thirtieth, twenty-nine is the set number of his children and childrens' children, under which the number of the end lies in Ham's government and dominion. Thirty is his whole number, whereof the prophet speaks, that this Ham would sell the Righteous One for thirty pieces of silver; and give the same for a potter's field. As a pot is accounted of in reference to its maker, even so is the fleshly man Ham in regard of God. He takes his thirtieth number, which he ought to bring into God's kingdom, and gives it for an earthly vessel, which does resemble a field, and in that, does sell the Righteous One, who lies hid under the thirtieth number in the Word of power. Thus the Righteous One, under the thirtieth number, does, by the death or mortification of Ham's flesh, sever himself from the twenty-nine numbers of these properties, which have gotten the upper hand in Ham. For in the thirtieth year the Righteous One, viz. Christ, did separate himself unto his office, and in the thirtieth number lies this same mystery. This is understood by our fellow-scholars, and only hinted at in this place.
40. Shem has in his line of propagation twenty-six names, and he
36. For the inward spiritual government stands in great humility in an angelical form; whereunto God also created man. If he had but remained in Paradise, then he would have had no need of the hunter; but seeing he would be a beast, God ordained him also a hunter, who might keep under the wild unruly bestial men. And the hunter and [the] beast are both alike before God in this world's bestial property; but seeing it may not be any otherwise, God holds it for his natural order; for he has given every thing its government [station and order].
37. But it is to be lamented that this hunter does hunt, slay and devour the tame human beasts, which do not belong to his game. But what shall we say, or wherewith shall the children of God excuse themselves, or quit themselves of this hunter, before God? Seeing every man bears externally the hunter's hind on him, over which the hunter of nature has power, the inward spiritual man must leave his outward beast unto the hunter; for his outward beast is also evil.
38. The spirit of Moses sets under Ham's lineage twenty-nine names, which came from Ham. Which intimate the twenty-nine properties proceeding from the third Principle, viz. From the spirit of the outward world; hinting how the formed word would be manifested through the outward nature; both in tongues and properties, whence the governments and orders of countries and nations have had their rise; albeit each property has again its extern birth, like as one branch or sprout of a tree does produce and bring forth other twigs. Yet the spirit in Moses does point at the chief head-root, and the properties under these names; showing what kind of people would arise from thence, and what their alterations and their final conclusions would be; all this lies hidden under their names.
39. Thus Ham has twenty-nine names of his children, and he is the thirties, twenty-nine is the set number of his children and childrens' children, under which the number of the end lies in Ham's government and dominion. Thirty is his whole number, whereof the prophet speaks, that this Ham would sell the Righteous One for thirty pieces of silver; and give the same for a potter's field. As a pot is accounted of in reference to its maker, even so is the fleshly man Ham in regard of God. He takes his thirties number, which he ought to bring into God's kingdom, and gives it for an earthly vessel, which does resemble a field, and in that, does sell the Righteous One, who lies hid under the thirties number in the Word of power. Thus the Righteous One, under the thirties number, does, by the death or mortification of Ham's flesh, sever himself from the twenty-nine numbers of these properties, which have gotten the upper hand in Ham. For in the thirties year the Righteous One, viz. Christ, did separate himself unto his office, and in the thirties number lies this same mystery. This is understood by our fellow-scholars, and only hinted at in this place.
40. Shem has in his line of propagation twenty-six names, and he
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