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创世记 17

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1 亚伯兰岁的时候,耶和华向他显现,对他:我是全能的神。你当在我面前作完全人,

2 我就与你立约,使你的後裔极其繁多。

3 亚伯兰俯伏在地;又对他

4 我与你立约:你要作多国的父。

5 从此以後,你的名不再亚伯兰,要亚伯拉罕,因为我已立你作多国的父。

6 我必使你的後裔极其繁多;国度从你而立,君从你而出。

7 我要与你并你世世代裔坚立我的约,作永远的约,是要作你和你裔的

8 我要将你现在寄居的,就是迦南,赐你和你的永远为业,我也必作他们的

9 又对亚伯拉罕:你和你的裔必世世代遵守我的约。

10 你们所有的男子都要受割礼;这就是我与你并你的裔所立的约,是你们所当遵守的。

11 你们都要受割礼(原文作割阳皮;14,23,24,25节同);这是我与你们立约的证据。

12 你们世世代的男子,无论是家里生的,是在你後裔之外用子从外人买的,生下来第八日,都要受割礼

13 你家里生的和你用子买的,都必须受割礼。这样,我的约就立在你们体上作永远的约。

14 但不受割礼的男子必从民中剪除,因他背了我的约。

15 又对亚伯拉罕:你的妻子撒莱不可再撒莱,他的名要撒拉。

16 我必赐福他,也要使你从他得一个儿子。我要赐福他,他也要作多国之母;必有百姓的君从他而出。

17 亚伯拉罕就俯伏在地喜笑,:一岁的人还能得孩子麽?撒拉已经九十岁了,还能生养麽?

18 亚伯拉罕:但愿以实玛利活在你面前。

19 :不然,你妻子撒拉要给你生一个儿子,你要给他起名以撒。我要与他坚定所立的约,作他永远的约。

20 至於以实玛利,我也应允你:我必赐福他,使他昌盛,极其繁多。他必生十二个族长;我也要使他成为国。

21 到明年这时节,撒拉必给你生以撒,我要与他坚定所立的约。

22 亚伯拉罕完了话,就离开他上升去了。

23 正当那日,亚伯拉罕遵着的命,给他的儿子以实玛利和家里的一切男子,无论是在家里生的,是用子买的,都行了割礼

24 亚伯拉罕割礼的时候年岁。

25 儿子以实玛利割礼的时候年十三岁。

26 正当那日,亚伯拉罕和他儿子以实玛利一同受了割礼

27 家里所有的人,无论是在家里生的,是用子从外人买的,也都一同受了割礼

   

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9659. 'And there shall be eight boards and their bases [made] from silver' means support in every respect from good and through truth that springs from good. This is clear from the meaning of 'eight' as what is so in every respect, dealt with below; from the meaning of 'boards' as good that lends support, dealt with in 9634; and from the meaning of 'bases [made] from silver' as support provided through truth from good, dealt with in 9643.

[2] 'Eight' means in every respect because this number has the same meaning as two and four, being the product of these when multiplied together. 'Two' and 'four' mean being joined together, completely so, 5194, 8423, 8877, and consequently also mean what is complete, 9103, and therefore what is so in every respect; for what exists in completeness does so in every respect. Another reason why 'eight' means what exists in completeness and in every respect is that since 'a week' means a whole period from beginning to end, 2044, 3845, 'the eighth day' means a complete state, from which a new beginning then commences. This explains why males had to be circumcised on the eighth day, Genesis 17:12; 21:4, for circumcision was a sign of purification from foul kinds of love by means of the truth of faith, 2039, 2046 (end), 2799, 3412, 3413, 4462. The foreskin corresponded to the defilement of good by those kinds of love, 4462, 7045, 7225, and the knife of flint with which circumcision was carried out was a sign of the truth of faith by means of which purification was accomplished, 2039 (end), 2046 (end), 2799, 7044.

[3] What exists in completeness and in every respect is also meant by 'eight' following 'seven' in Micah,

When Asshur comes into our land and treads our palaces we will set up over him seven shepherds and eight princes of men (homo), and they will feed 1 the land of Asshur with the sword; and he will deliver [us] from Asshur. Micah 5:5-6.

'Asshur' stands for reasoning on the basis of one's own intelligence about the Church's forms of good and its truths. Deliverance totally or in every respect from consequent falsity is meant by 'eight princes of men' who will bring destruction, 'princes of men' being the leading truths that rise out of good.

[4] The fact that 'eight' means completeness and in every respect is also clear from an experience I had involving the admission and reception of some communities into heaven, about which see 2130. I saw as many as twelve communities received first, and after them as many as eight more; for people admitted and received into heaven are those who have been purified from earthly things, that is, from all love of them, and have gone on to receive instruction. The number eight on that occasion was a sign of that which was complete.

[5] 'Eight' has a similar meaning elsewhere in the Word, for example where it says that the portico of the gateway was 'eight cubits' long from the house, and that there were 'eight steps' up to the house, in Ezekiel 40:9, 31, 41. The description there is of the new house, by which the Lord's New Church is meant, truths leading to good and from good back to truths being meant by 'the portico' and 'the steps'.

[6] Anyone who does not know that spiritual realities or real things are implied by the numbers used in the Word cannot possibly see any such reality nor thus anything holy in the measures and numbers where the tabernacle, Solomon's temple, and after these the new house, new temple, and new land in Ezekiel, are described, when yet not a syllable in the Word is devoid of spiritual meaning. Let all who have intelligence weigh up in their mind what the measures and numbers in Chapters 40-48 of Ezekiel really mean, also the measures and numbers in John, at Revelation 21:17, where it says that the angel measured the wall of the new Jerusalem, a hundred and forty-four cubits, and that this measure was that of a man (homo), that is, of an angel, and also in the following, besides many other places,

Let him who has intelligence reckon the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man (homo), that is, its number is six hundred and sixty-six. Revelation 13:18.

For more about all numbers in the Word, that they mean spiritual realities or real things, see 482, 487, 575, 647, 648, 755, 813, 1963, 1988, 2075, 2252, 3252, 4264, 4495, 4670, 5265, 5291, 5335, 5708, 6175, 7973, and places where the specific meaning of certain numbers has been shown.

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1. i.e. destroy

  
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