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创世记 28

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1 以撒雅各来,给他祝福,并嘱咐他:你不要娶迦南的女子为妻。

2 你起身往巴旦亚兰去,到你外祖彼土利家里,在你母舅拉班的女儿中娶一女为妻。

3 全能的神赐福给你,使你生养众多,成为多族,

4 将应许亚伯拉罕的福赐你和你的後裔,使你承受你所寄居的为业,就是亚伯拉罕的

5 以撒打发雅各走了,他就往巴旦亚兰去,到亚兰人彼土利的儿子拉班那里。拉班雅各以扫的母舅。

6 以扫以撒已经给雅各祝福,而且打发他往巴旦亚兰去,在那里娶妻,并见祝福的时候嘱咐他说:不要娶迦南的女子为妻,

7 又见雅各听从父母的话往巴旦亚兰去了,

8 以扫就晓得他父亲以撒不中迦南的女子,

9 便往以实玛利那里去,在他二妻之外又娶了玛哈拉为妻。他是亚伯拉罕儿子以实玛利的女儿,尼拜约的妹子。

10 雅各出了别是巴,向哈兰走去;

11 到了一个地方,因为太阳落了,就在那里住宿,便拾起那地方的一块石头枕在头,在那里躺卧睡了,

12 梦见一个梯子立在上,梯子的顶着,有的使者在梯子上,上去来。

13 耶和华站在梯子以上(或作站在他旁边),:我是耶和华─你祖亚伯拉罕的,也是以撒的;我要将你现在所躺卧之你和你的後裔。

14 你的後裔必像上的尘沙那样多,必向东西开展;上万族必因你和你的後裔得福。

15 我也与你同在。你无论往那里去,我必保佑你,领你归回这地,总不离弃你,直到我成全了向你所应许的。

16 雅各睡醒了,耶和华真在这里,我竟不知道

17 就惧:这地方何等可畏!这不是别的,乃是的殿,也是

18 雅各起来,把所枕的石头立作柱子,浇在上面。

19 他就给那地方起名伯特利(就是神殿的意思);但那地方起先名路斯。

20 雅各许愿若与我同在,在我所行的上保佑我,又我食物衣服穿,

21 使我平平安安地回到我父亲的家,我就必以耶和华为我的

22 我所立为柱子的石头也必作的殿,凡你所赐我的,我必将十分之一献你。

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 3882

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3882. 'And she left off bearing' means the ascent up a stairway from earth even to Jehovah or the Lord. This is clear from the meaning of 'bearing' or birth as truth and good, for these are births in the spiritual sense, in that a person is regenerated or born anew by means of truth and good. Such truth and good is also what were meant by Leah's four who were born to her - Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah. 'Reuben' meant truth as this exists on the first step in regeneration or rebirth - truth which is no more than knowledge, and so merely a knowledge of truth. 'Simeon' meant truth as this exists on the second step in regeneration or rebirth - truth present in the will, and so a will desiring truth. 'Levi' meant truth as it exists on the third step in regeneration or rebirth - truth for which one feels an affection, and so an affection for truth, which is the same as charity. But 'Judah' meant good which exists on the fourth step in regeneration or rebirth - good which is the celestial form of love. When a person who has been regenerated or born anew has come this far the Lord manifests Himself to him, for he has by now risen up from the lowest step, as if by a stairway, to the one where the Lord is.

[2] This stepping up is also meant by the stairway seen in a dream by Jacob which was set up on the earth, a stairway whose top reached to heaven, and on which the angels of God were going up and coming down, with Jehovah or the Lord standing above it, described in Chapter 28:12. From this it is evident that 'she left off bearing' has the meaning that has been stated. For explanations that the four conceptions and births spoken of meant an advance from what is external to what is internal, or from truth to good, that is, from earth to heaven, see 3860, 3868, 3874, 3879. Coming down is subsequent to this, for no one is able to come down before he has gone up. Coming down however is nothing else than surveying truth from good, as when one climbs a mountain and then regards the things that lie below. From that position he can, in a single survey of the scene, take in an incalculably greater number of things than people standing below or in the valley, as is evident to anyone. It is exactly the same with those who are governed by good, that is, by love to the Lord and charity towards the neighbour. These can see incalculably more than those governed merely by truth, that is, by faith alone.

  
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