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创世记 31

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1 雅各拉班的儿子们有说:雅各把我们父亲所有的都夺了去,并藉着我们父亲的,得了这一切的荣耀(或作财)。

2 雅各拉班的气色向他不如从前了。

3 耶和华雅各:你要回你祖、你父之,到你亲族那里去,我必与你同在。

4 雅各就打发人,拉结和利亚到田野羊群那里来,

5 对他们:我你们父亲的气色向我不如从前了;但我父亲向来与我同在。

6 你们也知道,我尽了我的力量服事你们的父亲

7 你们的父亲欺哄我,次改了我的工价;然而不容他害我。

8 他若:有点的归你作工价,羊群所生的都有点;他若:有纹的归你作工价,羊群所生的都有纹。

9 这样,把你们父亲的牲畜夺来赐我了。

10 配合的时候,我梦中举目一,见跳母的公都是有纹的、有点的、有花斑的。

11 的使者在那梦中呼叫我雅各。我:我在这里。

12 :你举目观,跳母的公都是有纹的、有点的、有花斑的;凡拉班向你所做的,我都见了。

13 我是伯特利的神;你在那里用油浇过柱子,向我许过愿。现今你起来,离开这,回你本去罢!

14 拉结和利亚回答雅各:在我们父亲的家里还有我们可得的分麽?还有我们的产业麽?

15 我们不是被他当作外人麽?因为他我们,吞了我们的价值。

16 我们父亲所夺出来的一切财物,那就是我们我们孩子们的。现今凡所吩咐你的,你只管去行罢!

17 雅各起来,使他的儿子妻子都骑上骆驼

18 又带着他在巴旦亚兰所得的一切牲畜和财物,往迦南、他父亲以撒那里去了。

19 当时拉班毛去了,拉结偷了父亲家中的神像。

20 雅各背着亚兰人拉班走了,并不告诉他,

21 就带着所有的逃跑。他起身过大,面向基列山行去。

22 第三日,有人告诉拉班雅各逃跑了。

23 拉班带领他的众弟兄去追赶,追了日,在基列山就追上了。

24 夜间,到亚兰人拉班那里,在梦中对他:你要小心,不可与雅各歹。

25 拉班追上雅各雅各上支搭帐棚;拉班和他的众弟兄也在基列山上支搭帐棚。

26 拉班雅各:你做的是甚麽事呢?你背着我走了,又把我的女儿们带了去,如同用刀掳去的一般。

27 你为甚麽暗暗地逃跑着走,并不告诉我,叫我可以欢乐、唱歌、击、弹琴的送你回去?

28 又不容我与外孙和女儿亲嘴?你所行的真是愚昧!

29 中原有能力害你,只是你父亲昨夜对我:你要小心,不可与雅各歹。

30 现在你虽然你父家,不得不去,为甚麽又偷了我的像呢?

31 雅各回答拉班:恐你把你的女儿从我夺去,所以我逃跑。

32 至於你的像,你在谁那里搜出来,就不容谁存活。当着我们的众弟兄,你认一认,在我这里有甚麽东西是你的,就拿去。原来雅各知道拉结偷了那些像。

33 拉班进了雅各、利亚,并两个使女的帐棚,没有搜出,就从利亚的帐棚出,进了拉结的帐棚。

34 拉结已经把神像藏在骆驼的驮篓里,便在上头。拉班摸遍了那帐棚,并没有摸着。

35 拉结对他父亲:现在我身上不便,不能在你面前起来,求我不要生气。这样,拉班搜寻神像,竟没有搜出来。

36 雅各就发怒斥责拉班:我有甚麽过犯,有甚麽恶,你竟这样速的追我?

37 你摸遍了我一切的家具,你搜出甚麽来呢?可以放在你我弟兄面前,叫他们在你我中间辨别辨别。

38 我在你家这二十年,你的母绵、母山羊没有掉过胎。你中的公,我没有吃过

39 被野兽撕裂的,我没有带来给你,是我自己赔上。无论是白日,是黑夜,被去的,你都向我索要。

40 我白日受尽乾热,黑夜受尽寒霜,不得合眼睡着,我常是这样。

41 我这二十年在你家里,为你的两个女儿服事你十四年,为你的羊群服事你年,你又次改了我的工价。

42 若不是我父亲以撒所敬畏的,就是亚伯拉罕的与我同在,你如今必定打发我空手而去。见我的苦情和我的劳碌,就在昨夜责备你。

43 拉班回答雅各:这女儿是我的女儿,这些孩子是我的孩子,这些羊群也是我的羊群;凡在你眼前的都是我的。我的女儿并他们所生的孩子,我今日能向他们做甚麽呢?

44 来罢!你我二人可以立约,作你我中间的证据。

45 雅各就拿一块石头立作柱子,

46 又对众弟兄:你们石头。他们就拿石头成一,大家便在旁边喝。

47 拉班称那石堆为伊迦尔撒哈杜他,雅各却称那石堆为迦累得(都是以石堆为证的意思)。

48 拉班:今日这石堆作你我中间的证据。因此这地方名迦累得,

49 又叫米斯巴,意思我们彼此离别以後,愿耶和华在你我中间鉴察。

50 你若苦待我的女儿,又在我的女儿以外另娶妻,虽没有知道,却有在你我中间作见证。

51 拉班:你看我在你我中间所立的这石堆和柱子。

52 石堆作证据,这柱子也作证据。我必不过这石堆去害你;你也不可过这石堆和柱子来害我。

53 但愿亚伯拉罕的和拿鹤的,就是他们父亲,在你我中间判断雅各就指着他父亲以撒所敬畏的起誓,

54 又在上献祭,请众弟兄来饭。他们吃了饭,便在上住宿。

55 拉班起来,与他外孙和女儿亲嘴,给他们祝福,回往自己的地方去了。

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 4211

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4211. 'And called his brothers to eat bread' means [an invitation] to make the good from the Lord's Divine Natural their own. This is clear from the meaning of 'brothers' as those who were now to be joined together by the covenant, that is, by friendship, and in the internal sense as those who are governed by good and truth (for such people are called 'brothers', see 367, 2360, 3303, 3459, 3803, 3815, 4121, 4191); from the meaning of 'eating' as making one's own, dealt with in 3168, 3513 (end), 3832 (for meals taken together and feasts among the ancients meant making things their own and being joined together by means of love and charity, 3596); and from the meaning of 'bread' as good that stems from love, dealt with in 276, 680, 1798, 3478, 3735, and in the highest sense means the Lord, 2165, 2177, 3478, 3813. Since 'bread' in the highest sense means the Lord it therefore means everything holy which comes from Him, that is, it means everything good and true. And since no other good exists which is good except the good of love and charity, 'bread' therefore means love and charity. Sacrifices in former times had no other meaning, and for that reason were referred to by the single word 'bread', see 2165. And some of the flesh of the sacrifices was eaten so that the heavenly feast - that is, a joining together through good flowing from love and charity - might be represented. The same is meant today by the Holy Supper, for this has replaced sacrifices and feasts of consecrated things. The Holy Supper is in the Church an external practice that has an internal reality within it, and by means of this reality it joins one who is governed by love and charity to heaven, and by means of heaven to the Lord. For in the Holy Supper too 'eating' means making one's own - 'the bread' being celestial love and 'the wine' spiritual love - so much so that while it is being eaten by one in a state of holiness nothing else is perceived in heaven.

[2] The reason why the phrase 'making the good from the Lord's Divine Natural their own' is used is that the subject is the good that exists with the gentiles, for it is this good that 'Laban' represents now, 4189. When man is joined to the Lord he is not joined to His Supreme Divine itself but to His Divine Human, for man cannot have any idea at all of the Lord's Supreme Divine, because this lies so far beyond anything he can conceive of that it fades from view altogether and ceases to mean anything to him. But he is able to have an idea of His Divine Human. For everyone is joined through thought and affection to one of whom he can have some idea but not to one of whom he cannot have any idea. If, when a person thinks about the Lord's Human, holiness is present in his ideas he also thinks of the holiness which comes from the Lord and fills heaven, and at the same time he thinks of heaven, since heaven in its entirety corresponds to a complete human being, which correspondence has its origin in the Lord, 684, 1276, 2996, 2998, 3624-3649. This explains why it is not possible to be joined to the Lord's Supreme Divine, only to His Divine Human, and through that Divine Human to His Supreme Divine. Hence the statement in John 1:18 about nobody, except the only begotten Son, ever having seen God, also the statement about there being no way to the Father except through Him; as well as from the statement that He is the Mediator. The truth of all this can be plainly recognized from the fact that all within the Church who declare their belief in a Supreme Being and yet set the Lord at nought are people who have no belief in anything at all, not even in the existence of heaven or of hell, and who worship nature. And if such people are ready to learn from experience it will be clear to them that the wicked, even those who are extremely so, declare a like belief.

[3] But the way in which people think of the Lord's Human varies, one person's ideas being different from another's, and one person's more holy than another's. Those within the Church are able to think that His Human is Divine, and also that He is one with the Father, as He Himself says that the Father is in Him and He is in the Father. But those outside the Church are unable to do this, for one thing because they do not know anything about the Lord and for another because their idea of the Divine is gained solely from visible images and tangible idols. Nevertheless the Lord joins Himself to them by means of the good they do from the charity and obedience present within their crude notions of Him. And this is why mention is made here about them making the good from the Lord's Divine Natural their own. For when the Lord is joined to man the state of thought and consequent affection in him determines the exact nature of that conjunction. Those who have an entirely holy conception of the Lord and who at the same time have a true knowledge of and affections for what is good and true - as those within the Church are able to have - have been joined to the Lord as to His Divine Rational. Those however who do not have so holy a notion of Him and who do not have so interior a notion and affection, and yet the good of charity exists with them, have been joined to the Lord as regards His Divine Natural. And those whose holiness is cruder still are joined to the Lord as to His Divine Sensory Perception. This last type of joining is what is represented by 'the bronze serpent', in that those who looked at it recovered from serpent-bites, Numbers 21:9. This is the type of joining together which those among the gentiles have who worship idols and yet lead charitable lives in accordance with their own religion. From these considerations one may now see what is meant by making the good from the Lord's Divine Natural their own, meant by 'Jacob called his brothers to eat bread'.

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.