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创世记 42

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1 雅各埃及有粮,就对儿子们:你们为甚麽彼此观望呢?

2 埃及有粮,你们可以去,从那里为我们籴些来,使我们可以存活,不至於

3 於是,约瑟的哥哥埃及籴粮去了。

4 但约瑟的兄弟便雅悯,雅各没有打发他和哥哥们同去,因为雅各:恐怕他遭害。

5 籴粮的人中有以色列的儿子们,因为迦南也有饥荒。

6 当时治理埃及的是约瑟;发粮给那众民的就是他。约瑟的哥哥来了,脸伏於,向他下拜。

7 约瑟见他哥哥们,就认得他们,却装作生人,向他们些严厉话,问他们:你们从那里?他们:我们从迦南籴粮。

8 约瑟认得他哥哥们,他们却不认得他。

9 约瑟想起从前所做的那两个梦,就对他们:你们是奸细,窥探这的虚实。

10 他们对他:我阿,不是的。仆人们是籴粮的。

11 我们都是的儿子,是诚实仆人们并不是奸细。

12 约瑟:不然,你们必是窥探这的虚实的。

13 他们仆人们本是弟兄十二,是迦南的儿子,顶小的现今在我们父亲那里,有个没有了。

14 约瑟:我才你们是奸细,这话实在不错。

15 我指着法老的性命起誓,若是你们的小兄弟不到这里,你们就不得出这地方,从此就可以把你们证验出来了

16 须要打发你们中间个人去,把你们的兄弟带来。至於你们,都要囚在这里,好证验你们的真不真,若不真,我指着法老的性命起誓,你们定是奸细。

17 於是约瑟把他们都下在监里

18 到了第三,约瑟对他们:我是敬畏的;你们照我的话行就可以存活。

19 你们如果是诚实人,可以留你们中间的个人囚在监里,但你们可以着粮食回去,救你们家里的饥荒。

20 把你们的小兄弟到我这里,如此,你们的便有证据,你们也不至於。他们就照样而行。

21 他们彼此我们兄弟身上实在有罪。他哀求我们的时候,我们见他心里的愁苦,却不肯,所以这场苦难临到我们身上。

22 流便:我岂不是对你们说过,不可伤害那孩子麽?只是你们不肯,所以流他血的罪向我们追讨。

23 他们不知道约瑟得出来,因为在他们中间用通事传话。

24 约瑟转身退去,哭了一场,又回来对他们说话,就从他们中间挑出西缅来,在他们眼前把他捆绑。

25 约瑟吩咐把粮食装满他们的器具,把各子归还在各的口里,又他们上用的食物,就照他的话办了。

26 他们就把粮食驮在上,离开那里去了。

27 到了住宿的地方,他们中间有个人打开,要拿料喂,才见自己的子仍在里,

28 就对弟兄们:我的子归还了,看哪,仍在我口袋里!他们就提吊胆,战战兢兢的彼此:这是我们做甚麽呢?

29 他们迦南、他们的父亲雅各那里,将所遭遇的事都告诉他,说:

30 我们严厉的话,把我们当作窥探那的奸细。

31 我们对他:我们是诚实人,并不是奸细。

32 我们本是弟兄十二人,都是父亲的儿子,有个没有了,顶小的如今同我们的父亲迦南

33 我们:若要我知道你们是诚实,可以留下你们中间的在我这里,你们可以带着粮食回去,救你们家里的饥荒。

34 把你们的小兄弟到我这里,我便知道你们不是奸细,乃是诚实人。这样,我就把你们的弟兄交你们,你们也可以在这做买卖。

35 後来他们倒口,不料,各包都在口里;他们和父亲包就都害怕

36 他们的父亲雅各对他们:你们使我丧失我的儿子:约瑟没有了,西缅也没有了,你们又要将便雅悯带去;这些事都归到我身上了。

37 流便对他父亲:我若不回来你,你可以杀我的两个儿子。只管把他交在我里,我必回来你。

38 雅各:我的儿子不可与你们一同去;他哥哥死了,只剩他,他若在你们所行的上遭害,那便是你们使我白发苍苍、悲悲惨惨的阴间去了。

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 5510

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5510. 'The man, the lord of the land, spoke' means the celestial of the spiritual ruling in the natural. This is clear from the representation of Joseph, to whom 'the man, the lord of the land' refers here, as the celestial of the spiritual ('the man' is used to refer to the spiritual, and 'the lord' to the celestial; for in the internal sense 'the man' is truth and 'the lord' good, truth from the Divine being what is called spiritual, and good from the Divine being what is called celestial); and from the meaning of 'the land', in this case the land of Egypt, as the natural mind, dealt with in 5276, 5178, 5280, 5288, 5301. The idea that the celestial of the spiritual, represented by 'Joseph', ruled in both parts of the natural is contained in the internal sense of the previous chapter; and to represent its rule Joseph was set in authority over the land of Egypt.

[2] There are within the natural these two: known facts and the truths known to the Church. The placing of facts into their proper order by the celestial of the spiritual, which is truth from the Divine, has been dealt with already. Now the truths known to the Church, which are represented by 'the ten sons of Jacob', are the subject. Facts must be placed in order within the natural before the truths known to the Church are placed in order there, for the reason that those facts are needed for the grasping of these truths. For nothing can enter a person's understanding without ideas formed from such factual knowledge as has been acquired by him since early childhood. For man is totally ignorant of this, that every truth known to the Church that is called a truth of faith is founded on the facts he knows, or that he comes to grasp that truth, retain it in his memory, and recall it from there with the help of ideas formulated from the facts he knows.

[3] It is quite normal in the next life to demonstrate in a visual way to those who desire it what those ideas are like; for things like this can be presented clearly in visual ways in the light of heaven. At the same time that visual presentation demonstrates in what darkness or else in what kind of beaming light they have kept the truth taught by the Church. With some people that truth is shown to be lying among falsities, with some among absurd, even scandalous ideas, with others among illusions of the senses, with others again among apparent truths, and so on. If a person has been governed by good, that is, if he has led a charitable life, truths are lit up by good, as if by fire sent down from heaven, and the illusions of the senses holding those truths within them are made beautifully radiant. And when they have innocence introduced into them by the Lord they actually look like truths.

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