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創世記 39

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1 約瑟被帶埃及去。有一個埃及人,是法老的內臣─護衛長波提乏,從那些帶他來的以實瑪利人買了他去。

2 約瑟住在他埃及的家中,耶和華與他同在,他就百事順利。

3 人見耶和華與他同在,又見耶和華使他裡所辦的盡都順利,

4 約瑟就在主人眼前蒙恩,伺候他主人,並且主人派他管理家務,把一切所有的都交在他裡。

5 自從人派約瑟管理家務和他一切所有的,耶和華就因約瑟的緣故賜福與那埃及人的家;凡家裡和田間一切所有的都蒙耶和華賜福。

6 波提乏將一切所有的都交在約瑟的中,除了自己所的飯,別的事一概不知。約瑟原來秀雅俊美。

7 這事以,約瑟人的妻以目送情給約瑟,:你與我同寢罷!

8 約瑟不從,對他人的妻:看哪,一切家務,我人都不知道;他把所有的都交在我裡。

9 在這家裡沒有比我的;並且他沒有留下一樣不交給我,只留下了你,因為你是他的妻子。我怎能作這惡,得罪呢?

10 後來他和約瑟,約瑟卻不從他,不與他同寢,也不和他在一處。

11 一天,約瑟進裡去辦事,家中沒有一個在那裡,

12 婦人就拉住他的衣裳,:你與我同寢罷!約瑟把衣裳丟在婦人裡,跑到外邊去了。

13 婦人見約瑟把衣裳丟在他裡跑出去了,

14 了家裡的,對他們:你們!他帶了一個希伯進入我們家裡,要戲弄我們。他到我這裡,要與我同寢,我就聲喊

15 見我放聲喊起來,就把衣裳丟在我這裡,跑到外邊去了。

16 婦人把約瑟的衣裳放在自己那裡,等著他人回家,

17 就對他如此如此:你所帶到我們這裡的那希伯僕人要戲弄我,

18 我放聲喊起來,他就把衣裳丟在我這裡,跑出去了。

19 約瑟的見他妻子對他所:你的僕人如此如此待我,他就生氣,

20 把約瑟下在監裡,就是王的囚犯被囚的地方。於是約瑟在那裡坐監。

21 耶和華與約瑟同在,向他施恩,使他在司獄的眼前蒙恩。

22 司獄就把監裡所有的囚犯都交在約瑟下;他們在那裡所辦的事都是經他的

23 凡在約瑟的事,司獄一概不察,因為耶和華與約瑟同在;耶和華使他所做的盡都順利。

   

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5037. The reason why 'being committed to the prison-house' and 'being kept bound there' mean being subjected to temptations involving false-speaking against good is that the expression 'the prison house' is used for the entire place just beneath and round about the soles of the feet where those undergoing vastation are kept. Those undergoing vastation there are people who, in spite of their false assumptions and of their evil life arising from falsity, have nevertheless had good intentions. Such people cannot be received into heaven until they have divested themselves of their false assumptions and also of a living delight in them which sprang from these assumptions. People in that place are subjected to temptations, for the false assumptions and the living delights springing from these cannot be ousted except by means of temptations. The place where those people are, or rather the state which they are passing through, is meant in general by 'the prison-house' and those actual places by 'pits'. Regarding vastations in the next life, see 698, 699, 1106-1113, 2699, 2701, 2704. Those undergoing vastations are called 'the bound'; not that they are literally bound in any way but that they lack freedom so far as their previous thoughts and resulting affections are concerned.

[2] Such is the condition of those meant in the Word by 'the bound' and by 'those who are in prison', as is evident from other places in the Word:

In Isaiah,

I will give You to be a covenant of the people, a light of the nations, to open the blind eyes, to bring the bound out of prison, out of the dungeon-house those who sit in darkness. Isaiah 42:6-7.

This refers to the Lord and His Coming. Here 'opening the blind eyes and bringing the bound out of prison, and out of the dungeon-house those who sit in darkness' stands for those who have no knowledge of goodness and truth but who nevertheless have the desire to know and be taught about these. But in this instance a different word is used in the original language to describe a prison.

[3] In the same prophet,

All the young men are hidden in prison houses; they have become a prey, and none delivers and none says, Bring out. Isaiah 42:22.

'The young men' in the internal sense are the truths of faith, which are said 'to be hidden in prison-houses and to become a prey' when they are not acknowledged any longer. In the same prophet,

It will be on that day, that Jehovah will visit the host of the height on high, and the kings of the ground on the ground, and the bound will be gathered together over the pit, and they will be shut in 1 the dungeon; after a multitude of days they will be visited. Isaiah 24:21-22.

'The bound over the pit' stands for those undergoing experiences of vastation, that is, temptation.

[4] In the same prophet,

What will you do on the day of visitation and vastation? It will come from afar. To whom will you flee for help? [Anyone] who has not bowed himself down will fall beneath the bound and beneath the slain. Isaiah 10:3-4.

'Beneath the bound' stands for the hell which lies below the places of vastation.' The slain' stands for those who through the false assumptions adopted by them have destroyed the truths of faith to a smaller extent than those pierced [by the sword] have done, dealt with in 4503.

[5] In Zechariah,

He will speak peace to the nations, and His dominion will be from sea to sea, and from the river even to the ends of the earth. Also as for You, through the blood of Your covenant I will let out the bound ones from the pit in which there is no water. Return to the stronghold, O bound ones of hope. Zechariah 9:10-12.

'Letting out the bound ones from the pit' stands for those who are undergoing vastation and temptation; for the places where such undergo vastation are called 'pits', see 4728, 4744. In David,

Jehovah hears the needy and does not despise His bound ones. Psalms 69:33.

In the same author,

Let the groaning of him who is bound come before You. Psalms 79:11.

In the same author,

Jehovah looked from the heavens towards the earth to hear the groaning of him who was bound, to open to the sons of death. Psalms 102:19-20.

'Those who are bound' stands for those who are undergoing vastation and temptations. In Isaiah,

In a time of good pleasure I have answered You, and in a day of salvation I have helped 2 You; I have also guarded You, and I have given You for a covenant of the people to restore the land, to apportion the inheritances that have been laid waste, to say to those that are bound, Go out; and to those who are in darkness, Reveal yourselves. They will feed 3 along the roads, and on all slopes will their pasture 4 be. And they will neither hunger nor thirst. Isaiah 49:8-10.

[6] In the same prophet,

The Spirit of the Lord Jehovih is upon Me, Jehovah has anointed Me; to bring good tidings to the poor He has sent Me, and to bind up the broken in heart; to preach liberty to captives, and to those who are bound, to him who is blind; to proclaim the year of Jehovah's good pleasure.

In David,

Jehovah who executes judgement for the oppressed, who gives bread to the hungry; Jehovah who sets the bound free; Jehovah who opens the blind [eyes]; Jehovah who lifts up the bowed down; Jehovah who loves the righteous; Jehovah who guards strangers, upholds the orphan and the widow. Psalms 146:7-9.

'The bound' stands for those who are undergoing vastation and temptations because of falsities.

From all these places it is also evident who are meant in Matthew by those who are bound or 'in prison' and likewise who are meant by 'the hungry, the thirsty, and strangers',

Then the King will say to those at His right hand, I was hungry and you gave Me food, I was thirsty and you gave Me drink, I was a stranger and you took Me in, naked and you clothed Me around, I was sick and you visited Me, I was in prison and you came to Me. Matthew 25:34-36

Regarding these verses, see the preliminary section of the present chapter, 4954-4958.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. literally, over

2. The Latin means heard, but the Hebrew means helped.

3. literally, pasture

4. The Latin means good pasture, but the Hebrew means their pasture, which Swedenborg has in other places where he quotes this verse.

  
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