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創世記 43

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1 的饑荒甚大。

2 他們從埃及的糧食盡了,他們的父親就對他們:『你們再去給我糴些糧。』

3 猶大對他:『那諄諄地告誡我們:「你們的兄弟若不與你們同來,你們就不得見我的面。」

4 你若打發我們兄弟我們同去,我們去給你糴糧;

5 你若不打發他去,我們就不去,因為那我們:「你們的兄弟若不與你們同來,你們就不得見我的面。」』

6 以色列:『你們為什麼這樣害我,告訴你們還有兄弟呢?』

7 他們回答:『那詳細問到我們我們的親屬,:「你們的父親還在嗎?你們還有兄弟嗎?」我們就按著他所問的告訴他,焉能知道他要「必須把你們的兄弟來」呢?』

8 猶大又對他父親以色列:『你打發童子與我同去,我們就起身下去,好叫我們和你,並我們的婦人孩子,都得存活,不至於

9 我為他作保;你可以從我中追討,我若不他回來交在你面前,我情願永遠擔罪。

10 我們若沒有耽擱,如今第二次都回來了。』

11 他們的父親以色列:『若必須如此,你們就當這樣行:可以將這土產中最好的乳香、蜂蜜、香料、沒藥、榧子、杏仁都取一點,收在器具裡,帶去送給那禮物

12 又要裡加倍地帶子,並將歸還在你們袋內的子仍帶在裡;那或者是錯了。

13 也帶著你們的兄弟,起身去見那

14 但願全能的神使你們在那面前蒙憐憫,釋放你們的那弟兄和便雅憫回來。我若喪了兒子,就喪了吧!』

15 於是,他們拿著那禮物,又裡加倍地帶子,並且帶著便雅憫,起身埃及,站在約瑟面前。

16 約瑟見便雅憫和他們同來,就對家宰:『將這些人領到裡。要宰殺牲畜,預備筵席,因為晌這些人同我飯。』

17 家宰就遵著約瑟的命去行,領他們進約瑟的裡。

18 他們因為被領到約瑟的裡,就害怕:『領我們到這裡,必是因為頭次歸還在我們口袋裡的子,找我們的錯縫,下手害我們,強取我們為奴僕,搶奪我們。』

19 他們就挨約瑟的家宰,在口和他說話

20 :『我啊,我們頭次來實在是要糴糧。

21 到了住宿的地方,我們打開袋,不料,各子,分量足數,仍在各袋內,現在我們裡又來了

22 另外又帶子來糴糧。不知道先前誰把子放在我們的口袋裡。』

23 家宰:『你們可以放心,不要害怕,是你們的和你們父親你們財寶在你們的口袋裡;你們的子,我早已收了。』他就把西緬,交他們。

24 家宰就領他們進約瑟的裡,他們,又他們料餵

25 他們就預備那禮物,等候約瑟晌,因為他們見要在那裡飯。

26 約瑟到家裡,他們就把中的禮物拿進去給他,又俯伏在,向他下拜。

27 約瑟問他們好,又問:『你們的父親─就是你們所的那老人家平安嗎?他還在嗎?』

28 他們回答:『你僕人─我們的父親平安;他還在。』於是他們低頭下拜。

29 約瑟舉目見他同母的兄弟便雅憫,就:『你們向我所那頂小的兄弟就是這位嗎?』又:『小兒啊,願賜恩給你!』

30 約瑟愛弟之情發動,就急忙尋找可哭之地,進入自己的屋裡,哭了一場。

31 了臉出來,勉強隱忍,吩咐人擺飯。

32 他們就為約瑟單擺了一席,為那些人又擺了一席,也為和約瑟同飯的埃及人另擺了一席,因為埃及人不可和希伯來人一同飯;那原是埃及人所厭惡的。

33 約瑟使眾弟兄在他面前排列席,都按著長幼的次序,眾弟兄就彼此詫異。

34 約瑟把他面前的食物分出來,送給他們;但便雅憫所得的比別人多五倍。他們就飲酒,和約瑟一同宴樂。

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 5663

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5663. 'Your God and the God of your father' means the Lord's Divine Human. This becomes clear from the fact that where the name God or the name Jehovah is used in the Word, the Lord and no one else is meant, 1343, 1736, 2921, 3035. And when the words 'your God and the God of your father' are used - that is, the God of Israel and Jacob and of his sons - the Lord's Divine Human is meant, in particular His Divine Natural, 3305, 4286, 4570; for 'Israel' represented the Lord's interior Natural, 'Jacob' His exterior Natural, and 'his sons' the truths present in that Natural.

[2] The truth that the Lord was meant by God and Jehovah in the Word was unknown to the Jewish Church; and the Christian Church at the present day does not know it, the reason for its ignorance of this truth being that it has distinguished the Divine into three separate persons. But the Ancient Church which existed after the Flood, and especially the Most Ancient Church which existed before the Flood, did not understand by Jehovah and God anyone else than the Lord, in particular His Divine Human. They did know about the Divine Himself who dwells within the Lord, and whom the Lord calls His Father; but they could not engage in any thought about the Divine Himself who dwells within the Lord, only about His Divine Human, and consequently could not be joined to any other that is Divine. For that linking together is effected through thought which is the activity of the understanding and through affection which is the activity of the will, thus through faith and love. When anyone thinks about the Divine Himself his thought becomes lost so to speak in boundless space and so is dissipated. As a consequence no joining together can result. But it is different when anyone thinks about the Divine Himself as the Divine Human. Those people living in former times also knew that unless they were joined to the Divine they could not be saved.

[3] It was therefore a Divine Human that the Ancient Churches worshipped, and it was Jehovah in this Divine Human that revealed Himself among them. That Divine Human was also the Divine Himself in heaven, for heaven consists of a single human being called the Grand Man, dealt with at the ends of chapters up to this point. The Divine in heaven is essentially the Divine Himself; but He exists in heaven as a Divine Man. This Man is the one the Lord took upon Himself, made Divine within Himself, and made one with the Divine Himself, even as He had from eternity been made one with Him; for He has from eternity been one. He acted in that way because the human race could not otherwise be saved. The channel formed by heaven, and so by the Divine Human there, by means of which the Divine Himself came into people's minds was no longer adequate; therefore the Divine Himself was willing to make the Divine Human one with Himself through the Human He actually took upon Himself in the world. This Divine Human and that Divine Himself are the Lord.

  
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