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1 這事以,有人告訴約瑟:你的父親病了。他就帶著兩個兒子瑪拿西以法蓮同去。

2 有人告訴雅各:請看,你兒子約瑟到你這裡來了以色列就勉強在床上

3 雅各對約瑟全能的神曾在迦南的路斯向我顯現,賜福與我,

4 對我:我必使你生養眾多,成為多民,又要把這你的裔,永遠為業。

5 未到埃及見你之先,你在埃及所生的以法蓮瑪拿西這兩個兒子是我的,正如流便和西緬是我的一樣。

6 你在他們以所生的就是你的,他們可以歸於他們弟兄的名下得產業。

7 至於我,我從巴旦的時候,拉結在我眼前,在迦南上,離以法他還有一段程,我就把他葬在以法他上〈以法他就是伯利恆〉。

8 以色列見約瑟的兩個兒子,就:這是誰?

9 約瑟對他父親:這是在這裡賜我的兒子。以色列:請你領他們到我跟前,我要他們祝福

10 以色列年紀老邁,眼睛昏花,不能見。約瑟領他們到他跟前,他就和他們親嘴,抱著他們。

11 以色列對約瑟:我想不到得見你的面,不料,又使我得見你的兒子。

12 約瑟把兩個兒子從以色列兩膝中領出來,自己就臉伏於下拜。

13 隨後,約瑟又拉著他們兩個,以法蓮在他的右手裡,對著以色列的左手,瑪拿西在他的左手裡,對著以色列的右手,領他們到以色列的跟前。

14 以色列伸出來,按在以法蓮上〈以法蓮乃是次子〉,又剪搭過左來,按在瑪拿西上〈瑪拿西原是長子〉。

15 他就給約瑟祝福:願我祖亞伯拉罕和我父以撒所事奉的,就是一生牧養我直到今日的

16 贖我脫離一切患難的那使者,賜福與這兩個童子。願他們歸在我的名下和我祖亞伯拉罕、我父以撒的名下。又願他們在世界中生養眾多。

17 約瑟見他父親把右按在以法蓮上,就不喜悅,便提起他父親,要從以法蓮上挪到瑪拿西上。

18 約瑟對他父親:我父,不是這樣。這本是長子,求你把右手按在他的上。

19 父親不從,:我知道,我兒,我知道。他也必成為一族,也必昌大。只是他的兄弟將來比他還大;他兄弟的後裔要成為多族。

20 當日就給他們祝福以色列人要指著你們祝福:願使你如以法蓮瑪拿西一樣。於是立以法蓮瑪拿西以上。

21 以色列又對約瑟:我要死了,但必與你們同在,領你們回到你們列祖之

22 並且我從前用用刀從亞摩利人下奪的那塊地,我都賜你,使你比眾弟兄多得分。

   

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6272. He put forth his hands crosswise. That this signifies, thus not according to order, is evident from the signification of “putting forth the hands crosswise,” as being not according to order; for thereby he makes the younger the firstborn, and the reverse; consequently the truth of faith prior and higher; and the good of charity posterior and lower; for “birthright” denotes priority and superiority (see n. 3325). It is evident how much evil this introduces into the church; for thereby its people get into such obscurity that they do not know what good is, thus neither what truth is; for good is like flame, and truth like the light from it: if you take away the flame, the light also perishes; and if any light appears, it is like a deceptive light that is not from flame. Hence it is that churches are at variance with one another, and dispute about truth, and one congregation asserts a thing to be true, which another asserts to be false. And what is still worse, when once they have set faith in the prior place in the assemblage of the church, they next begin to separate faith from charity, and to make the latter of comparatively no account, and thus to care nothing for the life, a thing to which man naturally inclines. Hence the church perishes, for it is the life which makes the church with man, but not doctrine without life; thus not confidence, which is eminent faith; for genuine confidence is possible with those only who are in charity, from which is the life of confidence. (Moreover, that the good of charity is actually the firstborn, that is, in the prior place, and that the truth of faith appears to be so, may be seen above, n. 3324-3539, 3548, 3556, 3563, 3570, 3576, 3603, 3701, 4243, 4244, 4247, 4337, 4925, 4926, 4928, 4930, 4977.)

  
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