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创世记 19

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1 那两个天使晚上到了所多玛;罗得正所多玛门口见他们,就起来迎接,脸伏於下拜,

2 :我阿,请你们到仆人家里,住一夜,清起来再走。他们:不!我们要在街上过夜。

3 罗得切切的请他们,他们这才进去,到他里。罗得为他们预备筵席,无酵饼,他们就吃了

4 他们还没有躺下,所多玛城里各处的人,连老带少,都来围住那房子,

5 呼叫罗得:今日晚上到你这里的人在那里呢?把他们,任我们所为。

6 罗得出来,把上,到众人那里,

7 :众弟兄,请你们不要作这恶事。

8 我有两个女儿,还是处女,容我领出,任凭你们的心愿而行;只是这两个既然到我舍,不要向他们作甚麽。

9 :退去罢!又:这个寄居,还想要作官哪!现在我们要害你比害他们更甚。众就向前拥挤罗得,要攻

10 只是那二人伸出来,将罗得拉进去,把上,

11 并且使外的人,无论老少,眼都昏迷;他们摸来摸去,总寻不着房

12 二人对罗得:你这里还有甚麽人麽?无论是女婿是儿女,和这城中一切属你的人,你都要将他们从这地方带出去。

13 我们要毁灭这地方;因为城内罪恶的声音在耶和华面前甚大,耶和华我们来,要毁灭这地方

14 罗得就出去,告诉娶了(或作将要娶)他女儿的女婿们:你们起来离开这地方,因为耶和华要毁灭这城。他女婿们却以为他的是戏言。

15 天明了,天使催逼罗得说:起来!带着你的妻子和你在这里的两个女儿出去,免得你因这城里的罪恶同被剿灭。

16 但罗得迟延不走。人因为耶和华怜恤罗得,就拉着他的和他妻子的,并他两个女儿,把他们领出来,安置在城外;

17 领他们出来以,就:逃命罢!不可回头,也不可在平原站住。要往上逃跑,免得你被剿灭。

18 罗得对他们:我阿,不要如此!

19 仆人已经在你眼前蒙恩;你又向我显出莫大的慈爱,我的性命。我不能逃到上去,恐怕这灾祸临到我,我便死了

20 看哪,这座城又小又近,容易逃到,这不是一个小的麽?求你容我逃到那里,我的性命就得存活。

21 天使对他:这事我也应允你;我不倾覆你所的这城。

22 你要速速地逃到那城;因为你还没有到那里,我不能作甚麽。因此那城名琐珥(就是小的意思)。

23 罗得到了琐珥,日头已经出来了

24 当时,耶和华硫磺耶和华那里降与所多玛和蛾摩拉,

25 把那些城和全平原,并城里所有的居民,连地上生长的,都毁灭了。

26 罗得的妻子边回头一看,就变成了一根柱。

27 亚伯拉罕起来,到了他从前站在耶和华面前的地方

28 所多玛和蛾摩拉与平原的全,不料,那方烟气上腾,如同烧窑一般。

29 毁灭平原诸城的时候,他记念亚伯拉罕,正在倾覆罗得所之城的时候,就打发罗得从倾覆之中出来。

30 罗得因为在琐珥,就同他两个女儿从琐珥上去,里;他和两个女儿在一个洞里。

31 大女儿对小女儿我们父亲老了,上又无按着世上的常规进到我们这里。

32 来!我们可以叫父亲喝酒,与他同寝。这样,我们好从他存留後裔。

33 於是,那夜他们叫父亲喝酒,大女儿就进去和他父亲同寝;他几时躺下,几时起来父亲都不知道

34 第二天,大女儿对小女儿:我昨夜与父亲同寝。今夜我们再叫他喝酒,你可以进去与他同寝。这样,我们好从父亲存留後裔。

35 於是,那夜他们又叫父亲喝酒,小女儿起来与他父亲同寝;他几时躺下,几时起来父亲都不知道

36 这样,罗得的两个女儿从他父亲怀了孕。

37 大女儿生了儿子,给他起名摩押,就是现今摩押人的始祖。

38 小女儿也生了儿子,给他起名便亚米,就是现今亚扪人的始祖。

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 1589

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1589. Like the land of Egypt in coming to Zoar. That this signifies memory-knowledges from the affections of good, is evident from the signification of “Egypt” (see n. 1164, 1165; in a good sense, n. 1462) as being memory-knowledge; and from the signification of “Zoar,” as being the affection of good. Zoar was a city not far from Sodom, whither also Lot fled when rescued by the angels from the burning of Sodom (described, Genesis 19:20, 22, 30). Zoar is also named in other places (Genesis 14:2, 8 (Genesis 14:8); Deuteronomy 34:3; Isaiah 15:5; Jeremiah 48:34), where also it signifies affection and as it signifies the affection of good, it also, in the opposite sense, as is common, signifies the affection of evil.

[2] There are three faculties which constitute the external man, namely, the rational, that of memory-knowledge, and the external sensuous. The rational is interior, the faculty of memory-knowledge is exterior, and this sensuous is outermost. It is the rational by means of which the internal man is conjoined with the external; and such as is the rational, such is the conjunction. The external sensuous, here, is the sight and the hearing. But in itself the rational is nothing, unless affection flows into it and makes it active, and causes it to live. It follows from this that the rational is such as is the affection. When the affection of good flows in, it becomes in the rational the affection of truth. The contrary is the case when the affection of evil flows in. As the faculty of memory-knowledge applies itself to the rational, and is an instrumentality for it, it follows that the affection inflows into this also, and disposes it; for nothing but affection ever lives in the external man. The reason of this is that the affection of good comes down from the celestial, that is, from celestial love, which vivifies everything into which it flows; it even vivifies the affections of evil, or cupidities.

[3] For the good of love from the Lord continually flows in through the internal man into the external; but the man who is in the affection of evil, or in cupidity, perverts the good; but still there remains life from it. This may be perceived by comparison with the objects which receive the rays of the sun. There are some that receive these rays most beautifully, and turn them into most beautiful colors, as do the diamond, the ruby, the jacinth, the sapphire, and other precious stones; but there are others which do not so receive them, but turn them into most disagreeable colors. The same may also be seen from the different genius of different men. There are those who receive goods from another with all affection; and there are those who turn them into evils. This shows what is that memory-knowledge from the affections of good that is signified by “the land of Egypt in coming to Zoar,” when the rational is “like the garden of Jehovah.”

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