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创世记 32

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1 雅各仍旧行的使者遇见他。

2 雅各见他们就:这是的军兵,於是给那地方起名玛哈念(就是二军兵的意思)。

3 雅各打发人先往西珥去,就是以东,见他哥哥以扫

4 吩咐他们:你们对我以扫:你的仆人雅各这样:我在拉班那里寄居,直到如今。

5 我有牛、羊群、仆婢,现在打发人来报告我,为要在你眼前蒙恩。

6 所打发的回到雅各那里,:我们到了你哥哥以扫那里,他带着,正迎着你

7 雅各就甚惧,而且愁烦,便把那与他同在的人口和羊群牛群骆驼分做两队,

8 以扫击杀这队,剩下的那队还可以逃避。

9 雅各耶和华─我祖亚伯拉罕的,我父亲以撒的阿,你曾对我:回你本本族去,我要厚待你。

10 你向仆人所施的一切慈爱和诚实,我一点也不配得;我先前只拿着我的杖过这约但河,如今我却成了两队了。

11 求你我脱离我哥哥以扫;因为我怕他杀我,连妻子带儿女一同杀了。

12 你曾:我必定厚待你,使你的後裔如同边的沙,多得不可胜

13 当夜,雅各在那里住宿,就从他所有的物中拿礼物要送给他哥哥以扫

14 山羊只,公山羊二十只,母绵只,公绵二十只,

15 奶崽子的骆驼三十只─各带着崽子,母四十只,公只,母二十匹,匹;

16 每样各分一群,交在仆人下,就对仆人:你们要在我前头过去,使群群相离,有空间的地方;

17 又吩咐尽先走的:我哥哥以扫遇见你的时候,问你:你是那家的人?要往那里去?你前头?这些是谁的?

18 你就:是你仆人雅各的,是送给我以扫礼物;他自己也在我们边?。

19 又吩咐第二、第三,和一切赶群畜的人:你们遇见以扫的时候也要这样对他

20 并且你们要:你仆人雅各我们边。因雅各心里:我藉着在我前头去的礼物解他的恨,然再见他的面,或者他容纳我。

21 於是礼物先过去了;那夜,雅各在队中住宿。

22 他夜间起来,带着两个妻子,两个使女,并十一个儿子,过了雅博渡口,

23 先打发他们过,又打发所有的都过去,

24 雅各。有一个来和他摔跤,直到黎明。

25 那人见自己胜不过他,就将他的大腿窝摸了一把,雅各大腿窝正在摔跤的时候就扭了。

26 那人:天黎明了,容我去罢!雅各:你不给我祝福,我就不容你去。

27 那人:你名叫甚麽?他:我名叫雅各

28 那人:你的名不要再叫雅各,要叫以色列;因为你与与人较力,都得了胜。

29 雅各问他:请将你的名告诉我。那人:何必问我的名?於是在那里给雅各祝福

30 雅各便给那地方起名毗努伊勒(就是之面的意思),意思:我面对面见了,我的性命仍得保全。

31 日头刚出来的时候,雅各经过毗努伊勒,他的大腿就瘸了。

32 故此,以色列人大腿窝的,直到今日,因为那人摸了雅各大腿窝的

   

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4295. 'And Jacob asked and said, Tell me, I pray, your name' means the angelic heaven and the nature of that heaven. This becomes clear from the representation of Jacob' as the Lord's Divine Natural, dealt with already, and from the meaning of 'God' whose name he asked for, and also of 'men', with whom he contended as a prince and prevailed, as truths and goods, and so as those who are governed by truths and goods, dealt with above in 4287. And since the angelic heaven is heaven by virtue of truths and goods it is that heaven specifically which is meant by God and men with whom the Lord prevailed. Angels are also sometimes called 'gods' in the Word, it being by virtue of truths and goods that they are called such, as in David,

God stands in the assembly of God, in the midst of the gods will He judge. I said, You are gods, and sons of the Most High, all of you. Psalms 82:1, 6.

Here it is quite plain that 'the assembly of God' and 'the gods' are the angelic heaven. In the same author,

Who in the sky will be compared to Jehovah? Who will be likened to Jehovah among the sons of gods? Psalms 89:6.

In the same author,

Confess the God of gods; confess the Lord of lords Psalms 136:2-3.

From these quotations it is evident - as it is also from the fact that no one can contend as a prince with God and prevail, and likewise from the fact that the one who is called a god was unwilling to reveal his name - that it was the angelic heaven with which the Lord fought. It is quite plain from the actual words themselves 'Why is it that you ask my name?' that an arcanum lies within them, for if he had been Jehovah God he would not have concealed his name. Nor would Jacob have asked 'What is your name?' for asking the name implies some person or persons other than God Himself.

[2] The truth that the Lord at length fought with actual angels, indeed with the whole angelic heaven, is an arcanum which has not been disclosed up to now. But the implications of this are as follows: Angels do indeed possess supreme wisdom and intelligence, yet all their wisdom and intelligence comes to them from the Lord's Divine. They have no wisdom or intelligence at all that originates in themselves, that is, in their proprium. Therefore it is only insofar as they are governed by truths and goods received from the Lord's Divine that they are wise and intelligent. The fact that angels have no wisdom or intelligence at all originating in themselves they themselves openly confess. Indeed they are also quite angry if anyone attributes to them any wisdom or intelligence at all, for they know and perceive that it would be taking away from the Divine that which is His and it would be claiming for themselves that which is not theirs, and so would be engaging in the crime of spiritual theft. Angels also say that their entire proprium consists in evil and falsity, both because of their heredity and also because of their own conduct in the world when they were men, 1880. Nor, they say, is evil or falsity separated - that is, wiped away - from them, whereby they are made righteous; rather, the whole of it remains with them, though the Lord withholds them from that evil and falsity and keeps them in good and truth, 1581. These things are confessed by every angel, and no one is allowed into heaven if he does not know and believe them. For otherwise they cannot dwell in the light of wisdom and intelligence coming from the Lord, nor consequently in good and truth. From this one can also know how the words in Job 15:15 stating that heaven is not pure in the eyes of God are to be understood.

[3] This being so, in order that the Lord might bring the whole of heaven into proper heavenly order, He even allowed angels into Himself to tempt Him, who, insofar as they acted from their proprium, did not do so from good and truth. These temptations are the inmost of all, for they go to work solely on the ends one has in view and with a subtlety such as can by no means be detected. But insofar as angels do not act from their proprium they act from good and truth and are unable to tempt anyone. What is more, angels are being perfected constantly by the Lord, and yet their perfection cannot ever reach the point when their wisdom and intelligence can be compared with the Lord's Divine wisdom and intelligence, since they are finite whereas the Lord is Infinite, and no comparison of finite with Infinite is possible. From all this one may now see what 'God with whom Jacob contended as a prince' is used to mean, and also why he was unwilling to reveal his name.

  
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