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创世记 41

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1 过了两年,法老做梦,梦见自己站在河边,

2 只母从河里上来,又美好又肥壮,在芦荻中吃

3 又有只母从河里上来,又丑陋又乾,与那只母一同站在河边。

4 这又丑陋又乾只母尽了那又美好又肥壮的只母法老就醒了。

5 他又睡着,第二回做梦,梦见棵麦子长了个穗子,又肥大又佳美,

6 又长了个穗子,又细弱又被东风吹焦了。

7 这细弱的穗子了那个又肥大又饱满的穗子。法老醒了,不料是个梦。

8 到了早晨法老心里不安,就差人召了埃及所有的术士和博士来;法老就把所做的梦告诉他们,却没有人能给法老圆解。

9 那时酒政对法老:我今日想起我的罪来。

10 从前法老恼怒臣仆,把我和膳长下在护卫长府内的监里。

11 我们同夜各做梦,各梦都有讲解。

12 在那里同着我们有一个希伯来的少年,是护卫长的仆人我们告诉他,他就把我们的梦圆解,是按着各的梦圆解的。

13 後来正如他给我们圆解的成就了;我官复原职,膳长被起来了。

14 法老遂即差人去召约瑟,他们便急忙带他出监,他就剃头,刮脸,换衣裳,进到法老面前。

15 法老对约瑟:我做了一梦,没有人能解;我见人,你了梦就能解。

16 约瑟回答法老:这不在乎我,必将平安的话回答法老

17 法老对约瑟:我梦见我站在河边,

18 只母从河里上来,又肥壮又美好,在芦荻中吃

19 又有只母上来,又软弱又丑陋又乾瘦,在埃及,我没有见过这样不好的。

20 这又乾瘦又丑陋的母尽了那以先的只肥母

21 吃了以後却看不出是吃了,那丑陋的样子仍旧和先前一样。我就醒了。

22 我又梦见棵麦子,长了个穗子,又饱满又佳美,

23 又长了个穗子,枯槁细弱,被东风吹焦了。

24 这些细弱的穗子了那个佳美的穗子。我将这梦告诉了术士,却没有人能给我解说。

25 约瑟对法老法老的梦乃是个。已将所要做的事指示法老了。

26 年,穗子也是年;这梦乃是个。

27 那随上来的只又乾瘦又丑陋的母年,那个虚空、被东风吹焦的穗子也是年,都是个荒年。

28 这就是我对法老已将所要做的事显明给法老了。

29 埃及丰年,

30 又要来个荒年,甚至埃及忘了先前的丰收,全必被饥荒所灭。

31 因那以的饥荒甚大,便不觉得先前的丰收了。

32 至於法老两回做梦,是因命定这事,而且必速速成就。

33 所以,法老当拣选一个有聪明有智慧的,派他治理埃及

34 法老当这样行,又派员管理这。当个丰年的时候,征收埃及的五分之一,

35 叫他们把将丰年一切的粮食聚敛起,积蓄五谷,收存在各城里做食物,归於法老的

36 所积蓄的粮食可以防备埃及将来的个荒年,免得这被饥荒所灭。

37 法老和他一切臣仆都以这事为妙。

38 法老对臣仆:像这样的,有的灵在他里头,我们岂能得着呢?

39 法老对约瑟既将这事都指示你,可见没有人像你这样有聪明有智慧。

40 你可以掌管我的家;我的民都必听从你的话。惟独在宝座上我比你大。

41 法老又对约瑟:我派你治理埃及

42 法老就摘下上打印的戒指,戴在约瑟的上,给他穿上细麻衣,把炼戴在他的颈项上,

43 约瑟坐他的副车,喝道的在前呼叫说:跪下。这样、法老派他治理埃及

44 法老对约瑟:我是法老,在埃及,若没有你的命令,不许擅自办事(原文作动)。

45 法老赐名约瑟,撒发那忒巴内亚,又将安城的祭司波提非拉的女儿亚西纳他为妻。约瑟就出去巡行埃及

46 约瑟见埃及法老的时候年三十岁。他从法老面前出去,遍行埃及

47 个丰年之内,的出产极丰极盛(原文作一把一把的),

48 约瑟聚集埃及个丰年一切的粮食,把粮食积存在各城里;各城周围田的粮食都积存在本城里。

49 约瑟积蓄五谷甚多,如同边的沙,无法计算,因为谷不可胜

50 荒年未到以前,安城的祭司波提非拉的女儿亚西纳给约瑟生了两个儿子。

51 约瑟给长子起名玛拿西(就是使之忘了的意思),因为他使我忘了一切的困苦和我父的全家。

52 他给次子起名以法莲(就是使之昌盛的意思),因为他使我在受苦的方昌盛。

53 埃及个丰年一完,

54 个荒年就来了。正如约瑟所的,各都有饥荒;惟独埃及有粮食。

55 及至埃及有了饥荒,众民向法老哀求粮食,法老对他们:你们往约瑟那里去,凡他所的,你们都要做。

56 当时饥荒遍满天下,约瑟开了各处的仓,发粮给埃及人;在埃及饥荒甚大。

57 的人都往埃及去,到约瑟那里籴粮,因为天下的饥荒甚大。

   

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5351. 'And Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh' means a new area of will within the natural, and the essential nature of it. This is clear from the representation of 'Manasseh' in the Word as spiritual good within the natural, and so a new area of will there, dealt with below. This name also implies the essential nature of that good or new area of will. The fact that the name implies the essential nature of this may be recognized from the names given to other people. An explanation of the essential nature accompanies each name, like that given for Manasseh in the following words, For God has made me forget all my labour and all my father's house. These words describe the essential nature of what is meant by 'Manasseh'. What is more, when the phrase 'he called the name' is used, the meaning is that the actual name too contains that essential nature, since 'name' and 'calling the name' mean the essential nature, 144, 145, 1754, 1896, 2009, 2724, 3006, 3421.

[2] The reason why the firstborn who was given the name Manasseh means spiritual good within the natural, or a new area of will there, is that good is in actual fact the firstborn in the Church. That is, with someone who is in the process of becoming a Church, truth is not the firstborn, though it appears to be so, see 352, 367, 2435, 3325, 3494, 4925, 4926, 4928, 4930. The same may also be recognized from the consideration that a person's will takes precedence over his understanding; for the desires in a person's will are the primary constituents of his life, while the ideas in his understanding are secondary to them; and he acts in accordance with the desires of his will. What goes forth from the will is called good in the case of those who through regeneration have received from the Lord a new will; but it is called evil in the case of those who have had no wish to receive such. What goes forth from the understanding however is called truth in the case of the regenerate but falsity in the case of the unregenerate. But because no knowledge of a person's will is possible except through his understanding - for the understanding is the outward form that the will possesses or the outward form taken by the will which enables it to be known - people therefore imagine that truth which goes forth from the understanding is the firstborn. But this is nothing else than the appearance, for the reason that has been stated.

[3] This explains the controversy that existed in former times over whether the truth which is the essence of faith was the firstborn of the Church or whether good which is the essence of charity was such. Those who based their conclusions on the appearance said that truth was the firstborn, whereas those who did not base theirs on the appearance acknowledged that good was. This also explains why at the present day people make faith the primary and absolutely essential constituent of the Church, but charity the secondary and non-essential element. But by supposing that faith alone is what saves a person they have sunk into far deeper error than the ancients. (In the Church faith is used to mean all the truth of doctrine, while charity is used to mean all the good of life.) They do, it is true, call charity and the works of charity the fruits of faith. Yet does anyone believe that those fruits make any contribution to salvation when the belief exists that someone can be saved by faith in the final hour of his life, no matter what kind of life he led before then? More than this, does anyone believe that those fruits contribute in any way to salvation when people use doctrine to set faith apart from works that are the product of charity, saying that faith alone saves without good works, or that works which are matters of life contribute nothing to salvation? Dear, dear! What kind of faith is that, and what kind of Church is it when people cherish faith that is dead and reject faith that is living? For faith without charity is like a body without a soul. But a body without a soul is removed from sight and put away because it stinks, as everyone knows; and in the next life faith without charity is just like this. All who possessed faith so-called which was devoid of charity are in hell; but all who had charity are in heaven. For everyone's life remains with him, whereas doctrine does so only insofar as it draws on that life.

[4] It is less easy to show from other places in the Word that 'Manasseh' means a new area of will within the natural - or what amounts to the same, spiritual good there - than it is to show that 'Ephraim' means a new area of understanding within the natural, or spiritual truth there. Even so, inferences can be drawn regarding the meaning of 'Manasseh' from what is said about 'Ephraim', because in the Word when two are mentioned together in the way these are, one means good, the other truth. Therefore Manasseh's meaning - spiritual good within the natural, which is the essence of the new will there - will be seen in what follows shortly where Ephraim is the subject.

  
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