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创世记 42

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1 雅各埃及有粮,就对儿子们:你们为甚麽彼此观望呢?

2 埃及有粮,你们可以去,从那里为我们籴些来,使我们可以存活,不至於

3 於是,约瑟的哥哥埃及籴粮去了。

4 但约瑟的兄弟便雅悯,雅各没有打发他和哥哥们同去,因为雅各:恐怕他遭害。

5 籴粮的人中有以色列的儿子们,因为迦南也有饥荒。

6 当时治理埃及的是约瑟;发粮给那众民的就是他。约瑟的哥哥来了,脸伏於,向他下拜。

7 约瑟见他哥哥们,就认得他们,却装作生人,向他们些严厉话,问他们:你们从那里?他们:我们从迦南籴粮。

8 约瑟认得他哥哥们,他们却不认得他。

9 约瑟想起从前所做的那两个梦,就对他们:你们是奸细,窥探这的虚实。

10 他们对他:我阿,不是的。仆人们是籴粮的。

11 我们都是的儿子,是诚实仆人们并不是奸细。

12 约瑟:不然,你们必是窥探这的虚实的。

13 他们仆人们本是弟兄十二,是迦南的儿子,顶小的现今在我们父亲那里,有个没有了。

14 约瑟:我才你们是奸细,这话实在不错。

15 我指着法老的性命起誓,若是你们的小兄弟不到这里,你们就不得出这地方,从此就可以把你们证验出来了

16 须要打发你们中间个人去,把你们的兄弟带来。至於你们,都要囚在这里,好证验你们的真不真,若不真,我指着法老的性命起誓,你们定是奸细。

17 於是约瑟把他们都下在监里

18 到了第三,约瑟对他们:我是敬畏的;你们照我的话行就可以存活。

19 你们如果是诚实人,可以留你们中间的个人囚在监里,但你们可以着粮食回去,救你们家里的饥荒。

20 把你们的小兄弟到我这里,如此,你们的便有证据,你们也不至於。他们就照样而行。

21 他们彼此我们兄弟身上实在有罪。他哀求我们的时候,我们见他心里的愁苦,却不肯,所以这场苦难临到我们身上。

22 流便:我岂不是对你们说过,不可伤害那孩子麽?只是你们不肯,所以流他血的罪向我们追讨。

23 他们不知道约瑟得出来,因为在他们中间用通事传话。

24 约瑟转身退去,哭了一场,又回来对他们说话,就从他们中间挑出西缅来,在他们眼前把他捆绑。

25 约瑟吩咐把粮食装满他们的器具,把各子归还在各的口里,又他们上用的食物,就照他的话办了。

26 他们就把粮食驮在上,离开那里去了。

27 到了住宿的地方,他们中间有个人打开,要拿料喂,才见自己的子仍在里,

28 就对弟兄们:我的子归还了,看哪,仍在我口袋里!他们就提吊胆,战战兢兢的彼此:这是我们做甚麽呢?

29 他们迦南、他们的父亲雅各那里,将所遭遇的事都告诉他,说:

30 我们严厉的话,把我们当作窥探那的奸细。

31 我们对他:我们是诚实人,并不是奸细。

32 我们本是弟兄十二人,都是父亲的儿子,有个没有了,顶小的如今同我们的父亲迦南

33 我们:若要我知道你们是诚实,可以留下你们中间的在我这里,你们可以带着粮食回去,救你们家里的饥荒。

34 把你们的小兄弟到我这里,我便知道你们不是奸细,乃是诚实人。这样,我就把你们的弟兄交你们,你们也可以在这做买卖。

35 後来他们倒口,不料,各包都在口里;他们和父亲包就都害怕

36 他们的父亲雅各对他们:你们使我丧失我的儿子:约瑟没有了,西缅也没有了,你们又要将便雅悯带去;这些事都归到我身上了。

37 流便对他父亲:我若不回来你,你可以杀我的两个儿子。只管把他交在我里,我必回来你。

38 雅各:我的儿子不可与你们一同去;他哥哥死了,只剩他,他若在你们所行的上遭害,那便是你们使我白发苍苍、悲悲惨惨的阴间去了。

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 5427

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5427. 'And Joseph recognized his brothers' means that the truths of the Church were visible to the celestial of the spiritual in the light that this possessed. This is clear from the meaning of 'recognizing' as perceiving, seeing, and so being visible; from the representation of 'Joseph' as the celestial of the spiritual, dealt with already; and from the meaning of 'his brothers' as the general truths known to the Church, dealt with above in 5409, 5419. And Since 'Joseph recognized his brothers' means that those truths - the general truths known to the Church - were visible to the celestial of the spiritual, it follows that they were seen by the light in which the celestial of the spiritual dwells and so by the light which the celestial of the spiritual possesses. In this light, which is truth from the Divine, 5417, every single truth below - that is, within the natural - is visible. But the reverse is not possible if no intermediary is present, still less if no agreement between the two sides exists, no agreement enabling the two to be joined together. This becomes quite clear from the consideration that angels dwelling in the heavens, and so in the light of heaven, can see every single thing that happens in the world of spirits, which is immediately below the heavens, as well as every single thing that happens on the earth of the lower ones, and indeed that happens in the hells. But the reverse is not possible.

[2] It is also the case that the angels of a higher heaven can see everything that is happening in the heaven beneath them, but the reverse is not so unless an intermediary exists. Intermediary spirits also serve as the means by which communication forward and back takes place. When therefore those who are in a lower position and have no intermediary, and more particularly those who are not in agreement with the ones above them, look at the light of heaven, they see absolutely nothing at all; everything there appears to them to dwell in total obscurity. But in fact those in the place where they look dwell in the brightest light. This may be illustrated by the following unique experience: A large city once appeared in front of me, where there were thousands of different, delightful and beautiful sights. I saw these because an intermediary had been provided; yet the spirits present with me could not see a single thing because they had no intermediary. I was told that even though they are present in that place those who are not in agreement with the ones above them discern nothing whatever of the things existing there.

[3] The same is similarly true of a person's interior man or spirit, which is also called his soul. The interior man can see every single thing present and taking place in the exterior man; but the reverse is not possible unless the two are in agreement and an intermediary is present. To the exterior man therefore, when it is not in agreement with the interior man, the interior man does not appear to have any existence. It appears to be so completely non-existent that when anything is said about the interior man, it seems to the exterior man either to be so obscure that it is unwilling even to contemplate it or to be nothing it can believe in. But when agreement between the two does exist, the exterior man sees, with the help of the intermediary, what is going on in the interior man. For then the light which the interior man possesses enters into the light which the exterior or natural man possesses; that is, heavenly light passes into natural light and brightens it, and in this brighter light what is happening to the interior man is made visible. This is the origin of the intelligence and wisdom which the exterior man possesses. But if no intermediary is present, and especially if no agreement exists, the interior man sees and perceives what is going on in the exterior man and also to some extent guides it; the reverse however does not happen. More than that, if contrariety exists - that is to say, if the exterior man completely perverts or snuffs out what comes in by way of the interior man - the interior man is deprived of the light it receives from heaven, heaven is inaccessible to it, and a communication from hell with the exterior man is opened up. You may see more about these matters in what now follows below.

  
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