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创世记 43

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1 的饥荒甚大。

2 他们从埃及的粮食尽了,他们的父亲就对他们:『你们再去给我籴些粮。』

3 犹大对他:『那谆谆地告诫我们:「你们的兄弟若不与你们同来,你们就不得见我的面。」

4 你若打发我们兄弟我们同去,我们去给你籴粮;

5 你若不打发他去,我们就不去,因为那我们:「你们的兄弟若不与你们同来,你们就不得见我的面。」』

6 以色列:『你们为什麽这样害我,告诉你们还有兄弟呢?』

7 他们回答:『那详细问到我们我们的亲属,:「你们的父亲还在吗?你们还有兄弟吗?」我们就按着他所问的告诉他,焉能知道他要「必须把你们的兄弟来」呢?』

8 犹大又对他父亲以色列:『你打发童子与我同去,我们就起身下去,好叫我们和你,并我们的妇人孩子,都得存活,不至於

9 我为他作保;你可以从我中追讨,我若不他回来交在你面前,我情愿永远担罪。

10 我们若没有耽搁,如今第二次都回来了。』

11 他们的父亲以色列:『若必须如此,你们就当这样行:可以将这土产中最好的乳香、蜂蜜、香料、没药、榧子、杏仁都取一点,收在器具里,带去送给那礼物

12 又要里加倍地带子,并将归还在你们袋内的子仍带在里;那或者是错了。

13 也带着你们的兄弟,起身去见那

14 但愿全能的神使你们在那面前蒙怜悯,释放你们的那弟兄和便雅悯回来。我若丧了儿子,就丧了吧!』

15 於是,他们拿着那礼物,又里加倍地带子,并且带着便雅悯,起身埃及,站在约瑟面前。

16 约瑟见便雅悯和他们同来,就对家宰:『将这些人领到里。要宰杀牲畜,预备筵席,因为晌这些人同我饭。』

17 家宰就遵着约瑟的命去行,领他们进约瑟的里。

18 他们因为被领到约瑟的里,就害怕:『领我们到这里,必是因为头次归还在我们口袋里的子,找我们的错缝,下手害我们,强取我们为奴仆,抢夺我们。』

19 他们就挨约瑟的家宰,在口和他说话

20 :『我啊,我们头次来实在是要籴粮。

21 到了住宿的地方,我们打开袋,不料,各子,分量足数,仍在各袋内,现在我们里又回来了。

22 另外又带子来籴粮。不知道先前谁把子放在我们的口袋里。』

23 家宰:『你们可以放心,不要害怕,是你们的和你们父亲你们财宝在你们的口袋里;你们的子,我早已收了。』他就把西缅,交他们。

24 家宰就领他们进约瑟的里,他们,又他们料喂

25 他们就预备那礼物,等候约瑟晌,因为他们见要在那里饭。

26 约瑟到家里,他们就把中的礼物拿进去给他,又俯伏在,向他下拜。

27 约瑟问他们好,又问:『你们的父亲─就是你们所的那老人家平安吗?他还在吗?』

28 他们回答:『你仆人─我们的父亲平安;他还在。』於是他们低头下拜。

29 约瑟举目见他同母的兄弟便雅悯,就:『你们向我所那顶小的兄弟就是这位吗?』又:『小儿啊,愿赐恩给你!』

30 约瑟爱弟之情发动,就急忙寻找可哭之地,进入自己的屋里,哭了一场。

31 了脸出来,勉强隐忍,吩咐人摆饭。

32 他们就为约瑟单摆了一席,为那些人又摆了一席,也为和约瑟同饭的埃及人另摆了一席,因为埃及人不可和希伯来人一同饭;那原是埃及人所厌恶的。

33 约瑟使众弟兄在他面前排列席,都按着长幼的次序,众弟兄就彼此诧异。

34 约瑟把他面前的食物分出来,送给他们;但便雅悯所得的比别人多五倍。他们就饮酒,和约瑟一同宴乐。

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 5695

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5695. 'And he washed his face' means that it took steps to ensure this. This is clear from the meaning of 'washing his face' here as taking steps to ensure that it remained unseen; for Joseph's face was washed, and so steps were taken by him to ensure that his tears remained unseen. The full implications of this will in the Lord's Divine mercy be stated further on; but let something be said at this point about the correspondence of a person's face with his interiors. His face is what is external serving to represent his interiors. For the face has been designed in such a way that a person's interiors may be seen there as if in a mirror that reflects things in a representative fashion; it has been so designed that another may know its owner's attitude of mind towards himself, so that the owner reveals his sentiments when he speaks not only through his speech but also through his face. This was the kind of face possessed by the most ancient people who belonged to the celestial Church, and it is the kind that all angels have. Angels have no wish to conceal from others anything they think, for they think solely of their neighbour's well-being. Nor do they have any thought hidden away which desires their neighbour's well-being for some selfish reason of their own.

[2] But those in hell, as long as they are not seen in the light of heaven, have a face other than the one that corresponds to their interiors. The reason for this is that during their lifetime they bore witness by means of their face to charity towards the neighbour solely for the sake of their own position and gain; they did not desire their neighbour's well being except insofar as it was identical with their own. Consequently the expression on their face is at variance with their interiors. Sometimes that variance is so great that feelings of enmity, hatred, and revenge, and the desire to murder are inwardly present, yet their face is set in such a way that love towards their neighbour is beaming from it. From this one may see how far people's interiors disagree at the present day with their exteriors, and why they resort to those kinds of practices to serve their own interests.

  
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