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创世记 44

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1 约瑟吩咐家宰说:『把粮食装满这些袋,尽着他们的驴所能驮的,又把各子放在各袋里,

2 并将我的杯和那少年人籴粮的子一同装在他的袋里。』家宰就照约瑟所行了;

3 天一亮就打发那些人带着走了。

4 他们出城走了不远,约瑟对家宰:『起来,追那些人去,追上了就对他们:「你们为甚麽以恶报善呢?

5 这不是我人饮酒的杯吗?岂不是他占卜用的吗?你们这样行是作恶了。」』

6 家宰追上他们,将这些对他们了。

7 他们回答:『我为甚麽这样的呢?你仆人断不能作这样的事。

8 你看,我们从前在袋里所见的子,尚且从迦南带来还你,我们怎能从你人家里呢?

9 仆人中无论在谁那里搜出来,就叫他,我们也作我的奴仆。』

10 家宰:『现在就照你们的行吧!在谁那里搜出来,谁就作我的奴仆;其馀的都没有罪。』

11 於是他们各急忙把口袋卸在,各打开口袋。

12 家宰就搜查,从年长的起到年幼的为止,那杯竟在便雅悯的口袋里搜出来。

13 他们就撕裂衣服,各把驮子抬在上,回城去了。

14 犹大和他弟兄们到约瑟的中,约瑟还在那里,他们就在他面前俯伏於

15 约瑟对他们:『你们作的是甚麽事呢?你们岂不知像我这样的必能占卜吗?』

16 犹大:『我们甚麽呢?还有甚麽话可呢?我们怎能自己表白出来呢?已经查出仆人的罪孽了。我们与那在他中搜出杯来的都是我的奴仆。

17 约瑟:『我断不能这样行!在谁的中搜出杯来,谁就作我的奴仆;至於你们,可以平平安安地上你们父亲那里去。』

18 犹大他,:『我啊,求你容仆人一句给我听,不要向仆人发烈怒,因为你如同法老一样。

19 曾问仆人:「你们有父亲兄弟没有?」

20 我们对我:「我们有父亲,已经年老,还有他老年所生的一个小孩子。他哥哥死了,他母亲只撇下他一人,他父亲他。」

21 你对仆人:「把他带到我这里来,叫我亲眼看看他。」

22 我们对我:童子不能离开他父亲,若是离开,他父亲

23 你对仆人:你们的小兄弟若不与你们一同来,你们就不得再见我的面。

24 我们上到你仆人─我们父亲那里,就把我告诉了他。

25 我们父亲:你们再去给我籴些粮来。

26 我们我们不能去。我们的小兄弟若和我们同往,我们就可以去。因为,小兄弟若不与我们同往,我们必不得见那的面。

27 仆人─我父亲我们:你们知道我的妻子给我生了两个儿子。

28 个离开我出去了;我他必是被撕碎了,直到如今我也没有见他。

29 现在你们又要把这个带去离开我,倘若他遭害,那便是你们使我白发苍苍、悲悲惨惨地阴间去了。

30 父亲的命与这童子的命相连。如今我回到你仆人─我父亲那里,若没有童子与我们同在,

31 我们父亲见没有童子,他就必。这便是我们使你仆人我们父亲白发苍苍、悲悲惨惨地阴间去了。

32 因为仆人曾向我父亲为这童子作保,说:我若不他回来交给父亲,我便在父亲面前永远担罪。

33 现在求你容仆人住下,替这童子作我的奴仆,叫童子和他哥哥们一同上去。

34 若童子不和我同去,我怎能上去见我父亲呢?恐怕我见灾祸临到我父亲身上。

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 5758

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5758. 'And how could we steal from your lord's house silver or gold? means, Why should we lay claim to truth or good that comes from the Divine celestial? This is clear from the meaning of 'stealing' in the spiritual sense as laying claim to what is the Lord's, dealt with above in 5749; from the meaning of 'silver' as truth, dealt with in 1551, 2954, 5658; and from the meaning of 'gold' as good, dealt with in 113, 1551, 1552, 5658. The whole of this chapter has as its subject spiritual theft, which consists in laying claim to good and truth that come from the Lord. This is a matter of consequence so great that after death a person cannot be admitted into heaven until he acknowledges in his heart that nothing good or true originates in himself, only in the Lord, and that whatever does originate in himself is nothing but evil. The truth of this is proved to a person after death by means of many experiences. The angels in heaven perceive quite clearly that everything good and true comes from the Lord, in addition they perceive that the Lord is the one who withholds them from evil and maintains in them what is good and therefore what is true, which He does with great force.

[2] I too have been allowed to perceive the same things quite plainly for many years now, and also to perceive that to the extent that I have been left to my proprium or on my own I have been swamped by evils, but to the extent that I have been withheld from this by the Lord I have been raised from evil to good. Laying claim therefore to truth or good as one's own is the opposite of the attitude of mind that reigns universally in heaven. It is also the opposite of the acknowledgement that all salvation is due to mercy, that is, that a person left to himself is in hell, but the Lord in His mercy pulls him out of there. Nor can a person have humility or consequently accept the Lord's mercy - for mercy can enter only where there is humility, that is, into a humble heart - unless he acknowledges that left to himself he produces nothing but evil and that the Lord is the source of all good. Moreover he otherwise thinks that the deeds he performs earn him merit and eventually righteousness; for to claim as one's own truth and good which come from the Lord is self-righteousness, from which many evils well up. Thinking in that way a person sees himself in every specific deed he performs for his neighbour; and when he does this he loves himself more than everyone else, whom he thus holds in contempt which, though he may not express it verbally, is nevertheless present in his heart.

  
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