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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 # 5786

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5786. 'behold, we are my lord's slaves' means that they are to be deprived for ever of their own freedom. This is clear from the meaning of slaves' as being without any freedom of their own, dealt with in 5760, 5763. What is meant by being deprived of the freedom of one's own has also been stated in the paragraphs that have just been mentioned; however, since it is an extremely important matter, let it be restated. A person has both an external man and an internal man. The external man is the means through which the internal man acts; for the external man is merely the organ or instrument of the internal. This being so, the external man must be made wholly subservient and subject to the internal; and when the external man is subject to the internal, heaven acts on the external man by means of the internal man and makes the external man conform to things such as are of heaven.

[2] The opposite occurs when the external man is not the servant but the master. The external man is the master when a person has the pleasure of the body and the senses as his end in view, especially when the objects of his selfish and worldly love and not the things of heaven are his end - to have as his end in view being to love one and not the other. For when a person has those objects as his end he no longer believes that there is any such thing as an internal man or that within himself there is anything that will be living when his body dies. In his case the internal, since it does not hold the position of the master, is merely the servant of the external, employed to enable thought and reasoning against what is good and true to take place; for in this person's case no other kind of influx by way of the internal is available. This is also the reason why people like this utterly despise, indeed recoil from the things of heaven. From all this it is plain that the external man, which is the same as the natural man, ought to be wholly subject to the internal or spiritual man, and consequently should exist without any freedom of its own.

[3] Freedom of one's own consists in giving oneself up to every kind of base pleasure, despising others in comparison with oneself, and making them subject like slaves to oneself. Or else it consists in persecuting others, hating them, being delighted when bad things happen to them - especially things done to them by one's own designs or by the use of deceit - and wishing to see them dead. These are the kinds of things that come from indulging one's own freedom. From this one may see what a person is like when he exercises this type of freedom, namely a devil in human form. But when he loses this freedom he receives a heavenly freedom from the Lord, the nature of which is completely unknown to those exercising the freedom of their own. They imagine that if the freedom of their own were taken away from them no life at all would remain. But in actual fact this is when true life has its beginning and when true delight, blessing, happiness, and wisdom arrive, because this freedom comes from the Lord.

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.