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创世记 45

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1 约瑟在左右站着的面前情不自禁,吩咐一声说:都要离开我出去!约瑟和弟兄相认的时候并没有一站在他面前。

2 他就放声大哭,埃及人法老家中的人都见了。

3 约瑟对他弟兄们:我是约瑟。我的父亲还在麽?他弟兄不能回答,因为在他面前都惊惶。

4 约瑟又对他弟兄们:请你们前来。他们就前来。他:我是你们的兄弟约瑟,就是你们所埃及的。

5 现在,不要因为把我到这里自忧自恨。这是差我在你们以先来,为要保全生命。

6 现在这的饥荒已经二年了,还有五年不能耕种,不能收成

7 差我在你们以先来,为要给你们存留馀种在世上,又要施拯,保全你们的生命。

8 这样看来,差我到这里来的不是你们,乃是。他又使我如法老的父,作他全家的,并埃及的宰相。

9 你们要赶紧上到我父亲那里。对他:你儿子约瑟这样使我作全埃及,请你到我这里来,不要耽延。

10 你和你我儿子孙子,连牛群羊群,并一切所有的,都可以歌珊,与我相近。

11 我要在那里奉养你;因为还有五年的饥荒,免得你和你的眷属,并一切所有的,都败落了。

12 况且你们的眼和我兄弟便雅悯的眼都见是我亲对你们说话

13 你们也要将我在埃及一切的荣耀和你们所见的事都告诉父亲,又要赶紧的将我父亲搬到我这里来。

14 於是约瑟伏在他兄弟便雅悯的颈项上哭,便雅悯也在他的颈项上哭。

15 他又与众弟兄亲嘴,抱着他们哭,随他弟兄就和他说话。

16 这风声传到法老的宫里,:约瑟的弟兄们来了法老和他的臣仆都很喜欢。

17 法老对约瑟:你吩咐你的弟兄们:你们要这样行:把驮子抬在牲口上,起身往迦南去。

18 将你们的父亲和你们的眷属都搬到我这里,我要把埃及的美物赐你们,你们也要肥美的出产。

19 现在我吩咐你们要这样行:从埃及着车辆去,把你们的孩子和妻子,并你们的父亲都搬

20 你们眼中不要爱惜你们的家具,因为埃及的美物都是你们的。

21 以色列的儿子们就如此行。约瑟照着法老的吩咐他们车辆和上用的食物,

22 他们各一套衣服,惟独便雅悯子,五套衣服;

23 送给他父亲匹,驮着埃及的美物,母匹,驮着粮食与饼和菜,为他父亲上用。

24 於是约瑟打发他弟兄们回去,又对他们:你们不要在上相争。

25 他们从埃及上去,迦南、他们的父亲雅各那里,

26 告诉他:约瑟还在,并且作埃及的宰相。雅各里冰凉,因为不信他们。

27 他们便将约瑟对他们的一切都告诉了他。他们父亲雅各见约瑟打发来接他的车辆,心就苏醒了。

28 以色列:罢了!罢了!我的儿子约瑟还在,趁我未以先,我要去见他一面。

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 5945

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5945. 'Take for yourselves from the land of Egypt carts' means matters of doctrine belonging to factual knowledge. This is clear from the meaning of 'the land of Egypt' as factual knowledge, dealt with already; and from the meaning of 'carts' as matters of doctrine. Chariots and horses are mentioned in various places in the Word where Egypt is the subject. There 'chariots' is used to mean matters of doctrine, sometimes false, at other times true ones, while 'horses' is used to mean intellectual concepts, likewise true or false ones. (For the meaning of 'chariots' as matters of doctrine, see 5721.) It is similar with 'carts' there, but matters of doctrine belonging to factual knowledge are meant by them. Matters of doctrine belonging to factual knowledge are religious teachings drawn from the literal sense of the Word, which serve especially those people who are being introduced for the first time to interior truths that the Church possesses, such as the teaching that good should be done above all to widows, to orphans, and to the poor in the streets. Other such religious teachings are contained in the ten commandments. These and many other teachings are matters of doctrine belonging to factual knowledge and are meant by 'carts belonging to Egypt'. Because such matters of doctrine are the first to be learned by a person they also serve him subsequently as a groundwork; for when progress is made towards more internal teachings those learned first become the last and lowest. Moreover celestial and spiritual realities actually terminate in them, for they stand and rest so to speak on the matters of doctrine learned first. Indeed the spiritual world has so to speak its feet and the soles of its feet planted on the natural world; and so far as his spiritual life is concerned a person has his feet planted on matters of doctrine that belong to factual knowledge. The internal sense of the Word rests in a similar way on its literal sense. The particular word for 'carts', by which those matters of doctrine are meant, occurs in only a few places in the Word. It is used in the original language where it is said that the Ark was placed on one, 1 Samuel 6:7; 2 Samuel 6:3; and also when the tabernacle was consecrated, Numbers 7:3. The reason for the use of the word is that 'the Ark' represented heaven, 3478, which stands and rests, as has been stated, on matters of doctrine belonging to factual knowledge.

  
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