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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 # 5948

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5948. 'And do not let your eye be sparing over your household utensils' means let no concern be shown for anything that serves instrumentally. This is clear from the meaning of 'household utensils' or vessels as things that serve instrumentally; and a showing of no concern for these is meant by 'do not let your eye be sparing'. There are essentials and there are instruments. To act and produce any effect an essential must be served by an instrument through which it can act; and according to the way the instrument has been fashioned, so the essential acts. For example, the body serves as the instrument of its spirit; the external man serves as the instrument of the internal man; factual knowledge serves as the instrument of truth; truth serves as the instrument of good, 3068, 3079; and so on.

[2] In the Word instruments are called vessels, in the present context 'household utensils' because it is speaking about the moving of those people from one place to another and so about the contents of their houses. But essentials are called 'things' in the Word, and are what act by means of instruments. Thus because interior things act by means of exterior ones the former are essentials, in relation to the latter. When saying that no concern should be shown for anything that serves instrumentally one means that not these but the essentials should be kept as the end in view. For to the extent that the instruments are kept as the end in view the essentials withdraw and disappear from sight. If for example factual knowledge is kept in view without any concern for truths, the truths at length disappear so far from sight that one cannot tell whether they are truths. Or if truths are kept in view without any concern for good, the good at length disappears so far from sight that it no longer exists. It is the same with people who keep earthly, bodily, or worldly things in view, so that their only concern is for them and not at all for heavenly ones. The heavenly things disappear from sight till at length scarcely anything heavenly is recognized. These and other similar considerations are what are meant by 'do not let your eye be sparing over your household utensils'.

[3] But it should be remembered that 'the essential and the instrument' describes a relationship. That is to say, the expression 'essential' is used of one thing because of its action through another serving as its instrument or organ. When however something else acts through the instrumentality of that which was the essential, this now becomes an instrument; and so on. Furthermore there is nothing in the whole of creation that is an ultimate essential; such exists solely in the Supreme Being, that is, in the Lord. Since His is the ultimate Being or Essential (Esse seu Essentiale) He is called Jehovah, a name formed from Being; and all else is merely an instrument. From all this it now follows that because, as has been stated, one should keep Essentials, not instruments, as one's end in view, the Lord alone should be kept in view.

  
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