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创世记 48

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1 这事以,有人告诉约瑟:你的父亲病了。他就带着两个儿子玛拿西以法莲同去。

2 有人告诉雅各:请看,你儿子约瑟到你这里来了以色列就勉强在床上

3 雅各对约瑟全能的神曾在迦南的路斯向我显现,赐福与我,

4 对我:我必使你生养众多,成为多民,又要把这你的裔,永远为业。

5 未到埃及见你之先,你在埃及所生的以法莲玛拿西这两个儿子是我的,正如流便和西缅是我的一样。

6 你在他们以所生的就是你的,他们可以归於他们弟兄的名下得产业。

7 至於我,我从巴旦的时候,拉结在我眼前,在迦南上,离以法他还有一段程,我就把他葬在以法他上〈以法他就是伯利恒〉。

8 以色列见约瑟的两个儿子,就:这是谁?

9 约瑟对他父亲:这是在这里赐我的儿子。以色列:请你领他们到我跟前,我要他们祝福

10 以色列年纪老迈,眼睛昏花,不能见。约瑟领他们到他跟前,他就和他们亲嘴,抱着他们。

11 以色列对约瑟:我想不到得见你的面,不料,又使我得见你的儿子。

12 约瑟把两个儿子从以色列两膝中领出来,自己就脸伏於下拜。

13 随後,约瑟又拉着他们两个,以法莲在他的右手里,对着以色列的左手,玛拿西在他的左手里,对着以色列的右手,领他们到以色列的跟前。

14 以色列伸出来,按在以法莲上〈以法莲乃是次子〉,又剪搭过左来,按在玛拿西上〈玛拿西原是长子〉。

15 他就给约瑟祝福:愿我祖亚伯拉罕和我父以撒所事奉的,就是一生牧养我直到今日的

16 赎我脱离一切患难的那使者,赐福与这两个童子。愿他们归在我的名下和我祖亚伯拉罕、我父以撒的名下。又愿他们在世界中生养众多。

17 约瑟见他父亲把右按在以法莲上,就不喜悦,便提起他父亲,要从以法莲上挪到玛拿西上。

18 约瑟对他父亲:我父,不是这样。这本是长子,求你把右手按在他的上。

19 父亲不从,:我知道,我儿,我知道。他也必成为一族,也必昌大。只是他的兄弟将来比他还大;他兄弟的後裔要成为多族。

20 当日就给他们祝福以色列人要指着你们祝福:愿使你如以法莲玛拿西一样。於是立以法莲玛拿西以上。

21 以色列又对约瑟:我要死了,但必与你们同在,领你们回到你们列祖之

22 并且我从前用用刀从亚摩利人下夺的那块地,我都赐你,使你比众弟兄多得分。

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 367

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367. Apart from showing that charity is the 'brother' of faith and that 'field' means all that comprises doctrine, there is no need to confirm these considerations from similar usages in the Word. That charity is the brother of faith may be clear to anyone from the very nature or essence of faith. The brother relationship between these two was also represented by Esau and Jacob, and was the reason why they struggled for the birthright and the superior position this carried with it. The relationship was also represented by Perez and Zerah, the sons Tamar had by Judah, Genesis 38:28-30, where again the question of primogeniture arises. It was represented by Ephraim and Manasseh as well, Genesis 48:13-14, wherein a similar way the matter of the birthright and the higher position it carried occurs. And there are many other examples. Indeed these two, faith and charity, are both the offspring of the Church. Faith is called 'a man' (vir), as Cain is in verse 1 of this chapter, while charity is called 'a brother', as in Isaiah 19:2; Jeremiah 17:14 and in other places. In Amos 1:9 the union of faith and charity is called 'a covenant between brothers'.

[2] As has been stated, that which Jacob and Esau represented was similar to the meaning of Cain and Abel. The fact that Jacob in a similar manner wished to supplant Esau is also clear in Hosea,

He will make a visitation on Jacob over his ways and requite him according to his deeds; in the womb he supplanted his brother. Hosea 12:2-3.

But the fact that Esau, that is, charity represented by Esau, would nevertheless be the superior is clear from the prediction made through their father Isaac,

By your sword will you live, and you will serve your brother; but when you have dominion over him you will cast away his yoke from above your neck. Genesis 27:40.

Or what amounts to the same, a gentile or new Church is represented by Esau, and the Jewish Church by Jacob. This is why it was stated so many times that they were to recognize gentile nations as brothers. Charity was also the reason for everyone being referred to as 'a brother' in the gentile or Primitive Church, and for the Lord calling 'brothers' those who hear the Word and do it, Luke 8:21. Hearers of it are those who have faith, doers those who have charity. But those who are hearers, that is, say they have faith, but are not doers, that is, have no charity, are not brothers, for the Lord likens them to the foolish, Matthew 7:24, 26.

  
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