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1 以色列的眾子,各帶家眷,和雅各一同埃及。他們的名字記在下面。

2 有流便、西緬、利未、猶大

3 以薩迦、西布倫、便雅憫、

4 但、拿弗他利、迦得、亞設。

5 凡從雅各而生的,共有七十人。約瑟已經在埃及

6 約瑟和他的弟兄,並那一的人,都死了

7 以色列人生養眾多,並且繁茂,極其強盛,滿了那

8 有不認識約瑟的新王起來,治理埃及

9 對他的百姓:看哪,這以色列民比我們還多,又比我們強盛。

10 來罷,我們不如用巧計待他們,恐怕他們多起來,日後若遇甚麼爭戰的事,就連合我們的仇敵攻擊我們,離開這去了。

11 於是埃及人派督工的轄制他們,加重擔苦害他們。他們為法老建造兩座積貨城,就是比東和蘭塞。

12 只是越發苦害他們,他們越發多起來,越發蔓延;埃及人就因以色列人愁煩。

13 埃及人嚴嚴的使以色列人做工,

14 使他們因做苦工覺得命苦;無論是和泥,是作磚,是作田間各樣的工,在一切的工上都嚴嚴的待他們。

15 有希伯來的兩個收生婆,名施弗拉,名普阿;埃及王對他們

16 你們為希伯來婦人收生,他們臨盆的時候,若是男孩,就把他殺了;若是女孩,就留他存活。

17 但是收生婆敬畏,不照埃及王的吩咐行,竟存留男孩的性命。

18 埃及王召了收生婆來,:你們為甚麼做這事,存留男孩的性命呢?

19 收生婆對法老:因為希伯婦人與埃及婦人不同;希伯婦人本是健壯的(原文作活潑的),收生婆還沒有到,他們已經生產了。

20 厚待收生婆。以色列人多起來,極其強盛。

21 收生婆因為敬畏便叫他們成立家室。

22 法老吩咐他的眾民說:以色列人所生的男孩,你們都要丟在河裡;一切的女孩,你們要存留他的性命。

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Arcana Coelestia # 6637

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6637. 'These are the names of the children of Israel' means the essential nature of the Church. This is clear from the meaning of' the name as the essential nature, dealt with in 144, 145, 1754, 1896, 2009, 2628, 2724, 3006, 3421; from the representation of 'the sons of Israel' as spiritual truths, dealt with in 5414, 5879, 5951; and from the representation of 'Israel' as the good of truth, which is spiritual good, dealt with in 3654, 4598, 5803, 5806, 5812, 5817, 5819, 5826, 5833. Since Israel' represents the good of truth or spiritual good and 'his sons' represent spiritual truths in the natural, 'the sons of Israel' also represent the Church, for what makes it the Church is spiritual good and the truths that spring from that good. A person without spiritual good, that is, the good of charity, and without spiritual truths, that is, the truths of faith, does not belong to the Church in spite of having been born within the Church. The whole of the Lord's heavenly kingdom possesses the good of love and faith, and unless the Church possesses good like that it cannot be the Church since it is not joined to heaven; for the Church is the Lord's kingdom on earth.

[2] The term 'Church' is not used because it is the place where the Word is and teachings drawn from it, or because it is where the Lord is known and the sacraments are celebrated. Rather it is the Church because it lives in accordance with the Word or with teachings drawn from the Word, and seeks to make those teachings its rule of life. People who do not live like this do not belong to the Church but are outside it; and those who lead wicked lives, thus lives contrary to that teaching, are further away outside the Church than gentiles who know nothing whatever about the Word, the Lord, or the sacraments. For since those people are acquainted with the forms of good that the Church fosters and with the truths it teaches they annihilate the Church within themselves, something gentiles cannot do because they are unacquainted with those things. It should also be realized that everyone who leads a good life, in charity and faith, is a Church, and is a kingdom of the Lord. He is for that reason also called a temple, and a house of God too. Those who are Churches individually, no matter how remote from one another they may be, constitute one Church collectively. This then is the Church meant by the expression 'the children of Israel' here and in what follows.

  
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