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創世記 21

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1 耶和華按著先前的話眷顧撒拉,便照他所的給撒拉成就。

2 亞伯拉罕年老的時候,撒拉懷了孕;到的日期,就給亞伯拉罕生了一個兒子

3 亞伯拉罕給撒拉所生的兒子起名以撒

4 以撒生下來第八日,亞伯拉罕照著所吩咐的,給以撒行了割禮

5 兒子以撒生的時候,亞伯拉罕年一歲。

6 撒拉使我喜笑,凡見的必與我一同喜笑;

7 :誰能預先對亞伯拉罕撒拉要養嬰孩呢?因為在他年老的時候,我給他生了一個兒子

8 孩子漸長,就斷了奶。以撒斷奶的日子,亞伯拉罕設擺豐盛的筵席。

9 當時,撒拉見埃及人夏甲給亞伯拉罕所生的兒子戲笑,

10 就對亞伯拉罕:你把這使女和他兒子趕出去!因為這使女的兒子不可與我的兒子以撒一同承受產業。

11 亞伯拉罕因他兒子的緣故很憂愁。

12 亞伯拉罕:你不必為這童子和你的使女憂愁。凡撒拉對你的話,你都該從;因為從以撒生的,才要稱為你的後裔。

13 至於使女的兒子,我也必使他的後裔成立一國,因為他是你所生的。

14 亞伯拉罕起來,拿餅和一皮袋了夏甲,搭在他的肩上,又把孩子交他,打發他走。夏甲就走了,在別是巴的曠野走迷了路。

15 皮袋的用盡了,夏甲就把孩子撇在小樹底

16 自己走開約有一箭之遠,相對而:我不忍見孩子,就相對而,放聲大哭。

17 見童子的聲音;的使者從呼叫夏甲:夏甲,你為何這樣呢?不要害怕已經見童子的聲音了。

18 起來!把童子抱在懷(原文作)中,我必使他的後裔成為國。

19 使夏甲的眼睛明亮,他就見一口,便去將皮袋盛滿了,給童子喝。

20 保佑童子,他就漸長,在曠野,成了弓箭手。

21 在巴蘭的曠野;他母親埃及給他娶了一個妻子

22 當那時候,亞比米勒同他軍長非各對亞伯拉罕:凡你所行的事都有的保佑。

23 我願你如今在這裡指著對我起誓,不要欺負我與我的兒子,並我的子孫。我怎樣厚待了你,你也要照樣厚待我與你所寄居這的民。

24 亞伯拉罕:我情願起誓。

25 從前,亞比米勒的僕人霸佔了一口亞伯拉罕為這事指責亞比米勒。

26 亞比米勒:誰做這事,我不知道,你也沒有告訴我,今日我才見了。

27 亞伯拉罕和牛了亞比米勒,人就彼此立約。

28 亞伯拉罕隻母羔另放在一處。

29 亞比米勒問亞伯拉罕:你把這隻母羊羔另放在一處,是甚麼意思呢?

30 :你要從我裡受這隻母羊羔,作我這口的證據。

31 所以他給那地方起名別是巴,因為他們人在那裡起了誓。(別是巴就是盟誓的井的意思)

32 他們在別是巴立了約,亞比米勒就同他軍長非各起身回非利士去了。

33 亞伯拉罕在別是巴栽上一棵垂絲柳樹,又在那裡求告耶和華─永生神的名。

34 亞伯拉罕非利士人寄居了多日。

   

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2634. 'As God had commanded' means according to Divine order. This is clear from the meaning of 'God commending' or of commandments. God's commandments, or the things which God has commanded, constitute Divine order wholly and in every single detail, so much so that Divine order is nothing else than the everlasting commandment of God. Consequently living according to God's commandments and within God's commandments is doing so according to Divine order and within Divine order. Hence the phrase used here - 'God commanded' - means according to Divine order. It was according to Divine order that every male should be circumcised on the eighth day after he had been born. It was not that circumcision in itself would accomplish anything or that those who had been circumcised would enter the kingdom of God before the uncircumcised did; but it was according to Divine order because such a religious practice in the representative Church corresponded to purification of the heart - which correspondence will in the Lord's Divine mercy be spoken of elsewhere. It is according to Divine order that the heart, that is, a person interiorly, should be purified gradually and constantly from the evils present in his desires and from the falsities present in the delusions resulting from those desires. Commandments concerning the purification of the heart constitute Divine order wholly and in every single detail. To the extent therefore that a person is living within those commandments he lives within Divine order; and to the extent he is living within Divine order, all that resides with him is arranged by the Lord according to the order, originating in Him, which exists in the heavens. That is to say, both the person's rational concepts and his factual knowledge are so arranged by Him. In this way a person becomes a miniature heaven corresponding to the larger one.

  
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