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1 亞伯拉罕的日子,那有一次饑荒;這時又有饑荒,以撒就往基拉耳去,到非利士人的王亞比米勒那裡。

2 耶和華向以撒顯現,:你不要去,要住在我所指示你的

3 你寄居在這,我必與你同在,賜福你,因為我要將這些都賜你和你的後裔。我必堅定我向你父亞伯拉罕所起的誓。

4 我要加增你的後裔,像上的那樣多,又要將這些都賜你的後裔。並且上萬國必因你的後裔得福─

5 都因亞伯拉罕聽從我的話,遵守我的吩咐和我的命令、律例、度。

6 以撒在基拉耳。

7 地方的人問到他的妻子,他便:那是我的妹子。原來他:是我的妻子;他心裡想:恐地方的人為利百加的緣故殺我,因為他容貌俊美。

8 他在那裡住了許久。有一天非利士人的王亞比米勒從窗戶裡往外觀,見以撒和他的妻子利百加戲玩。

9 亞比米勒召了以撒來,對他:他實在是你的妻子,你怎麼他是你的妹子?以撒:我心裡想,恐怕我因他而

10 亞比米勒:你向我們做的是甚麼事呢?民中險些有人和你的妻同寢,把我們陷在罪裡。

11 於是亞比米勒曉諭眾民說:凡沾著這個,或是他妻子的,定要把他治

12 以撒在那耕種,那一年有倍的收成。耶和華賜福給他,

13 他就昌大,日增月盛,成了大富戶。

14 他有羊群牛群,又有許多僕人,非利士人就嫉妒他。

15 當他父親亞伯拉罕在世的日子,他父親僕人非利士人全都塞住,滿了土。

16 亞比米勒對以撒:你離開我們去罷。因為你比我們強盛得多。

17 以撒就離開那裡,在基拉耳谷支搭帳棚,在那裡。

18 當他父親亞伯拉罕在世之日所非利士人亞伯拉罕塞住了,以撒就重新出來,仍照他父親那些名字

19 以撒的僕人,便得了一口活

20 基拉耳的牧人與以撒的牧人爭競,:這是我們的。以撒就給那起名埃色(就是相爭的意思),因為他們和他相爭。

21 以撒的僕人又了一口,他們又為這爭競,因此以撒給這起名西提拿(就是為敵的意思)。

22 以撒離開那裡,又了一口,他們不為這爭競了,他就給那起名利河伯(就是寬闊的意思)。他耶和華現在給我們寬闊之我們必在這昌盛。

23 以撒從那裡上別是巴去。

24 當夜耶和華向他顯現,:我是你父親亞伯拉罕的,不要懼!因為我與你同在,要賜福給你,並要為我僕人亞伯拉罕的緣故,使你的後裔繁多。

25 以撒就在那裡築了一座,求告耶和華的名,並且支搭帳棚;他的僕人便在那裡了一口

26 亞比米勒,同他的朋友亞戶撒和他的軍長非各,從基拉耳來見以撒。

27 以撒對他們:你們既然恨我,打發我走了,為甚麼到我這裡呢?

28 他們我們明明的耶和華與你同在,便,不如我們兩下彼此起誓,彼此立約,

29 使你不害我們,正如我們未曾害你,一味的厚待你,並且打發你平平安安的走。你是蒙耶和華賜福的了。

30 以撒就為他們設擺筵席,他們便吃了了。

31 他們清起來彼此起誓。以撒打發他們走,他們就平平安安的離開他走了。

32 一天以撒的僕人,將的事告訴:我們得了了。

33 他就給那井起名示巴;因此那城做別是巴,直到今日。

34 以掃四十歲的時候娶了赫人比利的女兒猶滴,與赫人以倫的女兒巴實抹為妻。

35 他們常使以撒和利百加心裡愁煩。

   

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3412. 'All the wells which his father's servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines stopped them up' means that people who possessed knowledge of cognitions did not wish to know interior truths that came from the Divine and so effaced them. This is clear from the meaning of 'wells' as truths, dealt with in 2702, 3096, here interior truths coming from the Divine since the wells, which mean truths, are said to have been dug by 'his father's servants in the days of Abraham his father' - 'Abraham' representing the Lord's Divine itself, 2011, 2833, 2836, 3251, 3305 (end); from the meaning of 'stopping up' as not wishing to know and so effacing; and from the representation of 'the Philistines' as people who possess no more than a knowledge of cognitions, dealt with in 1197, 1198.

[2] The subject at this point is the appearances of truth that belong to the lower degree, which are able to exist with those who possess a knowledge of cognitions and whom 'the Philistines' are used to mean here. With regard to the interior truths that come from the Divine and are effaced by those called the Philistines, the position is that in the Ancient Church and after it the name Philistines was used for those who gave little thought to life and very much to doctrine, and who in course of time even rejected matters of life and acknowledged matters of faith - which faith was separated from life - as being the essential element of the Church. As a consequence they attached no importance at all to matters of doctrine concerning charity which in the Ancient Church constituted the all of doctrine, and so they effaced it. Instead they proclaimed matters of doctrine concerning faith and centred the whole of their religion in these. And since in this way they departed from the life of charity, that is, from charity as the sum and substance of life, they more than all others were called 'the uncircumcised'. For by 'the uncircumcised' were meant all in whom charity was not present, no matter how much doctrine they knew, 2049 (end).

[3] Because such people departed from charity they also removed themselves from wisdom and intelligence, for no one can have a wise and intelligent discernment of what truth is unless good, that is, charity, reigns in him. Indeed all truth originates in good and has regard to good, so that anyone who is devoid of good is unable to have an intelligent discernment of truth, and does not even wish to know it. When such people in the next life are far away from heaven, light bright as snow is sometimes seen to be with them. But that light is like the light in wintertime which, being devoid of warmth, is unproductive. This also explains why, when such persons draw near to heaven, their light is converted into utter darkness, and their minds into something akin to that darkness, which is stupidity. From these considerations it may now be seen what is meant by the statement that people who possessed no more than a knowledge of cognitions did not wish to know interior truths that came from the Divine and so effaced them.

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.