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創世記 37

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1 雅各迦南,就是他父親寄居的

2 雅各的記略如下。約瑟十七歲與他哥哥們一同牧。他是個童子,與他父親的妾辟拉、悉帕的兒子們常在一處。約瑟將他哥哥們的惡行報給他們的父親

3 以色列原來約瑟過於他的眾子,因為約瑟是他年老生的;他給約瑟做了一件彩衣。

4 約瑟的哥哥們見父親約瑟過於他們,就恨約瑟,不與他和睦的話。

5 約瑟做了一夢,告訴他哥哥們,他們就越發恨他。

6 約瑟對他們:請我所做的夢:

7 我們在田裡捆禾稼,我的捆起來站著,你們的捆來圍著我的捆下拜。

8 他的哥哥們回答:難道你真要作我們的王麼?難道你真要管轄我們麼?他們就因為他的夢和他的越發恨他。

9 後來他又做了一夢,也告訴他的哥哥:看哪,我又做了一夢,夢見太陽月亮,與十一個向我下拜。

10 約瑟將這夢告訴他父親和他哥哥們,他父親就責備他:你做的這是甚麼夢!難道我和你母親、你弟兄果然要俯伏在,向你下拜麼?

11 哥哥們都嫉妒他,他父親卻把這存在心裡。

12 約瑟的哥哥們往示劍去放他們父親

13 以色列對約瑟:你哥哥們不是在示劍放羊麼?你來,我要打發你往他們那裡去。約瑟:我在這裡。

14 以色列:你去哥哥們平安不平安,平安不平安,就回來報信給我;於是打發他出希伯崙,他就往示劍去了。

15 遇見他在田野走迷了路,就問他:你甚麼?

16 :我找我的哥哥們,求你告訴我,他們在何處放羊。

17 :他們已經走了,我見他們要往多坍去。約瑟就去追趕他哥哥們,遇見他們在多坍。

18 他們遠遠地見他,趁他還沒有走到跟前,大家就同謀要害死他,

19 彼此:你看!那做夢的來了

20 來罷!我們將他殺了,丟在裡,就有惡獸把他吃了我們他的夢將來怎麼樣。

21 流便見了,要救他脫離他們的我們不可害他的性命;

22 :不可流他的血,可以把他丟在這野地的裡,不可下害他。流便的意思是要救他脫離他們的,把他歸還他的父親

23 約瑟到了他哥哥們那裡,他們就剝了他的外衣,就是他穿的那件彩衣,

24 把他丟在裡;那是空的,裡頭沒有

25 他們飯,舉目觀,見有一夥米甸的以實瑪利人從基列,用駱駝馱著香料、乳香、沒藥,要埃及去。

26 猶大對眾弟兄我們我們兄弟,藏了他的血有甚麼益處呢?

27 我們不如將他以實瑪利人,不可下害他;因為他是我們兄弟我們的骨。眾弟兄就從了他。

28 有些米甸的商人從那裡經過,哥哥們就把約瑟從裡拉上來,講定二十舍客勒子,把約瑟以實瑪利人。他們就把約瑟埃及去了。

29 流便回到邊,見約瑟不在裡,就撕裂衣服

30 回到兄弟們那裡,:童子沒有了。我往那裡去才好呢?

31 他們宰了一隻公山羊,把約瑟的那件彩衣染了血,

32 打發人送到他們的父親那裡,:我們撿了這個;請認一認是你兒子的外衣不是?

33 他認得,就:這是我兒子的外衣。有惡獸把他吃了,約瑟被撕碎了!撕碎了!

34 雅各便撕裂衣服,腰間圍上麻布,為他兒子悲哀了多日。

35 他的兒女都起來安慰他,他卻不肯受安慰:我必悲哀著陰間,到我兒子那裡。約瑟的父親就為他哀哭。

36 米甸人帶約瑟到埃及,把他法老的內臣─護衛長波提乏。

   

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True Christian Religion # 727

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727. It is well known that invitations to meals and banquets serve as a means to establish links and associations in the world. For the person who gives the invitation has in mind something contributing to his end in view, which concerns agreement and friendship. Far more then is this true of invitations which are aimed at spiritual ends. Dinners in the ancient churches were charitable ones, and it was much the same in the earliest days of the Christian church, where people strengthened one another's resolve to maintain the Lord's worship in heartfelt sincerity. The feasts of the Children of Israel on sacrifices beside the Tabernacle had no other meaning than unanimity in the worship of Jehovah. The meat that they used to eat was therefore called holy (Jeremiah 11:15; Hagg Jeremiah 2:12; and many other places), because it came from a sacrifice. What then of the bread and wine, and the Passover meat at the Lord's Supper, who offered Himself as a sacrifice for the sins of the whole world?

[2] In addition, the link established with the Lord through the Holy Supper can be illustrated by the link between families descended from one ancestor. From him are descended blood relations, and in series kinsfolk and relatives. They all derive something from the founder of the line, but it is not so much flesh and blood. It is rather the soul and similar inclinations which they derive from flesh and blood that forms the link. The link is also generally apparent in their faces and their behaviour, so that they are called one flesh (as in Genesis 29:14; 37:27; 2 Samuel 5:1; 19:12-13, and elsewhere).

[3] It is much the same with linking with the Lord, who is the Father of all the faithful and blessed. Linking with Him takes place by means of love and faith, which together are called one flesh. This is why He said that 'if someone eats my flesh and drinks my blood, he remains in me and I in him' (John 6:56). Anyone can see that it is not bread and wine that do this, but the good of love, which is meant by bread, and the truth of faith, which is meant by wine. These are peculiar to the Lord, proceed from and are conferred by Him alone. Every link is forged by love, and love is not love if there is no trust. Those who believe that bread is flesh and wine is blood, being unable to lift their thoughts above this level, may cling to that belief; but in such a way as to believe that it is something very holy which makes a link with the Lord, which is being assigned for a person to make as if his own, although it constantly remains the Lord's.

  
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