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創世記 49

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1 雅各了他的兒子們來,:你們都來聚集,我好把你們日後必遇的事告訴你們。

2 雅各的兒子們,你們要聚集而,要你們父親以色列的話。

3 流便哪,你是我的長子,是我力量強壯的時候生的,本當大有尊榮,權力超眾。

4 但你放縱情慾,滾沸如,必不得居首位;因為你上了你父親,污穢了我的榻。

5 西緬和利未是弟兄;他們的刀劍是殘忍的器具。

6 我的靈阿,不要與他們同謀;我的心哪,不要與他們聯絡;因為他們趁怒殺害命,任意砍斷牛腿大筋。

7 他們的怒氣暴烈可咒;他們的忿恨殘忍可詛。我要使他們分居在雅各家裡,散住在以色列地中。

8 猶大阿,你弟兄們必讚美你;你必掐住仇敵的頸項;你父親兒子們必向你下拜。

9 猶大是個小獅子;我兒阿,你抓了食便上去。你屈下身去,臥如公獅,蹲如母獅,誰敢惹你?

10 圭必不離猶大,杖必不離他兩之間,直等細羅(就是賜平安者)到,萬民都必歸順。

11 猶大把小拴在葡萄樹上,把駒拴在美好的葡萄樹上。他在葡萄酒中洗了衣服,在葡萄汁中洗了袍褂。

12 他的眼睛必因酒紅潤;他的牙齒必因奶白亮。

13 西布倫必住在口,必成為停口;他的境界必延到西頓。

14 以薩迦是個強壯的,臥在羊圈之中。

15 他以安靜為佳,以肥為美,便低肩背重,成為服苦的僕人。

16 但必判斷他的民,作以色列支派之

17 但必作道上的中的虺,咬傷蹄,使騎的墜落於後。

18 耶和華阿,我向來等候你的救恩

19 迦得必被敵軍追逼,他卻要追逼他們的腳跟

20 亞設之地必出肥美的糧食,且出君的美味。

21 拿弗他利是被釋放的母鹿;他出嘉美的言語。

22 約瑟是多結果子的樹枝,是泉旁多結果的枝子;他的枝條探出外。

23 弓箭手將他苦害,向他射箭,逼迫他。

24 但他的仍舊堅硬;他的健壯敏捷。這是因以色列的牧者,以色列的─就是雅各的大能者。

25 父親的神必幫助你;那全能者必將上所有的福,地裡所藏的福,以及生產乳養的福,都賜給你。

26 父親所祝的福,勝過我祖先所祝的福,如永世的山嶺,至極的邊界;這些福必降在約瑟的上,臨到那與弟兄迥別之人的頂上。

27 便雅憫是個撕掠的早晨他所抓的,晚上要分他所奪的。

28 這一切是以色列的十二支派;這也是他們的父親對他們所的話,為他們所祝的福,都是按著各人的福分為他們祝福

29 他又囑咐他們:我將要歸到我列祖(原文作本民)那裡,你們要將我葬在赫人以弗崙田間的洞裡,與我祖我父在一處,

30 就是在迦南幔利前、麥比拉田間的洞;那洞和田是亞伯拉罕向赫人以弗崙買來為業,作墳的。

31 他們在那裡葬了亞伯拉罕和他妻撒拉,又在那裡葬了以撒和他的妻子利百加;我也在那裡葬了利亞。

32 那塊田和田間的洞原是向赫人買的。

33 雅各囑咐眾子已畢,就把收在床上,氣絕而死,歸到列祖(原文作本民)那裡去了。

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 6367

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6367. 'A lion's cub is Judah' means innocence with innate strength. This is clear from the meaning of 'a lion' as the good of love and the truth from that good in their power, dealt with below, so that 'a lion's cub' is innocence with strength. The reason why with innate strength is meant is that here 'Judah' represents the celestial element of love, and the celestial element of love resides in the will part of the mind, 895, 917, 4493, 5117, and thus possesses innate strength. For a person is born into things that belong to the will part. That being so, members of the Most Ancient Church, which was celestial, were born into the good of love, in the measure that good was present in their will. This then is why the strength is said to be innate. The reason 'a lion's cub' means innocence is that 'a lion' is the good of celestial love, and 'a cub', being so to speak its young child, accordingly means innocence.

[2] 'A lion' means the good of celestial love and the truth from that love in their power, and also in the contrary sense the evil of self-love in its power, as is clear from places in the Word where 'a lion' is mentioned. The good of celestial love is meant in John,

Behold, the Lion which is from the Tribe of Judah, the root of David, has prevailed to open the book and to loose its seven seals. Revelation 5:5.

Here the Lord is called 'the Lion' by virtue of the almighty power which His Divine Love and Divine Truth from that Love possess. There are also other places in the Word where Jehovah or the Lord is compared to a lion, as in Hosea,

They will go after Jehovah; He will roar like a lion, for He will roar, and respectfully [His] sons from the west 1 will draw near. Hosea 11:10.

[3] Also in Isaiah,

Thus said Jehovah to me, As a lion roars, and a young lion over its prey, when there come up against him a full number of shepherds, by whose voice he is not dismayed, and by whose tumult he is not distressed, so Jehovah Zebaoth will come down to fight on Mount Zion and on its hill. Isaiah 31:4.

Here the almighty power of Divine Good is compared to 'a lion', and the almighty power of Divine Truth from that Good is compared to 'a young lion'. For it says that 'Jehovah Zebaoth will come down to fight on Mount Zion and on its hill', and 'Mount Zion' means the Good of Divine Love and 'its hill' the Divine Truth from that Good, 795, 796, 1430, 4210.

[4] For the same reason the four living creatures in Ezekiel and in John, meaning cherubs, had the faces of a human being, lion, ox, and eagle: In Ezekiel,

The likeness of the faces of the four living creatures - [each of] the four had the face of a human being, and the face of a lion on the right side, and [each of] the four had the face of an ox on the left side, and [each of] the four had the face of an eagle. Ezekiel 1:10; 10:14.

And in John,

Around 2 the throne were four living creatures full of eyes in front and behind. And the first living creature was like a lion; the second living creature was like a calf; the third living creature had a face like a human being; the fourth living creature was like a flying eagle. Revelation 4:6-7.

The fact that the living creatures were cherubs is stated in Ezekiel to, which fact is also evident from the description of them in John, in which he says that they had 'eyes in front and behind'. The Lord's foresight and providence are meant by 'the cherubs', 308; and they had the face of a lion by virtue of the almighty power belonging to providence that Divine Truth from Divine Good possesses. So also with the cherubs around the new temple in Ezekiel 41:19.

[5] Celestial people in possession of the power supplied by the good and the truth from good which come from the Lord are meant by 'lions', as is evident in David,

There is no want to those fearing Jehovah. The young lions will lack and suffer hunger, but those seeking Jehovah will not lack any good thing. Psalms 34:9-10.

In the same author,

The [young] lions are roaring for plunder, and to seek from God their food. The sun rises, they are gathered together, and lie down in their dwelling-places. Psalms 104:21-22.

In Balaam's prophetic utterance,

At that time it will be said to Jacob and to Israel, What has God been doing? See, a people will rise up like an old lion, and like a young lion will lift itself up. He will not rest until he has devoured the prey. Numbers 23:23-24.

[6] And further on,

When Balaam saw Israel dwelling according to their tribes, he said, He crouches, he lies down like a lion, and like an old lion; who will rouse him? Numbers 24:2, 9.

The celestial is what is described here because celestial order is what the tribes represented by their encampments and was what Balaam saw in the spirit when he saw Israel dwelling according to their tribes, 6335. That order originates in Divine Good coming through Divine Truth from the Lord; and within that order resides all power, meant here by a crouching and recumbent lion.

[7] In Micah,

The remnant of Jacob will be with the nations, in the midst of many peoples, like a lion among the beasts of the forest, like a young lion among flocks of sheep, who, if he passes through, will tread down and tear in pieces, 3 and there is no deliverer. Your hand will be lifted up over your enemies, and all your adversaries will be cut off. Micah 5:8-9.

Here 'a lion' and a young lion stand for celestial good and celestial truth, which are 'the remnant of Jacob'. They also stand for that good and truth in Isaiah 21:8; Jeremiah 25:38; Ezekiel 38:13; Zechariah 11:3. And that same good and truth were also represented by the lions at Solomon's ivory throne, two next to the armrests 4 and twelve on the six steps, 1 Kings 10:18-20, and by the lions on the panels of the ten pedestals made of bronze, 1 Kings 7:29, 36.

[8] In the contrary sense 'a lion' means the evil of self-love in its power, as is evident from the following places: In Isaiah,

There will not be any lion there, and the savage of the wild animals will not go up on it; it will not be found there. But they will go free; thus the redeemed of Jehovah will return, and will come to Zion with song. Isaiah 35:9-10.

In Jeremiah,

Why has Israel become plunder? The young lions roar at him, they sound their voice; they turn his land into a waste. Jeremiah 2:14-15.

In the same prophet,

A lion has risen up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations has set out; he has come from his place to turn the land into a waste. Jeremiah 4:7.

In the same prophet,

They did not know the way of Jehovah, the judgement of their God, therefore a lion from the forest has struck them down, and a wolf of the plains will devastate them. Jeremiah 5:4, 6.

In Nahum,

Where is the dwelling-place of lions, and the feeding-place 5 of the young lions, where the lion walked, the old lion, the lion's cub, and there is no one making them afraid? The lion tears in pieces enough for the cubs, and strangles for his old lionesses, and fills his caves with plunder, and his dwelling places with what he has pounced on. Behold, I am against you, said Jehovah Zebaoth, and I will burn her chariot in the smoke; but the sword will devour your young lions, and I will cut off your plunder from the earth. Nahum 2:11-13.

This refers to Nineveh.

In all these places 'a lion' stands for the power that the evil of self-love possesses, when it destroys and lays waste. 'A lion' has a like meaning in Jeremiah 12:8; 49:19; 50:17, 44; 51:38; Ezekiel 19:2-9; 32:2; Joel 1:6; Zephaniah 3:3; Psalms 57:4; 58:6; 91:13; Revelation 13:2.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. literally, sons from the sea

2. The Latin means Before but the Greek means Around, which Swedenborg has in other places where he quotes this verse.

3. Reading discerpet (will tear to pieces), which Swedenborg has in his rough draft, for disperget (will scatter)

4. literally, the hands of the throne

5. literally, pasture or grazing ground

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