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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 # 6394

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6394. 'And will be one serving for tribute' means so that he may earn merit. This is clear from the meaning of 'being one serving for tribute' as being subject to and serving. And since those who wish to earn merit through works are spoken of as bony asses lying down between burdens and as those who bend their shoulder to bear a burden, 'one serving for tribute' too means those who wish to earn merit through works; for they are lowest-ranking servants, see above in 6389. The fact that 'one serving for tribute' means being subject to and serving is clear in Moses,

When you draw near a city to fight against it you shall proclaim peace to them. 1 But it shall be, if it responds to you in favour of peace and opens up to you - it shall be, that all the people who are found in it will become tribute to you and serve you. Deuteronomy 20:10-11.

In Jeremiah,

How lonely dwells the city [that was] great with people! She has become like a widow, [she who was] great among the nations; she who had dominion over provinces has become a payer of tribute. Lamentations 1:1.

In these places it is self-evident that 'becoming a tribute' and 'becoming a payer of tribute' mean serving. In Matthew,

Jesus said, How does it seem to you, Simon? The kings of the earth, from whom do they receive tribute or tax, from their own sons or from strangers? Peter said to Him, From strangers. Jesus said to him, Then the sons are free; but so that we may not offend them, set off for the sea and cast a hook, and take the fish that comes up first. Open its mouth and you will find a stater; 2 take it and give it for Me and for you. Matthew 17:25-27.

Here also 'giving tribute moneys or taxation' means those who serve, and therefore it says that strangers were to give it but the sons would be free; for strangers were servants, 1097. Peter's taking a fish from the sea and his finding in its mouth a stater which he was to give represented the fact that the lowest part of the natural, which is a servant, would accomplish it; for that part of the natural is meant by 'fish'.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. literally, you shall invite them to peace

2. A Greek coin

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