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1 約瑟伏在他父親的面上哀哭,與他親嘴。

2 約瑟吩咐伺候他的醫生用香料薰他父親,醫生就用香料薰了以色列

3 薰屍的常例是四十;那四十滿了,埃及人為他哀哭了七十

4 為他哀哭的日子過了,約瑟對法老家中的人:我若在你們眼前蒙恩,請你們報告法老

5 父親的時候叫我起誓說:你要將我葬在迦南,在我為自己所掘的墳墓裡。現在求你讓我上去葬我父親,以後我必回來

6 法老:你可以上去,照著你父親叫你起的誓,將他葬埋。

7 於是約瑟上去葬他父親。與他一同上去的,有法老的臣僕和法老家中的長老,並埃及國的長老

8 還有約瑟的全家和他的弟兄們,並他父親的眷屬;只有他們的婦人孩子,和羊群牛群,都留在歌珊

9 又有車輛馬兵,和他一同上去;那一幫人甚多。

10 他們到了約但河外、亞達的禾場,就在那裡地號咷痛哭。約瑟為他父親哀哭了

11 迦南的居民見亞達禾場上的哀哭,就:這是埃及人一場大的哀哭。因此那方名亞伯麥西,是在約但河東。

12 雅各的兒子們就遵著他父親所吩咐的辦了,

13 把他搬到迦南,葬在幔利前、麥比拉田間的洞裡;那洞和田是亞伯拉罕向赫人以弗崙買來為業,作墳的。

14 約瑟葬了他父親,就和眾弟兄,並一切同他上去葬他父親的人,都回埃及去了。

15 約瑟的哥哥們見父親死了,就:或者約瑟懷恨我們,照著我們從前待他一切的惡足足的報復我們

16 他們就打發人去見約瑟,說:你父親以先吩咐說:

17 你們要對約瑟這樣:從前你哥哥們惡待你,求你饒恕他們的過犯和惡。如今求你饒恕你父親僕人的過犯。他們對約瑟這話,約瑟就哭了。

18 他的哥哥們又來俯伏在他面前,:我們是你的僕人

19 約瑟對他們:不要害怕,我豈能代替呢?

20 從前你們的意思是要害我,但的意思原是的,要保全許多人的性命,成就今日的光景。

21 現在你們不要害怕,我必養活你們和你們的婦人孩子。於是約瑟用親愛的話安慰他們。

22 約瑟和他父親的眷屬都埃及。約瑟活了一歲。

23 約瑟得見以法蓮代的子孫。瑪拿西的孫子、瑪吉的兒子也養在約瑟的膝上。

24 約瑟對他弟兄們:我要死了,但必定看顧你們,領你們從這上去,到他起誓所應許給亞伯拉罕以撒雅各

25 約瑟叫以色列的子孫起誓說:必定看顧你們;你們要把我的骸從這裡搬上去。

26 約瑟死了,正一歲。人用香料將他薰了,把他收殮在棺材裡,停在埃及

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 6505

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6505. 'And forty days were completed for him' means states of preparation through temptations. This is clear from the meaning of the number 'forty' as temptations, dealt with in 730, 862, 2272, 2273; and from the meaning of 'days' as states, dealt with in 23, 487, 488, 493, 893, 2788, 3462, 3785, 4850. The fact that they are states of preparation is meant by the words 'days were completed for him'; for the completion of that number of days allowed preparation to be made so that bodies might be preserved from putrefaction, by which in the spiritual sense is meant the preparation that is made so that souls may be preserved from the corruption of evil. For more about the removal of evils and falsities by means of temptations, and a person's preparation through temptations to receive truths and forms of good, see 868, 1692, 1717, 1740, 2272, 3318, 4341, 4572, 5036, 5356, 6144.

  
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Arcana Coelestia # 893

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893. Verse 13 And it happened in the six hundred and first year, at the beginning, on the first of the month, that the waters dried up from over the earth, and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and saw out, and behold, the face 1 of the ground was dry.

'It happened in the six hundred and first year' means a finishing point. 'At the beginning, on the first of the month' means a starting point. 'The waters dried up from over the earth' means that falsities were not at that time apparent. 'And Noah removed the covering of the ark, and saw out' means the light, once falsities had been removed, shed by the truths of faith, which he acknowledged and in which he had faith. 'And behold, the face 1 of the ground was dry' means regeneration.

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1. literally, the faces

[893a] 1 That 'it happened in the six hundred and first year means a finishing point is clear from the meaning of the number six hundred, dealt with at Chapter 7:6, in 737, as a beginning, and in particular in that verse as the beginning of temptation. The end of it is specified by the same number, with a whole year having now passed by. It took place therefore at the end of a year, and this also is why the words are added 'at the beginning, on the first of the month', meaning a starting point. In the Word any complete period is specified either by a day, or a week, or a month, or a year, and even by a hundred or a thousand years - for example, 'the days' mentioned in Genesis 1, which meant stages in the regeneration of the member of the Most Ancient Church. For in the internal sense day and year mean nothing else than a period of time; and meaning a period of time they also mean a state. Consequently a year stands in the Word for a period of time and for a state, as in Isaiah,

To proclaim the year of Jehovah's good pleasure, and the day of vengeance for our God; to comfort all who mourn. Isaiah 61:2.

This refers to the Lord's Coming. In the same prophet,

The day of vengeance was in My heart, and the year of My redeemed had come. Isaiah 63:4.

Here too 'day' and 'year' stand for a period of time and for a state. In Habakkuk,

Your work, O Jehovah, in the midst of the years make it live, in the midst of the years do You make it known. Habakkuk 3:2.

Here 'years' stands for a period of time and for a state. In David,

'You are God Himself, and Your years have no end. Psalms 102:27.

This statement, in which 'years' stands for periods of time, means that time does not exist with God. The same applies in the present verse where 'the year' of the flood in no way means any one particular year but a period of time that is not determined by a specific number of years. At the same time it means a state. See what has been said already about 'years' in 482, 487, 488, 493.

1. This paragraph is not numbered in the Latin.

  
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