4317. 就内在历史意义而言, “因为那人在坐骨神经筋上将雅各的大腿窝摸了一把” 表由于他们具有一种无法通过重生被根除的遗传性, 因为他们不允许这种事发生. 这从 “大腿” 的含义清楚可知, “大腿” 是指婚姻之爱, 因而是指一切属天和属灵之爱 (参看4280节); 因为 “大腿窝” 就是婚姻之爱, 以及一切属天, 属灵之爱与属世良善结合的地方 (4277, 4280节). 因此, “摸它”, 或损害它, 以至于瘸了是指摧毁从这些爱所流出的良善. 由于这事发生在雅各身上, 故它表示这种性质从他传到他的后代那里, 因而具有遗传性. “坐骨神经筋” (nerve of that which was displaced) 表示虚假 (参看4303节), 在此表示源自遗传之恶的虚假. 由此和整个思路可知, 这种遗传性无法通过重生根除, 因为他们不允许这种事发生.

他们具有这种遗传性, 并且无法重生; 这一点从圣言中有关他们的一切记载, 尤其摩西五经中的以下经文看得非常清楚:

摩西召了以色列众人来, 对他们说, 耶和华在埃及地, 在你们眼前向法老和他众臣仆, 并他全地所行的一切事, 你们都看见了; 但耶和华到今日没有使你们心能明白, 眼能看见, 耳能听见. (申命记 29:2, 4)

又:

我未领他们到我所起誓应许之地以先, 这百姓今日里所作的计画我都知道了. (申命记 31:21)

又:

我要向他们掩面, 看他们的结局如何. 他们本是极乖僻的一代, 心中无诚实的儿女. 我要除灭他们, 使他们的名从人间消失, 惟恐仇敌惹动我. 因为他们是缺乏智谋的民族, 他们里面毫无聪明. 他们的葡萄树是所多玛的葡萄树, 他们的葡萄是蛾摩拉田园出的; 他们的葡萄是苦毒的, 全挂都是苦的. 他们的酒是大蛇的毒气, 是虺蛇残害的头. 这不都是积蓄在我这里, 封锁在我府库中吗? (申命记 32:20, 26-34)

其它地方, 尤其耶利米书中的部分经文也提到这些事.

“摸雅各的大腿窝”, 然后他就瘸了, 就表示他们的遗传性; 这一点明显可见于何西阿书:

耶和华与犹大争辩, 必照雅各所行的惩罚他, 按他所做的报应他. 他在腹中抓住哥哥的脚跟, 壮年的时候与神较力; 与天使较力, 并且得胜, 哭泣恳求. (何西阿书 12:2-5)

就内在历史意义而言, 此处 “与神较力” 是指他们坚持认为教会的代表要存在于他们当中 (参看4290, 4293节). 由此明显可知, 他们所拥有的这种遗传性源自雅各自己, 这一点从更多目前不得不忽略过去的经文明显看出来.

关于具体的遗传性, 在当今的教会, 人们都以为一切遗传之恶皆来自第一代父母, 所有人都因此在遗传之恶方面受到诅咒. 但事实并非如此. 每个人里面的遗传之恶的源头在于他的父母和父母的父母, 也就是在于祖父母和历代先祖. 他们通过实际生活所获得, 通过频繁实践或习惯可以说已经成为其秉性一部分的一切邪恶都会传给他的儿女, 在他们里面变成遗传, 这恶还伴随着从祖父母和先祖植入在父母里面的东西. 来自父亲的遗传之恶更为内在, 来自母亲的遗传之恶更为外在. 前者无法轻易根除, 而后者则能. 当人正在经历重生时, 来自最近父母的根深蒂固的遗传之恶就会被根除; 但对那些未经历重生的人, 或不能重生的人来说, 它依然存留. 这就是遗传之恶 (参看313, 494, 2122, 2910, 3518, 3701节). 这个问题对于能反省的人, 以及从以下事实也是显而易见的, 即: 每个家族都有某种特定邪恶或良善, 该家族凭此而有别于其它家族; 这种特性如众所周知的, 是从父母和先祖遗传来的. 这同样适用于如今仍旧存留的犹太民族, 该民族与其它民族截然不同, 不仅能从它特有的性情被识别出来, 还可以从它的习俗, 言语和面貌被识别出来.

不过, 很少有人知道何为遗传之恶. 人们以为遗传之恶在于行恶, 而事实上, 它在于意愿, 因而思想邪恶. 遗传之恶就在意愿本身和源于此的思维中; 它就是在它们里面, 甚至在此人行善时也会将自己附着上的向恶的实际倾向. 它通过当邪恶临到别人身上时所感觉到的快乐可被识别出来. 这根深深向下隐藏, 因为接受来自天堂, 也就是经由天堂来自主的良善与真理的内在形式本身被扭曲, 可以说已经扭曲得变形了; 以致当良善与真理从主流入时, 它们要么被反射回去, 要么被歪曲, 要么被窒息. 正是由于这个原因, 如今对良善与真理的觉知不存在了, 对重生之人来说, 取而代之的是良心; 良心承认从父母和老师那里所学到的为良善与真理. 爱自己胜过他人, 若其他人不尊敬我们, 就向他们意愿邪恶, 以报复为乐, 以及爱世界胜过天堂, 就出自遗传之恶; 一切恶欲或邪恶情感也出自这一源头. 人不知道这类事物就存在于遗传之恶里面, 更不知道它们是天上情感的对立面. 然而, 在来世可以清楚显明, 每个人通过实际生活引向自己的源自遗传之物的邪恶何等之多, 以及他因来自这一源头的邪恶情感而距离天堂何等遥远.

雅各后代里面的遗传之恶无法通过重生而根除, 因为他们不允许这种事发生. 这一事实从圣言中的历史描述明显看出来; 因为他们在旷野的一切试探中都屈服了, 如摩西五经所记载的; 后来在迦南地, 一看不到神迹, 也会屈服. 然而, 这些试探都是外在的, 而不是内在的或属灵的. 他们在属灵的事上不能受试探, 因为他们不知道内在真理, 也没有任何内在良善, 如前所示; 除了在他所知道或所拥有的事物方面外, 没有人能受试探. 试探就是实现重生的实际手段. 这些事就是他们不允许重生的意思. 关于他们在来世的状态和命运, 可参看前文 (939-941, 3481节).

大人和对应 (续)

此处关于与总体上感官的对应

1001. 'Blood' means charity, as becomes clear from many considerations, and so means the new will part which a regenerate spiritual person receives from the Lord. This new will part is identical with charity, for it is from charity that the new will takes form. Indeed charity, or love, is the essential element or the life of the will, for nobody can possibly say he wills something unless he takes delight in it or loves it. When people say they have something in mind this does not imply that they will it, unless will is implicit in thought. This new will which is one of charity is 'the blood' here. It is not the person's own but the Lord's residing with him. And because it is the Lord's it must never be mixed together with things that belong to the person's own will which, as stated, is so foul. This was the reason why in the representative Church people were commanded not to eat flesh with its soul, that is, not to eat the blood. That is to say, they were not to mix the one with the other. Because 'blood' meant charity it meant that which was holy, and because 'flesh' meant what belonged to the merely human will, it meant that which was unholy. And because these, being opposites, were quite separate, people were forbidden to eat blood. For in those times 'the eating of flesh together with the blood' was representative in heaven of profanation, or the mixing together of holy and unholy - which representation in heaven could do nothing else than strike the angels with horror. For at that period of time all things that took place among members of the Church were converted among angels - according to the meaning such things had in the internal sense - into corresponding spiritual representations.

[2] Since the nature of everything depends on that of the person to whom it refers, the same holds true with regard to the meaning of blood. When it refers to a regenerate spiritual person 'blood' means charity or love towards the neighbour. When it refers to a regenerate celestial person it means love to the Lord. But when it refers to the Lord it means the whole of His Human Essence, and so Love itself, which is His mercy towards the human race. Consequently since 'blood' in general means love and what belongs to love, it means heavenly things that are the Lord's alone, and so in reference to man it means the heavenly things a person receives from the Lord. The heavenly things that a regenerate spiritual person receives from the Lord are celestial-spiritual. These in the Lord's Divine mercy will be dealt with elsewhere.

[3] That 'blood' means heavenly things, and in the highest sense meant the Lord's Human Essence, and so Love itself, which is His mercy towards the human race, becomes clear from the sacredness that the Jewish representative Church was required to attach to blood. For this reason blood was called 'the blood of the covenant'. It was sprinkled over the people, and also, together with the anointing oil, over Aaron and his sons. And [the blood] of every burnt offering and sacrifice was sprinkled over and around the altar. For these details, see Exodus 12:7, 13, 22-23; 24:6, 8; Leviticus 1:5, 11, 15; 4:6-7, 17-18, 25, 30, 34; 5:9; 16:12-15; 18, 19; Numbers 18:17; Deuteronomy 12:27.

[4] Because blood was held to be so holy, and what belonged to the merely human will was so unholy, they were strictly forbidden to eat blood because this represented the profanation of what is holy, as in Moses,

It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations, in all your dwelling-places, that you shall not eat any fat or any blood. Leviticus 3:17.

'Fat' stands for celestial life, and 'blood' in this instance for celestial-spiritual life. The celestial-spiritual is that which is spiritual having a celestial origin, as with the Most Ancient Church. With them love to the Lord was the celestial because this had been implanted in their will, while that which was celestial-spiritual with them was faith flowing from it, dealt with in 30-38, 337, 793, 398. But with a spiritual person the celestial does not exist, only the celestial-spiritual, because charity is implanted in the understanding part of his mind.

In the same author,

As for anyone from the house of Israel or from the sojourner sojourning among them who eats any blood, I will set My face ¹ against the soul eating blood and will cut him off from among his people, for the soul of the flesh is in the blood; and I have given it for you upon the altar, to make atonement for your souls, for the blood itself will make atonement by reason of the soul. The soul of all flesh is the blood of it; everyone eating it shall be cut off. Leviticus 17:10-11, 14.

Here it is plainly stated that the soul of the flesh is in the blood and that the soul of [all] flesh is the blood, or that which is celestial, that is, that which is holy and is the Lord's.

[5] In the same author,

Be sure that you do not eat blood, for the blood is the soul and you shall not eat the soul with the flesh. Deuteronomy 12:23-25.

From these words similarly it is clear that the blood is called the soul, that is, celestial life, or that which is celestial, and was represented by the burnt offerings and sacrifices of that Church. In a similar way, it was the requirement not to mingle that which was celestial - the Lord's Proprium, which alone is celestial and holy - with man's proprium, which is unholy, that was represented also by their being forbidden to make a sacrifice of, that is, to offer, the blood of the sacrifice with anything leavened, Exodus 23:18; 34:25. That which was 'leavened' meant that which was corrupt and filthy.

[6] The reason Why 'blood' is called the soul and means the holiness of charity, and why the holiness of love was represented in the Jewish Church by 'blood', is that the life of the body lies in the blood. And because the life of the body lies in the blood it is its ultimate soul, so that the blood therefore may be called the bodily soul, or the place where a person's bodily life resides. And because in representative Churches internal things were represented by external, the soul or celestial life was therefore represented by 'the blood'.

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