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Genesis 49

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1 Povolal pak Jákob synů svých, a řekl: Sejděte se, a oznámím vám, co se s vámi díti bude potomních dnů.

2 Shromažďte se a slyšte synové Jákobovi, poslyšte Izraele otce svého.

3 Ruben, prvorozený můj jsi ty, síla má, a počátek moci mé, vyvýšenost důstojenství a vyvýšenost síly.

4 Prudce sběhneš jako voda. Nebudeš vyvýšen, proto že jsi vstoupil na lůže otce svého; a jakž jsi poškvrnil postele mé, zmizelo vyvýšení tvé.

5 Simeon a Léví bratří, nástrojové nepravosti jsou v příbytcích jejich.

6 Do tajné rady jejich nevcházej duše má, k shromáždění jejich nepřipojuj se slávo má; nebo v prchlivosti své zbili muže, a svévolně vyvrátili zed.

7 Zlořečená prchlivost jejich, nebo neustupná; i hněv jejich, nebo zatvrdilý jest. Rozdělím je v Jákobovi, a rozptýlím je v Izraeli.

8 Judo, ty jsi, tebe chváliti budou bratří tvoji; ruka tvá bude na šíji nepřátel tvých; klaněti se budou tobě synové otce tvého.

9 Lvíče Juda, z loupeže, synu můj, vrátil jsi se; schýliv se, ležel jako lev a jako lvice; kdo zbudí ho?

10 Nebude odjata berla od Judy, ani vydavatel zákona od noh jeho, dokudž nepřijde Sílo; a k němu se shromáždí národové.

11 Uváže k vinnému kmenu osle své, a k výbornému kmenu oslátko oslice své. Práti bude u víně roucho své, a v červeném víně oděv svůj.

12 Červenějších očí bude nad víno, a zubů bělejších nad mléko.

13 Zabulon bydliti bude na břehu mořském, a na přístavu lodí, a pomezí jeho až k Sidonu.

14 Izachar osel silný, ležící mezi dvěma břemeny.

15 A vida odpočinutí, že jest dobré, a zemi, že jest rozkošná, sehne rameno své k nošení, a dávati bude daně.

16 Dan souditi bude lid svůj, jako jedno z pokolení Izraelských.

17 Budeť Dan jako had podlé cesty, jako had rohatý podlé stezky, štípaje kopyta koně, aby spadl jezdec jeho zpět.

18 Spasení tvého očekávám, ó Hospodine!

19 Gád, vojsko přemůže jej, však on svítězí potom.

20 Asser, tučný bude pokrm jeho, a onť vydávati bude rozkoše královské.

21 Neftalím jako laň vypuštěná, vydávaje výmluvnosti krásné.

22 Ratolest rostoucí Jozef, ratolest rostoucí podlé studnice; ratolesti vycházely nad zed.

23 Ačkoli hořkostí naplnili jej, a stříleli na něj, a v tajné nenávisti měli ho střelci:

24 Však zůstalo v síle lučiště jeho, a zsilila se ramena rukou jeho z rukou mocného Jákobova; odkudž byl pastýř a kámen Izraelův;

25 Od silného Boha, jemuž sloužil otec tvůj, kterýž spomáhá tobě, a od všemohoucího, kterýž požehná tobě požehnáními nebeskými s hůry, požehnáními propasti ležící hluboko, požehnáním prsů a života.

26 Požehnání otce tvého silnější budou nad požehnání předků mých, až k končinám pahrbků věčných; budou nad hlavou Jozefovou, a na vrchu hlavy Nazarejského mezi bratřími jeho.

27 Beniamin, vlk dravý, ráno bude jísti loupež, a večer rozdělí kořisti.

28 Všech těchto pokolení Izraelských jest dvanácte; a to jest, což mluvil jim otec jejich; požehnal jim také, jednomu každému vedlé požehnání jeho požehnal.

29 A poroučeje jim, řekl: Já připojen budu k lidu svému; pochovejte mne s otci mými v jeskyni té, kteráž jest na poli Efrona Hetejského,

30 V jeskyni, kteráž jest na poli Machpelah, jenž jest naproti Mamre v zemi Kananejské, kterouž koupil Abraham spolu s polem tím od Efrona Hetejského k dědičnému pohřbu.

31 Tam pochovali Abrahama a Sáru ženu jeho; tam pochovali Izáka a Rebeku ženu jeho; tam také pochovali Líu.

32 Koupeno pak bylo pole a jeskyně, kteráž na něm, od synů Het.

33 A když přestal Jákob přikazovati synům svým, složil nohy své na ložci a umřel; a připojen jest k lidu svému.

   

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6432. 'The blessings of the breasts' means with affections for goodness and truth. This is clear from the meaning of 'the breasts' as affections for goodness and truth. 'The breasts' means those affections because the breasts communicate with the generative organs, and for that reason they too belong to the province of conjugial love (regarding that province see 5050-5062). Now conjugial love corresponds to the heavenly marriage, which is a marriage of goodness and truth (for conjugial love comes down from that marriage, see 2618, 2728, 2729, 2803, 3132, 4434, 4835, 6179), and therefore 'the breasts' means affections for goodness and truth. In addition they derive that meaning from the fact that the breasts are what feed infants and so mean, through the affection that goes with breast-feeding, conjugial love when joined to the love of offspring.

[2] The same affections are also meant by 'the breasts' in Isaiah,

You will suck the milk of nations, and the breasts of kings you will suck. Instead of bronze I will bring gold, and instead of iron silver. Isaiah 60:16-17.

'Sucking the breasts of kings' stands for good obtained from truth, for by 'kings' truths are meant, 1672, 2015, 2069, 3009, 3670, 4575, 4581, 4966, 5044, 5068, 6148. 'The milk of nations' and 'the breasts of kings' plainly mean some profoundly spiritual matter, for those words would otherwise be meaningless. The fact that goodness and truth are meant is clear from the words that follow, which are 'Instead of bronze I will bring gold, and instead of iron silver'; for 'bronze' is natural good, 425, 1551, and 'gold' celestial good, 113, 1551, 1552, 5658; 'iron' is natural truth, 425, 426, and 'silver' spiritual truth, 1551, 2954, 5658, 6112.

[3] In Ezekiel,

As regards increase, I gave you to be like the seed of the field, out of which you grew up and matured and reached full beauty; your breasts were formed and your hair had grown. Ezekiel 16:7.

This refers to Jerusalem, which here means the Ancient spiritual Church. 'Breasts that were formed' stands for interior affections for goodness and truth, 'your hair had grown for exterior affections belonging to the natural - 'hair' being the natural as regards truth, see 3301, 5247, 5569-5573. These words plainly contain a spiritual sense which is not visible in the letter, for without that sense why would it say of Jerusalem that its breasts were formed and its hair had grown?

[4] In the same prophet,

Two women, the daughters of one mother, committed whoredom in Egypt. In their youth they committed whoredom; there their breasts were squeezed, and there they contemplated their virgin busts. Ezekiel 23:2-3, 8, 21.

This passage in Ezekiel states that the two women are Jerusalem and Samaria, by whom Churches are meant in the internal sense. The statement that in their youth they committed whoredom with Egypt means that they falsified the truths of the Church by their use of factual knowledge - 'committing whoredom' is falsifying truths, see 2466, 4865, and 'Egypt' is factual knowledge, 1164, 1165, 1186, 1462, 5700, 5702. Consequently 'their breasts were squeezed' stands for affections for goodness and truth that became perverted through falsifications. The fact that the women's whoredom and the squeezing of their breasts mean such things can be seen by those who are prepared to look into what is meant in the description of those women.

[5] In Hosea,

Contend with your mother, let her remove her whoredoms from her sight, 1 and her adulteries from between her breasts, lest perhaps I strip her naked, and make her like a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst. Hosea 2:1, 3.

'Mother' here stands for the Church, 289, 2691, 2717, 3703, 4257, 5581, whoredoms' for falsifications of truth, 2466, 4865, 'adulteries' for adulterations of good, 2466, 2729, 3399. Consequently 'adulteries from between her breasts' stands for adulterated affections for goodness and truth, 'stripping naked' for depriving of all truth, 1073, 4958, 5437, 'making like a wilderness, setting like a dry land, and slaying with thirst' for the annihilation of all truth.

[6] In the same prophet,

Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts. Hosea 9:14.

'Dry breasts' stands for affections for neither truth nor good. In Isaiah,

O women without anxiety, stand still, hear My voice; O confident daughters, perceive My speech with your ears. Strip and make yourself bare, and gird [sackcloth] around your waist 2 - people beating themselves on their breasts for the fields of unmixed wine, and the fruitful vine. Isaiah 32:9, 11-12.

'Daughters' stands for affections, 2362, 3024, 3963, 'being stripped bare' for being deprived of truth, 1073, 4958, 5433, 'girding [sackcloth] around one's waist' for suffering grief over good that has been lost, 'beating on breasts' for suffering grief over the good of truth that has been lost. Since these things are meant, it also says 'for the fields of unmixed wine, and the fruitful vine'; for 'the field' is the Church in respect of good, thus the Church's good, 2971, 3196, 3310, 3766, and 'vine' is the spiritual Church, and therefore the good of truth, 5113, 6375, 6376.

[7] In the Book of Revelation,

I saw seven golden lampstands, and in the midst of the seven lampstands one like the Son of Man, clothed with a long robe, and surrounded by a golden girdle around the breasts. Revelation 1:12-13.

'Golden lampstands' are truths of good, 'the Son of Man' is Divine Truth, 'surrounded by a golden girdle around the breasts' the good of love. Anyone may deduce from the holiness of the Word that the things John saw concealed within themselves realities such as belong to the Lord's kingdom and His Church; for what holiness would there be in making predictions about kingdoms in the world? From this one may recognize that they are heavenly things that are meant by 'lampstands' and by 'the Son of Man, clothed with a long robe, and surrounded by a golden girdle around the breasts'.

[8] In Luke,

A certain woman lifted up her voice out of the crowd; 3 she said about Jesus, Blessed is the womb that carried You, and the breasts that You sucked. But Jesus said, Rather than that, blessed are those who hear the Word of God and keep it. Luke 11:27-28.

The Lord's reply shows what 'blessed is the womb' and what 'the breasts' mean - 'those who hear the Word of God and keep it', thus affections for truth which exist with those who hear the Word or God, and affections for good which exist with those who keep it, that is, put it into practice.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. literally, faces

2. literally, upon your loins

3. literally, the people

  
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