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Genesis 15

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1 Na deze dingen geschiedde het woord des HEEREN tot Abram in een gezicht, zeggende: Vrees niet, Abram! Ik ben u een Schild, uw Loon zeer groot.

2 Toen zeide Abram: Heere, Heere! wat zult Gij mij geven, daar ik zonder kinderen heenga en de bezorger van mijn huis is deze Damaskener Eliezer?

3 Voorts zeide Abram: Zie, mij hebt Gij geen zaad gegeven, en zie, de zoon van mijn huis zal mijn erfgenaam zijn!

4 En ziet, het woord des HEEREN was tot hem, zeggende: Deze zal uw erfgenaam niet zijn; maar die uit uw lijf voortkomen zal, die zal uw erfgenaam zijn.

5 Toen leidde Hij hem uit naar buiten, en zeide: Zie nu op naar den hemel, en tel de sterren, indien gij ze tellen kunt; en Hij zeide tot hem: Zo zal uw zaad zijn!

6 En hij geloofde in den HEERE; en Hij rekende het hem tot gerechtigheid.

7 Voorts zeide Hij tot hem: Ik ben de HEERE, Die u uitgeleid heb uit Ur der Chaldeen, om u dit land te geven, om dat erfelijk te bezitten.

8 En hij zeide: Heere, Heere! waarbij zal ik weten, dat ik het erfelijk bezitten zal?

9 En Hij zeide tot hem: Neem Mij een driejarige vaars, en een driejarige geit, en een driejarige ram, en een tortelduif, en een jonge duif.

10 En hij bracht Hem deze alle, en hij deelde ze middendoor, en hij legde elks deel tegen het andere over; maar het gevogelte deelde hij niet.

11 En het wild gevogelte kwam neder op het aas; maar Abram joeg het weg.

12 En het geschiedde, als de zon was aan het ondergaan, zo viel een diepe slaap op Abram; en ziet, een schrik, en grote duisternis viel op hem.

13 Toen zeide Hij tot Abram: Weet voorzeker, dat uw zaad vreemd zal zijn in een land, dat het hunne niet is, en zij zullen hen dienen, en zij zullen hen verdrukken vierhonderd jaren.

14 Doch Ik zal het volk ook rechten, hetwelk zij zullen dienen; en daarna zullen zij uittrekken met grote have.

15 En gij zult tot uw vaderen gaan met vrede; gij zult in goeden ouderdom begraven worden.

16 En het vierde geslacht zal herwaarts wederkeren; want de ongerechtigheid der Amorieten is tot nog toe niet volkomen.

17 En het geschiedde, dat de zon onderging en het duister werd, en ziet, daar was een rokende oven en vurige fakkel, die tussen die stukken doorging.

18 Ten zelfden dage maakte de HEERE een verbond met Abram, zeggende: Aan uw zaad heb Ik dit land gegeven, van de rivier van Egypte af, tot aan die grote rivier, de rivier Frath:

19 Den Keniet, en den Keniziet, en den Kadmoniet,

20 En den Hethiet, en den Fereziet, en de Refaieten,

21 En den Amoriet, en den Kanaaniet, en den Girgaziet, en den Jebusiet.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 1868

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1868. That these things are signified by these nations it would be too tedious to confirm from the Word; and there is no need to do so here, because they are merely named. Some of them have been treated of above; the “Rephaim” as signifying the persuasions of falsity (n. 567, 581, 1673); the “Amorite” as signifying evils (n. 1680); the “Canaanite” as signifying evils (above at verse 16); the “Perizzite” as signifying falsities (n. 1574). What is the specific signification of the other nations, shall of the Lord’s Divine mercy be told in what follows, as they occur.

[2] As regards the nations which are to be expelled from the Lord’s kingdom, the case is this. In the other life the evil and diabolical spirits desire nothing more than to come up into the world of spirits and infest the good spirits, but as often as they do so they are cast out, in like manner as in a man who is being regenerated the falsities and evils which have taken possession of him are subjugated and dissipated, and the goods and truths of the Lord’s kingdom are implanted in their place.

[3] These were represented by the nations that were expelled from the land of Canaan by the sons of Jacob; and the same were represented by the Jews themselves, who were afterwards expelled from the land. The same occurred with many nations of old that represented similar things, as the Horites who were driven from Mount Seir by the descendants of Esau (spoken of in Deuteronomy 2:12, 22); and the Avvim who were expelled by the Caphtorim (mentioned in Deuteronomy 2:23); also the Emim or Rephaim who were driven out by the Moabites (spoken of in Deuteronomy 2:9-11); and also the Zamzummim who were expelled by the Ammonites (mentioned in Deuteronomy 2:19-21); besides many others spoken of in the Prophets.

  
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Arcana Coelestia # 581

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581. That by the “Nephilim” are signified those who through a persuasion of their own loftiness and preeminence made light of all things holy and true, appears from what precedes and what follows, namely, that they immersed the doctrinals of faith in their cupidities, signified by the “sons of God going in unto the daughters of man, and their bearing unto them.” Persuasion concerning self and its phantasies increases also according to the multitude of things that enter into it, till at length it becomes indelible; and when the doctrinals of faith are added thereto, then from principles of the strongest persuasion they make light of all things holy and true, and become “Nephilim.” That race, which lived before the flood, is such that they so kill and suffocate all spirits by their most direful phantasies (which are poured forth by them as a poisonous and suffocating sphere) that the spirits are entirely deprived of the power of thinking, and feel half dead; and unless the Lord by His coming into the world had freed the world of spirits from that poisonous race, no one could have existed there, and consequently the human race, who are ruled by the Lord through spirits, would have perished. They are therefore now kept in a hell under as it were a misty and dense rock, under the heel of the left foot, nor do they make the slightest attempt to rise out of it. Thus is the world of spirits free from this most dangerous crew, concerning which and its most poisonous sphere of persuasions, of the Lord’s Divine mercy hereafter. These are they who are called “Nephilim” and who make light of all things holy and true. Further mention is made of them in the Word, but their descendants were called “Anakim” and “Rephaim.” That they were called “Anakim” is evident from Moses:

There we saw the Nephilim, the sons of Anak, of the Nephilim, and we were in our own eyes as grasshoppers, and so we were in their eyes (Numbers 13:33).

That they were called “Rephaim” appears also from Moses:

The Emim dwelt before in the land of Moab, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakim, who also were accounted Rephaim, as the Anakim, and the Moabites call them Emim (Deuteronomy 2:10-11).

The Nephilim are not mentioned anymore, but the Rephaim are, who are described by the prophets to be such as are above stated; as in Isaiah:

Hell low down has been in commotion for thee, to meet thee in coming, it hath stirred up the Rephaim for thee (Isaiah 14:9),

speaking of the hell which is the abode of such spirits. In the same:

Thy dead shall not live, the Rephaim shall not arise, because thou hast visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish (Isaiah 26:14),

where also their hell is referred to, from which they shall no more rise again. In the same:

Thy dead shall live, my corpse, they shall rise again; awake and sing, ye that dwell in the dust, for the dew of herbs is thy dew; but thou shalt cast out the land of the Rephaim (Isaiah 26:19);

“the land of the Rephaim” is the hell above spoken of.

In David:

Wilt Thou show a wonder to the dead? Shall the Rephaim arise, shall they confess to Thee? (Psalms 88:10),

speaking in like manner concerning the hell of the Rephaim, and that they cannot rise up and infest the sphere of the world of spirits with the very direful poison of their persuasions. But it has been provided by the Lord that mankind should no longer become imbued with such dreadful phantasies and persuasions. Those who lived before the flood were of such a nature and genius that they could be imbued, for a reason as yet unknown, concerning which, of the Lord’s Divine mercy hereafter.

  
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