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Genesis 22

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1 En het geschiedde na deze dingen, dat God Abraham verzocht; en Hij zeide tot hem: Abraham! En hij zeide: Zie, hier ben ik!

2 En Hij zeide: Neem nu uw zoon, uw enige, dien gij liefhebt, Izak, en ga heen naar het land Moria, en offer hem aldaar tot een brandoffer, op een van de bergen, dien Ik u zeggen zal.

3 Toen stond Abraham des morgens vroeg op, en zadelde zijn ezel, en nam twee van zijn jongeren met zich, en Izak zijn zoon; en hij kloofde hout tot het brandoffer, en maakte zich op, en ging naar de plaats, die God hem gezegd had.

4 Aan den derden dag, toen hief Abraham zijn ogen op, en zag die plaats van verre.

5 En Abraham zeide tot zijn jongeren: Blijft gij hier met den ezel, en ik en de jongen zullen heengaan tot daar; als wij aangebeden zullen hebben, dan zullen wij tot u wederkeren.

6 En Abraham nam het hout des brandoffers, en legde het op Izak, zijn zoon; en hij nam het vuur en het mes in zijn hand, en zij beiden gingen samen.

7 Toen sprak Izak tot Abraham, zijn vader, en zeide: Mijn vader! En hij zeide: Zie, hier ben ik, mijn zoon! En hij zeide: Zie het vuur en het hout; maar waar is het lam tot het brandoffer?

8 En Abraham zeide: God zal Zichzelven een lam ten brandoffer voorzien, mijn zoon! Zo gingen zij beiden samen.

9 En zij kwamen ter plaatse, die hem God gezegd had; en Abraham bouwde aldaar een altaar, en hij schikte het hout, en bond zijn zoon Izak, en legde hem op het altaar boven op het hout.

10 En Abraham strekte zijn hand uit, en nam het mes om zijn zoon te slachten.

11 Maar de Engel des HEEREN riep tot hem van den hemel en zeide: Abraham, Abraham! En hij zeide: Zie, hier ben ik!

12 Toen zeide Hij: Strek uw hand niet uit aan den jongen, en doe hem niets! want nu weet Ik, dat gij God vrezende zijt, en uw zoon, uw enige, van Mij niet hebt onthouden.

13 Toen hief Abraham zijn ogen op, en zag om, en ziet, achter was een ram in de verwarde struiken vast met zijn hoornen; en Abraham ging, en nam dien ram, en offerde hem ten brandoffer in zijns zoons plaats.

14 En Abraham noemde den naam van die plaats: De HEERE zal het voorzien! Waarom heden ten dage gezegd wordt: Op den berg des HEEREN zal het voorzien worden!

15 Toen riep de Engel des HEEREN tot Abraham ten tweeden male van den hemel;

16 En zeide: Ik zweer bij Mijzelven, spreekt de HEERE; daarom dat gij deze zaak gedaan hebt, en uw zoon, uw enige, niet onthouden hebt;

17 Voorzeker zal Ik u grotelijks zegenen, en uw zaad zeer vermenigvuldigen, als de sterren des hemels, en als het zand, dat aan den oever der zee is; en uw zaad zal de poorten zijner vijanden erfelijk bezitten.

18 En in uw zaad zullen gezegend worden alle volken der aarde, naardien gij Mijn stem gehoorzaam geweest zijt.

19 Toen keerde Abraham weder tot zijn jongeren, en zij maakten zich op, en zij gingen samen naar Ber-seba; en Abraham woonde te Ber-seba.

20 En het geschiedde na deze dingen, dat men Abraham boodschapte, zeggende: Zie, Milka heeft ook Nahor, uw broeder, zonen gebaard:

21 Uz, zijn eerstgeborene, en Buz, zijn broeder, en Kemuel, de vader van Aram,

22 En Chesed, en Hazo, en Pildas, en Jidlaf, en Bethuel;

23 (En Bethuel gewon Rebekka) deze acht baarde Milka aan Nahor, den broeder van Abraham.

24 En zijn bijwijf, welker naam was Reuma, diezelve baarde ook Tebah, en Gaham, en Tahas, en Maacha.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 2811

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2811. 'And Abraham built the altar there' means preparation of the Lord's Divine human. This is clear from the meaning of 'the altar' and of 'building the altar'. Altars used to mean all worship in general because they were the chief feature of the worship of the representative Church, 921. And because they meant all worship in general they meant the Lord's Divine Human, for the Lord's Divine Human is essentially present in all worship and all doctrine, so much so that it is the very essence of worship itself and doctrine itself. This becomes clear also from the Holy Supper which superseded altars, that is, burnt offerings and sacrifices, 2165, 2187, 2343, 2359. The Holy Supper is the chief feature of external worship because it is the Lord's Divine Human that is bestowed there. From all this it may become clear, and so without further explanation, that 'building an altar' means preparing the Divine human. The final preparation of the Lord's Divine human for undergoing the last degrees of temptation is the subject in the present verse and is described by the statement that Abraham laid the pieces of wood in order, bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar, upon the pieces of wood.

  
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2187. 'And they ate' means communication in this manner. This becomes clear from the meaning of 'eating' as being communicated, and also being joined together, as is also evident from the Word. The injunction that Aaron, and his sons the Levites, and also the people were to eat the consecrated elements of the sacrifices in a holy place meant nothing other than the communication, conjunction, and making one's own, as stated above in 2177, at the point where Leviticus 6:16-17, is referred to. For it was celestial and spiritual food that was meant by the consecrated elements, and thus making that food their own by eating those elements. These consecrated elements were those parts of the sacrifices which were not burned on the altar but were eaten either by the priests or by the people who brought the offering, as becomes clear from very many places where the sacrifices are the subject. The consecrated elements that were to be eaten by the priests are referred to in Exodus 29:32-33; Leviticus 6:16, 26; 7:6, 15-16, 18; 8:31; 10:12-13; Numbers 18:9-11; and those to be eaten by the people, in Leviticus 19:5-6; Deuteronomy 12:27; 27:7; and elsewhere. And that those who were unclean were not to eat of them is referred to in Leviticus 7:19-21; 22:4-7. These ritual feasts took place in a holy place near the altar, either at the gate or in the court outside the tent. And they meant nothing else than the communication, conjunction, and making of celestial goods one's own, for those feasts represented celestial food. For what celestial food is, see 56-58, 680, 681, 1480, 1695. And all those consecrated elements were called 'bread', for the meaning of which see above in 2165. Something similar was represented by Aaron and his sons eating the loaves of the presence, or the shewbread, in a holy place, Leviticus 24:9.

[2] The reason for the law given to the Nazirite that during the days of his Naziriteship he was forbidden to eat anything that is produced from the grape - from which wine is made - from pips even to skin, Numbers 6:4, is that the Nazirite represented the celestial man, and the celestial man is such as is not willing even to mention spiritual things, see Volume One, in 202, 337, 880 (end), 1647. And because 'wine' and 'the grape', and also whatever came from the grape, meant that which is spiritual, the Nazirite was therefore forbidden to eat of them, that is, to have any communication with spiritual things, to join himself to them, or to make them his own.

[3] Something similar is meant by 'eating' in Isaiah,

Everyone who thirsts, come to the waters, and he who has no money, come, buy, and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. Why do you spend money on that which is not bread, and your labour on that which does not satisfy? Hearken diligently to Me and eat what is good, and your soul will delight itself in fatness. Isaiah 55:1-2.

And also what is said in John,

To him who conquers I will grant to eat from the tree of life which is in the middle of the Paradise of God. Revelation 2:7.

'The tree of life' is the celestial itself, and in the highest sense it is the Lord Himself since He is the source of everything celestial, that is, of all love and charity. Thus 'eating from the tree of life' is the same as feeding on the Lord; and 'feeding on the Lord' is being endowed with love and charity, thus with those things that belong to heavenly life, as the Lord Himself declares in John,

I am the living bread which came down from heaven; if anyone eats of this bread he will live for ever. He who feeds on Me will live through Me. John 6:51, 57. But they said, This is a hard saying. Jesus said however, The words that I speak to you, they are spirit and they are life. John 6:60, 63.

From this it is evident what is meant by 'eating' in the Holy Supper, Matthew 26:26-28; Mark 14:22-23; Luke 22:19-20 - having communication, being joined together, and making one's own.

[4] From this it is also plain what is meant by the Lord's statement that

Many will come from the east and from the west and will recline with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Matthew 8:11.

The Lord did not mean that they were going to feast with these three in the kingdom of God but that they were to enjoy the celestial goods meant by Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. That is to say, they were to enjoy the inmost celestial goods of love, meant by -Abraham'; also a lower type of goods, which are intermediate, as those are which belong to the rational, meant by 'Isaac'; and a still lower type of goods which are celestial-natural, such as occur in the first heaven, meant by 'Jacob'. These are the things which constitute the internal sense of these words. That such things are meant by Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, see 1893, and wherever else they are the subject. For whether one speaks of enjoying those celestial things, or whether one speaks of enjoying the Lord, whom they represent, it amounts to the same since the Lord is the source of all those things, and the Lord is their All in all.

  
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