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Genesis 23

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1 En het leven van Sara was honderd zeven en twintig jaren; dit waren de jaren des levens van Sara.

2 En Sara stierf te Kiriath-Arba, dat is Hebron, in het land Kanaan; en Abraham kwam om Sara te beklagen, en haar te bewenen.

3 Daarna stond Abraham op van het aangezicht van zijner dode, en hij sprak tot de zonen Heths, zeggende:

4 Ik ben een vreemdeling en inwoner bij u; geef mij een erfbegrafenis bij u, opdat ik mijn dode van voor mijn aangezicht begrave.

5 En de zonen Heths antwoordden Abraham, zeggende tot hem:

6 Hoor ons, mijn heer! gij zijt een vorst Gods in het midden van ons; begraaf uw dode in de keure onzer graven; niemand van ons zal zijn graf voor u weren, dat gij uw dode niet zoudt begraven.

7 Toen stond Abraham op, en boog zich neder voor het volk des lands, voor de zonen Heths;

8 En hij sprak met hen, zeggende: Is het met uw wil, dat ik mijn dode begrave van voor mijn aangezicht; zo hoort mij, en spreekt voor mij bij Efron, den zoon van Zohar,

9 Dat hij mij geve de spelonk van Machpela, die hij heeft, die in het einde van zijn akker is, dat hij dezelve mij om het volle geld geve, tot een erfbegrafenis in het midden van u.

10 Efron nu zat in het midden van de zonen Heths; en Efron de Hethiet antwoordde Abraham, voor de oren van de zonen Heths, van al degenen, die ter poorte zijner stad ingingen, zeggende:

11 Neen, mijn heer! hoor mij; den akker geef ik u; ook de spelonk, die daarin is, die geef ik u; voor de ogen van de zonen mijns volks geef ik u die; begraaf uw dode.

12 Toen boog zich Abraham neder voor het aangezicht van het volk des lands;

13 En hij sprak tot Efron, voor de oren van het volk des lands, zeggende: Trouwens, zijt gij het? lieve, hoor mij; ik zal het geld des akkers geven; neem het van mij, zo zal ik mijn dode aldaar begraven.

14 En Efron antwoordde Abraham, zeggende tot hem:

15 Mijn heer! hoor mij; een land van vierhonderd sikkelen zilvers, wat is dat tussen mij en tussen u? begraaf slechts uw dode.

16 En Abraham luisterde naar Efron; en Abraham woog Efron het geld, waarvan hij gesproken had voor de oren van de zonen Heths, vierhonderd sikkelen zilvers, onder den koopman gangbaar.

17 Alzo werd de akker van Efron, die in Machpela was, dat tegenover Mamre lag, de akker en de spelonk, die daarin was, en al het geboomte, dat op den akker stond, dat rondom in zijn ganse landpale was gevestigd,

18 Aan Abraham tot een bezitting, voor de ogen van de zonen Heths, bij allen, die tot zijn stadspoort ingingen.

19 En daarna begroef Abraham zijn huisvrouw Sara in de spelonk des akkers van Machpela, tegenover Mamre, hetwelk is Hebron, in het land Kanaan.

20 Alzo werd die akker, en de spelonk die daarin was, aan Abraham gevestigd tot een erfbegrafenis van de zonen Heths.

   

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Antipas my faithful martyr

  

Antipas my faithful martyr, ('Revelation 2:13'), in the spiritual or angelic language, signifies those who are hated on account of acknowledging the divine human of the Lord.

(Odkazy: Apocalypse Explained 137; Apocalypse Revealed 112)

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137. Even in the days wherein Antipas was My faithful martyr who was slain among you, signifies in that time and state in which all are hated who openly acknowledge the Divine Human of the Lord. This is evident from the signification of "day," as being time and state (on which see Arcana Coelestia 23,488, 493, 893, 2788, 3462, 3785, 4850, 10656); consequently "in the days in which" signifies in that time and state; also from the signification of "Antipas My faithful martyr," as being those who openly acknowledge the Divine Human of the Lord (of which more in what follows); also from the signification of "being slain," as being to be hated. "To be slain," is to be hated, because he who hates is unceasingly slaying; he cherishes in his thought nothing else and purposes nothing else than to slay, and he would also slay if the laws did not prevent. This lies concealed in hatred; he, therefore, who hates the neighbor, when in the other life external bonds are removed from him, is continually breathing the murder of some one. This has been testified to me by much experience.

[2] "Antipas the faithful martyr" signifies those who are hated because of their acknowledgment of the Lord's Divine Human, for the reason that at that time one Antipas was slain on that account; by "Antipas," therefore, all who are hated on that account are meant; just as by "Lazarus," who lay at the rich man's gate and longed to be fed with the crumbs that fell from his table, are meant all whom the Lord loves because they long for truths from spiritual affection (See above, n. 118). That the Lord loved a certain one named Lazarus, whom also He raised from the dead, is manifest in John (chap. 11:3, 5, 36) and that he reclined with the Lord at table, (chap. 12), on which account he was called "Lazarus," by the Lord, who longed to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich man's table, whereby is signified a longing for truths from spiritual affection (as shown above, n. 118). As "Lazarus" was so named on that account, so was "Antipas" because he was made a martyr for the name of the Lord, that is, for the acknowledgment of His Divine Human.

[3] That such as he are hated by all who do not think of the Lord's Divine and of His Human at the same time, cannot be known from those who are in the world; but it can be known from the same in the other life, where they all burn with such hatred against those who approach the Lord alone as cannot be described in a few words; they desire nothing more eagerly than to murder them. The reason is, that all who are in the hells are against the Lord, and all who are in the heavens are with the Lord; and those who are of the church and who do not acknowledge the Lord's Divine in His Human act as one with the hells, and it is from the hells that they have such hatred. They have frequently been told that they are doing wrong, since they know from the Word:

That the Lord has all power in the heavens and on earth (Matthew 28:18);

thus that He is the God of heaven and earth; likewise:

That He is the way, the truth, and the life, and that no one cometh unto the Father but by Him (John 14:6);

Also that he who seeth the Lord seeth the Father, because He is in the Father, and the Father in Him (John 14:7-11);

And that no one hath seen the Father's shape, nor heard His voice, and that it is the Lord alone, who is in His bosom, and who is one with Him (John 1:18; 5:37). (Besides many other places.)

When they hear these truths they turn away, for they cannot deny them; but they are offended, and breathe forth the murder of all who openly acknowledge the Lord, as was just said, because hatred is inrooted in them (See above, n. 114).

[4] That they will hate all such for the Lord's sake, He has predicted in several passages; as in Matthew:

In the consummation of the age, they shall deliver you up unto affliction, and shall kill you; and ye shall be hated of all [the nations] for My name's sake (Matthew 24:9-10).

In John:

Jesus said, If the world hateth you, know that it hated Me before it hated you. If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you. All these things will they do unto you for My name's sake (John 15:18-25).

(See besides the passages cited above from the Word, n. 122.) These things have been said that it may be known that by "Antipas My faithful martyr, who was slain among you," those are meant who are hated because they openly acknowledge the Lord's Divine Human.

  
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