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1 Post tiuj okazintajxoj la vinisto de la regxo de Egiptujo kaj la bakisto kulpigxis antaux sia sinjoro, la regxo de Egiptujo.

2 Kaj Faraono kolerigxis kontraux siaj du korteganoj, kontraux la vinistestro kaj kontraux la bakistestro.

3 Kaj li metis ilin sub gardon en la domon de la estro de la korpogardistoj, en la malliberejon, en la lokon, kie Jozef estis malliberigita.

4 Kaj la estro de la korpogardistoj destinis por ili Jozefon, kaj li servis ilin. Kaj ili restis kelkan tempon en la malliberejo.

5 Kaj ambaux songxis songxon, cxiu sian apartan songxon en la sama nokto, cxiu kun aparta signifo de la songxo, la vinisto kaj la bakisto de la regxo de Egiptujo, kiuj estis tenataj en la malliberejo.

6 Kiam Jozef venis al ili matene, li vidis, ke ili estas cxagrenitaj.

7 Kaj li demandis la korteganojn de Faraono, kiuj estis kun li en malliberejo en la domo de lia sinjoro, dirante: Kial viaj vizagxoj estas cxagrenitaj hodiaux?

8 Kaj ili diris al li: Ni songxis songxon, sed estas cxi tie neniu, kiu gxin signifoklarigus. Kaj Jozef diris al ili: La signifoklarigoj apartenas ja al Dio; tamen rakontu al mi.

9 Tiam la vinistestro rakontis sian songxon al Jozef, kaj diris al li: En mia songxo mi vidis antaux mi vinbertrunkon;

10 la trunko havis tri brancxojn; apenaux gxi ekfloris, tuj aperis sur gxi beraroj kun maturaj beroj;

11 kaj la pokalo de Faraono estis en mia mano; kaj mi prenis la berojn, kaj mi elpremis ilin en la pokalon de Faraono, kaj mi donis la pokalon en la manon de Faraono.

12 Kaj Jozef diris al li: Jen estas gxia signifoklarigo: la tri brancxoj estas tri tagoj;

13 post tri tagoj Faraono levos vian kapon kaj redonos al vi vian oficon, kaj vi donos la pokalon de Faraono en lian manon laux la maniero de antauxe, kiam vi estis lia vinisto.

14 Sed memoru min, kiam estos bone al vi, kaj faru al mi favorkorajxon kaj memorigu pri mi Faraonon kaj elirigu min el cxi tiu domo.

15 CXar oni sxtelis min el la lando de la Hebreoj, kaj ankaux cxi tie mi faris nenion, pro kio oni metis min en la malliberejon.

16 Kiam la bakistestro vidis, ke la signifoklarigo estas bona, li diris al Jozef: Mi ankaux havis songxon; jen tri blankaj korboj estis sur mia kapo;

17 kaj en la supra korbo estis cxiaspecaj mangxajxoj de Faraono, bakitajxoj, kaj la birdoj mangxis ilin el la korbo sur mia kapo.

18 Kaj Jozef respondis, dirante: Jen estas gxia signifoklarigo: la tri korboj estas tri tagoj;

19 post tri tagoj Faraono deprenos de vi vian kapon kaj pendigos vin sur arbo, kaj la birdoj formangxos de vi vian karnon.

20 En la tria tago, tago de naskigxo de Faraono, li faris festenon por cxiuj siaj servantoj; kaj li venigis la vinistestron kaj la bakistestron en la mezon de siaj servantoj.

21 Kaj li redonis al la vinistestro lian oficon, kaj tiu donis la pokalon en la manon de Faraono;

22 sed la bakistestron li pendigis, kiel songxoklarigis al ili Jozef.

23 Kaj la vinistestro ne rememoris Jozefon, sed forgesis lin.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 5122

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5122. 'The three shoots are three days' means continuous derivatives even to the final one. This is clear from the meaning of 'three' as a single period and the continuity of it from start to finish, dealt with in 2788, 4495; from the meaning of 'shoots' as derivatives, dealt with in 5114; and from the meaning of 'days' as states, dealt with in 23, 487, 488, 493, 893, 2788, 3462, 3785, 4850. From all this it follows that 'the three shoots are three days' means the state in which the sensory power represented by 'the cupbearer' undergoes rebirth, from the first to the final degrees of it, its consecutive derivatives being meant by 'shoots'.

[2] The states of rebirth which each sensory power and every aspect of the natural, as well as every aspect of the rational, pass through have from beginning to end their own progressive stages. When they attain any end they also begin at that point something else that is new; that is to say, they pass on from the end they had been striving to attain in a prior state to the realization of some further end, and so on after that. Eventually order is turned around, so that what has been last becomes first. This is what happens when a person is being regenerated, both in the case of his rational and in that of his natural. While his regeneration is taking place the phases that make up the first state are the stages of a movement from the truths of faith towards forms of the good of charity, when the truths of faith seemingly play the leading role while forms of the good of charity play a secondary one; for the truths of faith have the good of charity as their end in view. Phases like these continue until the person's regeneration is completed. Once this is completed charity then moves from the final place to the first in the line, and so becomes the point from which new states begin. These states develop in two directions - in an increasingly inward direction and also in a more outward one. Inwardly they move closer to love to the Lord, while outwardly they move closer first to the truths of faith, then to natural truths, and after that to truths as these are perceived by the senses. Then these three degrees of truths are brought into agreement one after another with forms of the good of charity and love present within the rational and so are brought into heavenly order.

[3] These are the matters that are meant by progressive stages of development and by continuous derivatives even to the final one. Such stages and derivatives are unending in the case of a person who is being regenerated. They begin when he is a young child and continue through to the final phase of his life in the world; indeed they continue for ever after that, though his regeneration can never reach the point when he can by any means be called perfect. For there are countless, indeed a limitless number of things to be regenerated, both within his rational and within his natural. Everything there has limitless shoots, that is, stages of development and derivatives that progress in both inward and outward directions. A person has no immediate awareness at all of this, but the Lord is aware of every particular detail and is making provision for it moment by moment. If He were to stop doing this for a single instant every stage of development would be thrown into confusion. For one stage looks to the next in an unending sequence and produces chains of sequences which never cease. From this it is evident that Divine Foresight and Providence exist in every particular detail, and that if they did not, or did so in a merely overall way, the human race would perish.

  
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Arcana Coelestia # 2333

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2333. 'And in the morning you may rise up and go your way' means being strengthened in this way in good and truth. This becomes clear from the meaning of 'rising up in the morning', and also from the meaning of 'going on one's way'. In the Word 'the morning' means the Lord's kingdom and whatever belongs to the Lord's kingdom, and so primarily the good that flows from love and charity. This will be confirmed from the Word at verse 15. 'Way' however means truth, see 627. From this it follows that after they had been in his house and spent the night there, which meant that they dwelt in the good of charity with him, 'they rose up in the morning and went their way', which means that in this way they were confirmed in good and truth.

[2] These phrases, as do all the rest, show how far removed the internal sense is from the sense of the letter and therefore how hidden from view it is, especially in the historical parts of the Word. They show that this sense is not discernible unless individual expressions are explained according to the meaning they have all through the Word. Consequently when ideas are confined to the sense of the letter, the internal sense is seen as something altogether dark and obscure. Conversely when ideas are confined to the internal sense, the sense of the letter in a similar way is seen as something obscure. Indeed angels see it as nothing, for angels no longer have worldly and bodily ideas as man does, but spiritual and celestial ones, into which the expressions of the sense of the letter are marvellously converted when the Word which man is reading rises up to the sphere in which angels dwell, that is, up to heaven. This happens because of the correspondence of spiritual things with worldly, and of celestial with bodily, a correspondence which is absolutely consistent but whose nature has not been disclosed until now in the explanation of expressions, names, and numbers in the Word as to their internal sense.

[3] So that the nature of that correspondence may be known, or what amounts to the same, how worldly and bodily ideas pass over into corresponding spiritual and celestial ideas when they are raised towards heaven, let 'the morning' and 'way' be taken as examples: When a person reads of 'the morning', as in the phrase here 'rising up in the morning', angels do not conceive the idea of the start to a new day but the idea which 'morning' has in the spiritual sense. The idea they conceive is similar to the statement in Samuel,

The Rock of Israel . . . He is like morning light, when the sun rises on a cloudless morning. 2 Samuel 23:3-4.

And in Daniel,

The Holy One said to me, Up to the evening when it is becoming morning, two thousand three hundred times. Daniel 8:14, 26.

Thus instead of 'the morning' angels perceive the Lord, or His kingdom, or celestial things of love and charity. This they do varyingly according to the train of thought in the Word which a person is reading.

[4] Similarly where a person reads of 'a way', as in 'going on your way' here, they cannot have any idea of a way, but a spiritual or a celestial idea, that is to say, like that in John, when the Lord said,

I am the way and the truth. John 14:6.

Also the idea in David,

Make Your ways known to me, O Jehovah, guide my way in truth. Psalms 25:4-5.

And in Isaiah,

He made him know the way of understanding. Isaiah 40:14.

Thus instead of 'a way' angels perceive truth. They do so in the historical as well as the prophetical sections of the Word; in fact angels no longer have any interest in matters of history as these are not at all in keeping with the ideas they have. Consequently in place of historical details they perceive such things as belong to the Lord and His kingdom, which also follow on one after another in marvellous array and perfect sequence in the internal sense. For this reason, so that the Word may serve angels as well, all historical details there are representative, and each expression serves to mean such things. This special feature is what makes the Word different from all other literature.

  
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