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Genesis 15

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1 Pärast neid lugusid tuli Aabramile nägemuses Issanda sõna, kes ütles: 'Ära karda, Aabram! Mina olen sulle kilbiks. Sinu tasu on väga suur!'

2 Aga Aabram ütles: 'Issand Jumal! Mida sa mulle saad anda? Mina ju lähen ära lastetuna ja mu koja valitsejaks on Elieser Damaskusest!'

3 Ja Aabram ütles: 'Vaata, mulle sa ei ole ihuvilja andnud, aga näe, minu kojas sündinu saab mu pärijaks.'

4 Ja vaata, temale tuli Issanda sõna, kes ütles: 'Tema ei ole sinu pärija, vaid see, kes tuleb välja su oma ihust, on su pärija.'

5 Ja ta viis tema õue ning ütles: 'Vaata nüüd taeva poole ja loe tähti, kui sa suudad neid lugeda!' Ja ta ütles temale: 'Nõnda saab olema sinu sugu!'

6 Ja ta uskus Issandat ning see arvati temale õiguseks.

7 Ja ta ütles temale: 'Mina olen Issand, kes tõi sind Kaldea Uurist, et anda sulle päranduseks see maa!'

8 Aga ta küsis: 'Issand Jumal, millest ma ära tunnen, et ma selle pärin?'

9 Siis ta vastas temale: 'Too mulle kolmeaastane mullikas, kolmeaastane kits, kolmeaastane jäär ja turteltuvi koos lennuvõimelise pojaga.'

10 Ja ta tõi temale kõik need, lõikas need keskelt lõhki ja pani vastavad pooled vastakuti; aga lindusid ta ei lõiganud lõhki.

11 Kui röövlinnud laskusid korjuste peale, siis peletas Aabram need minema.

12 Aga kui päike loojus, vajus Aabram sügavasse unne, ja vaata, suur ja pime hirm haaras teda.

13 Ja Issand ütles Aabramile: 'Sa pead teadma, et su järglased on võõrastena maal, mis ei ole nende oma; nad tehakse orjadeks ja neid vaevatakse nelisada aastat.

14 Aga ka rahvast, keda nad orjavad, ma karistan, ja selle järel nad tulevad ära suure varandusega.

15 Sina ise aga lähed rahuga oma vanemate juurde, sind maetakse heas vanuses.

16 Alles neljas põlv tuleb siia tagasi, sest emorlaste süü ei ole tänini veel küllaldane.'

17 Ja kui päike oli loojunud ja kui oli pime, siis nähti suitsevat küpsetusahju ja tuleleeki, mis nende lõigatud tükkide vahelt läbi käis.

18 Selsamal päeval tegi Issand Aabramiga lepingu ja ütles: 'Sinu soole ma annan selle maa Egiptuseojast suure jõeni, Frati jõeni,

19 keenlased, kenislased, kadmonlased,

20 hetid, perislased, refalased,

   

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1843. That 'your seed will be strangers' means that charity and faith will be scarce is clear from the meaning of 'strange' and from the meaning of 'seed'. 'Strange' means not born in the land, thus not recognized as a native of it, and therefore looked upon as foreign. But 'seed' means charity and its attendant faith, as shown already in 255, 1025, and above at verse 3. Since that which is looked upon as foreign is called 'strange' and foreign describes what is not within the land or of the land, that which is scarce is consequently meant. The meaning here therefore is that charity and its attendant faith, meant by 'seed', will be scarce. It is the time just before the close - when there is 'great darkness', or falsities - that is the subject; at this time the seed will be 'strangers', that is, charity and faith, will be scarce.

[2] The fact that faith would be scarce in the last times was foretold by the Lord when He described the close of the age, in Matthew 24:4-end; Mark 13:3-end; Luke 21:7-end. Everything that is stated in these places implies that in those times charity and faith will be scarce, and that at length there will not be any at all. Something similar was foretold through John in the Book of Revelation, and also occurs many times in the Prophets, besides what appears in the historical sections of the Word.

[3] But by the faith that is going to perish in the last times nothing other than charity is meant. No other faith can possibly exist, except faith that is grounded in charity. The person who has no charity is incapable of possessing any faith at all, charity being the soil in which faith is implanted, its heart from which it derives its being and life. The ancients for this reason compared love and charity to the heart, and faith to the lungs, both of which lie inside the breast. That comparison is also a perfect simile; for to imagine a life of faith without charity is like imagining life from the lungs alone without the heart, which is an impossibility, as may become clear to anyone. The ancients therefore used to call all things that belonged to charity those of the heart, and all that belonged to faith devoid of charity those of the lips alone, that is, of the lungs passing by means of breath into speech. From this came the sayings of old about the need for goods and truths to go forth from the heart.

  
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