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Genesis 16

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1 Ja Saarai, Aabrami naine, ei toonud temale last ilmale; aga tal oli teenijaks egiptlanna, nimega Haagar.

2 Ja Saarai ütles Aabramile: 'Vaata, Issand on mind keelanud last saamast. Heida nüüd mu teenija juurde, vahest saan järeltulija temalt!' Ja Aabram kuulas Saarai sõna.

3 Ja Saarai, Aabrami naine, võttis egiptlanna Haagari, oma teenija, pärast seda kui Aabram oli kümme aastat elanud Kaananimaal, ja andis ta oma mehele Aabramile naiseks.

4 Ja tema heitis Haagari juurde ja see jäi lapseootele; aga kui see nägi, et ta oli lapseootel, siis oli ta emand tema silmis nagu alam.

5 Ja Saarai ütles Aabramile: 'Mulle sündinud ülekohus tulgu sinu peale! Ma andsin oma teenija sinu sülle, aga kui ta nüüd näeb, et ta on lapseootel, siis olen mina tema silmis nagu alam. Issand mõistku õigust minu ja sinu vahel!'

6 Aga Aabram ütles Saaraile: 'Vaata, su teenija on sinu käes! Talita temaga, nagu sa heaks arvad!' Siis Saarai alandas teda, aga seejärel ta põgenes tema juurest.

7 Ja Issanda ingel leidis tema veeallika juurest kõrbes, Suuri tee ääres oleva allika juurest.

8 Ja ta ütles: 'Haagar, Saarai teenija! Kust sa tuled ja kuhu sa lähed?' Ja tema vastas: 'Ma põgenen oma emanda Saarai eest.'

9 Siis ütles Issanda ingel temale: 'Mine tagasi oma emanda juurde ja alanda ennast tema käte alla!'

10 Ja Issanda ingel ütles temale: 'Ma teen sinu soo nõnda arvurikkaks, et see paljuse pärast pole loetav!'

11 Ja Issanda ingel ütles temale: 'Vaata, sa oled lapseootel ja tood poja ilmale! Pane temale nimeks Ismael, sest Issand on kuulnud su alandusest!

12 Temast tuleb mees nagu metseesel - tema käsi on igaühe vastu ja igaühe käsi on tema vastu - ta elab vaenus kõigi oma vendadega.'

13 Siis ta nimetas Issandat, kes temaga oli rääkinud, nimega 'Sina oled nähtav Jumal', sest ta ütles: 'Kas ma siin ikka veel näen pärast oma nägemust?'

14 Seepärast nimetatakse seda kaevu Lahhai-Roi kaevuks; vaata, see on Kaadesi ja Baaredi vahel.

15 Ja Haagar tõi Aabramile poja ilmale; ja Aabram pani oma pojale, kelle Haagar oli sünnitanud, nimeks Ismael.

16 Ja Aabram oli kaheksakümmend kuus aastat vana, kui Haagar Aabramile Ismaeli ilmale tõi.

   

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1900. 'Go in now to my servant-girl' means a joining to the more exterior man. This too is clear from what has been stated already - that the rational part of man's mind is conceived and begotten from the internal man as its father and from the exterior as its mother. Man's very life springs from the internal man, which cannot have any communication with the external, other than a very obscure communication, until the formation of recipient vessels belonging to the memory has been effected by means of cognitions and knowledge.

[2] The influx of the internal man occurs as an influx into the cognitions and factual knowledge that are present in the exterior man - affection being the means. Meanwhile, before they are present, a communication does indeed exist, but solely through those affections that control the external man; so that not more than very general stirrings and certain appetites occur there, and also certain blind inclinations such as reveal themselves in small children. But this life grows by degrees more definite as vessels are formed in the memory by means of cognitions and in the inner memory by rational concepts. As these vessels are formed and arranged into a sequence - into such a sequence in fact that they stand mutually related to one another like blood relatives and relatives by marriage, or like communities and families - so the correspondence is perfected of the external man with the internal man, and even better so through rational concepts, which are intermediate.

[3] But if the cognitions by means of which those vessels are formed are not truths, a lack of congruity still exists, for the celestial and spiritual things belonging to the internal man do not discover any correspondence for themselves except within truths. Such truths constituting the organic forms of the two memories 1 are the genuine vessels into which the celestial things of love and the spiritual things of faith may be introduced fittingly; for when they are so introduced they are arranged by the Lord according to the pattern and image of the communities of heaven, that is, of the Lord's kingdom - insomuch that the person becomes, in miniature, heaven or the Lord's kingdom, as also in the Word the minds of those people are called in whom the celestial things of love and the spiritual things of faith are present. But these matters have been stated for the benefit of those minds that like to go more deeply.

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1. i.e. the interior memory and the exterior memory, see 2469ff.

  
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