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Genesis 26

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1 Aga maal oli nälg pärast seda eelmist nälga, mis Aabrahami päevil oli olnud. Ja Iisak läks vilistite kuninga Abimeleki juurde Gerarisse.

2 Ja Issand ilmutas ennast temale ning ütles: 'Ära mine alla Egiptusesse! Jää maale, kuhu ma sind käsin!

3 Ela võõrana siin maal, ja ma olen sinuga ning õnnistan sind, sest sinule ja sinu soole ma annan kõik need maad ning pean vannet, mille ma olen vandunud su isale Aabrahamile.

4 Ja ma teen su soo paljuks nagu taevatähed ja annan su soole kõik need maad, ja sinu soo nimel õnnistavad endid kõik maailma rahvad,

5 sellepärast et Aabraham kuulas mu sõna ja pidas, mis ma käskisin pidada - mu käske, seadlusi ja õpetusi.'

6 Ja Iisak jäi elama Gerarisse.

7 Kui kohalikud mehed küsisid tema naise kohta, siis ta ütles: 'See on mu õde.' Sest ta kartis öelda: 'Mu naine', mõeldes ise: 'Muidu kohalikud mehed tapavad mu Rebeka pärast, sest ta on ilusa välimusega.'

8 Aga kui ta seal pikemat aega oli viibinud, vaatas Abimelek, vilistite kuningas, kord aknast välja ja nägi, et Iisak hellitas oma naist Rebekat.

9 Siis Abimelek kutsus Iisaki ja ütles: 'Vaata, ta on tõepoolest su naine! Kuidas sa siis võisid öelda: Ta on mu õde?' Ja Iisak vastas temale: 'Ma mõtlesin, et muidu ma ehk pean tema pärast surema.'

10 Aga Abimelek ütles: 'Miks sa meile seda tegid? Kui kergesti oleks võinud keegi rahva hulgast magada su naisega ja sa oleksid meie peale toonud süü!'

11 Ja Abimelek andis käsu kogu rahvale, öeldes: 'Kes puudutab seda meest ja tema naist, peab surema!'

12 Ja Iisak külvas seal maal ja sai sel aastal sajakordselt, sest Issand õnnistas teda.

13 Ja mees läks rikkaks, läks üha rikkamaks, kuni ta oli läinud väga rikkaks.

14 Ja temal oli lamba- ja kitsekarju ja veisekarju ja palju peret, nõnda et vilistid teda kadestasid.

15 Ja vilistid matsid kinni ja täitsid mullaga kõik kaevud, mis tema isa sulased olid kaevanud tema isa Aabrahami päevil.

16 Ja Abimelek ütles Iisakile: 'Mine ära meie juurest, sest sa oled saanud meist palju vägevamaks!'

17 Siis Iisak läks sealt ära ja lõi oma telgid üles Gerari orgu ning elas seal.

18 Ja Iisak kaevas uuesti need veekaevud, mis tema isa Aabrahami päevil olid kaevatud ja mis vilistid pärast Aabrahami surma olid kinni matnud; ja ta pani neile needsamad nimed, mis tema isa neile oli pannud.

19 Aga kui Iisaki sulased kaevasid orus ja leidsid seal voolava veega kaevu,

20 siis Gerari karjased riidlesid Iisaki karjastega, öeldes: 'Vesi on meie oma!' Ta pani siis kaevule nimeks Eesek, sellepärast et nad temaga olid tülitsenud.

21 Siis nad kaevasid teise kaevu, ja selle pärast riidlesid nad ka; ja sellele ta pani nimeks Sitna.

22 Sealt ta siirdus edasi ja kaevas veel ühe kaevu, aga selle pärast nad ei riielnud; ja sellele ta pani nimeks Rehobot ning ütles: 'Nüüd on Issand andnud meile avarust, et võiksime siin maal olla viljakad.'

23 Ja sealt ta läks üles Beer-Sebasse.

24 Ja Issand ilmutas ennast temale selsamal ööl ning ütles: 'Mina olen su isa Aabrahami Jumal. Ära karda, sest ma olen sinuga ja õnnistan sind! Ma teen su soo paljuks oma sulase Aabrahami pärast.'

25 Siis ta ehitas sinna altari, hüüdis appi Issanda nime ja lõi sinna oma telgi üles; ja Iisaki sulased kaevasid sinna kaevu.

26 Ja Abimelek tuli Gerarist tema juurde ühes oma sõbra Ahusati ja väepealik Piikoliga.

27 Aga Iisak ütles neile: 'Miks tulete minu juurde? Te ju vihkate mind ja olete mind eneste juurest ära saatnud!'

28 Ja nemad vastasid: 'Me näeme selgesti, et Issand on sinuga. Seepärast me ütleme: Olgu meie vahel vanne, meie ja sinu vahel, ja me teeme sinuga lepingu,

29 et sa meile kurja ei tee, nõnda nagu me sinusse ei ole puutunud, vaid oleme sulle ainult head teinud ja sind rahuga ära saatnud. Sina oled ju nüüd Issanda õnnistatu!'

30 Siis ta tegi neile võõruspeo ning nad sõid ja jõid.

31 Ja nad tõusid hommikul vara ning andsid üksteisele vande. Siis Iisak saatis nad ära ja nad läksid ta juurest rahuga.

32 Ja selsamal päeval tulid Iisaki sulased ning teatasid temale kaevust, mille nad olid kaevanud, ja ütlesid temale: 'Me leidsime vett.'

33 Siis ta nimetas selle Sibaks; seepärast on linna nimeks tänapäevani Beer-Seba.

34 Kui Eesav oli nelikümmend aastat vana, võttis ta naiseks Juuditi, hett Beeri tütre, ja Baasmati, hett Eeloni tütre.

35 Aga need olid meelehärmiks Iisakile ja Rebekale.

   

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3398. 'One of the people might easily have lain with your wife, and you would have brought guilt on us' means that it could have been adulterated and so profaned. This is clear from the meaning of 'lying wish' as being perverted or adulterated; from the meaning of 'one of the people' as one who belongs to the Church, that is to say, to the spiritual Church, dealt with in 2928; from the meaning of 'wife' - who is Rebekah here - as Divine Truth, dealt with above; and from the meaning of 'guilt' as blame for the profanation of truth. From this it is evident that 'one of the people might easily have lain with your wife, and you would have brought guilt on us' means that Divine Truth could easily have been adulterated by someone within the Church and so he would have made himself culpable of the profanation of truth. It has been stated above in 3386 that the reason why Abraham on two occasions spoke of Sarah his wife as his sister - first of all in Egypt, and then, when dwelling with Abimelech, in Gerar - and why Isaac in a similar way spoke of Rebekah his wife as his sister, when he too was dwelling with Abimelech, and why those three occasions are mentioned in the Word, is a very deep arcanum. The actual arcanum contained in these words is evident in the internal sense, and it is this: 'A sister' means rational truth, and 'a wife' Divine Truth; and rational truth is called this - that is, 'a sister' - to prevent Divine Truth, which is 'a wife' (Rebekah in this case) from being adulterated and so perverted.

[2] With regard to the profanation of truth the position is that Divine Truth cannot possibly be profaned except by those who have already acknowledged it. For these people have first of all, through acknowledgement and faith, come to the truth, and so have been introduced into it. If after this they depart from that truth there remains within them a permanent imprint of it, which is recalled together with falsity and evil whenever these are recalled. And being attached to falsity and evil that truth is consequently made profane. People therefore with whom this happens have within them permanently that which is condemning, and so the hell which is their own. Indeed when those in hell draw near a sphere where good and truth are present they instantly experience their own hell, for they run into that which they hate, and as a consequence into torment. People therefore who have profaned truth dwell permanently with that which torments them - the intensity of torment depending on the degree of profanation. This being so, the Lord makes the greatest provision to prevent Divine Good and Truth being made profane. He does so especially with anyone who is such that he cannot help profaning them, by keeping him as far back as possible from acknowledgement of and faith in truth and good. For as has been stated, no one is able to profane them except him who has already acknowledged and come to believe them.

[3] This was the reason why internal truths were not disclosed to the descendants of Jacob - to the Israelites and Jews. Not even the existence of anything internal within man, nor thus any kind of internal worship was openly declared to them, and scarcely anything about life after death, or about the heavenly kingdom of the Lord or the Messiah whom they awaited. The reason why these truths were not declared was, as foreseen, that if they had been disclosed to them, the Jews and Israelites were such as could not help profaning them; for they had no desire for anything other than what was earthly. And because those descendants were such, and are so still, they are still allowed to remain without any belief at all in internal truths. For if at one point they had given their assent to them and then had withdrawn it they would inevitably have ended up in the worst hell of all.

[4] This was also the reason why the Lord did not come into the world and reveal the internal features of the Word until the time when no good at all, not even natural good, remained with them. For at that point they were no longer capable of receiving any truth and acknowledging it internally - for good is what receives - and so were no longer capable of profaning it. It is this state that is meant by the fulness of time, and by the close of the age, and also by the last day, spoken of many times in the Prophets.

[5] It is for the same reason also that at the present time the arcana belonging to the internal sense of the Word are being revealed, for today scarcely any faith exists because charity is non-existent, so that the close of the age is here. When these conditions prevail these arcana can be revealed without any risk of profanation since they are not acknowledged interiorly. It is for the sake of this arcanum that in the Word mention is made of Abraham and of Isaac, of how, when dwelling in Gerar with Abimelech, each called his wife his sister. See in addition what has been stated and shown already on the same subject, to the effect that those who acknowledge are able to profane, but not those who do not acknowledge, still less those who do not even know, 593, 1008, 1010, 1059. How much danger lies in profaning sacred things and the Word, see 571, 582. People inside the Church are able to profane sacred things, but not those outside, 2051. The Lord provides against the occurrence of profanation, 1001, 2426. Worship may become external to prevent the profaning of internal worship, 1327, 1328. People are kept in ignorance to prevent the truths of faith being made profane, 301-303.

  
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