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Genesis 48

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1 Pärast seda sündmust öeldi Joosepile: 'Vaata, su isa on haige!' Siis ta võttis oma kaks poega enesega, Manasse ja Efraimi.

2 Ja Jaakobile anti teada ning öeldi: 'Näe, su poeg Joosep tuleb sinu juurde!' Iisrael võttis siis jõu kokku ning tõusis voodis istukile.

3 Ja Jaakob ütles Joosepile: 'Kõigeväeline Jumal ilmutas ennast mulle Luusis Kaananimaal, ja õnnistas mind

4 ning ütles mulle: Vaata, ma teen sind viljakaks ja paljuks ja teen sinust rahvaste hulga ja annan selle maa sinu soole pärast sind igaveseks omandiks.

5 Ja nüüd olgu su kaks poega, kes sulle Egiptusemaal on sündinud, enne kui ma tulin sinu juurde Egiptusesse, minu omad: Efraim ja Manasse olgu minu omad nagu Ruuben ja Siimeongi.

6 Aga su järeltulijad, kes sulle pärast neid sünnivad, olgu sinu päralt ja neid nimetatagu nende vendade nime järgi nende pärisosades.

7 Kui ma Mesopotaamiast tulin, suri mul Raahel Kaananimaal, tee peal, kui veel tükk maad oli minna Efratasse. Ja ma matsin tema Efrata tee äärde, see on Petlemma.'

8 Kui Iisrael nägi Joosepi poegi, siis ta küsis: 'Kes need on?'

9 Ja Joosep vastas oma isale: 'Need on mu pojad, keda Jumal mulle siin on andnud!' Siis ta ütles: 'Too nad minu juurde, et ma neid õnnistaksin!'

10 Aga Iisraeli silmad olid vanadusest tuhmid ja ta ei näinud enam. Siis Joosep viis nad tema juurde ja tema andis neile suud ning süleles neid.

11 Ja Iisrael ütles Joosepile: 'Ei oleks uskunud, et saan näha su nägu, aga vaata, Jumal on mind lasknud näha ka su järglasi.'

12 Siis Joosep võttis nad ära tema põlvilt ja kummardas silmili maha.

13 Ja Joosep võttis nad mõlemad, Efraimi oma paremale käele, Iisraelist vasakule poole, ja Manasse oma vasakule käele, Iisraelist paremale poole, ja viis nad tema juurde.

14 Aga Iisrael sirutas oma parema käe ja pani Efraimi pea peale, kes oli noorem, ja oma vasaku käe Manasse pea peale; ta pani oma käed ristamisi, sest Manasse oli esmasündinu.

15 Ja ta õnnistas Joosepit ning ütles: 'Jumal, kelle palge ees mu isad Aabraham ja Iisak on rännanud, Jumal, kes on olnud mu karjane kogu mu elu kuni tänapäevani,

16 ingel, kes mind on päästnud kõigest kurjast, õnnistagu neid poisse; neid nimetades nimetatagu minu nime ja mu isade Aabrahami ja Iisaki nime! Ja nad siginegu rohkesti keset maad!'

17 Aga kui Joosep nägi, et ta isa oma parema käe asetas Efraimi pea peale, siis ta pani seda pahaks ja haaras kinni oma isa käest, et seda Efraimi pea pealt tõsta Manasse pea peale.

18 Ja Joosep ütles oma isale: 'Mitte nõnda, mu isa, sest see on mu esmasündinu! Pane oma parem käsi tema pea peale!'

19 Aga ta isa keeldus ja ütles: 'Ma tean, mu poeg, ma tean, ka tema peab saama rahvaks ja temagi peab olema suur! Ometi peab ta noorem vend saama temast suuremaks ja selle sugu olema rahvarohke!'

20 Ja ta õnnistas neid sel päeval, öeldes: 'Sinu nimel õnnistatagu Iisraelis, öeldagu: Jumal tehku sind Efraimi ja Manasse sarnaseks!' Nõnda seadis ta Efraimi Manassest ettepoole.

21 Ja Iisrael ütles Joosepile: 'Vaata, ma suren, aga Jumal on teiega ja viib teid tagasi teie isade maale.

22 Ja ma annan sulle ühe mäeseljandiku rohkem kui su vendadele, mille olen mõõga ja ammuga võtnud emorlastelt.'

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 6226

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6226. 'And sat on the bed' means which was turned towards the natural. This is clear from the meaning of 'the bed' as the natural, dealt with in 6188. The reason why 'Israel sat on the bed' means that spiritual good was turned towards the natural is that in the last verse of the previous chapter, Chapter 47, 'Israel bowed himself over the head of the bed' meant that spiritual good turned itself towards things of the interior natural, see 6188, and therefore moving himself from the head and sitting on the bed means that spiritual good turned itself towards the natural. Nothing intelligible can be said to show what turning itself to the interior natural is, or to the exterior natural, because very few people know of the existence of the interior natural and the exterior natural, or that thought takes place at one time in the first, at another in the second. And people who do not know these things do not stop to reflect on them and consequently cannot have gained any knowledge of this particular matter by anything they have experienced. Yet this turning to one and then to the other goes on in everyone, though with variations; for at one time a person's thought is raised to things on a higher level, and at another it comes down to those on a lower level, so that at one time his thought looks upwards, at another time downwards.

[2] Apart from all this anyone can see that 'Israel bowed himself over the head of the bed' and that after that 'he sat on the bed' are matters which would have been too trivial for mention in the most holy Word unless they had held some arcanum within them. That arcanum cannot be brought to light except by means of the internal sense, except therefore through a knowledge of what each individual word means in the spiritual sense, that is, the sense that angels understand. For angels thoughts are not based, as men's are, on worldly, bodily, and earthly objects, but on heavenly ones. The nature of the difference between those two kinds of objects is particularly evident from correspondences, which are the subject at the ends of a number of chapters.

  
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Arcana Coelestia # 39

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39. Verse 20 And God said, Let the waters bring forth creeping things, living creatures; and let birds fly above the earth, upon the face 1 of the expanse of the heavens.

After the great lights have been kindled and lodged in the internal man, from which the external man receives its light, a person starts to live for the first time. Till then he can hardly be said to have lived, for he had imagined that the good he had done he had done from himself, and the truth he had uttered he had spoken from himself. And since man functioning from himself is dead - there being nothing in him that is not evil and false - therefore whatever he brings forth from himself is not living. So true is this that of himself he is incapable of doing any good deed that is in itself good. The fact that man cannot begin to think about good or to will it, and so cannot do good, unless the Lord is the source, is clear to everyone from the doctrine of faith, for the Lord says in Matthew,

He who sows the good seed is the Son of Man. Matthew 13:37.

Nor can good come from anywhere else than the one fount itself of all good, as yet again He says,

Nobody is good but one, God. Luke 18:19.

[2] Nevertheless when the Lord is revitalizing a person, or regenerating him, He does allow him, to begin with, to imagine that good and truth originate in himself, for at that point a person cannot grasp anything else, or be led to believe and finally perceive, that all good and truth come from the Lord alone. As long as he held the former opinion his truths and goods were comparable to 'a tender plant', then 'a plant bearing seed', and after that 'a fruit tree', which are inanimate. But once he has been brought to life by love and faith and believes that the Lord is at work in every good deed he does and in every truth he utters, he is compared first to creeping things from the water and to birds which fly above the earth, and then to beasts, all of which are animate and are called 'living creatures'.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. literally, the faces

  
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