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1 Kuin nämä olivat niin tapahtuneet, tuli Herran sana Abramin tykö näyssä, sanoen: älä pelkää Abram, minä olen sinun kilpes, ja sangen suuri palkkas.

2 Mutta Abram sanoi: Herra, Herra, mitäs minulle annat? minä lähden lapsetoinna täältä, ja minun huoneeni haltia on tämä Eleasari Damaskusta.

3 Ja Abram taas sanoi: mutta minulle et sinä antanut siementä. Ja katsos, minun kotopalkolliseni tulee minun perillisekseni.

4 Ja katso, Herran sana tuli hänen tykönsä, sanoen: ei tämä sinua peri: vaan joka sinun ruumiistas tulee, se tulee sinun perillisekses.

5 Niin hän vei hänen ulos, ja sanoi: katso taivaaseen ja lue tähdet, jos sinä ne taidat lukea. Ja sanoi hänelle: niin sinun siemenes on oleva.

6 (Abram) uskoi Herran, ja hän luki hänelle sen vanhurskaudeksi.

7 Ja sanoi hänelle: minä se Herra olen, joka vein sinun ulos Kaldean Uurista, antaakseni sinulle tämän maan omakses.

8 Ja hän sanoi: Herra, Herra, mistä minä tietäisin sen omistavani?

9 Ja hän sanoi hänelle: ota minulle kolmivuotinen hehkonen, ja kolmivuotinen vuohi, ja kolmivuotinen oinas: niin myös mettinen, ja nuori kyhkyläinen.

10 Ja hän otti hänelle nämät kaikki, ja jakoi keskeltä kahtia, ja pani itsekunkin osan toinen toisensa kohdalle; vaan lintuja ei hän jakanut.

11 Niin linnut tulivat lihain päälle; ja Abram karkotti ne.

12 Ja tapahtui auringon laskeissa, että raskas uni lankesi Abramin päälle: ja katso, hämmästys ja synkkä pimeys tuli hänen päällensä.

13 Niin hän sanoi Abramille: sinun pitää totisesti tietämän, että sinun siemenes tulee muukalaiseksi sille maalle, joka ei heidän omansa ole, ja he saattavat heitä orjaksi, ja vaivaavat heitä neljäsataa ajastaikaa.

14 Mutta sille kansalle, jonka orjana he ovat, kostan minä: ja sitte he lähtevät ulos suurella tavaralla.

15 Ja sinä menet isäis tykö rauhassa, ja haudataan hyvässä ijässä.

16 Vaan neljännessä miespolvessa he tänne palajavat: sillä Amorilaisten pahuus ei ole vielä täytetty.

17 Ja koska aurinko oli laskenut, ja pimeys joutunut: katso, pätsi suitsi, ja liekki kävi kappaleitten keskeltä.

18 Sinä päivänä teki Herra liiton Abramin kanssa, sanoen: sinun siemenelles annan minä tämän maan, hamasta Egyptin virrasta, niin suureen virtaan Phratiin asti.

19 Keniläiset, ja Kenitsiläiset, ja Kadmonilaiset,

20 Ja Hetiläiset, ja Pheresiläiset, ja Kalevan pojat,

21 Ja Amorilaiset, ja Kanaanealaiset, ja Gergesiläiset, ja Jebusilaiset.

   


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Arcana Coelestia # 1837

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1837. That 'as the sun was going down' means the period of time and the state just before the close is clear from the meaning of 'the sun'. In the internal sense 'the sun' means the Lord, and because of this means the celestial things of love and charity, consequently love and charity themselves, dealt with already in 30-38, and 1053. From this it is evident that 'the going down of the sun' is the last period of time in the Church, which is called the close, when charity does not exist any longer. The Lord's Church is also compared to the times of day, its earliest time being compared to sunrise, or dawn and morning, and its final period to sundown, or evening and the shadows that fall then; for there is indeed a similarity between the two. In like manner the Church is compared to the seasons of the year, its earliest time being compared to spring when everything is flowering, while the time next to the last is compared to autumn when everything starts to die off. Indeed, the Church is also compared to metals, its first time being called golden, its last that of iron and clay, as in Daniel 2:31-33. These considerations show what is meant by 'as the sun was going down', namely that the period of time and the state just before the close are meant, for the sun had not yet gone down. In what follows the subject is the state of the Church when the sun had gone down, at which point thick darkness descended, and a smoking furnace and a flaming torch passed between the pieces.

  
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Genesis 15

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1 After these things the word of Yahweh came to Abram in a vision, saying, "Don't be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward."

2 Abram said, "Lord Yahweh, what will you give me, since I go childless, and he who will inherit my estate is Eliezer of Damascus?"

3 Abram said, "Behold, to me you have given no seed: and, behold, one born in my house is my heir."

4 Behold, the word of Yahweh came to him, saying, "This man will not be your heir, but he who will come forth out of your own body will be your heir."

5 Yahweh brought him outside, and said, "Look now toward the sky, and count the stars, if you are able to count them." He said to Abram, "So shall your seed be."

6 He believed in Yahweh; and he reckoned it to him for righteousness.

7 He said to him, "I am Yahweh who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give you this land to inherit it."

8 He said, "Lord Yahweh, how will I know that I will inherit it?"

9 He said to him, "Bring me a heifer three years old, a female goat three years old, a ram three years old, a turtledove, and a young pigeon."

10 He brought him all of these, and divided them in the middle, and laid each half opposite the other; but he didn't divide the birds.

11 The birds of prey came down on the carcasses, and Abram drove them away.

12 When the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Abram. Now terror and great darkness fell on him.

13 He said to Abram, "Know for sure that your seed will live as foreigners in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them. They will afflict them four hundred years.

14 I will also judge that nation, whom they will serve. Afterward they will come out with great wealth,

15 but you will go to your fathers in peace. You will be buried in a good old age.

16 In the fourth generation they will come here again, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full."

17 It came to pass that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold, a smoking furnace, and a flaming torch passed between these pieces.

18 In that day Yahweh made a covenant with Abram, saying, "To your seed I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates:

19 the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites,

20 the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim,

21 the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites."