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1 Ja Herra etsei Saaraa, niinkuin hän sanonut oli: ja Herra teki Saaralle niinkuin hän puhunut oli.

2 Ja Saara tuli raskaaksi, ja synnytti Abrahamille pojan hänen vanhuudessansa; sillä ajalla kuin Jumala hänelle sanonut oli.

3 Ja Abraham kutsui poikansa nimen, joka hänelle syntynyt oli, ja jonka Saara hänelle synnyttänyt oli, Isaak.

4 Ja Abraham ympärileikkasi poikansa Isaakin kahdeksan päiväisenä: niinkuin Jumala hänen käskenyt oli.

5 Ja Abraham oli sadan ajastaikainen, koska Isaak hänen poikansa hänelle syntyi.

6 Ja Saara sanoi: Jumala on tehnyt minulle nauron: kuka ikänä sen saa kuulla, hän nauraa minua.

7 Ja sanoi vielä: kuka olis taitanut sanoa Abrahamille: Saara on lapsia imettävä; sillä minä olen synnyttänyt pojan hänen vanhuudessansa.

8 Ja lapsi kasvoi ja vieroitettiin: ja Abraham teki suuren pidon sinä päivänä, jona Isaak vieroitettiin.

9 Ja Saara näki Egyptiläisen Hagarin pojan, jonka se Abrahamille synnyttänyt oli, pilkkaajaksi.

10 Ja sanoi Abrahamille: aja ulos tämä palkkavaimo poikinensa: sillä palkkavaimon pojan ei pidä perimän minun poikani Isaakin kanssa.

11 Ja tämä sana oli Abrahamin mielestä sangen karvas, hänen poikansa tähden.

12 Mutta Jumala sanoi Abrahamille: älä ota sitä pahakses pojasta ja palkkapiiastas: kaikki mitä Saara sinulle sanoo, niin kuule häntä: sillä Isaakissa pitää sinulle siemen kutsuttaman.

13 Minä teen myös piikas pojan (suureksi) kansaksi; että hän sinun siemenes on.

14 Niin nousi Abraham aamulla varhain, ja otti leipiä ja vesileilin; ja antoi Hagarille, ja pani hänen selkäänsä, ja (antoi hänelle) pojan, ja laski hänen menemään. Ja hän meni matkaansa, ja eksyi BerSaban korvessa.

15 Koska vesi oli loppunut leilistä, heitti hän pojan puun alle.

16 Ja meni pois, ja istui hänen kohdallensa taamma, liki joutsen kantamalle; sillä hän sanoi: en minä voi nähdä pojan kuolemaa. Ja hän istui hänen kohdallensa, korotti äänensä ja itki.

17 Ja Jumala kuuli pojan äänen, ja Jumalan enkeli huusi Hagaria taivaasta, ja sanoi hänelle: mikä sinun on, Hagar? älä pelkää; sillä Jumala on kuullut pojan äänen, kussa hän makaa.

18 Nouse, ota poika, ja tue häntä kädelläs: sillä minä teen hänen suureksi kansaksi.

19 Ja Jumala avasi hänen silmänsä, että hän näki vesikaivon; niin hän meni ja täytti leilin vedellä, ja antoi pojan juoda.

20 Ja Jumala oli pojan kanssa, ja hän kasvoi; ja asui korvessa, ja tuli tarkaksi joutsimieheksi.

21 Ja asui Paranin korvessa; ja hänen äitinsä otti hänelle emännän Egyptin maalta.

22 Sillä ajalla puhui Abimelek ja hänen sotapäämiehensä Phikol Abrahamille, sanoen: Jumala on sinun kanssas kaikissa mitä sinä teet.

23 Niin vanno nyt minulle tässä Jumalan kautta, ettes ole minulle, ja minun pojalleni, ja poikanipojalle petollinen; vaan sen laupiuden jälkeen, jonka minä tein sinun kanssas, tee sinä myös minun kanssani, ja sen maan kanssa, jossa sinä olet muukalainen.

24 Niin sanoi Abraham: minä vannon.

25 Ja Abraham nuhteli Abimelekiä, sen vesikaivon tähden, kun Abimelekin palveliat olivat väkivallalla ottaneet.

26 Ja Abimelek sanoi: en ole minä tietänyt kuka sen teki; etkä sinä ilmoittanut minulle; enkä minä sitä ole ennen kuullut, kuin tänä päivänä.

27 Niin otti Abraham lampaita ja karjaa, ja antoi Abimelekille; ja he tekivät molemmat liiton keskenänsä.

28 Ja Abraham asetti seitsemän karitsaa laumasta erinänsä.

29 Ja Abimelek sanoi Abrahamille: mihinkä ne seitsemän karitsaa, jotkas olet asettanut erinänsä?

30 Hän vastasi: nämät seitsemän karitsaa pitää sinun ottaman minun kädestäni, todistukseksi minulle, että minä olen tämän kaivon kaivanut.

31 Sentähden kutsui hän sen sian BerSaba: sillä siinä he molemmat vannoivat keskenänsä.

32 Ja niin he tekivät liiton BerSabassa. Ja Abimelek nousi ja Phikol hänen sotapäämiehensä, ja palasivat Philistealaisten maalle.

33 Ja Abraham istutti puita BerSabassa; ja saarnasi siinä Herran ijankaikkisen Jumalan nimestä.

34 Ja oli muukalainen Philistealaisten maalla kauvan aikaa.

   


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2657. 'Cast out this servant-girl, and her son' means that what belonged to the merely human rational was to be banished. This is clear from the meaning of 'casting out' as banishing; from the meaning of 'servant-girl' as the affection for rational concepts and for factual knowledge, and so as the good belonging to these, dealt with in 2567; and from the meaning of 'son' as the truth belonging to that rational, dealt with in 264, 489, 533, 1147. But it is apparent good and apparent truth that go with this first or merely human rational. Consequently 'cast out this servant-girl, and her son' means that to be banished were the things belonging to the merely human rational. This particular circumstance - that the first rational was banished once the Divine Rational took its place - has been stated and shown in several places already, but as it is the specific subject here, a further brief explanation is necessary.

[2] With everyone who is being regenerated there are two rationals, the first existing before regeneration, the second after. The first, which exists before regeneration, is acquired by means of the experiences of the senses, by means of reflecting on the things that take place in public life and in private life, by means of formulated knowledge, and by means of reasonings based on and presented through these, as well as by means of cognitions of spiritual things obtained from the doctrine of faith, that is, from the Word. But none of these acquisitions rise at this time very much above the ideas present in the external or bodily memory, which are relatively speaking quite materialistic. Consequently whatever thought takes place in the rational at this time consists of such materialistic ideas, or else, so that what it thinks may be comprehended at the same time by inner or intellectual sight, the semblances of such things are presented in the form of comparisons or analogies. Of such a nature is the first rational, or the rational that exists before regeneration.

[3] But the rational after regeneration is formed by the Lord by means of affections for spiritual truth and good, which affections the Lord implants in a remarkable manner within the truths of the first rational, and in this way the things there that are in agreement and are favourably disposed towards them are given life. The rest however, having no use, are separated from these, until at length spiritual goods and truths are gathered so to speak into bundles, once those that do not agree and which cannot be given life are cast away so to speak to the circumference, this being effected gradually as spiritual goods and truths increase together with the life of the affections for them. From this it is evident what the second rational is like.

[4] These matters may be illustrated by comparing them to the fruit of trees. To begin with the first rational is like unripe fruit which ripens gradually until it produces seeds within itself. Then, having reached the point when it is ready to part from the tree, its state is complete, regarding which see above in 2636. The second rational however, which the Lord confers on those who are being regenerated, is like this same fruit now lying in good soil, where the flesh surrounding the seeds decays and these express themselves from the core, after which they send down a root and also a shoot up above the ground that grows into a new tree and spreads out, till finally it produces new fruits, and after that gardens and orchards, according to the affections for good and truth which it is receiving; see Matthew 13:31-32; John 12:24.

[5] But since examples help to make things clear, take the proprium which a person has before regeneration and the proprium which he has after regeneration. From the first rational which he acquires through the means mentioned above, a person believes that it is from what there is within himself, thus from his proprium, that he thinks what is true and does what it good. This first rational is incapable of thinking anything else even when the person is taught that every good of love, and every truth of faith, derives from the Lord. But when he is undergoing regeneration, which takes place in adult years, he then starts - from the second rational which is conferred by the Lord - to think that good and truth do not spring from that which is within himself, that is, from his proprium, but from the Lord, though he still does what is good or thinks what is true, as if it began from within himself, see 1937, 1947. At this time the more he becomes confirmed in this the more he is guided into the light of truth concerning those matters, until he finally believes that all good and all truth come from the Lord. At this time the proprium belonging to the first rational is gradually separated and the Lord confers on that person a heavenly proprium which becomes that of the new rational.

[6] Take a further example. To begin with the only love known to the first rational is that of self and the world, and although it hears about heavenly love being altogether different it still has no conception of it. In this case when the person then does anything good the only delight he sees in doing it is that he may seem to himself to merit another's favour, or that he may be considered to be a Christian, or that he may obtain the joy of eternal life out of doing it. The second rational however which the Lord confers through regeneration begins to feel some delight in goodness and truth themselves and to be stirred by this delight, not on account of anything that is his own but on account of goodness and truth themselves. When led by this delight he spurns the thought of merit, until at length he detests it as something monstrous. This delight as it exists with him gradually increases and becomes a blessed delight, and in the next life a blissful delight, being for him heaven itself. From this it may now become clear how it is with each of the two rationals in one who is being regenerated.

[7] But it should be recognized that although a person is being regenerated, every single detail belonging to the first rational still remains with him. It is merely separated from the second rational, which the Lord effects in a miraculous fashion. The Lord however banished His own first rational completely, so that nothing of it remained, for what is merely human and what is Divine cannot exist together. Consequently He was no longer Mary's son but Jehovah as regards both Essences.

  
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