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1 Ja Saaran elinaika oli sata ja seitsemänkolmattakymmentä ajastaikaa: ne olivat Saaran ikävuodet.

2 Ja Saara kuoli Arban kaupungissa, joka (on) Hebron Kanaanin maalla. Niin tuli Abraham murehtimaan Saaraa ja itkemään häntä.

3 Sitte nousi hän kuolleensa tyköä; ja puhui Hetin lapsille sanoen:

4 Minä olen muukalainen ja kuitenkin asuvainen teidän tykönänne, antakaat minulle perintöhauta teidän tykönänne, haudatakseni minun kuolleeni, joka on minun edessäni.

5 Niin vastasivat Hetin lapset Abrahamia, sanoen hänelle:

6 Kuule meitä, rakas herra: sinä olet Jumalan ruhtinas meidän seassamme, hautaa sinun kuollees meidän parhaisiin hautoihimme: ei yksikään meistä sinua kiellä hautaamasta kuolluttas hänen hautaansa.

7 Niin Abraham nousi ja kumarsi itsensä maan kansan edessä, (nimittäin) Hetin lasten edessä.

8 Ja hän puhui heille, sanoen: jos teidän mielenne on, että minä hautaan minun kuolleeni, joka minun edessäni on; niin kuulkaat minua, ja rukoilkaat minun edestäni Ephronia Zoarin poikaa.

9 Että hän antais minulle Makpelan luolan, joka hänellä on, vainionsa perällä: täyden hinnan edestä antakaan sen minulle teidän keskellänne perintöhaudaksi.

10 Sillä Ephron asui Hetin lasten seassa. Niin vastasi Ephron Hetiläinen Abrahamia, Hetin poikain kuullen, kaikkein sisälle ja ulos käyväisten hänen kaupunkinsa portista, sanoen:

11 Ei, minun herrani, vaan kuule minua; vainion minä annan sinulle, ja luolan, joka siinä on, annan minä sinulle: minun kansani lasten nähden annan minä sen sinulle; hautaa kuollees.

12 Abraham kumarsi maan kansan edessä.

13 Ja puhui Ephronille maan kansan kuullen, sanoen: jos sinä minua kuulet: minä annan rahan vainion edestä, ota se minulta, ja minä hautaan minun kuolleeni siihen.

14 Ephron vastasi Abrahamia, sanoen hänelle:

15 Minun herrani, kuule minua: maa maksaa neljäsataa sikliä hopiaa; vaan mitä se on minun ja sinun välilläs? hautaa sinun kuollees.

16 Abraham kuuli Ephronia, ja punnitsi hänelle rahan, jonka hän nimittänyt oli Hetin lasten kuullen: neljäsataa sikliä hopiaa, käypää rahaa.

17 Ja niin vahvistettiin Ephronin vainio, joka Makpelassa on Mamren kohdalla, sekä pelto että luola joka siinä on, ja kaikki puut siinä vainiossa, jotka ympäri kaikissa sen rajoissa ovat.

18 (Kaikki ne tulivat) Abrahamille omaisuudeksi Hetin lasten nähden: kaikkein (nähden), jotka sisällekävivät hänen kaupunkinsa portista.

19 Ja sitte hautasi Abraham emäntänsä Saaran siihen luolaan, joka oli Makpelan vainiossa Mamren kohdalla; se on Hebron Kanaanin maalla:

20 Niin vahvistettiin siis vainio ja luola, joka siinä oli, Abrahamille perintöhaudaksi, Hetin lapsilta.

   


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2982. In the land of Canaan. That this signifies which church is one in the Lord’s kingdom, is evident from the representation of the “land of Canaan,” as being the kingdom of the Lord (see n. 1413, 1437, 1585, 1607). With the churches of the Lord, the case is this: In ancient times there were many churches at the same time; and there were as at this day distinctions among them in regard to doctrinal matters; but still they made a one in the fact that they acknowledged love to the Lord and charity toward the neighbor as the principal and very essential thing; and therefore that the purpose of doctrinal things was not to teach them how to think, but how to live. And when with each and all, love to the Lord and charity toward the neighbor-that is, the good of life-is the essential thing; then churches, however numerous they may be, make one church, all then being one in the Lord’s kingdom. Such also is heaven; there are innumerable societies there, all distinct; but still they constitute one heaven, because in all there is love to the Lord and charity toward the neighbor.

[2] But the case is wholly different with churches that call faith the essential of the church; supposing that if they know this and think this they are saved, no matter what their life may be. In this case the several churches do not make one church, nor indeed are they churches. The good of faith, that is, the very life of love and of charity according to the things of faith, is that which makes the church. Doctrinal matters are for the sake of life. Everyone may know this: what are doctrinal matters except for the sake of all end? and what is the end but life? or that a man may become such as those doctrinal things teach?

It is indeed said that the very faith itself which saves is confidence; but this confidence is quite impossible except in the good of life. Without the good of life there is no reception, and where there is no reception there is no confidence, except at times a certain apparent confidence, in suffering conditions of mind or body, when the cupidities of the love of self and of the world are at rest. But with those who are in evil of life, when this crisis passes or the condition is changed, such fallacious confidence altogether vanishes; for a confidence is found even with the wicked. But whoever desires to know the quality of his confidence, let him examine in himself the affections and ends, as well as the practices of his life.

  
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Genesis 23

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1 Sarah lived one hundred twenty-seven years. This was the length of Sarah's life.

2 Sarah died in Kiriath Arba (the same is Hebron), in the land of Canaan. Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.

3 Abraham rose up from before his dead, and spoke to the children of Heth, saying,

4 "I am a stranger and a foreigner living with you. Give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight."

5 The children of Heth answered Abraham, saying to him,

6 "Hear us, my lord. You are a prince of God among us. Bury your dead in the best of our tombs. None of us will withhold from you his tomb. Bury your dead."

7 Abraham rose up, and bowed himself to the people of the land, even to the children of Heth.

8 He talked with them, saying, "If it be your mind that I should bury my dead out of my sight, hear me, and entreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar,

9 that he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he has, which is in the end of his field. For the full price let him give it to me among you for a possession of a burying-place."

10 Now Ephron was sitting in the middle of the children of Heth. Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the hearing of the children of Heth, even of all who went in at the gate of his city, saying,

11 "No, my lord, hear me. I give you the field, and I give you the cave that is in it. In the presence of the children of my people I give it to you. Bury your dead."

12 Abraham bowed himself down before the people of the land.

13 He spoke to Ephron in the audience of the people of the land, saying, "But if you will, please hear me. I will give the price of the field. Take it from me, and I will bury my dead there."

14 Ephron answered Abraham, saying to him,

15 "My lord, listen to me. What is a piece of land worth four hundred shekels of silver between me and you? Therefore bury your dead."

16 Abraham listened to Ephron. Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver which he had named in the audience of the children of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, according to the current merchants' standard.

17 So the field of Ephron, which was in Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the field, the cave which was in it, and all the trees that were in the field, that were in all of its borders, were deeded

18 to Abraham for a possession in the presence of the children of Heth, before all who went in at the gate of his city.

19 After this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre (that is, Hebron), in the land of Canaan.

20 The field, and the cave that is in it, were deeded to Abraham for a possession of a burying place by the children of Heth.