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1 Ja Josef vietiin alas Egyptiin: ja Potiphar Egyptiläinen Pharaon kamaripalvelia ja huovinhaltia osti hänen Ismaelilaisilta, jotka hänen sinne alas vieneet olivat.

2 Ja Herra oli Josephin kanssa, ja hän oli onnellinen mies, ja oli isäntänsä Egyptiläisen huoneessa.

3 Ja hänen isäntänsä näki, että Herra oli hänen kanssansa; sillä kaikki, mitä hän teki, antoi Herra menestyä hänen kädessänsä.

4 Niin että hän löysi armon hänen edessänsä, ja tuli hänen palveliaksensa: ja hän asetti hänen huoneensa ylitse, ja kaikki mitä hänellä oli, antoi hän hänen käteensä.

5 Ja siitä ajasta kuin hän oli hänen pannut huoneensa ja kaiken tavaransa päälle, siunasi Herra sen Egyptiläisen huoneen Josephin tähden, ja Herran siunaus oli kaikissa niissä, jotka hänellä kotona ja kedolla olivat.

6 Sentähden antoi hän kaikki Josephin haltuun, mitä hänellä oli, ja ei tiedustellut mitään häneltä, paitsi sitä ruokaa, jonka hän söi. Ja Joseph oli kauniin luontoinen, ja ihana kasvoilta.

7 Ja tapahtui tämän jälkeen, että hänen isäntänsä emännän silmät paloivat Josephin päälle, ja sanoi: makaa minun kanssani.

8 Mutta hän kielsi, ja sanoi isäntänsä emännälle: katso, minun isäntäni ei tiedusta minulta, mitä huoneessa on, ja kaikki mitä hänellä on, antoi hän minun käteeni.

9 Ei pidä hän itseänsä tässä huoneessa suurempana minua, ei myös ole hän kieltänyt minulta mitään, paitsi sinun, siinä kuin sinä olet hänen emäntänsä: kuinka siis minä niin paljon pahaa tekisin ja rikkoisin Jumalaa vastaan?

10 Mutta hän piti jokapäivä senkaltaiset puheet Josephin kanssa; mutta ei hän totellut maata hänen kanssansa, eli olla hänen kanssansa.

11 Ja tapahtui yhtenä päivänä, että Joseph meni huoneesen askaroitsemaan; ja ei ollut yksikään perheestä läsnä.

12 Ja hän tarttui hänen hameesensa, sanoen: makaa minun kanssani. Mutta hän jätti hameensa hänen käteensä, ja pakeni, ja meni ulos.

13 Koska hän näki, että hän jätti hameensa hänen käteensä, ja pakeni ulos:

14 Huusi hän perhettänsä, ja sanoi heille: katsokaat, hän on tuonut meille yhden Hebrealaisen miehen, saattamaan meitä häpiään: hän tuli minun tyköni makaamaan minun kanssani; mutta minä huusin korkialla äänellä.

15 Ja koska hän kuuli, että minä riahdin ja huusin, jätti hän minulle hameensa, pakeni ja meni ulos.

16 Niin hän piti hänen hameensa tykönänsä, siihenasti kuin hänen isäntänsä kotia tuli,

17 Ja puhui hänelle ne sanat, sanoen: Hebrealainen palvelia, jonkas olet meille tuonut, tuli minun tyköni, saattamaan minua häpiään.

18 Mutta koska minä riahdin ja huusin, jätti hän minulle hameensa ja pakeni ulos.

19 Koska hänen isäntänsä kuuli emäntänsä sanat, kuin hän puhui hänelle, sanoen: niin on sinun palvelias tehnyt minulle, vihastui hän sangen kovin.

20 Ja hänen isäntänsä otti Josephin, ja pani vankihuoneesen, jossa kuninkaan vangit olivat: ja niin hän oli siellä vankihuoneessa.

21 Mutta Herra oli Josephin kanssa, ja käänsi laupiutensa hänen tykönsä; ja antoi hänen löytää armon vankihuoneen haltian edessä.

22 Niin että hän antoi kaikki vangit vankihuoneessa Josephin käden alle, että kaikki mitä siellä tehtiin, se tehtiin hänen kauttansa.

23 Ja vankihuoneen haltia ei pitänyt mistään murhetta niistä, jotka hänen kädessänsä olivat; sillä Herra oli Josephin kanssa, ja mitä hän teki, antoi Herra menestyä.

   


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Arcana Coelestia # 5023

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5023. 'Until his lord came to his house' means so that it might communicate with natural good. This is clear from the meaning of 'lord' as unspiritual natural good, dealt with in 4973, 4988. 'House' in the internal sense is the natural mind, for the natural mind, like the rational mind also, resembles a house. 'The husband' in it is good, 'the wife' truth; 'the daughters and sons' are affections for good and truth, as well as being forms of good and truth which are begotten from that aforesaid good and truth as their parents, while 'the women servants and the men servants' are the desires and the known facts that minister to and support them. Here therefore 'until his lord came to his house' means when natural good comes to its own dwelling-place, where also there is the truth that is joined to it, though in this case it is falsity which convinces the good that it is truth. For unspiritual natural good is easily convinced that falsity is truth and that truth is falsity. The expression 'his lord' is used because the unspiritual natural looks on the spiritual as something servile, 5013.

[2] The fact that a person's natural mind, like his rational mind, is called 'a house' is evident from the following places:

In Luke,

When the unclean spirit has gone out of a person he passes through dry places seeking rest; and if he does not find any he says, I will return to my house out of which I came. And if when he comes he finds it swept and decorated, he goes away and brings seven other spirits more evil than himself, and they enter in and dwell there. Luke 11:24-26.

'House' here stands for the natural mind, which is called a house that is 'empty and swept' 1 when there are no forms of good and truth in it meant by 'husband and wife', no affections for good and truth meant by 'daughters and sons', nor anything such as supports these meant by 'women servants and men servants'. The person himself is 'the house' because the rational mind together with the natural mind constitutes a human being. Without the inhabitants just mentioned - that is, without the forms of good and truth, and without the affections for these, and the service rendered by those affections - a person is not a human being but a beast.

[3] The human mind is again meant by 'a house' in the same gospel,

Every kingdom divided against itself is laid waste, and house falls upon house. Luke 11:17.

And in Mark,

If a kingdom is divided against itself, this kingdom cannot stand. Also, if a house is divided against itself, this house cannot stand. No one can go into the house and plunder the vessels of a strong man unless he first binds the strong man, and then he may plunder his house. Mark 3:14, 25, 27.

'Kingdom' means truth, 1672, 2547, 4691, and 'house' good, 2233, 2234, 3720, 4982, 'house' meaning good on account of its greater importance.

[4] In Luke,

If the householder had known at what hour the thief was coming he would certainly have been awake and would not have permitted his house to be broken into. Luke 12:39.

In the same gospel,

From now on there will be in one house five divided, three against two, and two against three. Father will be divided against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother. Luke 12:52-53.

This refers to the spiritual conflicts which members of the Church enter into once the internal or spiritual contents of the Word have been opened up to them. 'House' stands for the actual person or his mind, while the 'father', 'mother', 'son', and 'daughter' in it are forms of good and truth together with affections for these, or in the contrary sense evils and falsities together with affections for these, which are the source of conflict and the things to be grappled with in such conflict.

[5] The Lord commanded His disciples, in Luke,

Whatever house you enter, first say, Peace be to this house! And if indeed a son of peace is there, your peace shall rest on it; but if not, it shall return to you. But remain in the same house; eat and drink what they have there. Do not pass on from house to house. Luke 10:5-7.

This represented the requirement for them to remain with genuine good, that is, with the good of love to the Lord and of charity towards the neighbour, and not to pass on to any other kind. For more about the actual person or his mind being meant by 'a house', see also 3538, 4973.

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1. empty and swept belongs to Matthew 12:44.

  
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Arcana Coelestia # 2547

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2547. 'That you have brought great sin on me and on my kingdom' means that thereby the doctrine of faith and all matters of doctrine would be at risk. This is clear from the meaning of 'Abimelech', to whom the pronoun 'me' refers here, as the doctrine of faith, and from the meaning of 'kingdom' as the truth of doctrine or that which is a matter of doctrine. That 'a kingdom' in the internal sense means truths of doctrine, and in the contrary sense falsities of doctrine, is clear from the Word, as in Jeremiah,

He is the One who formed all things and the sceptre of His inheritance; Jehovah Zebaoth is His name. You are to me a hammer, weapons of war, and in You I will scatter the nations, and in You I will destroy the kingdoms. Jeremiah 51:19-20.

This refers to the Lord who, it is clear, is not going to scatter nations or destroy kingdoms but to do so to things meant by nations and kingdoms, namely evils and falsities of doctrine.

[2] In Ezekiel,

Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the nations to where they have gone away, and will gather them from all around, and bring them into their own land; I will make them into one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel; and one King will be King to them all, and they will no longer be two nations, nor will they be divided any longer into two kingdoms. Ezekiel 37:21-22.

'Israel' stands for the spiritual Church, 'nation' for the good of that Church, that is, of doctrine, for by 'nations' goods are meant, see 1259, 1260, 1416, 1849. 'Kingdom' stands for the truths of that Church. The fact that 'nations' and 'kingdoms' here mean something different from nations and kingdoms is quite evident, for the children of Israel, or the Israelites, are spoken of as being gathered together and brought into the land when in fact they were dispersed among the gentile nations and became such themselves.

[3] In Isaiah,

I will confound Egypt with Egypt, and they will fight, every one against his brother, and every one against his companion, city against city, kingdom against kingdom. Isaiah 19:2.

Here 'Egypt' stands for the reasonings based on facts concerning the truths of faith, 1164, 1165, 1186. 'City' stands for doctrine, in this case heretical doctrine, 402, 2268, 2449, 'kingdom' for falsity of doctrine. 'City against city and kingdom against kingdom' therefore stands for the fact that heresies and falsities will be in conflict with one another. The same is meant by the following words spoken by the Lord in reference to the close of the age, in Matthew,

Nation will be roused against nation and kingdom against kingdom. Matthew 24:7.

This stands for evils against evils, and falsities against falsities.

[4] The things that Daniel prophesied about the four kingdoms, Chapter 2:37-46; Daniel 7:17-end; and about the kingdoms of Media and Persia, Chapter 8:20-end; and about the kingdoms of the king of the south and the king of the north in Chapter 11; and the things that John too prophesied in the Book of Revelation about kings and kingdoms, have no other meaning. Those kingdoms are used solely to mean states of the Church as regards truths and falsities. The conditions of monarchs and of earthly kingdoms in the sense of the letter are in the internal sense states of the Church and of the Lord's kingdom. In the internal sense nothing else occurs there than spiritual and celestial things, for regarded in itself the Word of the Lord is purely spiritual and celestial; but so that it may be read and understood by man, no matter who, ideas of the things which belong to heaven are conveyed by means of such things as exist on earth.

  
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