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1 Sitte sanottiin Josephille: katso, sinun isäs sairastaa. Ja hän otti molemmat poikansa kanssansa, Manassen ja Ephraimin.

2 Niin Jakobille ilmoitettiin, sanoen: katso, sinun poikas Joseph tulee sinun tykös. Ja Israel vahvisti itsensä ja istui vuoteessa.

3 Ja Jakob sanoi Josephille: Jumala kaikkivaltias näkyi minulle Lutsissa Kanaanin maalla; ja siunasi minua.

4 Ja sanoi minulle: katso, minä annan sinun olla hedelmällisen ja lisääntyä, ja teen sinun paljoksi kansaksi; ja annan myös tämän maan sinun siemenelles sinun jälkees, ijankaikkiseksi perimiseksi.

5 Nyt siis ne kaksi sinun poikaas, jotka sinulle ovat syntyneet Egyptissä, ennenkuin minä tulin tänne sinun tykös, pitää oleman minun; nimittäin Ephraim ja Manasse, niinkuin Ruben ja Simeon ovat minun.

6 Mutta sinun lapses, jotkas siität niiden jälkeen, pitää oleman sinun, ja pitää nimitettämän veljeinsä nimellä, heidän perimisestänsä.

7 Ja koska minä tulin Mesopotamiasta, kuoli minulta Rakel Kanaanin maalla, tiellä, koska vielä kappale matkaa oli Ephrataan; ja minä hautasin hänen siellä Ephratan tiellä, se on Betlehem.

8 Ja Israel näki Josephin pojat, ja sanoi: kutka nämät ovat?

9 Ja Joseph vastasi isäänsä: ne ovat minun poikani, jotka Jumala on minulle täällä antanut. Ja hän sanoi: tuos heitä minun tyköni siunatakseni heitä.

10 Sillä Israelin silmät olivat pimiät vanhuudesta, eikä taitanut hyvin nähdä. Ja hän vei heidät hänen tykönsä. Ja hän antoi suuta heidän, ja otti heitä syliinsä.

11 Ja Israel sanoi Josephille: en minä ajatellut nähdä sinun kasvojas, ja katso, Jumala on antanut minun myös nähdä sinun siemenes.

12 Ja Joseph otti heidät pois hänen sylistänsä, ja kumarsi itsiänsä maahan hänen kasvoinsa eteen.

13 Niin Joseph otti heidät molemmat, Ephraimin oikiaan käteensä, jonka hän asetti Israelin vasemmalle kädelle, ja Manassen vasempaan käteensä, Israelin oikialle kädelle, ja vei heidät hänen tykönsä.

14 Niin Israel ojensi oikian kätensä, ja laski Ephraimin pään päälle, joka oli nuorempi, mutta vasemman kätensä Manassen pään päälle, ja muutti tiettävästi kätensä; sillä Manasse oli esikoinen.

15 Ja hän siunasi Josephia, ja sanoi: Jumala, jonka kasvoin edessä minun isäni Abraham ja Isaak vaeltaneet ovat, Jumala, joka minun kainnut on minun elinaikanani tähän päivään asti.

16 Enkeli, joka minun pelastanut on kaikesta pahasta, siunatkoon näitä nuorukaisia, että he nimitettäisiin minun ja minun isäini, Abrahamin, ja Isaakin nimellä, ja kasvaisivat aivan paljoksi maan päällä.

17 Mutta koska Joseph näki isänsä laskevan oikian kätensä Ephraimin pään päälle, otti hän sen pahaksi, ja rupesi isänsä käteen, siirtääksensä Ephraimin pään päältä Manassen pään päälle.

18 Ja sanoi Joseph isällensä: ei niin minun isäni; tämä on esikoinen, laske oikia kätes hänen päänsä päälle.

19 Mutta hänen isänsä kielsi sen, ja sanoi: minä tiedän kyllä, minun poikani, minä tiedän: tämä myös tulee suureksi kansaksi; mutta kuitenkin hänen nuorempi veljensä tulee suuremmaksi kuin hän, ja hänen siemenensä tulee suureksi kansain paljoudeksi.

20 Niin hän siunasi heitä sinä päivänä, sanoen: joka tahtoo jonkun siunata Israelissa, niin sanokaan näin: Jumala tehköön sinun niinkuin Ephraimin ja Manassen. Ja niin asetti hän Ephraimin Manassen edelle.

21 Ja Israel sanoi Josephille: katsot minä kuolen; ja Jumala on teidän kanssanne, ja vie teitä jällensä teidän isäinne maalle.

22 Minä olen myös antanut sinulle osan maata, päälle sinun veljeis osan, jonka minä miekallani ja joutsellani Amorilaisten käsistä ottanut olen.

   


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6280. As regards 'the redeeming angel' - that the Lord's Divine Human is meant - this is clear from the consideration that by His assumption of the Human and making it Divine the Lord redeemed man, that is, delivered him from hell, on account of which, in respect of His Divine Human, the Lord is called the Redeemer. The reason why the Divine Human is called an angel is that the word 'angel' means one who has been sent, and the Lord's Divine Human is called 'the One who has been sent', as is evident from quite a number of places in the Word, in the Gospels. Furthermore the Divine Human that existed before the Lord's Coming into the world was Jehovah Himself flowing in by way of heaven when He was declaring His Word. Jehovah was above the heavens, but what passed from Him through the heavens was the Divine Human at that time; for by means of Jehovah's flowing into heaven a human image was presented, and the Divine itself as present by this inflowing was the Divine Man. This is the Divine Human which has existed from eternity and is called the One who has been sent, by which is meant that which goes forth and which is one and the same as 'the angel' spoken of here.

[2] But because Jehovah was no longer able to reach men by flowing into them through that Divine Human of His, for the reason that they had distanced themselves so far away from that Divine, He took on a human form and made it Divine. Then by flowing in from this into heaven, He could reach right out to those members of the human race who would accept the good of charity and the truth of faith from His Divine Human, which had thus been made visible, and so could deliver them from hell - a deliverance which could not possibly have been accomplished in any other way. This deliverance is what is called Redemption, and the Divine Human itself effecting that deliverance or redemption is what is called 'the redeeming angel'.

[3] But the Lord's Divine Human, it should be recognized, is above heaven - as the Divine itself is - since the Lord is the Sun that gives heaven its light; thus heaven is far below Him. The Divine Human present in heaven is the Divine Truth going forth from Him, which is the light radiating from Him as from the sun. In Essence the Lord is not Divine Truth, for that Truth is what goes forth from Him like light from the sun; rather, His Essence is Divine Goodness itself, which is one with Jehovah.

[4] The Lord's Divine Human is also called 'the angel' in other places in the Word, for example when He appeared to Moses in the bramble-bush, described as follows in Exodus,

When Moses came to the mountain of God, to Horeb, the angel of Jehovah appeared to him in a flame of fire from the middle of a bramble-bush. Jehovah saw that Moses turned aside to see, therefore God called to him from the middle of the bramble-bush. And He went on to say, I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Exodus 3:1-2, 4, 6.

It is the Lord's Divine Human that is referred to here by the name 'the angel of Jehovah'. He was really Jehovah, which he is also explicitly called. Jehovah's presence there within His Divine Human may be recognized from the consideration that the Divine itself could not become visible except through the Divine Human, as the Lord's words in John declare,

Nobody has ever seen God; the only begotten Son who is in the bosom of the Father, He has made Him known. John 1:18.

And in another place,

You have never heard the Father's voice nor seen His shape. John 5:37.

[5] The Lord's Divine Human is also called 'an angel' where the leading of the people into the land of Canaan is the subject, referred to in Exodus as follows,

Behold, I send an angel before you to guard you on the way, and to bring you to the place which I have prepared. Take notice of his face; for he will not tolerate your transgression, since My name is within him. Exodus 23:20-21, 23.

Here 'an angel' is the Divine Human. This is evident from the fact that it says 'since My name is within him', that is, Jehovah Himself is within him. 'My name' means Jehovah's essential nature, present in the Divine Human. For more about the meaning of 'the name of Jehovah' as the Lord's Divine Human, see 2628; and for more about the meaning of 'the name of God' as His essential nature, and so everything in its entirety by which God is worshipped, 1724, 3006.

[6] In Isaiah,

In all their affliction He suffered affliction, and the angel of His face delivered them; because of His love and His compassion He redeemed them, and took them and carried them all the days of eternity. Isaiah 63:9.

'The angel of Jehovah's face' is plainly the Lord's Divine Human, for it says that 'He redeemed them'. In Malachi,

Behold, suddenly there will come to His temple the Lord whom you seek, and the angel of the covenant in whom you delight. Behold, He is coming, says Jehovah Zebaoth. But who can endure the day of His Coming, and who will stand when He appears? Then the minchah of Judah and Jerusalem will be acceptable to Jehovah, as in the days of eternity, and as in former years. Malachi 3:1-2, 4

'The angel of the covenant' quite clearly means the Lord's Divine Human, for the subject is the Lord's Coming. 'Then the minchah of Judah and Jerusalem will be acceptable to Jehovah' means that worship offered out of love and faith in Him will be acceptable then. It is perfectly plain that 'Judah' is not used in these verses to mean Judah, or 'Jerusalem' to mean Jerusalem, for neither at that time nor any later time was the minchah of Judah and Jerusalem acceptable. 'The days of eternity' are the states of the Most Ancient Church, which was a celestial Church, while 'former years' are the states of the Ancient Church, which was a spiritual one, see 6239. Furthermore 'angel' in the Word does not mean in the internal sense any angel but some Divine attribute within the Lord, 1925, 2319, 2821, 3039, 4085.

  
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