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Genèse 15

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1 Après ces choses, la parole de l'Eternel fut adressée à Abram dans une vision, en disant : Abram, ne crains point, je suis ton bouclier, et ta grande récompense.

2 Et Abram répondit : Seigneur Eternel, que me donneras-tu? je m'en vais sans [laisser] d'enfants [après moi], et celui qui a le maniement de ma maison c'est ce Dammésec Elihézer.

3 Abram dit aussi : Voici, tu ne m'as point donné d'enfants; et voilà, le serviteur né dans ma maison, sera mon héritier.

4 Et voici, la parole de l'Eternel lui [fut adressée] en disant : Celui-ci ne sera point ton héritier ; mais celui qui sortira de tes entrailles sera ton héritier.

5 Puis l'ayant fait sortir dehors, il lui dit : Lève maintenant les yeux au ciel, et compte les étoiles, si tu les peux compter; et il lui dit : Ainsi sera ta postérité.

6 Et [Abram] crut à l'Eternel, qui lui imputa cela à justice.

7 Et il lui dit : Je suis l'Eternel qui t'ai fait sortir d'Ur des Caldéens, afin de te donner ce pays-ci pour le posséder.

8 Et il dit : Seigneur Eternel, à quoi connaîtrai-je que je le posséderai?

9 Et il lui répondit : Prends une génisse de trois ans, et une chèvre de trois ans, et un bélier de trois ans, une tourterelle, et un pigeon.

10 Il prit donc toutes ces choses, et les partagea par le milieu, et mit chaque moitié vis-à-vis l'une de l'autre; mais il ne partagea point les oiseaux.

11 Et une volée d'oiseaux descendit sur ces bêtes mortes; mais Abram les chassa.

12 Et il arriva comme le soleil se couchait, qu'un profond sommeil tomba sur Abram, et voici, une frayeur d'une grande obscurité tomba sur lui.

13 Et [l'Eternel] dit à Abram : Sache comme une chose certaine que ta postérité habitera quatre cents ans comme étrangère dans un pays qui ne lui appartiendra point, et qu'elle sera asservie aux habitants [du pays], et sera affligée;

14 Mais aussi je jugerai la nation, à laquelle ils seront asservis, et après cela ils sortiront avec de grands biens.

15 Et toi tu t'en iras vers tes pères en paix, et seras enterré en bonne vieillesse.

16 Et en la quatrième génération ils retourneront ici; car l'iniquité des Amorrhéens n'est pas encore venue à son comble.

17 Il arriva aussi que le soleil étant couché, il y eut une obscurité toute noire, et voici un four fumant, et un brandon de feu qui passa entre ces choses qui avaient été partagées.

18 En ce jour-là l'Eternel traita alliance avec Abram, en disant : J'ai donné ce pays à ta postérité, depuis le fleuve d'Egypte jusqu'au grand fleuve, le fleuve d'Euphrate;

19 Les Kéniens, les Kéniziens, les Kadmoniens,

20 Les Héthiens, les Phérésiens, les Réphaïms,

21 Les Amorrhéens, les Cananéens, les Guirgasiens, et les Jébusiens.

   

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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."