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Genèse 16

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1 Or Saraï femme d'Abram ne lui avait enfanté aucun enfant, mais elle avait une servante Egyptienne, nommée Agar.

2 Et elle dit à Abram : Voici maintenant, l'Eternel m'a rendue stérile; viens, je te prie, vers ma servante, peut-être aurai-je des enfants par elle. Et Abram acquiesça à la parole de Saraï.

3 Alors Saraï, femme d'Abram, prit Agar sa servante Egyptienne, et la donna pour femme à Abram son mari, après qu'il eut demeuré dix ans au pays de Canaan.

4 Il vint donc vers Agar, et elle conçut. Et [Agar] voyant qu'elle avait conçu, méprisa sa maîtresse.

5 Et Saraï dit à Abram : L'outrage qui m'est fait, [revient] sur toi; je t'ai donné ma servante en ton sein, mais quand elle a vu qu'elle avait conçu, elle m'a méprisée; que l'Eternel en juge entre moi et toi.

6 Alors Abram répondit à Saraï : Voici, ta servante est entre tes mains, traite-la comme il te plaira. Saraï donc la maltraita, et [Agar] s'enfuit de devant elle.

7 Mais l'Ange de l'Eternel la trouva auprès d'une fontaine d'eau au désert, près de la fontaine qui est au chemin de Sur.

8 Et il lui dit : Agar, servante de Saraï, d'où viens-tu? et où vas-tu? et elle répondit : Je m'enfuis de devant Saraï ma maîtresse.

9 Et l'Ange de l'Eternel lui dit : Retourne à ta maîtresse, et t'humilie sous elle.

10 Davantage l'Ange de l'Eternel lui dit : Je multiplierai beaucoup ta postérité, tellement qu'elle ne se pourra nombrer; tant elle sera grande.

11 L'Ange de l'Eternel lui dit aussi : Voici, tu as conçu, et tu enfanteras un fils, que tu appelleras Ismaël, car l'Eternel a ouï ton affliction.

12 Et ce sera un homme [farouche comme] un âne sauvage; sa main sera contre tous, et la main de tous contre lui; et il habitera à la vue de tous ses frères.

13 Alors elle appela le nom de l'Eternel qui lui parlait à elle, tu es le [Dieu] Fort de vision; car elle dit, n'ai-je pas aussi vu ici après celui qui me voyait?

14 C'est pourquoi on a appelé ce puits, le puits du vivant qui me voit; lequel est entre Kadès et Béred.

15 Agar donc enfanta un fils à Abram; et Abram appela le nom de son fils, qu'Agar lui avait enfanté, Ismaël.

16 Or Abram était âgé de quatre-vingt six ans, quand Agar lui enfanta Ismaël.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 1914

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1914. That 'may the wrong done to me be on you! I gave my servant-girl into your bosom' means its unwillingness to take any blame is clear without explanation. In the internal sense these words embody within themselves the truth that the Lord perceived this first rational to be such as despised intellectual truth, and for that reason He reproached it. The Lord did indeed think from intellectual truth, as stated above in 1904; and because that truth was superior to the rational, He was able to perceive and see the nature of the rational, that is to say, that it held that truth in contempt.

[2] The Lord's being able from the interior man to perceive and see the nature of the new rational within Himself becomes clear from the fact that what is interior is able to perceive that which occurs in the exterior, or what amounts to the same, what is higher is able to see that which occurs in that which is lower, but not the reverse. Moreover, those who have conscience are able and are accustomed to do the same, for when anything contrary to the truth constituting conscience enters their thought or the intentions of their will, they not only recognize it for what it is but also pour blame upon it; indeed it grieves them that their own nature is such. This is all the more true of those who have perception, for perception is more interior within the rational. What then could the Lord not do who had Divine celestial perception and whose thought sprang from the affection for intellectual truth which is above the rational? Therefore He could not be anything else but righteously angry since He knew that no evil or falsity at all stemmed from Himself and that from the affection for truth He strove anxiously with all His might so that the rational might be pure. From this it becomes clear that the Lord did not despise intellectual truth, yet perceived that the first rational with Him did so.

[3] What thinking from intellectual truth is cannot be explained intelligibly, all the less so because nobody except the Lord has ever thought from that affection and that kind of truth. Anyone who thinks from them is above the angelic heaven, for the angels of the third heaven do not think from intellectual truth but from the interior part of the rational. But to the extent that the Lord united the Human Essence to the Divine Essence, He thought from Divine Good itself, that is, from Jehovah.

[4] The early fathers of the Most Ancient Church, who had perception, thought from the interior rational. The fathers of the Ancient Church, who did not have perception but conscience, thought from the exterior or natural rational. But all who do not have conscience never think from the rational at all, since they have no rational however much they appear to do so. Instead they think from the sensory and the bodily experience of the natural. People who do not have conscience are unable to think from the rational for the reason, as has been stated, that they have no rational. The rational man is one in whom the good and truth of faith are the substance of his thought and never one who thinks in opposition to these. Those in whom evil and falsity are the substance of their thought are insane as to their thought and therefore the rational cannot be attributed to them.

  
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