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1 Mose 21

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1 Und Jehova suchte Sara heim, wie er gesagt hatte, und Jehova tat der Sara, wie er geredet hatte.

2 Und Sara wurde schwanger und gebar dem Abraham einen Sohn in seinem Alter, zu der bestimmten Zeit, von welcher Gott ihm gesagt hatte.

3 Und Abraham gab seinem Sohne, der ihm geboren worden, welchen Sara ihm gebar, den Namen Isaak.

4 Und Abraham beschnitt Isaak, seinen Sohn, als er acht Tage alt war, wie Gott ihm geboten hatte.

5 Und Abraham war hundert Jahre alt, als ihm sein Sohn Isaak geboren wurde.

6 Und Sara sprach: Gott hat mir ein Lachen bereitet; (Siehe die Anmerkung zu Kap. 17,19) jeder, der es hört, wird mit mir lachen. (Eig. mir lachen, zulachen)

7 Und sie sprach: Wer hätte Abraham gesagt: Sara säugt Söhne! Denn ich habe ihm einen Sohn geboren in seinem Alter.

8 Und das Kind wuchs und ward entwöhnt; und Abraham machte ein großes Mahl an dem Tage, da Isaak entwöhnt wurde.

9 Und Sara sah den Sohn Hagars, der Ägypterin, den sie dem Abraham geboren hatte, spotten. (O. lachen)

10 Und sie sprach zu Abraham: Treibe diese Magd und ihren Sohn hinaus; denn der Sohn dieser Magd soll nicht erben mit meinem Sohne, mit Isaak!

11 Und die Sache war sehr übel in den Augen Abrahams um seines Sohnes willen.

12 Aber Gott sprach zu Abraham: Laß es nicht übel sein in deinen Augen wegen des Knaben und wegen deiner Magd; was immer Sara zu dir sagt, höre auf ihre Stimme; denn in Isaak soll dir ein Same genannt werden.

13 Doch auch den Sohn der Magd werde ich zu einer Nation machen, weil er dein Same ist.

14 Und Abraham stand des Morgens früh auf, und er nahm Brot und einen Schlauch Wasser und gab es der Hagar, indem er es auf ihre Schulter legte; und er gab ihr den Knaben und entließ sie. Und sie ging hin und irrte umher in der Wüste von Beerseba.

15 Und als das Wasser im Schlauche ausging, da warf sie das Kind unter einen der Sträucher;

16 und sie ging hin und setzte sich gegenüber, einen Bogenschuß weit, denn sie sprach: Daß ich das Sterben des Kindes nicht ansehe! Und sie setzte sich gegenüber und erhob ihre Stimme und weinte.

17 Und Gott hörte die Stimme des Knaben. Und der Engel Gottes rief der Hagar vom Himmel zu und sprach zu ihr: Was ist dir, Hagar? Fürchte dich nicht! Denn Gott hat auf die Stimme des Knaben gehört, da, wo er ist;

18 stehe auf, nimm den Knaben und fasse ihn mit deiner Hand, denn ich will ihn zu einer großen Nation machen.

19 Und Gott öffnete ihre Augen, und sie sah einen Wasserbrunnen; und sie ging hin und füllte den Schlauch mit Wasser und tränkte den Knaben.

20 Und Gott war mit dem Knaben, und er wuchs heran; und er wohnte in der Wüste und wurde ein Bogenschütze.

21 Und er wohnte in der Wüste Paran, und seine Mutter nahm ihm ein Weib aus dem Lande Ägypten.

22 Und es geschah zu selbiger Zeit, da sprach Abimelech und Pikol, sein Heeroberster, zu Abraham und sagte: Gott ist mit dir in allem, was du tust.

23 So schwöre mir nun hier bei Gott, daß du weder an mir noch an meinem Sohne noch an meinem Enkel (W. noch an meinem Sproß, noch an meinem Schoß) trüglich handeln wirst! Nach der Güte, die ich dir erwiesen habe, sollst du an mir tun und an dem Lande, in welchem du dich aufhältst.

24 Und Abraham sprach: Ich will schwören.

25 Und Abraham stellte Abimelech zur ede wegen eines Wasserbrunnens, den Abimelechs Knechte mit Gewalt genommen hatten.

26 Und Abimelech sprach: Ich weiß nicht, wer das getan hat; weder hast du es mir berichtet, noch habe ich davon gehört außer heute.

27 Da nahm Abraham Kleinvieh und inder und gab sie Abimelech, und sie schlossen beide einen Bund.

28 Und Abraham stellte sieben junge Schafe der Herde besonders.

29 Und Abimelech sprach zu Abraham: Was sollen diese sieben jungen Schafe, die du besonders gestellt hast?

30 Und er sprach: Die sieben jungen Schafe sollst du von meiner Hand annehmen, damit es mir zum Zeugnis sei, daß ich diesen Brunnen gegraben habe.

31 Daher nannte man diesen Ort Beerseba, (Eides-Brunnen) weil sie beide daselbst geschworen hatten.

32 So schlossen sie einen Bund zu Beerseba. Und Abimelech machte sich auf und Pikol, sein Heeroberster, und sie kehrten in das Land der Philister zurück. -

33 Und Abraham (W. er) pflanzte eine Tamariske zu Beerseba und rief daselbst den Namen Jehovas, des ewigen Gottes, (El) an.

34 Und Abraham hielt sich eine lange Zeit auf im Lande der Philister.

   

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2694. 'Do not be afraid, for God has heard the boy's voice where he is' means the hope of help. This is clear from the meaning of 'do not be afraid' as not despairing, for once fear is removed hope is at hand; and from the meaning of 'hearing the boy's voice' as help, dealt with above in 2691, where similar words occur. The subject in previous verses has been the state of desolation which those people experience who are being reformed and becoming spiritual. But now the subject is the restoration of them, and here their comfort and hope of help.

[2] The fact that those who are being reformed are brought into a state of not knowing any truth, that is, into a state of desolation, insomuch that they experience grief and despair, and that at this point for the first time they receive comfort and help from the Lord, is something that is not known at the present day for the reason that few are being reformed. Those who are such that they are able to be reformed are brought into this state, if not during this life then in the next, where that state is very well known and is called vastation or desolation, regarding which something has been said in Volume One, where also see 1109. Those who experience such vastation or desolation are brought to the point of despair, and when in that state they receive comfort and help from the Lord, and at length are taken away out of that state into heaven, where in the presence of angels they are taught so to speak anew the goods and truths of faith. The primary reason why they undergo vastation or desolation is so that the things of which they are firmly persuaded, originating in what is properly their own, may crumble, see 2682, and also that they may receive the perception of good and truth, which perception they are not able to receive until those false persuasions originating in what is their own are so to speak softened. And it is the state of distress and grief even to the point of despair that effects this change. What good is, and indeed what blessedness and happiness are, nobody with even the sharpest mind is able to perceive unless he has experienced the state of being deprived of good, blessedness, and happiness. It is from this experience that he acquires a sphere of perception; and he acquires it to the same degree that he has experienced the contrary state, for the sphere of perception and how far it extends are determined by his experience of the two contrary states. These, in addition to many others, are the reasons for vastation or desolation. Let the following examples illustrate the matter.

[3] Take those people who attribute everything to their own prudence, and little or nothing to Divine Providence. Even if thousands of reasons are produced to prove that Divine Providence is universal, but universal because it exists in every least thing, and that not even a hair falls from the head - that is, nothing however small exists that has not been foreseen and that has not been provided accordingly - their state of thought regarding their own prudence would remain unaltered, except for the brief moment when they feel convinced by such arguments. Indeed if the same matter were proved to them by actual experiences, they would while witnessing or taking part in such experiences acknowledge the truth of it, but after a short while they would revert to their previous outlook. Such experiences have a fleeting effect on people's thought but not on their affection, and unless the affection is broken down the thought remains in its same state as before; for the thought receives its conviction and its life from the affection. But when the feelings of distress and grief enter into them because they have no power at all that is their own to do anything, and those feelings reach the point of despair, their firm persuasion is broken down and their state altered. In this case they can be brought to a conviction that they have no power that is their own to do anything, and that all power, prudence, intelligence and wisdom originate in the Lord. The same is true of people who believe that their faith is self-derived and their good self-derived.

[4] Let a further example illustrate the matter. Take those who have become firmly persuaded that once they have been made righteous no evil resides with them any longer, but has been completely wiped away and destroyed, and thus that they are pure. Thousands of arguments could be used to make it clear to them that nothing is wiped away or destroyed, but that those people are withheld from evil and maintained in good by the Lord who from the life of good which they have led in the world are such that they can be withheld from evil and maintained in good by Him. In addition to these arguments they could be convinced from experiences that they are of themselves nothing but evil, indeed that they are nothing but utterly filthy masses of evil. But in spite of all those arguments and experiences they would still not depart from their opinion and belief. But when they are brought into a particular state in order that they may perceive hell within themselves, and perceiving this so clearly as to despair of the possibility of their own salvation, that firm persuasion is for the first time broken down and with it their pride and their contempt for all others in comparison with themselves, and also their arrogant assumption that they are the only ones who are saved. They can now be brought into a true confession of faith, not merely to the confession that all good comes from the Lord but also that all things exist because of His mercy; and at length they can be brought into humility of heart before the Lord, the existence of which is impossible without acknowledgement of what they are in themselves. From this it is now evident why those who are being reformed or becoming spiritual are brought into the state of vastation or desolation dealt with in the verses previous to this, and how, when experiencing this state even to the point of despair, they for the first time receive comfort and help from the Lord.

  
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Genesis 21

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1 Yahweh visited Sarah as he had said, and Yahweh did to Sarah as he had spoken.

2 Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.

3 Abraham called his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore to him, Isaac.

4 Abraham circumcised his son, Isaac, when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him.

5 Abraham was one hundred years old when his son, Isaac, was born to him.

6 Sarah said, "God has made me laugh. Everyone who hears will laugh with me."

7 She said, "Who would have said to Abraham, that Sarah would nurse children? For I have borne him a son in his old age."

8 The child grew, and was weaned. Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.

9 Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking.

10 Therefore she said to Abraham, "Cast out this handmaid and her son! For the son of this handmaid will not be heir with my son, Isaac."

11 The thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight on account of his son.

12 God said to Abraham, "Don't let it be grievous in your sight because of the boy, and because of your handmaid. In all that Sarah says to you, listen to her voice. For from Isaac will your seed be called.

13 I will also make a nation of the son of the handmaid, because he is your seed."

14 Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread and a bottle of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder; and gave her the child, and sent her away. She departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.

15 The water in the bottle was spent, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs.

16 She went and sat down opposite him, a good way off, about a bow shot away. For she said, "Don't let me see the death of the child." She sat over against him, and lifted up her voice, and wept.

17 God heard the voice of the boy. The angel of God called to Hagar out of the sky, and said to her, "What ails you, Hagar? Don't be afraid. For God has heard the voice of the boy where he is.

18 Get up, lift up the boy, and hold him in your hand. For I will make him a great nation."

19 God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. She went, filled the bottle with water, and gave the boy drink.

20 God was with the boy, and he grew. He lived in the wilderness, and became, as he grew up, an archer.

21 He lived in the wilderness of Paran. His mother took a wife for him out of the land of Egypt.

22 It happened at that time, that Abimelech and Phicol the captain of his army spoke to Abraham, saying, "God is with you in all that you do.

23 Now, therefore, swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son's son. But according to the kindness that I have done to you, you shall do to me, and to the land in which you have lived as a foreigner."

24 Abraham said, "I will swear."

25 Abraham complained to Abimelech because of a water well, which Abimelech's servants had violently taken away.

26 Abimelech said, "I don't know who has done this thing. Neither did you tell me, neither did I hear of it, until today."

27 Abraham took sheep and cattle, and gave them to Abimelech. Those two made a covenant.

28 Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves.

29 Abimelech said to Abraham, "What do these seven ewe lambs which you have set by themselves mean?"

30 He said, "You shall take these seven ewe lambs from my hand, that it may be a witness to me, that I have dug this well."

31 Therefore he called that place Beersheba, because they both swore there.

32 So they made a covenant at Beersheba. Abimelech rose up with Phicol, the captain of his army, and they returned into the land of the Philistines.

33 Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and called there on the name of Yahweh, the Everlasting God.

34 Abraham lived as a foreigner in the land of the Philistines many days.