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1 Mose 23

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1 Und das Leben Saras war 127 Jahre; das waren die Lebensjahre Saras.

2 Und Sara starb zu Kirjath-Arba, das ist Hebron, im Lande Kanaan. Und Abraham kam, um über Sara zu klagen und sie zu beweinen.

3 Und Abraham erhob sich weg von seiner Toten und redete zu den Kindern Heth und sprach:

4 Ich bin ein Fremdling und Beisasse bei euch; gebet mir ein Erbbegräbnis (Eig. ein Grabeigentum) bei euch, daß ich meine Tote begrabe vor meinem Angesicht hinweg.

5 Und die Kinder Heth antworteten dem Abraham und sprachen zu ihm:

6 Höre uns, mein Herr! Du bist ein Fürst Gottes unter uns, begrabe deine Tote in dem auserlesensten unserer Gräber; keiner von uns wird dir sein Grab verwehren, um deine Tote zu begraben.

7 Da stand Abraham auf und verneigte sich vor dem Volke des Landes, vor den Kindern Heth,

8 und redete mit ihnen und sprach: Wenn es euer Wille ist, daß ich meine Tote begrabe vor meinem Angesicht hinweg, so höret mich und leget Fürsprache für mich ein bei Ephron, dem Sohne Zohars,

9 daß er mir die Höhle von Machpela gebe, die ihm gehört, die am Ende seines Feldes ist; um das volle Geld gebe er sie mir zu einem Erbbegräbnis in eurer Mitte.

10 Ephron aber saß (O. wohnte) inmitten der Kinder Heth; und Ephron, der Hethiter, antwortete dem Abraham vor den Ohren der Kinder Heth, vor allen, die zum Tore seiner Stadt eingingen, und sprach:

11 Nein, mein Herr, höre mich! Das Feld gebe ich dir; und die Höhle, die darin ist, dir gebe ich sie; vor den Augen der Kinder meines Volkes gebe ich sie dir; begrabe deine Tote.

12 Da verneigte sich Abraham vor dem Volke des Landes;

13 und er redete zu Ephron vor den Ohren des Volkes des Landes und sprach: Doch, wenn du nur auf mich hören wolltest! Ich gebe den Preis (W. das Geld) des Feldes, nimm ihn von mir; und ich will meine Tote daselbst begraben.

14 Und Ephron antwortete dem Abraham und sprach zu ihm:

15 Mein Herr, höre mich! Ein Land von vierhundert Sekel Silber, was ist das zwischen mir und dir? So begrabe deine Tote.

16 Und Abraham hörte auf Ephron; und Abraham wog dem Ephron das Geld dar, wovon er vor den Ohren der Kinder Heth geredet hatte, vierhundert Sekel Silber, gangbar beim Kaufmann.

17 So wurde das Feld Ephrons, welches bei Machpela, vor (d. h. östlich von) Mamre, lag, das Feld und die Höhle, die darin war, und alle Bäume, die auf dem Felde innerhalb seiner ganzen Grenze ringsum standen,

18 dem Abraham zum Besitztum bestätigt vor den Augen der Kinder Heth, vor allen, die zum Tore seiner Stadt eingingen.

19 Und danach begrub Abraham Sara, sein Weib, in der Höhle des Feldes von Machpela, vor Mamre, das ist Hebron, im Lande Kanaan.

20 So wurde das Feld und die Höhle, welche darin war, dem Abraham zum Erbbegräbnis bestätigt von seiten der Kinder Heth.

   

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4447. And Hamor spoke with them, saying. That this signifies the good of the Church among the Ancients, is evident from the representation of Hamor, as being what is from the ancients (see n. 4431), that is, the good of the church which was among them. For the good of the church is father, and the derivative truth (“Shechem”) is son; and therefore by “father” in the Word is signified good, and by “son” truth. It is here said “the good of the Church among the Ancients,” but not “the good of the Ancient Church,” for the reason that by the “Church among the Ancients” is meant the church that was derived from the Most Ancient Church which existed before the flood, and by the “Ancient Church” is meant the church that existed after the flood. These two churches have sometimes been treated of in the preceding pages, and it has been shown that the Most Ancient Church which was before the flood was celestial, but the Ancient Church which was after the flood was spiritual, and the difference between them has often been treated of.

[2] The remains of the Most Ancient Church which was celestial still existed in the land of Canaan, especially among those called Hittites and Hivites. The reason why these remains did not exist anywhere else was that the Most Ancient Church called “Man” or “Adam” (n. 478, 479) was in the land of Canaan, and therefore the “garden of Eden,” by which was signified the intelligence and wisdom of the men of that church (n. 100, 1588), and by the trees in it their perception, (n. 103, 2163, 2722, 2972), was in that land. And because intelligence and wisdom were signified by this “garden” or paradise, the church itself was meant by it; and because the church was meant, so also was heaven; and because heaven, so also in the supreme sense, was the Lord; and therefore in this sense the “land of Canaan” itself signifies the Lord, in the relative sense heaven and also the church, and in the individual sense the man of the church (n. 1413, 1437, 1607, 3038, 3481, 3705); and therefore also the term “land” or “earth” when mentioned alone in the Word has a like signification (n. 566, 662, 1066, 1067, 1413, 1607, 3355); the “new heaven and new earth” being a new church in respect to its internal and its external (n. 1733, 1850, 2117, 2118, 3355). That the Most Ancient Church was in the land of Canaan may be seen in n. 567; and the result of this was that the places there became representative, and for this reason Abram was commanded to go there, and the land was given to his descendants the sons of Jacob in order that the representatives of the places in accordance with which the Word was to be written, might be retained. (See n. 3686 and that for the same reason all the places there, as well as the mountains and rivers, and all the borders round about, became representative, n. 1585, 1866, 4240.)

[3] All this shows what is here meant by the “Church among the Ancients,” namely, remains from the Most Ancient Church. And as these remains existed among the Hittites and Hivites, therefore Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, together with their wives, obtained a place of burial with the Hittites in their land (Genesis 23:1-20; 49:29-32; 50:13); and Joseph with the Hivites (Josh. 24:32). Hamor the father of Shechem represented the remains of this Church, and therefore by him is signified the good of the Church among the Ancients, and consequently the origin of interior truth from a Divine stock (n. 4399). (What the distinction is between the Most Ancient Church which was before the flood, and the Ancient Church which was after the flood, may be seen above, n. 597, 607, 608, 640, 641, 765, 784, 895, 920, 1114-1128, 1238, 1327, 2896, 2897.)

  
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