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Meine Seele komme nicht in ihren geheimen Rat, meine Ehre vereinige sich nicht mit ihrer Versammlung! Denn in ihrem Zorn haben sie den Mann erschlagen und in ihrem Mutwillen den Stier gelähmt.
1 Mose 49:6
Arcana Coelestia # 2764
2764. Genesis 22
1. And so it was after these events, that God tempted Abraham, and said to him, Abraham. And he said, Here I am.
2. And He said, Take now your son, your only one, whom you love, Isaac, and get you to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I tell you.
3. And in the morning Abraham rose up early, and saddled his ass, and took two of his servants 1 with him, and Isaac his son, and split the pieces of wood for the burnt offering, and rose up and went to the place of which God had told him.
4. On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw the place from afar off.
5. And Abraham said to his servants, Remain here with the ass, and I and the boy will go over there, and we will bow ourselves down, and return to you.
6. And Abraham took the pieces of wood for the burnt offering and laid them on Isaac his son; and he took in his hand the fire and the knife, and the two of them went on together.
7. And Isaac said to Abraham his father - he said - My father. And he said, Here I am, my son. And he said, Behold, the fire and the pieces of wood, but where is the animal for the burnt offering?
8. And Abraham said, God will see for Himself to the animal for a burnt offering, my son. And the two of them went on together.
9. And they came to the place of which God told him, and Abraham built the altar there, and laid the pieces of wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar, upon the pieces of wood.
10. And Abraham put forth his hand and took the knife to slay his son.
11. And the angel of Jehovah called to him out of heaven, and said Abraham, Abraham. And he said, Here I am.
12. And he said, Do not put forth your hand towards the boy and do not do anything to him, for now I know that you fear God and have not withheld your son, your only son, from Me.
13. And Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw, and behold, a ram behind [him] caught in a thicket by its horns. And Abraham went and took the ram, and offered it as a burnt offering instead of his son.
14. And Abraham called the name of that place, Jehovah will see; as it is said today, On the mountain Jehovah will see [to it].
15. And the angel of Jehovah called to Abraham a second time out of heaven.
16. And he said, By Myself I have sworn, says Jehovah, that because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son,
17. I will certainly bless you, and I will certainly multiply your seed like the stars of the heavens and like the sand which is on the seashore. And your seed will inherit the gate of their 2 enemies.
18. And in your seed all the nations of the earth will be blessed because you have hearkened to My voice.
19. And Abraham returned to his servants, and they rose up and went together to Beersheba; and Abraham dwelt in Beersheba.
20. And so it was, after these events, 3 that it was pointed out to Abraham, saying, Behold, Milkah, she also has borne sons, to Nahor your brother:
21. Uz her firstborn, and Buz his brother, and Kemuel the father of Aram;
22. And Kesed, and Hazo, and Pildash, and Jidlaph, and Bethuel.
23. And Bethuel begot Rebekah. These eight Milkah bore to Nahor, Abraham's brother.
24. And his concubine, whose name was Reumah; and she too bore Tebah, and Gaham, and Tahash, and Maakah.
CONTENTS
The subject in this chapter in the internal sense is the Lord's severest and inmost temptations, by means of which He united the Human Essence to the Divine Essence; then it is the salvation by means of that union of those who constitute the Lord's spiritual Church.
Poznámky pod čarou:
1. Here and in verses 5 and 19 the word translated servants is the same as that used for boys.
2. The Latin means your but the Hebrew means their.
3. literally, words
The Inner Meaning of the Prophets and Psalms # 72
72. Internal Meaning of Jeremiah, Chapter 6
Those who have conjunction with the Lord in the lowest heaven; these are meant by the children of Benjamin. (2, 3)
1-2 The church among them is destroyed by falsities of evil. (2)
2-3 They no longer have truth and good, but falsity and evil, and these destroy them. (2, 3)
6-7 By means of these the church amongst them is destroyed. (2)
8-9 There are still some truths; let them beware lest they destroy them; (2)
11 Therefore all things are being destroyed. (3)
12 Thus others are being received in their stead. (11)
13-14 Because everything there has been so perverted that there is no protection against falsity, (3)
15 which they do not acknowledge to be falsities, (3)
16-17 and they repudiate truths, (3)
18-19 therefore they will come to an end; (3)
20 hence they regard the works of their worship as of no value. (3)
21 Destruction comes upon them (3)
22-23 through falsities, from which they reason against the truths of the church. (3)
24-26 Those who are separated and grieve over them. (3)
27-30 The perverse are tested, and found incapable of restoration. (3)
