Himmlische Geheimnisse # 3118
3118. „Da neigte sich der Mann und beugte sich dem Jehovah“,
1. Mose 24:26, daß dies Fröhlichkeit und Freude bedeutet, erhellt aus der Bedeutung von sich neigen und sich beugen, sofern es ist fröhlich sein und sich freuen.
Neigen und Bücken oder Beugen sind Gebärden der Demütigung oder Demütigung mit der Tat, sowohl im Zustand des Leids als im Zustand der Freude. Im Zustand des Leides, wenn nicht geschieht was man wünscht, im Zustand der Freude, wann es geschieht, wie hier, daß Rebecka dem Wunsch seines Herzens gemäß ihm aus ihrem Krug zu trinken gab und auch die Kamele tränkte. Daß Bücken auch eine Gebärde der Freude ist, sehe man Nr. 2927, 2950. Fröhlichkeit wird gesagt und Freude aus dem Grund, weil Fröhlichkeit im Wort ausgesagt wird vom Wahren, Freude aber vom Guten. Es ist auch Fröhlichkeit Sache des Angesichts, aber Freude Sache des Herzens oder, was das gleiche, Fröhlichkeit ist Sache der geistigen Neigung oder des Wahren, Freude aber Sache der himmlischen Neigung oder des Guten; somit steht Fröhlichkeit auf einer niedrigeren Stufe als die Freude, wie auch Neigen (inflexio) geringer ist als Bücken (incurvatio); was auch daraus klar wird, daß der Mensch der geistigen Kirche vor dem Herrn sich bloß neigt und die Gnade anruft, aber der Mensch der himmlischen Kirche vor dem Herrn sich bückt oder beugt und um Barmherzigkeit fleht: Nr. 598, 981, 2423. Beides wird hier gesagt wegen der Ehe des Wahren und Guten in den einzelnen Teilen des Wortes: Nr. 683, 793, 801, 2516, 2712.
Genesis 18
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Yahweh appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day.
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He lifted up his eyes and looked, and saw that three men stood opposite him. When he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself to the earth,
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and said, "My lord, if now I have found favor in your sight, please don't go away from your servant.
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Now let a little water be fetched, wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree.
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I will get a morsel of bread so you can refresh your heart. After that you may go your way, now that you have come to your servant." They said, "Very well, do as you have said."
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Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah, and said, "Quickly prepare three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes."
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Abraham ran to the herd, and fetched a tender and good calf, and gave it to the servant. He hurried to dress it.
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He took butter, milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them. He stood by them under the tree, and they ate.
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They asked him, "Where is Sarah, your wife?" He said, "See, in the tent."
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He said, "I will certainly return to you when the season comes round. Behold, Sarah your wife will have a son." Sarah heard in the tent door, which was behind him.
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Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age. Sarah had passed the age of childbearing.
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Sarah laughed within herself, saying, "After I have grown old will I have pleasure, my lord being old also?"
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Yahweh said to Abraham, "Why did Sarah laugh, saying, 'Will I really bear a child, yet I am old?'
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Is anything too hard for Yahweh? At the set time I will return to you, when the season comes round, and Sarah will have a son."
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Then Sarah denied, saying, "I didn't laugh," for she was afraid. He said, "No, but you did laugh."
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The men rose up from there, and looked toward Sodom. Abraham went with them to see them on their way.
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Yahweh said, "Will I hide from Abraham what I do,
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since Abraham has surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed in him?
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For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Yahweh may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him."
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Yahweh said, "Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous,
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I will go down now, and see whether their deeds are as bad as the reports which have come to me. If not, I will know."
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The men turned from there, and went toward Sodom, but Abraham stood yet before Yahweh.
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Abraham drew near, and said, "Will you consume the righteous with the wicked?
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What if there are fifty righteous within the city? Will you consume and not spare the place for the fifty righteous who are in it?
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Be it far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be like the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn't the Judge of all the earth do right?"
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Yahweh said, "If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sake."
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Abraham answered, "See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord, who am but dust and ashes.
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What if there will lack five of the fifty righteous? Will you destroy all the city for lack of five?" He said, "I will not destroy it, if I find forty-five there."
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He spoke to him yet again, and said, "What if there are forty found there?" He said, "I will not do it for the forty's sake."
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He said, "Oh don't let the Lord be angry, and I will speak. What if there are thirty found there?" He said, "I will not do it, if I find thirty there."
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He said, "See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord. What if there are twenty found there?" He said, "I will not destroy it for the twenty's sake."
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He said, "Oh don't let the Lord be angry, and I will speak just once more. What if ten are found there?" He said, "I will not destroy it for the ten's sake."
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Yahweh went his way, as soon as he had finished communing with Abraham, and Abraham returned to his place.
