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1 Mose 49

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1 Und Jakob berief seine Söhne und sprach: Versammelt euch, daß ich euch verkündige, was euch begegnen wird in künftigen Zeiten.

2 Kommt zuhauf und höret zu, ihr Kinder Jakobs, und höret euren Vater Israel!

3 Ruben, mein erster Sohn, du bist meine Kraft und meine erste Macht, der Oberste im Opfer und der Oberste im Reich.

4 Er fuhr leichtfertig dahin wie Wasser. Du sollst nicht der Oberste sein; denn du bist auf deines Vaters Lager gestiegen, daselbst hast du mein Bett besudelt mit dem Aufsteigen.

5 Die Brüder Simeon und Levi ihre Schwerter sind mörderische Waffen.

6 Meine Seele komme nicht in ihren Rat, und meine Ehre sei nicht in ihrer Kirche; denn in ihrem Zorn haben sie den Mann erwürget und in ihrem Mutwillen haben sie den Ochsen verderbet.

7 Verflucht sei ihr Zorn, daß er so heftig ist, und ihr Grimm, daß er so störrig ist! Ich will sie zerteilen in Jakob und zerstreuen in Israel.

8 Juda, du bist's, dich werden deine Brüder loben. Deine Hand wird deinen Feinden auf dem Halse sein; vor dir werden deines Vaters Kinder sich neigen.

9 Juda ist ein junger Löwe. Du bist hoch kommen, mein Sohn, durch große Siege. Er hat niedergekniet und sich gelagert wie ein Löwe und wie eine Löwin; wer will sich wider ihn auflehnen?

10 Es wird das Zepter von Juda nicht entwendet werden, noch ein Meister von seinen Füßen, bis daß der Held komme; und demselben werden die Völker anhangen.

11 Er wird sein Füllen an den Weinstock binden und seiner Eselin Sohn an den edlen Reben. Er wird sein Kleid in Wein waschen und seinen Mantel in Weinbeerblut.

12 Seine Augen sind rötlicher denn Wein und seine Zähne weißer denn Milch.

13 Sebulon wird an der Anfurt des Meers wohnen und an der Anfurt der Schiffe und reichen an Sidon.

14 Isaschar wird ein beinerner Esel sein und sich lagern zwischen die Grenzen.

15 Und er sah die Ruhe, daß sie gut ist, und das Land, daß es lustig ist; er hat aber seine Schultern geneiget zu tragen, und ist ein zinsbarer Knecht worden.

16 Dan wird Richter sein in seinem Volk, wie ein ander Geschlecht in Israel.

17 Dan wird eine Schlange werden auf dem Wege und eine Otter auf dem Steige und das Pferd in die Ferse beißen, daß sein Reiter zurückfalle.

18 HERR, ich warte auf dein Heil!

19 Gad, gerüstet, wird das Heer führen und wieder herumführen.

20 Von Asser kommt sein fett Brot, und er wird den Königen zu Gefallen tun.

21 Naphthali ist ein schneller Hirsch und gibt schöne Rede.

22 Joseph wird wachsen, er wird wachsen wie an einer Quelle. Die Töchter treten einher im Regiment.

23 Und wiewohl ihn die Schützen erzürnen und wider ihn kriegen und ihn verfolgen,

24 so bleibt doch sein Bogen fest und die Arme seiner Hände stark durch die Hände des Mächtigen in Jakob. Aus ihnen sind kommen Hirten und Steine in Israel.

25 Von deines Vaters Gott ist dir geholfen, und von dem Allmächtigen bist du gesegnet mit Segen oben vom Himmel herab, mit Segen von der Tiefe, die unten liegt, mit Segen an Brüsten und Bäuchen.

26 Die Segen deines Vaters gehen stärker denn die Segen meiner Voreltern, nach Wunsch der Hohen in der Welt; und sollen kommen auf das Haupt Josephs und auf die Scheitel des Nasir unter seinen Brüdern.

27 Benjamin ist ein reißender Wolf; des Morgens wird er Raub fressen, aber des Abends wird er den Raub austeilen.

28 Das sind die zwölf Stämme Israels alle, und das ist's, das ihr Vater mit ihnen geredet hat, da er sie segnete, einen jeglichen mit einem sondern Segen.

29 Und er gebot ihnen und sprach zu ihnen: Ich werde versammelt zu meinem Volk; begrabet mich bei meine Väter in der Höhle auf dem Acker Ephrons, des Hethiters,

30 in der zwiefachen Höhle, die gegen Mamre liegt, im Lande Kanaan, die Abraham kaufte, samt dem Acker, von Ephron, dem Hethiter, zum Erbbegräbnis.

31 Daselbst haben sie Abraham begraben und Sara, sein Weib. Daselbst haben sie auch Isaak begraben und Rebekka, sein Weib. Daselbst habe ich auch Lea begraben,

32 in dem Acker und der Höhle, die von den Kindern Heths gekauft ist.

33 Und da Jakob vollendet hatte die Gebote an seine Kinder, tat er seine Füße zusammen aufs Bett und verschied und ward versammelt zu seinem Volk.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 5973

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5973. 'And Israel said' means spiritual good now. This is clear from the representation of 'Israel' as spiritual good, as in 5801, 5803, 5806, 5817, 5819, 5826, 5832, 5833. For what spiritual good is, represented by 'Israel', and what natural good is, represented by 'Jacob', see above in 5965. Anyone unacquainted with the internal sense of the Word cannot possibly know why Jacob is called Jacob at one point and Israel at another; for within a single chapter, even within a single verse, one name may be used, then the other. This shows quite plainly that the Word has an internal sense, as it does at this point where one reads,

The spirit of Jacob their father revived, and Israel said . . .

Similar examples appear elsewhere, such as the following,

Benjamin, Joseph's brother, Jacob did not send with his brothers. And the sons of Israel came to buy in the midst of others who came. Genesis 42:4-5.

And Israel set out. God said to Israel in visions in the night, Jacob, Jacob. And he said, Behold, here I am. Genesis 46:1-2.

Jacob rose up from Beersheba; and the sons of Israel carried Jacob their father. Genesis 46:5.

All the souls of the house of Jacob as he came into Egypt were seventy. Joseph harnessed his chariot, and went up to meet Israel. And Israel said to Joseph . . . Genesis 46:26, 29-30.

Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen. Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years. And Israel's days drew near when he must die. Genesis 47:27-29.

And someone told Jacob and said, Behold, your son Joseph has come to you; and Israel strengthened himself and sat up on his bed. And Jacob said to Joseph... Genesis 48:2-3.

Jacob called his sons, and said, Assemble together and hear, O sons of Jacob; hear Israel your father. Genesis 49:1-2.

Cursed be their anger, for it is fierce, and their wrath, for it is hard. 1 I will divide them in Jacob, and will scatter them in Israel. Genesis 49:7.

The arms of his hands will be made strong by the hands of the powerful Jacob; from there is the Shepherd, the Stone of Israel. Genesis 49:24.

The same use of the two names also occurs frequently in the Prophets.

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1. i.e. cruel

  
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Arcana Coelestia # 5826

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5826. 'You know that my wife bore me two sons' means if spiritual good is what the Church possesses, internal good and truth will exist. This is clear from the representation of Israel, who says these things about himself, as spiritual good from the natural, dealt with immediately above in 5825; from the representation of Rachel, to whom the wife who had borne him two sons refers here, as the affection for interior truth, dealt with in 3758, 3782, 3793, 3819; and from the representation of Joseph and Benjamin,' the two sons she had borne, as internal good and truth, 'Joseph' being internal good and 'Benjamin' internal truth.

[2] What is meant by internal good and truth existing if spiritual good is what the Church possesses is this: Spiritual good, which 'Israel' represents, is the good of truth, that is, truth existing in will and action. This truth or good of truth causes a person to be a Church. When truth has been implanted in his will - something he perceives to have happened from the fact that he feels an affection for truth because his intention is to live according to it - internal good and truth are present in him. When that internal good and truth are present in a person he has the Lord's kingdom within him and he is consequently the Church; and together with those who are very similar to him he constitutes the Church at large. From this it may be recognized that for the Church to be the Church spiritual good, which is the good of truth, must exist and not simply truth by itself. At the present day it is by virtue of truth alone that a Church is called the Church, and it is what marks off one Church from another. Let anyone ask himself whether truth is anything unless it has life in view. What are religious teachings without that end in view? What for example are the Ten Commandments if separated from a life led according to them? For if someone knows them and the full extent of their meaning and yet leads a life contrary to them, what use are they? Surely none at all; indeed do they not serve to condemn some people? The same is so with other religious teachings that are derived from the Word. These too, being spiritual laws, are commandments for leading a Christian life; they likewise have no use at all unless they are made a person's guide to life. Let anyone weigh up what resides with himself and discover whether he has anything there which really is anything other than what enters into the life he leads, or whether life which really is his life resides anywhere else in a person than in his will.

[3] This is the reason why the Lord has declared in the Old Testament and confirmed in the New that all the Law and all the Prophets are founded on love to God and love towards the neighbour, thus on life. They are not founded on faith apart from life, nor thus in any way at all on faith alone, nor consequently on confidence; for without charity towards the neighbour such confidence is impossible. If it seems to exist with the wicked at times when their lives are in danger or death is at hand it is a spurious or false confidence; for among such people in the next life not a trace of this confidence can be seen, however ardently they may have appeared when near to death to profess that they possessed it. But faith, no matter whether you call it confidence or else trust, does nothing for the wicked, as the Lord Himself teaches in John,

As many as received Him, to them He gave power to be sons of God, to those believing in His name, who were born, not of blood, 1 nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. John 1:12-13.

[4] Those born of blood' stands for those who do violence to charity, 374, 1005, also those who render truth profane, 4735. 'Those born of the will of the flesh' stands for those governed by evils that spring from self-love and love of the world, 3813. 'Those born of the will of man' stands for those governed by utterly false notions; for 'man' (vir) means truth and in the contrary sense falsity. 'Those born of God' stands for those who have been regenerated by the Lord and are consequently governed by good. The latter are the ones who receive the Lord; they are the ones who believe in His name; and they, not the former, are the ones to whom He gives power to be sons of God. From all this it is quite evident what contribution faith alone makes to salvation.

[5] To take the matter further, if a person is to undergo regeneration and become a Church he must be led by means of truth into good, which happens when truth becomes truth existing in will and action. This truth is good and is called the good of truth. It constantly brings forth new truths, since then for the first time it is fruitful. The truth that is brought forth or made fruitful from it is what is called internal truth; and the good from which it springs is called internal good. For nothing becomes internal until it has been implanted in the will, the will being the inmost part of a person. As long as good and truth remain outside the will and solely in the understanding they are outside the person; for the understanding is outside, the will inside.

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1. literally, bloods

  
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