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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 bist du, meine Kraft, und der Erstling meiner Stärke, der Oberste in der Würde und der Oberste in der Macht.

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 entweiht 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 Versammlung; denn in ihrem Zorn haben sie den Mann erwürgt, und in ihrem Mutwillen haben sie den Ochsen verlähmt.

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 gekommen, mein Sohn, durch große Siege. Er ist niedergekniet und hat 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 der Stab des Herrschers 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 die edle Rebe. Er wird sein Kleid in Wein waschen und seinen Mantel im Weinbeerblut.

12 Seine Augen sind trübe vom Wein und seine Zähne weiß von Milch.

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

14 Isaschar wird ein knochiger Esel sein und sich lagern zwischen den Hürden.

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

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 wird gedrängt werden von Kriegshaufen, er aber drängt sie auf der Ferse.

20 Von Asser kommt sein fettes Brot, und er wird den Königen leckere Speise geben.

21 Naphthali ist ein schneller Hirsch und gibt schöne Rede.

22 Joseph wird wachsen, er wird wachsen wie ein Baum an der Quelle, daß die Zweige emporsteigen über die Mauer.

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, durch ihn, den Hirten und Stein Israels.

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 der Brüste und des Mutterleibes.

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 den Scheitel des Geweihten unter seinen Brüdern.

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

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

29 Und er gebot ihnen und sprach zu ihnen: Ich werde versammelt zu meinem Volk; begrabt mich zu meinen Vätern in der Höhle auf dem Acker Ephrons, des Hethiters,

30 in der zwiefachen Höhle, die gegenüber 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 Heth 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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Apocalypse Explained # 39

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39. And all the tribes of the earth shall wail over him. That this signifies that the falsities of the church will resist, is evident from the signification of wailing, as denoting to lament, to grieve, to be indignant, to be angry, to be averse from, thus also to resist; and from the signification of tribes, as denoting all truths and goods in the aggregate, and, in the opposite sense, all falsities and evils in the aggregate, concerning which we shall speak in what follows; and from the signification of the earth, as being the church (on which see above, n. 29). By all the tribes of the earth, therefore, is signified the whole church, and by their wailing over Him, is signified that truths and goods are no more, because falsities and evils are about to dominate and resist. For what the state of the church will be at its end is treated of in general in this verse, when there will be no longer any faith because no charity; that is, that the Lord will then reveal Himself, and that all will acknowledge Him who are in truths from good, and that those also shall see Him who are in falsities from evil, but that the falsities of the church will resist. (That the Apocalypse does not treat of the successive states of the church, but of its last state, or when it is at its end, may be seen above, n. 5; and that its end is when there is no faith because no charity, may be seen in the small work, The Last Judgment 33-39, and following numbers. When there is no faith because no charity, then falsities from evil reign, which offer opposition to truths from good.)

[2] Tribes are often mentioned in the Word, because the Israelitish people were divided into twelve tribes; and he who is ignorant of the internal sense of the Word supposes, that by tribes are meant the tribes of Israel; nevertheless, by tribes are not meant tribes, nor is Israel meant by Israel; but tribes mean all those who are in truths from good, and Israel means the church of the Lord. He who does not know this, will easily accept the common belief that the children of Israel were chosen before all others on the whole earth, and also that they will be introduced at last into the land of Canaan. Indeed, he will believe that heaven will consist chiefly of them; although, by the names of those tribes in the Word they are not meant, but those who are in truths from good, that is, those who belong to the church; by the twelve tribes, all, and by each one of them, some special truth and good pertaining to those who belong to the church.

[3] These things being understood, it is evident what is meant by these words in the Apocalypse:

"I heard the number of them which were sealed; and there were sealed a hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the sons of Israel. Of the tribe of Judah were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Reuben were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Gad were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Asher were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Naphtali were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Manasseh were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Simeon were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Levi were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Issachar were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Zebulun were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Joseph were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Benjamin were sealed twelve thousand" (7:4-8).

In this passage those who belonged to the Israelitish nation are not meant, but all those, however many they may be, who are in truths from good; for all these are sealed for heaven. The numbers one hundred and forty-four thousand and twelve thousand, also signify all, and each tribe signifies all those who are in that truth or good which is signified by its name.

(As may be evident from what is shown in Arcana Coelestia in regard to the following: what good and truth are signified by Judah, n. 3881, 6363; what by Reuben, n. 3861, 3866, 4605, 4731, 4734, 4761, 6342-6345; what by Gad, n. 3934, 3935; what by Asher, n. 3938, 3939, 6408; what by Naphtali, n. 3927, 3928 what by Manasseh, n. 3969, 5354, 6222, 6231, 6238, 6267, 6296 what by Simeon, n. 3869-3872, 4197, 4502, 4503, 5482, 5626, 5630; what by Levi, n. 3875, 3877, 4497, 4502, 4503; what by Issachar, n. 3956, 3957; what by Zebulun, n. 3960, 3961, 6383; what by Joseph, n. 3969, 3971, 4669, 6417; and what by Benjamin, n. 3969, 4592, 5411, 5413, 5443, 5639, 5686, 5688, 5689, 6440.

That all numbers in the Word signify things, see n. 482, 487, 647, 648, 755, 813, 1963, 2075, 2252, 3252, 4264, 4495, 4670, 5265, 6175, 9488, 9659, 10217, 10253.

That twelve signifies all, and all things as to truths from good, see n. 577, 2089, 2129, 2130, 3272, 3858, 3913; also, the numbers 72, 144, 12,000, 144,000, because they arise from the number 12 by multiplication, n. 7973.

That numbers multiplied signify the same as the simple numbers from which they are produced by multiplication, see n. 5291, 5335, 5708, 7973.)

[4] He who does not know that numbers signify things, what the numbers twelve, one hundred and forty-four, and twelve thousand signify, and also what tribes and apostles signify, cannot know what is signified by those passages in the Apocalypse, where it is said, that the holy city, New Jerusalem,

"had a wall great and high, having twelve gates, and in the gates twelve angels, and names written which are the names of the twelve tribes of Israel; and the wall had twelve foundations, in which were the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. The wall was a hundred and forty and four cubits, and the length and the breadth of the city twelve thousand furlongs" (21:12, 14, 16, 17).

The signification of all these things may be seen explained in the little work, The New Jerusalem and its Doctrine, n. 1; where it is shown, that by Jerusalem is signified the church as to doctrine; by the wall, its truths of defence; by the gates, introductory truths; by the foundations, the knowledges upon which doctrine is founded; by twelve angels, and by twelve tribes, all truths and goods collectively; the same by the twelve apostles; and by the numbers twelve, one hundred and forty-four, and twelve thousand, all things and all persons.

[5] Moreover, he who knows that such things are signified by the twelve tribes may see the mystery involved in the names of the twelve tribes being engraved upon the precious stones of the Urim and Thummim, and also the signification of the breast-plate (Exodus 28:21; 39:10-15). (This arcanum may be seen unfolded in Arcana Coelestia 3858, 6335, 6640, 9863, 9865, 9873, 9874, 9905.) He may also see what is the signification of the twelve apostles sitting upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel (Matthew 19:28), namely, that the Lord alone will judge every one by truths from good (n. 2129, 6397); also what things are meant by the predictions of Israel the father, concerning his sons (Gen. 49); and also the meaning of many other passages in the Word where the tribes are mentioned (as in Isaiah 19:13; 49:6; 63:17; Jeremiah 10:16; Ezekiel 48:1, and following verses; Psalm 122:3-5; Deuteronomy 32:8; Numbers 24:2; Apoc. 5:9; 7:4-9; 11:9; 13:7; 14:6; and elsewhere).

[6] And again, the meaning of the Lord's words about the consummation of the age and His coming, may be seen:

"After the tribulation of those days the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken. And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven; and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven, with power and much glory" (Matthew 14:29, 30).

(These words may be seen explained in detail in the work, Heaven and Hell 1; and in the following passages in Arcana Coelestia, where it is shown that the twelve tribes of Israel represented, and thence signified, all truths and goods collectively, thus all things of faith and love, n. 3858, 3926, 4060, 6335; that similar things are signified by the twelve apostles, n. 2129, 3354, 3488, 3858, 6397; and that they have various significations according to the order in which they are named, n. 3862, 3926, 3939, 4603, 6337, 6640, 10335.)

  
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Translation by Isaiah Tansley. Many thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.