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Genesi 20

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1 Abrahamo si partì di là andando verso il paese del mezzodì, dimorò fra Kades e Shur, e abitò come forestiero in Gherar.

2 E Abrahamo diceva di Sara sua moglie: "Ell’è mia sorella". E Abimelec, re di Gherar, mandò a pigliar Sara.

3 Ma Dio venne, di notte, in un sogno, ad Abimelec, e gli disse: "Ecco, tu sei morto, a motivo della donna che ti sei presa; perch’ella ha marito".

4 Or Abimelec non s’era accostato a lei; e rispose: "Signore, faresti tu perire una nazione anche se giusta?

5 Non m’ha egli detto: E’ mia sorella? e anche lei stessa ha detto: Egli è mio fratello. Io ho fatto questo nella integrità del mio cuore e con mani innocenti".

6 E Dio gli disse nel sogno: "Anch’io so che tu hai fatto questo nella integrità del tuo cuore; e t’ho quindi preservato dal peccare contro di me; perciò non ti ho permesso di toccarla.

7 Or dunque, restituisci la moglie a quest’uomo, perché è profeta; ed egli pregherà per te, e tu vivrai. Ma, se non la restituisci, sappi che, per certo, morrai: tu e tutti i tuoi".

8 E Abimelec si levò la mattina per tempo, chiamò tutti i suoi servi, e raccontò in loro presenza tutte queste cose. E quegli uomini furon presi da gran paura.

9 Poi Abimelec chiamò Abrahamo e gli disse: "Che ci hai tu fatto? E in che t’ho io offeso, che tu abbia fatto venir su me e sul mio regno un sì gran peccato? Tu m’hai fatto cose che non si debbono fare".

10 E di nuovo Abimelec disse ad Abrahamo: "A che miravi, facendo questo?"

11 E Abrahamo rispose: "L’ho fatto, perché dicevo fra me: Certo, in questo luogo non c’è timor di Dio; e m’uccideranno a causa di mia moglie.

12 Inoltre, ella è proprio mia sorella, figliuola di mio padre, ma non figliuola di mia madre; ed è diventata mia moglie.

13 Or quando Iddio mi fece errare lungi dalla casa di mio padre, io le dissi: Questo è il favore che tu mi farai; dovunque, giungeremo dirai di me: E’ mio fratello".

14 E Abimelec prese delle pecore, de’ buoi, de’ servi e delle serve, e li diede ad Abrahamo, e gli restituì Sara sua moglie. E Abimelec disse:

15 "Ecco, il mio paese ti sta dinanzi; dimora dovunque ti piacerà". E a Sara disse:

16 "Ecco, io ho dato tuo fratello mille pezzi d’argento; questo ti sarà un velo sugli occhi di fronte a tutti quelli che sono teco, e sarai giustificata dinanzi a tutti".

17 E Abrahamo pregò Dio, e Dio guarì Abimelec, la moglie e le serve di lui, ed esse poteron partorire.

18 Poiché l’Eterno avea del tutto resa sterile l’intera casa di Abimelec, a motivo di Sara moglie di Abrahamo.

   

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2557. The daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother. That this signifies that the rational was conceived of celestial good as a father, but not of spiritual truth as a mother, is evident from the conception of the rational, namely, that this is effected by the influx of Divine celestial good into the affection of memory-knowledges (see n. 1895, 1902, 1910). Two arcana are contained herein; one, that man’s rational is conceived of Divine celestial good as a father, and that otherwise no rational would exist; the other, that the rational is not conceived of spiritual truth as a mother. As regards the first, namely, that man’s rational is conceived of Divine celestial good as a father, and that otherwise no rational would exist, this is evident from what has been said above (n. 1895, 1902, 1910), and also from what may be known to every man if he reflects.

[2] For it is known that a man is born into no knowledge and into nothing of reason, but only into the faculty of receiving them; and also that he afterwards learns and imbues himself with all things by degrees, and this principally through the sensuous things of the hearing and sight; and as he learns and imbues himself with these, he so becomes rational. That these things take place by the way of the body, that is, by an external way, because through the hearing and sight, is manifest; but the reason why man has not become acquainted with this (on account of not reflecting upon it) is that there is something constantly flowing in from within that receives the things which thus enter and are insinuated from without, and disposes them into order. That which flows in and receives and disposes them, is Divine celestial good, which is from the Lord. Thence comes the life of these things, thence their order, and thence the kinships and affinities among them severally, as before said. All this shows that man’s rational is from Divine celestial good as a father, in accordance with the words in this verse: “she is the daughter of my father.”

[3] As regards the other arcanum, namely, that the rational is not conceived of spiritual truth as a mother; this is evident from what was said above (n. 1902). For if spiritual truth were to flow in from within, as good does, man would then be born into everything of reason, and at the same time into everything of knowledge, so that he would have no need to learn anything. But as man is such that he is hereditarily in all evil, and thence in all falsity, and therefore if truths themselves also were to flow in would adulterate and falsify them, and thereby the man would eternally perish, it has been provided by the Lord that nothing of truth flows in through man’s internal, but only through his external. From this it is evident that man’s rational is not from spiritual truth as a mother, in accordance with the words in this verse: “she is not the daughter of my mother.” It was the Lord’s pleasure that His rational should be formed according to the same order, to the end that from His own power He might make what was human in Himself Divine, and might implant and unite Divine spiritual truth to Divine celestial good, and Divine celestial good to Divine spiritual truth.

  
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