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Genesi 40

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1 Or, dopo queste cose, avvenne che il coppiere e il panettiere del re d’Egitto offesero il loro signore, il re d’Egitto.

2 E Faraone s’indignò contro i suoi due ufficiali, contro il capo de’ coppieri e il capo de’ panettieri,

3 e li fece mettere in carcere, nella casa del capo delle guardie; nella prigione stessa dove Giuseppe stava rinchiuso.

4 E il capitano delle guardie li affidò alla sorveglianza di Giuseppe, il quale li serviva. Ed essi rimasero in prigione per un certo tempo.

5 E durante una medesima notte, il coppiere e il panettiere del re d’Egitto, ch’erano rinchiusi nella prigione, ebbero ambedue un sogno, un sogno per uno, e ciascun sogno aveva il suo significato particolare.

6 Giuseppe, venuto la mattina da loro, li guardò, ed ecco, erano conturbati.

7 E interrogò gli ufficiali di Faraone ch’eran con lui in prigione nella casa del suo signore, e disse: "Perché avete oggi il viso così mesto?"

8 E quelli gli risposero: "Abbiam fatto un sogno e non v’è alcuno che ce lo interpreti". E Giuseppe disse loro: "Le interpretazioni non appartengono a Dio? Raccontatemi i sogni, vi prego".

9 E il capo de’ coppieri raccontò il suo sogno a Giuseppe, e gli disse: "Nei mio sogno, ecco, mi stava davanti una vite;

10 e in quella vite c’eran tre tralci; e mi pareva ch’essa germogliasse, poi fiorisse, e desse in fine dei grappoli d’uva matura.

11 E io avevo in mano la coppa di Faraone; presi l’uva, la spremei nella coppa di Faraone, e diedi la coppa in mano a Faraone".

12 Giuseppe gli disse: "Questa è l’interpretazione del sogno: i tre tralci sono tre giorni;

13 ancora tre giorni, e Faraone ti farà rialzare il capo, ti ristabilirà nel tuo ufficio, e tu darai in mano a Faraone la sua coppa, nel modo che facevi prima, quand’eri suo coppiere.

14 Ma ricordati di me, quando sarai felice, e siimi benigno, ti prego; parla di me a Faraone, e fammi uscire da questa casa;

15 perché io fui portato via furtivamente dal paese degli Ebrei, e anche qui non ho fatto nulla da esser messo in questa fossa".

16 Il capo de’ panettieri, vedendo che la interpretazione di Giuseppe era favorevole, gli disse: "Anch’io, nel mio sogno, ecco, avevo tre canestri di pan bianco, sul capo;

17 e nel canestro più alto c’era per Faraone ogni sorta di vivande cotte al forno; e gli uccelli le mangiavano dentro al canestro sul mio capo".

18 Giuseppe rispose e disse: "Questa è l’interpretazione del sogno: i tre canestri sono tre giorni;

19 ancora tre giorni, e Faraone ti porterà via la testa di sulle spalle, ti farà impiccare a un albero, e gli uccelli ti mangeranno le carni addosso".

20 E avvenne, il terzo giorno, ch’era il natalizio di Faraone, che questi dette un convito a tutti i suoi servitori, e fece alzare il capo al gran coppiere, e alzare il capo al gran panettiere in mezzo ai suoi servitori:

21 ristabilì il gran coppiere nel suo ufficio di coppiere, perché mettesse la coppa in man di Faraone,

22 ma fece appiccare il gran panettiere, secondo la interpretazione che Giuseppe avea loro data.

23 Il gran coppiere però non si ricordò di Giuseppe, ma lo dimenticò.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 5159

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5159. 'And it happened on the third day' means in the final phase. This is clear from the meaning of 'the third day' as the final phase of a state; for 'day' means state, 23, 487, 488, 493, 893, 2788, 3462, 3785, 4850, and 'third' that which is complete, and so comes last, 1815, 2788, 4495. By the final phase of a state is meant the point when the previous state comes to an end and the new one begins. In the case of the person who is being regenerated a new state begins when order is turned around. The change takes place when interior things are given dominion over exterior ones, and exterior things begin to serve interior ones - which involves both ideas in the understanding and desires in the will. People who are being regenerated are conscious of this change as an inner urge not to allow sensory delights and bodily or earthly pleasures to take control, and draw ideas present in the understanding over to their own side to support them. When this change takes place the previous state has reached its final phase and the new one is entering its first. This is what is meant by 'on the third day'.

[2] In everyone, whether or not he is being regenerated, changes of state take place, and order is turned around. Yet such changes are different in the case of those who are being regenerated than in the case of those who are not being regenerated. With those who are not being regenerated those changes of state or order are due to physical causes or are attributable to causes associated with life in the community. Physical causes are those impulses which arise at one stage in life and subside at another, in addition to the giving of deliberate thought to physical health and a long life in the world. The causes connected with life in the community are the external, visible curbs a person has to place on his real desire, so that he may earn a reputation for being a wise person and a lover of what is righteous and good, when in fact the acquisition of position and material gain is his real reason for pursuing such. But in the case of people who are being regenerated, such changes of state or order are attributable to spiritual causes which spring from goodness and righteousness themselves; and when a person starts to have an affection for these he is at the end of the previous state and at the beginning of the new one.

[3] But as few are capable of seeing the truth of all this, let an example serve to shed light on the matter. Anyone who does not allow himself to be regenerated loves things of the body for their own sake, not for any other reason; and he loves the world too for its own sake. His love does not reach any higher because at heart he refuses to accept anything higher or more interior. On the other hand one who is being regenerated also loves things of the body, and worldly things likewise. Yet he loves them for higher or more interior reasons. He loves things of the body because he wishes to have a healthy mind inside a healthy body. Also, he loves his own mind and its healthiness for an even more interior reason, namely that he may have a wise discernment of what is good and an intelligent understanding of what is true. He also loves worldly things as much as others do, yet for the reason that the world, worldly wealth, possessions, and positions of importance may serve him as the means to put what is good and true or what is just and fair into effect.

[4] This example enables one to see what each one - the regenerate and the unregenerate - is really like, and to see that outwardly the two are apparently alike but that inwardly they are totally different. From this one may also recognize the identity and the essential nature of the causes which bring about the changes of state and turnings around of order that take place with people who are not being regenerated and those that take place with people who are being regenerated. One may also see that in the case of regenerate persons interior things have dominion over exterior ones, whereas in the case of unregenerate persons exterior ones have dominion over interior. The reasons or the ends that a person has in view are what have dominion, for those ends subordinate everything else in a person and make it subject to themselves. The person's whole life is conditioned entirely by his end in view, for that end is what he loves all the time.

  
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