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Genesi 49

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1 Poi Giacobbe chiamò i suoi figliuoli, e disse: "Adunatevi, e vi annunzierò ciò che vi avverrà ne’ giorni a venire.

2 Adunatevi e ascoltate, o figliuoli di Giacobbe! Date ascolto a Israele, vostro padre!

3 Ruben, tu sei il mio primogenito, la mia forza, la primizia del mio vigore, eminente in dignità ed eminente in forza.

4 Impetuoso come l’acqua, tu non avrai la preeminenza, perché sei salito sul letto di tuo padre. Allora tu l’hai profanato. Egli è salito sul mio letto.

5 Simeone e Levi sono fratelli: le loro spade sono strumenti di violenza.

6 Non entri l’anima mia nel loro consiglio segreto, non si unisca la mia gloria alla loro raunanza! Poiché nella loro ira hanno ucciso degli uomini, e nel loro mal animo han tagliato i garetti ai tori.

7 Maledetta l’ira loro, perch’è stata violenta, e il loro furore perch’è stato crudele! Io li dividerò in Giacobbe, e li disperderò in Israele.

8 Giuda, te loderanno i tuoi fratelli; la tua mano sarà sulla cervice de’ tuoi nemici; i figliuoli di tuo padre si prostreranno dinanzi a te.

9 Giuda è un giovine leone; tu risali dalla preda, figliuol mio; egli si china, s’accovaccia come un leone, come una leonessa: chi lo farà levare?

10 Lo scettro non sarà rimosso da Giuda, né il bastone del comando di fra i suoi piedi, finché venga Colui che darà il riposo, e al quale ubbidiranno i popoli.

11 Egli lega il suo asinello alla vite, e il puledro della sua asina, alla vite migliore; lava la sua veste col vino, e il suo manto col sangue dell’uva.

12 Egli ha gli occhi rossi dal vino, e i denti bianchi dal latte.

13 Zabulon abiterà sulla costa dei mari; sarà sulla costa ove convengon le navi, e il suo fianco s’appoggerà a Sidon.

14 Issacar è un asino robusto, sdraiato fra i tramezzi del chiuso.

15 Egli ha visto che il riposo è buono, e che il paese è ameno; ha curvato la spalla per portare il peso, ed è divenuto un servo forzato al lavoro.

16 Dan giudicherà il suo popolo, come una delle tribù d’Israele.

17 Dan sarà una serpe sulla strada, una cerasta sul sentiero, che morde i talloni del cavallo, sì che il cavaliere cade all’indietro.

18 Io ho aspettato la tua salvezza, o Eterno!

19 Gad, l’assaliranno delle bande armate, ma egli a sua volta le assalirà, e le inseguirà.

20 Da Ascer verrà il pane saporito, ed ei fornirà delizie reali.

21 Neftali è una cerva messa in libertà; egli dice delle belle parole.

22 Giuseppe e un ramo d’albero fruttifero; un ramo d’albero fruttifero vicino a una sorgente; i suoi rami si stendono sopra il muro.

23 Gli arcieri l’hanno provocato, gli han lanciato dei dardi, l’hanno perseguitato;

24 ma l’arco suo è rimasto saldo; le sue braccia e le sue mani sono state rinforzate dalle mani del Potente di Giacobbe, da colui ch’è il pastore e la roccia d’Israele,

25 dall’Iddio di tuo padre che t’aiuterà, e dall’Altissimo che ti benedirà con benedizioni del cielo di sopra, con benedizioni dell’abisso che giace di sotto, con benedizioni delle mammelle e del seno materno.

26 Le benedizioni di tuo padre sorpassano le benedizioni dei miei progenitori, fino a raggiunger la cima delle colline eterne. Esse saranno sul capo di Giuseppe, sulla fronte del principe de’ suoi fratelli.

27 Beniamino è un lupo rapace; la mattina divora la preda, e la sera spartisce le spoglie".

28 Tutti costoro sono gli antenati delle dodici tribù d’Israele; e questo è quello che il loro padre disse loro, quando li benedisse. Li benedisse, dando a ciascuno la sua benedizione particolare.

29 Poi dette loro i suoi ordini, e disse: "Io sto per essere riunito al mio popolo; seppellitemi coi miei padri nella spelonca ch’è nel campo di Efron lo Hitteo,

30 nella spelonca ch’è nel campo di Macpela, dirimpetto a Mamre, nel paese di Canaan, la quale Abrahamo comprò, col campo, da Efron lo Hitteo, come sepolcro di sua proprietà.

31 Quivi furon sepolti Abrahamo e Sara sua moglie; quivi furon sepolti Isacco e Rebecca sua moglie, e quivi io seppellii Lea.

32 Il campo e la spelonca che vi si trova, furon comprati dai figliuoli di Heth".

33 Quando Giacobbe ebbe finito di dare questi ordini ai suoi figliuoli, ritirò i piedi entrò il letto, e spirò, e fu riunito al suo popolo.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 6432

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6432. 'The blessings of the breasts' means with affections for goodness and truth. This is clear from the meaning of 'the breasts' as affections for goodness and truth. 'The breasts' means those affections because the breasts communicate with the generative organs, and for that reason they too belong to the province of conjugial love (regarding that province see 5050-5062). Now conjugial love corresponds to the heavenly marriage, which is a marriage of goodness and truth (for conjugial love comes down from that marriage, see 2618, 2728, 2729, 2803, 3132, 4434, 4835, 6179), and therefore 'the breasts' means affections for goodness and truth. In addition they derive that meaning from the fact that the breasts are what feed infants and so mean, through the affection that goes with breast-feeding, conjugial love when joined to the love of offspring.

[2] The same affections are also meant by 'the breasts' in Isaiah,

You will suck the milk of nations, and the breasts of kings you will suck. Instead of bronze I will bring gold, and instead of iron silver. Isaiah 60:16-17.

'Sucking the breasts of kings' stands for good obtained from truth, for by 'kings' truths are meant, 1672, 2015, 2069, 3009, 3670, 4575, 4581, 4966, 5044, 5068, 6148. 'The milk of nations' and 'the breasts of kings' plainly mean some profoundly spiritual matter, for those words would otherwise be meaningless. The fact that goodness and truth are meant is clear from the words that follow, which are 'Instead of bronze I will bring gold, and instead of iron silver'; for 'bronze' is natural good, 425, 1551, and 'gold' celestial good, 113, 1551, 1552, 5658; 'iron' is natural truth, 425, 426, and 'silver' spiritual truth, 1551, 2954, 5658, 6112.

[3] In Ezekiel,

As regards increase, I gave you to be like the seed of the field, out of which you grew up and matured and reached full beauty; your breasts were formed and your hair had grown. Ezekiel 16:7.

This refers to Jerusalem, which here means the Ancient spiritual Church. 'Breasts that were formed' stands for interior affections for goodness and truth, 'your hair had grown for exterior affections belonging to the natural - 'hair' being the natural as regards truth, see 3301, 5247, 5569-5573. These words plainly contain a spiritual sense which is not visible in the letter, for without that sense why would it say of Jerusalem that its breasts were formed and its hair had grown?

[4] In the same prophet,

Two women, the daughters of one mother, committed whoredom in Egypt. In their youth they committed whoredom; there their breasts were squeezed, and there they contemplated their virgin busts. Ezekiel 23:2-3, 8, 21.

This passage in Ezekiel states that the two women are Jerusalem and Samaria, by whom Churches are meant in the internal sense. The statement that in their youth they committed whoredom with Egypt means that they falsified the truths of the Church by their use of factual knowledge - 'committing whoredom' is falsifying truths, see 2466, 4865, and 'Egypt' is factual knowledge, 1164, 1165, 1186, 1462, 5700, 5702. Consequently 'their breasts were squeezed' stands for affections for goodness and truth that became perverted through falsifications. The fact that the women's whoredom and the squeezing of their breasts mean such things can be seen by those who are prepared to look into what is meant in the description of those women.

[5] In Hosea,

Contend with your mother, let her remove her whoredoms from her sight, 1 and her adulteries from between her breasts, lest perhaps I strip her naked, and make her like a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst. Hosea 2:1, 3.

'Mother' here stands for the Church, 289, 2691, 2717, 3703, 4257, 5581, whoredoms' for falsifications of truth, 2466, 4865, 'adulteries' for adulterations of good, 2466, 2729, 3399. Consequently 'adulteries from between her breasts' stands for adulterated affections for goodness and truth, 'stripping naked' for depriving of all truth, 1073, 4958, 5437, 'making like a wilderness, setting like a dry land, and slaying with thirst' for the annihilation of all truth.

[6] In the same prophet,

Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts. Hosea 9:14.

'Dry breasts' stands for affections for neither truth nor good. In Isaiah,

O women without anxiety, stand still, hear My voice; O confident daughters, perceive My speech with your ears. Strip and make yourself bare, and gird [sackcloth] around your waist 2 - people beating themselves on their breasts for the fields of unmixed wine, and the fruitful vine. Isaiah 32:9, 11-12.

'Daughters' stands for affections, 2362, 3024, 3963, 'being stripped bare' for being deprived of truth, 1073, 4958, 5433, 'girding [sackcloth] around one's waist' for suffering grief over good that has been lost, 'beating on breasts' for suffering grief over the good of truth that has been lost. Since these things are meant, it also says 'for the fields of unmixed wine, and the fruitful vine'; for 'the field' is the Church in respect of good, thus the Church's good, 2971, 3196, 3310, 3766, and 'vine' is the spiritual Church, and therefore the good of truth, 5113, 6375, 6376.

[7] In the Book of Revelation,

I saw seven golden lampstands, and in the midst of the seven lampstands one like the Son of Man, clothed with a long robe, and surrounded by a golden girdle around the breasts. Revelation 1:12-13.

'Golden lampstands' are truths of good, 'the Son of Man' is Divine Truth, 'surrounded by a golden girdle around the breasts' the good of love. Anyone may deduce from the holiness of the Word that the things John saw concealed within themselves realities such as belong to the Lord's kingdom and His Church; for what holiness would there be in making predictions about kingdoms in the world? From this one may recognize that they are heavenly things that are meant by 'lampstands' and by 'the Son of Man, clothed with a long robe, and surrounded by a golden girdle around the breasts'.

[8] In Luke,

A certain woman lifted up her voice out of the crowd; 3 she said about Jesus, Blessed is the womb that carried You, and the breasts that You sucked. But Jesus said, Rather than that, blessed are those who hear the Word of God and keep it. Luke 11:27-28.

The Lord's reply shows what 'blessed is the womb' and what 'the breasts' mean - 'those who hear the Word of God and keep it', thus affections for truth which exist with those who hear the Word or God, and affections for good which exist with those who keep it, that is, put it into practice.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. literally, faces

2. literally, upon your loins

3. literally, the people

  
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Arcana Coelestia # 6375

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6375. 'He binds his young ass to the vine' means truth in the natural for the external Church. This is clear from the meaning of 'binding' as being joined to; from the meaning of 'the vine' as the spiritual Church, dealt with in 1069, 5113, here the external spiritual Church since the description 'the outstanding vine' immediately after means the internal church; and from the meaning of 'an ass' as truth in the natural, dealt with in 2781. From this it is evident that 'he binds his ass to the vine' means a joining through truth in the natural to the external Church.

  
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