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創世記 44

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1 さてヨセフはづかさに命じて言った、「この人々の袋に、運べるだけ多くの食糧を満たし、めいめいのを袋のに入れておきなさい。

2 またわたしの杯、の杯をあの年下の者の袋のに、穀物の代金と共に入れておきなさい」。家づかさはヨセフの言葉のとおりにした。

3 夜が明けると、その人々と、ろばとは送り出されたが、

4 を出て、まだ遠くへ行かないうちに、ヨセフはづかさに言った、「立って、あの人々のあとを追いなさい。追いついて、彼らに言いなさい、『あなたがたはなぜ悪をもって善に報いるのですか。なぜわたしの銀の杯を盗んだのですか。

5 これはわたしの主人が飲む時に使い、またいつも占いに用いるものではありませんか。あなたがたのした事は悪いことです』」。

6 家づかさが彼らに追いついて、これらの言葉を彼らに告げたとき、

7 彼らは言った、「わがは、どうしてそのようなことを言われるのですか。しもべらは決してそのようなことはいたしません。

8 袋の見つけたでさえ、カナンの地からあなたの所に持ち帰ったほどです。どうして、われわれは御主人からや金を盗みましょう。

9 しもべらのうちのだれの所でそれが見つかっても、その者は死に、またわれわれはわがの奴隷となりましょう」。

10 家づかさは言った、「それではあなたがたの言葉のようにしよう。杯の見つかった者はわたしの奴隷とならなければならない。ほかの者は無罪です」。

11 そこで彼らは、めいめい急いで袋を地におろし、ひとりひとりその袋を開いた

12 家づかさは年上から捜し始めて年下に終ったが、杯はベニヤミンの袋の中にあった。

13 そこで彼らは衣服を裂き、おのおの、ろばに荷を負わせてに引き返した。

14 ユダ兄弟たちとは、ヨセフのにはいったが、ヨセフがなおそこにいたので、彼らはそので地にひれ伏した。

15 ヨセフは彼らに言った、「あなたがたのこのしわざは何事ですか。わたしのような人は、必ず占い当てることを知らないのですか」。

16 ユダは言った、「われわれはわがに何を言い、何を述べ得ましょう。どうしてわれわれは身の潔白をあらわし得ましょう。がしもべらのをあばかれました。われわれと、杯を持っていた者とは共にわがの奴隷となりましょう」。

17 ヨセフは言った、「わたしは決してそのようなことはしない。杯を持っている者だけがわたしの奴隷とならなければならない。ほかの者は安全に父のもとへ上って行きなさい」。

18 この時ユダは彼に近づいて言った、「ああ、わがよ、どうぞわがの耳にひとこと言わせてください。しもべをおこらないでください。あなたはパロのようなかたです。

19 わがはしもべらに尋ねて、『父があるか、また弟があるか』と言われたので、

20 われわれはわがに言いました、『われわれには老齢の父があり、また年寄り子の弟があります。そのは死んで、同じの子で残っているのは、ただこれだけですから父はこれをしています』。

21 その時あなたはしもべらに言われました、『その者をわたしの所へ連れてきなさい。わたしはこので彼を見よう』。

22 われわれはわがに言いました。『その子供は父を離れることができません。もし父を離れたら父は死ぬでしょう』。

23 しかし、あなたはしもべらに言われました、『末の弟が一緒に下ってこなければ、おまえたちは再びわたしの見ることはできない』。

24 それであなたのしもべである父のもとに上って、わが言葉を彼に告げました。

25 ところで、父が『おまえたちは再び行って、われわれのために少しの食糧を買ってくるように』と言ったので、

26 われわれは言いました、『われわれは下って行けません。もし末の弟が一緒であれば行きましょう。末の弟が一緒でなければ、あの人の見ることができません』。

27 あなたのしもべである父は言いました、『おまえたちの知っているとおり、はわたしにふたりの子を産んだ。

28 ひとりは外へ出たが、きっと裂き殺されたのだと思う。わたしは今になっても彼を見ない。

29 もしおまえたちがこの子をもわたしから取って行って、彼が災に会えば、おまえたちは、しらがのわたしを悲しんで陰府に下らせるであろう』。

30 わたしがあなたのしもべである父のもとに帰って行くとき、もしこの子供が一緒にいなかったら、どうなるでしょう。父のは子供のに結ばれているのです。

31 この子供がわれわれと一緒にいないのを見たら、父は死ぬでしょう。そうすればしもべらは、あなたのしもべであるしらがの父を悲しんで陰府に下らせることになるでしょう。

32 しもべは父にこの子供の身を請け合って『もしわたしがこの子をあなたのもとに連れ帰らなかったら、わたしは父に対して永久に罪を負いましょう』と言ったのです。

33 どうか、しもべをこの子供の代りに、わがの奴隷としてとどまらせ、この子供を兄弟たちと一緒に上り行かせてください、

34 この子供を連れずに、どうしてわたしは父のもとに上り行くことができましょう。父が災に会うのを見るに忍びません」。

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 5774

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5774. 'And each one loaded his ass, and they returned to the city' means that truths were brought back up from sensory impressions to known facts. This is clear from the meaning of an ass' as factual knowledge, dealt with in 5492, and of 'loading' it as bringing back up from sensory impressions since 'causing one's pouch to come down to the earth' means bringing the contents of the natural down to the level of sensory impressions, 5767 (raising 'the pouch' up from these is what 'loading' implies here); and from the meaning of 'the city' as truth present in doctrine, dealt with in 402, 2449, 2947, 3216.

[2] A brief explanation must be given of what bringing truths back up from sensory impressions to known facts is. Sensory impressions are one thing, known facts another, and truths yet another; they are consecutive to one another, for sensory impressions give rise to factual knowledge, and factual knowledge leads on to truths. Images that come in through the senses are stored in a person's memory; then he uses those images either to deduce a fact or to gain a perception of some fact he is learning about. After that he uses these facts either to deduce certain truths or to gain a perception of some truth he is learning about. This is the way everyone develops onwards from childhood. While he is a child a person's thought and grasp of things relies on sensory impressions; as he grows older his thought and grasp of things relies on factual knowledge, and after that on truths. This is the path leading to the power of judgement a person enters into as he matures.

[3] From this one may see that sensory impressions, known facts, and truths are distinct and separate. Indeed the three remain so distinct that sometimes a person's attention is fixed on sensory impressions, as happens when he gives thought only to what impinges on his senses; sometimes his attention is fixed on facts, as happens when he rises above sensory impressions and thinks more deeply; and at other times his attention is fixed on truths which have been inferred from facts, as happens when he thinks more deeply still. Anyone who stops to reflect can know these things from what is present within himself. In addition a person can bring truths down into known facts and see those truths within them, even as he can bring facts down into sensory impressions and consider them within these. And he can do the opposite. From all this one may see what is meant by bringing the contents of the natural down to the level of sensory impressions, and bringing truths back up from sensory impressions to known facts.

  
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Arcana Coelestia # 5280

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5280. 'And the abundance of corn in the land will not be known' means that no discernment at all regarding the truth present previously will exist there. This is clear from the meaning of 'being known' as being discerned; from the meaning of 'the abundance of corn' as truth that has been multiplied, dealt with above; in 5276, 5278; and from the meaning of 'the land', in this case the land of Egypt, as the natural mind, also dealt with above, in 5276, 5278, 5279. From these meanings it is evident that 'the abundance of corn in the land will not be known means that no discernment at all regarding the truth present previously will exist in the natural.

[2] This verse deals with the final state of desolation, when despair, which comes immediately before regeneration, is experienced; and this being the matter dealt with in this verse, something must be said about the nature of it. Everyone has to be reformed, and to be born anew or regenerated, so that he may enter heaven, No one, unless he is born again, can see the kingdom of God. John 3:3, 5-6.

The human being is born into sin which has increased as it has come down in a long line of descent from ancestors, grandparents, and parents; it has become hereditary and so has been handed down to offspring. At birth a person is born into so many inherited evils which have gradually increased, as described, that he is nothing but sin; therefore unless he undergoes regeneration he remains wholly immersed in sin. But to be regenerated, he must first undergo reformation, which is effected by means of the truths of faith; for he must learn from the Word, and from teaching drawn from it, what good is. Items of knowledge regarding what is good that have been acquired from the Word - that is, from teaching drawn from there - are called the truths of faith; for all truths of faith well up out of good and flow in the direction of good, good being the end they have in view.

[3] This state comes first and is called the state of reformation. Most people within the Church are introduced into it during the period from young childhood through to adolescence, though few are regenerated because most people within the Church learn the truths of faith - or religious knowledge about what is good - for the sake of reputation and position and for the sake of material gain. Since therefore the truths of faith have been introduced through his love of these things, a person cannot be born anew or be regenerated until that love has been removed. To enable such love to be removed that person is launched into a state of temptation, which takes place in the following way: His love of reputation, position, and material gain is activated by the hellish crew, for that crew's desire is to live immersed in the love of those things. But at the same time angels activate affections for what is true and good which were implanted in the state of innocence during early childhood and then stored away interiorly and preserved there for this particular purpose. As a result conflict between evil spirits and angels takes place, and this conflict taking place within a person is experienced by him as temptation. And because the action at this time involves truths and forms of good, the actual truths which were instilled initially are so to speak banished by the falsities infused by the evil spirits - so banished that they are not seen - dealt with above in 5268-5270. And as the person allows himself at this time to be regenerated, the Lord introduces through an internal route the light of truth radiated from good in the natural, in which light the truths are restored there in their proper order.

[4] This is what happens to a person who is being regenerated, but few at the present day are permitted to enter that regenerative state. So far as they allow it to happen, all people, it is true, start to be reformed through the instruction they receive in the truths and forms of good that belong to spiritual life; but as soon as they reach adolescent years they allow the world to distract them. So they turn away into those parts where hellish spirits are, who gradually alienate these people from heaven; the spirits alienate them so completely that they scarcely believe any longer in the existence of heaven. Consequently those people cannot be launched into any spiritual temptation; for if they were they would go under instantly, in which case their latter state would be worse than their former one, Matthew 12:45. From all this one may see the nature of what the internal sense contains here, namely the state of reformation and the state of regeneration. This particular verse however describes the final state in temptation, which is a state of despair - this state being dealt with immediately above in 5279.

  
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