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1 ヨセフは父のに伏して泣き、口づけした。

2 そしてヨセフは彼のしもべである医者たちに、父に薬を塗ることを命じたので、医者たちはイスラエルに薬を塗った。

3 このために四十を費した。薬を塗るにはこれほどの数を要するのである。エジプトびとは七十の間、彼のために泣いた。

4 彼のために泣くが過ぎて、ヨセフはパロのの者に言った、「今もしわたしがあなたがたの前に恵みを得るなら、どうかパロに伝えてください。

5 『わたしの父はわたしに誓わせて言いました「わたしはやがて死にます。カナンの地に、わたしが掘って置いたに葬ってください」。それで、どうかわたしを上って行かせ、父を葬らせてください。そうすれば、わたしはまた帰ってきます』」。

6 パロは言った、「あなたの父があなたに誓わせたように上って行って彼を葬りなさい」。

7 そこでヨセフは父を葬るために上って行った。彼と共に上った者はパロのもろもろの来たち、パロの長老たち、エジプトのもろもろの長老たち、

8 ヨセフの全とその兄弟たち及びその父の族であった。ただ子供とと牛はゴセンの地に残した。

9 また戦車と騎兵も彼と共に上ったので、その行列はたいそう盛んであった。

10 彼らはヨルダンの向こうのアタデの打ち場に行き着いて、そこで大いに嘆き、非常に悲しんだ。そしてヨセフは七の間父のために嘆いた。

11 その地の住民、カナンびとがアタデの打ち場の嘆きを見て、「これはエジプトびとの大いなる嘆きだ」と言ったので、その所の名はアベル・ミツライムと呼ばれた。これはヨルダンの向こうにある。

12 ヤコブの子らは命じられたようにヤコブにおこなった。

13 すなわちその子らは彼をカナンの地へ運んで行って、マクペラののほら穴に葬った。このほら穴はマムレの東にあって、アブラハムがヘテびとエフロンからと共に買って、所有の地としたものである。

14 ヨセフは父を葬った、その兄弟たち及びすべて父を葬るために一緒に上った者と共にエジプトに帰った。

15 ヨセフの兄弟たちは父の死んだのを見て言った、「ヨセフはことによるとわれわれを憎んで、われわれが彼にしたすべての悪に、仕返しするに違いない」。

16 そこで彼らはことづけしてヨセフに言った、「あなたの父は死ぬに命じて言われました、

17 『おまえたちはヨセフに言いなさい、「あなたの兄弟たちはあなたに悪をおこなったが、どうかそのとがとをゆるしてやってください」』。今どうかあなたの父のに仕えるしもべらのとがをゆるしてください」。ヨセフはこの言葉を聞いて泣いた。

18 やがて兄弟たちもきて、彼のに伏して言った、「このとおり、わたしたちはあなたのしもべです」。

19 ヨセフは彼らに言った、「恐れることはいりません。わたしがに代ることができましょうか。

20 あなたがたはわたしに対して悪をたくらんだが、はそれを良きに変らせて、今日のように多くの民の命を救おうと計らわれました。

21 それゆえ恐れることはいりません。わたしはあなたがたとあなたがたの子供たちを養いましょう」。彼は彼らを慰めて、親切に語った。

22 このようにしてヨセフは父の族と共にエジプトに住んだ。そしてヨセフは年生きながらえた。

23 ヨセフはエフライムの代の孫を見たマナセマキルのらも生れてヨセフのひざの上に置かれた。

24 ヨセフは兄弟たちに言った、「わたしはやがて死にます。は必ずあなたがたを顧みて、このから連れ出し、アブラハム、イサク、ヤコブに誓われた地に導き上られるでしょう」。

25 さらにヨセフは、「は必ずあなたがたを顧みられる。その時、あなたがたはわたしのをここから携え上りなさい」と言ってイスラエルのらに誓わせた。

26 こうしてヨセフは歳で死んだ。彼らはこれに薬を塗り、棺に納めて、エジプトに置いた。

   

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6516. 'In my grave which I dug for myself in the land of Canaan, there you are to bury me' means that it - the Church - was to be restored to life where the previous one had existed. This is clear from the meaning of 'a grave' and 'burying' as restoring to life, dealt with in 5551; and from the meaning of 'the land of Canaan' as the Lord's kingdom and the Church, dealt with in 1413, 1437, 1607, 1866, 3038, 3481, 3705, 4240, 4447. The reason Jacob wished to be buried in the land of Canaan, where Abraham and Isaac had been buried, and not in any other place was that his descendants were going to possess that land, and so he would be lying among his own people. But in the internal sense not this but something else is meant, namely regeneration and resurrection, because these are what the Church resides in. For 'burial' means in the internal sense regeneration and resurrection, 2916, 1917, 4621, 5551. While 'the land of Canaan' means the Church, as is evident from the places referred to above in the present paragraph, and Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob represent the Lord as regards the Divine itself and the Divine Human, and in the relative sense the Lord's kingdom as regards the internal aspect and the external aspect of it, 1965, 1989, 2011, 3245, 3305 (end), 4615, 6098, 6185, 6276. This then is what is meant in the internal sense by the burial of them in that land; and it explains why among Jews who believe in resurrection the conviction continues to exist that even though they have been buried in some other place they will nevertheless rise again in the land of Canaan.

[2] The reason why it is said that the Church was to be restored to life in the place where the previous one had existed is that the Lord's Church had existed in that land since most ancient times, see 3686, 4447, 4454, 4516, 4517, 5136. It also explains why Abraham was told to go there and why the descendants of Jacob were led into it. And the reason for all this was not that the land was holier than all others but that since most ancient times all the locations there, both provinces and cities as well as mountains and rivers, had been representative of such things as belonged to the Lord's kingdom; and the actual names conferred on those locations implied such things. For every particular name supplied from heaven to a place or person implies some celestial or spiritual reality; and when the name has been supplied from heaven, that reality is perceived by them there. The Most Ancient Church too, which was celestial and was in contact with heaven, was one that used to confer names. The reason therefore why the Church was to exist again in that land was that a Word was going to be given in which every detail would be representative of and would mean some spiritual or celestial reality, and that Word would accordingly be understood in heaven no less than on earth. But this could not possibly have been accomplished unless also the names of places and persons had had spiritual meanings. This is the reason why the descendants of Jacob were led into that land, why prophets were raised up there through whom the Word was written, and therefore why a representative of the Church was established among Jacob's descendants. From all this one may see the reason for the statement that the Church was to be restored to life where the previous one had existed.

[3] The fact that names in the Word mean spiritual things may be seen in 1224, 1264, 1876, 1888, 4442, 5225, as well as in the multitude of places where explanations are given of what their meanings are. But the fact that in heaven they perceive what the meanings are of names used in the Word, and that they do this without prior instruction, is an arcanum unknown as yet to anyone and must therefore be described. When the Word is read the Lord comes in and teaches; also - and this is one of the marvels in the spiritual world - writings exist, which I have frequently seen and been able to read yet not understand. But good spirits and angels understand them perfectly well because those writings accord with the universal language they speak. I have been led to know that individual words used there, even individual letters, hold within themselves the kinds of things that belong to that world, thus spiritual things, and that these are perceived there from the breath that is used, and from the affection resulting from the uttering of those words, thus from the varying smooth or rough delivery of them. But it is probable that hardly anyone will believe this. This arcanum has been disclosed so that people may know that those in heaven perceive instantly what the meanings are of names used in the Word, because those names are registered in heaven.

  
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