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Genesis 32

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1 Jokūbui keliaujant toliau, jį pasitiko Dievo angelai.

2 Jis, išvydęs juos, tarė: “Tai Dievo stovykla!” Ir pavadino tą vietą Mahanaimu.

3 Jokūbas siuntė pirma savęs pasiuntinius pas savo brolį Ezavą į Seyro žemę, Edomo kraštan.

4 Jis įsakė jiems: “Taip kalbėsite mano valdovui Ezavui: ‘Taip sako tavo tarnas Jokūbas: ‘Viešėjau pas Labaną ir ten užtrukau iki šios dienos.

5 Turiu jaučių, asilų, avių, tarnų bei tarnaičių ir siunčiu pranešti savo valdovui, kad surasčiau malonę jo akyse’ ”.

6 Pasiuntiniai, sugrįžę pas Jokūbą, pranešė: “Buvome nuėję pas tavo brolį Ezavą, jis ateina tavęs pasitikti su keturiais šimtais vyrų!”

7 Jokūbas labai išsigando ir susirūpino. Jis padalino žmones, avis, galvijus bei kupranugarius į du būrius

8 ir tarė: “Jei Ezavas užpuls vieną būrį ir jį sumuš, tai bent likęs išsigelbės”.

9 Jokūbas meldėsi: “Mano tėvo Abraomo ir mano tėvo Izaoko Dieve, Viešpatie, kuris man sakei: ‘Grįžk į savo šalį pas savo gimines, ir Aš tau gera darysiu’.

10 Aš nevertas net mažiausios Tavo malonės ir ištikimybės, kurią parodei savo tarnui. Aš tik su lazda perėjau Jordaną, o dabar turiu du būrius.

11 Išgelbėk mane iš mano brolio Ezavo rankos, nes aš jo bijau, kad atėjęs nenužudytų manęs ir motinų su vaikais.

12 Tu juk sakei: ‘Aš tikrai darysiu tau gera ir padauginsiu tavo palikuonis, kad jie bus kaip jūros smiltys ir jų neįmanoma bus suskaičiuoti dėl gausybės’ ”.

13 Jokūbas tą naktį nakvojo toje vietoje. ytą jis parinko dovanų savo broliui Ezavui iš to, ką turėjo:

14 du šimtus ožkų ir dvidešimt ožių, du šimtus avių ir dvidešimt avinų,

15 trisdešimt kupranugarių su kumeliukais, keturiasdešimt karvių ir dešimt jaučių, dvidešimt asilių ir dešimt asilų.

16 Jis juos atidavė tarnams ir išsiuntė po būrį atskirai, sakydamas: “Eikite pirma manęs, palikdami tarpus tarp bandų!”

17 Jis įsakė pirmajam: “Kai tave sutiks mano brolis Ezavas, klausdamas: ‘Kam tu priklausai? Kur eini? Kam priklauso šita banda?’,

18 tai atsakyk: ‘Tavo tarnui Jokūbui. Tai dovana, siunčiama mano valdovui Ezavui; štai ir jis pats ateina paskui mus’ ”.

19 Jis taip įsakė antrajam, trečiajam ir visiems, kurie ginė bandas: “Kalbėkite šitais žodžiais Ezavui, kai jį sutiksite,

20 ir pridurkite: ‘Tavo tarnas Jokūbas taip pat ateina paskui mus’ ”. Jokūbas galvojo: “Aš jį permaldausiu dovanomis, kurias siunčiu pirma savęs, paskui sutiksiu jį patį. Gal jis mane draugiškai sutiks?”

21 Pasiųstos dovanos išėjo pirma jo, o jis pats tą naktį nakvojo stovykloje.

22 Tą pačią naktį atsikėlęs jis paėmė abi žmonas, abi tarnaites ir vienuolika sūnų ir perbrido Jaboko brastą.

23 Jis perkėlė per upelį juos ir visa, ką turėjo.

24 Jokūbas pasiliko vienas. Ten jis grūmėsi su vienu vyru iki aušros.

25 Matydamas, kad neįstengia jo įveikti, tas vyras smogė Jokūbui į šlaunį ir išnarino Jokūbo šlaunies sąnarį.

26 Tada tas vyras tarė: “Paleisk mane, nes jau aušta!” Jokūbas atsakė: “Nepaleisiu tavęs, jei manęs nepalaiminsi!”

27 Tas klausė: “Kuo tu vardu?” Jis atsakė: “Jokūbas”.

28 Tada jis tarė: “Tu nebebūsi vadinamas Jokūbu, bet Izraeliu, nes tu kovojai su Dievu ir su žmonėmis ir nugalėjai”.

29 Jokūbas klausė: “Pasakyk man savo vardą”. Bet tas atsakė: “Kam gi klausi mano vardo?” Ir jis ten jį palaimino.

30 Jokūbas pavadino tą vietą Penieliu: “Aš regėjau Dievą veidas į veidą ir išlikau gyvas”.

31 Kai jis perėjo Penielį, patekėjo saulė, ir jis šlubavo viena koja.

32 Todėl iki šios dienos Izraelio vaikai nevalgo šlaunies raumenų, nes Jokūbo šlaunis buvo sužeista.

   

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4255. 'For with just my staff I passed over this Jordan, and now I have become two camps' means that from having little He now had much. This is clear from the meaning of 'a staff' as power - a word used in reference to truth, and dealt with in 4013, 4015; from the meaning of 'Jordan' as introduction into cognitions of good and truth, dealt with below; and from the meaning of 'two camps' as goods and truths, as above in 4250 - the two camps referred to here consisting of the people, flocks, herds, and camels, which he split into two groups. From this one may see what these words mean in the proximate sense - that when being introduced into cognitions He had only a small amount of truth but subsequently He had many truths and goods; or what amounts to the same, from having little He now had much. From the explanations given up to now it is evident that the subject in the internal sense has been the way in which the Lord made the Human within Him Divine, doing so step by step in keeping with order. So the subject has been His advance into intelligence and wisdom, at length into Divine intelligence and wisdom. This shows what the phrase 'from having little He now had much' is used to mean.

[2] The reason 'the Jordan' means introduction into cognitions of good and truth is that it was a boundary to the land of Canaan. For all the boundaries of that land meant things that are first and last in the Lord's kingdom, and also those that are first and last in the Church, and so those that are first and last in the celestial and spiritual things which constitute the Lord's kingdom and His Church, see 1585, 1866, 4116, 4240. Therefore, being a boundary, 'the Jordan' meant introduction into cognitions of good and truth, for these come first; but when at length a person becomes in himself a Church or the Lord's kingdom they come to be last.

[3] That 'the Jordan' means things that are first and those that are last may be seen from other places in the Word, as in David,

O my God, my soul bows itself down within me; 1 therefore I remember You from the land of Jordan, and the Hermons from the little mountain. Psalms 42:6.

'Remembering from the land of Jordan' stands for doing so from what is last and so from a position of humbleness. In the same author,

Judah became His sanctuary, Israel His dominions. The sea saw and fled; the Jordan turned about backwards. Psalms 114:2-3, 5.

'Judah' stands for the good of celestial love, and 'Israel' for the good of spiritual love, 3654. 'The sea' stands for cognitions of truth, 28, 'the Jordan' stands for cognitions of good which are said 'to turn about backwards' when the good of love gains dominion, for in that case cognitions are viewed from that good, not the good from those cognitions - in accordance with the things that have often been shown already.

[4] In the Book of Judges,

Gilead dwelling at the crossing of the Jordan; and Dan, why will he fear ships? Judges 5:17.

'Gilead' stands for the sensory good or pleasure by means of which a person is first introduced into the path of his regeneration, 4117, 4124. 'Dwelling at the crossing of the Jordan' stands for the things effecting that introduction, and so things that are first and last in the Church and the Lord's kingdom. These introductory things were also represented by 'the Jordan' when the children of Israel entered the land of Canaan, Joshua 3:14-end; 4:1-end; for 'the land of Canaan' represented the Lord's kingdom, 1413, 1437, 1607, 3038, 3481, 3686, 3705.

And the dividing of the Jordan and their passing through on dry ground meant the removal of evils and falsities and the admission into the Lord's kingdom of those who are governed by goods and truths. Similar in meaning is the dividing of the waters of the Jordan by Elijah when he was carried up into heaven, 2 Kings 2:8, and by Elisha when he entered in place of Elijah into the prophetic role, 2 Kings 2:14.

[5] The cure of Naaman's leprosy, effected by his having washed himself seven times in the Jordan according to Elisha's command, 2 Kings 5:1-14, represented baptism, for baptism means introduction into the Church and into the things that belong to the Church, and so into regeneration and the things that belong to regeneration. Not that anyone is regenerated by baptism; rather it is the sign of it, which he should call to mind. And because the things which constitute the Church are meant by baptism, and baptism is meant by 'the Jordan', as mentioned above, it was the Jordan therefore in which people were baptized by John, Matthew 3:6; Mark 1:5. And the Lord too was willing to be baptized in it by John, Matthew 3:13-17; Mark 1:9.

[6] Because 'the Jordan' means things that are first and last in the Lord's kingdom and in the Church - such as the cognitions of good and truth, since these serve to introduce a person into His kingdom and Church - the Jordan is also for that reason referred to as a boundary of the new earth or holy land, in Ezekiel 47:18. The new earth or holy land means the Lord's kingdom and also the new Church which is the Lord's kingdom on earth, see 1733, 1850, 2117, 2118 (end), 3355 (end).

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8 Jis traukė iš ten į Penuelį ir ten kalbėjo tą patį. Penuelio žmonių atsakymas buvo toks pat kaip Sukoto.