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Gênesis 49

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1 Depois chamou Jacó a seus filhos, e disse: Ajuntai-vos para que eu vos anuncie o que vos há de acontecer nos dias vindouros.

2 Ajuntai-vos, e ouvi, filhos de Jacó; ouvi a Israel vosso pai:

3 Rúben, tu és meu primogênito, minha força e as primícias do meu vigor, preeminente em dignidade e preeminente em poder.

4 Descomedido como a àgua, não reterás a preeminência; porquanto subiste ao leito de teu pai; então o contaminaste. Sim, ele subiu à minha cama.

5 Simeão e Levi são irmãos; as suas espadas são instrumentos de violência.

6 No seu concílio não entres, ó minha alma! com a sua assembléia não te ajuntes, ó minha glória! porque no seu furor mataram homens, e na sua teima jarretaram bois.

7 Maldito o seu furor, porque era forte! maldita a sua ira, porque era cruel! Dividi-los-ei em Jacó, e os espalharei em Israel.

8 Judá, a ti te louvarão teus irmãos; a tua mão será sobre o pescoço de teus inimigos: diante de ti se prostrarão os filhos de teu pai.

9 Judá é um leãozinho. Subiste da presa, meu filho. Ele se encurva e se deita como um leão, e como uma leoa; quem o despertará?

10 O cetro não se arredará de Judà, nem o bastão de autoridade dentre seus pés, até que venha aquele a quem pertence; e a ele obedecerão os povos.

11 Atando ele o seu jumentinho à vide, e o filho da sua jumenta à videira seleta, lava as suas roupas em vinho e a sua vestidura em sangue de uvas.

12 Os olhos serão escurecidos pelo vinho, e os dentes brancos de leite.

13 Zebulom habitarà no litoral; será ele ancoradouro de navios; e o seu termo estender-se-á até Sidom.

14 Issacar é jumento forte, deitado entre dois fardos.

15 Viu ele que o descanso era bom, e que a terra era agradável. Sujeitou os seus ombros à carga e entregou-se ao serviço forçado de um escravo.

16 julgará o seu povo, como uma das tribos de Israel.

17 será serpente junto ao caminho, uma víbora junto à vereda, que morde os calcanhares do cavalo, de modo que caia o seu cavaleiro para trás.

18 A tua salvação tenho esperado, ó Senhor!

19 Quanto a Gade, guerrilheiros o acometerão; mas ele, por sua vez, os acometerá.

20 De Aser, o seu pão será gordo; ele produzirá delícias reais.

21 Naftali é uma gazela solta; ele profere palavras formosas.

22 José é um ramo frutífero, ramo frutífero junto a uma fonte; seus raminhos se estendem sobre o muro.

23 Os flecheiros lhe deram amargura, e o flecharam e perseguiram,

24 mas o seu arco permaneceu firme, e os seus braços foram fortalecidos pelas mãos do Poderoso de Jacó, o Pastor, o Rochedo de Israel,

25 pelo Deus de teu pai, o qual te ajudará, e pelo Todo-Poderoso, o qual te abençoara, com bênçãos dos céus em cima, com bênçãos do abismo que jaz embaixo, com bênçãos dos seios e da madre.

26 As bênçãos de teu pai excedem as bênçãos dos montes eternos, as coisas desejadas dos eternos outeiros; sejam elas sobre a cabeça de José, e sobre o alto da cabeça daquele que foi separado de seus irmãos.

27 Benjamim é lobo que despedaça; pela manhã devorará a presa, e à tarde repartirã o despojo.

28 Todas estas são as doze tribos de Israel: e isto é o que lhes falou seu pai quando os abençoou; a cada um deles abençoou segundo a sua bênção.

29 Depois lhes deu ordem, dizendo-lhes: Eu estou para ser congregado ao meu povo; sepultai-me com meus pais, na cova que está no campo de Efrom, o heteu,

30 na cova que está no campo de Macpela, que está em frente de Manre, na terra de Canaã, cova esta que Abraão comprou de Efrom, o heteu, juntamente com o respectivo campo, como propriedade de sepultura.

31 Ali sepultaram a Abraão e a Sara, sua mulher; ali sepultaram a Isaque e a Rebeca, sua mulher; e ali eu sepultei a Léia.

32 O campo e a cova que está nele foram comprados aos filhos de Hete.

33 Acabando Jacó de dar estas instruçães a seus filhos, encolheu os seus pés na cama, expirou e foi congregado ao seu povo.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 6451

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6451. 'I am being gathered to my people' means that [spiritual good] will come to exist within the forms of good and the truths of the natural which spring from that good. This is clear from the representation of the sons of Israel and of the tribes named after them, to which 'his people' refers here, as forms of good and truths in the natural - dealt with in 3858, 3926, 3939, 5414, 5879, 5951, 6335, 6337 - which, it is self-evident, sprang from him; and from the meaning of 'being gathered to that people' as existing within those forms of good and truths. Since the subject here and in what follows is the gathering of spiritual good, which is 'Israel', that is, its coming to exist within the forms of good and the truths of the natural, which are 'his sons' or the tribes named after them, something must be said about how one is to understand all this.

[2] Within a person there is what is inmost; there are interior things beneath what is inmost; and there are exterior things. All these are utterly distinct and separate. They follow one after another in consecutive order, thus from what is inmost to what is outermost; and in accordance with that consecutive order there is also a flow from one into another. This being so, life flows in by way of what is inmost into the interior things, and by way of the interior things into the exterior ones, in accordance with the order in which they follow one another, and it does not come to rest except in what is last and lowest, where it is brought to a halt. And since interior things flow in accordance with order right through to what is last and lowest and are there brought to a halt, it is evident that interior things exist together within what is last and lowest. But they do so there in the following order: What is inmost and has flowed in occupies the central area; interior things, which are beneath what is inmost, encircle the central area; and exterior things are on the edge all the way round. This applies not merely in what is general and overall but also in every specific thing. The first kind of order is called consecutive order, whereas the second is called simultaneous order. The second arises from the first since everything simultaneous arises from what is consecutive, and then exists as it was when first brought into being.

[3] Because the interior things are also present all together in what is last and lowest, the appearance is that life exists in what is last and lowest, which is the body. The reality however is that it exists in interior things, yet not in them but in what is highest, which is the Lord, the Source of all life. This also explains why the life in the exterior things is obscure when compared with the life in the interior ones, for in exterior things the life is wholly general, the product of many, indeed countless elements that flow in from interior things, yet are seen all together as a general, single whole. All this now shows to some extent how one is to understand the idea that spiritual good, which is 'Israel', will come to exist within the forms of good and the truths of the natural, which are 'his sons' or 'the tribes'. For spiritual good, which is 'Israel', exists in the interior part of the natural, while the forms of good and the truths, which are 'his sons', exist in the exterior part of it. The idea that spiritual good will come to exist in them is meant by 'I am being gathered to my people'.

  
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Arcana Coelestia # 6337

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6337. 'And I will show you what will happen to you at the end of days' means the nature of the Church's state within the order in which they were arranged at that time. This is clear from the meaning of 'showing what will happen' as communicating and foretelling; and from the meaning of 'the end of days' as the final phase of the state in which they exist together - 'days' being states, 23, 487, 488, 493, 893, 2788, 3462, 3785, 4850, and 'the end' the final phase, so that 'the end of days' is the final phase of a state, that is to say, of the state in which truths and forms of good in general exist together when arranged in their proper order. The reason why it is the Church's state which is meant is that the truths and forms of good represented by 'Jacob and his sons' are what constitute the Church, on account of which 'Jacob' represents the Church, 4286, 4439, 4514, 4520, 4680, 4772, 5536, 5540, and so also 'his sons', 5403, 5419, 5427, 5458, 5512. And the reason why the nature of that state is meant is that the way the Church's truths and forms of good are represented depends on the order in which Jacob's sons or the tribes are mentioned in the Word, see 3862, 3926, 3939. For its nature is different if Reuben's name comes first from what it is if Judah's comes first. When Reuben is first the nature of the state is such that it starts with faith; but when Judah is first it is such that it starts with love; and the nature of it is different again when it starts with something other than faith or love. For variation in the nature of the state is also indicated by the order in which the rest are named after those two.

[2] The variations that are produced in this way are incalculable, indeed infinite, especially so when the truths and forms of good in general that are meant by 'the twelve tribes' also take on specific variations, countless ones for each - for then each truth and form of good in general assumes a different appearance - and even more especially so when those specific truths or forms of good take on countless individual variations, and so on. The infinite variations produced in this way may be illustrated by very many things that exist in the natural world. From all this one may now see that the twelve tribes have a different meaning when their names occur in the Word in one order from when they do so in another. Thus in this chapter they carry a meaning different from that seen elsewhere.

  
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