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1 И вышелъ Аврамъ изъ Египта, самъ, и жена его, и все, что у него было, и Лотъ съ нимъ, въ полуденный край.

2 И былъ Аврамъ очень богатъ скотомъ, и серебромъ, и золотомъ.

3 И продолжалъ онъ переходы свои отъ полуденнаго края до Веѕиля, до мјста, гдј прежде былъ шатеръ его, между Веѕилемъ и между Гаемъ,

4 до мјста жертвенника, который онъ создалъ тамъ въ началј; и тамъ призвалъ Аврамъ имя Іеговы.

5 И у Лота, который ходилъ съ Аврамомъ, былъ мелкій и крупный скотъ и шатры.

6 И земля не позволяла имъ жить вмјстј: поелику богатство ихъ было такъ велико, что они не могли жить вмјстј.

7 Между пастухами скота Аврамова и между пастухами скота Лотова произошло несогласіе; притомъ Хананеи и Ферезеи жили тогда въ землј сей.

8 И потому Аврамъ сказалъ Лоту: да не будетъ раздора между мною и тобою, и между пастухами моими и пастухами твоими; ибо мы родственники.

9 Не вся ли земля предъ тобою? прошу, отдјлись отъ меня. Если ты на лјво, то я на право; а если ты на право, то я на лјво.

10 Лотъ возвелъ очи свои и увидјлъ равнину Іорданскую, которая прежде, нежели истребилъ Іегова Содомъ и Гоморръ, вся, какъ садъ Іеговы, какъ земля Египетская, орошалась водою даже до Цоара.

11 И избралъ себј Лотъ всю равнину Іорданскую; и двигнулся Лотъ къ востоку. Такъ разлучились они другъ съ другомъ.

12 Аврамъ сталъ жить на землј Ханаанской: а Лотъ сталъ жить въ городахъ равнины, и доходилъ съ шатрами до Содома.

13 Жители же Содомскіе были злы и весьма грјшны предъ Іеговою.

14 Между тјмъ Авраму, послј того, какъ Лоть отдјлился отъ него, Іегова сказалъ: возведи очи твои, и съ мјста, на которомъ ты теперь, посмотри къ сјверу, и къ югу, и къ востоку, и къ западу.

15 Ибо всю землю, которую ты видишь, тебј дамъ Я и потомству твоему навсегда,

16 И дамъ тебј потомство, какъ песокъ земный; если возможно кому счесть песокъ земный, то и потомство твое сочтено будетъ.

17 Встань, пройди по землј сей въ долготу и въ широту ея: ибо Я тебј дамъ ее.

18 Итакъ Аврамъ двигнулъ шатеръ, и пошелъ, и поселился у дубравы Мамре, что у Хеврона; и создалъ тамъ жертвенникъ Іеговј.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 1557

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1557. 'Between Bethel and Ai' means the celestial and the worldly aspects of cognitions. This is clear from the meaning of 'Bethel' as the light of wisdom coming through cognitions, 1453, and from the meaning of 'Ai' as the light coming from worldly things, also dealt with in 1453. From what has been stated there the nature of the Lord's state at this time becomes clear, namely a childhood state - which is such that worldly things are present. In fact worldly things cannot be dispelled until truth and good are implanted in celestial things by means of cognitions, for a person cannot possibly tell celestial things from worldly until he comes to know and is aware of what the celestial is, and of what the worldly is. Cognitions turn a general and obscure idea into a clear and distinct one, and the clearer the idea is made by means of cognitions the more can worldly things be separated. That childhood state however is still holy because it is innocent.

[2] A state of ignorance or lack of knowledge in no way rules out holiness when there is innocence in it, for holiness dwells in ignorance that is innocent. With everybody apart from the Lord, holiness is unable to dwell anywhere else than in ignorance. If it does not dwell in this it is not holiness. Among the angels themselves, who possess a supreme light of intelligence and wisdom, holiness still dwells within ignorance, for they know and acknowledge that of themselves they know nothing and that whatever they do know comes from the Lord. They also know and acknowledge that all their knowledge, intelligence, and wisdom are as nothing in comparison with the Lord's infinite knowledge, intelligence, and wisdom, thus that all of theirs is lack of knowledge. Anyone who does not acknowledge that there is an infinite number of things he does not know compared with what he does know cannot possess the holiness present with angels that goes with ignorance or lack of knowledge. This holiness that goes with ignorance does not consist in knowing less than others but in the acknowledgement that from oneself one does not know anything at all, and that the things one does not know are infinite in comparison with the things one does know. But above all it entails regarding factual knowledge and intellectual concepts as being of small importance compared with celestial things, that is, things constituting the understanding as being of small importance compared with those constituting life. In the Lord's case, because He was to join human things to Divine things He advanced according to order and now reached first of all that celestial state such as had been His when a boy, in which state worldly things also were present. By passing on from this into a state even more celestial, He at length came into the celestial state of infancy, in which state He fully joined the Human Essence to the Divine Essence.

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.