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1 Случилось во дни Амрафела, царя Сеннаарскаго, Аріоха, царя Елласарскаго, Кедорлаомера царя Еламскаго и Ѕидала царя Гоимскаго,

2 что они пошли войною противъ Беры царя Содомскаго, противъ Бирши царя Гоморскаго, Шинава царя Адмы, Шемевера царя Цевоимскаго и противъ царя Белы, которая есть Цоаръ.

3 Всј сіи собрались въ долинј Сиддимъ, гдј нынј море соленое.

4 Двјнадцать лјтъ были они въ порабощеніи у Кедорлаомера, а въ тринадцатомъ году отложились.

5 Итакъ въ четырнадцатомъ году пришелъ Кедорлаомеръ, и цари, которые съ нимъ, и поразили Рефаимовъ въ Аштероѕ-Карнаимј, Зузимовъ въ Гамј, Эмимовъ въ Шаве-Киріаѕаимј,

6 и Хорреевъ въ горј ихъ Сеирј до Эл-Фарана, что при пустынј.

7 Обратясь оттуда, они пришли къ источнику Мишпатъ, который есть Кадесъ, и поразили все поле Амалекитянъ, и также Аморреевъ, живущихъ въ Хацацонъ-Ѕамарј.

8 Тогда вышли царь Содомскій, царь Гоморскій, царь Адмы, царь Цевоимскій и царь Белы, которая есть Цоаръ; и устроились въ долинј Сиддимъ къ сраженію противъ нихъ,

9 противъ Кедорлаомера царя Еламскаго, Ѕидала царя Гоимскаго, Амрафела царя Сеннаарскаго, Аріоха царя Елдасарскаго; четыре царя противъ пяти.

10 Въ долинј же Сиддимъ было много смоляныхъ колодезей. Итакъ цари Содомскій и Гоморскій, обратясь въ бјгство, попадали въ нихъ; а прочіе убјжали въ горы.

11 Победители взяли все богатство Содомское и Гоморское, и весь хлјбъ ихъ, и удалились.

12 И взяли Лота, племянника Аврамова, жившаго въ Содомј, и имущество его, и удалились.

13 И пришелъ одинъ изъ уцјлјвшихъ, и извјстилъ Аврама Еврея, жившаго тогда у дубравы Мамре, Аморреянина, брата Эшколу, и брата Анеру, которые были союзники Аврамовы.

14 Итакъ, когда Аврамъ услышалъ, что сродникъ его взятъ въ плјнъ, то вывелъ опытныхъ въ войнј домочадцевъ своихъ триста осьмнадцать и преслјдовалъ непріятелей до Дана;

15 и раздјлясь, напалъ на нихъ ночью, самъ и отроки его, и поразилъ ихъ, и преслјдовалъ ихъ до Ховы, что по лјвую сторону Дамаска.

16 И возвратилъ все бсгатство, и Лота, сродника своего, и имущество его возвратилъ, также и женщинъ и народъ.

17 Когда онъ возвращался послј пораженія Кедорлаомера и царей бывшихъ съ нимъ, то царь Содомскій вышелъ ему на встрјчу въ долину Шаве, что нынј долина царская.

18 И Мельхиседекъ царь Салимскій вынесъ хлјбъ и вино Онъ былъ священникъ Бога Всевышняго.

19 И бдагословилъ его, и сказалъ: Благословенъ Аврамъ отъ Бога Всевышняго, Владыки небесъ и земли.

20 И благословенъ Богъ Всевышній, Который предалъ враговъ твоихъ въ руки твои. Аврамъ далъ ему десятую часть изъ всего.

21 Тогда царь Содомскій сказалъ Авраму: отдай мнј людей, а имјніе возми себј,

22 Но Аврамъ сказадъ царю Содомскому: подъемлю руку мою къ Іеговј, Богу Всевышнему, Владыкј небесъ и земли.

23 И клянусь, что даже нитки и сапожнаго ремня не возму изъ всего твоего, чтобы ты не сказалъ: я обогатилъ Аврама:

24 кромј того только, что съјли рабы, и кромј доли, принадлежащей людямъ ходившимъ со мною; Анеръ, Эшколъ и Мамре, они пусть возмутъ свою долю.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 1702

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1702. That 'Abram the Hebrew' is the Interior Man to whom the Internal or Divine Man was joined becomes clear from the meaning of Abram the Hebrew, that is, from Abram's descriptive name used here 'the Hebrew'. In what has gone before and in what follows where Abram is referred to he is not called 'the Hebrew'. Only here is he called such, and therefore something distinct with regard to the Lord is represented and meant by 'Abram the Hebrew'. What is represented and meant becomes clear from the internal sense, namely this, that the Interior Man was joined to the Internal or Divine Man, as becomes clear also from the train of thought in the internal sense. The name 'the Hebrews' occurs in the Word when something to do with service is meant, whatever it may be, as becomes clear from what follows. The Interior Man is such that it serves the Internal or Divine Man, and therefore the Interior Man is here called 'Abram the Hebrew'.

[2] What the interior man is scarcely anyone knows, and therefore let this be described briefly. The interior man is situated between the internal man and the external man, it being by means of the interior man that the internal man communicates with the external. Without the interior man between them no communication from one to the other is ever possible. The celestial is distinct and separate from the natural, and still more from the bodily; and unless there is something in between through which communication is established the celestial cannot possibly operate into the natural, still less into the bodily. The interior man is called the rational man, and because that man is situated between the two, it communicates in one direction with the internal man where there is good itself and truth itself, and in the other with the external man where there is evil and falsity. By means of this communication with the internal man a person is able to think about celestial and spiritual things, or look upwards, which animals cannot do; and by means of his communication with the external man a person is able to think about worldly and bodily things, or look downwards almost in the way animals do which likewise possess ideas of earthly things. In short, the interior man, or the man between internal man and external, is the rational man itself, which is spiritual or celestial when looking upwards but merely animal when looking downwards.

[3] It is well known that a person can be aware of the fact that he is speaking in one way while thinking in another, and doing one thing while willing another, and that presence and deception are present; also that reason or rationality exists, and that this is something interior since it is able to dissent; also that with one who is to be regenerated something interior exists which battles with that which is exterior. This interior something which thinks differently and wills differently from that which is exterior, and which battles with it, is the interior man. Within this interior man conscience resides in the case of the spiritual man and perception in the case of the celestial man. This Interior Man, which was joined in the Lord's case to the Divine Internal Man, is that which is here called 'Abram the Hebrew'.

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