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1 Но Сара, жена Аврамова, не раждала ему. И какъ у ней была служанка Египтянка, именемъ Агарь;

2 то Сара сказала Авраму: вотъ Іегова заключилъ чрево мое, чтобы мнј нс раждать; итакъ войди къ служанкј моей; можетъ быть, я буду имјть дјтей отъ нея. Аврамъ послушался словъ Сары.

3 Такимъ образомъ, по исполненіи десяти лјтъ пребыванія Аврамова въ землј Ханаанской, взяла Сара, жена Аврамова, служанку свою Египтянку Агарь, и дала ее Авраму, мужу своему, въ жену.

4 Онъ вошелъ къ Агари, и она зачала. Когда же она увидјла, что зачала: то стала презирать госпожу свою.

5 Тогда Сара сказала Авраму: въ обидј моей ты виновенъ; я отдала служанку мою въ нјдро твое; а она, увидя, что зачала, смотритъ на меня съ презрјніемъ; Іегова будетъ судить меня съ тобою.

6 Аврамъ сказалъ Сарј: вотъ, служанка твоя въ твоихъ рукахъ, дјлай съ нею, что тебј заблагоразсудится. Итакъ Сара стала смирять ее; а та убјжала отъ нея.

7 И нашелъ ее Ангелъ Іеговы у источника водъ въ пустынј, у источника на дорогј къ Суру,

8 и сказалъ: Агарь, раба Сарина! откуда ты пришла, и куда идешь? Она отвјчала: я бјгу отъ лица Сары, госпожи моей.

9 Но Ангелъ Іеговы сказалъ ей: возвратись къ госпожј своей, и покорись ей.

10 Потомъ сказалъ ей Ангелъ Іеговы: умножая умножу потомство твое, такъ что нельзя и счесть отъ множества.

11 Наконецъ Ангелъ Іеговы сказалъ ей: вотъ ты беременна, и родишь сына и наречешь ему имя Измаилъ; ибо услышалъ Іегова страданіе твое.

12 Онъ будетъ онагръ-человјкъ; руки его на всјхъ, и руки всјхъ на него; жить будетъ онъ предъ лицемъ всјхъ братьевъ своихъ.

13 Тогда она нарекла Іегову, Который говорилъ къ ней, симъ именемъ: Ты Богъ видјнія! Ибо сказала она: даже и здјсъ я видјла въ слјдъ Видящаго меня!

14 Посему источникъ тотъ называется: Беэр-лахай-рои (источникъ Живаго, Видящаго). Онъ находится между Кадесомъ и между Баредомъ.

15 Агарь родила Авраму сына; и нарекъ Аврамъ имя сыну своему, рожденному отъ Агари, Измаилъ.

16 Авраму было восемьдесятъ шесть лјтъ оть рожденія, когда Агарь родила Авраму Измаила.

   

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True Christian Religion # 674

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674. III. Baptism was instituted to take the place of circumcision, because the circumcision of the foreskin was a representation of the circumcision of the heart. The purpose of baptism was so that the internal church should take the place of the external, which in every detail prefigured the internal church.

It is well known in the Christian part of the world that there is an internal as well as an external man; that the external is the same as the natural man, and the internal is the same as the spiritual man, for his spirit is in this. Since a church is composed of people, there can be an internal and an external church. If the churches which succeeded one another in due order from ancient times down to the present day are examined, it will be seen that the former churches were external churches, that is, their worship consisted in externals representing the internals of the Christian church, the foundations of which were laid by the Lord when He was in the world, and which is now for the first time being built by Him.

The outstanding characteristics which distinguished the Israelite church from the others in Asia, and later from the Christian, was circumcision. Since everything in the Israelite church, being external, prefigured, as has been said, everything in the Christian church, being internal, therefore the outstanding sign of the former church was inwardly similar to the sign of the Christian church. For circumcision meant the rejection of the lusts of the flesh, and so purification from evils. The meaning of baptism is similar. It is obvious from this that baptism was enjoined in place of circumcision, in order both that the Christian church should be distinguished from the Jewish, and that the internal church should thus be more closely known. This results from the uses of baptism, which will be discussed later.

  
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Leviticus 19:23

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23 "'When you come into the land, and have planted all kinds of trees for food, then you shall count their fruit as forbidden. Three years shall they be forbidden to you. It shall not be eaten.