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Бытие 18

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1 Опять явился ему Іегова у дубравы Мамре, когда онъ сидјлъ у дверей шатра, во время зноя дневнаго.

2 Онъ возвелъ очи свои, и увидјлъ, и се, три мужа стоятъ предъ нимъ. Увидя, онъ побјжалъ имъ на встрјчу отъ дверей шатра, и поклонился до земли.

3 И сказалъ: Господи, если я обрјлъ благоволеніе предъ очами твоими, не пройди мимо раба твоего.

4 Позвольте принести немного воды, и омыть ноги ваши; и отдохните подъ симъ деревомъ.

5 Я принесу хлјба, чтобы подкрјпить сердца ваши; потомъ пойдете; ибо для того и проходите вы близь раба вашего. Они отвјчали: сдјлай такъ, какъ говоришь.

6 И поспјшилъ Авраамъ въ шатеръ къ Саррј, и сказалъ: поскорје замјси три саты пшеничной муки, и сдјлай прјсные хлјбы.

7 Побјжалъ также Авраамъ къ стаду, и взялъ тельца молодаго и тучнаго, и далъ отроку, который и поспјшилъ приготовить его.

8 И взялъ творогу и молока, и телъца приготовленнаго, и поставилъ предъ ними; а самъ стоялъ предъ ними подъ деревомъ: и они јли.

9 И спросили у него: гдј Сарра жена твоя? Онъ отвјчалъ : здјсь, въ шатрј.

10 И сказалъ одинъ изъ нихъ: Я опять буду у тебя въ это же время, и будетъ сынъ у Сарры, жены твоей. Сарра слышала сіе сквозь двери шатра, которыя были за нимъ.

11 Авраамъ же и Сарра были стары, и въ лјтахъ преклонныхъ; и обыкновенное у женщинъ у Сарры прекратилось.

12 Сарра внутренно разсмјялась, сказавъ: мнј ли, когда я состарјлась, имјть сіе утјшеніе? и господинъ мой старъ.

13 Но Іегова сказалъ Аврааму: для чего это разсмјялась Сарра, сказавъ: неужели я подлинно рожу, когда я состарјласъ?

14 Есть ли что трудное для Іеговы? Въ назначенный срокъ буду Я у тебя въ это же вреия; и будетъ у Сарры сынъ.

15 Сарра же не призналась, а сказала: я не смјялась. Ибо она пришла въ страхъ. Но Онъ сказалъ: нјтъ, ты разсмјялась.

16 Потомъ мужи оные встали, и обратились оттуда къ Содому; Авраамъ же шелъ съ ними, провожая ихъ.

17 Тогда Іегова сказалъ: утаю ли Я отъ Авраама, что Я хочу дјлать?

18 А Авраамъ непремјнно будетъ народомъ великимъ и сильнымъ, и благословятся въ немъ всј народы земные.

19 Ибо Я сталъ знать его ради того, что онъ заповјдаетъ сынамъ своимъ, и дому своему послј себя, ходить путемъ Іеговы, и быть добрыми, и справедливыми, да исполнитъ Іегова надъ Авраамомъ, что сказалъ о немъ.

20 И сказалъ Іегова: великъ вопль Содомскій и Гоморскій, и грјхи ихъ очень тяжки.

21 Сойду и посмотрю, совершеино ли то дјлается у нихъ, о чемъ восходитъ ко Мнј вопль, или нјтъ; узнаю.

22 Между тјмъ, два мужа обратились и пошли оттуда въ Содомъ; Авраамъ же еще стоялъ предъ лицемъ Іеговы.

23 И подошелъ Авраамъ, и сказалъ: не ужели Ты погубишь праведнаго съ нечестивымъ?

24 Можетъ быть, найдется въ этомъ городј пятьдесятъ праведниковъ? Неужели погубишь и не пощадишь мјста сего для пятидесяти праведниковъ, находящихся въ немъ?

25 Не можетъ быть, чтобы Ты сдјлалъ такое дјло, чтобы Ты погубилъ праведнаго съ нечестивымъ, чтобы тоже было съ праведникомъ, что съ нечестивымъ; не можетъ быть отъ Тебя! Судія всей земли поступитъ ли неправосудно?

26 Іегова сказалъ: если Я найду въ городј Содомј пятьдесятъ праведниковъ; то Я для нихъ пощажу все мјсто сіе.

27 Авраамъ сказалъ въ отвјтъ: осмјлюсь я теперь сказать Господу, я, прахъ и пепелъ:

28 можетъ быть до пятидесяти праведниковъ не достанетъ пяти, не ужели за недостаткомъ пяти Ты истребишь весь городъ? Онъ сказалъ: не истреблю, ежели найду тамъ сорокъ пять.

29 Авраамъ, продолжая съ нимъ рјчь, сказалъ: можетъ быть найдется тамъ сорокъ. И сказалъ Онъ: не сдјлаю того и для сорока.

30 Послј сего Авраамъ сказалъ: да не прогнјвается Господь, если я еще скажу: можетъ быть, найдется тамъ тридцать. Онъ сказалъ: не сдјлаю того, если найдется тамъ и тридцать.

31 Авраамъ сказалъ: осмјлюсь я еще сказать Господу: можетъ быть, найдется тамъ двадцать. Онъ сказалъ: не истреблю и для двадцати.

32 Авраамъ сказалъ: да не прогнјвается Господь, если я еще скажу однажды: можетъ, быть найдется тамъ десять. Онъ сказалъ: не истреблю и для десяти.

33 И отошелъ Іегова, по окончаніи разговора съ Авраамомъ; Авраамъ же возвратился въ свое мјсто,

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 2231

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2231. 'That he will command his sons, and his house after him, and they will keep the way of Jehovah to do righteousness and judgement' means that from Him comes the entire doctrine of charity and of faith. This becomes clear from the meaning of 'son', 'house', 'way', 'righteousness', and 'judgement', which in short, or when their several meanings are converted into one, mean the entire doctrine of charity and of faith. For 'sons' means all who are governed by truths, 'house' all who are governed by goods, 'way' means the doctrine of faith which they are taught, 'righteousness' that doctrine in regard to good, 'judgement', in regard to truth. Doctrine regarding good is the doctrine of charity, while doctrine regarding truth is the doctrine of faith.

[2] In general there is only one doctrine, that is to say, the doctrine of charity, for, as stated in 2228, all things of faith have charity in view. No other difference exists between charity and faith than that which exists between willing what is good and thinking what is good - for one who wills what is good also thinks what is good - thus than that which exists between will and understanding. People who reflect on the matter know that the will is one thing and the understanding another. The same is also well recognized in the learned world, and it is plain to see in the case of those who will what is evil and yet from thought utter what is good. From such persons it is evident to anyone that the will is one thing and the understanding another, and thus that the human mind is divided into two parts which do not then make a single whole. Yet man was created in such a way that those two parts should constitute one single mind, and no other difference should exist between them than, to use a comparison, between that of a flame and the light shining from it. Love to the Lord and charity towards the neighbour were to be like the flame, and all perception and thought like the light shining from it. Thus love and charity were to constitute the whole of perception and thought, that is, to exist in every single part. Perception or thought regarding the essential nature of love and charity is that which is called faith.

[3] But because the human race started to will what was evil, to hate the neighbour, and to practice revenge and cruelty, with the result that the part of the mind called the will was completely corrupted, men started to make a distinction between charity and faith, and to attribute to faith all those matters of doctrine which belonged to their religion and to refer to them by the single term faith. At length they went so far as to say that people could be saved by faith alone, by which they meant their doctrine. They said that provided they believed that doctrine people could be saved no matter how they lived. Charity was accordingly separated from faith, and when that happens it is nothing else, to use a comparison, than some kind of light that has no flame, like sunlight in winter-time which is so cold and icy that the earth's vegetation languishes and dies. But faith that is derived from charity is like the light of spring-time and summer-time which causes all things to sprout and come into flower.

[4] The same may also be recognized from the fact that love and charity are celestial flame, while faith is the spiritual light that shines from it. This is also how faith and charity make a perceptible and visual presentation of themselves in the next life, for in that life the Lord's celestial manifests itself before the angels by means of a flaming radiance like that of the sun, while the Lord's spiritual manifests itself by means of the light shining from this; and that radiance and light act upon the angels and spirits interiorly according to the life of love and charity existing with them. This is the source of the joy and happiness in the next life with all their variations. These considerations show the implications of the assertion that faith alone saves.

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