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1 Авраамъ пошелъ оттуда въ землю полуденную; и сталъ жить между Кадесомъ и между Суромъ; и пришелъ на время въ Гераръ.

2 И сказалъ Авраамъ о Саррј, женј своей: она сестра моя. И послалъ Авимелехъ, царь Герарскій, и взялъ Сарру.

3 И пришелъ Богъ къ Авимелеху ночью во снј, и сказалъ ему: вотъ, ты умрешь за сію женщину, которую ты взялъ; ибо она имјетъ мужа.

4 Впрочемъ Авимелехъ не прикасался къ ней, и сказалъ: Господи! не ужели Ты погубишь и неповинный народъ?

5 Не самъ ли онь сказалъ мнј: она сестра моя? и она сама сказала: онъ братъ мой. Я сдјлалъ это въ простотј сердца и чистыми руками.

6 И сказалъ ему Богъ во снј: и Я знаю, что ты сдјлалъ сіе въ простотј сердца, Я же и удержалъ тебя отъ грјха предо Мною, потому и не допустилъ тебя прикоснуться къ ней.

7 Итакъ, возврати жену мужу: ибо онъ пророкъ, и помолится о тебј, и ты будешь живъ; а если не возвратишь, то знай, что непремјнно умрешь ты, и всј твои.

8 Авимелехъ всталъ рано, и призвалъ всјхъ рабовъ своихъ, и пересказалъ всј слова сіи въ уши ихъ; и сіи люди весьма испугались.

9 И призвалъ Авимелехъ Авраама, и сказалъ ему: что ты съ нами сдјлалъ? чјмъ согрјшилъ я противъ тебя, что ты навелъ было на меня и на царство мое столь великій грјхъ? ты сдјлалъ со мною дјла. какихъ не дјлають.

10 И сказалъ Авимелехъ Аврааму: что ты имјлъ въ виду, когда дјлалъ такое дјло?

11 Авраамъ сказалъ: я подумалъ: можетъ быть, нјтъ страха Божія на мјстј семъ, и убьютъ меня за жену мою.

12 Да она и подлинно сестра мнј; она дочь отца моего, только не дочь матери моей; и сдјлалась моею женою.

13 Итакъ, когда Богъ повелъ меня изъ дома отца моего странствовать, то я сказалъ ей: сдјлай со мною сію милость, въ какое ни придемъ мы мјсто, вездј говори обо мнј: это братъ мой.

14 Тогда Авимелехъ взялъ мјлкаго и крупнаго скота, и рабовъ, и рабынь, и далъ Аврааму; и возвратилъ ему Сарру, жену его.

15 И сказалъ Авимелехъ: вотъ, земля моя предъ тобою; живи, гдј понравится глазамъ твоимъ.

16 А Саррј сказалъ: вотъ, я далъ брату твоему тысячу сиклей серебра; вотъ, это тебј покрывало для очей, предъ всјми находящимися съ тобою, и предъ всјми прочими, чтобы знали тебя.

17 И помолился Авраамъ Богу, и изцјлилъ Богъ Авимелеха, и жену его, и рабынь его, и онј стали рождать.

18 Ибо совсјмъ заключилъ было Іегова всякое чрево въ домј Авимелеха, за Сарру, жену Авраамову.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 2553

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2553. 'Because I said, Surely there is no fear of God in this place' means the thought derived from this that men would have no respect for spiritual truth in that state in which they were then. This is clear from the meaning of 'the fear of God' as respect for Divine, or spiritual, truth, and from the meaning of 'a place' as a state, dealt with in 1273-1275, 1377. Involved here is the fact that man is unable to grasp any doctrine which is purely spiritual and celestial, that which is Divine, because it goes infinitely above and beyond his grasp of things, and so also above the range of his belief. All thoughts which man has are confined within natural things experienced by his senses, and anything that is said which does not draw on and does not fit in with those natural things is not comprehended but perishes, like sight gazing into some ocean or universe without any object there on which it may focus. Consequently if matters of doctrine were presented to man in any other manner, they would not be received at all, and so he would have no respect for them. This may become quite clear from each detail in the Word. There purely Divine things are for the same reason presented as natural, indeed sensory ones, such as that Jehovah has ears, eyes, and a face, has affections as man does, anger, and many more things.

[2] This was still more the case with men when the Lord came into the world. At that time they did not even have any knowledge of what the celestial or the spiritual was, nor even of anything internal. Wholly earthly and worldly, and thus external things possessed every thought in their minds, even the minds of the apostles themselves who supposed that the Lord's kingdom would be like a worldly kingdom. For that reason these asked to sit one on His right hand and the other on the left and for a long while imagined they were going to sit on twelve thrones and to judge the twelve tribes of Israel, still unaware of the fact that in the next life they would not have the power to judge even the least detail of any one individual's affairs, 2129 (end). His looking into this state of the human race was the reason why the Lord at first thought about whether the rational ought to be consulted in the doctrine of faith. In this He was moved by a love which was that the salvation of all might be taken care of and that the Word should not perish.

  
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