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1 И посјтилъ Іегова Сарру, какъ сказалъ; и сотворилъ Іегова Саррј, какъ говорилъ.

2 Сарра зачала, и родила Аврааму сына въ старости его, въ назначенное время, которое предсказалъ ему Богъ.

3 И нарекъ Авраамъ имя сыну своему, родившемуся у него, котораго родила ему Сарра: Исаакъ.

4 И обрјзалъ Авраамъ Исаака, сына своего, осми дней отъ рожденія, какъ заповјдалъ ему Богъ.

5 Аврааму же было сто лјтъ, когда родился у него Исаакъ. сынъ его.

6 Тогда Сарра сказала: смјхъ сотворилъ мнј Богъ; кто ни услышитъ обо мнј, разсмјется.

7 И сказала: Кто сказалъ бы Аврааму: Сарра будетъ кормить дјтей грудью? Ибо въ старости его я родила сына.

8 Дитя выросло, и отнято отъ груди; и Авраамъ сдјлалъ большой пиръ въ тотъ день, когда Исаакъ отнятъ отъ груди,

9 И увидјла Сарра, что сынъ Агари Египтянки, котораго она родила Аврааму, насмјхается,

10 и сказала Аврааму: выгони эту рабыню и сына ея; ибо не наслјдуетъ сынъ этой рабыни съ сыномъ моимъ Исаакомъ.

11 Сіе весьма прискорбно показалось Аврааму, по любви его къ сыну своему.

12 Но Богъ сказалъ Аврааму: не скорби объ отрокј и о рабынј своей; что ни скажеть тебј Сарра, слушайся словъ ея; ибо, въ Исаакј наречется тебј сјмя.

13 И отъ сына рабыни Я произведу народъ, потому что и онъ есть твое сјмя.

14 Авраамъ всталъ рано, и взялъ хлјба и мјхъ воды, и далъ Агари, положилъ ей на плеча, и отрока отдалъ и отпустилъ ее. Она пошла, и заблудилась въ пустынј Беэр-Шава.

15 И когда воды въ мјхј не стало, она бросила отрока подъ однимъ кустомъ,

16 и пошла, сјла противъ него, удалясь на одинъ выстрјлъ изъ лука, ибо она сказала: не хочу видјть смерти отрока. Итакъ она сјла противъ него, и подняла вопль, и плакала.

17 И услышалъ Богъ гласъ отрока; и Ангелъ Божій съ небесъ возвалъ Агарь, и сказалъ ей: что ты, Агарь? не бойся; Богъ услышалъ голосъ отрока, оттуда, гдј онъ теперь.

18 Встань, подними отрока, и возми его рукою твоею; ибо Я произведу отъ него великій народъ.

19 Тогда Богъ отверзъ очи ея, и она увидјла колодезь воды, и пошла, наполнила мјхъ водою, и напоила отрока.

20 И Богъ былъ съ отрокомъ; и онъ выросъ, и сталъ жить въ пустынј; и сдјлался стрјлкомъ изъ лука.

21 Онъ жилъ въ пустынј Фаранъ; и его мать взяла ему жену изъ земли Египетской.

22 Случилось въ то время, что Авимелехъ съ Фихоломъ, военачальникомъ своимъ, сказалъ Аврааму: съ тобою Богъ во всемъ, что ты ни дјлаешь.

23 Итакъ, поклянись мнј здјсь Богомъ, что ты не обидишь ни меня, ни сына моего, ни внука моего; что тоже благорасположеніе, которое я оказалъ тебј, ты будешъ оказывать мнј, и землј сей, въ которой ты гостишь.

24 И сказалъ Авраамъ: я клянусь.

25 При семъ Авраамъ жаловался Авимелеху о кладезј водъ, который отняли рабы Авимелеховы.

26 Авимелехъ же сказалъ: я не зналъ, кто это сдјлалъ, и ты не сказалъ мнј; я даже и не слыхалъ о томъ донынј.

27 Тогда Авраамъ взялъ мјлкаго и крупнаго скота, и далъ Авимелеху, и они оба заключили союзъ.

28 И поставилъ Авраамъ семь агницъ изъ стада мјлкаго скота особо.

29 Авимелехъ же сказалъ Аврааму: на что здјсь сіи семь агницъ, которыхъ ты поставилъ особо?

30 Онъ сказалъ: семь агницъ сихъ возми отъ руки моей, чтобъ онј были мнј свидјтельствомъ, что я выкопалъ этотъ колодезь.

31 Потому и назвалъ онъ сіе мјсто Беэр-Шава (кладязь клятвы); ибо тутъ оба они клялись.

32 И заключили союзъ въ Беэр-Шавј. И всталъ Авимелехъ и Фихолъ военачальникъ его, и возвратились въ землю Филистимскую.

33 И насадилъ Авраамъ при Беэр-Шавј рощу, и призвалъ тамъ имя Іеговы, Бога Вјчнаго.

34 И жилъ Авраамъ въ землј Филистимской, какъ странникъ, дни многіе.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 2625

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2625. 'At the appointed time' means when the Rational was such that it was receptive. This becomes clear from the meaning of 'time'. There are two things which appear to be indispensable while a person lives in the world because they exist as essential elements of the natural order - those two things being space and time. Living in the world or natural order therefore is living in space and time. But these two cease to have any existence in the next life. They do, it is true, appear to exist to some extent in the world of spirits, the reason for this being that spirits recently arrived from life in the body bring with them mental pictures of natural things. But subsequently they perceive that space and time do not exist in that life but states instead, and that states in the next life correspond to extensions of space and of time within the natural order - states in respect to Being corresponding to those of space, and in respect to Manifestation to those of time. Regarding space or place, see 1274, 1379, 1380, 1382.

[2] From this anyone may see what kind of mental pictures a person is able to have while in the world or natural order regarding things which belong to the next life and about many arcana of faith. He may see that such a person is unwilling to believe those things unless he can take them in by means of objects that exist in the world, indeed by sensory evidence. For he cannot do other than suppose that if he were to divest himself of his mental pictures that have been formed from space and time, more so to divest himself of space and time themselves, he would cease to be anything at all and so would have nothing left to him from which he could perceive with his senses or have thoughts of anything apart from that which was unintelligible to him. But in actual fact quite the reverse is the case: the life of angels is such that it is the wisest and happiest of all.

[3] This is the reason why people's ages mentioned in the Word do not in the internal sense mean ages but states, so that in this verse 'old age' does not mean old age. Nor does any number mean a number but some specific state, as in the case of 'a hundred years' mentioned further on. From this it now becomes clear that 'the appointed time' means the state when the rational was such that it was receptive.

[4] As regards the specific teaching presented here - that the Divine Rational received being and was given manifestation from the Lord's Divine spiritual united to His Divine celestial, when the days had been completed for him to cast off the human and when the Rational was such that it was receptive (meant in the internal sense by 'Sarah conceived and bore to Abraham a son in his old age, at the appointed time') - the following needs to be known:

The human has its beginnings in the inmost part of the rational, see 2106, 2194. The Lord advanced gradually towards the union of the Human Essence with the Divine Essence, and of the Divine Essence with the Human Essence, 1864, 2033, 2523.

He did so by His own power, 1921, 2025, 2026, 2083, through continuing temptations and repeated victories, 1690, 1737, 1813, and through receiving revelations repeatedly from His own Divine, 1616, 2500, till at length He cast out the whole human from the mother, 1414, 1444, 2574.

And in this way He made His Human - as to the Rational - Divine, as taught by the things that occur in this verse.

From all this it is evident how the explanation 'when the days had been completed for Him to cast off the human and when the Rational was such that it was receptive' is to be understood.

[5] Some idea of this matter may be had from what happens to people who are being regenerated. The celestial things of love, and the spiritual things of faith, are instilled into them by the Lord not all at once but gradually; and when by means of those things a person's rational has become such that it is able to be receptive, he is for the first time becoming regenerate, mostly by means of temptations in which he overcomes. While these experiences are taking place the days are being completed to cast off the old man and put on the new. Regarding man's regeneration, see 677, 679, 711, 848, 986, 1555, 2475.

  
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