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Бытие 37

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1 А Іаковъ жилъ въ землј странствованія отца своего, въ землј Ханаанской.

2 Вотъ приключенія рода Іаковлева. Іосифъ, будучи семнадцати лјтъ, пасъ вмјстј съ братьями своими скотъ. Сей отрокъ находился при сыновьяхъ Валлы и при сыновьяхъ Зелфы, женъ отца своего. И доводилъ Іосифъ худые о нихъ слухи до отца ихъ.

3 Израиль любилъ Іосифа болје всјхъ сыновей своихъ, потому что онъ у него былъ сынъ старости, и сдјлалъ ему разноцвјтную одежду.

4 Когда братья его увидјли, что отецъ его любитъ его болје всјхъ братъевъ его: то они возненавидјли его, и не могли говорить съ нимъ мирно.

5 Однажды видјлъ Іосифъ сонъ, и разсказалъ братъямъ своимъ: и они возненавидјли его еще болје.

6 Онъ сказалъ имъ: послушайте, какой видјлъ я сонъ.

7 Мы вязали снопы посреди поля; и вотъ мой снопъ всталъ, и сталъ прямо; и вотъ ваши снопы окружили его, и поклонились моему снопу.

8 На сіе братья его сказали ему: не ужели ты будешь царствовать надъ нами? не ужели будешь владјть нами? и возненавидјли его еще болје за сны его, и за слова его.

9 Онъ еще видјлъ другой сонъ, и разсказалъ его братьямъ своимъ, говоря: вотъ я видјлъ еще сонъ; вотъ солнце и луна, и одиннадцать звјздъ поклонились мнј.

10 Когда онъ разсказалъ сіе отцу своему и братьямъ своимъ: тогда и отецъ его побранилъ его, в сказалъ ему: что это за сонъ, который ты видјлъ? не ужели я, и твоя мать, и твои братья, придемъ поклониться тебј до земли?

11 Братья его досадовали на него; а отецъ замјтилъ слово сіе.

12 Братья его пошли въ Сихемъ, пасти скотъ отца своего,

13 Израиль сказалъ Іосифу: братья твои пасутъ въ Сихемј: поди, я пошлю тебя къ нимъ. Онъ отвјчалъ ему: вотъ я.

14 Израиль сказалъ ему: поди же, посмотри, благополучны ли братья твои, и благополученъ ли скотъ, и принеси мнј отвјтъ. И послалъ его изъ долины Хевронской, и онъ пришелъ въ Сихемъ.

15 Тутъ нашелъ его нјкто, блуждающаго по полю, и спросилъ его тотъ человјкъ, говоря: чего ты ищешь?

16 Онъ сказалъ: я ищу братьевъ моихъ; скажи мнј, гдј они пасутъ?

17 И сказалъ тотъ человјкъ: они ушли отсюда; ибо я слышалъ, какъ они говорили: пойдемъ въ Доѕанъ. И пошелъ Іосифъ за братьями своими, и нашелъ ихъ въ Доѕанј.

18 Они, увидя его издали, прежде нежели онъ подошелъ къ нимъ, стали умышлять противъ него, чтобы убить его.

19 И сказали другъ другу: вотъ идетъ этотъ сновидецъ.

20 Пойдемъ теперь, и убьемъ его, и бросимъ его въ какой нибудь колодезь, и скажемъ, что лютый звјрь съјлъ его; тогда посмотримъ, что будетъ изъ его сновъ.

21 Но Рувимъ услышавъ сіе, избавилъ его отъ рукъ ихъ, сказавъ: не станемъ убивать его.

22 И сказалъ имъ Рувимъ: не проливайте крови; бросьте его въ этотъ колодезь, который въ пустынј, а рукъ не налагайте на него. Сіе говорилъ онъ, чтобы избавить его отъ рукъ ихъ, и возвратить его къ отцу его.

23 Когда Іосифъ пришелъ къ братьямъ своимъ: тогда они сняли съ Іосифа одежду его, одежду разноцвјтную, которая была на немъ.

24 И, взявъ его, бросили въ колодезь; колодезь же тотъ былъ пустъ, и воды въ немъ не было.

25 Потомъ они сјли јсть хлјбъ, и взглянувъ, видятъ, что идетъ изъ Галаада караванъ Измаильтянъ, у которыхъ верблюды навьючены стираксою, бальзамомъ и ладаномъ, и которые везутъ это въ Египетъ.

26 Тогда Іуда сказалъ братьямъ своимъ: что намъ пользы убивать брата нашего, и скрывать кровь его?

27 Пойдемъ, продадимъ его Измаильтянамъ, а рукъ нашихъ не наложимъ на него; ибо это братъ нашъ, плоть наша. Братья его послушались.

28 И, когда проходили купцы Мадіамскіе, они вытащили Іосифа изъ колодезя, и продали Іосифа Измаильтянамъ за двадцать сиклей серебра; а они отвезли Іосифа въ Египетъ.

29 Рувимъ же пришелъ опять къ колодезю; и вотъ, нјтъ Іосифа въ колодезј. Тогда онъ разодралъ одежды свои,

30 и возвратился къ братьямъ своимъ, и сказалъ: отрока нјтъ, а я, куда я пойду?

31 И взяли одежду Іосифа, и, заколовъ козла, вымарали одежду кровію;

32 и послали разноцвјтную одежду, и принесли къ отцу своему, и сказали: мы это нашли: узнавай, сына ли твоего эта одежда, или нјтъ?

33 Онъ узналъ ее, и сказалъ: эта одежда сына моего; лютый звјръ съјлъ его; вјрно растерзанъ Іосифъ!

34 И разодралъ Іаковъ на себј одежды, и возложилъ вретище на чресла свои; и оплакивалъ сына своего многіе дни.

35 Собрались было всј сыновья его, и всј дочери его, чтобы утјшить его; но онъ отвергъ утјшеніе, и сказалъ: съ печалью сойду къ сыну моему въ Шеолъ. Такъ оплакивалъ его отецъ его.

36 Между тјмъ Мадіанитяне продали его въ Египтј Потифару, евнуху Фараонову, начальнику тјлохранителей.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 1616

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1616. That 'Abram moved his tent, and came and dwelt in the oak groves of Mamre which are in Hebron' means that the Lord arrived at a perception more interior still is clear from the meaning of 'moving one's tent', that is, moving it and pitching it once again, as the process of being joined together; for 'a tent' is the holiness of worship, as shown already in 414, 1452, by which the external man is joined to the internal. It is also clear from the meaning of 'an oak-grove' as perception, dealt with already in 1442, 1443, where the phrase that occurred was 'the oak-grove of Moreh', meaning a first perception, whereas here the plural 'the oak-groves of Mamre' is used, which means a fuller, that is, more interior perception. This perception is called 'the oak-groves of Mamre which are in Hebron'. Mamre is also mentioned elsewhere in the Word, as in Genesis 14:13; 18:1; 23:17-19; 35:27; and Hebron too, in Genesis 35:27; 37:14; Joshua 10:36, 39; 14:13-15; 15:13, 54; 20:7; 21:11, 13; Judges 1:10, 20; and elsewhere. But what Mamre and Hebron mean where they are so mentioned will in the Lord's Divine mercy be seen when these other parts of the Word are explained.

[2] The implications of 'the oak-groves of Mamre which are in Hebron' meaning perception more interior still are as follows: To the extent that those things belonging to the external man are joined to celestial things belonging to the internal man perception grows and becomes more interior. Conjunction with celestial things confers perception, for within the celestial things that belong to love to Jehovah dwells the life itself of the internal man, or what amounts to the same, within celestial things which belong to love, that is, within celestial love, Jehovah is present. This presence is not perceived in the external man however until the conjunction has taken place. All perception is the result of conjunction.

[3] From the internal sense here it is clear what the situation was in the Lord's case: His External Man, or Human Essence, was joined step by step to the Divine Essence as cognitions multiplied and became fruitful. No one can ever, insofar as he is human, be joined to Jehovah, or the Lord, except by means of cognitions, for it is by means of cognitions that a person is made human. This applied to the Lord too since He was born as any other is born, and received instruction as any other does. Yet in the cognitions He had as receptacles celestial things were being instilled continually, with the result that His cognitions were constantly being made into the recipient vessels of celestial things; and these vessels also were themselves made celestial.

[4] Constantly the Lord advanced in this manner towards the celestial things of infancy, for, as stated already, the celestial things which belong to love are being instilled in a person from earliest infancy to childhood and on into adolescence as well. Since he is a human being, at that time and later on he is endowed with knowledge and cognitions. If a person is such that he can be regenerated, that knowledge and those cognitions are filled with celestial things that belong to love and charity, and are accordingly implanted within the celestial things he was endowed with from infancy through to childhood and adolescence, and in this way his external man is joined to his internal. First of all they are implanted in the celestial things he was endowed with in adolescence, then in those he was endowed with in childhood, and finally in those he was endowed with in infancy. At that point he is 'the little child' regarding whom the Lord said 'of such is the kingdom of God'. This implanting is done by the Lord alone, and therefore nothing celestial with man either does or can exist with man that does not come from, and belong to, the Lord.

[5] The Lord however from His own power joined His External Man to His Internal Man and filled His cognitions with celestial things, and He implanted them in celestial things, doing so according to Divine Order. First of all He implanted them in the celestial things of childhood, then in the celestial things of the age of childhood and back to infancy, and finally in the celestial things of His infancy. In this way He at the same time became as regards the Human Essence Innocence itself and Love itself, from which derive all innocence and all love in heaven and on earth. Such Innocence is true Infancy because it is simultaneously Wisdom. But the innocence of infancy is of no use at all unless by means of cognitions it becomes the innocence of wisdom, and this is why little children in the next life are endowed with cognitions. As the Lord implanted cognitions in celestial things, so He had perception, for, as stated, all perception is the result of conjunction. He had His first perception when He implanted the facts acquired in childhood, a perception meant by 'the oak-grove of Moreh'; and He had His second, which is the subject here, and which is more interior, when He implanted cognitions, a perception meant by 'the oak-groves of Mamre which are in Hebron'.

  
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