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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 # 4692

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4692. 'And they hated him all the more for his dreams and for his words' means still greater contempt and aversion on account of that declaration of truth, namely concerning the Lord's Divine Human. This is clear from the meaning of 'adding' as making still greater; from the meaning of 'hating' as holding in contempt and turning away in aversion, dealt with above in 4681; from the meaning of 'a dream' as a declaration, also dealt with above, in 4682, 4685; and from the meaning of 'words' as truths. The reason 'words' means truths is that every word in heaven is received from the Lord, and therefore 'words' in the internal sense means truths, while 'the Word' in general means all Divine Truth.

[2] The subject in particular is that the Church which has separated faith from charity holds in utter contempt and turns away in utter aversion from the highest truth of all - the truth that the Lord's Human is Divine. All who belonged to the Ancient Church and did not separate charity from faith believed that the God of the whole world was a Divine Man, and that He was the Divine Being (Esse), which also was why they called Him Jehovah. They knew of Him as such from the most ancient people, and also because He had appeared to many of their brethren as Man. They also knew that all the ritual and external practices of their Church represented Him. But those who adhered to faith separated from charity were unable to share that belief of those who did not separate faith from charity because they could not grasp how the Human could ever be Divine, or that Divine love could make it such. For anything they did not grasp with some idea acquired through their bodily senses they considered to be worthless. This is what faith separated from charity is like; for with those people the internal degree of perception is closed because nothing intermediate exists to enable one to flow into the other.

[3] The Jewish Church which came next did in fact believe that Jehovah was Man as well as God, because He had appeared to Moses and the Prophets as a human being, on account of which they called every angel who appeared Jehovah. Yet their idea of Him was no different from ideas the gentiles had of their gods, though they preferred Jehovah God because He could work miracles, 4299. They were unaware of the fact that this Jehovah was the Lord in the Word, 2921, 3035, and that His Divine Human was represented in all their religious observances. They had no other idea of the Messiah or Christ than one who would be a very great prophet, greater than Moses, and a very great king, greater than David, who would lead them into the land of Canaan to the accompaniment of amazing miracles. Of His heavenly kingdom they did not wish to hear anything at all, for the reason that they grasped none but worldly ideas since they were people separated from charity.

[4] The Christian Church, it is true, does in its religious services adore the Lord's Human as one that is Divine. It does so in particular in the Holy Supper, because He has said that the bread there is His body, and the wine His blood. But they do not in their doctrine make His Human Divine, for they make a distinction between His Divine nature and His human nature. Also, they make this distinction because the Church has turned aside from charity to faith, and at length to faith separated from charity. And failing to acknowledge that the Lord's Human is Divine, many go wrong and in their heart deny Him, 4689. Yet the truth of the matter is that the Lord's Divine Human is the Divine Manifestation of the Divine Being, dealt with above in 4687, and that He Himself is the Divine Being; for Divine Being and Divine Manifestation make one, as the Lord also plainly teaches in John,

Jesus said to Philip, Have I been so long a time with you and you do not know Me? He who has seen Me has seen the Father. Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father is in Me? Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father in Me. John 14:9-11.

The same teaching occurs elsewhere. The Divine Manifestation is the Divine itself proceeding from the Divine Being and in image is Man, since heaven, of which He is its all, represents the Grand Man, as stated above in 4687 and shown at the ends of chapters where the correspondence with heaven of everything in the human being is dealt with. The Lord, it is true, was born as any human being is born, and received an infirm human from His mother; but the Lord cast out this human completely, to the point of His being no longer Mary's son, and made the Human within Himself Divine, which is what is meant by His being glorified. He also showed Peter, James, and John that He was a Divine Man, when He was transfigured.

  
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