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Бытие 45

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1 Іосифъ не могъ болје удерживаться при всјхъ, стоявшихъ около него, и сказалъ: удалите отъ меня всјхъ. И не предстоялъ ему никто, когда Іосифъ открывалъ себя братьямъ своимъ.

2 громко заплакалъ, и услышали Египтяне, и услышалъ домъ Фараоновъ.

3 И сказалъ Іосифъ братьямъ своимъ: я Іосифъ. Живъ ли еще отецъ мой? Но братья его не могли отвјчать ему, потому что они смутились предъ нимъ.

4 И сказалъ Іосифъ братьямъ своимъ: подойдите ко мнј. Они подошли. Онъ сказалъ: я Іосифъ, братъ вашъ, котораго вы продали въ Египетъ.

5 Но не печальтесь, и не сјтуйте о томъ, что вы продали мепя сюда; потому что Богъ послалъ меня передъ вами, для сохраненія вашей жизни.

6 Ибо теперь два года, какъ продолжается голодъ на землј: остается еще пять лјтъ, въ которые ни орать ни жать не будутъ.

7 Богъ послалъ меня передъ вами, чтобъ оставить васъ на землј, и сохранить вашу жизнь чудеснымъ спасеніемъ.

8 Итакъ не вы послали меня сюда, но Богъ, Который и поставилъ меня отцемъ Фараону, господиномъ во всемъ домј его, и владыкою во всей землј Египетской.

9 Поспјшайте, подите къ отцу моему, и скажите ему: такъ говоритъ сынъ твой Іосифъ: Богъ поставилъ меня господиномъ надъ всјмъ Египтомъ; приди ко мнј, не медли.

10 Ты будешь жить въ землј Гесемъ; и будешь не далеко отъ меня, ты, и сыны твои, и сыны сыновъ твоихъ, и мелкій и крупный скотъ твой, и все твое.

11 И прокормлю тебя тамъ, ибо голодъ будетъ еще пять лјтъ, чтобы не истощился ты, и домъ твой и все твое.

12 И вотъ, очи ваши и очи брата моего Веніамина видятъ, что это я говорю съ вами.

13 Скажите же отцу моему о всей славј моей въ Египтј, и о всемъ, что вы видјли; и поспјшите привести отца моего сюда.

14 И палъ онъ на шею Веніамину, брату своему, и плакалъ; также Веніаминъ плакалъ, обнимая его.

15 И цјловалъ всјхъ братьевъ своихъ, и плакалъ обнимая ихъ. Потомъ говорили съ нимъ братья его.

16 Дошелъ въ домъ Фараоновъ слухъ, что пришли братъя Іосифа; и пріятно было Фараону и рабамъ его.

17 И сказалъ Фараонъ Іосифу: скажи братьямъ твоимъ: вотъ что сдјлайте: навьючьте скотъ вашъ, и подите въ зеилю Ханаанскую;

18 и возмите отца вашего и семейства ваши и придите ко мнј; я дамъ вамъ лучшую землю въ Египтј, и вы будете јсть тукъ земли.

19 Тебј же повелјвается сказать имъ: сдјлайте сіе; возьмите себј изъ земли Египетской колесницъ для дјтей вашихъ, и для женъ вашихъ, и отца вашего привезите, и придите.

20 И не жалјйте вашихъ вещей. Ибо лучшее мјсто изъ всей земли Египетской дано будетъ вамъ.

21 Такъ и сдјлали сыны Израилевы. Іосифъ далъ имъ колесницы, какъ сказалъ Фараонъ, и далъ имъ путевый запасъ.

22 Онъ далъ каждому изъ нихъ перемјну одеждъ; а Веніамину далъ триста сиклей серебра, и пять перемјнъ одеждъ.

23 Также и отцу своему послалъ десять ословъ, навьюченныхъ лучшими произведеніями Египетскими, и десять ослицъ, навьюченныхъ пшеницею, хлјбомъ и пищею отцу своему на путь.

24 И отпустилъ братьевъ своихъ, и они пошли. И сказалъ имъ: не безпокойтесь на дорогј.

25 И пошли они изъ Египта, и пришли въ землю Ханаанскую къ Іакову, отцу своему.

26 И сказали ему, говоря: Іосифъ живъ, и теперь владычествуетъ надъ всею землею Египетскою. Но сердце его было холодно; ибо онъ не вјрилъ имъ.

27 Но когда они пересказали ему всј слова Іосифа, которыя онъ говорилъ имъ, и когда увидјлъ колесницы, которыя прислалъ Іосифъ, чтобы везти его; тогда ожилъ духъ Іакова, отца ихъ.

28 И сказалъ Израиль: довольно! еще живъ сынъ мой Іосифъ; пойду, и увижу его, пока я не умеръ.

   

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Ten

  

In most places in the Word, "ten" represents "all," or in some cases "many" or "much." The Ten Commandments represent all the guidance we get from the Lord in life; the ten horns on the beast of Revelation represent all power of falsity; the ten virgins with lamps in Matthew 25 represent all people of the church.

Yet in other places, ten, or especially a "tenth," signifies representing remnants, or tiny scraps of goodness preserved for the future. These can be the remnants of a church -- a few good people that can be built up into a new church. Or they can be tiny subconscious memories of love and joy which the Lord stores in each of us in early childhood, feelings He can use later to draw us toward a life of goodness and affection.

These two meanings seem nearly opposite, but they're actually not. Love is whole and indivisible, so that the tiniest feeling buried inside someone contains all the elements of the love it can become. In a similar way, a remnant of a church that has preserved that church's knowledge has everything it needs to grow into a new church. In a sense, then, those remnants are indeed "all," they're just a version of "all" that is still in a state of potential.

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Arcana Coelestia # 1988

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1988. 'Abram was a son of ninety-nine years' means the period of time before the Lord fully joined the Internal Man to the Rational Man. This is clear from the meaning of 'nine' when thought of as one less than ten, or what amounts to the same, of 'ninety-nine' when thought of as one less than a hundred; for when Isaac was born to him Abram was a hundred years old. The nature of the internal sense of the Word is made especially clear by the numbers that are used, as it is by the names. Any numbers whatever, as also any names, that are mentioned in the Word mean real things; for nothing ever exists in the Word that does not have that which is Divine within it, that is, which does not have an internal sense within it. How remote this sense is from the sense of the letter is especially evident from the names and numbers, for in heaven they pay no attention whatever to names and numbers but to things meant by the names or numbers. For example, whenever the number seven occurs, holiness instantly suggests itself to angels instead of the number seven, for 'seven' means holiness from the fact that the celestial man is the seventh day or the sabbath, and so the Lord's rest, 84-87, 395, 433, 716, 881. The same applies to all other numbers, for example, to the number twelve. Whenever twelve occurs the idea of everything belonging to faith suggests itself to angels, for the reason that the twelve tribes of Israel meant everything belonging to faith, 577. That numbers mean real things in the Word has been shown in Volume One; see 482, 487, 488, 493, 575, 647, 648, 755, 813, 893.

[2] It is similar with the number 'ninety-nine'. That this number means the period of time before the Lord fully joined the Internal Man to the Rational Man is clear from the meaning of 'a hundred years', Abram's age when Isaac was born to him, for Isaac represents and means the Lord's Rational Man which was joined to His Internal, that is, to the Divine. In the Word 'a hundred' has the same meaning as ten, for that number is the product of ten multiplied by ten, and 'ten' means remnants, as shown in Volume One, in 576. For what remnants residing with man are, see 468, 530, 561, 660, 1050, and for what remnants residing with the Lord were, 1906. These arcana cannot be explained any further, but anyone can find out for himself once he has acquainted himself with what remnants are - for nowadays what they are is not known - provided it is realized that by remnants residing with the Lord are meant the Divine Goods which He acquired to Himself by His own power, and by which He united the Human Essence to the Divine Essence.

[3] These considerations show what is meant by 'ninety-nine'. Being one less than a hundred, that number means the period of time before the Lord fully joined the Internal Man to the Rational Man. 'Ishmael' represented the first rational with the Lord, the nature of which has been shown adequately enough above in the previous chapter. But 'Isaac' represents the Lord's Divine Rational, as will be clear later on. Anyone may see that an arcanum is embodied within the following circumstance: Abram having remained such a long time in the land of Canaan - twenty-four years now, ten before Ishmael's birth, and thirteen after - and not as yet having had a son by Sarai his wife, he then first received the promise of a son, when he had now reached ninety-nine and would be a hundred when this son was born. The arcanum is that by means of these experiences he might represent the union of the Lord's Divine Essence with His Human Essence, and in fact of His Internal Man, which was Jehovah, with His Rational.

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