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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 # 4005

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4005. 'And he removed on that day the variegated and spotted he-goats' means that the truths of good that were interspersed among and mingled with the evils and falsities belonging to the good meant by 'Laban' were singled out. This is clear from the meaning of 'removing' as singling out; from the meaning of 'he-goats' as the truths of good, dealt with below; from the meaning of 'variegated' as those which were interspersed among and mingled with evils, also dealt with below; and from the meaning of 'spotted' as those which were interspersed among and mingled with falsities, dealt with above. 'He-goats' are mentioned here and then 'she-goats' after them because 'he-goats' means the truths of good and 'she-goats' the goods of truth. For the nature of the difference between the two, see above in 3995.

[2] In the Word a careful distinction is made between the males and the females, as is evident from the sacrifices and the burnt offerings in which it was explicitly laid down whether a male lamb was to be offered or a ewe-lamb, a she-goat or a he-goat, a sheep or a ram, and so on. From these it becomes clear that one thing was meant by a male, another by a female. In general a male means truth and a female good. Here therefore 'he-goats' is used to mean the truths of good, and 'she-goats', mentioned immediately after, to mean the forms of good which are coupled with those truths. And this difference between males and females also explains why it is said that he removed the variegated he-goats but not, as in the reference to the she-goats, the speckled ones; for 'variegated' means truth interspersed among and mingled with evils, whereas 'speckled' means good interspersed among and mingled with them, dealt with above in 3993. Truth mingled with evils belongs specifically to the understanding, but good mingled with evils specifically to the will. This is how the two differ from each other. And they come from the good meant by 'Laban', as is evident from the fact that the he-goats and the she-goats were taken from Laban's flock. For 'a flock' in the Word means good and truth, or what amounts to the same, those in whom good and truth are present, and so those who belong to the Lord's Church.

[3] This arcanum is unable to be explained any further because it cannot become clear except to a mind that has been taught about truths and goods, and at the same time has been enlightened. Indeed one has to know what the truths of good are and what the kinds of good originating in these are, as well as the fact that from the one kind of good represented here by Laban so many varying forms of it can be singled out. Nor do people who are unaware of these matters know that each kind of good includes countless forms of it, so many indeed that these can hardly be arranged into general divisions by even the most knowledgeable mind. For there are forms of good which are acquired by means of truths, truths which are born from those forms of good, and forms of good acquired in turn by means of these truths. There are truths born from forms of good, which also exist in a connected series. Then there are forms of good mingled with evils, and truths with falsities, dealt with above in 3993, the minglings and mutual modifications of which are so varying and manifold that they exceed many millions. These are also made various by all the states of life through which people pass, and these states of life in general by the time of life which those people have reached, in particular by whatever affections reign in them. From all this one can comprehend to some extent that so many varying things were able to be singled out from 'Laban' good, some of which were joined to the truths meant by the sons of Jacob, and some left behind from which others were derived. But as has been stated, these matters are of such a nature that they cannot be understood unless the mind has been taught about goods and truths and has at the same time been enlightened.

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