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Бытие 50

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1 Іосифъ палъ на лице отца своего, и плакалъ надъ нимъ, и цјловалъ его.

2 И повелјлъ Іосифъ рабамъ своимъ врачамъ бальзамировать отца его; и врачи набальзамировали Израиля.

3 И исполнилось ему сорокъ дней; ибо столько дней употребляется на балъзамированіе. Египтяне оплакивали его семьдесятъ дней.

4 Когда же прошли дни плача по немъ: тогда Іосифъ обратился къ придворнымъ Фараона, и сказалъ: если я обрјлъ благоволеніе въ очахъ вашихъ, то доведите до слуха Фараонова сіи слова:

5 отецъ мой обязалъ меня клятвою, сказавъ: вотъ, я умираю; похорони меня во гробј моемъ, который я выкопалъ себј въ землј Ханаанской. Итакъ пойду я, похороню отца моего, и возвращусь.

6 Фараонъ отвјчалъ: поди, похорони отца твоего, какъ онъ заклиналъ тебя.

7 И пошелъ Іосифъ хоронить отца своего. Съ нимъ пошлп всј рабы Фараона, знатнјйшіе въ домј его, и всј знатнјйшіе въ землј Египетской,

8 и весь домъ Іосифовъ, и братья его, и домъ отца его. Только дјтей своихъ, и мелкій и крупный скотъ свой оставили въ землј Гесемъ.

9 Съ нимъ отправились также колесницы и всадники, такъ, что составился сонмъ весьма великій.

10 Дошедши до гумна Атадова за Іорданомъ, они сдјлали тутъ великій и весьма сильный плачъ; и оплакивалъ Іосифъ отца своего семь дней.

11 Хананеи, жители земли той, видя плачь на гумнј Атадовомъ, говорили: какой великій плачъ у Египтянъ! отъ сего дано имя мјсту тому за Іорданомъ: Плачъ Египтянъ.

12 И исполнили сыновъя Іакова надъ нимъ то, что онъ приказывалъ имъ,

13 Сыновья его отнесли его въ землю Ханаанскую, и похоронили его въ пещерј на полј Махпела, которую Авраамъ вмјстј съ полемъ купилъ въ собственность ддя погребанія у Ефрона Хеттеянина, противъ Мамре.

14 Іосифъ, похоронивъ отца своего, возвратился въ Египетъ самъ, и братья его, и всј ходившіе съ ними хоронить отца его.

15 Братья Іосифовы, видя, что отецъ ихъ умеръ, сказали: что, если Іосифъ возненавидитъ насъ, и захочетъ отомстить намъ за все зло, которое мы ему сдјлади?

16 Итакъ они послали сказать Іосифу: отецъ твой предъ смертію своею завјщалъ, говоря:

17 такъ скажите Іосифу: прости братьямъ твоимъ вину и грјхъ ихъ; ибо они сдјлали тебј зло. Итакъ прости же рабамъ Бога отца твоего вину ихъ. Іосифъ плакалъ, когда ему говорили сіе.

18 Пришли и сами братья его, и пали предъ лицемъ его, и сказали: вотъ, мы рабы тебј.

19 Іосифъ отвјчалъ; не бойтесь; ибо я боюсь Бога.

20 Вы умышляли противъ меня зло; но Богъ обратилъ въ добро, чтобы сдјлать то, что теперь есть, и сохранить жизнь великому числу людей.

21 Итакъ, не бойтесь, Я буду питать васъ и дјтей вашихъ. И успокоилъ ихъ, и говорилъ по сердцу ихъ.

22 И жилъ Іосифъ въ Египтј самъ и домъ отца его; и жилъ сто десять лјтъ.

23 И видјлъ Іосифъ дјтей у Ефрема до третьяго рода, также и сыновья Махира, сына Манассіина, родились на колјнахъ у Іосифа.

24 И сказалъ Іосифъ братьямъ своимъ: я умираю, но Богъ вјрно посјтитъ васъ и выведетъ васъ въ землю, которую Онъ съ клятвою објщалъ Аврааму, Исааку и Іакову.

25 И заклиналъ Іосифъ сыновъ Израилевыхъ, говоря: вјрно, Богъ посјтитъ васъ; тогда вынесите отсюда кости мои.

26 И умеръ Іосифъ ста десяти лјтъ. И набальзамировали его, и положили въ ковчегј въ Египтј.

   

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Abraham

  
Représentation d'Abraham, by Joseph Villiet

Abraham (or Abram, as he was named in the beginning of his story) was the ancestor of all the Children of Israel, through his son Isaac, and of the Arabs, through his son Ishmael.

Abraham represents the Divine good or love. His story foreshadows the life of Jesus, and our spiritual lives, too.

His life can be usefully seen as being divided into three periods. The first period includes the unknown early years from his birth in Ur, and his later move to Haran with his father Terah. The second section starts with Abram's being called by Jehovah to go to Canaan. It includes the adventures he had there, and continues until the events of the 17th chapter of Genesis where he is said to be 99 years old, rich, and powerful - but without a son by his wife Sarai. Once again the Lord appears to him, promises that his progeny will become a great nation, institutes the rite of circumcision, and changes his name to Abraham, adding the "ah" sound from Jehovah. The third and last period of his life sees the birth of Isaac, the death of Sarah (whose name was also changed), and the finding of a wife for Isaac from among Abraham's relatives back in Mesopotamia. Abraham is said to be 175 years old when he dies, as recorded in the 25th chapter of Genesis.

What we are here interested in is the deep representation of Abraham because he prophesies or foreshadows the inmost part of Jesus' life after He is born to Mary centuries after the man Abraham lived on the earth. Abraham represents the Divine good or love. The internal sense of the Word tells us that God himself provided the life into an ovum within Mary, so she could provide a natural body and a natural heredity from the Jewish religion, while the soul of Jesus was kept as a direct possessor of divine life. During Jesus' early life, probably up to adolescence, Jesus lived out those representative actions of Abraham in the innermost parts of his mind and spirit. Abraham as he pastured his sheep and ran his large household had no idea at all that this was true, and early in Jesus' life He didn't realize it either. There must have been perceptions as Jesus grew up, witness his visit to the temple when He was 12, but not a complete understanding until He was fully grown. And further, it isn't only Abraham. When Abraham dies, the representation attaches to Isaac, who represents the rational level of the mind, and then to both Jacob and Esau who represent the natural mind as to truth and good in the mind respectively. And then the trials of the twelve tribes, the kings, and all the sayings of the prophets become that same representation. So Jesus could say to the two disciples that He met on the road to Emmaus, "O fools and slow of heart... and beginning at Moses and all the Prophets He expounded to them in all the scriptures all the things concerning Himself." (The following references are chronologic as Abraham gets older, and are in biblical sequence.) And furthermore, the progress of mental and spiritual life in each one of us is a dim and finite image of that represented by Abraham's life if, that is, we are trying to follow the Lord's laws and precepts to love one another. We too have within us a journey to the land of Canaan, a hardworking sojourn in Egypt, a struggle in the wilderness, and a Saul, a David, and an Ahab. We have our home-grown Amalekites and Philistines. The whole of the Old Testament is a picture of how our spiritual life works.

In Genesis 20:7, Abraham signifies celestial truth, or doctrine from a celestial origin. (Arcana Coelestia 2533)

In Genesis 12:4, As ABRAHAM he represents the Lord as to His Human and Divine Essence; as ABRAM he represents the Lord as to His human essence only. (Arcana Coelestia 1426)

In Genesis 17:5, The name was changed by adding the letter H, so that the Divine Human could he represented, for H is the only letter which involves the Divine: it means I AM, or BEING. (Arcana Coelestia 1416[2])

(Odkazy: Genesis 17, 25)