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Бытие 16

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1 Но Сара, жена Аврамова, не рождала ему. У ней была служанка Египтянка, именем Агарь.

2 И сказала Сара Авраму: вот, Господь заключил чрево мое, чтобы мне не рождать; войди же к служанке моей: может быть, я буду иметь детей от нее. Аврам послушался слов Сары.

3 И взяла Сара, жена Аврамова, служанку свою, Египтянку Агарь, по истечении десяти лет пребывания Аврамова в земле Ханаанской, и дала ее Авраму, мужу своему, в жену.

4 Он вошел к Агари, и она зачала. Увидев же, что зачала, она стала презирать госпожу свою.

5 И сказала Сара Авраму: в обиде моей ты виновен; я отдала служанку моюв недро твое; а она, увидев, что зачала, стала презирать меня; Господь пусть будет судьею междумною и между тобою.

6 Аврам сказал Саре: вот, служанка твоя в твоих руках; делай с нею, чтотебе угодно. И Сара стала притеснять ее, и она убежала от нее.

7 И нашел ее Ангел Господень у источника воды в пустыне, у источника на дороге к Суру.

8 И сказал ей: Агарь, служанка Сарина! откуда ты пришла и куда идешь? Она сказала: я бегу от лица Сары, госпожи моей.

9 Ангел Господень сказал ей: возвратись к госпоже своей и покорись ей.

10 И сказал ей Ангел Господень: умножая умножу потомство твое, так что нельзя будет и счесть его от множества.

11 И еще сказал ей Ангел Господень: вот, ты беременна, и родишь сына, и наречешь ему имя Измаил, ибо услышал Господь страдание твое;

12 он будет между людьми, как дикий осел; руки его на всех, и руки всех нанего; жить будет он пред лицем всех братьев своих.

13 И нарекла Агарь Господа, Который говорил к ней, сим именем: Ты Бог видящий меня. Ибо сказала она: точно я видела здесь в след видящего меня.

14 Посему источник тот называется: Беэр-лахай-рои. Он находится между Кадесом и между Баредом.

15 Агарь родила Авраму сына; и нарек Аврам имя сыну своему, рожденному от Агари: Измаил.

16 Аврам был восьмидесяти шести лет, когда Агарь родила Авраму Измаила.

   

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Hands in the Bible represent power, the force with which things are put into action. To be specific, they represent the power of spiritual good -- which is the love of others and serving others -- expressed through spiritual truth -- which is an understanding and knowledge of what it is to love and serve others. This is in contrast to the feet, which represent power on the natural level, and a “rod,” which represents the power of the hand passed down into external or natural ideas. In a few cases in the Bible, hands also represent communication and a drawing together. This is true when people lift their hands to heaven or to Jehovah, and also when the Lord touches children or touches people to heal them.

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Arcana Coelestia # 55

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55. Verse 28 And God blessed them, and God said to them, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, 1 and over every living thing that creeps upon the earth.

Because the most ancient people applied the term Marriage to understanding and will, or faith and love, when joined together, they gave the name Fruitfulness to any good resulting from that marriage, and Multiplication to any truth. For this reason similar expressions occur in the Prophets, as in Ezekiel,

I will multiply upon you man and beast, and they will multiply and be fruitful, and I will resettle you 2 to be as in your ancient times, and I will bless you more than in your former times, and you will know that I am Jehovah, and I will cause man to walk upon you, even My people Israel. Ezekiel 36:8-11.

Here 'man' is used to mean the spiritual man, who is also called Israel, 'ancient times' the Most Ancient Church, 'former times' the Ancient Church which came after the Flood. The reason why 'multiplying', which relates to truth, comes first and why 'being fruitful', which relates to good, follows is that the subject is the person who is to be regenerated, not one who has been regenerated.

[2] When the understanding is coupled to the will, or faith to love, the individual is called by the Lord in Isaiah 'a married land',

Your land will no more be called Desolate, but you will be named My-good-pleasure-is-in-her, and your land, Married; for Jehovah will take His pleasure in you, and your land will be married. Isaiah 62:4.

The resulting fruits which are matters of truth are called 'sons', and the fruits which are matters of good are called 'daughters'. This recurs very frequently in the Word.

[3] The earth is 'being filled' when there are many goods and truths, for when the Lord is 'blessing' and 'saying' - that is, when He is at work - the increase of good and truth is limitless, as the Lord says,

The kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard seed which a man took and sowed in his field; it is indeed the smallest of all seeds, but when it has grown it is the greatest of all plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air 3 come and nest in its branches. Matthew 13:31-32.

'A grain of mustard seed' is the good a person has before he becomes spiritual. It is 'the smallest of all seeds' because he imagines that he himself is the source of the good he does. In reality what he does of himself is nothing but evil, yet because he is in a state of being regenerated there is some element of good, though it is quite 'the smallest of all'. Later on when faith is being joined to love it grows larger and becomes 'a plant'. Once it has finally been joined to love it develops into a tree, and at that point 'the birds of the air, 3 which here are truths or intellectual concepts, 'nest in its branches', which are facts.

[4] A person is involved in conflict not only when becoming spiritual, but also when he is spiritual. Hence the statement, 'Subdue the earth, and have dominion over it'.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. literally, bird of the heavens (of the skies)

2. literally, I will cause you to inhabit

3. literally, birds of heaven (or the sky)

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