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Бытие 26

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1 Был голод в земле, сверх прежнего голода, который был во дни Авраама; и пошел Исаак к Авимелеху, царю Филистимскому, в Герар.

2 Господь явился ему и сказал: не ходи в Египет; живи в земле, о которой Я скажу тебе,

3 странствуй по сей земле, и Я буду с тобою и благословлю тебя, ибо тебе и потомству твоему дам все земли сии и исполню клятву, которою Я клялся Аврааму, отцу твоему;

4 умножу потомство твое, как звезды небесные, и дам потомству твоемувсе земли сии; благословятся в семени твоем все народы земные,

5 за то, что Авраам послушался гласа Моего и соблюдал, что Мною заповедано было соблюдать: повеления Мои, уставы Мои и законы Мои.

6 Исаак поселился в Гераре.

7 Жители места того спросили о жене его, и он сказал: это сестра моя;потому что боялся сказать: жена моя, чтобы не убили меня, думал он , жители места сего за Ревекку, потому что она прекрасна видом.

8 Но когда уже много времени он там прожил, Авимелех, царь Филистимский, посмотрев в окно, увидел, что Исаак играет с Ревеккою, женою своею.

9 И призвал Авимелех Исаака и сказал: вот, это жена твоя; как же ты сказал: она сестра моя? Исаак сказал ему: потому что я думал, не умереть бы мнеради ее.

10 Но Авимелех сказал: что это ты сделал с нами? едва один из народа несовокупился с женою твоею, и ты ввел бы нас в грех.

11 И дал Авимелех повеление всему народу, сказав: кто прикоснется к сему человеку и к жене его, тот предан будет смерти.

12 И сеял Исаак в земле той и получил в тот год ячменя во сто крат: так благословил его Господь.

13 И стал великим человек сей и возвеличивался больше и больше до того, что стал весьма великим.

14 У него были стада мелкого и стада крупного скота и множество пахотныхполей, и Филистимляне стали завидовать ему.

15 И все колодези, которые выкопали рабы отца его при жизни отца его Авраама, Филистимляне завалили и засыпали землею.

16 И Авимелех сказал Исааку: удались от нас, ибо ты сделался гораздо сильнее нас.

17 И Исаак удалился оттуда, и расположился шатрами вдолине Герарской, и поселился там.

18 И вновь выкопал Исаак колодези воды, которые выкопаны были во дни Авраама, отца его, и которые завалили Филистимляне по смерти Авраама; и назвал их теми же именами, которыми назвал их отец его.

19 И копали рабы Исааковы в долине и нашли там колодезь воды живой.

20 И спорили пастухи Герарские с пастухами Исаака, говоря: наша вода. И он нарек колодезю имя: Есек, потому что спорили с ним.

21 выкопали другой колодезь; спорили также и о нем; и он нарек ему имя: Ситна.

22 И он двинулся отсюда и выкопал иной колодезь, о котором уже не спорили, и нарек ему имя: Реховоф, ибо, сказал он, теперь Господь дал нам пространное место, и мы размножимся на земле.

23 Оттуда перешел он в Вирсавию.

24 И в ту ночь явился ему Господь и сказал: Я Бог Авраама, отца твоего; не бойся, ибо Я с тобою; и благословлю тебя и умножу потомство твое, радиАвраама, раба Моего.

25 И он устроил там жертвенник и призвал имя Господа. И раскинул там шатер свой, и выкопали там рабы Исааковы колодезь.

26 Пришел к нему из Герара Авимелех и Ахузаф, друг его, и Фихол, военачальник его.

27 Исаак сказал им: для чего вы пришли ко мне, когда вы возненавиделименя и выслали меня от себя?

28 Они сказали: мы ясно увидели, что Господь с тобою, и потому мы сказали: поставим между нами и тобою клятву и заключим с тобою союз,

29 чтобы ты не делал нам зла, как и мы не коснулись до тебя, а делали тебе одно доброе и отпустили тебя с миром; теперь ты благословен Господом.

30 Он сделал им пиршество, и они ели и пили.

31 И встав рано утром, поклялись друг другу; и отпустил их Исаак, и они пошли от него с миром.

32 В тот же день пришли рабы Исааковы и известили его о колодезе, который копали они, и сказали ему: мы нашли воду.

33 И он назвал его: Шива. Посему имя городу тому Беэршива до сего дня.

34 И был Исав сорока лет, и взял себе в жены Иегудифу, дочь Беэра Хеттеянина, и Васемафу, дочь Елона Хеттеянина;

35 и они были в тягость Исааку и Ревекке.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 3424

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3424. And the servants of Isaac digged in the valley, and found there a well of living waters. That this signifies the Word as to the literal sense in which is the internal sense, is evident from the signification of “digging in the valley,” as being to make search lower down in respect to where truths are; for to “dig” is to search, and a “valley” denotes what is below (n. 1723, 3417); and from the signification of a “well of living waters,” as being the Word in which are truths Divine, thus the Word as to the literal sense in which is the internal sense. That the Word is called a “fountain,” and indeed a “fountain of living waters,” is well known; but the reason why the Word is also called a “well,” is that the sense of the letter is relatively such; and also because relatively to those who are spiritual the Word is not a “fountain,” but a “well” (n. 2702, 3096). As a “valley” denotes that which is below, or what is the same, that which is exterior, and the fountain was found in a valley, and the literal sense is the lower or exterior sense of the Word, therefore it is the literal sense which is meant; but because the internal sense, that is, the heavenly and Divine sense, is within this, therefore the waters thereof are called “living;” as were also the waters that went forth under the threshold of the new house, in Ezekiel:

And it shall come to pass that every living creature that creepeth, to which the river there comes, shall live; and there shall be a very great multitude of fish, because these waters are come thither and are healed, and everything liveth whithersoever the river cometh (Ezekiel 47:9); where the “river” is the Word; the “waters which cause everything to live” are the Divine truths contained in it; the “fish” are memory-knowledges (n. 40, 991).

[2] That the Word of the Lord is such that it gives life to him that thirsteth, that is, to him that desireth life, and that it is a “fountain whose waters are living,” the Lord also teaches in John when speaking to the woman of Samaria at Jacob’s well:

If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give Me to drink, thou wouldest have asked of Him, and He would have given thee living water. Whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall become in him a fountain of water springing up unto eternal life (John 4:10, 14).

That the Word is living and therefore gives life, is because in its supreme sense the Lord is treated of, and in the inmost sense His kingdom, in which the Lord is all; and this being the case, there is in the Word life itself, which flows into the minds of those who read the Word with reverence; hence it is that in respect to the Word that is from Himself the Lord declares Himself to be a “fountain of water springing up unto eternal life” (see also n. 2702).

[3] That just as the Lord’s Word is called a “fountain,” so is it also called a “well,” is evident in Moses:

Israel sang this song: Spring up, O well, answer ye unto it: the princes digged the well; the chiefs of the people digged it for the lawgiver with their staves (Numbers 21:17-18).

These words were spoken at the “place Beer,” that is, at the “place of the well.” That by “well” here is signified the Word of the Ancient Church, spoken of above (n. 2897), is evident from what is there said; “princes” are primary truths that are the source; (that “princes” signify primary truths may be seen above, n. 1482, 2089); the “chiefs of the people” are lower truths, such as are those contained in the literal sense (n. 1259, 1260, 2928, 3295); that the “lawgiver” is the Lord, is evident; “staves” denote the powers which they possessed.

  
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Arcana Coelestia # 2025

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2025. I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land of thy sojournings. That this signifies that the Lord acquired to Himself all things by His own forces or powers, which are “the land of the sojournings,” is evident from the signification of “sojourning,” as being to be instructed (see n. 1463). And as a man acquires life to himself especially by means of instruction in memory-knowledges, doctrinal matters, and the knowledges of faith, therefore “sojourning,” signifies the life so acquired. As applied to the Lord, “sojourning” signifies the life which He procured to Himself by means of knowledges, combats of temptations, and victories therein; and as He procured for Himself that life by His own forces, this is here signified by “the land of the sojournings.”

[2] That the Lord procured all things to Himself by His own forces, and by His own forces united the Human Essence to the Divine Essence, and the Divine Essence to the Human Essence; and that He alone thus became righteousness, is clearly evident in the Prophets. As in Isaiah:

Who is this that cometh from Edom, marching in the multitude of his strength? I have trodden the winepress alone, and of the peoples there was none with Me; I looked around, and there was no one helping; and I was amazed, and there was no one upholding; therefore Mine arm brought salvation unto Me (Isaiah 63:1, 3, 5)

“Edom” denotes the Lord’s Human Essence; “strength,” and “arm,” power that this was from what was His own is clearly said, in that “there was no one helping,” “no one upholding,” and that “His own arm brought salvation unto Him.”

[3] In the same Prophet:

He saw that there was not anyone, and He was amazed that there was none to intercede; and His arm achieved salvation unto Him, and His righteousness supported Him; and He put on righteousness as a coat of mail, and a helmet of salvation upon His head (Isaiah 59:16-17)

meaning in like manner by His own power, and that thereby He became righteousness. That the Lord is righteousness is stated in Daniel:

Seventy weeks are decreed to expiate iniquity, and to bring in the righteousness of the ages, and to seal up vision and prophet, and to anoint the holy of holies (Dan 9:24). And in Jeremiah:

I will raise unto David a righteous offshoot, and He shall reign as King, and shall act intelligently, and shall do judgment and righteousness in the land.

In His days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell in confidence; and this is His name whereby they shall call Him, Jehovah our righteousness (Jeremiah 23:5-6; 33:15-16).

For this reason He is also called “the Habitation of righteousness,” in Jeremiah (31:23; 50:7); and in Isaiah (9:6), “Wonderful,” and “Hero.”

[4] The reason why the Lord so often attributes to the Father that which is His own, has been explained above (n. 1999, 2004); for Jehovah was in Him, and consequently in everything that was His. This can be illustrated by what is similar, though not equal, in man. A man’s soul is in him; and as it is in him, it is in the veriest singulars of him, that is in the veriest singulars of his thought, and of his action. Whatever has not his soul in it, is not his. The Lord’s soul was Life itself, or Being [Esse] itself, which is Jehovah, for He was conceived from Jehovah; and consequently Jehovah or Life itself was in His veriest singulars; and as Life itself, or Being itself, which is Jehovah, was His, as the soul is man’s, so that which was Jehovah’s was His, which is what the Lord says: that He “is in the bosom of the Father” (John 1:18), and that “all things whatsoever that the Father hath are His” (John 16:15, 17:10-11).

[5] From good, which is Jehovah’s, He united the Divine Essence to the Human Essence; and from truth He united the Human Essence to the Divine Essence; thus He did all things both in general and in particular from Himself; in fact His Human was left to itself, in order that He might fight of Himself against all the hells, and overcome them; and as He had life in Himself that was His own-as already said-He overcame them by His own power and by His own forces, as is also clearly stated in the Prophets, in the passages that have been cited. Consequently, as He acquired all things for Himself by His own forces, He became righteousness, emancipated the world of spirits from infernal genii and spirits, and thereby delivered the human race from destruction-for the human race is ruled by means of spirits-and so redeemed it. For this reason He is so often called in the Word of the Old Testament the Deliverer and the Redeemer, and the Saviour, which is the meaning of His name Jesus.

  
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