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Бытие 48

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1 После того Иосифу сказали: вот, отец твой болен. И он взял с собою двух сынов своих, Манассию и Ефрема.

2 Иакова известили и сказали: вот, сын твой Иосиф идет к тебе. Израиль собрал силы свои и сел на постели.

3 И сказал Иаков Иосифу: Бог Всемогущий явился мне в Лузе, в земле Ханаанской, и благословил меня,

4 и сказал мне: вот, Я распложу тебя, и размножу тебя, и произведу оттебя множество народов, и дам землю сию потомству твоему после тебя, в вечное владение.

5 И ныне два сына твои, родившиеся тебе в земле Египетской, до моего прибытия к тебе в Египет, мои они; Ефрем и Манассия, как Рувим и Симеон, будут мои;

6 дети же твои, которые родятся от тебя после них, будут твои; они под именем братьевсвоих будут именоваться в их уделе.

7 Когда я шел из Месопотамии, умерла у меня Рахиль в земле Ханаанской, по дороге, не доходя несколько до Ефрафы, и я похоронил ее там на дороге к Ефрафе, что ныне Вифлеем.

8 И увидел Израиль сыновей Иосифа и сказал: кто это?

9 И сказал Иосиф отцу своему: это сыновья мои, которых Бог дал мне здесь.Иаков сказал: подведи их ко мне, и я благословлю их.

10 Глаза же Израилевы притупились от старости; не мог он видеть ясно. Иосиф подвел их к нему, и он поцеловал их и обнял их.

11 И сказал Израиль Иосифу: не надеялся я видеть твое лице; но вот, Бог показал мне и детей твоих.

12 И отвел их Иосиф от колен его и поклонился ему лицем своим до земли.

13 И взял Иосиф обоих, Ефрема в правую свою руку противлевой Израиля, а Манассию в левую против правой Израиля, и подвел к нему.

14 Но Израиль простер правую руку свою и положил наголову Ефрему, хотя сей был меньший, а левую на голову Манассии. С намерением положил онтак руки свои, хотя Манассия был первенец.

15 И благословил Иосифа и сказал: Бог, пред Которым ходили отцы мои Авраам и Исаак, Бог, пасущий меня с тех пор, как я существую, до сего дня,

16 Ангел, избавляющий меня от всякого зла, да благословит отроков сих; да будет на нихнаречено имя мое и имя отцов моих Авраама и Исаака, и да возрастут они вомножество посреди земли.

17 И увидел Иосиф, что отец его положил правую руку свою на голову Ефрема; и прискорбно было ему это. И взял он руку отца своего, чтобы переложить ее с головы Ефрема на голову Манассии,

18 и сказал Иосиф отцу своему: не так, отец мой, ибо это – первенец; положи на его голову правую руку твою.

19 Но отец его не согласился и сказал: знаю, сын мой, знаю; и от него произойдет народ, и он будет велик; но меньший его брат будет больше его, и от семени его произойдет многочисленный народ.

20 И благословил их в тот день, говоря: тобою будет благословлять Израиль, говоря: Бог да сотворит тебе, как Ефрему и Манассии. И поставил Ефрема выше Манассии.

21 И сказал Израиль Иосифу: вот, я умираю; и Бог будет с вами и возвратит вас в землю отцов ваших;

22 я даю тебе, преимущественно пред братьями твоими, один участок, который я взял из рук Аморреев мечом моим и луком моим.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 6306

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6306. 'Which I took out of the hand of the Amorite' means because of the victory over evil. This is clear from the representation of 'the Amorite' as evil, dealt with in 1857; and from the meaning of 'taking out of the hand' as acquiring through victory. As regards 'the Amorites', it should be recognized that they mean evil, just as 'the Canaanites' and all the other nations in the land that are mentioned in the Word mean various kinds of evil and also of falsity. Such things were represented by the nations when the children of Israel were taking possession of the land of Canaan. The reason for this was that whenever the children of Israel represented the things of heaven those nations represented the things of hell; thus the land of Canaan represented every state that exists in the next life. Also, because the nations represented the things of hell they were utterly destroyed; and entrance into any treaty with those who might remain was forbidden.

[2] The action of the children of Israel, of their taking possession of and dwelling in the land of those who represented the hells, was representative. It represented what happened around the time of the Lord's Coming, when spirits from hell had possession of a large part of heaven but He, by coming into the world and making the human within Himself Divine, cast them out of there and down into hell, and thereby delivered heaven from them, which He then gave as an inheritance to those who belonged to His spiritual kingdom.

[3] The representation of the Amorite nation as evil in general is evident from the places where it is referred to, as in Ezekiel, Thus said the Lord Jehovih to Jerusalem, 1 Your tradings and your births are of the land of the Canaanite. Your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite. Ezekiel 16:3, 45.

'Father' in the internal sense means the Church's good, or in the contrary sense evil, and 'mother' means the Church's truth, or in the contrary sense falsity; and this is why it is said, 'Your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite'.

[4] In Amos,

I destroyed the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and whose strength was like the oaks. I led you in the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite. Amos 2:9-10.

Here also 'the Amorite' stands for evil, for the evil of self-love is described by 'the height of the cedars' and 'the strength of an oak'. The reason why 'the Amorite' means evil in general is that the entire land of Canaan was called 'the land of the Amorite'; for it says, 'I led you in the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite'. In addition the second Book of Kings says,

Manasseh king of Judah did what was evil, greater than all the evil which the Amorites did, who were before him. 2 Kings 21:11.

[5] 'With my sword' means through truth engaged in conflict. This is clear from the meaning of 'sword' as truth engaged in conflict, dealt with in 2799, 4499.

'And my bow' means received from doctrine. This is clear from the meaning of 'bow' as doctrine, dealt with in 2686, 2709.

[6] The words used here, 'the portion which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and my bow' were, it is quite evident, uttered by Israel on account of the internal sense; for Jacob did not take that portion from the Amorite with sword or bow. He bought it from the sons of Hamor, as is evident from Genesis 33, where these words occur, Jacob came to Salem, the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, as he was coming from Paddan Aram; and he encamped towards the face of the city. And he bought the portion of the field where he had stretched his tent, from the hand of the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem, for a hundred kesitahs. Genesis 33:18-19.

The fact that this field was the portion he gave to Joseph is clear in Joshua,

The bones of Joseph which the children of Israel caused to be brought up out of Egypt they buried in Shechem, in the part of the field which Jacob bought from the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem, for a hundred kesitahs; and they had become an inheritance for the children of Joseph. Joshua 24:32.

From this it is evident that the portion had been bought, and that this is what was given to Joseph. Nor was the city of Shechem nearby meant, the city in which Simeon and Levi killed every male and which they took with the sword, Genesis 34. This is made clear by the fact that Jacob detested what they did and for that reason cursed Simeon and Levi, completely dissociating himself from the crime. He said,

Simeon and Levi are brothers; instruments of violence are their swords. Into their secret place let my soul not come; in their congregation let not my glory be united; for in their anger they killed a man, and in their pleasure they hamstrung an ox. Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce, and their wrath, for it was hard. 2 I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel. Genesis 49:5-7.

From all this it may now be seen that the words 'the portion which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and my bow' were uttered by him, when the spirit of prophecy rested on him, for the sake of the internal sense.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. The Latin means O Jerusalem but the Hebrew means to Jerusalem, which Swedenborg has in other places where he quotes this verse (and possibly in his rough draft here).

2. i.e. cruel

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