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Postanak 48

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1 Posle javiše Josifu: Eno, otac ti je bolestan. A on povede sa sobom dva sina svoja, Manasiju i Jefrema.

2 I javiše Jakovu i rekoše: Evo sin tvoj Josif ide k tebi. A Izrailj se okrepi, te sede na postelji svojoj.

3 I reče Jakov Josifu: Bog Svemogući javi se meni u Luzu u zemlji hananskoj, i blagoslovi me;

4 I reče mi: Učiniću te da narasteš i namnožiš se; i učiniću od tebe mnoštvo naroda, i daću zemlju ovu semenu tvom nakon tebe da je njihova do veka.

5 Sada dakle dva sina tvoja, što ti se rodiše u zemlji misirskoj pre nego dođoh k tebi u Misir, moji su, Jefrem i Manasija kao Ruvim i Simeun neka budu moji.

6 A deca koju rodiš posle njih, neka budu tvoja i neka se po imenu braće svoje zovu u nasledstvu svom.

7 Jer kad se vratih iz Padana, umre mi Rahilja u zemlji hananskoj na putu, kad beše još malo do Efrate; i pogreboh je na putu u Efratu, a to je Vitlejem.

8 A vide Izrailj sinove Josifove, reče: Ko su ovi?

9 A Josif reče ocu svom: Moji sinovi, koje mi Bog dade ovde. A on reče: Dovedi ih k meni, da ih blagoslovim.

10 A oči behu Izrailju otežale od starosti, te ne mogaše dobro videti. A kad mu ih privede, celiva ih i zagrli.

11 I reče Izrailj Josifu: Nisam mislio da ću videti lice tvoje; a gle, Bog mi dade da vidim i porod tvoj.

12 A Josif odmače ih od kolena njegovih i pokloni se licem do zemlje.

13 Pa ih uze Josif obojicu, Jefrema sebi s desne strane a Izrailju s leve, Manasiju pak sebi s leve strane a Izrailju s desne; i tako ih primače k njemu.

14 A Izrailj pruživši desnu ruku svoju metnu je na glavu Jefremu mlađem, a levu na glavu Manasiji, tako namestivši ruke navlaš, ako i jeste Manasija bio prvenac.

15 I blagoslovi Josifa govoreći: Bog, kome su svagda ugađali oci moji Avram i Isak, Bog, koji me je hranio od kako sam postao do današnjeg dana,

16 Anđeo, koji me je izbavljao od svakog zla, da blagoslovi decu ovu, i da se po mom imenu i po imenu otaca mojih Avrama i Isaka prozovu, i da se kao ribe namnože na zemlji!

17 A Josif kad vide gde otac metnu desnu ruku svoju na glavu Jefremu, ne bi mu milo, pa uhvati za ruku oca svog da je premesti s glave Jefremove na glavu Manasijinu.

18 I reče Josif ocu svom: Ne tako, oče; ovo je prvenac, metni desnicu njemu na glavu.

19 Ali otac njegov ne hte, nego reče: Znam, sine, znam; i od njega će postati narod, i on će biti velik; ali će mlađi brat njegov biti veći od njega, i seme će njegovo biti veliko mnoštvo naroda.

20 I blagoslovi ih u onaj dan i reče: Tobom će Izrailj blagosiljati govoreći: Bog da te učini kao Jefrema i kao Manasiju. Tako postavi Jefrema pred Manasiju.

21 Posle reče Izrailj Josifu: Evo ja ću skoro umreti; ali će Bog biti s vama i odvešće vas opet u zemlju otaca vaših.

22 I ja ti dajem jedan deo više nego braći tvojoj, koji uzeh iz ruku amorejskih mačem svojim i lukom svojim.

   

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6400. Biting the horse’s heels. That this signifies fallacies from lowest nature, is evident from the signification of “biting,” as being to adhere, and thereby do harm to; and from the signification of a “horse’s heel,” as being fallacies from lowest nature; for the “heel” denotes the lowest natural and corporeal (see n. 259, 4938-4952), and a “horse,” the intellectual (n. 2761, 2762, 3217, 5321, 6125); here a “horse” denotes fallacies, because it denotes the intellectual of the lowest natural or sensuous. That they who are in truth and not yet in good are in fallacies from lowest nature, may be seen from the fact that truth is not in any light unless good is with it, or in it; for good is like a flame which emits light from itself; and when good meets with any truth, it not only illuminates it, but also brings it to itself into its own light. They therefore who are in truth and not yet in good, are in shade and darkness; because truth has no light from itself, and the light which they have from good is faint, like a light which is going out; and therefore when these persons think and reason about truth, and from truth about good, they are like those who see phantasms in the dark, and believe them to be real bodies; or who see marks on a wall in a shady place, and in fancy make of them the image of some man or animal; and yet when the light comes, they are seen to be mere marks without any form; and it is the same with truths with those here treated of, for they see as truths those things which are not truths, and which are rather to be likened to phantasms, and to marks on a wall. Moreover all the heresies in the church have arisen from those who have been in some truth from the Word, but not in good; to them heresy has appeared exactly like truth; and in like manner the falsities in the church. That they who have promulgated these have not been in good, may be seen from the fact that they have rejected the good of charity far behind the truth of faith, and have in part devised such things as do not at all agree with the good of charity.

[2] It is said that they who are in truth and not yet in good reason about good and truth from fallacies from lowest nature, and therefore it is necessary to say what fallacies are. Take for example the life after death. They who are in fallacies from lowest nature, as are those who are in truth and not yet in good, do not believe that there is anything alive in man except his body, nor that when man dies he can rise again unless he again receives his body. If they are told that there is an interior man who lives in the body, and who is raised up by the Lord when the body dies, and that the man when raised has a body such as spirits or angels have, and that he sees, hears, speaks, is in company with others, and appears to himself exactly like a man, just as does a man in this world, they cannot apprehend it. Fallacies from lowest nature make them believe such things to be impossible, chiefly because they do not see them with the eyes of their body.

[3] Moreover when such persons think about the spirit or soul, they have no idea whatever about it except such as they have of the invisible things in nature, whence they make it either a mere breath, or aerial, or ethereal, or like a flame; some a mere thinking power which has scarcely any vitality until it is again joined to the body. The reason why they think in this way is that to them all interior things are in shade and darkness, and only outward things are in light, which shows how easily they may fall into error; for if they think only of how the body is to be put together again; of the destruction of the world, and that this has been vainly awaited for so many ages; of brute animals having a life not unlike the life of man; and that none of the dead appear and make known the state of their life-when they think these and other such things, they easily recede from belief in the resurrection; and so in many other cases. The reason is that they are not in good, and through good in light. Such being their state, it is also said, “and his rider shall fall backward; I wait for Thy salvation, O Jehovah.” By this is signified that hence comes a receding unless the Lord brings aid.

  
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