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1 Posle sazva Jakov sinove svoje i reče: Skupite se da vam javim šta će vam biti do posletka.

2 Skupite se i poslušajte, sinovi Jakovljevi, poslušajte Izrailja oca svog.

3 Ruvime, ti si prvenac moj, krepost moja i početak sile moje; prvi gospodstvom i prvi snagom.

4 Navro si kao voda; nećeš biti prvi; jer si stao na postelju oca svog i oskvrnio je legav na nju.

5 Simeun i Levije, braća, mačevi su im oružje nepravdi.

6 U tajne njihove da ne ulazi duša moja, sa zborom njihovim da se ne sastavlja slava moja; jer u gnevu svom pobiše ljude, i za svoje veselje pokidaše volove.

7 Proklet da je gnev njihov, što beše nagao, i ljutina njihova, što beše žestoka; razdeliću ih po Jakovu, i rasuću ih po Izrailju.

8 Juda, tebe će hvaliti braća tvoja, a ruka će ti biti za vratom neprijateljima tvojim, i klanjaće ti se sinovi oca tvog.

9 Laviću Juda! S plena si se vratio, sine moj; spusti se i leže kao lav i kao ljuti lav; ko će ga probuditi?

10 Palica vladalačka neće se odvojiti od Jude niti od nogu njegovih onaj koji postavlja zakon, dokle ne dođe Onaj kome pripada, i Njemu će se pokoravati narodi.

11 Veže za čokot magare svoje, i za plemenitu lozu mlade od magarice svoje; u vinu pere haljinu svoju i ogrtač svoj u soku od grožđa.

12 Oči mu se crvene od vina i zubi bele od mleka.

13 Zavulon će živeti pokraj mora i gde pristaju lađe, a međa će mu biti do Sidona.

14 Isahar je magarac jak u kostima, koji leži u toru,

15 I vide da je počivanje dobro i da je zemlja mila, sagnuće ramena svoja da nosi, i plaćaće danak.

16 Dan će suditi svom narodu, kao jedno između plemena Izrailjevih.

17 Dan će biti zmija na putu i guja na stazi, koja ujeda konja za kičicu, te pada konj na uznako.

18 Gospode, Tebe čekam da me izbaviš.

19 A Gad, njega će vojska savladati; ali će najposle on nadvladati.

20 U Asira će biti obilata hrana, i on će davati slasti carske.

21 Neftalim je košuta puštena, i govoriće lepe reči.

22 Josif je rodna grana, rodna grana kraj izvora, kojoj se ogranci raširiše svrh zida.

23 Ako ga i ucveliše ljuto i streljaše na nj, i biše mu neprijatelji strelci,

24 Opet osta jak luk njegov i ojačaše mišice ruku njegovih od ruku jakog Boga Jakovljevog, odakle posta pastir, kamen Izrailju,

25 Od silnog Boga oca tvog, koji će ti pomagati, i od Svemogućeg, koji će te blagosloviti blagoslovima ozgo s neba, blagoslovima ozdo iz bezdana, blagoslovima od dojaka i od materice.

26 Blagoslovi oca tvog nadvisiše blagoslove mojih starih svrh brda večnih, neka budu nad glavom Josifovom i nad temenom odvojenog između braće.

27 Venijamin je vuk grabljivi, jutrom jede lov, a večerom deli plen.

28 Ovo su dvanaest plemena Izrailjevih, i ovo im otac izgovori kad ih blagoslovi, svako blagoslovom njegovim blagoslovi ih.

29 Potom im zapovedi i reče im: Kad se priberem k rodu svom, pogrebite me kod otaca mojih u pećini koja je na njivi Efrona Hetejina,

30 U pećini koja je na njivi makpelskoj prema Mamriji u zemlji hananskoj, koju kupi Avram s njivom u Efrona Hetejina da ima svoj grob.

31 Onde pogrebe Avrama i Saru ženu njegovu, onde pogreboše Isaka i Reveku ženu njegovu, i onde pogreboh Liju.

32 A kupljena je njiva i pećina na njoj u sinova Hetovih.

33 A kad izgovori Jakov zapovesti sinovima svojim, diže noge svoje na postelju, i umre, i pribran bi k rodu svom.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 4287

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4287. For as a prince hast thou contended with God and with men, and hast prevailed. That this signifies continual victories in combats as to truths and goods, is evident from the signification of “contending as a prince,” as being to overcome in combats, here in the combats of temptations, for these are what are treated of; and from the signification of “with God and with men” as being as to truths and goods, of which below.

[2] As in the supreme sense the Lord is treated of, it is He who is meant in this sense by “him that contended as a prince with God and men;” for He endured all temptations by His own power, and by means of them conquered the hells; for He admitted all the hells into Himself in their order, yea, even to the angels-of which in the following pages. And He thus reduced into order all things in the heavens and in the hells, and at last glorified Himself, that is, made the Human in Himself Divine.

[3] From this it is manifest that in the supreme sense the Lord is “Jacob” and “Israel” (as shown just above, n. 4286), not only in that He contended as a prince, that is, endured all the combats of temptations, and conquered in them, but in that He also endures them in every man. But see what has been said on these subjects many times before, namely: That the Lord beyond all endured the most grievous temptations (n. 1663, 1668, 1787, 2776, 2786, 2795, 2816): That the Lord fought from Divine love, differently from all men (n. 1690, 1691, 1789, 1812, 1813, 1820): That the Lord fought against hereditary evil from the mother, so that at last He was not her son, although He had no actual evil (n. 1444, 1573, 2025, 2574, 2649, 3318): That the Lord through combats of temptations and continual victories disposed all things into a heavenly form (n. 1928): That by continual victories in the combats of temptations He united the Divine Essence to the Human (n. 1616, 1737, 1813, 1921, 2025, 2026, 2500, 2523, 2632, 2776): And that the Lord endures temptations in man, and subjugates evil and the hells (n. 987, 1661, 1692).

[4] That “to contend with God and with men” denotes to be tempted as to truths and as to goods, is a secret which does not appear from the letter. That it was not God with whom Jacob contended must be evident to everyone, and will also appear from the explication below; for it cannot be predicated of any man that he contends with God and prevails. But the internal sense teaches what is here signified by “God” and by “men”—namely, that by “God” is signified truth and by “men” good, and this for the reason that in the internal sense the name “God” signifies truth, and hence that when the subject treated of is truth, this name is used (n. 2586, 2769, 2807, 2822); and that when “man” is mentioned, good is meant. That “man” denotes good is because the Lord is the only man, and because man is called man from Him (see n. 49, 288, 565, 1894); also because from Him heaven is a man, and is called the Grand Man (n. 684, 1276, 3624-3649, 3741-3751).

[5] For this reason the Most Ancient Church also, which was in celestial good, was called “man” (n. 478); and therefore also in the Word, where good is treated of, good is signified by “man,” as in Isaiah:

I will make a man [vir homo] 1 more rare than gold, and man [homo] than the gold of Ophir (Isaiah 13:12).

The inhabitants of the earth shall be burned, and few shall be the man [vir homo] left (Isaiah 24:6);

a “man” [vir homo] denotes spiritual good, or the good of truth; a “man” [homo], good.

In the same:

The paths are laid waste, the wayfaring man hath ceased; he hath made vain the covenant, he hath loathed the cities, he regardeth not a man [vir homo] (Isaiah 33:8).

In Jeremiah:

I beheld the earth, and lo it was a void and emptiness, and the heavens, and they had no light; I beheld and lo there was no man, and all the birds of heaven had flown away (Jeremiah 4:23, 25).

In the same:

Behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man, and with the seed of beast (Jeremiah 31:27).

In Ezekiel:

Thy merchants with the soul of man and vessels of brass they gave thy trading (Ezekiel 27:13).

In the same:

Ye My flock, the flock of My pasture, ye are man, and I am your God (Ezekiel 34:31).

Again:

The waste cities shall be filled with the flock of man (Ezekiel 36:38).

In these passages “man” [homo] denotes those who are in good, thus good, because man is man from good. But the truth which is from good is called in the Word a “man” [vir homo], and also the “son of man.”

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Arcana Coelestia # 1661

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1661. And it came to pass in the days of Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim. That these signify so many kinds of apparent goods and truths, which in themselves are not goods and truths, that were in the Lord’s external man, may be seen from the signification of all these in the internal sense, and also from what follows. For the Lord’s combat against evils and falsities is treated of; here, His first combat, which took place in his childhood and earliest youth; which He then first engaged in and sustained when He had been imbued with knowledges [scientiae et cognitiones], on which account it is here said, “in the days of these.”

[2] No one can ever fight against evils and falsities until he has learned to know what evil and falsity are, and therefore not until he has been instructed. A man does not know what evil is, still less what falsity is, until he has the full use of his understanding and judgment, which is the reason why a man does not come into temptations until he has arrived at adult age; thus every man in his age of manhood, but the Lord in His childhood.

[3] Every man combats first of all from the goods and truths he has received through knowledges; and from them and by them he judges about evils and falsities. Every man also, when he first begins to combat, supposes that the goods and truths from which he combats are his own; that is, he attributes them to himself, and at the same time attributes to himself the power by which he resists. This also is permitted; for the man cannot then know otherwise. Until a man has been regenerated, he cannot possibly know, so as to be able to say that he knows, acknowledges, and believes, that nothing of good and truth is from himself, but that all good and truth are from the Lord; or that he cannot resist any evil and falsity from his own power; for he does not know that evil spirits excite and infuse the evils and falsities; still less that by means of evil spirits he is in communication with hell; and that hell presses upon him as the sea does upon every part of a dike, which pressure of hell no man can possibly resist by his own powers. But as until he has been regenerated a man cannot but suppose that he resists by his own powers, this also is permitted; and thus he is introduced into combats or temptations; but afterwards he is more and more enlightened.

[4] When a man is in such a state that he supposes good and truth to be from himself, and that the power of resisting is his own, then the goods and truths from which he combats against evils and falsities are not goods and truths, although they appear so; for there is what is his own in them, and he places self-merit in victory, and glories as if it were he who had overcome the evil and falsity, when yet it is the Lord alone who combats and overcomes. That this is really the case, none can know but they who are being regenerated by means of temptations.

[5] And as in his earliest childhood the Lord was introduced into most grievous combats against evils and falsities, neither could He at that time suppose otherwise; and this not only because it was according to Divine order that His Human Essence should be introduced to the Divine Essence and be united to it by means of continual combats and victories, but also because the goods and truths from which He combated against evils and falsities were of the external man; and as these goods and truths were therefore not altogether Divine, they are therefore called appearances of good and truth. His Divine Essence introduced His Human in this manner, in order that it might overcome from its own power. But there are more arcana here than can possibly be described. In a word, in the first combats, the goods and truths in the Lord, from which he combated, were imbued with things inherited from the mother, and so far as they were imbued with things inherited from the mother, they were not Divine; but by degrees, as He overcame the evil and falsity, they were purified and made Divine.

  
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