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Genesis 46

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1 At si Israel ay naglakbay na dala ang lahat niyang tinatangkilik, at napasa Beerseba, at naghandog ng mga hain sa Dios ng kaniyang amang si Isaac.

2 At kinausap ng Dios si Israel sa mga panaginip sa gabi, at sinabi, Jacob, Jacob. At sinabi niya, Narito ako:

3 At kaniyang sinabi, Ako'y Dios, ang Dios ng iyong ama, huwag kang matakot na bumaba sa Egipto: sapagka't doo'y gagawin kitang isang dakilang bansa:

4 Ako'y bababang kasama mo sa Egipto; at tunay na iaahon kita uli, at ipapatong ni Jose ang kaniyang kamay sa iyong mga mata.

5 At bumangon si Jacob mula sa Beerseba; at dinala ng mga anak ni Israel si Jacob na kanilang ama, at ang kanilang mga bata, at ang kanilang mga asawa, sa mga kariton na ipinadala ni Faraon kay Jacob.

6 At kanilang dinala ang kanilang mga hayop, at ang kanilang mga pag-aari na kanilang inimpok sa lupain ng Canaan, at na pasa Egipto, si Jacob at ang buong binhi niya na kasama niya.

7 Ang kaniyang mga anak na lalake at babae, at ang mga anak na lalake at babae ng kaniyang mga anak na kasama niya, at ang kaniyang buong binhi ay dinala niyang kasama niya sa Egipto.

8 At ito ang mga pangalan ng mga anak ni Israel, na napasa Egipto, ni Jacob at ng kaniyang mga anak: si Ruben na anak na panganay ni Jacob.

9 At ang mga anak ni Ruben; si Hanoch, at si Phallu, at si Hezron, at si Carmi.

10 At ang mga anak ni Simeon; si Jemuel, at si Jamin, at si Ohad, at si Jachin, at si Zohar, at si Saul na anak ng isang babaing taga Canaan.

11 At ang mga anak ni Levi; si Gerson, si Coat at si Merari.

12 At ang mga anak ni Juda; si Er, at si Onan, at si Sela, at si Phares, at si Zara; nguni't si Er at si Onan ay namatay sa lupain ng Canaan. At ang mga anak ni Phares, si Hezron at si Hamul.

13 At ang mga anak ni Issachar; si Thola, at si Phua, at si Job, at si Simron.

14 At ang mga anak ni Zabulon; si Sered; at si Elon, at si Jahleel.

15 Ito ang mga anak ni Lea, na kaniyang ipinanganak kay Jacob sa Padan-aram, sangpu ng kaniyang anak na babaing si Dina: ang lahat na taong kaniyang mga anak na lalake at babae ay tatlong pu't tatlo.

16 At ang mga anak ni Gad; si Ziphion, at si Aggi, si Suni, at si Ezbon, si Heri, at si Arodi, at si Areli.

17 At ang mga anak ni Aser; si Jimna; at si Ishua, at si Isui, at si Beria, at si Sera na kanilang kapatid na babae: at ang mga anak ni Beria; si Heber, at si Malchel.

18 Ito ang mga anak ni Zilpa na siyang ibinigay ni Laban kay Lea na kaniyang anak na babae, at ang mga ito ay kaniyang ipinanganak kay Jacob, na labing anim na tao.

19 Ang mga anak ni Raquel na asawa ni Jacob; si Jose at si Benjamin.

20 At kay Jose ay ipinanganak sa lupain ng Egipto si Manases at si Ephraim, na ipinanganak sa kaniya ni Asenath, na anak ni Potiphera na saserdote sa On.

21 At ang mga anak ni Benjamin; si Bela; at si Becher, at si Asbel, si Gera, at si Naaman, si Ehi, at si Ros, si Muppim, at si Huppim, at si Ard.

22 Ito ang mga anak ni Raquel na ipinanganak kay Jacob: lahat ay labing apat.

23 At ang mga anak ni Dan; si Husim.

24 At ang mga anak ni Nephtali; si Jahzeel, at si Guni, at si Jezer, at si Shillem.

25 Ito ang mga anak ni Bilha, na siyang ibinigay ni Laban kay Raquel na kaniyang anak, at ang mga ito ang ipinanganak niya kay Jacob; lahat na tao ay pito.

26 Lahat na tao na sumama kay Jacob sa Egipto, na nagsilabas sa kaniyang mga balakang, bukod pa ang mga asawa ng mga anak ni Jacob, ang lahat na tao ay anim na pu't anim;

27 At ang mga anak ni Jose na ipinanganak sa kaniya sa Egipto, ay dalawang katao; ang lahat na tao sa sangbahayan ni Jacob, na napasa Egipto, ay pitongpu.

28 At pinapagpauna niya si Juda kay Jose, upang ituro ang daan na patungo sa Gosen; at sila'y nagsidating sa lupain ng Gosen.

29 At inihanda ni Jose ang kaniyang karro, at sumampang sinalubong si Israel na kaniyang ama sa Gosen; at siya'y humarap sa kaniya, at yumakap sa kaniyang leeg, at umiyak sa kaniyang leeg na matagal.

30 At sinabi ni Israel kay Jose, Ngayo'y mamatay na ako yamang nakita ko na ang iyong mukha, na ikaw ay buhay pa.

31 At sinabi ni Jose sa kaniyang mga kapatid, at sa sangbahayan ng kaniyang ama, Ako'y aahon, at aking sasaysayin kay Faraon, at aking sasabihin sa kaniya. Ang aking mga kapatid, at ang sangbahayan ng aking ama, na nangasa lupain ng Canaan, ay naparito sa akin;

32 At ang mga lalake ay mga pastor, sapagka't sila'y naging tagapagalaga ng hayop, at kanilang dinala ang kanilang mga kawan, at ang kanilang mga bakahan, at ang lahat nilang tinatangkilik.

33 At mangyayaring, pagka tatawagin kayo ni Faraon, at sasabihin, Ano ang inyong hanapbuhay?

34 Na inyong sasabihin, Ang iyong mga lingkod ay naging tagapagalaga ng hayop mula sa aming pagkabata hanggang ngayon, kami at ang aming mga magulang; upang kayo'y matira sa lupain ng Gosen; sapagka't bawa't pastor ay kasuklamsuklam sa mga Egipcio.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 6047

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6047. 'And it may be, that Pharaoh may call you' means if the natural in which the Church's factual knowledge resides wishes to be joined to you. This is clear from the meaning of 'calling to oneself' as wishing to be joined to, for the call to them, made with affection, to live in his land and become a single nation together with his subjects is the expression of a wish to be joined to them; and from the representation of 'Pharaoh' as the natural in which the Church's factual knowledge resides, as above in 6042. Pharaoh's call to them means the response made to the introduction and joining together, that is to say, the joining of the Church's factual knowledge to truths and forms of good in the natural. For every joining together requires such a response and therefore agreement on both sides.

[2] The subject here is the joining together of the Church's truths and its factual knowledge; but one needs to know in what way they should become joined. The joining together must not start with factual knowledge which is then used to look into the truths of faith; for a person's factual knowledge comes from sensory impressions, thus from the world, the source of countless illusions. It must start with the truths of faith; that is to say, one should proceed in the following way. First of all one should get to know what the Church teaches; then one should discover from the Word whether such teaching is the truth. For things are true not because they are what leaders of the Church have so declared and their followers uphold. If that were so one would have to say that the teachings of any Church or religion were the truth simply because they are those of a person's native soil and are those into which he was born. Thus not only the teachings of Papists or Quakers would be true but also those of Jews and of Mohammedans too since their Church leaders have so declared and their followers uphold it. From all this it is evident that one should search the Word and there see whether what the Church teaches is the truth. When an affection for truth motivates the search a person receives light from the Lord so that he may discern, though unaware of the source of his enlightenment, what the truth is and may be assured of it in the measure that he is governed by good. But if the truths discerned by him are at variance with the teachings of the Church, let him beware of creating a disturbance in the Church.

[3] Once he has become assured and so affirms from the Word that the Church's teachings are truths of faith, let him then employ any fact he knows, whatever the name or nature of it, to corroborate them. For now that he is thoroughly affirmative in his attitude towards the truth he welcomes facts that accord with them and casts away those which because of the misconceptions present within them do not accord. The facts are used in support of his faith. No one therefore should be forbidden to search the Scriptures if motivated by a desire to know whether the teachings of the Church in which he was born are true; for in no other way can he ever become enlightened. Nor should he be forbidden after that to use factual knowledge to support his beliefs; but let him not do so before that. This and no other is the way in which the truths of faith should be joined to factual knowledge - not only the facts known to the Church but also any other kinds of facts. But very few at the present day proceed in this way, for the majority of people who read the Word are not motivated by a desire for truth when they read it but by a desire to endorse the teachings of the Church in which they were born, no matter what those teachings may be like.

[4] The Word contains a description of the Lord's kingdom in which the spiritual domain, the domain of reason, and the domain of factual knowledge exist joined together; but in that description names that serve to mean those domains are used - Israel, Asshur, and Egypt. 'Israel' describes the spiritual domain, 'Asshur' the domain of reason, and 'Egypt' that of factual knowledge, in the following words in Isaiah,

On that day there will be an altar to Jehovah in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar to Jehovah at its border; and it will be for a sign and a witness to Jehovah Zebaoth in the land of Egypt, for they will cry out to Jehovah because of the oppressors, and He will send a saviour and prince to them, and he will deliver them. And Jehovah will make Himself known to Egypt, and the Egyptians will know Jehovah on that day and will offer sacrifice and minchah, and will make a vow to Jehovah and perform it. On that day there will be a highway from Egypt to Asshur, and Asshur will come into Egypt, and Egypt into Asshur, and Egypt will serve Asshur. 1 On that day Israel will be the third with Egypt and Asshur, a blessing in the midst of the earth, whom Jehovah Zebaoth will bless, saying, Blessed be Egypt My people, and Asshur the work of My hands, and Israel My heritage. Isaiah 19:18-25.

[5] Anyone may see that in this quotation the country Egypt is not meant, or Asshur, or even Israel, but that some other thing is meant by each of them. 'Israel' is used to mean the spiritual domain of the Church, see 3654, 5801, 5803, 5806, 5812, 5817, 5819, 5826, 5837; 'Asshur' to mean the domain of reason, 119, 1186; and 'Egypt' to mean the domain of factual knowledge, 1164, 1165, 1186, 1462, 4749, 4964, 4966, 5700, 6004, 6015. The existence of the three joined together in the member of the Church is described in the prophet by the words 'there will be a highway from Egypt to Asshur, and Asshur will come into Egypt, and Egypt into Asshur, and Egypt will serve Asshur. On that day Israel will be the third with Egypt and Asshur, a blessing in the midst of the earth'. For to be a member of the Church a person must of necessity be a spiritual person, and also a rational one whom factual knowledge will serve. From all this it may now be evident that factual knowledge should not on any account be cast aside from the truths of faith but should be joined to them. But one should go the primary way, that is, the way that begins with faith, not the secondary way, that is, the one that begins with factual knowledge. See also what has been shown in 128-130, 195, 196, 232, 233, 1226, 1911, 2568, 2588, 4156, 4760, 5510, 5700.

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1. The Hebrew of this text in Isaiah may be read in two different ways - serve Asshur or serve with Asshur. Most English versions of Isaiah prefer the second of these .

  
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Arcana Coelestia # 4156

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4156. 'And put them in the camel's straw' means in facts. This is clear from the meaning of 'the camel's straw' as facts, 3114. These are called straw not only because straw is the food for camels but also because facts, compared with rational ideas, are coarse and lacking in order. For the same reason too facts are meant by 'the entangled boughs of trees and of the wood', 2831. Also 'camels' means general facts that belong to the natural man, see 3048, 3071, 3143, 3145.

[2] As to the assertion that facts, compared with rational ideas, are coarse and lacking in order and for that reason are meant by 'straw' and also by 'entangled boughs', as has been stated, this idea is not open to those who rely solely on facts and are on that account reputed to be learned. They believe that the amount a person knows, that is, how much knowledge he possesses, determines how wise he is. But the situation is quite different, as has been made clear to me from those in the next life who, when they lived in the world, relied solely on facts and as a result acquired a name and reputation for being learned. Such people are sometimes far more stupid than those who have not possessed any skill in the use of factual knowledge. The reason for that stupidity has also been disclosed to me, which is this: Facts are indeed a means towards becoming wise, but they can also be a means towards becoming insane. For people who are leading a good life facts are a means to becoming wise, but for those leading an evil life they are a means to becoming insane since they use facts to support not only a life of evil but also false assumptions, which they do arrogantly and convincingly because they believe that they are wiser than others.

[3] This leads to the destruction of their rational. It is not the person who is able to reason from facts, doing so sometimes in a seemingly more masterly way than others, who is endowed with rationality. This skill which he possesses is the product of a wholly illusory light. But that person has the proper gift of rationality who is able to see clearly that good is good and truth is truth, and as a consequence that evil is evil and falsity is falsity. But anyone who looks on good as evil and on evil as good, and who also looks on truth as falsity and falsity as truth, cannot in any sense be called rational, but rather irrational, no matter how capable he is at reasoning. With the person who sees clearly that good is good and that truth is truth, and conversely that evil is evil and falsity is falsity, there is light flowing in from heaven and enlightening the area of his understanding and causing reasons which he sees with the understanding to be just so many rays of that light. The same light also gives light to facts so that they serve to support those reasons, besides imposing order and the heavenly form on such facts. People however who stand opposed to good and truth, as all do who are leading an evil life, do not allow that heavenly light in. Instead they take delight solely in their own illusory light, whose nature is such that one sees things rather like a person in the dark who sees streaks on a wall, and is deluded into making all kinds of shapes out of them, when yet they are not shapes, for as daylight falls on them they are seen to be merely streaks.

[4] From all this it may be seen that facts are a means to becoming wise and also a means to becoming insane; that is, that they are a means to perfecting the rational or else a means to destroying it. Those therefore who have destroyed the rational by means of facts are in the next life far more stupid than those who have not possessed any skill in the use of factual knowledge. The coarseness of facts compared with rational ideas is evident from the consideration that they belong to the natural or external man, and that the rational which is cultivated by means of them belongs to the spiritual or internal man. How far facts are different from and distant from the rational as regards purity can be known from what has been stated and shown about the two memories in 2469-2494.

  
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