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Genesis 49

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1 At tinawag ni Jacob ang kaniyang mga anak, at sinabi, Magpipisan kayo, upang maisaysay ko sa inyo ang mangyayari sa inyo sa mga huling araw.

2 Magpipisan kayo at kayo'y makinig, kayong mga anak ni Jacob; At inyong pakinggan si Israel na inyong ama.

3 Ruben, ikaw ang aking panganay, ang aking kapangyarihan, at siyang pasimula ng aking kalakasan; Siyang kasakdalan ng kamahalan, at siyang kasakdalan ng kapangyarihan.

4 Kumukulong parang tubig na umaawas, hindi ka magtataglay ng kasakdalan, Sapagka't, sumampa ka sa higaan ng iyong ama: Hinamak mo nga; sumampa sa aking higaan.

5 Si Simeon at si Levi ay magkapatid; Mga almas na marahas ang kanilang mga tabak.

6 Oh kaluluwa ko, huwag kang pumasok sa kanilang payo; Sa kanilang kapisanan, ay huwag kang makiisa, kaluwalhatian ko; Sapagka't sa kanilang galit ay pumatay ng tao: At sa kanilang sariling kalooban ay pumutol ng hita ng baka.

7 Sumpain ang kanilang galit, sapagka't mabangis; At ang kanilang pagiinit, sapagka't mabagsik. Aking babahagihin sila sa Jacob. At aking pangangalatin sila sa Israel.

8 Juda, ikaw ay pupurihin ng iyong mga kapatid: Ang iyong kamay ay magpapahinga sa leeg ng iyong mga kaaway: Ang mga anak ng iyong ama ay yuyukod sa harap mo.

9 Si Juda'y isang anak ng leon, Mula sa panghuhuli, anak ko umahon ka: Siya'y yumuko, siya'y lumugmok na parang leon; At parang isang leong babae; sinong gigising sa kaniya?

10 Ang setro ay hindi mahihiwalay sa Juda, Ni ang tungkod ng pagkapuno sa pagitan ng kaniyang mga paa, Hanggang sa ang Shiloh ay dumating; At sa kaniya tatalima ang mga bansa.

11 Naitatali ang kaniyang batang asno sa puno ng ubas. At ang guya ng kaniyang asno sa puno ng piling ubas; Nilabhan niya ang kaniyang suot sa alak, At ang kaniyang damit sa katas ng ubas.

12 Ang kaniyang mga mata ay mamumula sa alak, At ang kaniyang mga ngipin ay mamumuti sa gatas.

13 Si Zabulon ay tatahan sa daongan ng dagat: At siya'y magiging daongan ng mga sasakyan; At ang kaniyang hangganan ay magiging hanggang Sidon.

14 Si Issachar ay isang malakas na asno, Na lumulugmok sa gitna ng mga tupahan:

15 At nakakita siya ng dakong pahingahang mabuti, At ng lupang kaayaaya; At kaniyang iniyukod ang kaniyang balikat upang pumasan, At naging aliping mangaatag.

16 Si Dan ay hahatol sa kaniyang bayan, Gaya ng isa sa angkan ni Israel.

17 Si Dan ay magiging ahas sa daan, At ulupong sa landas, Na nangangagat ng mga sakong ng kabayo, Na ano pa't nahuhulog sa likuran ang sakay niyaon.

18 Aking hinintay ang iyong pagliligtas, Oh Panginoon.

19 Si Gad, ay hahabulin ng isang pulutong: Nguni't siya ang hahabol sa kanila.

20 Hinggil kay Aser, ay lulusog ang tinapay niya, At gagawa ng masasarap na pagkain.

21 Si Nephtali ay isang usang babaing kawala: Siya'y nagbabadya ng maririkit na pananalita.

22 Si Jose ay sangang mabunga, Sangang mabunga na nasa tabi ng bukal; Ang kaniyang mga sanga'y gumagapang sa pader.

23 Pinamanglaw siya ng mga mamamana, At pinana siya, at inusig siya:

24 Nguni't ang kaniyang busog ay nanahan sa kalakasan, At pinalakas ang mga bisig ng kaniyang mga kamay, Sa pamamagitan ng mga kamay ng Makapangyarihan ni Jacob, (Na siyang pinagmulan ng pastor, ang bato ng Israel),

25 Sa pamamagitan nga ng Dios ng iyong ama, na siyang tutulong sa iyo, At sa pamamagitan ng Makapangyarihan sa lahat, na siyang magpapala sa iyo, Ng pagpapala ng langit sa itaas, Pagpapala ng mga kalaliman na nalalagay sa ibaba, Pagpapala ng mga dibdib at ng bahay-bata.

26 Ang mga basbas ng iyong ama na humigit sa basbas ng aking mga kanunuan Hanggang sa wakas ng mga burol na walang hanggan: Mangapapasa ulo ni Jose, At sa tuktok ng ulo niya na bukod tangi sa kaniyang mga kapatid.

27 Si Benjamin ay isang lobo na mangaagaw: Sa kinaumagaha'y kaniyang kakanin ang huli, At sa kinahapunan ay kaniyang babahagihin ang samsam.

28 Ang lahat ng ito ang labing dalawang angkan ng Israel: at ito ang sinalita ng ama nila sa kanila, at sila'y binasbasan; bawa't isa'y binasbasan ng ayon sa basbas sa kanikaniya,

29 At kaniyang ipinagbilin sa kanila, at sinabi sa kanila: Ako'y malalakip sa aking bayan: ilibing ninyo ako sa kasamahan ng aking mga magulang sa yungib na nasa parang ni Ephron na Hetheo,

30 Sa yungib na nasa parang ng Machpela, na nasa tapat ng Mamre, sa lupain ng Canaan, na binili ni Abraham, na kalakip ng parang kay Ephron na Hetheo, na pinakaaring libingan:

31 Na doon nila inilibing si Abraham at si Sara na kaniyang asawa; na doon nila inilibing si Isaac at si Rebeca na kaniyang asawa; at doon ko inilibing si Lea:

32 Sa parang at sa yungib na nandoon na binili sa mga anak ni Heth.

33 At nang matapos si Jacob na makapagbilin sa kaniyang mga anak, ay kaniyang itinaas at itinikom ang kaniyang mga paa sa higaan, at nalagot ang hininga, at nalakip sa kaniyang bayan.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 6398

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6398. Dan shall be a serpent upon the way. That this signifies their reasoning about truth because good does not as yet lead, is evident from the representation of Dan, as being those who are in truth and not yet in good (see n. 6396); from the signification of a “serpent,” as being reasoning from what is sensuous (of which in what follows); and from the signification of “way,” as being truth (n. 627, 2333). Thus by “Dan being a serpent upon the way” is signified their reasoning about truth, because good does not yet lead. The quality of this reasoning and of the consequent truth, will be told in what follows.

[2] That a “serpent” denotes reasoning from what is sensuous, is because the interiors of man are represented in heaven by animals of various kinds, and hence in the Word the like are signified by the same animals. The sensuous things of man were represented by serpents because sensuous things are the lowest things in man, and are relatively earthly, and as it were creeping; as may also be seen from the forms through which sensuous things flow, concerning which, of the Lord’s Divine mercy elsewhere. Hence these sensuous things were represented by serpents, and even the Lord’s Divine sensuous was represented by the brazen serpent in the wilderness (n. 4211); and prudence and circumspection, in externals, is signified by “serpents” in Matthew:

Be ye wise as serpents, and harmless as doves (Matthew 10:16).

But when a man is in what is sensuous, remote from what is internal, as are those who are in truth and not yet in good, and speaks from what is sensuous, then by the “serpent” is signified reasoning; here therefore, where Dan is treated of, is signified reasoning about truth, because good does not yet lead. In other cases malice, cunning, and deceit, are signified by “serpents,” but by poisonous serpents, as by “vipers” and the like, the reasoning of which is poison. (That the “serpent” denotes reasoning from what is sensuous may be seen above,n. 195-197; also that the “serpent” denotes all evil in general; and that evils are distinguished by different kinds of serpents n. 251, 254, 257)

  
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Arcana Coelestia # 680

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680. That goods and truths are the genuine foods of man must be evident to everyone, for he who is destitute of them has no life, but is dead. When a man is spiritually dead the foods with which his soul is fed are delights from evils and pleasantnesses from falsities-which are foods of death-and are also those which come from bodily, worldly, and natural things, which also have nothing of life in them. Moreover, such a man does not know what spiritual and celestial food is, insomuch that whenever “food” or “bread” is mentioned in the Word he supposes the food of the body to be meant; as in the Lord’s prayer, the words “Give us our daily bread” he supposes to mean only sustenance for the body; and those who extend their ideas further say it includes also other necessaries of the body, such as clothing, property, and the like. They even sharply deny that any other food is meant; when yet they see plainly that the words preceding and following involve only celestial and spiritual things, and that the Lord’s kingdom is spoken of; and besides, they might know that the Word of the Lord is celestial and spiritual.

[2] From this and other similar examples it must be sufficiently evident how corporeal is man at the present day; and that, like the Jews, he is disposed to take everything that is said in the Word in the most gross and material sense. The Lord Himself clearly teaches what is meant in His Word by “food” and “bread.” Concerning “food” He thus speaks in John:

Jesus said, Labor not for the meat [or food] which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto eternal life, which the Son of man shall give unto you (John 6:27).

And concerning “bread” He says, in the same chapter:

Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead. This is the Bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof and not die. I am the living Bread which came down from heaven; if any man eat of this Bread he shall live eternally (John 6:49-51, 58).

But at the present day there are men like those who heard these words and said: “This is a hard saying; who can hear it?” and who “went back and walked no more with Him” (John 6:60, 66), to whom the Lord said: “The words that I speak unto you they are spirit and they are life” (John 6:63).

[3] And so with respect to “water” which signifies the spiritual things of faith, and concerning which the Lord thus speaks in John:

Jesus said, Everyone that drinketh of this water shall thirst again; but 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 4:13-14).

But at the present day there are those who are like the woman with whom the Lord spoke at the well, and who answered, “Lord, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come hither to draw” (John 4:15).

[4] That in the Word “food” means no other than spiritual and celestial food, which is faith in the Lord, and love, is evident from many passages in the Word, as in Jeremiah:

The enemy hath spread out his hand upon all the desirable things of Jerusalem; for she hath seen that the nations are entered into her sanctuary, concerning whom Thou didst command that they should not enter into Thy congregation. All the people groan, they seek bread; they have given their desirable things for food to refresh the soul (Lamentations 1:10-11).

No other than spiritual bread and food are here meant, for the subject is the sanctuary. Again:

I have cried out for my lovers, they have deceived me; my priests and mine elders in the city expired, for they sought food for themselves, to refresh their soul (Lamentations 1:19),

with the same meaning.

In David:

These wait all upon Thee, that Thou mayest give them their food in its season; Thou givest them, they gather; Thou openest thine hand, they are satisfied with good (Psalms 104:27-28).

Here likewise spiritual and celestial food is meant.

[5] In Isaiah:

Ho, everyone that thirsteth, come ye to the waters; and he that hath no silver; come ye, buy and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without silver, and without price (Isaiah 55:1),

where “wine” and “milk” denote spiritual and celestial drink. Again:

A virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and thou shalt call His name Immanuel; butter and honey shall He eat, that He may know to refuse the evil and choose the good; and it shall come to pass that for the abundance of milk that they shall give they shall eat butter; for butter and honey shall everyone eat that is left in the midst of the land (Isaiah 7:1, 4-15, 22).

Here to “eat honey and butter” is to appropriate what is celestial-spiritual; “they that are left” denote remains, concerning whom also in Malachi:

Bring ye all the tithes into the treasure house, that there may be food in My house (Malachi 3:10).

“Tithes” denote remains. (Concerning the signification of “food” see above, n. 56-58, 276.)

  
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