แหล่งกำเนิด 29:17
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Exploring the Meaning of Genesis 29
Napsal(a) New Christian Bible Study Staff
Here are some excerpts from Swedenborg's "Arcana Coelestia" that help explain the inner meaning of this chapter:
AC 3758. In the internal sense of this chapter by "Jacob" is described the Lord’s natural-how the good of truth therein was conjoined with kindred good from a Divine origin, which good is Laban;" at first through the affection of external truth, which is "Leah;" and then through the affection of internal truth, which is "Rachel."
AC 3759. Afterwards by the birth of the four sons of Jacob by Leah is described in the supreme sense the ascent from external truth to internal good; but in the representative sense the state of the church, which is such that it does not acknowledge and receive the internal truths that are in the Word, but external truths; and this being the case, it ascends to interior things according to this order, namely, that at first it has the truth which is said to be of faith; next, practice according to this truth; afterwards the consequent charity; and finally celestial love. These four degrees are signified by the four sons of Jacob borne of Leah, namely, Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah.
Arcana Coelestia # 3760
3760. THE INTERNAL SENSE
Verse 1 And Jacob lifted up his feet and went to the land of the sons of the east.
'Jacob lifted up his feet' means a raising up of the natural. 'And went to the land of the sons of the east' means towards truths that relate to love.