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Sáng thế 40

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1 Mấy việc nầy qua rồi, xảy có quan tửu chánh và quan thượng thiện của vua Ê-díp-tô phạm đến chúa mình.

2 Pha-ra-ôn nổi giận cùng hai quan mình, là tửu chánh và thượng thiện,

3 bèn đem họ cần ngục tại dinh quan thị vệ, là nơi đương cầm Giô-sép.

4 Quan thị vệ cắt phần Giô-sép hầu việc hai quan đó; họ bị ngồi ngục một ít lâu.

5 Cùng trong một đêm, quan tửu chánh và quan thượng thiện của vua Ê-díp-tô đương bị cầm ngục, thấy một điềm chiêm bao, mỗi người một chiêm bao, và mỗi chiêm bao có ý nghĩa rõ ràng.

6 Sáng mai, Giô-sép đến cùng họ, nhìn thấy sắc buồn bực,

7 bèn hỏi rằng: Ngày nay sao hai quan có sắc mặt âu sầu vậy?

8 Ðáp rằng: Chúng tôi có thấy một điềm chiêm bao mà không ai bàn giùm. Giô-sép rằng: Sự bàn chiêm bao há chẳng do nơi Ðức Chúa Trời ư? Xin hãy thuật lại điềm chiêm bao của hai quan cho tôi nghe đi.

9 Quan tửu chánh thuật điềm chiêm bao mình lại cho Giô-sép mà rằng: Trong chiêm bao, tôi thấy một gốc nho ở trước mặt tôi;

10 gốc nho đó lại có ba nhành. Dường như thấy nhành nảy chồi, trổ bông, chùm có trái chín thì phải.

11 Tay tôi đương cầm cái chén của Pha-ra-ôn; tôi hái nho đó, ép nước nho vào, rồi dâng tửu bôi vào Tay Pha-ra-ôn.

12 Giô-sép nói: Ý-nghĩa chiêm bao đó là thể nầy: Ba nhành nho tức là ba ngày.

13 Trong ba ngày nữa, Pha-ra-ôn sẽ tha quan ra khỏi ngục, phục chức lại, quan sẽ dâng cái chén của Pha-ra-ôn vào tay người như cũ, như khi còn làm chức tửu chánh.

14 Song khi quan được hưởng lạc lại rồi, xin nhớ đến tôi, làm ơn tâu cùng Pha-ra-ôn về nổi tôi, và đem tôi ra khỏi chốn nầy.

15 Vì tôi bị người ta bắt đem ra khỏi xứ của người Hê-bơ-rơ, và tại đây tôi cũng chẳng có làm gì mà bị cầm nơi lao-lung nầy.

16 Quan thượng thiện thấy Giô-sép bàn mộng được tốt, bèn nói: Còn trong điềm chiêm bao của tôi đây, tôi đội ba giỏ bánh trắng trên đầu;

17 trong giỏ cao hơn hết, có đủ món thực vật của thợ làm bánh hấp cho Pha-ra-ôn; chim đáp vào giỏ trên đầu tôi ăn các món đó.

18 Giô-sép đáp rằng: Ý-nghĩa chiêm bao nầy là, ba giỏ, tức là ba ngày.

19 Trong ba ngày nữa, Pha-ra-ôn sẽ xử trảm quan, sai đem treo lên cây cho chim chóc ăn thịt quan vậy.

20 Ðến ngày thứ ba, là ngày sanh-nhựt của Pha-ra-ôn, người bèn bày tiệc đãi cả quần thần, và tha quan tửu chánh cùng quan thượng thiện ra khỏi ngục.

21 Pha-ra-ôn phục chức quan tửu chánh lại như xưa, đặng quan nầy dân tửu bôi vào tay mình;

22 nhưng lại hạ lịnh đem treo quan thượng thiện, y như lời Giô-sép đã bàn ra.

23 Ðoạn, quan tửu chánh chẳng còn nhớ đến Giô-sép nữa; quên người đi.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 5119

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5119. And I took the grapes, and pressed them into Pharaoh’s cup. That this signifies reciprocal influx into the goods from a spiritual origin there, is evident from the signification of “grapes,” as being the goods of charity (of which just above, n. 5117), thus goods from a spiritual origin, for all the goods of genuine charity are from this source; and from the signification of “pressing into Pharaoh’s cup,” as being reciprocal influx. By reciprocal influx it is not meant that the exterior natural flows into the interior, because this is impossible; for exterior things cannot possibly flow into interior things; or what is the same thing, lower or posterior things into higher and prior ones; but the rational calls forth the things which are in the interior natural, and by means of this the things which are in the exterior; not that the things themselves which are therein are called forth, but that which has been concluded or as it were extracted from them. Such is the nature of reciprocal influx. It appears as if the things which are in the world flow in through the senses toward the interiors, but this is a fallacy of sense; the influx is of interiors into exteriors, and by means of this influx, perception. On these subjects I have at times conversed with spirits; and it was shown by living experience that the interior man sees and perceives in the exterior what is done outside of this, and that the sensuous has life from no other source, or that from no other source is the faculty of sense, or sensation. But this fallacy is of such a nature, and so great, that it can by no means be dispelled by the natural man, and not even by the rational unless this is able to think abstractedly from what is sensuous. These things are said in order that it may be known what reciprocal influx is.

  
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Genesis 40

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1 It happened after these things, that the butler of the king of Egypt and his baker offended their lord, the king of Egypt.

2 Pharaoh was angry with his two officers, the chief cupbearer and the chief baker.

3 He put them in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph was bound.

4 The captain of the guard assigned them to Joseph, and he took care of them. They stayed in prison many days.

5 They both dreamed a dream, each man his dream, in one night, each man according to the interpretation of his dream, the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were bound in the prison.

6 Joseph came in to them in the morning, and saw them, and saw that they were sad.

7 He asked Pharaoh's officers who were with him in custody in his master's house, saying, "Why do you look so sad today?"

8 They said to him, "We have dreamed a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it." Joseph said to them, "Don't interpretations belong to God? Please tell it to me."

9 The chief cupbearer told his dream to Joseph, and said to him, "In my dream, behold, a vine was in front of me,

10 and in the vine were three branches. It was as though it budded, its blossoms shot forth, and its clusters brought forth ripe grapes.

11 Pharaoh's cup was in my hand; and I took the grapes, and pressed them into Pharaoh's cup, and I gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand."

12 Joseph said to him, "This is its interpretation: the three branches are three days.

13 Within three more days, Pharaoh will lift up your head, and restore you to your office. You will give Pharaoh's cup into his hand, the way you did when you were his cupbearer.

14 But remember me when it will be well with you, and please show kindness to me, and make mention of me to Pharaoh, and bring me out of this house.

15 For indeed, I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews, and here also have I done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon."

16 When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good, he said to Joseph, "I also was in my dream, and behold, three baskets of white bread were on my head.

17 In the uppermost basket there was all kinds of baked food for Pharaoh, and the birds ate them out of the basket on my head."

18 Joseph answered, "This is its interpretation. The three baskets are three days.

19 Within three more days, Pharaoh will lift up your head from off you, and will hang you on a tree; and the birds will eat your flesh from off you."

20 It happened the third day, which was Pharaoh's birthday, that he made a feast for all his servants, and he lifted up the head of the chief cupbearer and the head of the chief baker among his servants.

21 He restored the chief cupbearer to his position again, and he gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand;

22 but he hanged the chief baker, as Joseph had interpreted to them.

23 Yet the chief cupbearer didn't remember Joseph, but forgot him.