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创世记 21

¹ 耶和华按着先前的话眷顾撒拉，便照他所说的给撒拉成就。

² 当亚伯拉罕年老的时候，撒拉怀了孕；到神所说的日期，就给亚伯拉罕生了一个儿子。

³ 亚伯拉罕给撒拉所生的儿子起名叫以撒。

⁴ 以撒生下来第八日，亚伯拉罕照着神所吩咐的，给以撒行了割礼。

⁵ 他儿子以撒生的时候，亚伯拉罕年一百岁。

⁶ 撒拉说：神使我喜笑，凡听见的必与我一同喜笑；

⁷ 又说：谁能预先对亚伯拉罕说撒拉要乳养婴孩呢？因为在他年老的时候，我给他生了一个儿子。

⁸ 孩子渐长，就断了奶。以撒断奶的日子，亚伯拉罕设摆丰盛的筵席。

⁹ 当时，撒拉看见埃及人夏甲给亚伯拉罕所生的儿子戏笑，

¹⁰ 就对亚伯拉罕说：你把这使女和他儿子赶出去！因为这使女的儿子不可与我的儿子以撒一同承受产业。

¹¹ 亚伯拉罕因他儿子的缘故很忧愁。

¹² 神对亚伯拉罕说：你不必为这童子和你的使女忧愁。凡撒拉对你说的话，你都该听从；因为从以撒生的，才要称为你的後裔。

¹³ 至於使女的儿子，我也必使他的後裔成立一国，因为他是你所生的。

¹⁴ 亚伯拉罕清早起来，拿饼和一皮袋水，给了夏甲，搭在他的肩上，又把孩子交给他，打发他走。夏甲就走了，在别是巴的旷野走迷了路。

¹⁵ 皮袋的水用尽了，夏甲就把孩子撇在小树底下，

¹⁶ 自己走开约有一箭之远，相对而坐，说：我不忍见孩子死，就相对而坐，放声大哭。

¹⁷ 神听见童子的声音；神的使者从天上呼叫夏甲说：夏甲，你为何这样呢？不要害怕，神已经听见童子的声音了。

¹⁸ 起来！把童子抱在怀(原文作手)中，我必使他的後裔成为大国。

¹⁹ 神使夏甲的眼睛明亮，他就看见一口水井，便去将皮袋盛满了水，给童子喝。

²⁰ 神保佑童子，他就渐长，住在旷野，成了弓箭手。

²¹ 他住在巴兰的旷野；他母亲从埃及地给他娶了一个妻子。

²² 当那时候，亚比米勒同他军长非各对亚伯拉罕说：凡你所行的事都有神的保佑。

²³ 我愿你如今在这里指着神对我起誓，不要欺负我与我的儿子，并我的子孙。我怎样厚待了你，你也要照样厚待我与你所寄居这地的民。

²⁴ 亚伯拉罕说：我情愿起誓。

²⁵ 从前，亚比米勒的仆人霸占了一口水井，亚伯拉罕为这事指责亚比米勒。

²⁶ 亚比米勒说：谁做这事，我不知道，你也没有告诉我，今日我才听见了。

²⁷ 亚伯拉罕把羊和牛给了亚比米勒，二人就彼此立约。

²⁸ 亚伯拉罕把七只母羊羔另放在一处。

²⁹ 亚比米勒问亚伯拉罕说：你把这七只母羊羔另放在一处，是甚麽意思呢？

³⁰ 他说：你要从我手里受这七只母羊羔，作我挖这口井的证据。

³¹ 所以他给那地方起名叫别是巴，因为他们二人在那里起了誓。(别是巴就是盟誓的井的意思)

³² 他们在别是巴立了约，亚比米勒就同他军长非各起身回非利士地去了。

³³ 亚伯拉罕在别是巴栽上一棵垂丝柳树，又在那里求告耶和华─永生神的名。

³⁴ 亚伯拉罕在非利士人的地寄居了多日。

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Arcana Coelestia #2341

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2341. 'And he made a feast for them' means dwelling together. This is clear from the meaning of 'a feast'. 'Feasts' are mentioned in various places in the Word, and in those places they mean in the internal sense dwelling together, as in Jeremiah,

The word of Jehovah came to him, You shall not go into the house of feasting to sit with them, to eat and to drink. Jeremiah 16:8.

In that chapter the prophet is told many things by which he was to represent the necessity for good to have no connection with evil, nor truth to have any with falsity. Among other things he was required 'not to go into the house of feasting', which meant that good and truth were not to dwell together with evil and falsity.

[2] In Isaiah,

Jehovah Zebaoth will make on this mountain a feast of fat things for all peoples, a feast of sweet wines, of fat things full of marrow, of wines well-refined. Isaiah 25:6.

Here 'mountain' stands for love to the Lord, 795, 1430. People with whom that love exists dwell together with the Lord in good and truth, which are meant by 'a feast'. 'Fat things' and those 'full of marrow' are goods, 353, 'sweet and well-refined wines' are truths deriving from goods, 1071.

[3] The feasts made from the consecrated elements when sacrifices were offered represented in the Jewish Church nothing else than the Lord's dwelling together with man within the holy things of love meant by sacrifices, 2187. The same was at a later time meant by the Holy Supper, which the Primitive Church called a feast.

[4] Chapter 21 below refers to Abraham making a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned, in verse 8. This feast represented and therefore meant the dwelling together and initial conjunction of the Lord's Divine itself with His Human Rational. 'Feasts' have the same meaning in the internal sense in other places, as may also be deduced from the fact that feasts are occasions involving a number of people who are all simultaneously filled with love and charity, who are opening their minds to one another, and who are enjoying together the glad feelings that are the expressions of love and charity.

Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.