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1 亚伯拉罕的日子,那有一次饥荒;这时又有饥荒,以撒就往基拉耳去,到非利士人的王亚比米勒那里。

2 耶和华向以撒显现,:你不要去,要住在我所指示你的

3 你寄居在这,我必与你同在,赐福你,因为我要将这些都赐你和你的後裔。我必坚定我向你父亚伯拉罕所起的誓。

4 我要加增你的後裔,像上的那样多,又要将这些都赐你的後裔。并且上万国必因你的後裔得福─

5 都因亚伯拉罕听从我的话,遵守我的吩咐和我的命令、律例、度。

6 以撒在基拉耳。

7 地方的人问到他的妻子,他便:那是我的妹子。原来他:是我的妻子;他心里想:恐地方的人为利百加的缘故杀我,因为他容貌俊美。

8 他在那里住了许久。有一天非利士人的王亚比米勒从窗户里往外观,见以撒和他的妻子利百加戏玩。

9 亚比米勒召了以撒来,对他:他实在是你的妻子,你怎麽他是你的妹子?以撒:我心里想,恐怕我因他而

10 亚比米勒:你向我们做的是甚麽事呢?民中险些有人和你的妻同寝,把我们陷在罪里。

11 於是亚比米勒晓谕众民说:凡沾着这个,或是他妻子的,定要把他治

12 以撒在那耕种,那一年有倍的收成。耶和华赐福给他,

13 他就昌大,日增月盛,成了大富户。

14 他有羊群牛群,又有许多仆人,非利士人就嫉妒他。

15 当他父亲亚伯拉罕在世的日子,他父亲仆人非利士人全都塞住,满了土。

16 亚比米勒对以撒:你离开我们去罢。因为你比我们强盛得多。

17 以撒就离开那里,在基拉耳谷支搭帐棚,在那里。

18 当他父亲亚伯拉罕在世之日所非利士人亚伯拉罕塞住了,以撒就重新出来,仍照他父亲那些名字

19 以撒的仆人,便得了一口活

20 基拉耳的牧人与以撒的牧人争竞,:这是我们的。以撒就给那起名埃色(就是相争的意思),因为他们和他相争。

21 以撒的仆人又了一口,他们又为这争竞,因此以撒给这起名西提拿(就是为敌的意思)。

22 以撒离开那里,又了一口,他们不为这争竞了,他就给那起名利河伯(就是宽阔的意思)。他耶和华现在给我们宽阔之我们必在这昌盛。

23 以撒从那里上别是巴去。

24 当夜耶和华向他显现,:我是你父亲亚伯拉罕的,不要惧!因为我与你同在,要赐福给你,并要为我仆人亚伯拉罕的缘故,使你的後裔繁多。

25 以撒就在那里筑了一座,求告耶和华的名,并且支搭帐棚;他的仆人便在那里了一口

26 亚比米勒,同他的朋友亚户撒和他的军长非各,从基拉耳来见以撒。

27 以撒对他们:你们既然恨我,打发我走了,为甚麽到我这里呢?

28 他们我们明明的耶和华与你同在,便,不如我们两下彼此起誓,彼此立约,

29 使你不害我们,正如我们未曾害你,一味的厚待你,并且打发你平平安安的走。你是蒙耶和华赐福的了。

30 以撒就为他们设摆筵席,他们便吃了了。

31 他们清起来彼此起誓。以撒打发他们走,他们就平平安安的离开他走了。

32 一天以撒的仆人,将的事告诉:我们得了了。

33 他就给那井起名示巴;因此那城做别是巴,直到今日。

34 以扫四十岁的时候娶了赫人比利的女儿犹滴,与赫人以伦的女儿巴实抹为妻。

35 他们常使以撒和利百加心里愁烦。

   

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3425. And the shepherds of Gerar strove with Isaac’s shepherds. That this signifies that they who taught did not see any such thing therein because the senses appeared opposed, is evident from the signification of “disputing,” when the internal sense of the Word is concerned, as being to deny it to be such by saying that they do not see it; and from the signification of “shepherds,” as being those who teach (n. 343); and from the signification of “Gerar,” as being faith (n. 1209, 2504, 3365, 3384); thus “the shepherds of the valley of Gerar” denote those who acknowledge only the literal sense of the Word. The reason why they see no such thing, that is, no interior sense, is that the two appear opposite, namely, what is in the internal sense, and what is in the literal sense. But their appearing to be opposite does not prove that they are so, for they wholly correspond; and the reason they appear opposite is that they who see the Word so are in what is opposite.

[2] It is the same in the case of a man who is in opposition within himself, that is, whose external or natural man is in entire disagreement with his internal or spiritual man. Such a man sees that which is of the internal or spiritual man as opposed to himself, when yet in respect to the external or natural man, he himself is in that which is opposed; and if he were not in this, so that his external or natural man yielded obedience to the internal or spiritual man, the two would wholly correspond. For example: the man who is in what is opposed believes that in order for him to receive eternal life riches are to be renounced, as well as all the pleasures of the body and of the world, thus the delights of life; such things being supposed to be opposed to spiritual life, whereas in themselves they are not so, but correspond, because they are means to an end, namely, that the internal or spiritual man may enjoy them so as to be able to perform the goods of charity, and also may live content in a healthful body. The ends alone are what cause the internal man and the external either to be opposed or to correspond; they are opposed when the riches, pleasures, and delights here spoken of become the ends, for in this case the spiritual and celestial things which are of the internal man are despised and derided, nay, are rejected; but they correspond when such things are not made ends, but means to higher ends, namely, to those things which belong to the life after death, thus to the heavenly kingdom and the Lord Himself. In this case bodily and worldly things appear to the man as scarcely anything in comparison; and when he thinks about them, he values them only as means to ends.

[3] From this it is evident that the things which appear opposed are not opposed in themselves; but they appear so because men are in what is opposed. They who are not in what is opposed, act, speak, and acquire riches, and also enjoy pleasures, similarly as do those who are in what is opposed, insomuch that in the outward appearance they can scarcely be distinguished from each other. The reason is that their ends alone are what distinguish them; or what is the same, their loves; for loves are ends. But although in the outward form, or as to the body, they appear alike, yet in the inward form, or as to the spirit, they are utterly unlike. The spirit of one who is in correspondence-that is, with whom the external man corresponds to the internal-is fair and beautiful, such as is heavenly love in form; but the spirit of one who is in what is opposed-that is, with whom the external man is opposed to the internal-however great may be the outward resemblance to the other, is black and ugly, such as is the love of self and of the world, that is, such as is contempt of others and hatred in form.

[4] The case is the same with a host of things in the Word; that is to say, the things in the literal sense appear opposed to those in the internal sense; when yet they are by no means opposed, but wholly correspond. For example: it is frequently said in the Word that Jehovah or the Lord is angry, is wroth, destroys, and casts into hell; when yet He is never angry, and still less does He cast anyone into hell. The former is of the sense of the letter, but the latter is of the internal sense; and these appear opposed, but this is because the man is in what is opposed. In the same way the Lord appears as a sun to the angels who are in heaven, and thence as vernal warmth, and as light at dawn; but to the infernals He appears as something quite opaque, and thence as wintry cold, and as midnight darkness. Consequently to the angels He appears in love and charity, but to the infernals in hatred and enmity; thus to the latter according to the sense of the letter-that He is angry, is wroth, destroys, and casts into hell; but to the former according to the internal sense-that He is never angry and wroth, and still less destroys and casts into hell; so that when things are being treated of in the Word that are contrary to the Divine, it is inevitable that they should be presented in accordance with the appearance. Moreover it is the Divine which the wicked change into what is diabolical that works in this way; and therefore insofar as they approach the Divine, so far they cast themselves into infernal torments.

[5] The case is the same with the Lord’s words in the prayer: “Lead us not into temptation.” The sense according to the letter is that He leads into temptation; but the internal sense is that He leads no one into temptation, as is well known (see n. 1875). The same is true of all other things that belong to the literal sense of the Word.

  
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