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1 亚伯兰的妻子撒莱不给他生儿女。撒莱有一个使女,名叫夏甲,是埃及人。

2 撒莱对亚伯兰耶和华使我不能生育。求你和我的使女同房,或者我可以因他得孩子(原文作被建立)。亚伯兰听从了撒莱的话。

3 於是亚伯兰的妻子撒莱将使女埃及人夏甲丈夫为妾;那时亚伯兰迦南已经年。

4 亚伯兰与夏甲同房,夏甲就怀了孕;他见自己有孕,就小他的主母。

5 撒莱对亚伯兰:我因你受屈。我将我的使女放在你怀中,他见自己有了孕,就小我。愿耶和华在你我中间判断

6 亚伯兰对撒莱:使女在你下,你可以随意待他。撒莱苦待他,他就从撒莱面前逃走了。

7 耶和华的使者在旷野书珥上的泉旁遇见他,

8 对他:撒莱的使女夏甲,你从那里?要往那里去?夏甲:我从我的主母撒莱面前逃出

9 耶和华的使者对他:你回到你母那里,服在他

10 :我必使你的後裔极其繁多,甚至不可胜

11 :你如今怀孕要生一个儿子,可以给他起名以实玛利,因为耶和华见了你的苦情。(以实玛利就是神见的意思)

12 他为人必像野驴。他的要攻打人,人的也要攻打他;他必住在众弟兄的东边。

13 夏甲就称那对他说话耶和华顾人的神。因而:在这里我也见那顾我的麽?

14 所以这庇耳拉海莱。这正在加低斯和巴列中间。

15 後来夏甲给亚伯兰生了一个儿子亚伯兰给他起名以实玛利

16 夏甲给亚伯兰以实玛利的时候,亚伯兰八十六岁。

   

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Arcana Coelestia #1893

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1893. Sarai, Abram’s wife, did not bear unto him. That this signifies that the rational man was not yet, will be evident from what follows, where Isaac is treated of. For, as has been said, there are in every man an internal man, a rational man that is intermediate, and an external, which is properly called the natural man. With the Lord these were represented by Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; the internal man by Abraham, the rational by Isaac, and the natural by Jacob. The internal man in the Lord was Jehovah Himself, for He was conceived of Jehovah; on this account He so often called Him His “Father,” and in the Word He is called the “Only-begotten of God,” and the only “Son of God.” The rational man is not born with man, but only the capacity for becoming rational, as all may see from the fact that new-born infants are not endowed with any reason, but become rational in process of time by means of things of sense external and internal, as they are imbued with knowledges [scientiae et cognitiones]. In children indeed there is an appearance of rationality, yet it is not rationality, but is only a kind of rudiment of it, which is known from the fact that reason belongs to adults and men of years.

[2] The rational man in the Lord is treated of in this chapter. The Divine Rational itself is represented by Isaac; but the first rational before it was made Divine, by Ishmael; and therefore that “Sarai, Abram’s wife, did not bear unto him” here signifies that hitherto there was no Divine rational. As before said, the Lord was born as are other men, and as regards all that He drew from Mary the mother He was like other men; and as the rational is formed by means of knowledges [scientifica et cognitiones], which enter through things of the external senses, or those of the external man, therefore His first rational was born as with any other man; but as by His own power He made Divine all the human things that appertained to Him, so did He also make the rational Divine. His first rational is described in this chapter, and also in chapter 21, where Hagar and Ishmael are likewise treated of (from verses 9 to 21), and it is said that Ishmael was expelled when Isaac grew up, by whom is represented the Divine rational.

  
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