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创世记 21

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1 耶和华按着先前的话眷顾撒拉,便照他所的给撒拉成就。

2 亚伯拉罕年老的时候,撒拉怀了孕;到的日期,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以撒

4 以撒生下来第八日,亚伯拉罕照着所吩咐的,给以撒行了割礼

5 儿子以撒生的时候,亚伯拉罕年一岁。

6 撒拉使我喜笑,凡见的必与我一同喜笑;

7 :谁能预先对亚伯拉罕撒拉要养婴孩呢?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: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 亚伯拉罕:你不必为这童子和你的使女忧愁。凡撒拉对你的话,你都该从;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 亚伯拉罕起来,拿饼和一皮袋了夏甲,搭在他的肩上,又把孩子交他,打发他走。夏甲就走了,在别是巴的旷野走迷了路。

15 皮袋的用尽了,夏甲就把孩子撇在小树底

16 自己走开约有一箭之远,相对而:我不忍见孩子,就相对而,放声大哭。

17 见童子的声音的使者从呼叫夏甲:夏甲,你为何这样呢?不要害怕已经见童子的声音了。

18 起来!把童子抱在怀(原文作)中,我必使他的後裔成为国。

19 使夏甲的眼睛明亮,他就见一口,便去将皮袋盛满了,给童子喝。

20 保佑童子,他就渐长,旷野,成了弓箭手。

21 在巴兰的旷野;他母亲埃及给他娶了一个妻子

22 当那时候,亚比米勒同他军长非各对亚伯拉罕:凡你所行的事都有的保佑。

23 我愿你如今在这里指着对我起誓,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的民。

24 亚伯拉罕:我情愿起誓。

25 从前,亚比米勒的仆人霸占了一口亚伯拉罕为这事指责亚比米勒。

26 亚比米勒:谁做这事,我不知道,你也没有告诉我,今日我才见了。

27 亚伯拉罕和牛了亚比米勒,人就彼此立约。

28 亚伯拉罕只母羔另放在一处。

29 亚比米勒问亚伯拉罕:你把这只母羊羔另放在一处,是甚麽意思呢?

30 :你要从我里受这只母羊羔,作我这口的证据。

31 所以他给那地方起名别是巴,因为他们人在那里起了誓。(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 亚伯拉罕非利士人寄居了多日。

   

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Arcana Coelestia #2649

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2649. 'On the day when he was to wean Isaac' means a state of separation. This is clear from the meaning of 'day' as state, dealt with in 23, 487, 488, 493, 893, and from the meaning of 'being weaned' as being separated, dealt with in 2647. Verse 1 onwards of this chapter has dealt in the following order with the Lord's Divine Essence united to His Human Essence:

The presence of the Divine within the Human, for the sake of the two being united, verse 1.

The presence of the Human within the Divine, and thus a reciprocal union, dealt with in 2004, verse 2,

From that union the Human was made Divine, verse 3.

This was effected gradually and constantly while the Lord lived in the world, verse 4.

It started to be effected when the rational was in a state to receive, verse 5.

The nature of the state of union is described, together with the arcana of that state, verses 6-7.

Now reference follows, and is continued through to verse 12, to the separation of the human received from the mother. That separation is meant in this present verse by 'the weaning of Isaac', and in those that follow it is represented by Hagar's son being cast out of the house. And because the union of the Lord's Divine with His Human, and of the Human with the Divine, is the marriage itself of Good and Truth, and from this marriage is derived the heavenly marriage, which is the same as the Lord's kingdom, mention is therefore made of 'a great feast which Abraham made when Isaac was weaned', by which is meant the first stage of that marriage or the first union. Unless this 'feast', and also the weaning, had had some hidden meaning, it would never have been mentioned.

[2] Since the subject which follows now is the separation of the first human which the Lord had from the mother and the total casting off of it ultimately, it should be recognized that right to the end of His life when He was glorified the Lord gradually and constantly separated from Himself and cast off that which was merely human. That is to say, He cast off that which He had derived from the mother, until ultimately He was no longer her son but the Son of God not only in conception but also in birth, and so was one with the Father and was Jehovah himself. The truth that He separated from Himself and cast off the whole of the human received from the mother, insomuch that He was her son no longer, is plainly evident from the Lord's own words in John,

When the wine failed, the mother of Jesus said to Him, They have no wine. Jesus said to her, O woman, What have you to do with Me? John 2:3-4.

In Matthew,

Someone said, Behold, Your mother and Your brothers are standing outside asking to speak to You. But Jesus answering said to the one who had told Him, Who is My mother, and who are My brothers? And stretching out His hand over His disciples He said, Behold My mother and My brothers; for whoever does the will of My Father who is in heaven is My brother, and sister, and mother. Matthew 12:47-50; Mark 3:32-35; Luke 11:27-28.

In Luke,

A certain woman lifting up her voice out of the crowd 1 said to Him, Blessed is the womb that bore You, and the breasts that You sucked. But Jesus said, Blessed are those who hear the word of God and keep it. Luke 11:27-28.

[3] Here, when the woman referred to His mother, the Lord spoke of those mentioned in the preceding quotation. That is to say, He spoke of 'whoever does the will of My Father is My brother, sister, and mother', which amounts to the same as saying, 'Blessed are those who hear the word of God and keep it'. In John,

Jesus seeing his mother, and the disciple whom He loved standing by, said to His mother, O woman, behold your son! Then He said to the disciple, Behold your mother! From that hour therefore the disciple took her to his own home. John 19:26-27.

From these words it is evident that the Lord spoke to her according to what she was thinking when she saw Him on the Cross - though He does not call her mother but woman - and that He gave the name mother instead to those meant by the disciple; hence His words to the disciple, Behold your mother! The matter is plainer still from the Lord's own words in Matthew,

Jesus questioned the Pharisees saying, What do you think about the Christ? Whose son is He? They said to Him, David's. He said to them, How is it then that David in the spirit calls Him Lord, saying, The Lord said to my Lord, Sit at My right hand until I make Your enemies Your footstool. If therefore David calls Him Lord, how is He his son? And no one was able to answer Him a word. Matthew 22:41-end; Mark 12:35-37; Luke 20:42-44.

Accordingly He was no longer David's son as to the flesh.

[4] As regards the separation and casting off of the human from the mother, it must be added that they have no conception of this who entertain merely bodily ideas about the Lord's Human and think of it as they do of the human of any other. To such people these matters are as a consequence stumbling-blocks. They do not know that as is the life so is the person, and that the Divine Being (Esse) of life, or Jehovah, was the Lord's from conception and that a similar Being (Esse) of life manifested itself within His Human through union.

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1. literally, the people

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