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1 亚伯拉罕又娶了一妻,名叫基土拉。

2 基土拉给他生了心兰、约珊、米但、米甸、伊施巴,和书亚。

3 约珊生了示巴和底但。底但的子孙是亚书利族、利都是族,和利乌米族。

4 米甸儿子是以法、以弗、哈诺、亚比大,和以勒大。这都是基土拉的子孙。

5 亚伯拉罕将一切所有的都以撒

6 亚伯拉罕把财物分他庶出的众子,趁着自己还在世的时候打发他们离开他的儿子以撒,往东方去。

7 亚伯拉罕一生的年日是一十五岁。

8 亚伯拉罕寿高年迈,气绝而,归到他列祖(原文作本民)那里。

9 他两个儿子以撒以实玛利把他埋葬在麦比拉洞里。这洞在幔利前、赫人琐辖的儿子以弗仑的田中,

10 就是亚伯拉罕向赫人买的那块田。亚伯拉罕和他妻子撒拉都葬在那里。

11 亚伯拉罕死了以赐福给他的儿子以撒以撒靠近庇耳拉海莱居住

12 撒拉的使女埃及人夏甲给亚伯拉罕所生的儿子以实玛利

13 以实玛利儿子们的名字,按着他们的家谱记在下面。以实玛利长子是尼拜约,又有基达、亚德别、米比衫、

14 米施玛、度玛、玛撒、

15 哈大、提玛、伊突、拿非施、基底玛。

16 这是以实玛利众子的名字,照着他们的村庄、营寨,作了十二族的族长。

17 以实玛利享寿一三十岁,气绝而,归到他列祖(原文作本民)那里。

18 他子孙的住处在他众弟兄东边,从哈腓拉直到埃及前的书珥,正在亚述的道上。

19 亚伯拉罕的儿子以撒的後代记在下面。亚伯拉罕以撒

20 以撒娶利百加为妻的时候正四十岁。利百加是巴旦亚兰地的亚兰人彼土利的女儿,是亚兰人拉班的妹子。

21 以撒因他妻子不生育,就为他祈求耶和华耶和华应允他的祈求,他的妻子利百加就怀了孕。

22 孩子们在他腹中彼此相争,他就:若是这样,我为甚麽活着呢(或作我为甚麽如此呢)?他就去求问耶和华

23 耶和华对他:两国在你腹内;两族要从你身上出来。这族必强於那族;将来大的要服事小的。

24 生产的日子到了,腹中果然是双子。

25 先产的身体发红,浑身有毛,如同皮衣,他们就给他起名以扫(就是有毛的意思)。

26 又生了以扫兄弟抓住以扫脚跟,因此给他起名雅各(就是抓住的意思)。利百加生下两个儿子的时候,以撒年正六十岁。

27 两个孩子渐渐长大,以扫善於打猎,常在田野;雅各安静,常在帐棚里。

28 以撒以扫,因为常吃他的野味;利百加却雅各

29 有一天,雅各熬汤,以扫从田野回累昏了。

30 以扫雅各:我累昏了,求你把这红汤给我喝。因此以扫以东(就是红的意思)。

31 雅各:你今日把长子的名分给我罢。

32 以扫:我将要,这长子的名分於我有甚麽益处呢?

33 雅各:你今日对我起誓罢。以扫就对他起了誓,把长子的名分雅各

34 於是雅各将饼和红豆汤以扫以扫吃了了,便起来走了。这就是以扫轻看了他长子的名分。

   

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Arcana Coelestia #3242

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3242. And the sons of Midian: Ephah, and Epher, and Hanoch, and Abida, and Eldaah. That this signifies the derivations from the third class, can be seen from the representation of Midian, as being those who are in the truth of faith (concerning which below); and as those who are in the truth of faith are “Midian,” it follows that his “sons” are the derivations therefrom. With those who are in the truth of faith the case is this: No one is admitted into the Lord’s kingdom unless he is in the good of faith, for the good of faith is of the life, and the life of faith remains, but not the doctrine of faith, except insofar as it makes one with the life; nevertheless they who are in the truth of faith (that is, who profess faith and call it essential, because they have so learned) and yet are in the good of life (that is, who are Christians in heart and not in profession only), are in the Lord’s spiritual kingdom. For anyone may easily be persuaded that faith is the essential when he has been so taught by his instructors and has imbibed this opinion in his childhood, and because they who are reputed most learned and the heads of the church say so, some of whom are afraid to speak of the good of life because their life condemns them; moreover the things that belong to faith flow in perceptibly, but not so those which belong to charity.

[2] They therefore who are in the truth of faith and yet in the good of life, are they who are called Midian;” and the truths according to which they live are the “sons of Midian;” and as those who are in the truth of faith conjoined with its good are “Midian,” so also in the opposite sense are those who are in falsity from not having the good of life, as can be seen from the following passages.

In Isaiah:

The abundance of camels shall cover thee, the dromedaries of Midian and Ephah, all they from Sheba shall come; they shall bring gold and frankincense, and they shall proclaim the praises of Jehovah (Isaiah 60:6); where the Lord’s spiritual kingdom is treated of. The “dromedaries of Midian and Ephah” denote doctrinal things; doctrinal things of good are “gold;” those of truth are “frankincense;” both are the “praises of Jehovah;” hence also it is manifest what “Ephah” signifies. (That by the “Midianites” who drew Joseph out of the pit, and sold him to the Ishmaelites, and into Egypt to Potiphar, Genesis 37:28, 36, are signified those who are in the truth of simple good, will be seen, of the Lord’s Divine mercy, in the explication of these verses hereafter.)

[3] That by “Midian” are also signified those who are in falsity because they have not the goods of life, can be seen from what is said concerning Midian in Moses:

The elders of Moab and the elders of Midian, with the rewards of divination in their hand, went to Balaam, and spake to him the words of Balak (Numbers 22:4, 7, etc.).

In a good sense “Moab” denotes those who are in natural good and suffer themselves to be easily led astray; but in the opposite sense, those who adulterate goods (n. 2468). In a good sense “Midian” denotes those who are in the truth of simple good, as before said, and who thus allow themselves to be easily persuaded; in the opposite sense, as here, those who falsify truths. The falsifications are signified by “the rewards of divination in their hand;” and the deeds from these falsities, by their sending to Balaam in hostility to the sons of Israel, who denote the goods and derivative truths of faith.

[4] The like was signified by the whoredoms of the sons of Israel with the women of the Midianites, resulting in a plague, which was stayed by Phinehas thrusting his spear through the Midianitish woman and the man of Israel in the brothel (Numbers 25:6-8); for by whoredoms were represented the falsifications of truth (n. 2466, 2729). And because falsifications of truth are what in the internal sense are signified by whoredoms, therefore by command twelve thousand of the sons of Israel smote the Midianites, slew their kings, and every male, and the women whom they had led captive that had known a man, and divided the spoil among themselves (Numbers 25:16-17; 31:1-54 the end). The reason why there were twelve thousand, was that “twelve” signified all things of faith (n. 577, 2089, 2129, 2130), by which falsities are destroyed; the “kings” whom they killed are falsities, and so is “every male;” the “women that had known a man” are the affections of falsity; the “spoil” (as gold, silver, cattle) are the truths that were falsified; from all which it is evident that each and all of the things there mentioned are representative of the punishment and destruction of what is false by means of truths.

[5] It is similar in regard to what is said of the Midianites in the book of Judges, namely, that the sons of Israel, because they did evil in the eyes of Jehovah, were given into the hand of Midian seven years; and that the sons of Israel, by reason of Midian, made for themselves caves in the mountains, and also dens, and fortified places; and when Israel had sown, that Midian and Amalek and the sons of the east came up and ravaged the produce of their land; and afterwards that they were delivered by Gideon with three hundred men who lapped water with the tongue like a dog, and that those were sent home who bowed upon the knees and drank, besides other particulars (chapters 6, 7, 8). Here also the things mentioned each and all are representative of the falsification of truth, and of punishment on this account, even to their being destroyed by such things as are signified by lapping water with the tongue like a dog; but what each particular signifies in the internal sense it would be too tedious to unfold here; yet of the Lord’s Divine mercy it shall be told in its place.

In Habakkuk:

He beheld, and dispersed the nations; and the eternal mountains 1 were scattered, the everlasting hills did bow. I saw the tents of Cushan under Aven, the curtains of the land of Midian did tremble (Hab. 3:6-7); where the advent of the Lord is treated of. The “tents of Cushan” denote a religiosity from evil; the “curtains of the land of Midian,” one from falsity.

Fußnoten:

1. Literally, “the mountains of time.”

  
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