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创世记 26

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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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3424. 'Isaac's servants dug in the valley and found there a well of living water' means the Word as regards the literal sense, which holds the internal sense within it. This is clear from the meaning of 'digging in the valley' as investigating lower down to discover where truths are, for 'digging' is investigating, and 'a valley' is that which is lower down, 1723, 3417; and from the meaning of 'a well of living water' as the Word in which Divine truths are present, thus the Word as regards the literal sense which holds the internal sense within it. It is well known that the Word is called 'a spring', in particular 'a spring of living waters'. The reason why the Word is also called 'a well' is that in relation to its other senses the sense of the letter is like a well, and that where spiritual people are concerned the Word is not a spring but a well, see 2702, 3096. Since a valley is that which is lower down, or what amounts to the same, that which is more external, and it was in the valley that the spring was found; and since the literal sense is the lower or more external sense of the Word, it is the literal sense that is therefore meant. But because that sense holds the internal sense, that is, the heavenly and Divine sense, its waters are for that reason called 'living', as also were the waters which went out under the threshold of the new house in Ezekiel,

And it will happen, that every wild creature that creeps, wherever the river comes to, is living; and there will be very many fish, for those waters go there, and become fresh; and everything is living where the river goes. Ezekiel 47:8-9.

Here 'the river' is the Word, 'the waters which cause everything to live' are the Divine Truths within it, 'fish' are facts, 40, 991.

[2] The Lord teaches that the Word of the Lord is such that it gives life to him who is thirsty, that is, to one who desires life, and that it is a spring whose waters are living, in John,

Jesus said to the woman from Samaria at Jacob's well, If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, Give Me a drink, you would ask from Him, and He would give you living water. He who drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst, but the water that I shall give him will become in him a spring of water welling up into eternal life. John 4:10, 14.

The reason why the Word is living and therefore confers life is that in its highest sense the subject is the Lord, while in the inmost sense it is His kingdom in which the Lord is everything. And this being so it is life itself which the Word contains and which flows into the minds of those who read the Word devoutly. This is why the Lord, in regard to the Word which comes from Himself, calls Himself 'a spring of water welling up into eternal life'; see also 2702.

[3] The fact that the Word of the Lord is called 'a well' in addition to 'a spring' is clear in Moses,

Israel sang the song: Spring up, O well! Answer to it! The well which the princes dug, which the chiefs of the people dug out, as directed by the Lawgiver, 1 with their staves. Numbers 21:17-18.

These words were sung at the place Beer, that is, the place of the well. In this case 'a well' means the Word which existed with the Ancient Church, as is evident from what has been said previously about the Word in 2897. 'The princes' means the first and foremost truths of which [the Word] consists - 'princes' being first and foremost truths, see 1482, 2089 - 'nobles of the people' lower truths such as those present in the literal sense, 1259, 1260, 2928, 3295. 'The Lawgiver' is clearly the Lord, 'staves' the powers which those truths possessed.

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1. literally, into the Lawgiver

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