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创世记 33

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1 雅各举目观,见以扫来了,後头跟着,他就把孩子们分开交给利亚、拉结,和两个使女,

2 并且叫两个使女和他们的孩子在前头,利亚和他的孩子在後头,拉结和约瑟在尽後头。

3 他自己在他们前头过去,一连次俯伏在才就哥哥

4 以扫跑来迎接他,将他抱住,又搂着他的颈项,与他亲嘴,两个人就哭了。

5 以扫举目见妇人孩子,就:这些?和你同行的是谁呢?雅各:这些孩子是施恩给你的仆人的

6 於是两个使女和他们的孩子前来下拜;

7 利亚和他的孩子也前来下拜;随约瑟和拉结也前来下拜。

8 以扫:我所遇见的这些群畜是甚麽意思呢?雅各:是要在我面前蒙恩的。

9 以扫兄弟阿,我的已经够了,你的仍归你罢!

10 雅各:不然,我若在你眼前蒙恩,就求你从我里收下这礼物;因为我见了你的面,如同见了的面,并且你容纳了我。

11 求你收下我带来给你的礼物;因为恩待我,使我充足。雅各再三地求他,他才收下了。

12 以扫我们可以起身前往,我在你前头走。

13 雅各对他:我知道孩子们年幼娇嫩,牛也正在乳养的时候,若是催赶一天畜都必死了

14 求我仆人前头走,我要量着在我面前群畜和孩子的力量慢慢地前行,直走到西珥我那里。

15 以扫:容我把跟随我的人留几个在你这里。雅各:何必呢?只要在我眼前蒙恩就是了。

16 於是,以扫当日起行,回往西珥去了。

17 雅各就往疏割去,在那里为自己盖造房屋,又为牲畜搭棚;因此那地方疏割(就是棚的意思)。

18 雅各从巴旦亚兰回的时候,平平安安到了迦南示剑城,在城东支搭帐棚,

19 就用一块银子向示剑的父亲、哈抹的子孙买了支帐棚的那块地,

20 在那里筑了一座,起名伊利伊罗伊以色列(就是神、以色列神的意思)。

   

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4430. And Shechem saw her. That this signifies truth, is evident from the representation of Shechem as being truth, here the truth of the church from ancient time. That this is represented by Shechem is because there still were remains of the church with that nation to which Shechem belonged. That this was one of the well-disposed nations is manifest from the sincerity with which Hamor and Shechem spoke to Jacob and his sons (verses 8-12), and from the condescension that Shechem might take Dinah for a wife (verses 18-24); for which reason the truth of the church was represented by them. And besides, the city Shechem was Abram’s first station when he came from Syria into the land of Canaan (Genesis 12:6); and was now also Jacob’s first station in coming from Syria, in which he spread his tent, made booths, and erected an altar (Genesis 33:17-20). That by the journeys or sojournings of Abraham and Jacob were represented progressions into the truths of faith and goods of love which in the supreme sense relate to the Lord and in the relative sense to the man who is being regenerated by the Lord, has been repeatedly shown. Hence by the “city Shechem” was signified the first of light (n. 1440, 1441), consequently interior truth, for this is the first of light.

[2] But in this chapter in the internal sense the descendants of Jacob are treated of—how they extinguished in themselves this first of light, or interior truth. In this sense, which is the internal historical sense, the sons of Jacob signify all his descendants; for in the internal sense of the Word the things of the Lord’s kingdom are exclusively treated of, thus the things of His church. The sons of Jacob themselves did not constitute any church, but their descendants, and this only after they had gone out of Egypt, and in actuality only after they came into the land of Canaan.

[3] Moreover as regards this city named from Shechem, it was anciently called “Shalem,” as is evident in the foregoing chapter:

Jacob came to Shalem, a city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan (Genesis 33:18).

That by “Shalem” is signified tranquillity, and by the “city of Shechem” the interior truths of faith, and that when a man comes to these truths he comes into a tranquil state, may be seen above (n. 4393). But the same city was afterwards called “Shechem,” as may be seen in Joshua:

The bones of Joseph, which the sons of Israel caused to go up out of Egypt, buried they in Shechem, in the portion of the field which Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for a hundred kesitah (Josh. 24:32).

And in the book of Judges:

Gaal the son of Ebed said to the citizens of Shechem, Who is Abimelech, and who is Shechem, that we should serve him? Is not he the son of Jerubbaal, and Zebul is his officer? Serve ye the men of Hamor the father of Shechem, and why should we serve this man? (Judg. 9:28).

[4] The same city was afterwards called “Sychar,” as is evident in John:

Jesus came to a city of Samaria called Sychar, near to the field which Jacob gave to his son Joseph; and Jacob’s spring was there (John 4:5-6).

That by this city is signified interior truth, is evident from these passages, and also from others where it is named, as in Hosea:

Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, it has been befouled with blood; and as troops wait for a man, a companionship of priests, on the way to Shechem they kill, because they have wrought wickedness; in the house of Israel I have seen a foul thing (Hos. 6:8-10); where “on the way to Shechem they kill” signifies that they extinguish truths even to those which are interior, thus all external truths. The extinction of interior truth is also signified by Abimelech’s destroying that city and sowing it with salt (Judges 9:45).

  
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