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1 以撒雅各來,給他祝福,並囑咐他:你不要娶迦南的女子為妻。

2 你起身往巴旦亞蘭去,到你外祖彼土利家裡,在你母舅拉班的女兒中娶一女為妻。

3 全能的神賜福給你,使你生養眾多,成為多族,

4 將應許亞伯拉罕的福賜你和你的後裔,使你承受你所寄居的為業,就是亞伯拉罕的

5 以撒打發雅各走了,他就往巴旦亞蘭去,到亞蘭人彼土利的兒子拉班那裡。拉班雅各以掃的母舅。

6 以掃以撒已經給雅各祝福,而且打發他往巴旦亞蘭去,在那裡娶妻,並見祝福的時候囑咐他說:不要娶迦南的女子為妻,

7 又見雅各從父母的話往巴旦亞蘭去了,

8 以掃就曉得他父親以撒不中迦南的女子,

9 便往以實瑪利那裡去,在他二妻之外又娶了瑪哈拉為妻。他是亞伯拉罕兒子以實瑪利的女兒,尼拜約的妹子。

10 雅各出了別是巴,向哈蘭走去;

11 到了一個地方,因為太陽落了,就在那裡住宿,便拾起那地方的一塊石頭枕在頭,在那裡躺臥睡了,

12 夢見一個梯子立在上,梯子的頂著,有的使者在梯子上,上去來。

13 耶和華站在梯子以上(或作站在他旁邊),:我是耶和華─你祖亞伯拉罕的,也是以撒的;我要將你現在所躺臥之你和你的後裔。

14 你的後裔必像上的塵沙那樣多,必向東西開展;上萬族必因你和你的後裔得福。

15 我也與你同在。你無論往那裡去,我必保佑你,領你歸回這地,總不離棄你,直到我成全了向你所應許的。

16 雅各睡醒了,耶和華真在這裡,我竟不知道

17 就懼:這地方何等可畏!這不是別的,乃是的殿,也是

18 雅各起來,把所枕的石頭立作柱子,澆在上面。

19 他就給那地方起名伯特利(就是神殿的意思);但那地方起先名路斯。

20 雅各許願若與我同在,在我所行的上保佑我,又我食物衣服穿,

21 使我平平安安地回到我父親的家,我就必以耶和華為我的

22 我所立為柱子的石頭也必作的殿,凡你所賜我的,我必將十分之一獻你。

   

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Arcana Coelestia #3671

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3671. To thee and to thy seed with thee. That this signifies with the good and its derivative truth, is evident from the representation of Jacob, who is here meant by “thee,” as being the good of truth, or the good which is from truth (concerning which see above); and from the signification of “seed,” as being the good and truth of faith (n. 1025, 1447, 1610, 2848, 3373). “With thee” signifies that it was adjoined to the good of truth which is “Jacob.” With good and truth the case is the same as with seeds and the ground; interior good is as the seed which brings forth, but only in good ground; exterior good and truth are as the ground in which the seed brings forth; this seed (that is, interior good and truth) cannot otherwise be rooted. For this reason man’s rational is first of all regenerated, for therein are seeds, and afterwards the natural, in order that it may serve as ground (n. 3286, 3288, 3321, 3368, 3493, 3576, 3620, 3623); and since the natural is as ground, good and truth are capable of being made fruitful and multiplying in the rational, which could not be the case unless they had ground somewhere, in which they might take root like seed. From this comparison it may be seen as in a mirror how the case is with regeneration and with many of its arcana.

[2] To understand good and truth and to will them is of the rational; the perceptions of good and truth therefrom are as seed; but to know them and bring them into act is of the natural. The very memory-knowledges and works are like ground, and when man is affected with the memory-knowledges which confirm good and truth; and especially when he feels a delight in bringing them into act, the seeds are therein, and grow as in their ground. By this means good is made fruitful, and truth is multiplied, and they continually ascend from this ground into the rational, and perfect it. The case is otherwise when man understands good and truth, and also inwardly perceives some inclination of will thereto, but yet does not love to know them, and still less to do them. In this case good cannot be made fruitful nor truth be multiplied, in the rational.

  
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