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Genesis 16

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1 Sarai pak manželka Abramova jemu nerodila; a měla děvku Egyptskou, jménem Agar.

2 I řekla Sarai Abramovi: Aj, nyní Hospodin zavřel život můj, abych nerodila; vejdi, prosím, k děvce mé, zda bych aspoň z ní mohla míti syny. I povolil Abram řeči Sarai.

3 Tedy vzavši Sarai manželka Abramova Agar Egyptskou děvku svou, po desíti letech, jakž bydliti počal Abram v zemi Kananejské, dala ji Abramovi muži svému za ženu.

4 I všel k Agar, kterážto počala. Viduci pak ona, že počala, zlehčila sobě paní svou.

5 I řekla Sarai Abramovi: Křivdou mou tys vinen; já jsem dala děvku svou v lůno tvé, kterážto viduci, že počala, zlehčila mne sobě. Sudiž Hospodin mezi mnou a mezi tebou.

6 I řekl Abram k Sarai: Aj, děvka tvá v moci tvé; učiň s ní, cožť se za dobré vidí. Tedy trápila ji Sarai, a ona utekla od ní.

7 Našel ji pak anděl Hospodinův u studnice vody na poušti, u studnice té, kteráž jest při cestě Sur.

8 A řekl: Agar, děvko Sarai, odkud jdeš, a kam se béřeš? I řekla: Od tváři Sarai paní své já utíkám.

9 Tedy řeklanděl Hospodinův: Navrať se ku paní své, a pokoř se pod ruku její.

10 Opět řekl anděl Hospodinův: Velice rozmnožím símě tvé, aniž bude moci sečteno býti pro množství.

11 Potom také řekl anděl Hospodinův: Aj, ty jsi těhotná, a tudíž porodíš syna, a nazůveš jméno jeho Izmael; nebo uslyšel Hospodin trápení tvé.

12 Budeť pak lítý člověk; ruce jeho proti všechněm, a ruce všech proti němu; a před tváří všech bratří svých bydliti bude.

13 I nazvala Agar jméno Hospodinovo, kterýž mluvil jí: Ty jsi silný Bůh vidění; nebo řekla: Zdaliž teď také nevidím po tom, kterýž mne viděl?

14 Protož nazvala studnici tu studnicí Živého vidoucího mne. Aj, ta jest mezi Kádes a Barad.

15 Porodila pak Agar Abramovi syna; a nazval Abram jméno syna svého, kteréhož porodila Agar, Izmael.

16 Abram pak byl v osmdesáti šesti letech, když mu porodila Agar Izmaele.

   

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Arcana Coelestia #1954

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1954. You are a God who sees me' means influx. This is clear from what has just been stated. The act of seeing from what is higher into what is lower, or what amounts to the same, from interior into exterior, is called influx, for it takes place by means of influx. This is how it is with man's inner sight. Unless his inner sight were entering in constantly into his external sight, that of the eye, the eye would never be able to fix itself on and make out any object; for it is the interior sight which, through the eye, fixes itself on the things seen by the eye. It is in no way the eye that does so, though that seems to be the case. From these considerations it also becomes clear how much a person is swayed by the illusions of the senses who believes that the eye sees, when in fact it is the sight of his spirit, his interior sight, which sees by means of the eye.

[2] Spirits present with me have seen things in the world through my eyes as clearly as I myself have done, regarding which see 1880. Some of them however who were still swayed by the illusions of the senses supposed that they had been seeing through their own eyes. But they were shown that this was not so, for when my eyes were closed they saw nothing existing in this physical world. So also with man; it is not the eye which sees but his spirit by means of the eye. The same point is also evident from dreams in which one sometimes sees as though in the daytime. It is very similar with this interior sight, which is that of the spirit. This too does not see of itself but from a sight more interior still, which is that of the rational. Nor again does the rational see of itself, but there is a sight more interior still, which is that of the internal man, referred to in 1940. Yet not even this internal man sees of itself; it is the Lord who does so by means of the internal man. He Alone sees, since He Alone has life and enables man to see, and to seem to himself to see of himself. Such is the situation with influx.

  
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