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1 Kiam Abram havis la agxon de nauxdek naux jaroj, aperis la Eternulo al Abram, kaj diris al li: Mi estas Dio la Plejpotenca; iradu antaux Mi kaj estu senpeka.

2 Kaj Mi faros Mian interligon inter Mi kaj vi, kaj Mi multigos vin tre forte.

3 Kaj Abram jxetis sin vizagxaltere, kaj Dio parolis al li, dirante:

4 Jen estas Mia interligo kun vi: vi estos patro de multe da popoloj.

5 Kaj via nomo ne estos plu Abram, sed via nomo estos Abraham, cxar Mi faris vin patro de multe da popoloj.

6 Kaj Mi fruktigos vin tre multe, kaj Mi devenigos de vi popolojn, kaj regxoj devenos de vi.

7 Kaj Mi starigos Mian interligon inter Mi kaj vi kaj via idaro post vi en iliaj generacioj, eternan interligon, ke Mi estos Dio por vi kaj por via idaro post vi.

8 Kaj Mi donos al vi kaj al via idaro post vi la landon, en kiu vi logxas kiel fremdulo, la tutan landon Kanaanan, por eterna posedajxo, kaj Mi estos Dio por ili.

9 Kaj Dio diris al Abraham: Kaj vi gardu Mian interligon, vi kaj via idaro post vi en iliaj generacioj.

10 Jen estas Mia interligo, kiun vi devas gardi inter Mi kaj vi kaj via idaro post vi: cxiu virseksulo cxe vi estu cirkumcidata.

11 Kaj cirkumcidu la karnon de via prepucio, kaj tio estu signo de interligo inter Mi kaj vi.

12 Kaj en la agxo de ok tagoj estu cirkumcidata cxe vi en viaj generacioj cxiu virseksulo naskita en la domo aux acxetita per mono cxe iu aligentulo, kiu ne estas el via idaro.

13 Cirkumcidata estu cxiu naskita en via domo aux acxetita per via mono, kaj Mia interligo estu sur via karno kiel interligo eterna.

14 Kaj se estos prepucihava virseksulo, kiu ne cirkumcidos la karnon de sia prepucio, tiu animo ekstermigxos el sia popolo: Mian interligon gxi rompis.

15 Kaj Dio diris al Abraham: Vian edzinon Saraj ne nomu Saraj, sed sxia nomo estu Sara.

16 Kaj Mi benos sxin, kaj Mi donos de sxi al vi filon; kaj Mi benos sxin, kaj de sxi devenos popoloj, regxoj de popoloj devenos de sxi.

17 Kaj Abraham jxetis sin vizagxaltere, kaj ekridis, kaj diris en sia koro: CXu de homo centjara farigxos nasko, kaj cxu Sara la nauxdekjara naskos?

18 Kaj Abraham diris al Dio: Ho, ke Isxmael vivu antaux Vi!

19 Kaj Dio diris: Efektive Sara, via edzino, naskos al vi filon, kaj vi donos al li la nomon Isaak; kaj Mi starigos Mian interligon kun li kiel interligon eternan por lia idaro post li.

20 Ankaux pri Isxmael Mi auxdis vin: jen Mi benis lin, kaj Mi fruktigos lin kaj Mi multigos lin tre forte; dek du princoj naskigxos de li, kaj Mi devenigos de li grandan popolon.

21 Sed Mian interligon Mi starigos kun Isaak, kiun naskos al vi Sara en cxi tiu tempo en la venonta jaro.

22 Kaj Li cxesis paroli kun li, kaj Dio levigxis for de Abraham.

23 Kaj Abraham prenis sian filon Isxmael kaj cxiujn naskitajn en lia domo kaj cxiujn acxetitajn per lia mono, cxiun virseksulon el la homoj de la domo de Abraham, kaj li cirkumcidis la karnon de ilia prepucio en tiu sama tago, kiel diris al li Dio.

24 Kaj Abraham havis la agxon de nauxdek naux jaroj, kiam li cirkumcidis la karnon de sia prepucio.

25 Kaj lia filo Isxmael havis la agxon de dek tri jaroj, kiam la karno de lia prepucio estis cirkumcidita.

26 En tiu sama tago estis cirkumciditaj Abraham kaj lia filo Isxmael;

27 kaj cxiuj liaj domanoj, kiuj naskigxis en la domo aux estis acxetitaj per mono cxe aligentulo, estis cirkumciditaj kune kun li.

   

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Arcana Coelestia #1999

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1999. That 'Abram fell on his face' 1 means adoration is clear without explanation. Falling on one's face' was the reverent way in which the Most Ancient Church, and as a consequence the ancients, expressed adoration. The reason they expressed it in this way was that 'the face' meant the inward parts, and 'falling on one's face' 1 represented a state of humiliation of those inward parts; and from this it became in the Jewish representative Church an act of reverence. True adoration or humility of heart entails prostration before the Lord face-downwards on the ground as the natural action resulting from it. Indeed humiliation of heart entails the acknowledgement of oneself as being nothing but uncleanness, and at the same time the acknowledgement of the Lord's infinite mercy towards such. When these acknowledgements are fixed in the mind, the mind itself casts itself down towards hell and prostrates the body. Nor does it raise itself until raised up by the Lord, as happens in all true humiliation, accompanied by a perception that such raising up is of the Lord's mercy. Such was the humiliation of members of the Most Ancient Church. It is different however with adoration which does not flow from humiliation of heart, see 1153.

[2] It is well known from the Word, in the Gospels, that the Lord adored and prayed to Jehovah, His Father, and that He did so as though to Someone other than Himself, even though Jehovah was within Him. But the state that the Lord experienced at such times was the state of His humiliation, the nature of which has been discussed in Volume One, namely this, that at such times as these He was in the infirm human derived from the mother. But to the extent He cast this off and took on the Divine His state was different, which state is called the state of His glorification. In the first state He adored Jehovah as Someone other than Himself, even though He was within Him, for, as has been stated, His Internal was Jehovah. In the latter state however, that is to say, the state of glorification, He spoke to Jehovah as to Himself, since He was Jehovah Himself.

[3] The truth of all this however cannot be grasped unless one knows what the internal is and how the internal operates into the external, and furthermore how the internal and external are distinct and separate and yet joined together. The matter may be illustrated however by means of something similar, namely by means of the internal with man and of its influx and operation into the external with him. For the fact that man has an internal, an interior or rational, and an external, see what has appeared already in 1889, 1940. Man's internal is that which makes him human and distinguishes him from animals. It is by means of this internal that man lives on after death and for ever, and by means of it the Lord can raise him up among angels. It is the prior or primary form from which anyone becomes and is a human being, and it is by means of this internal that the Lord is united to man. The heaven itself that is nearest to the Lord consists of these human internals, but being above even the inmost angelic heaven these internals therefore belong to the Lord Himself. In this way the entire human race is directly present beneath the eyes of the Lord. Distance, a visible feature of this sublunary world, does not exist in heaven, still less above heaven - see what has been mentioned from experience in 1275, 1277.

[4] These inward aspects of men possess no life in themselves but are recipient forms of the Lord's life. To the extent then that anyone is under the influence of evil, both that of his own doing and that which is hereditary, he has been so to speak separated from this internal which is the Lord's and resides with the Lord, and so has been separated from the Lord. For although that human internal is joined to the person and cannot be separated from him, yet to the extent he moves away from the Lord he does in a way separate himself from it, see 1594. But such separation is not a complete severance from that human internal - for if it were, man would no longer be able to live after death; but it is a lack of harmony and agreement with it on the part of his capacities which are beneath it, that is, of his rational and external man. Insofar as disharmony and disagreement are present there is no conjunction, but insofar as they are absent man is joined to the Lord by means of the internal, which is achieved in the measure that he is moved by love and charity, for love and charity effect conjunction. Such is the situation with man.

[5] But the Lord's Internal was Jehovah Himself, since He was conceived from Jehovah, who cannot be divided or become the relative of another, like a son who has been conceived from a human father. For unlike the human, the Divine is not capable of being divided but is and remains one and the same. To this Internal the Lord united the Human Essence. Moreover because the Lord's Internal was Jehovah it was not, like man's internal, a recipient form of life, but life itself. Through that union His Human Essence as well became life itself. Hence the Lord's frequent declaration that He is Life, as in John,

As the Father has Life in Himself, so He has granted the Son to have Life in Himself. John 5:26.

And elsewhere besides this in the same gospel, 1:4; 5:21; 6:33, 35, 48; 11:25. 'The Son' is used to mean the Lord's Human Essence. To the extent therefore that the Lord was in the human which He received by heredity from the mother, He appeared to be distinct and separate from Jehovah, and worshipped Jehovah as Someone other than Himself. But to the extent He cast off this human, the Lord was not distinct and separate from Jehovah but one with Him. The first state, as has been mentioned, was the state of the Lord's humiliation, but the second the state of His glorification.

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