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1 Kaj la Eternulo rememoris Saran, kiel Li diris, kaj la Eternulo faris al Sara, kiel Li parolis.

2 Kaj Sara gravedigxis kaj naskis al Abraham filon en lia maljuneco, en la difinita tempo, pri kiu Dio al li diris.

3 Kaj Abraham donis al sia filo, kiu naskigxis al li, kiun naskis al li Sara, la nomon Isaak.

4 Kaj Abraham cirkumcidis sian filon Isaak, kiam tiu havis la agxon de ok tagoj, kiel ordonis al li Dio.

5 Kaj Abraham havis la agxon de cent jaroj, kiam naskigxis al li lia filo Isaak.

6 Kaj Sara diris: Ridindajxon faris al mi Dio; cxiu, kiu auxdos, ridos pri mi.

7 Kaj sxi diris: Kiu dirus al Abraham, ke Sara mamnutros infanojn? cxar mi naskis filon en lia maljuneco.

8 Kaj la infano kreskis, kaj gxi estis demamigita, kaj Abraham faris grandan festenon en la tago, en kiu Isaak estis demamigita.

9 Kaj Sara vidis, ke la filo de Hagar la Egiptino, kiun cxi tiu naskis al Abraham, mokas.

10 Kaj sxi diris al Abraham: Forpelu cxi tiun sklavinon kaj sxian filon; cxar la filo de cxi tiu sklavino ne heredos kun mia filo, kun Isaak.

11 Kaj la afero forte malplacxis al Abraham pro lia filo.

12 Kaj Dio diris al Abraham: GXi ne malplacxu al vi pro la knabo kaj pro via sklavino; pri cxio, kion diros al vi Sara, obeu sxian vocxon; cxar per Isaak oni nomos vian idaron.

13 Sed ankaux el la filo de la sklavino Mi kreskigos popolon, cxar li estas via semo.

14 Kaj Abraham levigxis frue matene, kaj prenis panon kaj felsakon kun akvo kaj donis al Hagar, metante gxin sur sxian sxultron, ankaux la infanon, kaj foririgis sxin; kaj sxi iris, kaj sxi erarvagis en la dezerto Beer-SXeba.

15 Kaj konsumigxis la akvo de la felsako, kaj sxi jxetis la infanon sub unu el la arbetajxoj.

16 Kaj sxi iris kaj sidigxis kontrauxe, en la malproksimeco de pafo el pafarko; cxar sxi diris: Mi ne povas rigardi la morton de la infano. Kaj sxi sidigxis kontrauxe, kaj sxi komencis lauxte plori.

17 Kaj Dio auxdis la vocxon de la knabo; kaj angxelo de Dio vokis Hagaron el la cxielo, kaj diris al sxi: Kio estas al vi, Hagar? ne timu, cxar Dio auxdis la vocxon de la knabo el la loko, kie li estas.

18 Levigxu, prenu la knabon kaj tenu lin per via mano, cxar grandan popolon Mi faros el li.

19 Kaj Dio malfermis sxiajn okulojn, kaj sxi ekvidis puton kun akvo, kaj sxi iris kaj plenigis la felsakon per akvo kaj trinkigis la knabon.

20 Kaj Dio estis kun la knabo, kaj li grandigxis kaj logxis en la dezerto kaj farigxis arkpafisto.

21 Kaj li logxis en la dezerto Paran; kaj lia patrino prenis al li edzinon el la lando Egipta.

22 Kaj en tiu tempo Abimelehx kaj lia militestro Pihxol diris al Abraham jene: Dio estas kun vi en cxio, kion vi faras;

23 nun jxuru do al mi per Dio, ke vi ne agos malfidele kun mi, nek kun mia filo, nek kun mia nepo; ke tiel same favorkore, kiel mi agis kun vi, vi agos kun mi, kaj kun la lando, en kiu vi logxas kiel fremdulo.

24 Kaj Abraham diris: Mi jxuras.

25 Kaj Abraham riprocxis Abimelehxon pro la akva puto, kiun perforte forprenis la sklavoj de Abimelehx.

26 Kaj Abimelehx diris: Mi ne scias, kiu faris tion, kaj ankaux vi ne diris al mi; mi ecx ne auxdis pri tio gxis hodiaux.

27 Kaj Abraham prenis sxafojn kaj bovojn kaj donis al Abimelehx, kaj ili ambaux starigis inter si interligon.

28 Kaj Abraham starigis sep sxafidojn aparte.

29 Kaj Abimelehx diris al Abraham: Por kio estas tiuj sep sxafidoj, kiujn vi starigis aparte?

30 Kaj tiu diris: Sep sxafidojn prenu el mia mano, por ke ili estu por mi atesto, ke mi elfosis tiun puton.

31 Tial tiu loko havas la nomon Beer-SXeba, cxar tie ili ambaux jxuris.

32 Kaj ili starigis interligon en Beer-SXeba. Kaj Abimelehx kaj lia militestro Pihxol levigxis kaj reiris en la landon de la Filisxtoj.

33 Kaj Abraham plantis tamariskon en Beer-SXeba, kaj pregxis tie al la Eternulo, la Dio eterna.

34 Kaj Abraham logxis en la lando de la Filisxtoj longan tempon.

   

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Arcana Coelestia #2625

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2625. 'At the appointed time' means when the Rational was such that it was receptive. This becomes clear from the meaning of 'time'. There are two things which appear to be indispensable while a person lives in the world because they exist as essential elements of the natural order - those two things being space and time. Living in the world or natural order therefore is living in space and time. But these two cease to have any existence in the next life. They do, it is true, appear to exist to some extent in the world of spirits, the reason for this being that spirits recently arrived from life in the body bring with them mental pictures of natural things. But subsequently they perceive that space and time do not exist in that life but states instead, and that states in the next life correspond to extensions of space and of time within the natural order - states in respect to Being corresponding to those of space, and in respect to Manifestation to those of time. Regarding space or place, see 1274, 1379, 1380, 1382.

[2] From this anyone may see what kind of mental pictures a person is able to have while in the world or natural order regarding things which belong to the next life and about many arcana of faith. He may see that such a person is unwilling to believe those things unless he can take them in by means of objects that exist in the world, indeed by sensory evidence. For he cannot do other than suppose that if he were to divest himself of his mental pictures that have been formed from space and time, more so to divest himself of space and time themselves, he would cease to be anything at all and so would have nothing left to him from which he could perceive with his senses or have thoughts of anything apart from that which was unintelligible to him. But in actual fact quite the reverse is the case: the life of angels is such that it is the wisest and happiest of all.

[3] This is the reason why people's ages mentioned in the Word do not in the internal sense mean ages but states, so that in this verse 'old age' does not mean old age. Nor does any number mean a number but some specific state, as in the case of 'a hundred years' mentioned further on. From this it now becomes clear that 'the appointed time' means the state when the rational was such that it was receptive.

[4] As regards the specific teaching presented here - that the Divine Rational received being and was given manifestation from the Lord's Divine spiritual united to His Divine celestial, when the days had been completed for him to cast off the human and when the Rational was such that it was receptive (meant in the internal sense by 'Sarah conceived and bore to Abraham a son in his old age, at the appointed time') - the following needs to be known:

The human has its beginnings in the inmost part of the rational, see 2106, 2194. The Lord advanced gradually towards the union of the Human Essence with the Divine Essence, and of the Divine Essence with the Human Essence, 1864, 2033, 2523.

He did so by His own power, 1921, 2025, 2026, 2083, through continuing temptations and repeated victories, 1690, 1737, 1813, and through receiving revelations repeatedly from His own Divine, 1616, 2500, till at length He cast out the whole human from the mother, 1414, 1444, 2574.

And in this way He made His Human - as to the Rational - Divine, as taught by the things that occur in this verse.

From all this it is evident how the explanation 'when the days had been completed for Him to cast off the human and when the Rational was such that it was receptive' is to be understood.

[5] Some idea of this matter may be had from what happens to people who are being regenerated. The celestial things of love, and the spiritual things of faith, are instilled into them by the Lord not all at once but gradually; and when by means of those things a person's rational has become such that it is able to be receptive, he is for the first time becoming regenerate, mostly by means of temptations in which he overcomes. While these experiences are taking place the days are being completed to cast off the old man and put on the new. Regarding man's regeneration, see 677, 679, 711, 848, 986, 1555, 2475.

  
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2500. 'Abraham travelled from there towards the land of the south' means the Lord's advances in goods and truths of faith. This is clear from the meaning of 'travelling' as advancing, dealt with in 1457, and from the meaning of 'the land of the south' as the good and truth of faith, dealt with in 1458. Previously in Chapter 12 it was said of Abraham when entering Egypt that 'he travelled, going on and travelling towards the south', verses 9-10, which meant in the internal sense that the Lord, when a boy, made advances into goods and truths as regards knowledge consisting of cognitions, 1456, 1459. Now in the present chapter it is said that he travelled towards the land of the south, which means further and more interior advances, made this time into goods and truths as regards the doctrine of faith. This is why the expression 'the land of the south' is used here, for 'land' in its proper sense means the Church, for whose sake doctrine exists, 566, 662, 1066, 2117, 2118.

[2] As regards the Lord's instruction in general, the nature of it is quite plain from the internal sense of this chapter. From that sense it is plain that He was taught through a whole succession of revelations and so through Divine perceptions and thoughts from Himself, that is, from His Divine. These perceptions and thoughts He implanted in Divine intelligence and wisdom, and continued to do so until the perfect union of His Human and His Divine had been effected. This way of becoming wise is not at all open to anyone else, for it sprang from the Divine itself, which was His inmost, being the Father's, from whom He had been conceived. Thus it sprang from the Divine Love itself which the Lord alone possessed and which constituted His desire to save the entire human race.

[3] It is an arcanum as yet known by scarcely anyone that love itself holds wisdom and intelligence within it, but that the nature of these is determined by that of the love. The reason wisdom and intelligence exist within love is that all influx takes place into the love, or what amounts to the same, into the good, and so into the life itself of man. This is the source of the wisdom and intelligence possessed by angels, which are beyond description. It is the source also of the wisdom and intelligence possessed by men who are governed by love to the Lord and charity towards the neighbour. Although during their lifetime the latter do not discern at all the presence with them of such wisdom and intelligence, they nevertheless enter into these after death for the reason that they exist within love itself and within charity itself, see 2494. As for the Lord's love however, this was infinitely higher than the love which exists in angels, for it was Divine Love itself, and therefore He had within Himself the acme of all wisdom and intelligence. Yet into the possession of this, because He was born a human being (homo) and advanced as a human being does according to Divine order, He entered by successive degrees so that He might in that way unite His Human to the Divine and make it Divine, doing so by His own power.

  
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