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Genesis 13

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1 Ja Aabram läks Egiptusest üles Lõunamaale, tema ja ta naine ja kõik, mis tal oli; ja Lott oli koos temaga.

2 Ja Aabram oli väga rikas karja, hõbeda ja kulla poolest.

3 Ja ta rändas peatuspaigast teise, Lõunamaalt Peeteli poole, sinna paika, kus ta telk enne oli olnud, Peeteli ja Ai vahel,

4 altari paika, mille ta varem sinna oli teinud; ja Aabram hüüdis seal appi Issanda nime.

5 Aga ka Lotil, kes rändas koos Aabramiga, oli lambaid ja kitsi, veiseid ja telke.

6 Kuid maa ei suutnud neid toita, et üheskoos elada, sest nende varandus oli nii suur, et neil oli võimatu üheskoos elada.

7 Ja Aabrami loomade karjaste ja Loti loomade karjaste vahel tekkis riid; kaananlased ja perislased elasid siis veel sellel maal.

8 Siis Aabram ütles Lotile: 'Ärgu olgu riidu minu ja sinu vahel, minu karjaste ja sinu karjaste vahel. Meie, mehed, oleme ju vennad!

9 Eks ole kogu maa su ees lahti? Mine nüüd minu juurest ära, lähed sina vasakut kätt, lähen mina paremat kätt; lähed sina paremat kätt, lähen mina vasakut kätt.'

10 Siis Lott tõstis oma silmad üles ja nägi, et kogu Jordani piirkond oli kõikjal veerikas; enne kui Issand Soodoma ja Gomorra hävitas, oli see kuni Soarini otsekui Issanda rohuaed, samasugune nagu Egiptusemaa.

11 Ja Lott valis enesele kogu Jordani piirkonna; Lott läks teele hommiku poole ja nad lahkusid teineteisest.

12 Aabram jäi Kaananimaale ja Lott asus piirkonna linnadesse ning lõi oma telgid üles Soodomani.

13 Aga Soodoma mehed olid väga pahad ja patused Issanda ees.

14 Ja Issand ütles Aabramile, pärast seda kui Lott tema juurest oli lahkunud: 'Tõsta nüüd oma silmad üles ja vaata paigast, kus sa oled, põhja ja lõuna ja hommiku ja õhtu poole,

15 sest kogu maa, mida sa näed, ma annan sinule ja su soole igaveseks ajaks!

16 Ja ma teen su soo maapõrmu sarnaseks: kui keegi suudab maapõrmu ära lugeda, siis on sinugi sugu äraloetav.

17 Võta kätte, käi maa läbi pikuti ja põiki, sest ma annan selle sinule!'

18 Ja Aabram võttis telgid ja tuli ning elas Mamre tammikus, mis on Hebroni juures; ja ta ehitas sinna altari Issandale.

   

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Arcana Coelestia #1607

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1607. For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it. That this signifies the heavenly kingdom, that it should be the Lord’s, is evident from the signification of “the land,” and here of the land of Canaan—because it is said, “the land which thou seest”—as being the heavenly kingdom. For by the land of Canaan was represented the Lord’s kingdom in the heavens, that is heaven, and the Lord’s kingdom on earth, or the church; which signification of “land” or “earth” has been several times treated of before. That the kingdom in the heavens and on earth has been given to the Lord, is evident from various passages of the Word. As in Isaiah:

Unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given; and the government shall be upon His shoulder; and His name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, God, Hero, Father of eternity, Prince of Peace (Isaiah 9:6).

In Daniel:

I saw in the night visions, and behold one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven; and He came even to the Ancient of Days, and they brought Him near before Him. And there was given Him dominion, and glory, and a Kingdom; and all peoples, nations, and languages shall serve Him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and His kingdom that which shall not be destroyed (Dan 7:13-14). The Lord Himself also says the same in Matthew:

All things are delivered unto Me of My Father (Matthew 11:27)

also in Luke (10:22). And again in Matthew:

All power [potestas] has been given unto Me in heaven and on earth (Matthew 28:18).

In John:

Thou gavest to the Son power [potestas] over all flesh, that whatsoever Thou hast given Him, to them He should give eternal life (17:2, 3 (John 17:2-3). 17:2, 3).

The same is also signified by His “sitting at the right hand,” as in Luke:

Now from henceforth shall the Son of man sit at the right hand of the power of God (Luke 22:69).

[2] As regards all power being given unto the Son of man in the heavens and on earth, it is to be known that the Lord had power over all things in the heavens and on earth before He came into the world; for He was God from eternity and Jehovah, as He plainly says in John:

Now, O Father, glorify Thou Me with Thine own self, with the glow which I had with Thee before the world was (John 17:5);

and again:

Verily, verily, I say unto you, before Abraham was, I am 1 (John 8:58);

for He was Jehovah and God to the Most Ancient Church that was before the flood, and was seen by them. He was also Jehovah and God to the Ancient Church that was after the flood. And it was He who was represented by all the rites of the Jewish Church, and whom they worshiped. But the reason He says that all power was given unto Him in heaven and on earth, as if it were then His for the first time, is that by “the Son of man” is meant His Human Essence; and this, when united to His Divine Essence, was also Jehovah, and at the same time had power; and this could not be the case until He had been glorified, that is, until by unition with the Divine Essence His Human Essence also had life in itself, and so became in like manner Divine and Jehovah; as He says in John:

As the Father hath life in Himself, so hath He given to the Son to have life in Himself (John 5:26).

[3] It is His Human Essence, or external man, that is likewise called “Son of man” in Daniel, in the passage quoted above; and of which it is said in the passage quoted from Isaiah, “A Child is born and a Son is given to us.” That the heavenly kingdom should be given to Him, and all power in the heavens and on earth, He now saw, and it was now promised Him; and this is signified by the words, “all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed after thee forever.” This was before His Human Essence had been united to His Divine Essence, which was united when He had overcome the devil and hell, that is, when by His own power and His own might He had expelled all evil, which alone disunites.

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1. The Latin has fui, but elsewhere sum, as in n. 9315.

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Foundation for the permission to use this translation.