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Genesis 15

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1 Pärast neid lugusid tuli Aabramile nägemuses Issanda sõna, kes ütles: 'Ära karda, Aabram! Mina olen sulle kilbiks. Sinu tasu on väga suur!'

2 Aga Aabram ütles: 'Issand Jumal! Mida sa mulle saad anda? Mina ju lähen ära lastetuna ja mu koja valitsejaks on Elieser Damaskusest!'

3 Ja Aabram ütles: 'Vaata, mulle sa ei ole ihuvilja andnud, aga näe, minu kojas sündinu saab mu pärijaks.'

4 Ja vaata, temale tuli Issanda sõna, kes ütles: 'Tema ei ole sinu pärija, vaid see, kes tuleb välja su oma ihust, on su pärija.'

5 Ja ta viis tema õue ning ütles: 'Vaata nüüd taeva poole ja loe tähti, kui sa suudad neid lugeda!' Ja ta ütles temale: 'Nõnda saab olema sinu sugu!'

6 Ja ta uskus Issandat ning see arvati temale õiguseks.

7 Ja ta ütles temale: 'Mina olen Issand, kes tõi sind Kaldea Uurist, et anda sulle päranduseks see maa!'

8 Aga ta küsis: 'Issand Jumal, millest ma ära tunnen, et ma selle pärin?'

9 Siis ta vastas temale: 'Too mulle kolmeaastane mullikas, kolmeaastane kits, kolmeaastane jäär ja turteltuvi koos lennuvõimelise pojaga.'

10 Ja ta tõi temale kõik need, lõikas need keskelt lõhki ja pani vastavad pooled vastakuti; aga lindusid ta ei lõiganud lõhki.

11 Kui röövlinnud laskusid korjuste peale, siis peletas Aabram need minema.

12 Aga kui päike loojus, vajus Aabram sügavasse unne, ja vaata, suur ja pime hirm haaras teda.

13 Ja Issand ütles Aabramile: 'Sa pead teadma, et su järglased on võõrastena maal, mis ei ole nende oma; nad tehakse orjadeks ja neid vaevatakse nelisada aastat.

14 Aga ka rahvast, keda nad orjavad, ma karistan, ja selle järel nad tulevad ära suure varandusega.

15 Sina ise aga lähed rahuga oma vanemate juurde, sind maetakse heas vanuses.

16 Alles neljas põlv tuleb siia tagasi, sest emorlaste süü ei ole tänini veel küllaldane.'

17 Ja kui päike oli loojunud ja kui oli pime, siis nähti suitsevat küpsetusahju ja tuleleeki, mis nende lõigatud tükkide vahelt läbi käis.

18 Selsamal päeval tegi Issand Aabramiga lepingu ja ütles: 'Sinu soole ma annan selle maa Egiptuseojast suure jõeni, Frati jõeni,

19 keenlased, kenislased, kadmonlased,

20 hetid, perislased, refalased,

   

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Arcana Coelestia #1865

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1865. 'Saying, To your seed I will give this land' means the comfort experienced after these temptations and their horrors, to the effect that people who have charity and faith in Him will become His heirs. This is clear from the meaning of 'seed' and from the meaning of 'land'. 'The seed of Abram' means love and faith that flows from love, as shown already in 255, 256, 1025, and consequently all who have charity and faith in the Lord. 'The land of Canaan' however means the Lord's kingdom, and therefore 'giving the land to your seed' means that the heavenly kingdom would be given as an inheritance to those who from charity have faith in Him.

[2] That these things brought comfort to the Lord following temptations and their horrors becomes clear without explanation. For after those grim events which He had witnessed - that is to say, after He had put to flight the evils and falsities meant by 'the birds of prey that came down on the carcasses and that Abram drove away', described in verse 11 - gross falsities nevertheless entered into Him, such as horrified Him, meant by 'the dread of a great darkness which came over Abram in a deep sleep', described in verse 12. This, together with the fact that in the end sheer falsities and evils took possession of the human race - meant by 'the smoking furnace and flaming torch which passed' between the pieces', referred to in verse 17 - inevitably caused Him distress and grief. Comfort therefore follows now, like that in verses 4 and 5 above, namely that His seed will inherit the land, that is, those who have charity and faith in Him will become heirs of His kingdom. The salvation of the human race was for Him the only comfort, for He was moved by Divine and celestial love and became, even as regards the Human Essence, that Divine and celestial love, in which solely the love for all is countenanced and entertained.

[3] That such is the nature of Divine love becomes clear from the love of parents towards their children, in that it increases with every descending degree of affinity, that is, it becomes greater towards later descendants than towards immediate offspring. Nothing ever exists without a cause or origin, and therefore this love towards descendants, present in the human race and ever increasing with each successive generation, cannot exist without them. The cause and origin of that love are attributable solely to the Lord, from whom all conjugial love and love of parents towards children flow. The source of that love is His love, which is such that He loves all as a father loves his sons, and wishes to make all his heirs, and provides an inheritance for those yet to be born, as he does for those born already.

  
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