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Genesis 22

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1 Pärast neid sündmusi pani Jumal Aabrahami proovile ning ütles temale: 'Aabraham!' Ja ta vastas: 'Siin ma olen!'

2 Ja tema ütles: 'Võta nüüd Iisak, oma ainus poeg, keda sa armastad, ja mine Morijamaale ning ohverda ta seal põletusohvriks ühel neist mägedest, mis ma sulle nimetan!'

3 Ja Aabraham tõusis hommikul vara, saduldas oma eesli, võttis enesega kaasa kaks noort meest ja oma poja Iisaki, lõhkus põletusohvri puud, seadis minekule ja läks paika, millest Jumal temale oli rääkinud.

4 Kolmandal päeval tõstis Aabraham oma silmad üles ja nägi seda paika kaugelt.

5 Ja Aabraham ütles oma noortele meestele: 'Jääge teie eesliga siia! Mina ja poiss läheme sinna, kummardame ja tuleme siis tagasi teie juurde.'

6 Ja Aabraham võttis põletusohvri puud, pani need oma pojale Iisakile õlale, võttis enda kätte tule ja noa ning mõlemad läksid üheskoos.

7 Ja Iisak rääkis oma isa Aabrahamiga ning ütles: 'isa!' Ja tema vastas: 'Siin ma olen, mu poeg!' Siis ta ütles: 'Näe, siin on tuli ja puud, aga kus on ohvritall?'

8 Ja Aabraham vastas: 'Küllap Jumal vaatab enesele ohvritalle, mu poeg!' Nõnda läksid mõlemad üheskoos.

9 Ja kui nad jõudsid paika, millest Jumal temale oli rääkinud, ehitas Aabraham sinna altari, ladus puud, sidus kinni oma poja Iisaki ja pani ta altarile puude peale.

10 Ja Aabraham sirutas käe ja võttis noa, et tappa oma poeg.

11 Aga Issanda ingel hüüdis teda taevast ja ütles: 'Aabraham, Aabraham!' Ja tema vastas: 'Siin ma olen!'

12 Siis ta ütles: 'Ära pane kätt poisi külge ja ära tee temale midagi, sest nüüd ma tean, et sa kardad Jumalat ega keela mulle oma ainsat poega!'

13 Ja Aabraham tõstis oma silmad üles, vaatas, ja ennäe, üks jäär oli rägastikus sarvipidi kinni. Ja Aabraham läks ning võttis jäära ja ohverdas selle põletusohvriks oma poja asemel.

14 Ja Aabraham pani sellele paigale nimeks 'Issand näeb'. Seepärast öeldakse tänapäevalgi: 'Issanda mäel ta näitab end.'

15 Ja Issanda ingel hüüdis Aabrahami teist korda taevast

16 ning ütles temale: 'Ma vannun iseenese juures, ütleb Issand: sellepärast et sa seda tegid ega keelanud mulle oma ainsat poega,

17 ma õnnistan sind tõesti ja teen su soo väga paljuks - nagu tähti taevas ja nagu liiva mere ääres - ja su sugu vallutab oma vaenlaste väravad!

18 Ja sinu soo nimel õnnistavad endid kõik maailma rahvad, sellepärast et sa võtsid kuulda mu häält!'

19 Siis Aabraham läks tagasi oma noorte meeste juurde, ja nad tõusid ning läksid üheskoos Beer-Sebasse. Ja Aabraham jäi elama Beer-Sebasse.

20 Ja pärast neid sündmusi teatati Aabrahamile ja öeldi: 'Vaata, Milka on ka su vennale Naahorile poegi ilmale toonud:

21 Uusi, tema esmasündinu, Buusi, selle venna, Kemueli, Arami isa,

22 Kesedi, Haso, Pildase, Jidlafi ja Betueli.'

23 Ja Betuelile sündis Rebeka. Need kaheksa tõi Milka ilmale Naahorile, Aabrahami vennale.

24 Ja tema liignaine, Reuma nimi, sünnitas ka - Teba, Gahami, Tahase ja Maaka.

   

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Arcana Coelestia #2838

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2838. As it is said to this day. That this signifies what is perpetual, is evident from the signification of “today” in the Word explained in what follows. We read in several places in the Word, “even to this day,” or “to today;” as in what goes before, “He is the father of Moab even unto this day; and the father of Ammon unto this day” (Genesis 19:37-38); and later in the same book, “The name of the city is Beersheba, even to this day” (Genesis 26:33). Also this, “The sons of Israel eat not the sinew of the part put out of place, which is upon the hollow of the thigh, even to this day” (Genesis 32:32). And also this, “This is the pillar of Rachel’s grave even unto this day” (Genesis 35:20). “Joseph made it a statute even to this day” (Genesis 47:26). In the historical sense these things regard the time when Moses lived; but in the internal sense by “this day” and by “today” there is signified perpetuity and eternity of state. That “day” is state may be seen above (n. 23, 487, 488, 493, 893); and thus “today” also, which is time present. That which is of time in the world, is eternal in heaven. That this might be signified, “today” is added, or “to this day,” although it appears to those who are in the historical sense as if it involved nothing further. The like is said elsewhere in the Word (as Josh. 4:9; 6:25; 7:26; Judges 1:21, 1:26; other places).

[2] That “today” signifies perpetuity and eternity may be seen in David:

I will tell of the decree: Jehovah hath said unto Me, Thou art My Son, this day have I begotten Thee (Psalms 2:7); where “this day” manifestly denotes what is eternal. In the same:

Forever O Jehovah Thy Word is settled in the heavens, Thy truth is unto generation and generation; Thou hast established the earth, and it abideth; they abide this day according to Thy judgments (Psalms 119:89-91); where also “this day” manifestly denotes what is eternal.

In Jeremiah:

Before I formed Thee in the belly, I knew Thee; and before Thou camest forth out of the womb, I sanctified Thee; I gave Thee for a prophet unto the nations; I have set Thee this day over the nations and over the kingdoms, and I have made Thee this day a defensed city, and an iron pillar, and walls of brass (Jeremiah 1:5, 10, 18);

here in the sense of the letter Jeremiah is treated of, but in the internal sense the Lord is meant; “I have set Thee this day, or today, over the nations and over the kingdoms, and I have made Thee this day a defensed city” means that it was from eternity. Of the Lord nothing else than what is eternal can be predicated.

[3] In Moses:

Ye are standing this day all of you before Jehovah your God, to enter into the covenant of Jehovah thy God, and into His oath, which Jehovah thy God maketh with thee this day, that He may establish thee this day unto Himself for a people; and He will be a God unto thee; and not with you only, but with them who stand here with us this day before Jehovah our God, and with them who are not with us this day (Deuteronomy 29:10, 12-14).

In the sense of the letter here “this day” is the time present when Moses spoke to the people; but that it nevertheless involves the time to come and what is perpetual, is evident; for to make a covenant with anyone, and with those who were there, and not there, involves perpetuity, and the perpetuity itself is what is meant in the internal sense.

[4] That “daily” and “this day” signify what is perpetual, is also evident from the sacrifice which was made every day. This, on account of the signification of “day,” “daily,” and “this day,” was called the continual or perpetual sacrifice (Numbers 28:3, 23; Deuteronomy 8:13; 11:31; 12:11). This is still more plainly evident from the manna which rained from heaven, of which it is thus said in Moses:

Behold I will rain bread from heaven; and the people shall go out and gather a portion day by day; and let no man leave of it till the morning. What they left till the morning bred worms, and putrefied, except what was kept the day before the Sabbath (Exodus 16:4, 19-20, 23).

This was because the manna signified the Lord’s Divine Human (John 6:31-32, 49-50, 58). And because it signified the Lord’s Divine Human, it signified heavenly food, which is nothing else than love and charity together with the goods and truths of faith. This food is given by the Lord in the heavens to the angels every moment, and thus perpetually and to eternity (see n. 2493). This also is what is meant in the Lord’s Prayer by “Give us this day our daily bread” (Matthew 6:11; Luke 11:3); that is, every instant to eternity.

  
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Joshua 4

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1 It happened, when all the nation had completely passed over the Jordan, that Yahweh spoke to Joshua, saying,

2 "Take twelve men out of the people, out of every tribe a man,

3 and command them, saying, 'Take from out of the middle of the Jordan, out of the place where the priests' feet stood firm, twelve stones, and carry them over with you, and lay them down in the lodging place, where you will lodge tonight.'"

4 Then Joshua called the twelve men, whom he had prepared of the children of Israel, out of every tribe a man.

5 Joshua said to them, "Pass over before the ark of Yahweh your God into the middle of the Jordan, and each of you pick up a stone and put it on your shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel;

6 that this may be a sign among you, that when your children ask in time to come, saying, 'What do you mean by these stones?'

7 then you shall tell them, 'Because the waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of Yahweh. When it passed over the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off. These stones shall be for a memorial to the children of Israel forever.'"

8 The children of Israel did as Joshua commanded, and took up twelve stones out of the middle of the Jordan, as Yahweh spoke to Joshua, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel; and they carried them over with them to the place where they lodged, and laid them down there.

9 Joshua set up twelve stones in the middle of the Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests who bore the ark of the covenant stood; and they are there to this day.

10 For the priests who bore the ark stood in the middle of the Jordan, until everything was finished that Yahweh commanded Joshua to speak to the people, according to all that Moses commanded Joshua; and the people hurried and passed over.

11 It happened, when all the people had completely passed over, that the ark of Yahweh passed over, with the priests, in the presence of the people.

12 The children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, passed over armed before the children of Israel, as Moses spoke to them.

13 About forty thousand men, ready and armed for war passed over before Yahweh to battle, to the plains of Jericho.

14 On that day, Yahweh magnified Joshua in the sight of all Israel; and they feared him, as they feared Moses, all the days of his life.

15 Yahweh spoke to Joshua, saying,

16 "Command the priests who bear the ark of the testimony, that they come up out of the Jordan."

17 Joshua therefore commanded the priests, saying, "Come up out of the Jordan!"

18 It happened, when the priests who bore the ark of the covenant of Yahweh had come up out of the middle of the Jordan, and the soles of the priests' feet were lifted up to the dry ground, that the waters of the Jordan returned to their place, and went over all its banks, as before.

19 The people came up out of the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and encamped in Gilgal, on the east border of Jericho.

20 Joshua set up those twelve stones, which they took out of the Jordan, in Gilgal.

21 He spoke to the children of Israel, saying, "When your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, 'What do these stones mean?'

22 Then you shall let your children know, saying, 'Israel came over this Jordan on dry land.

23 For Yahweh your God dried up the waters of the Jordan from before you, until you had passed over, as Yahweh your God did to the Red Sea, which he dried up from before us, until we had passed over;

24 that all the peoples of the earth may know the hand of Yahweh, that it is mighty; that you may fear Yahweh your God forever.'"