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1 Ja Saaran elinaika oli sata ja seitsemänkolmattakymmentä ajastaikaa: ne olivat Saaran ikävuodet.

2 Ja Saara kuoli Arban kaupungissa, joka (on) Hebron Kanaanin maalla. Niin tuli Abraham murehtimaan Saaraa ja itkemään häntä.

3 Sitte nousi hän kuolleensa tyköä; ja puhui Hetin lapsille sanoen:

4 Minä olen muukalainen ja kuitenkin asuvainen teidän tykönänne, antakaat minulle perintöhauta teidän tykönänne, haudatakseni minun kuolleeni, joka on minun edessäni.

5 Niin vastasivat Hetin lapset Abrahamia, sanoen hänelle:

6 Kuule meitä, rakas herra: sinä olet Jumalan ruhtinas meidän seassamme, hautaa sinun kuollees meidän parhaisiin hautoihimme: ei yksikään meistä sinua kiellä hautaamasta kuolluttas hänen hautaansa.

7 Niin Abraham nousi ja kumarsi itsensä maan kansan edessä, (nimittäin) Hetin lasten edessä.

8 Ja hän puhui heille, sanoen: jos teidän mielenne on, että minä hautaan minun kuolleeni, joka minun edessäni on; niin kuulkaat minua, ja rukoilkaat minun edestäni Ephronia Zoarin poikaa.

9 Että hän antais minulle Makpelan luolan, joka hänellä on, vainionsa perällä: täyden hinnan edestä antakaan sen minulle teidän keskellänne perintöhaudaksi.

10 Sillä Ephron asui Hetin lasten seassa. Niin vastasi Ephron Hetiläinen Abrahamia, Hetin poikain kuullen, kaikkein sisälle ja ulos käyväisten hänen kaupunkinsa portista, sanoen:

11 Ei, minun herrani, vaan kuule minua; vainion minä annan sinulle, ja luolan, joka siinä on, annan minä sinulle: minun kansani lasten nähden annan minä sen sinulle; hautaa kuollees.

12 Abraham kumarsi maan kansan edessä.

13 Ja puhui Ephronille maan kansan kuullen, sanoen: jos sinä minua kuulet: minä annan rahan vainion edestä, ota se minulta, ja minä hautaan minun kuolleeni siihen.

14 Ephron vastasi Abrahamia, sanoen hänelle:

15 Minun herrani, kuule minua: maa maksaa neljäsataa sikliä hopiaa; vaan mitä se on minun ja sinun välilläs? hautaa sinun kuollees.

16 Abraham kuuli Ephronia, ja punnitsi hänelle rahan, jonka hän nimittänyt oli Hetin lasten kuullen: neljäsataa sikliä hopiaa, käypää rahaa.

17 Ja niin vahvistettiin Ephronin vainio, joka Makpelassa on Mamren kohdalla, sekä pelto että luola joka siinä on, ja kaikki puut siinä vainiossa, jotka ympäri kaikissa sen rajoissa ovat.

18 (Kaikki ne tulivat) Abrahamille omaisuudeksi Hetin lasten nähden: kaikkein (nähden), jotka sisällekävivät hänen kaupunkinsa portista.

19 Ja sitte hautasi Abraham emäntänsä Saaran siihen luolaan, joka oli Makpelan vainiossa Mamren kohdalla; se on Hebron Kanaanin maalla:

20 Niin vahvistettiin siis vainio ja luola, joka siinä oli, Abrahamille perintöhaudaksi, Hetin lapsilta.

   


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Arcana Coelestia #10483

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10483. 'And Moses stood in the gate of the camp' means where the opening to hell is situated. This is clear from the representation of 'Moses' as the internal, dealt with above in 10468; from the meaning of 'in the gate' as where the opening is situated, dealt with below; and from the meaning of 'the camp' as hell, also dealt with above, in 10458. The reason why Moses stood in the gate of the camp and did not go inside the actual camp was in order that the impossibility for the internal to enter hell might be represented; for Moses represented the internal and the camp represented hell. The interest of all those in hell lies in external things separated from what is internal, because self-love and love of the world rule within them. Therefore what is internal cannot go in there since it is not received. Instead some who are there immediately reject it, some smother it and snuff it out, and some pervert it. Whether you say the internal or heaven, it amounts to the same thing; for heaven constitutes what is internal, not only the internal side of the Word but also the internal side of the Church and of worship, consequently the internal of the person who has celestial and spiritual love reigning within him, that is, love to the Lord and charity towards the neighbour.

[2] What hell's opening is, meant by 'the gate' of this camp, must be stated briefly. Each hell is closed all the way around it, but it is opened above as necessity and need demand. It is an opening into the world of spirits, the world that lies midway between heaven and hell; for that world serves as the upper boundary of the hells and as the lower boundary of the heavens, 5852. The reason for saying that they are opened as necessity and need demand is that each person in the world has spirits present with him from hell, and angels from heaven. The spirits from hell are present in his bodily and worldly loves, and the angels from heaven in those which are celestial and spiritual; for without the spirits the person can have no life at all. If the spirits were taken away from him he would drop dead as a stone. Consequently to enable a person to lead a life in keeping with his loves the hells are opened of necessity and as need demands, and from there such spirits come out to him as are ruled by loves similar to his.

[3] That opening is what should be understood by the gate of hell. I have been allowed several times to see such openings. They are gates which the Lord guards by means of angels, to stop more spirits than are needed from coming out of there. From this it is evident what 'the gates of hell' and 'the gates of enemies' mean in the Word, as in Matthew,

Jesus said to Peter, On this rock I will build My Church, and the gates of hell will not prevail against it. Matthew 16:18.

'The gates of hell will not prevail' means that the hells will not dare to come out and destroy the truths of faith, 'the rock' on which the Church stands being faith in the Lord received from the Lord. This faith is the faith of charity because it is rooted in charity and for that reason makes one with it.

'The rock' means that faith, see Preface to Genesis 22, and also 8581, 10438.

Real faith consists in charity, 654, 1162, 1176, 1608, 2228, 2343, 2349, 2419, 2839, 3324, 4368, 6348, 7039, 7623-7627, 7752-7762, 8530, 9154, 9783, 9924.

[4] The like is also meant by your seed will inherit the gate of their enemies, Genesis 22:17; 24:60. 'Inheriting the gate of their enemies' means destroying evils and falsities which come from hell. This was also represented by driving out and destroying the nations in the land of Canaan; for the nations there represented evils and falsities which come from hell, see 1573, 1574, 1868, 4818, 6306, 8054, 8317, 9320, 9327.

Also in David,

Those who dwell in the gate plot against me; those who drink strong wine sing songs. Psalms 69:12.

In the same author,

Blessed is the man who has filled his quiver. They will not be put to shame, for they will speak with enemies in the gate. Psalms 127:5.

'Gates' in the good sense however stands for the opening into heaven.

In David,

Lift up your heads, O gates, and be lifted up, O eternal doors, and the King of glory will come in. Psalms 24:7-10.

In addition admission into heaven and into the Church through truth and good is meant in the Word by 'gates', and also good and truth flowing in and present with a person.

  
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Arcana Coelestia #654

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654. This is in keeping with what is well known in the Churches today about faith coming through hearing. But faith is in no sense mere intellectual awareness of the things that constitute faith, that is, of things that demand belief. That amounts to no more than knowledge. Faith is acknowledgement, yet acknowledgement cannot possibly exist with anyone unless the chief thing of faith resides with him, namely charity, or love towards the neighbour, and mercy. When charity is present so is acknowledgement, and so is faith. Anyone who thinks otherwise is as far from being aware of what faith is as land is distant from sky. When charity, which is the goodness constituting faith, is present, then acknowledgement, which is the truth of faith, is present too. When therefore a person is being regenerated in accordance with factual knowledge, rational concepts, and intellectual concepts, the end in view is that the ground, which is his mind, shall be made ready for receiving charity, from which, or rather from the life of which, he afterwards thinks and acts. At that point he has been reformed or regenerated, not before.

  
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