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1 Niin Abram lähti pois Egyptistä, hän ja hänen vaimonsa ja kaikki, mitä hänellä oli, ja Loot hänen kanssaan, Etelämaahan.

2 Abram oli hyvin rikas: hänellä oli karjaa, hopeata ja kultaa.

3 Ja hän vaelsi, kulkien levähdyspaikasta toiseen, Etelämaasta Beeteliin asti, aina siihen paikkaan, missä hänen majansa oli ensi kerralla ollut, Beetelin ja Ain välillä,

4 siihen paikkaan, johon hän ennen oli rakentanut alttarin; ja Abram huusi siinä avuksi Herran nimeä.

5 Ja myöskin Lootilla, joka vaelsi Abramin kanssa, oli pikkukarjaa, raavaskarjaa ja telttoja.

6 Eikä maa riittänyt heidän asuakseen yhdessä, sillä heillä oli paljon omaisuutta, niin etteivät voineet yhdessä asua.

7 Niin syntyi riitaa Abramin karjapaimenten ja Lootin karjapaimenten välillä. Ja siihen aikaan asuivat siinä maassa kanaanilaiset ja perissiläiset.

8 Silloin Abram sanoi Lootille: "Älköön olko riitaa meidän välillämme, minun ja sinun, älköönkä minun paimenteni ja sinun paimentesi välillä, sillä olemmehan veljeksiä.

9 Eikö koko maa ole avoinna edessäsi? Eroa minusta. Jos sinä menet vasemmalle, niin minä menen oikealle, tahi jos sinä menet oikealle, niin minä menen vasemmalle."

10 Ja Loot nosti silmänsä ja näki koko Jordanin lakeuden olevan runsasvetistä seutua; ennenkuin Herra hävitti Sodoman ja Gomorran, oli se Sooariin saakka niinkuin Herran puutarha, niinkuin Egyptin maa.

11 Niin Loot valitsi itselleen koko Jordanin lakeuden ja siirtyi itään päin, ja he erkanivat toisistaan.

12 Abram asettui Kanaanin maahan, Loot asettui lakeuden kaupunkeihin ja siirtyi siirtymistään telttoineen Sodomaan asti.

13 Mutta Sodoman kansa oli kovin pahaa ja syntistä Herran edessä.

14 Ja Herra sanoi Abramille, sen jälkeen kuin Loot oli hänestä eronnut: "Nosta silmäsi ja katso siitä paikasta, missä olet, pohjoiseen, etelään, itään ja länteen.

15 Sillä kaiken maan, jonka näet, minä annan sinulle ja sinun jälkeläisillesi ikuisiksi ajoiksi.

16 Ja minä teen sinun jälkeläistesi luvun paljoksi kuin maan tomun. Jos voidaan lukea maan tomu, niin voidaan lukea myöskin sinun jälkeläisesi.

17 Nouse ja vaella maata pitkin ja poikin, sillä sinulle minä sen annan."

18 Ja Abram siirtyi siirtymistään telttoineen ja tuli ja asettui Mamren tammistoon, joka on Hebronin luona, ja rakensi sinne alttarin Herralle.

   

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Arcana Coelestia #10216

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10216. 'When you take the sum of the children of Israel' means all things of the Church. This is clear from the meaning of 'the sum' as all; and from the representation of 'the children of Israel' as the Church, dealt with in the places referred to in 9340. The reason why all things of the Church are meant by 'the sum of the children of Israel' is that the internal sense of the Word is the kind of meaning it has in the heavens. Names do not come through to those there, such as the names Israel, Moses, Aaron, and many others; for those names belong to things that are material, which exist solely for the benefit of human life on the level of the physical senses. Instead of those names things on a spiritual level that belong to heaven and the Church are perceived. For angels in heaven are spiritual, and the things that come to their attention they see according to the inner nature of those things, thus on a spiritual level. There in place of the children of Israel they understand the Church. They do so because in the inmost heaven, where the Lord's presence is more immediate than in the heavens below, the Lord Himself is understood by names in the Word, when they are used in a good sense, names such as Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Aaron, David, Joseph, Judah, or Israel. And since the angels there understand the Lord by these names, they also perceive - in accord with the train of thought in the Word - the Divine things which belong to heaven and the Church, and are derived from the Lord. The perception flows in from the Lord, who is the Word; for the Lord is the source of all intelligence and wisdom, and none at all exists without Him.

  
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Arcana Coelestia #5826

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5826. 'You know that my wife bore me two sons' means if spiritual good is what the Church possesses, internal good and truth will exist. This is clear from the representation of Israel, who says these things about himself, as spiritual good from the natural, dealt with immediately above in 5825; from the representation of Rachel, to whom the wife who had borne him two sons refers here, as the affection for interior truth, dealt with in 3758, 3782, 3793, 3819; and from the representation of Joseph and Benjamin,' the two sons she had borne, as internal good and truth, 'Joseph' being internal good and 'Benjamin' internal truth.

[2] What is meant by internal good and truth existing if spiritual good is what the Church possesses is this: Spiritual good, which 'Israel' represents, is the good of truth, that is, truth existing in will and action. This truth or good of truth causes a person to be a Church. When truth has been implanted in his will - something he perceives to have happened from the fact that he feels an affection for truth because his intention is to live according to it - internal good and truth are present in him. When that internal good and truth are present in a person he has the Lord's kingdom within him and he is consequently the Church; and together with those who are very similar to him he constitutes the Church at large. From this it may be recognized that for the Church to be the Church spiritual good, which is the good of truth, must exist and not simply truth by itself. At the present day it is by virtue of truth alone that a Church is called the Church, and it is what marks off one Church from another. Let anyone ask himself whether truth is anything unless it has life in view. What are religious teachings without that end in view? What for example are the Ten Commandments if separated from a life led according to them? For if someone knows them and the full extent of their meaning and yet leads a life contrary to them, what use are they? Surely none at all; indeed do they not serve to condemn some people? The same is so with other religious teachings that are derived from the Word. These too, being spiritual laws, are commandments for leading a Christian life; they likewise have no use at all unless they are made a person's guide to life. Let anyone weigh up what resides with himself and discover whether he has anything there which really is anything other than what enters into the life he leads, or whether life which really is his life resides anywhere else in a person than in his will.

[3] This is the reason why the Lord has declared in the Old Testament and confirmed in the New that all the Law and all the Prophets are founded on love to God and love towards the neighbour, thus on life. They are not founded on faith apart from life, nor thus in any way at all on faith alone, nor consequently on confidence; for without charity towards the neighbour such confidence is impossible. If it seems to exist with the wicked at times when their lives are in danger or death is at hand it is a spurious or false confidence; for among such people in the next life not a trace of this confidence can be seen, however ardently they may have appeared when near to death to profess that they possessed it. But faith, no matter whether you call it confidence or else trust, does nothing for the wicked, as the Lord Himself teaches in John,

As many as received Him, to them He gave power to be sons of God, to those believing in His name, who were born, not of blood, 1 nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. John 1:12-13.

[4] Those born of blood' stands for those who do violence to charity, 374, 1005, also those who render truth profane, 4735. 'Those born of the will of the flesh' stands for those governed by evils that spring from self-love and love of the world, 3813. 'Those born of the will of man' stands for those governed by utterly false notions; for 'man' (vir) means truth and in the contrary sense falsity. 'Those born of God' stands for those who have been regenerated by the Lord and are consequently governed by good. The latter are the ones who receive the Lord; they are the ones who believe in His name; and they, not the former, are the ones to whom He gives power to be sons of God. From all this it is quite evident what contribution faith alone makes to salvation.

[5] To take the matter further, if a person is to undergo regeneration and become a Church he must be led by means of truth into good, which happens when truth becomes truth existing in will and action. This truth is good and is called the good of truth. It constantly brings forth new truths, since then for the first time it is fruitful. The truth that is brought forth or made fruitful from it is what is called internal truth; and the good from which it springs is called internal good. For nothing becomes internal until it has been implanted in the will, the will being the inmost part of a person. As long as good and truth remain outside the will and solely in the understanding they are outside the person; for the understanding is outside, the will inside.

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1. literally, bloods

  
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