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1 Ja Aabraham siirtyi sieltä Etelämaahan ja asettui Kaadeksen ja Suurin välimaille; ja hän asui jonkun aikaa Gerarissa.

2 Ja Aabraham sanoi vaimostansa Saarasta: "Hän on minun sisareni". Niin Abimelek, Gerarin kuningas, lähetti noutamaan Saaran luoksensa.

3 Mutta Jumala tuli Abimelekin tykö yöllä unessa ja sanoi hänelle: "Katso, sinun on kuoltava sen vaimon tähden, jonka olet ottanut, sillä hän on toisen miehen aviovaimo".

4 Mutta Abimelek ei ollut ryhtynyt häneen, ja hän sanoi: "Herra, surmaatko syyttömänkin?

5 Eikö hän itse sanonut minulle: 'Hän on minun sisareni'? Ja samoin tämäkin sanoi: 'Hän on minun veljeni'. Olen tehnyt tämän vilpittömin sydämin ja viattomin käsin."

6 Ja Jumala sanoi hänelle unessa: "Niin, minä tiedän, että sinä teit sen vilpittömin sydämin. Sentähden minä estinkin sinut tekemästä syntiä minua vastaan enkä sallinut sinun kajota häneen.

7 Niin anna nyt miehelle hänen vaimonsa takaisin, sillä hän on profeetta, ja hän on rukoileva sinun puolestasi, että saisit elää. Mutta jollet anna häntä takaisin, niin tiedä, että olet kuolemalla kuoleva, sinä ja kaikki sinun omaisesi."

8 Niin Abimelek nousi varhain aamulla ja kutsui kaikki palvelijansa ja kertoi heille tämän kaiken; ja miehet olivat kovin peloissaan.

9 Ja Abimelek kutsui Aabrahamin ja sanoi hänelle: "Mitä oletkaan meille tehnyt! Mitä minä olen rikkonut sinua vastaan, koska olet saattanut minut ja minun valtakuntani syypääksi näin suureen rikokseen? Sinä olet tehnyt minulle, mitä ei sovi tehdä."

10 Ja Abimelek sanoi vielä Aabrahamille: "Mikä oli tarkoituksesi, kun tämän teit?"

11 Aabraham vastasi: "Minä ajattelin näin: 'Tällä paikkakunnalla ei varmaankaan peljätä Jumalaa; he surmaavat minut vaimoni tähden'.

12 Ja hän onkin todella minun sisareni, isäni tytär, vaikkei olekaan äitini tytär; ja niin hänestä tuli minun vaimoni.

13 Mutta kun Jumala lähetti minut kulkemaan pois isäni kodista, sanoin minä hänelle: 'Osoita minulle se rakkaus, että, mihin paikkaan ikinä tulemmekin, sanot minusta: hän on minun veljeni'."

14 Silloin Abimelek otti pikkukarjaa ja raavaskarjaa, palvelijoita ja palvelijattaria ja antoi ne Aabrahamille. Ja hän lähetti hänelle takaisin hänen vaimonsa Saaran.

15 Ja Abimelek sanoi: "Katso, minun maani on avoinna edessäsi; asu, missä mielesi tekee!"

16 Ja Saaralle hän sanoi: "Katso, minä annan veljellesi tuhat sekeliä hopeata. Olkoot ne sinulle hyvitykseksi kaikkien niiden edessä, jotka sinun kanssasi ovat; niin olet kaikkien edessä todistettu viattomaksi."

17 Mutta Aabraham rukoili Jumalaa, ja Jumala paransi Abimelekin ja hänen vaimonsa ja hänen orjattarensa, niin että he synnyttivät lapsia.

18 Sillä Herra oli sulkenut jokaisen kohdun Abimelekin huoneessa Saaran, Aabrahamin vaimon, tähden.

   

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Arcana Coelestia #2571

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2571. 'Abimelech said, Behold, my land is before you' means the Lord's perception regarding the doctrine of love and charity. This is clear from the meaning of 'saying' as thinking, dealt with in 2506, and from the meaning of 'land' here as the doctrine of love and charity. 'Land' or 'earth' has various meanings in the internal sense, 620, 636, 1066, but what is meant in a specific instance is clear from the train of thought. For 'land' or 'earth' means the external member of the Church when 'the sky' or 'heaven' means the internal, 82, 913, 1411, 1733; it also means the region where the Church is, 662, 1066; it means the Church itself, and also in the universal sense the Lord's kingdom in heaven and on earth, since 'the land of Canaan' or 'the holy land' was representative of that kingdom, 1437, 1585, 1607. The same was also meant by 'a new heaven and a new earth', 1733, 1850, 2117, 2118. And because 'land' or 'earth' means the member of the Church, the Church, and the Lord's kingdom, it also means that which is the essential component of these, namely love to the Lord and charity towards the neighbour, for it is on these that they all depend, 537, 540, 547, 553, 2130. Consequently 'land' or 'earth' means the doctrine of love and charity which belongs to the Church, and to which here 'the land of Abimelech' refers. For 'Abimelech as a king' means the doctrine of faith, as has been shown, while his land, from which he sprang and in which he dwelt, means the doctrine of love and charity, from which faith springs and in which faith dwells.

[2] The reason why up to this point the Lord's thought had been concerned with the doctrine of faith but was now concerned with the doctrine of love and charity is that the Lord joined the Human to the Divine by means of truths which are matters of faith, yet at the same time by means of Divine Goods which are matters of love that were present within those truths. This He did according to the order by which also man becomes spiritual and celestial but not Divine so as to have life in himself, in the way that the Lord became so. But when the marriage had taken place in the Lord of Divine Truth to Good, and of Good to Truth, which is meant by the words 'Abimelech restored to Abraham Sarah his wife', 2569, His thought was now concerned with the doctrine of love and charity, and this also was according to order; for once man has become spiritual and celestial he no longer thinks from truth but from good, yet not as the Lord did - from Divine Good united to Divine Truth. This is the reason why the doctrine of love and charity is only now mentioned for the first time, even though the doctrine of faith regarded in itself is the same, and the Lord's perception and thought always sprang from Divine love within every thing of faith. Hence it is that the doctrine of love and charity is Divine doctrine itself, and was the doctrine which was cultivated in the Most Ancient Churches. And because that doctrine made one with the doctrine of faith, they rejected people who separated these; see 2417.

  
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Arcana Coelestia #1607

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1607. That 'for all the land which you see I will give to you' means the heavenly kingdom which was to be the Lord's is clear from the meaning of 'land' - the land of Canaan in this context since the words used are 'the land which you see' - as the heavenly kingdom. Indeed the land of Canaan represented the Lord's kingdom in the heavens, which is heaven, and also the Lord's kingdom on earth, which is the Church. This meaning of 'land' has been discussed frequently already. That the kingdom in heaven and on earth was given to the Lord is clear from various places in the Word, as in Isaiah,

A Boy is born, a Son is given to us; and the government will be upon His shoulder, and His name will be called, Wonderful, Counsellor, God, Hero, Father of Eternity, Prince of Peace. Isaiah 9:6.

In Daniel,

I saw in the night visions, and behold with the clouds of the heavens One like the Son of Man was coming, and He came even to the Ancient of Days, and they brought Him near before Him. And to Him was given dominion and glory and kingdom, and all peoples, nations, and languages will serve Him. His dominion is an eternal dominion which will not pass away, and His kingdom one that will not perish. Daniel 7:13-14.

The Lord Himself also says the same: in Matthew,

All things have been delivered to Me by My Father. Matthew 11:27; Luke 10:22.

Elsewhere in Matthew,

[All] power in heaven and on earth has been given to Me. Matthew 28:18.

In John,

You have given to the Son power over all flesh in order that all You have given Him, to them He may give eternal life. John 17:2-3.

And 'sitting on the right hand' has the same meaning, as in Luke,

From now on the Son of Man will be seated at the right hand of the power of God. Luke 22:69.

[2] As regards all power in heaven and on earth being given to the Son of Man, it should be recognized that the Lord already had power over all things in heaven and on earth before He came into the world, for He was God from eternity and He was Jehovah, as He Himself plainly declares in John,

Now, Father, glorify Me in Your Own Self with the glory I had with You before the world was. John 17:5.

And in the same gospel,

Truly, Truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am. 1 John 8:58.

In fact He was Jehovah and God to the Most Ancient Church which existed before the Flood, and was seen by them. He was also Jehovah and God to the Ancient Church which existed after the Flood; and He was the One whom all the religious observances of the Jewish Church represented, and the One they worshipped. The reason the Lord says that all power in heaven and on earth has been given to Him, as though it had not been His till then, is that 'the Son of Man' is used to mean His Human Essence which became Jehovah as well after it had been united to His Divine Essence. Power was given to Him at that point, which would not have been possible until He was glorified, that is, until His Human Essence as well, through union with the Divine Essence, had life in Itself and likewise became Divine and Jehovah, as He Himself declares in John,

As the Father has life in Himself, so He has granted the Son to have life in Himself. John 5:26.

[3] It is His Human Essence or External Man that is named 'the Son of Man' in the passage quoted from Daniel, and 'a Boy born, a Son given to us' in the passage quoted from Isaiah. The fact that the heavenly kingdom would be given to Him, and all power in heaven and on earth, was shown and promised to Him then, and is the meaning of the statement 'all the land which you see I will give to you, and to your seed after you for ever'. This was before His Human Essence had been united to His Divine Essence, a union which took place when He had overcome the devil and hell, that is to say, when by His own strength and powers He had cast out all evil, which alone causes the severance.

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1. The Latin means I was, but the Greek means I am, which Swedenborg has in other places where he quotes this verse.

  
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