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1 Η δε Σαρα, η γυνη του Αβραμ, δεν ετεκνοποιει εις αυτον· ειχε δε δουλην Αιγυπτιαν, ονομαζομενην Αγαρ.

2 Και ειπεν η Σαρα προς τον Αβραμ, Ιδου, ο Κυριος με απεκλεισε της τεκνοποιιας· εισελθε λοιπον προς την δουλην μου, ισως αποκτησω τεκνον εξ αυτης. Υπηκουσε δε ο Αβραμ εις τον λογον της Σαρας.

3 Και ελαβεν η Σαρα η γυνη του Αβραμ την Αγαρ την Αιγυπτιαν, την δουλην αυτης, αφου ο Αβραμ ειχε κατοικησει δεκα ετη εν τη γη Χανααν, και εδωκεν αυτην εις Αβραμ τον ανδρα αυτης, δια να ηναι γυνη αυτου.

4 Και εισηλθε προς την Αγαρ, και εκεινη συνελαβε· και οτε ειδεν οτι συνελαβεν, η κυρια αυτης κατεφρονειτο ενωπιον αυτης.

5 Και ειπεν η Σαρα προς τον Αβραμ, Εξ αιτιας σου αδικουμαι. Εγω εδωκα την δουλην μου εις τον κολπον σου· και αφου ειδεν οτι συνελαβεν, εγω κατεφρονηθην ενωπιον αυτης· ας κρινη ο Κυριος μεταξυ εμου και σου.

6 Ο δε Αβραμ ειπε προς την Σαραν, Ιδου, η δουλη σου ειναι εις την χειρα σου· καμε εις αυτην οπως ειναι αρεστον εις τους οφθαλμους σου. Και μετεχειρισθη η Σαρα αυτην κακως, και εκεινη εφυγεν απο προσωπου αυτης.

7 Ευρε δε αυτην αγγελος Κυριου πλησιον πηγης υδατος, εν τη ερημω, πλησιον της πηγης κατα την οδον Σουρ·

8 και ειπεν, Αγαρ, δουλη της Σαρας, ποθεν ερχεσαι και που υπαγεις; Η δε ειπεν, Απο προσωπου Σαρας της κυριας μου φευγω.

9 Και ειπε προς αυτην ο αγγελος του Κυριου, Επιστρεψον προς την κυριαν σου και ταπεινωθητι υπο τας χειρας αυτης.

10 Ειπεν ετι ο αγγελος του Κυριου προς αυτην, Θελω πληθυνει σφοδρα το σπερμα σου, ωστε να μη αριθμηται δια το πληθος.

11 Και ειπε προς αυτην ο αγγελος του Κυριου, Ιδου, συ εισαι εγκυος, και θελεις γεννησει υιον, και θελεις καλεσει το ονομα αυτου Ισμαηλ· διοτι ηκουσεν ο Κυριος την θλιψιν σου·

12 και ουτος θελει εισθαι ανθρωπος αγριος· η χειρ αυτου θελει εισθαι εναντιον παντων, και η χειρ παντων εναντιον αυτου· και κατα προσωπον παντων των αδελφων αυτου θελει κατοικησει.

13 Και εκαλεσεν Αγαρ το ονομα του Κυριου του λαλουντος προς αυτην, συ Θεος οστις με ειδες· διοτι ειπεν, Ειδον ετι εγω ενταυθα εκεινον οστις με ειδε;

14 Δια τουτο ωνομασθη το φρεαρ εκεινο, Φρεαρ Λαχαι-ροι· ιδου, κειται μεταξυ Καδης και Βαραδ.

15 Και εγεννησεν η Αγαρ υιον εις τον Αβραμ· και ο Αβραμ εκαλεσε το ονομα του υιου αυτου, τον οποιον εγεννησεν Αγαρ, Ισμαηλ.

16 Ητο δε ο Αβραμ ογδοηκοντα εξ ετων, οτε η Αγαρ εγεννησε τον Ισμαηλ εις τον Αβραμ.

   

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Arcana Coelestia #1914

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1914. That 'may the wrong done to me be on you! I gave my servant-girl into your bosom' means its unwillingness to take any blame is clear without explanation. In the internal sense these words embody within themselves the truth that the Lord perceived this first rational to be such as despised intellectual truth, and for that reason He reproached it. The Lord did indeed think from intellectual truth, as stated above in 1904; and because that truth was superior to the rational, He was able to perceive and see the nature of the rational, that is to say, that it held that truth in contempt.

[2] The Lord's being able from the interior man to perceive and see the nature of the new rational within Himself becomes clear from the fact that what is interior is able to perceive that which occurs in the exterior, or what amounts to the same, what is higher is able to see that which occurs in that which is lower, but not the reverse. Moreover, those who have conscience are able and are accustomed to do the same, for when anything contrary to the truth constituting conscience enters their thought or the intentions of their will, they not only recognize it for what it is but also pour blame upon it; indeed it grieves them that their own nature is such. This is all the more true of those who have perception, for perception is more interior within the rational. What then could the Lord not do who had Divine celestial perception and whose thought sprang from the affection for intellectual truth which is above the rational? Therefore He could not be anything else but righteously angry since He knew that no evil or falsity at all stemmed from Himself and that from the affection for truth He strove anxiously with all His might so that the rational might be pure. From this it becomes clear that the Lord did not despise intellectual truth, yet perceived that the first rational with Him did so.

[3] What thinking from intellectual truth is cannot be explained intelligibly, all the less so because nobody except the Lord has ever thought from that affection and that kind of truth. Anyone who thinks from them is above the angelic heaven, for the angels of the third heaven do not think from intellectual truth but from the interior part of the rational. But to the extent that the Lord united the Human Essence to the Divine Essence, He thought from Divine Good itself, that is, from Jehovah.

[4] The early fathers of the Most Ancient Church, who had perception, thought from the interior rational. The fathers of the Ancient Church, who did not have perception but conscience, thought from the exterior or natural rational. But all who do not have conscience never think from the rational at all, since they have no rational however much they appear to do so. Instead they think from the sensory and the bodily experience of the natural. People who do not have conscience are unable to think from the rational for the reason, as has been stated, that they have no rational. The rational man is one in whom the good and truth of faith are the substance of his thought and never one who thinks in opposition to these. Those in whom evil and falsity are the substance of their thought are insane as to their thought and therefore the rational cannot be attributed to them.

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.