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Bereshit 16

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1 ושרי אשת אברם לא ילדה לו ולה שפחה מצרית ושמה הגר׃

2 ותאמר שרי אל־אברם הנה־נא עצרני יהוה מלדת בא־נא אל־שפחתי אולי אבנה ממנה וישמע אברם לקול שרי׃

3 ותקח שרי אשת־אברם את־הגר המצרית שפחתה מקץ עשר שנים לשבת אברם בארץ כנען ותתן אתה לאברם אישה לו לאשה׃

4 ויבא אל־הגר ותהר ותרא כי הרתה ותקל גברתה בעיניה׃

5 ותאמר שרי אל־אברם חמסי עליך אנכי נתתי שפחתי בחיקך ותרא כי הרתה ואקל בעיניה ישפט יהוה ביני וביניך׃

6 ויאמר אברם אל־שרי הנה שפחתך בידך עשי־לה הטוב בעיניך ותענה שרי ותברח מפניה׃

7 וימצאה מלאך יהוה על־עין המים במדבר על־העין בדרך שור׃

8 ויאמר הגר שפחת שרי אי־מזה באת ואנה תלכי ותאמר מפני שרי גברתי אנכי ברחת׃

9 ויאמר לה מלאך יהוה שובי אל־גברתך והתעני תחת ידיה׃

10 ויאמר לה מלאך יהוה הרבה ארבה את־זרעך ולא יספר מרב׃

11 ויאמר לה מלאך יהוה הנך הרה וילדת בן וקראת שמו ישמעאל כי־שמע יהוה אל־עניך׃

12 והוא יהיה פרא אדם ידו בכל ויד כל בו ועל־פני כל־אחיו ישכן׃

13 ותקרא שם־יהוה הדבר אליה אתה אל ראי כי אמרה הגם הלם ראיתי אחרי ראי׃

14 על־כן קרא לבאר באר לחי ראי הנה בין־קדש ובין ברד׃

15 ותלד הגר לאברם בן ויקרא אברם שם־בנו אשר־ילדה הגר ישמעאל׃

16 ואברם בן־שמנים שנה ושש שנים בלדת־הגר את־ישמעאל לאברם׃ ס

   

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Arcana Coelestia #1914

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1914. My wrong be upon thee; I gave my handmaid into thy bosom. That this signifies unwillingness to take blame upon itself, is evident without explication. In the internal sense there is involved in these words that the Lord perceived this first rational to be such as to lightly esteem intellectual truth, on which account He rebuked it. For the Lord thought from intellectual truth, as before said (n. 1904); and because this truth is above the rational, it could perceive and see the quality of this rational, namely, that it held that truth in low esteem.

[2] That the Lord could perceive and see from the interior man what was the quality of the new rational in Himself, may be seen from the fact that the interior can perceive what takes place in the exterior, or what is the same, that the higher can see what is in the lower; but not the reverse. Moreover they who have conscience can do this and are accustomed to do it, for when anything contrary to the truth of conscience flows into the thought, or into the endeavor of the will, they not only perceive it, but also find fault with it; and it even grieves them to be of such a character. Still more can those do this who have perception, as perception is more interior in the rational. What then could not the Lord do, who had Divine celestial perception, and thought from the affection of intellectual truth, which is above the rational! Therefore He could not but be indignant, knowing that nothing of evil and falsity was from Himself, and that from the affection of truth He took the greatest pains that His rational should be pure. This shows that the Lord did not lightly esteem intellectual truth, but that He perceived the first rational in Himself to be thinking lightly of it.

[3] What it is to think from intellectual truth cannot be explained to the apprehension, and the less so because no one but the Lord ever thought from this affection and from this truth. He who thinks therefrom is above the angelic heaven, for even the angels of the third heaven do not think from intellectual truth, but from the interior of the rational. But so far as the Lord united His Human Essence to His Divine Essence, He thought from the Divine good itself, that is, from Jehovah.

[4] The fathers of the Most Ancient Church who had perception, thought from the interior rational. The fathers of the Ancient Church, who had not perception but conscience, thought from the exterior or natural rational. But all who are without conscience do not think at all from the rational, since they have not the rational, although they appear to have it; but they think from the sensuous and corporeal natural. The reason why they who have no conscience cannot think from the rational, is that they have no rational, as just said. The rational man is he who thinks the good and truth of faith, and by no means he who thinks contrary thereto. They who think evil and falsity are insane in their thought, and therefore the rational can by no means be predicated of them.

  
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