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創世記 33

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1 さてヤコブはをあげ、エサウ人を率いて来るのを見た。そこで彼は子供たちを分けてレアとラケルとふたりのつかえめとにわたし、

2 つかえめとその子供たちをまっ先に置き、レアとその子供たちを次に置き、ラケルとヨセフを最後に置いて、

3 みずから彼らのに進み、七たび身を地にかがめて、に近づいた。

4 するとエサウは走ってきて迎え、彼を抱き、そのくびをかかえて口づけし、共に泣いた。

5 エサウはをあげて女と子供たちを見て言った、「あなたと一緒にいるこれらの者はだれですか」。ヤコブは言った、「がしもべに授けられた子供たちです」。

6 そこでつかえめたちはその子供たちと共に近寄ってお辞儀した。

7 レアもまたその子供たちと共に近寄ってお辞儀し、それからヨセフとラケルが近寄ってお辞儀した。

8 するとエサウは言った、「わたしが出会ったあのすべての群れはどうしたのですか」。ヤコブは言った、「わがの前に恵みを得るためです」。

9 エサウは言った、「弟よ、わたしはじゅうぶんもっている。あなたの物はあなたのものにしなさい」。

10 ヤコブは言った、「いいえ、もしわたしがあなたの前に恵みを得るなら、どうか、わたしのから贈り物を受けてください。あなたが喜んでわたしを迎えてくださるので、あなたの見て神の見るように思います。

11 どうかわたしが持ってきた贈り物を受けてください。がわたしを恵まれたので、わたしはじゅうぶんもっていますから」。こうして彼がしいたので、彼は受け取った。

12 そしてエサウは言った、「さあ、立って行こう。わたしが先に行く」。

13 ヤコブは彼に言った、「ごぞんじのように、子供たちは、かよわく、また乳を飲ませているや牛をわたしが世話をしています。もし一日でも歩かせ過ぎたら群れはみな死んでしまいます。

14 わがよ、どうか、しもべの先においでください。わたしはわたしのにいる家畜と子供たちの歩みに合わせて、ゆっくり歩いて行き、セイルでわがと一緒になりましょう」。

15 エサウは言った、「それならわたしが連れている者どものうち幾人かをあなたのもとに残しましょう」。ヤコブは言った、「いいえ、それには及びません。わがの前に恵みを得させてください」。

16 そのエサウセイルへの帰途についた。

17 ヤコブは立ってスコテに行き、自分のためにを建て、また家畜のために小屋を造った。これによってその所の名はスコテと呼ばれている。

18 こうしてヤコブはパダンアラムからきて、無事カナンの地のシケムに着き、宿営した。

19 彼は天幕を張った野の一部をシケムの父ハモルのらのからケシタで買い取り、

20 そこに祭壇を建てて、これをエル・エロヘ・イスラエルと名づけた。

   

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Arcana Coelestia #4496

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4496. 'When they were in pain' means evil desires. This is clear from the meaning of 'the pain' that follows circumcision as evil desire. The reason why such desire is meant by that pain following circumcision is that 'circumcision' means purification from self-love and love of the world, 2039, 2044, 2049, 2632, 3412, 3413, 4462, and every desire of the flesh stems from those loves. This is why 'pain' means such desire. Indeed when a person is being purified from those loves, as happens when he is being regenerated, he suffers pain and distress. It is the desires which are being removed that feel the pain and distress. When some arcanum is represented by means of a religious ceremony every part of the ceremony through to the completion of it embodies some facet of that arcanum. For example, the daggers or knives used in circumcision did so, as did their being made of flint, 2093 (end), 2046 (end), 2799; the blood that flowed at that time did so, and the method employed, and thus the state also. The same is also evident from the procedures followed in cleansings, inaugurations, and consecrations, and all other ceremonies. Here 'the pain' that followed circumcision means the desire on the part of Hamor, Shechem, and the men of his city for the external things in which alone Jacob's descendants had any interest, dealt with above in 4493.

  
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Arcana Coelestia #3413

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3413. 'And filled them up with dust' means by means of earthly things, that is, by means of self-love and love of material gain. This is clear from the meaning of 'dust' as such, dealt with in 249. The meaning is that those who are called 'the Philistines', that is, who are not concerned with life but with doctrine, efface interior truths by means of earthly loves, which are self-love and love of gain. Because of those loves they are called 'the uncircumcised', 2039, 2049, 2056, 2632. Indeed people who are under the influence of those loves cannot avoid 'filling up the wells of Abraham with dust', that is, effacing the interior truths of the Word by means of earthly things, for there is no way in which they are able from these loves to see spiritual things, that is, things which belong to the light of truth from the Lord. In fact those loves introduce darkness, and this banishes that light, for as stated just above in 3412, as the light of truth from the Lord draws nearer, people who are concerned with doctrine alone and not with life are plunged into complete darkness and stupidity. Indeed they become like those in a rage, doing all they can to destroy truths in every way. For self-love and the love of gain are such that they do not allow any truth at all from the Divine to come anywhere near them. Nevertheless those people are able to boast of and pride themselves in the fact that they know truths; indeed they proclaim them with seeming zeal. It is however the fires of self-love and love of gain which inflame them and spur them on, and their zeal is merely the enthusiasm fired by those loves. This becomes quite clear from the fact that even though truths run counter to such persons' actual lives they are able to proclaim them with the selfsame zeal or enthusiasm. These are the earthly things which block the Word itself, the fountain of all truth.

  
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