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1 Så drog Abraham derfra til sydlandet og bodde mellem Kades og Sur, og siden opholdt han sig en tid i Gerar.

2 Og Abraham sa om Sara, sin hustru: Hun er min søster. Da sendte Abimelek, kongen i Gerar, folk avsted og tok Sara.

3 Men Gud kom til Abimelek i en drøm om natten og sa til ham: Nu skal du for den kvinnes skyld som du har tatt; for hun er en annen manns hustru.

4 Men Abimelek hadde ikke kommet henne nær, og han sa: Herre, vil du da også slå rettferdige folk ihjel?

5 Har han ikke selv sagt til mig: Hun er min søster? Og hun har også sagt: Han er min bror. I mitt hjertes uskyldighet og med rene hender har jeg gjort dette.

6 Og Gud sa til ham i drømmen: Ja, jeg vet at du har gjort dette i ditt hjertes uskyldighet, og jeg har også hindret dig fra å synde mot mig; derfor har jeg ikke latt dig få røre henne.

7 Men la nu mannen få sin hustru tilbake! For han er en profet. Og han skal bede for dig, så du får leve. Men dersom du ikke gir henne tilbake, da vit at du visselig skal , du og alle dine.

8 Da stod Abimelek tidlig op om i morgenen og kalte på alle sine tjenere og fortalte dem alt dette, og mennene blev meget redde.

9 Og Abimelek kalte Abraham til sig og sa til ham: Hvad er det du har gjort mot oss! Hvad har jeg syndet mot dig, siden du har ført så stor en synd over mig og mitt rike? Du har båret dig slik at mot mig som ingen skulde gjøre.

10 Og Abimelek sa videre til Abraham: Hvad mente du med å gjøre dette?

11 Da sa Abraham: Jeg tenkte: Det er visst ingen gudsfrykt på dette sted, og de vil slå mig ihjel for min hustrus skyld.

12 Hun er også virkelig min søster, min fars datter, men ikke min mors datter; og hun blev min hustru.

13 Og da Gud bød mig å vandre om borte fra min fars hus, sa jeg til henne: Således må du vise din kjærlighet mot mig: Hvor vi så kommer, må du si om mig: Han er min bror.

14 Så tok Abimelek småfe og storfe og træler og trælkvinner og gav Abraham og lot ham få Sara, sin hustru, tilbake.

15 Og Abimelek sa: Se, mitt land ligger åpent for dig; bo hvor du selv vil!

16 Og til Sara sa han: Se, her gir jeg din bror tusen sekel sølv; det skal være en sonegave for dig i alles øine som er sammen med dig, og for alle har du nu fått opreisning.

17 Og Abraham bad til Gud, og Gud helbredet Abimelek og hans hustru og hans tjenestekvinner, så de fikk barn.

18 For Herren hadde aldeles lukket for hvert morsliv i Abimeleks hus for Abrahams hustru Saras skyld.

   

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Arcana Coelestia #1197

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1197. 'From whom Pelishtim came forth' means the nation which came from these, and which means a knowledge of the cognitions of faith and charity. This is clear from the Word where they are mentioned many times. In the Ancient Church all were called Philistines who spoke much about faith and who asserted that salvation lay in faith, and yet possessed nothing of the life of faith. Consequently they more than any others were called uncircumcised, that is, devoid of charity. (For references to them as the uncircumcised, see 1 Samuel 14:6; 17:26, 36; 31:4; 2 Samuel 1:20; and elsewhere.) Being such as they were they inevitably made cognitions of faith matters of memory, for cognitions of spiritual and celestial things, and the arcana of faith themselves, become purely matters of memory when a person who is acquainted with them is devoid of charity. Things of the memory are so to speak dead if the person is not such that he lives according to them from conscience. When he does live according to them from conscience things of the memory are in that case matters of life as well, and only then do they remain with him for his use and salvation following life in the body. Knowledge and cognitions are of no value to anyone in the next life, even though he may have known all the arcana that have ever been revealed, if they have made no impact on his life.

[2] Throughout the prophetical parts of the Word 'the Philistines' means people such as these, as they do in the historical sections of the Word, as when Abraham sojourned in the land of the Philistines and made a covenant with Abimelech, the king of the Philistines, Genesis 20:1-end; 21:22-end; 26:1-33. Because the Philistines here meant cognitions of faith, and because Abraham represented the celestial things of faith, he sojourned there and made a covenant with them. So likewise did Isaac, who represented the spiritual things of faith. But Jacob did not do so because he represented the external features of the Church.

[3] That 'the Philistines' means, in general, knowledge of the cognitions of faith, and in particular people who make faith and salvation reside in cognitions alone which they make matters of memory, becomes clear also in Isaiah,

Rejoice not, O Philistia, all of you, that the rod which smites you has been broken, for from the serpent's root will come forth an adder, and its fruit will be a flying prester. Isaiah 14:29

Here 'the serpent's root' stands for facts, 'an adder' for evil arising out of falsities based on facts. 'The fruits of a flying prester' is their works which, because they are the product of evil desires, are called 'a flying prester'

[4] In Joel,

What are you to Me, O Tyre and Sidon, and all the borders of Philistia? Are you rendering Me a recompense? Swiftly and speedily I will return your recompense upon your own head, inasmuch as you have taken My silver and My gold, and My good and desirable treasures you have carried into your temples, and have sold the sons of Judah and the sons of Jerusalem to the sons of the Javanites, 1 that you might remove them far away from their border. Joel 3:4-6.

What 'the Philistines' and the whole of Philistia, or 'all its borders', are used to mean here is plain. 'Silver' and 'gold' here are the spiritual and celestial things of faith, 'good and desirable treasures' cognitions of them. 'They carried them into their temples' means that they were in possession of them and proclaimed them. 'They sold the sons of Judah and the sons of Jerusalem' however means that they possessed no love and no faith. In the Word 'Judah' is the celestial element of faith, and 'Jerusalem' the spiritual element deriving from it, which were 'removed far away from their borders'. Further examples exist in the Prophets, such as Jeremiah 25:20; Jeremiah 47:1-end; Ezekiel 16:27, 57; 25:15-16; Amos 1:8; 19; Zephaniah 2:5; Psalms 87:4; and the people of Caphtor are mentioned in Deuteronomy 2:23; Jeremiah 47:4; Amos 9:7.

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1. i.e. the Greeks

  
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