Die Bibel

 

Genesis 23

Lernen

   

1 At ang buhay ni Sara ay tumagal ng isang daan at dalawang pu't pitong taon: ito ang naging mga taon ng buhay ni Sara.

2 At namatay si Sara sa Kiriatharba (na siyang Hebron), sa lupain ng Canaan: at naparoon si Abraham na ipinagluksa si Sara at iniyakan.

3 At tumindig si Abraham sa harap ng kaniyang patay, at nagsalita sa mga anak ni Heth, na sinasabi,

4 Ako'y tagaibang bayan at nakikipamayan sa inyo: bigyan ninyo ako ng isang pag-aaring libingan sa gitna ninyo, upang aking ilibing ang aking patay, na malingid sa aking paningin.

5 At ang mga anak ni Heth ay sumagot kay Abraham, na nagsasabi sa kaniya,

6 Dinggin mo kami, panginoon ko: ikaw ay prinsipe ng Dios sa gitna namin: sa pinakahirang sa aming mga libingan ay ilibing mo ang iyong patay; wala sa amin na magkakait sa iyo ng kaniyang libingan, upang paglibingan ng iyong patay.

7 At tumindig si Abraham, at yumukod sa bayan ng lupain, sa mga anak nga ni Heth.

8 At nakiusap sa kanila, na sinasabi, Kung kalooban ninyo na aking ilibing ang aking patay na malingid sa aking paningin, ay dinggin ninyo ako, at pamagitanan ninyo ako kay Ephron, na anak ni Zohar,

9 Upang ibigay niya sa akin ang yungib ng Macpela, na kaniyang inaari, na nasa hangganan ng kaniyang parang; sa tapat na halaga ay ibigay niya sa akin, upang maging pag-aaring libingan sa gitna ninyo.

10 Si Ephron nga ay nakaupo sa gitna ng mga anak ni Heth: at sumagot si Ephron na Hetheo kay Abraham, sa harap ng mga anak ni Heth, na naririnig ng lahat na pumapasok sa pintuan ng bayan, na sinasabi,

11 Hindi, panginoon ko, dinggin mo ako: ang parang ay ibinibigay ko sa iyo, at ang yungib na naroroon ay ibinibigay ko sa iyo; sa harap ng mga anak ng aking bayan, ay ibinigay ko sa iyo: ilibing mo ang iyong patay.

12 At si Abraham ay yumukod sa harapan ng bayan ng lupain.

13 At nagsalita kay Ephron sa harap ng bayan ng lupain, na sinasabi, Maanong ako lamang ay iyong pakinggan: ibibigay ko sa iyo ang halaga ng parang; tanggapin mo sa akin, at ililibing ko roon ang aking patay.

14 At sumagot si Ephron kay Abraham, na sinasabi sa kaniya,

15 Panginoon ko, dinggin mo ako: isang putol ng lupa na ang halaga'y apat na raang siklong pilak: gaano sa akin at sa iyo? ilibing mo nga ang iyong patay.

16 At dininig ni Abraham si Ephron; at tinimbang ni Abraham kay Ephron ang salaping sinabi, sa harap ng mga anak ni Heth, apat na raang siklong pilak, na karaniwang salapi ng mga mangangalakal.

17 Kaya't ang parang ni Ephron na nasa Macpela, na nasa tapat ng Mamre, ang parang at ang yungib na nandoon, at ang lahat ng mga punong kahoy na nasa parang na yaon, na ang nasa buong hangganan niyaon sa palibot, ay pinagtibay

18 Kay Abraham na pag-aari sa harap ng mga anak ni Heth, sa harapan ng lahat ng nagsisipasok sa pintuang daan ng kaniyang bayan.

19 At pagkatapos nito ay inilibing ni Abraham si Sara na kaniyang asawa sa yungib ng parang sa Macpela sa tapat ng Mamre (na siyang Hebron) sa lupain ng Canaan.

20 At ang parang at ang yungib na naroroon, ay pinagtibay kay Abraham ng mga anak ni Heth, na pag-aaring libingan niya.

   

Aus Swedenborgs Werken

 

Arcana Coelestia #2982

studieren Sie diesen Abschnitt

  
/ 10837  
  

2982. 'In the land of Canaan' means which was a united whole in the Lord's kingdom. This is clear from the representation of 'the land of Canaan' as the Lord's kingdom, dealt with in 1413, 1437, 1585, 1607. With the Lord's Churches the position is that in ancient times many existed simultaneously. These differed from one another, as Churches do today, on matters of doctrine, but they still made one in that they acknowledged love to the Lord and charity towards the neighbour as the chief and most essential thing. And so to them matters of doctrine existed not so much to guide their thought as to direct their lives. And when in every single respect love to the Lord and charity towards the neighbour, that is, the good of life, is the essential thing, then no matter how many Churches there are they all make one, and each is a united whole in the Lord's kingdom. The same is also true of heaven. Although there are countless communities there, and each one is distinct and separate from the rest, they nevertheless all constitute one heaven because every one is moved by love to the Lord and charity towards the neighbour.

[2] But the situation is altogether different in the case of Churches which say that faith is the essential thing of the Church, for they imagine that if they know this and think it, they are saved irrespective of whatever kind of life they lead. When this is the situation many Churches existing simultaneously do not make one Church; they are not even Churches. The good of faith is what makes the Church, that is, the life of love and charity in accordance with matters of faith make it. It is for the sake of life that matters of doctrine exist. This anyone may know, for why does any doctrine exist if not for some end in view? And what else is that end but life, that is, that a person may become as such doctrine teaches? Those Churches do indeed speak of saving faith as being trust, but that trust cannot possibly exist except within the good of life. Without the latter there is no receptivity, and when there is no receptivity there is no trust, except on occasions when the mind or body is sick and the desires that belong to self-love and love of the world are dormant. But with those who are leading an evil life, when this crisis is over or takes a different turn, that spurious trust disappears altogether; for trust can exist even with those who are evil. But if a person wishes to know what kind of trust he has, let him examine his affections and ends in view, and also the kind of life his actions reveal.

  
/ 10837  
  

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

Aus Swedenborgs Werken

 

Arcana Coelestia #1585

studieren Sie diesen Abschnitt

  
/ 10837  
  

1585. 'And he saw all the plain of Jordan' means the goods and truths that resided with the external man. This is clear from the meaning of 'a plain' and of 'the Jordan'. In the internal sense 'the plain surrounding the Jordan' means the external man as regards all his goods and truths. The reason the plain of Jordan has this meaning is that the Jordan was a boundary of the land of Canaan. 'The land of Canaan', as stated and shown already, means the Lord's kingdom and Church, and in particular its celestial and spiritual things; this also explains why it was called the Holy Land, and the heavenly Canaan. And because it means the Lord's kingdom and Church, it means in the highest sense the Lord Himself, who is the All in all of His kingdom and of His Church.

[2] For this reason all things in the land of Canaan were representative. Those in the midst of the land, or that were inmost, represented His internal Man - Mount Zion and Jerusalem, for example, representing respectively celestial things and spiritual things. More outlying districts represented things more remote from internals. And the most outlying districts, or those which formed the boundaries, represented the external man. There were several boundaries to the land of Canaan, but in general they were the two rivers Euphrates and Jordan, and also the Sea, 1 for which reason the Euphrates and the Jordan represented external things. Here therefore 'the plain of Jordan' means, as it also represents, all things residing in the external man. The meaning of the land of Canaan is similar when used in reference to the Lord's kingdom in heaven, to the Lord's Church on earth, to the member of that kingdom or Church, or abstractly to the celestial things of love, and so on.

[3] Almost all the cities therefore, and indeed all the mountains, hills, valleys, rivers, and other features in the land of Canaan, were representative. The river Euphrates, being a boundary, represented, as shown already in 120, sensory evidence and facts that belong to the external man, and so too did the Jordan and the plain of Jordan, as becomes clear from the following places: In David,

O my God, my soul bows itself down within me; 2 therefore I remember You from the land of Jordan, and the Hermons from the little mountain. Psalms 42:6.

Here 'the land of Jordan' stands for that which is lowly and so is distant from the celestial, as a person's externals are from his internals.

[4] The crossing of the Jordan when the children of Israel entered the land of Canaan and the dividing of its waters at that time also represented the approach to the internal man by way of the external, as well as a person's entry into the Lord's kingdom, and much more besides, Joshua 3:14 on to the end of Chapter 4. And because the external man is constantly hostile towards the internal and strives for domination over it, the arrogance or the pride of the Jordan came to be phrases used by the Prophets, as in Jeremiah,

How will you compete with horses? And confident in a land of peace how do you deal with the pride of the Jordan? Jeremiah 12:5.

'The pride of the Jordan' stands for those things belonging to the external man which rear up and wish to have dominion over the internal, such as reasonings, meant here by 'horses', and 'the confidence' they give.

[5] In the same prophet,

Edom will become a desolation. Behold, like a lion it will come up from the arrogance of the Jordan against the habitation of Ethan. Jeremiah 49:17, 19.

'The arrogance of the Jordan' stands for the pride of the external man against the goods and truths of the internal. In Zechariah,

Howl, O fir tree, for the cedar is fallen, for the magnificent ones have been laid waste! Howl, O oaks of Bashan, for the impenetrable forest has come down. The sound of the howling of shepherds [is heard], for their magnificence has been laid waste; the sound of the roaring of young lions, that the pride of the Jordan has been laid waste. Zechariah 11:2-3.

The fact that the Jordan was a boundary of the land of Canaan is clear from Numbers 34:12, and the eastern boundary of the land of Judah, in Joshua 15:5.

Fußnoten:

1. i.e. the Great or Mediterranean Sea

2. literally, upon me

  
/ 10837  
  

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