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1 И было послј сихъ произшеетвій, сказали Іосифу: вотъ, отецъ твой боленъ. Тотда онъ взялъ съ собою двухъ сыновей своихъ, Манассію и Ефрема.

2 И возвјстили Іакову, и сказали: вотъ, сынъ твой Іосифъ идетъ къ тебј. Израиль укрјпился и сјлъ на постелј.

3 И сказалъ Іаковъ Іосифу: Богъ Всемогущій явился мнј въ Лузј, въ землј Ханаанской, и благословилъ меня.

4 И сказалъ мнј: се, Я возращу тебя, и размножу тебя и произведу отъ тебя сонмъ народовъ, и дамъ землю сію въ вјчное владјніе потомству твоему, послј тебя.

5 Итакъ два сына твои, родившіеся тебј въ землј Египетской, прежде нежели я пришелъ къ тебј въ Египетъ, пусть будутъ мои; Ефремъ и Манассія пусть будутъ мои, также какъ Рувимъ и Симеонъ.

6 Дјти же твои, которые родятся отъ тебя послј сихъ, будутъ твои. Они подъ именемъ братьевъ своихъ будутъ именоваться въ ихъ удјлј.

7 Ибо Рахиль по возвращеніи моемъ изъ Падана, умерла у меня въ землј Ханаанской, на дорогј, не доходя поприща земли до Ефраѕы, и я похоронилъ ее тамъ на дорогј къ Ефраѕј, (что нынј Виѕлеемъ).

8 Тутъ Израиль увидјлъ сыновъ Іосифовыхъ, и спросилъ: кто это?

9 Іосифъ отвјчалъ отцу своему: это сыновья мои, которыхъ Богъ даровалъ мнј здјсь. Тогда онъ сказалъ: подведи ихъ ко мнј, я благословлю ихъ.

10 (Очи же Израилевы тяжелы были отъ старости такъ, что онъ не могъ видјть ясно). Іосифъ подвелъ ихъ къ нему, и онъ поцјловалъ ихъ, и обнялъ ихъ.

11 сказалъ Израиль Іосифу: я не надјялся видјть лице твое, и се, Богъ даровалъ мнј увидјть и дјтей твоихъ.

12 И отвелъ ихъ Іосифъ отъ колјнъ его, и поклонился лицемъ своимъ до земли.

13 Потомъ Іосифъ взялъ обоихъ, Ефрема въ правую свою руку противъ лјвой Израиля, а Манассію въ лјвую противъ правой Израиля, и подвелъ къ нему.

14 Но Израиль простеръ правую руку свою, и положилъ на голову Ефрема, хотя сей былъ меньший, а лјвую на голову Манассіи. Такъ положилъ онъ руки свои съ намјреніемъ, хотя Манассія былъ первенецъ.

15 И благословилъ: Іосифа, и сказалъ: Богъ, иредъ лицемъ Котораго ходили отцы мои, Авраамъ и Исаакъ, Богъ, пасущій меня съ тјхъ поръ, какъ я существую до сего дня,

16 Ангелъ, избавляющій меня отъ всякаго зла, да благословитъ отроковъ сихъ, да будетъ на нихъ имя мое и имя отцевъ моихъ, Авраама и Исаака, и да возрастутъ они во множество посреди земли.

17 Когда Іосифъ увидјлъ, что отецъ его положилъ правую руку свою на голову Ефрема, то сіе было ему непріятно. И взялъ руку отца своего, чтобы переложить ее съ головы Ефрема на голову Манассіи;

18 и сказалъ Іосифъ отцу своеему: не такъ, батюшка; ибо этотъ первенецъ; положи правую руку твою на голову этому.

19 Но отецъ его не согласился, и сказалъ: знаю, сынъ мой, знаю; и отъ него произойдетъ народъ, и онъ будетъ великъ; но меньшій его братъ будетъ больше его, и потомство его будетъ полнота народовъ.

20 И благословилъ ихъ въ тотъ день, говоря: тобою благословлять будетъ Израиль, и будетъ говорить: Богъ да сотворитъ тебј, какъ Ефрему и Манассіи. Такимъ образомъ поставилъ Ефрема выше Манассіи.

21 И сказалъ Израиль Іосифу: вотъ, я умираю. Но Богъ будетъ съ вами, и возвратитъ васъ въ землю отцевъ вашихъ.

22 Я даю тебј преимущественно предъ братьями твоими, Одинъ участокъ, который я взялъ изъ рукъ Аморреевъ Мечемъ моимъ и лукомъ моимъ.

   

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Arcana Coelestia #6220

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6220. 'That [someone] said to Joseph' means a pre-eminent discernment. This is clear from the meaning of 'saying' as perception, dealt with in 1791, 1815, 1819, 1822, 1898, 1919, 2080, 2619, 2682, 3509, 5687. The reason a pre-eminent discernment is meant is that the subject in what follows is the Church's understanding and will, thus its truth and good, which come from an inflowing through the celestial internal, which is 'Joseph'.

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

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Arcana Coelestia #2669

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2669. 'Also, the son of the servant-girl I will make into a nation' means the spiritual Church which was to receive the good of faith. This is clear from the meaning of 'the son of the servant-girl' and also of 'a nation'. 'The son of the servant-girl' or Ishmael, while he was in Abraham's house, that is, while he was with Abraham, represented the Lord's first rational, as shown in 2652, 2653, 2657, 2658. But now he has been separated he takes on another representation, namely that of the spiritual Church, 2666. A similar change of representation occurred previously with Lot who while with Abraham represented the Lord's external man, 1428, 1429, 1434, 1547, 1597, 1598, 1698, but once he had been separated from Abraham he represented the external Church and many states of that Church, 2324, 2371, 2399, 2422, 2459, and in the whole of Chapter 19. As regards 'nation' meaning good, see 1159, 1258-1260, 1416, 1849. Here the good of faith is meant since it has reference to the spiritual Church. Hence the words used here, 'Also, the son of the servant-girl I will make into a nation', mean the spiritual Church which was to receive the good of faith, which is charity.

[2] The Lord's kingdom in heaven and on earth is celestial and spiritual, and therefore angels are distinguished into those who are celestial and those who are spiritual, see 202, 337. To celestial angels the Lord appears as the Sun, to spiritual as the Moon, 1053, 1521, 1529-1531. Men in a similar way are distinguished into those who are celestial and those who are spiritual. Those who belonged to the Most Ancient Church which existed before the Flood were celestial, dealt with in 607, 608, 784, 895, 920, 1114-1125, while those who belonged to the Ancient Church which existed after the Flood were spiritual, dealt with in 609, 640, 641, 765. For what the difference was between those two Churches, see 567, 607, and for what the difference is between what is celestial and what is spiritual, 81, 1155, 1577, 1824, 2048, 2069, 2088, 2227, 2507. The celestial are referred to by the Lord in the following,

He calls His own sheep by name and leads them out. And when He has led out His own sheep He goes before them, and the sheep follow Him, for they know His voice.

The spiritual however are referred to in these words,

And other sheep I have which are not of this fold; I must bring them also, and they will hear My voice, and there will be one flock and one shepherd. John 10:3-4, 16.

The good of love is that which constitutes the celestial Church, but the good of faith that which constitutes the spiritual Church. The truth of faith does not constitute the Church but leads into it.

  
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