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Genesis 40

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1 Stalo se potom, že šeňkýř krále Egyptského a pekař provinili proti pánu svému, králi Egyptskému.

2 I rozhněval se Farao na oba úředníky své, na vládaře nad šeňkýři, a na vládaře nad pekaři.

3 A dal je do vězení v domě nejvyššího nad drabanty, do věže žalářné, v místo, v němž Jozef vězněm byl.

4 I postavil jim nejvyšší nad drabanty Jozefa k službě; a byli drahně dní u vězení.

5 I měli sen oba dva, každý z nich sen svůj noci jedné, každý podlé vyložení sna svého, šeňkýř i pekař krále Egyptského, kteříž seděli v věži.

6 Tedy přišel k nim Jozef ráno, a hleděl na ně; a aj, byli smutní.

7 I optal se těch úředníků Faraonových, kteříž s ním byli v vězení v domě pána jeho, řka: Proč jsou dnes tváři vaše smutnější?

8 Kteřížto odpověděli jemu: Měli jsme sen, a nemáme, kdo by jej vyložil. I řekl jim Jozef: Zdaliž Boží nejsou výkladové? Pravte mi medle.

9 Tedy správce nad šeňkýři vypravoval sen svůj Jozefovi, a řekl jemu: Zdálo se mi ve snách, že jsem viděl před sebou vinný kmen,

10 A na tom kmenu tři ratolesti; a ten kmen jako by pupence pouštěl, a vycházel květ jeho, až k sezrání přišli hroznové jeho.

11 A já maje koflík Faraonův v ruce své, bral jsem hrozny, a vytlačoval je do koflíka Faraonova, a podával jsem koflíka Faraonovi do rukou.

12 I řekl jemu Jozef: Toto jest vyložení jeho: Ti tři révové jsou tři dnové.

13 Po třech dnech povýší Farao hlavy tvé, a k úřadu tvému tě navrátí; i budeš podávati koflíka Faraonova do ruky jeho podlé obyčeje prvního, když jsi byl šeňkýřem jeho.

14 Ale mějž mne v své paměti, kdyžť se dobře povede; a učiň, prosím, se mnou to milosrdenství, abys zmínku učinil o mně před Faraonem, a vysvobodil mne z domu tohoto.

15 Nebo kradmo jsem vzat z země Židovské; a zde jsem ničeho neučinil, pročež by mne do tohoto vězení dali.

16 Vida pak správce nad pekaři, že dobře vyložil, řekl Jozefovi: Mně také zdálo se ve snách, ano tři košové pletení na hlavě mé.

17 A v koši vrchním byli všelijací pokrmové Faraonovi dílem pekařským strojení, a ptáci jedli je z koše nad hlavou mou.

18 I odpověděl Jozef a řekl: Toto jest vyložení jeho: Tři košové jsou Tři dnové.

19 Po třech dnech odejme tobě Farao hlavu tvou, a oběsí tě na dřevě; i budou jísti ptáci maso tvé s tebe.

20 Tedy stalo se v den třetí, v den pamatný narození Faraonova, že učinil hody všechněm služebníkům svým; i počítal hlavu vládaře nad šeňky, i hlavu vládaře nad pekaři, mezi služebníky svými.

21 A navrátil nejvyššího nad šeňky k místu jeho, aby podával koflíku Faraonovi do ruky.

22 Vládaře pak nad pekaři oběsil, tak jakž jim byl sen vyložil Jozef.

23 A nezpomenul správce nad šeňky na Jozefa, ale zapomenul na něj.

   

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Arcana Coelestia #5367

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5367. 'Go to Joseph' means that the celestial of the spiritual is the supplier of it. This is clear from the representation of 'Joseph' as the celestial of the spiritual, often dealt with already. 'Going to him' means that this is the supplier of it, that is to say, of the good needed by truth, that need being meant by the people's cry to Pharaoh for bread, 5365.

  
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5365. 'And the people cried out to Pharaoh for bread' means the need of good which was felt by truth. This is clear from the meaning of 'crying out' as the expression of someone enduring pain and grief, and so of someone in need; from the meaning of 'people' as truth, dealt with in 1259, 1260, 3295, 3581; from the representation of 'Pharaoh' as the natural, dealt with in 5079, 5080, 5095, 5160; and from the meaning of 'bread' as the celestial element of love, and so good, dealt with in 276, 680, 2165, 2177, 3464, 3478, 3735, 3813, 4211, 4217, 4735, 4976. From these meanings it follows that 'the people cried out to Pharaoh for bread' means the need of good that was felt by truth in the natural. This meaning seems, it is true, to be remote from the historical sense of the letter. Nevertheless, since people acquainted with the internal sense understand 'crying out', 'the people', 'Pharaoh', and 'bread' in no other way than mentioned above, such is the meaning that emerges from those words.

[2] What is implied by the need of good which was felt by truth must be stated. Truth has a need of good, and good has a need of truth; also, when truth has a need of good, truth is joined to good, and when good has a need of truth, good is joined to truth. The reciprocal joining together of good and truth - that is to say, the joining of truth to good, and of good to truth - is the heavenly marriage. During the initial phases when a person is being regenerated truth is multiplied, but good less so. And because at these times truth has no good to which it is joined, truth is therefore drawn into and deposited within the interior parts of the natural, so that it may be called forth from there in the measure that good is increased. In this state truth stands in need of good, and in the measure that good enters the natural a joining of truth to good is effected. Even so, this joining together does not lead to any fruitfulness. But once the person has been regenerated good increases, and as it does so it stands in need of truth and also acquires truth to itself and becomes joined to it. This is a joining of good to truth, and when this takes place truth is made fruitful by good, and good by truth.

[3] This process is one about which people in the world are totally ignorant, whereas those in heaven have a very good knowledge of it. If people in the world however knew, and not only knew but also had a perception of what celestial love or love to the Lord was, and what spiritual love or charity towards the neighbour was, they would also know what good was; for all good is the object of those loves. Above all they would know that good had a desire for truth, and truth had a desire for good, and that this desire and the essential nature of it determine the extent to which the two are joined together. Such would be evident to them from the fact that whenever they are thinking about truth, good presents itself linked together with that truth; and when good is stimulated, truth presents itself linked together with that good. And whenever both present themselves together they are accompanied by affection, desire, delight. or sacred yearning, from which they would then know what the joining together was essentially like. But because no knowledge is acquired by them as a result of an inner awareness or perception of what good is, such matters do not begin to be recognized by them. For what people know nothing about is unintelligible to them even if it happens to them.

[4] Also, because people are ignorant of what spiritual good is - that it is charity towards the neighbour - controversy therefore exists in the world, especially among the learned, over what the highest good may be. Scarcely anyone says 1 it is the feeling of delight, bliss, blessedness, and happiness which flows from mutual love that does not have any selfish or worldly end in view attached to it and which constitutes heaven itself. From this it is also evident that the world at the present day knows nothing at all about what spiritual good is. Still less does it know that good and truth form themselves into a marriage, or that heaven consists in this marriage, or that those in whom the marriage exists possess wisdom and intelligence, or that they enjoy feelings of bliss and happiness in endless, indescribable variety. The world knows nothing about even a single one of those variations; consequently it neither acknowledges nor believes that any such thing exists, when in fact it is heaven itself or heavenly joy itself, about which the Church has so much to say.

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1. Reading dicit (says), which Swedenborg has in his rough draft, for dixit (has said)

  
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