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Genezo 17

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1 Kiam Abram havis la agxon de nauxdek naux jaroj, aperis la Eternulo al Abram, kaj diris al li: Mi estas Dio la Plejpotenca; iradu antaux Mi kaj estu senpeka.

2 Kaj Mi faros Mian interligon inter Mi kaj vi, kaj Mi multigos vin tre forte.

3 Kaj Abram jxetis sin vizagxaltere, kaj Dio parolis al li, dirante:

4 Jen estas Mia interligo kun vi: vi estos patro de multe da popoloj.

5 Kaj via nomo ne estos plu Abram, sed via nomo estos Abraham, cxar Mi faris vin patro de multe da popoloj.

6 Kaj Mi fruktigos vin tre multe, kaj Mi devenigos de vi popolojn, kaj regxoj devenos de vi.

7 Kaj Mi starigos Mian interligon inter Mi kaj vi kaj via idaro post vi en iliaj generacioj, eternan interligon, ke Mi estos Dio por vi kaj por via idaro post vi.

8 Kaj Mi donos al vi kaj al via idaro post vi la landon, en kiu vi logxas kiel fremdulo, la tutan landon Kanaanan, por eterna posedajxo, kaj Mi estos Dio por ili.

9 Kaj Dio diris al Abraham: Kaj vi gardu Mian interligon, vi kaj via idaro post vi en iliaj generacioj.

10 Jen estas Mia interligo, kiun vi devas gardi inter Mi kaj vi kaj via idaro post vi: cxiu virseksulo cxe vi estu cirkumcidata.

11 Kaj cirkumcidu la karnon de via prepucio, kaj tio estu signo de interligo inter Mi kaj vi.

12 Kaj en la agxo de ok tagoj estu cirkumcidata cxe vi en viaj generacioj cxiu virseksulo naskita en la domo aux acxetita per mono cxe iu aligentulo, kiu ne estas el via idaro.

13 Cirkumcidata estu cxiu naskita en via domo aux acxetita per via mono, kaj Mia interligo estu sur via karno kiel interligo eterna.

14 Kaj se estos prepucihava virseksulo, kiu ne cirkumcidos la karnon de sia prepucio, tiu animo ekstermigxos el sia popolo: Mian interligon gxi rompis.

15 Kaj Dio diris al Abraham: Vian edzinon Saraj ne nomu Saraj, sed sxia nomo estu Sara.

16 Kaj Mi benos sxin, kaj Mi donos de sxi al vi filon; kaj Mi benos sxin, kaj de sxi devenos popoloj, regxoj de popoloj devenos de sxi.

17 Kaj Abraham jxetis sin vizagxaltere, kaj ekridis, kaj diris en sia koro: CXu de homo centjara farigxos nasko, kaj cxu Sara la nauxdekjara naskos?

18 Kaj Abraham diris al Dio: Ho, ke Isxmael vivu antaux Vi!

19 Kaj Dio diris: Efektive Sara, via edzino, naskos al vi filon, kaj vi donos al li la nomon Isaak; kaj Mi starigos Mian interligon kun li kiel interligon eternan por lia idaro post li.

20 Ankaux pri Isxmael Mi auxdis vin: jen Mi benis lin, kaj Mi fruktigos lin kaj Mi multigos lin tre forte; dek du princoj naskigxos de li, kaj Mi devenigos de li grandan popolon.

21 Sed Mian interligon Mi starigos kun Isaak, kiun naskos al vi Sara en cxi tiu tempo en la venonta jaro.

22 Kaj Li cxesis paroli kun li, kaj Dio levigxis for de Abraham.

23 Kaj Abraham prenis sian filon Isxmael kaj cxiujn naskitajn en lia domo kaj cxiujn acxetitajn per lia mono, cxiun virseksulon el la homoj de la domo de Abraham, kaj li cirkumcidis la karnon de ilia prepucio en tiu sama tago, kiel diris al li Dio.

24 Kaj Abraham havis la agxon de nauxdek naux jaroj, kiam li cirkumcidis la karnon de sia prepucio.

25 Kaj lia filo Isxmael havis la agxon de dek tri jaroj, kiam la karno de lia prepucio estis cirkumcidita.

26 En tiu sama tago estis cirkumciditaj Abraham kaj lia filo Isxmael;

27 kaj cxiuj liaj domanoj, kiuj naskigxis en la domo aux estis acxetitaj per mono cxe aligentulo, estis cirkumciditaj kune kun li.

   

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Arcana Coelestia #2116

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2116. That they “were circumcised by [ab] him” signifies that they are justified by the Lord, may be seen from the representation and thence the signification of “being circumcised,” as being to be purified (explained above, n. 2039). Their “being circumcised by him,” that is, by Abraham, was also representative, namely, that they are purified and thereby justified by the Lord. But in regard to justification, the case is not as is commonly supposed, namely, that all evils and sins are wiped away and utterly blotted out when men, as they imagine, believe-even if it were their last and dying hour-however they may have lived in evils and in misdeeds during the entire course of their lives; for I have been fully instructed that not the smallest evil which a man during his bodily life has thought and has carried out into act is wiped away and utterly blotted out; but that it all remains, even to the very least of it.

[2] The truth is that with those who have meditated and practiced acts of hatred, of revenge, of cruelty, and of adultery, and who thereby have lived in no charity, the life thence contracted awaits them after death, nay, so do all things of that life both in general and in particular, which return in succession; and from this comes their torment in hell. But with those who have lived in love to the Lord and in charity toward the neighbor, their evils of life also all remain, but they are tempered by the goods which during their life in the world they have received from the Lord by means of a life of charity; and thereby they are uplifted into heaven, nay, are withheld from the evils which they have appertaining to them, so that these do not appear. They who in the other life doubt their having evils with them, because the evils do not appear, are let into them until they know that the case is really so, and then are again uplifted into heaven.

[3] This then is what is meant by being justified; for in this way men come to acknowledge not their own righteousness, but that of the Lord. As to its being said that those are saved who have faith-this is true; but in the Word by “faith” nothing else is meant than love to the Lord and charity toward the neighbor, and thus a life from these loves. The doctrinal things and dogmas of faith are not faith, but belong to faith; for they are one and all for the sake of the end that a man may become such as they teach him to be, as may be clearly seen from the Lord’s words that in love to God and love toward the neighbor consist all the law and the prophets, that is, the universal doctrine of faith (Matthew 22:34-39; Mark 12:28-35). (That there cannot possibly be any other faith that is faith, was shown in Part First, n. 30-38, 379, 389, 724, 809, 896, 904, 916, 989, 1017, 1076, 1077, 1121, 1158, 1162, 1176, 1258, 1285, 1316, 1608, 1798, 1799, 1834, 1843, 1844; and also that heaven itself consists in love to the Lord and in mutual love, n. 537, 547, 553, 1112, 2057)

  
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Arcana Coelestia #1066

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1066. And from these was the whole earth overspread. That this signifies that from them were derived all doctrines, both true and false, is evident from the signification of “earth.” “Earth” or “land” in the Word, is used with various meanings. In the universal sense it denotes the place or region where the church is, or where it has been, as the land of Canaan, the land of Judah, the land of Israel. Thus it denotes universally everyone that belongs to the church, since the land is predicated of the man who is in it, as we know in common speech. In ancient times therefore when men spoke of the “whole earth” they did not mean the whole globe, but only the land where the church was, and thus the church itself; as is evident from the following passages in the Word.

In Isaiah:

Behold, Jehovah maketh the earth empty; the earth shall be utterly emptied; the earth shall mourn and be confounded; the earth also shall be polluted under the inhabitants thereof; therefore shall the curse devour the earth; therefore the inhabitants of the earth shall be burned, and man shall be left feeble. The cataracts from on high are opened, and the foundations of the earth do shake; the earth is utterly broken; the earth is clean dissolved; the earth is moved exceedingly; the earth reeling shall reel like a drunken man, and shall be moved to and fro like a hut, and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it, and it shall fall, and not rise again (Isaiah 24:1, 3-6, 18-20).

The “earth” here denotes the people who are in it, and in fact the people of the church, thus the church itself, and the vastated things of the church, of which when vastated it is said that they are “emptied” “moved exceedingly” “reel like a drunken man” “move to and fro” and “fall, not to rise again.”

[2] That by “earth” or “land” is signified man, consequently the church, which is of man, may be seen in Malachi:

All nations shall call you happy; for ye shall be a delightsome land (Malachi 3:12).

That “earth” denotes the church is seen in Isaiah:

Have ye not understood the foundations of the earth? (Isaiah 40:21), where the “foundations of the earth” denote the foundations of the church.

Again:

For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth (Isaiah 65:17; 66:22; Revelation 21:1).

“New heavens and a new earth” denote the kingdom of the Lord and the church.

In Zechariah:

Jehovah, who stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him (Zechariah 12:1), meaning the church.

Also, as before, in Genesis:

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth (Genesis 1:1).

And the heavens and the earth were finished (Genesis 2:1).

These are the nativities of the heavens and of the earth (Genesis 2:4), everywhere denoting the church created, formed, and made.

In Joel:

The earth quaked before Him, the heavens trembled, the sun and the moon were darkened (Joel 2:10), meaning the church and the things of the church; when these are vastated, “heaven and earth” are said to quake, and the “sun and moon” to grow dark, that is, love and faith.

[3] In Jeremiah:

I beheld the earth, and lo a void and emptiness; and the heavens, and they had no light (Jeremiah 4:23).

Here the “earth” plainly denotes the man in whom there is not anything of the church.

Again:

The whole earth shall be desolate; yet will I not make a full consummation; for this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black (Jeremiah 4:27-28).

Here also the church is meant, whose exteriors are the “earth” and the interiors the “heavens” of which it is said that they shall be black, with no light in them, when there is no longer wisdom of good and intelligence of truth. Then the earth also is empty and void; and in like manner the man of the church who should be a church.

That by the “whole earth” is meant in other places also only the church, may be seen in Daniel:

The fourth beast shall be a fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all the kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces (Daniel 7:23); the “whole earth” denotes the church and what is of the church; for the Word does not treat, like profane writings, of monarchial sovereignties, but of the holy things and states of the church, which are here signified by the “kingdoms of the earth.”

[4] In Jeremiah:

A great tempest shall be raised up from the uttermost parts of the earth; and the slain of Jehovah shall be at that day from one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth (Jeremiah 25:32-33);

here “from one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth” means the church and everything that is of the church.

In Isaiah:

The whole earth is at rest and is quiet; they break forth into singing (Isaiah 14:7),

where the “whole earth” denotes the church.

In Ezekiel:

When the whole earth rejoiceth (Ezekiel 35:14), where also the “whole earth” denotes the church.

In Isaiah:

I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth (Isaiah 54:9), where the “earth” denotes the church, because the church is there treated of.

[5] Because “land” or “earth” in the Word signifies the church, it signifies also what is not the church, for every such word has contrary or opposite meanings; as for example the various lands of the Gentiles; in general all lands outside the land of Canaan. “Land” is therefore taken also for the people and for the man outside the church, and hence for the external man, for his will, his Own, and so forth. The term is rarely used in the Word for the whole world, except when the whole human race is meant as regards their state, whether of the church or not of the church. And because the earth is the containant of the ground, which also signifies the church, and the ground is the containant of the field, the word “earth” signifies, because it involves, many things; and what it signifies is evident from the subject treated of, which is that of which the term is predicated. From all this it is evident that by the “whole earth” that was overspread by the sons of Noah, is not signified the whole world, or the whole human race, but all the doctrines both true and false that were of the churches.

  
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