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Бытие 39

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1 Иосиф же отведен был в Египет, и купил его из рук Измаильтян, приведших его туда, Египтянин Потифар, царедворецфараонов, начальник телохранителей.

2 И был Господь с Иосифом: он был успешен в делах и жилв доме господина своего, Египтянина.

3 И увидел господин его, что Господь с ним и что всему, что он делает, Господь в руках его дает успех.

4 И снискал Иосиф благоволение в очах его и служил ему. И он поставил его над домом своим, и все, что имел, отдал на руки его.

5 И с того времени, как он поставил его над домом своим и над всем, что имел, Господь благословил дом Египтянина ради Иосифа, и было благословение Господне на всем, что имел он в доме и в поле.

6 И оставил он все, что имел, в руках Иосифа и не знал при нем ничего, кроме хлеба, который он ел. Иосиф же был красив станом и красив лицем.

7 И обратила взоры на Иосифа жена господина его и сказала: спи со мною.

8 Но он отказался и сказал жене господина своего: вот, господин мой не знает при мне ничего в доме, и все, что имеет, отдал в мои руки;

9 нет больше меня в доме сем; и он не запретил мне ничего, кроме тебя, потому что ты жена ему; как же сделаю я сие великое зло и согрешу пред Богом?

10 Когда так она ежедневно говорила Иосифу, а он не слушался ее, чтобы спать с нею и быть с нею,

11 случилось в один день, что он вошел в дом делать дело свое, а никого из домашних тут в доме не было;

12 она схватила его за одежду его и сказала: ложись со мной. Но он, оставив одежду свою в руках ее, побежал и выбежал вон.

13 Она же, увидев, что он оставил одежду свою в руках ее и побежалвон,

14 кликнула домашних своих и сказала им так: посмотрите, он привел к нам Еврея ругаться над нами. Он пришел ко мне, чтобы лечь со мною, но я закричала громким голосом,

15 и он, услышав, что я подняла вопль и закричала, оставил у меня одежду свою, и побежал, и выбежал вон.

16 И оставила одежду его у себя до прихода господина его в дом свой.

17 И пересказала ему те же слова, говоря: раб Еврей, которого ты привел к нам, приходил ко мне ругаться надо мною.

18 но, когда я подняла вопль и закричала, он оставил у меня одежду свою и убежал вон.

19 Когда господин его услышал слова жены своей, которые она сказала ему, говоря: так поступил со мною раб твой, то воспылал гневом;

20 и взял Иосифа господин его и отдал его в темницу, где заключены узники царя. И был он там в темнице.

21 И Господь был с Иосифом, и простер к нему милость, и даровал ему благоволение в очах начальника темницы.

22 И отдал начальник темницы в руки Иосифу всех узников, находившихсяв темнице, и во всем, что они там ни делали, он был распорядителем.

23 Начальник темницы и не смотрел ни за чем, что было у него в руках, потому что Господь был с Иосифом , и во всем, что он делал, Господь давал успех.

   

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Arcana Coelestia #4981

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4981. 'And the blessing of Jehovah was' means increases. This is clear from the meaning of 'the blessing of Jehovah'. In the genuine sense 'the blessing of Jehovah' means love to the Lord and charity towards the neighbour, for those who are endowed with these are called 'the blessed of Jehovah' since they are in that case endowed with heaven and eternal salvation. Consequently 'the blessing of Jehovah' in the external sense, that is, in the sense which has to do with a person's state in the world, means resting content in God and on that account being content with one's position in society and with the amount of wealth one possesses, whether one is among the highly honoured and is wealthy or among the not so honoured and the poor. For the person who rests content in God regards positions and wealth as means to fulfill useful purposes; and when he thinks about these and at the same time about eternal life, he rates them as nothing and eternal life as that which is essential.

[2] Because 'the blessing of Jehovah (or the Lord)' implies such increases in the genuine sense, blessing also implies countless other benefits and consequently means the various gifts which flow from it, such as enrichment with spiritual and celestial good, 981, 1731; fruitfulness resulting from the affection for truth, 2846; undergoing rearrangement into heavenly order, 3017; being endowed with the good of love and thereby being joined to the Lord, 3406, 3504, 3514, 3530, 3584; and joy, 4216. What is meant by 'blessing' therefore in any specific instance becomes clear from the context in which it appears. Here the meaning of 'the blessing of Jehovah' as increases in good and truth, that is, in life and doctrine, is evident from what follows it, for there it says that this blessing of Jehovah was 'in the house and in the field', and 'house' means good which is the good of life, while 'field' means truth which is the truth of doctrine. From this it is evident that increases in these are meant in this case by 'the blessing of Jehovah'.

  
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Arcana Coelestia #2025

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2025. That 'I will give to you, and to your seed after you, the land of your sojournings' means that the Lord acquired to Himself by His own powers all things meant by 'the land of sojournings' is clear from the meaning of 'sojourning' as receiving instruction, dealt with in 1463. And because man acquires life to himself chiefly through instruction in facts, matters of doctrine, and cognitions of faith, sojourning is consequently the life so acquired. When applied to the Lord it is the life which He obtained for Himself through cognitions, through the conflicts that constituted temptations, and through victories in temptations; and because He obtained it by His own powers, this is what 'the land of your sojournings' means here.

[2] That the Lord obtained all things for Himself by His own powers, and by His own powers united the Human Essence to the Divine Essence and Divine Essence to Human Essence, and that He alone in this way became righteousness, is quite clear in the Prophets, as in Isaiah,

Who is this coming from Edom, marching in the vast numbers of His strength? I have trodden the winepress alone, and from the peoples no one was with Me. I looked around and there was no one helping; and I was astonished that there was no one upholding; therefore My own arm brought Me salvation. Isaiah 63:1, 3, 5.

'Edom' stands for the Lord's Human Essence, 'strength' and 'arm' for power. Plain statements to the effect that He acted from His own power are contained in the phrases 'no one helping' and 'no one upholding', and in that about His own arm bringing Him salvation.

[3] In the same prophet,

He saw that there was no one, and wondered that there was nobody to intercede; and His own arm brought salvation to Him, and His righteousness upheld Him. And He put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation on His head. Isaiah 59:16-17.

This similarly means that He acted by His own power, and in so doing became righteousness. That the Lord is righteousness is stated in Daniel,

Seventy weeks have been decreed to atone for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophet, and to anoint the Most Holy Place. Daniel 9:24.

And in Jeremiah,

I will raise up for David a righteous branch, and He will reign as king and act with understanding, and He will execute judgement and righteousness in the land. In His days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell in confidence. And this is His name which they will call Him, Jehovah our Righteousness. Jeremiah 23:5-6; 33:15-16.

For this reason He is also called 'the Habitation of Righteousness' in Jeremiah 31:23; 50:7, and 'wonderful' and 'Hero' in Isaiah 9:6.

[4] The reason why the Lord so many times attributes to the Father that which is His own has been explained above in 1999, 2004; for Jehovah was within Him, and so within every single part of Him. Something similar in man may be used for illustration, although there can be no comparison. Within man is his soul, and because it is within him, the soul is within every individual part of him, that is to say, within every individual part of his thinking and every individual part of his activity. Anything that does not have his soul within it is not part of him. The Lord's soul was Life itself or Being (Esse) itself, which is Jehovah, for He was conceived from Jehovah; thus Life itself was present within every individual part of Him. And because Life itself, or Being (Esse) itself, which is Jehovah, belonged to Him in the way that the soul does to man, so that which was Jehovah's was His, which is what the Lord says in His statements about His being in the bosom of the Father, John 1:18, and about all things that the Father has being His, John 16:15; 17:10-11.

[5] From good which is Jehovah's He united the Divine Essence to the Human Essence, and from truth united the Human Essence to the Divine Essence, and so achieved every single thing all from Himself. Indeed His Human was left to Itself in order that of Himself He might fight against all the hells and overcome them; and because He had life within Himself, as stated, which was His own, He overcame them by His own power and strength, as is also clearly stated in the places quoted from the Prophets. So then, because He acquired all things to Himself by His own powers, He became Righteousness, cleared the world of spirits of hellish genii and spirits, and in so doing rescued the human race from destruction - for the human race is governed by means of spirits - and thus redeemed it. This is why the Old Testament Word speaks so often of Him as Rescuer and Redeemer, and also Saviour, as His name Jesus describes.

  
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