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1 Näiden tapausten jälkeen Jumala koetteli Aabrahamia ja sanoi hänelle: "Aabraham!" Hän vastasi: "Tässä olen".

2 Ja hän sanoi: "Ota Iisak, ainokainen poikasi, jota rakastat, ja mene Moorian maahan ja uhraa hänet siellä polttouhriksi vuorella, jonka minä sinulle sanon".

3 Varhain seuraavana aamuna Aabraham satuloi aasinsa ja otti mukaansa kaksi palvelijaansa sekä poikansa Iisakin, ja halottuaan polttouhripuita hän lähti menemään siihen paikkaan, jonka Jumala oli hänelle sanonut.

4 Kolmantena päivänä Aabraham nosti silmänsä ja näki sen paikan kaukaa.

5 Silloin Aabraham sanoi palvelijoilleen: "Jääkää tähän aasin kanssa. Minä ja poika menemme tuonne rukoilemaan; sitten me palaamme luoksenne."

6 Ja Aabraham otti polttouhripuut ja sälytti ne poikansa Iisakin selkään; itse hän otti käteensä tulen ja veitsen, ja niin he astuivat molemmat yhdessä.

7 Iisak puhui isällensä Aabrahamille sanoen: "Isäni!" Tämä vastasi: "Tässä olen, poikani". Ja hän sanoi: "Katso, tässä on tuli ja halot, mutta missä on lammas polttouhriksi?"

8 Aabraham vastasi: "Jumala on katsova itselleen lampaan polttouhriksi, poikani". Ja he astuivat molemmat yhdessä.

9 Ja kun he olivat tulleet siihen paikkaan, jonka Jumala oli hänelle sanonut, rakensi Aabraham siihen alttarin, latoi sille halot, sitoi poikansa Iisakin ja pani hänet alttarille halkojen päälle.

10 Ja Aabraham ojensi kätensä ja tarttui veitseen teurastaakseen poikansa.

11 Silloin Herran enkeli huusi hänelle taivaasta sanoen: "Aabraham, Aabraham!" Hän vastasi: "Tässä olen".

12 Niin hän sanoi: "Älä satuta kättäsi poikaan äläkä tee hänelle mitään, sillä nyt minä tiedän, että sinä pelkäät Jumalaa, kun et kieltänyt minulta ainokaista poikaasi".

13 Niin Aabraham nosti silmänsä ja huomasi takanansa oinaan, joka oli sarvistaan takertunut pensaikkoon. Ja Aabraham meni, otti oinaan ja uhrasi sen polttouhriksi poikansa sijasta.

14 Ja Aabraham pani sen paikan nimeksi "Herra näkee". Niinpä vielä tänä päivänä sanotaan: "Vuorella, missä Herra ilmestyy".

15 Ja Herran enkeli huusi Aabrahamille toistamiseen taivaasta

16 ja sanoi: "Minä vannon itse kauttani, sanoo Herra: Sentähden että tämän teit etkä kieltänyt minulta ainokaista poikaasi,

17 minä runsaasti siunaan sinua ja teen sinun jälkeläistesi luvun paljoksi kuin taivaan tähdet ja hiekka, joka on meren rannalla, ja sinun jälkeläisesi valtaavat vihollistensa portit.

18 Ja sinun siemenessäsi tulevat siunatuiksi kaikki kansakunnat maan päällä, sentähden että olit minun äänelleni kuuliainen."

19 Sitten Aabraham palasi palvelijainsa luo, ja he nousivat ja kulkivat yhdessä Beersebaan. Ja Aabraham jäi asumaan Beersebaan.

20 Näiden tapausten jälkeen ilmoitettiin Aabrahamille: "Katso, myöskin Milka on synnyttänyt poikia sinun veljellesi Naahorille".

21 Nämä olivat Uus, hänen esikoisensa, tämän veli Buus, Kemuel, Aramin isä,

22 Kesed, Haso, Pildas, Jidlaf ja Betuel;

23 ja Betuelille syntyi Rebekka. Nämä kahdeksan synnytti Milka Naahorille, Aabrahamin veljelle.

24 Ja hänen sivuvaimonsa, nimeltä Reuma, synnytti myös lapsia: Tebahin, Gahamin, Tahaan ja Maakan.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 10483

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10483. 'And Moses stood in the gate of the camp' means where the opening to hell is situated. This is clear from the representation of 'Moses' as the internal, dealt with above in 10468; from the meaning of 'in the gate' as where the opening is situated, dealt with below; and from the meaning of 'the camp' as hell, also dealt with above, in 10458. The reason why Moses stood in the gate of the camp and did not go inside the actual camp was in order that the impossibility for the internal to enter hell might be represented; for Moses represented the internal and the camp represented hell. The interest of all those in hell lies in external things separated from what is internal, because self-love and love of the world rule within them. Therefore what is internal cannot go in there since it is not received. Instead some who are there immediately reject it, some smother it and snuff it out, and some pervert it. Whether you say the internal or heaven, it amounts to the same thing; for heaven constitutes what is internal, not only the internal side of the Word but also the internal side of the Church and of worship, consequently the internal of the person who has celestial and spiritual love reigning within him, that is, love to the Lord and charity towards the neighbour.

[2] What hell's opening is, meant by 'the gate' of this camp, must be stated briefly. Each hell is closed all the way around it, but it is opened above as necessity and need demand. It is an opening into the world of spirits, the world that lies midway between heaven and hell; for that world serves as the upper boundary of the hells and as the lower boundary of the heavens, 5852. The reason for saying that they are opened as necessity and need demand is that each person in the world has spirits present with him from hell, and angels from heaven. The spirits from hell are present in his bodily and worldly loves, and the angels from heaven in those which are celestial and spiritual; for without the spirits the person can have no life at all. If the spirits were taken away from him he would drop dead as a stone. Consequently to enable a person to lead a life in keeping with his loves the hells are opened of necessity and as need demands, and from there such spirits come out to him as are ruled by loves similar to his.

[3] That opening is what should be understood by the gate of hell. I have been allowed several times to see such openings. They are gates which the Lord guards by means of angels, to stop more spirits than are needed from coming out of there. From this it is evident what 'the gates of hell' and 'the gates of enemies' mean in the Word, as in Matthew,

Jesus said to Peter, On this rock I will build My Church, and the gates of hell will not prevail against it. Matthew 16:18.

'The gates of hell will not prevail' means that the hells will not dare to come out and destroy the truths of faith, 'the rock' on which the Church stands being faith in the Lord received from the Lord. This faith is the faith of charity because it is rooted in charity and for that reason makes one with it.

'The rock' means that faith, see Preface to Genesis 22, and also 8581, 10438.

Real faith consists in charity, 654, 1162, 1176, 1608, 2228, 2343, 2349, 2419, 2839, 3324, 4368, 6348, 7039, 7623-7627, 7752-7762, 8530, 9154, 9783, 9924.

[4] The like is also meant by your seed will inherit the gate of their enemies, Genesis 22:17; 24:60. 'Inheriting the gate of their enemies' means destroying evils and falsities which come from hell. This was also represented by driving out and destroying the nations in the land of Canaan; for the nations there represented evils and falsities which come from hell, see 1573, 1574, 1868, 4818, 6306, 8054, 8317, 9320, 9327.

Also in David,

Those who dwell in the gate plot against me; those who drink strong wine sing songs. Psalms 69:12.

In the same author,

Blessed is the man who has filled his quiver. They will not be put to shame, for they will speak with enemies in the gate. Psalms 127:5.

'Gates' in the good sense however stands for the opening into heaven.

In David,

Lift up your heads, O gates, and be lifted up, O eternal doors, and the King of glory will come in. Psalms 24:7-10.

In addition admission into heaven and into the Church through truth and good is meant in the Word by 'gates', and also good and truth flowing in and present with a person.

  
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Arcana Coelestia # 9327

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9327. 'I will send My terror before you' means the terror felt, on account of truths springing from good, by those immersed in evils arising from falsity. This is clear from the meaning of 'terror' as the terror felt by those immersed in evils that arise from falsity; and from the meaning of 'the children of Israel', before whom the terror would be sent, as those governed by spiritual good, which is truth springing from good, dealt with in 5803, 5806, 5812, 5817, 5819, 5826, 5833, 7957, 8234, 8805. The nations in the land of Canaan who would feel terror on account of the children of Israel mean evils arising from falsity and falsities arising from evil, see 1413, 1437, 1573, 1574, 1607, 1868, 4517, 6306, 8054, 8317. So it is that 'I will send My terror before you' means the terror felt by those immersed in evils arising from falsity, on account of truths springing from good. The implications of all this are that all power in the spiritual world is provided by truths that spring from good, thus by truths that emanate from the Lord.

[2] This is made perfectly clear by the consideration that the Lord arranges into order all things in heaven and all things in hell, as well as all things in the world, by means of truths coming from Him. For Divine Truth emanating from the Lord is the actual means by which all things are brought into being and by which all things are kept in being. This is incomprehensible to those who think on solely a material level, as those people do who attribute the origin and continued existence of all things to natural forces. These people cannot have any other idea about truths than this, that truths do not possess any power because they are solely objects of thought, and thought is not seen by them to be an essential entity, still less something substantial, 1 even though they know that thought controls the whole body and causes individual parts to move in exact accord with its own disposition. Nor also do they see that in the whole of creation nothing exists which lacks connection with truth that springs from good. Regarding truth, that it holds all power within it and is a supreme essential entity, see 8200. From all this it is evident that angels possess power which they receive from God's truth that emanates from the Lord, and that this is why they are called 'powers'. As regards the nature of truths that spring from good, that is, of truths coming from the Lord, see my experience involving the arm which corresponds to such truth, spoken of in 4932-4935.

[3] Since all power belongs to truth it follows that no power whatever resides in falsity arising from evil, since it is an absence of truth springing from good, and so is an absence of power. Therefore also those in hell, since all there are steeped in falsities arising from evil, have absolutely no power at all. This being so, thousands of them can be rebuffed, thrown down, and dispelled by a single angel, almost exactly as fluff in the air can be by a puff from the mouth. From this one may see the reason for the terror felt by those steeped in falsities arising from evil on account of truths springing from good. This terror is called 'the terror of God' in Genesis 35:5; Job 13:21; and in Ezekiel,

I will put My terror in the land of the living, when he had been made to lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with those slain by the sword, Pharaoh and all his multitude. Ezekiel 32:32.

And in Moses,

If you despise My statutes, and if your soul abhors My judgements, so that you do not do all My commandments, I will inject dismay into their heart, that the sound of a driven leaf may pursue them, and they may flee, like flight from the sword, and they may fall without [anyone] pursuing. Leviticus 26:15, 36.

This describes the terror experienced by those who despise and reject statutes, judgements, and commandments, thus that felt by those who are immersed in evils arising from falsity and in falsities arising from evil. It says that 'the sound of a leaf will pursue them, and they will flee, like flight from the sword'; and the reason why it says this is that 'a leaf' means truth, 885, and 'the sword' truth engaged in conflict against falsity arising from evil, 2799, 6353, 8294. The fact that those people possess absolutely no power at all against truth is meant by 'they will fall without [anyone] pursuing'.

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1. i.e. having real existence in a higher dimension

  
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