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요셉의 말과 같이 일곱해 흉년이 들기 시작하매 각국에는 기근이 있으나 애굽 온 땅에는 식물이 있더니
Arcana Coelestia # 5323
5323. 'And they cried out before him, Abrek!' means acknowledgement coming through faith, and homage. This is clear from the meaning of 'crying out' as acknowledgement coming through faith, dealt with below, and from the meaning of 'Abrek!' as homage, because Abrek in the original language means 'bend your knees', and the bending of knees is homage. For every inward impulse of a person's will, thus of his love and affection, and consequently of his life, has corresponding outward actions and gestures. Those actions and gestures flow from the actual correspondence of exterior things with interior ones. Holy fear that leads to humility, and from this to homage, has corresponding actions or gestures, which are bending the knees, falling forward on the knees, and also prostration of the body flat on the ground. If in that state homage is a product of genuine humility, and if humility is the product of genuine holy fear, there is an absence of spirits, which leads to a falling downwards of the joints at the border or intermediate area where the spiritual is joined to the natural, and so where the knees are. For the parts below the knee correspond to natural things, while the parts above the knee correspond to spiritual ones. These are the reasons why bending the knees is a sign representative of homage. Among celestial people this action comes quite spontaneously, but in the case of spiritual people it is a deliberate act of their will.
[2] In former times people bent their knees before kings when they rode by in a chariot. They bent them because kings represented the Lord's Divine Truth, while 'a chariot' meant His Word. This customary act of homage came into being when people knew what was represented by it, at which time kings did not think that such homage was paid to themselves but to their kingly authority, which was distinct from yet invested in their own persons. That authority invested in them was the law, and because this law had its origin in Divine Truth, it was the law invested in the person of the king, inasmuch as he was the guardian of the law, to which homage had to be paid. Thus a king did not attribute any royal authority to himself other than guardianship of the law. Insofar as he relinquished that guardianship he relinquished his royal authority; for he knew that homage arising from any other source than the law, that is, any other homage than that paid to the law itself, was idolatry. By royal authority is meant Divine Truth - see 1672, 1728, 2015, 2069, 3009, 3670, 4581, 4966, 5044, 5068 - and therefore that authority is the law, which essentially is truth reigning in that kingdom, in accordance with which its inhabitants conduct their lives. From all this it may be seen that 'Abrek!' or 'bend your knees' means homage.
[3] Since 'a cry' is in a similar way an action which corresponds to a living confession or an acknowledgement that is a product of faith, crying out was also the custom followed by the ancients when an outward sign of such confession or acknowledgement needed to be made. The expression 'crying out' is therefore used in various places in the Word when confession and acknowledgement that are the product of faith are referred to, as in the description involving John the Baptist in John,
He bore witness to Jesus and he cried out, saying, This was He of whom I spoke, He who, though coming after me, was before me, for He was before me. I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord. John 1:15, 23.
In the same gospel,
They took branches of palm trees, and went to meet Jesus, and cried, Hosanna! Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord, the King of Israel! John 12:13.
In Luke,
Jesus said to the Pharisees that if [the disciples] kept silent, the stones would cry out. Luke 19:40.
Because 'crying out' meant an acknowledgement that was the product of faith and consequently acceptance rising out of the acknowledgement, one therefore reads several times of the Lord's crying out, as in John 7:28, 37; 12:44-45. Also in Isaiah,
Jehovah will go forth as a Mighty Man, as a Man of Wars He will arouse zeal; He will shout aloud, and also will cry out. Isaiah 42:13.
In the contrary sense 'crying out' means lack of acknowledgement and so aversion, see 5016, 5018, 5027. This usage has reference to falsity, 2240.
John 11
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Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus from Bethany, of the village of Mary and her sister, Martha.
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It was that Mary who had anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother, Lazarus, was sick.
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The sisters therefore sent to him, saying, "Lord, behold, he for whom you have great affection is sick."
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But when Jesus heard it, he said, "This sickness is not to death, but for the glory of God, that God's Son may be glorified by it."
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Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.
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When therefore he heard that he was sick, he stayed two days in the place where he was.
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Then after this he said to the disciples, "Let's go into Judea again."
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The disciples told him, "Rabbi, the Jews were just trying to stone you, and are you going there again?"
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Jesus answered, "Aren't there twelve hours of daylight? If a man walks in the day, he doesn't stumble, because he sees the light of this world.
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But if a man walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light isn't in him."
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He said these things, and after that, he said to them, "Our friend, Lazarus, has fallen asleep, but I am going so that I may awake him out of sleep."
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The disciples therefore said, "Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover."
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Now Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought that he spoke of taking rest in sleep.
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So Jesus said to them plainly then, "Lazarus is dead.
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I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, so that you may believe. Nevertheless, let's go to him."
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Thomas therefore, who is called Didymus, said to his fellow disciples, "Let's go also, that we may die with him."
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So when Jesus came, he found that he had been in the tomb four days already.
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Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, about fifteen stadia away.
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Many of the Jews had joined the women around Martha and Mary, to console them concerning their brother.
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Then when Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went and met him, but Mary stayed in the house.
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Therefore Martha said to Jesus, "Lord, if you would have been here, my brother wouldn't have died.
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Even now I know that, whatever you ask of God, God will give you."
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Jesus said to her, "Your brother will rise again."
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Martha said to him, "I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day."
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Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies.
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Whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?"
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She said to him, "Yes, Lord. I have come to believe that you are the Christ, God's Son, he who comes into the world."
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When she had said this, she went away, and called Mary, her sister, secretly, saying, "The Teacher is here, and is calling you."
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When she heard this, she arose quickly, and went to him.
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Now Jesus had not yet come into the village, but was in the place where Martha met him.
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Then the Jews who were with her in the house, and were consoling her, when they saw Mary, that she rose up quickly and went out, followed her, saying, "She is going to the tomb to weep there."
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Therefore when Mary came to where Jesus was, and saw him, she fell down at his feet, saying to him, "Lord, if you would have been here, my brother wouldn't have died."
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When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews weeping who came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled,
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and said, "Where have you laid him?" They told him, "Lord, come and see."
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Jesus wept.
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The Jews therefore said, "See how much affection he had for him!"
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Some of them said, "Couldn't this man, who opened the eyes of him who was blind, have also kept this man from dying?"
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Jesus therefore, again groaning in himself, came to the tomb. Now it was a cave, and a stone lay against it.
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Jesus said, "Take away the stone." Martha, the sister of him who was dead, said to him, "Lord, by this time there is a stench, for he has been dead four days."
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Jesus said to her, "Didn't I tell you that if you believed, you would see God's glory?"
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So they took away the stone from the place where the dead man was lying. Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, "Father, I thank you that you listened to me.
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I know that you always listen to me, but because of the multitude that stands around I said this, that they may believe that you sent me."
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When he had said this, he cried with a loud voice, "Lazarus, come out!"
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He who was dead came out, bound hand and foot with wrappings, and his face was wrapped around with a cloth. Jesus said to them, "Free him, and let him go."
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Therefore many of the Jews, who came to Mary and saw what Jesus did, believed in him.
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But some of them went away to the Pharisees, and told them the things which Jesus had done.
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The chief priests therefore and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, "What are we doing? For this man does many signs.
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If we leave him alone like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation."
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But a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said to them, "You know nothing at all,
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nor do you consider that it is advantageous for us that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation not perish."
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Now he didn't say this of himself, but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation,
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and not for the nation only, but that he might also gather together into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.
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So from that day forward they took counsel that they might put him to death.
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Jesus therefore walked no more openly among the Jews, but departed from there into the country near the wilderness, to a city called Ephraim. He stayed there with his disciples.
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Now the Passover of the Jews was at hand. Many went up from the country to Jerusalem before the Passover, to purify themselves.
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Then they sought for Jesus and spoke one with another, as they stood in the temple, "What do you think--that he isn't coming to the feast at all?"
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Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had commanded that if anyone knew where he was, he should report it, that they might seize him.
