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1 Posle mu se javi Gospod u ravnici mamrijskoj kad seđaše na vratima pred šatorom svojim u podne.

2 Podigavši oči svoje pogleda, i gle, tri čoveka stajahu prema njemu. I ugledavši ih potrča im u susret ispred vrata šatora svog, i pokloni se do zemlje;

3 I reče: Gospode, ako sam našao milost pred Tobom, nemoj proći sluge svog.

4 Da vam donesem malo vode i operite noge, te se naslonite malo pod ovim drvetom.

5 I izneću malo hleba, te potkrepite srce svoje, pa onda pođite, kad idete pored sluge svog. I rekoše: Učini šta si kazao.

6 I Avram otrča u šator k Sari, i reče: Brže zamesi tri kopanje belog brašna i ispeci pogače.

7 Pa otrča ka govedima i uhvati tele mlado i dobro, i dade ga momku da ga brže zgotovi.

8 Pa onda iznese masla i mleka i tele koje beše zgotovio, i postavi im, a sam stajaše pred njima pod drvetom dokle jeđahu.

9 I oni mu rekoše: Gde je Sara žena tvoja? A on reče: Eno je pod šatorom.

10 A jedan između njih reče: Dogodine u ovo doba opet ću doći k tebi, a Sara će žena tvoja imati sina. A Sara slušaše na vratima od šatora iza njega.

11 A Avram i Sara behu stari i vremeniti, i u Sare beše prestalo šta biva u žena.

12 Zato se nasmeja Sara u sebi govoreći: Pošto sam ostarela, sad li će mi doći radost? A i gospodar mi je star.

13 Tada reče Gospod Avramu: Što se smeje Sara govoreći: Istina li je da ću roditi kad sam ostarela?

14 Ima li šta teško Gospodu? Dogodine u ovo doba opet ću doći k tebi, a Sara će imati sina.

15 A Sara udari u bah govoreći: Nisam se smejala. Jer se uplaši. Ali On reče: Nije istina, nego si se smejala.

16 Potom ustaše ljudi odande, i pođoše put Sodoma; a Avram pođe s njima da ih isprati.

17 A Gospod reče: Kako bih tajio od Avrama šta ću učiniti,

18 Kad će od Avrama postati velik i silan narod, i u njemu će se blagosloviti svi narodi na zemlji?

19 Jer znam da će zapovediti sinovima svojim i domu svom nakon sebe da se drže puteva Gospodnjih i da čine što je pravo i dobro, da bi Gospod navršio na Avramu šta mu je obećao.

20 I reče Gospod: Vika je u Sodomu i Gomoru velika, i greh je njihov grdan.

21 Zato ću sići da vidim eda li sve čine kao što vika dođe preda me; ako li nije tako, da znam.

22 I ljudi okrenuvši se pođoše put Sodoma; ali Avram još stajaše pred Gospodom,

23 I pristupiv Avram reče: Hoćeš li pogubiti i pravednog s nepravednim?

24 Može biti da ima pedeset pravednika u gradu; hoćeš li i njih pogubiti, i nećeš oprostiti mestu za onih pedeset pravednika što su u njemu?

25 Nemoj to činiti, ni gubiti pravednika s nepravednikom, da bude pravedniku kao i nepravedniku; nemoj; eda li sudija cele zemlje neće suditi pravo?

26 I reče Gospod: Ako nađem u Sodomu pedeset pravednika u gradu, oprostiću celom mestu njih radi.

27 A Avram odgovori i reče: Gle, sada bih progovorio Gospodu, ako i jesam prah i pepeo.

28 Može biti pravednika pedeset manje pet, hoćeš li za onih pet potrti sav grad? Odgovori: Neću, ako nađem četrdeset i pet.

29 I stade dalje govoriti, i reče: Može biti da će se naći četrdeset. Reče: Neću radi onih četrdeset.

30 Potom reče: Nemoj se gneviti, Gospode, što ću reći; može biti da će se naći trideset. I reče: Neću, ako nađem trideset.

31 Opet reče: Gle sada bih progovorio Gospodu; može biti da će se naći dvadeset. Reče: Neću ih pogubiti za onih dvadeset.

32 Najposle reče: Nemoj se gneviti, Gospode, što ću još jednom progovoriti; može biti da će se naći deset. Reče: Neću ih pogubiti radi onih deset.

33 I Gospod otide svršivši razgovor sa Avramom; a Avram se vrati na svoje mesto.

   

스웨덴보그의 저서에서

 

Arcana Coelestia #2249

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2249. 'Abraham drew near and said' means the Lord's thought from the Human, which thought allied itself more closely to the Divine. This follows from what has gone before where the subject is the Lord's thought regarding the human race, and so follows without explanation. Described at great length in this chapter in the internal sense is the state of the Lord's thought and perception, and in the opening part of it the state of the conjunction of the Lord's Human with His Divine.

[2] To men it will perhaps seem as though these matters were not of such great importance, yet they are of the utmost importance. For these great matters, together with their representatives, are brought before the angels - for whom the internal sense constitutes the Word - in a most beautiful form. Countless other matters are also presented which follow from them and bear resemblance to them regarding the conjunction of the Lord with heaven and the reception of His Divine within their human. Indeed angels' ideas are such that they relish those matters more than anything else and perceive them as being most delightful. Thereby they are also enlightened and confirmed more and more regarding the matter of the union of the Lord's Human Essence with His Divine Essence. For angels were once men; and when they were men they could not do other than think of the Lord as a man, and of the Lord as God, and also of the Divine Trinity, and so formulate various ideas for themselves, though they did not know the nature of those ideas at the time.

[3] The position with heavenly arcana is that although they lie beyond all apprehension, everyone nevertheless formulates for himself some idea of them, for nothing can ever be retained in the memory, still less enter any thought whatever, except through some idea, however this came to be formed. And since angels' ideas could not be formed except from those objects that exist in the world, or from objects analogous to those in the world; and since at that time illusions arising from things that were not understood entered in - illusions which in the next life alienate the then more interior ideas of thought from the truth and good of faith - therefore much is said in this chapter in its internal sense, to dispel such illusions, regarding the conjunction of the Lord's Human with the Divine and regarding His perception and thought. And when men read the Word those matters enter at the same time into the perception of angels in such a way that previous ideas that had been formed from alien sources and from scruples easily arising out of these are gradually dispersed, and new ideas are instilled which are in keeping with the light of truth that angels possess. This happens more among spiritual angels than celestial, for it is in the measure that ideas are purified that spiritual angels are made more perfect for receiving celestial things. It is well known that even heaven is not pure in the sight of the Lord, 1 for it is indeed true that angels are constantly being made more perfect.

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Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.