4317. 就内在历史意义而言, “因为那人在坐骨神经筋上将雅各的大腿窝摸了一把” 表由于他们具有一种无法通过重生被根除的遗传性, 因为他们不允许这种事发生. 这从 “大腿” 的含义清楚可知, “大腿” 是指婚姻之爱, 因而是指一切属天和属灵之爱 (参看4280节); 因为 “大腿窝” 就是婚姻之爱, 以及一切属天, 属灵之爱与属世良善结合的地方 (4277, 4280节). 因此, “摸它”, 或损害它, 以至于瘸了是指摧毁从这些爱所流出的良善. 由于这事发生在雅各身上, 故它表示这种性质从他传到他的后代那里, 因而具有遗传性. “坐骨神经筋” (nerve of that which was displaced) 表示虚假 (参看4303节), 在此表示源自遗传之恶的虚假. 由此和整个思路可知, 这种遗传性无法通过重生根除, 因为他们不允许这种事发生.

他们具有这种遗传性, 并且无法重生; 这一点从圣言中有关他们的一切记载, 尤其摩西五经中的以下经文看得非常清楚:

摩西召了以色列众人来, 对他们说, 耶和华在埃及地, 在你们眼前向法老和他众臣仆, 并他全地所行的一切事, 你们都看见了; 但耶和华到今日没有使你们心能明白, 眼能看见, 耳能听见. (申命记 29:2, 4)

又:

我未领他们到我所起誓应许之地以先, 这百姓今日里所作的计画我都知道了. (申命记 31:21)

又:

我要向他们掩面, 看他们的结局如何. 他们本是极乖僻的一代, 心中无诚实的儿女. 我要除灭他们, 使他们的名从人间消失, 惟恐仇敌惹动我. 因为他们是缺乏智谋的民族, 他们里面毫无聪明. 他们的葡萄树是所多玛的葡萄树, 他们的葡萄是蛾摩拉田园出的; 他们的葡萄是苦毒的, 全挂都是苦的. 他们的酒是大蛇的毒气, 是虺蛇残害的头. 这不都是积蓄在我这里, 封锁在我府库中吗? (申命记 32:20, 26-34)

其它地方, 尤其耶利米书中的部分经文也提到这些事.

“摸雅各的大腿窝”, 然后他就瘸了, 就表示他们的遗传性; 这一点明显可见于何西阿书:

耶和华与犹大争辩, 必照雅各所行的惩罚他, 按他所做的报应他. 他在腹中抓住哥哥的脚跟, 壮年的时候与神较力; 与天使较力, 并且得胜, 哭泣恳求. (何西阿书 12:2-5)

就内在历史意义而言, 此处 “与神较力” 是指他们坚持认为教会的代表要存在于他们当中 (参看4290, 4293节). 由此明显可知, 他们所拥有的这种遗传性源自雅各自己, 这一点从更多目前不得不忽略过去的经文明显看出来.

关于具体的遗传性, 在当今的教会, 人们都以为一切遗传之恶皆来自第一代父母, 所有人都因此在遗传之恶方面受到诅咒. 但事实并非如此. 每个人里面的遗传之恶的源头在于他的父母和父母的父母, 也就是在于祖父母和历代先祖. 他们通过实际生活所获得, 通过频繁实践或习惯可以说已经成为其秉性一部分的一切邪恶都会传给他的儿女, 在他们里面变成遗传, 这恶还伴随着从祖父母和先祖植入在父母里面的东西. 来自父亲的遗传之恶更为内在, 来自母亲的遗传之恶更为外在. 前者无法轻易根除, 而后者则能. 当人正在经历重生时, 来自最近父母的根深蒂固的遗传之恶就会被根除; 但对那些未经历重生的人, 或不能重生的人来说, 它依然存留. 这就是遗传之恶 (参看313, 494, 2122, 2910, 3518, 3701节). 这个问题对于能反省的人, 以及从以下事实也是显而易见的, 即: 每个家族都有某种特定邪恶或良善, 该家族凭此而有别于其它家族; 这种特性如众所周知的, 是从父母和先祖遗传来的. 这同样适用于如今仍旧存留的犹太民族, 该民族与其它民族截然不同, 不仅能从它特有的性情被识别出来, 还可以从它的习俗, 言语和面貌被识别出来.

不过, 很少有人知道何为遗传之恶. 人们以为遗传之恶在于行恶, 而事实上, 它在于意愿, 因而思想邪恶. 遗传之恶就在意愿本身和源于此的思维中; 它就是在它们里面, 甚至在此人行善时也会将自己附着上的向恶的实际倾向. 它通过当邪恶临到别人身上时所感觉到的快乐可被识别出来. 这根深深向下隐藏, 因为接受来自天堂, 也就是经由天堂来自主的良善与真理的内在形式本身被扭曲, 可以说已经扭曲得变形了; 以致当良善与真理从主流入时, 它们要么被反射回去, 要么被歪曲, 要么被窒息. 正是由于这个原因, 如今对良善与真理的觉知不存在了, 对重生之人来说, 取而代之的是良心; 良心承认从父母和老师那里所学到的为良善与真理. 爱自己胜过他人, 若其他人不尊敬我们, 就向他们意愿邪恶, 以报复为乐, 以及爱世界胜过天堂, 就出自遗传之恶; 一切恶欲或邪恶情感也出自这一源头. 人不知道这类事物就存在于遗传之恶里面, 更不知道它们是天上情感的对立面. 然而, 在来世可以清楚显明, 每个人通过实际生活引向自己的源自遗传之物的邪恶何等之多, 以及他因来自这一源头的邪恶情感而距离天堂何等遥远.

雅各后代里面的遗传之恶无法通过重生而根除, 因为他们不允许这种事发生. 这一事实从圣言中的历史描述明显看出来; 因为他们在旷野的一切试探中都屈服了, 如摩西五经所记载的; 后来在迦南地, 一看不到神迹, 也会屈服. 然而, 这些试探都是外在的, 而不是内在的或属灵的. 他们在属灵的事上不能受试探, 因为他们不知道内在真理, 也没有任何内在良善, 如前所示; 除了在他所知道或所拥有的事物方面外, 没有人能受试探. 试探就是实现重生的实际手段. 这些事就是他们不允许重生的意思. 关于他们在来世的状态和命运, 可参看前文 (939-941, 3481节).

大人和对应 (续)

此处关于与总体上感官的对应

6854. 'And I have come down to deliver them from the hand of the Egyptians' means that He would stoop down to them to release them from the power of false factual knowledge, which tries to destroy the truths of the Church. This is clear from the meaning of 'coming down' as stooping down, dealt with below; from the meaning of 'to deliver' as to release, for one who releases people from falsities delivers or sets them free; from the meaning of 'the hand' as the power, dealt with in 878, 3387, 3563, 4931-4937, 5544; and from the meaning of 'the Egyptians' as false factual knowledge, which is opposed to the Church's truths, dealt with in 6651, 6679, 6683, and so which tries to destroy them. As regards the Lord's coming down, the situation is that the Lord is said to come or stoop down when He comes to judgement, 1311, and also when He comes down to lower things, in this instance to those belonging to the spiritual Church, who are meant by 'the children of Israel'. For the subject in the internal sense is the way in which those people are molested by falsities, at which time they undergo temptations, and the way in which after that they are set free in order that they may be led into heaven.

[2] But the contents of the internal sense of this verse and of those that follow hold an even deeper mystery which the Church does not yet know about and which must therefore be disclosed. Those who are termed spiritual are people for whom only the understanding part of their mind, not the will part, can be regenerated. In the understanding part of their mind the Lord therefore implants a new will, a will which conforms to the teachings that compose the faith of their Church. These people, that is to say, spiritual ones such as these, were saved solely by the Lord's Coming into the world. The reason why is that the Divine passing through heaven, which was the Divine Human before the Lord's Coming, could not reach them; for to be sure the teachings of their Church were for the most part not truths, and consequently the good in their will was not good either, 6427. Since those people could be saved solely by the Lord's Coming, they could not be raised into heaven before then. They were therefore kept in the meantime on the lower earth, in places there which in the Word are called 'pits'. This lower earth was besieged on every side by the hells where there were falsities, by which they were molested greatly during that time. In spite of this however the Lord protected them. But after the Lord came into the world and made the Human within Himself Divine, He set free those who were in the pits there and raised them to heaven. From these He also formed the spiritual heaven which is the second heaven. This is what is meant by the Lord's descent into the lower parts ¹ and by His deliverance of those who had been bound.

[3] This is the even deeper mystery that is described in the internal sense of this verse and of those that follow. See what has been shown already regarding those who are spiritual,

The spiritual are in obscurity so far as the truth and good of faith are concerned, 2708, 2715, 2718, 2831, 2849, 2935, 2937, 3241, 3833, 6289.

Their obscurity is lightened by the Lord's Divine Human, 2716, 4402.

Because they are in obscurity so far as the truth and good of faith are concerned they are under strong attack from the hells; but the Lord is constantly protecting them, 6419.

Those who are spiritual cannot have the will part of their mind regenerated, only the understanding part; and there the Lord forms a new will, 863, 875, 895, 927, 918, 1023, 1043, 1044, 2156, 4328, 4493, 5113.

The spiritual were saved by the Lord's Coming into the world, 2833, 2834, 3969.

[4] Various places in the prophetical part of the Word mention 'the bound' or 'the bound in the pit' and the fact that the Lord delivered them. The bound' should be taken to mean specifically those spoken of just above, as in Isaiah,

I Jehovah have called you in righteousness, and will hold your hand, because I will guard you, and give you to be a covenant of the people, ² a light of the nations, to open the blind eyes, to bring the bound out of prison, out of the dungeon-house those who sit in darkness. Isaiah 42:6-7.

In the same prophet,

I have guarded you, and I have given you as covenant of the people - to restore the land; to share out the devastated inheritances; to say to the bound, Go out; to those who are in darkness, Reveal yourselves. They will feed along the ways, and on all slopes will their pasture be. Isaiah 49:8-9.

This plainly refers to the Lord. 'The bound' stands in particular for those who were held back on the lower earth until the Lord's Coming, when they were raised up to heaven, and in general for all who are governed by good, yet are held back as though bound by falsities, from which however they wish to break away.

[5] In Zechariah,

Through the blood of your covenant I will let out your bound ones from the pit. Zechariah 9:11.

In Isaiah,

They will surely be gathered together, the bound ones in the pit, and they will be shut up in the dungeon; after a multitude of days they will be visited. Isaiah 24:21.

'The bound ones in the pit' stands for the same people. And in addition to these places the same meaning can be seen from the following words in Isaiah,

Jehovah has anointed Me to bring good tidings to the poor. He has sent Me to bind up the broken in heart; to preach liberty to captives, to those who are bound, to him who is blind; to proclaim the year of Jehovah's good pleasure. Isaiah 61:1-2.

And elsewhere,

The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; those dwelling in the land of the shadow of death, upon them has the light shone out. Isaiah 9:2.

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