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1 Post tiuj okazintajxoj oni sciigis al Jozef: Jen, via patro estas malsana. Kaj li prenis kun si siajn du filojn, Manase kaj Efraim.

2 Kaj oni sciigis al Jakob, dirante: Jen via filo Jozef venas al vi. Tiam Izrael strecxis siajn fortojn kaj sidigxis sur la lito.

3 Kaj Jakob diris al Jozef: Dio la Plejpotenca aperis al mi en Luz, en la lando Kanaana, kaj benis min.

4 Kaj Li diris al mi: Mi fruktigos vin kaj multigos vin kaj faros vin amaso da popoloj, kaj Mi donos cxi tiun landon al via idaro post vi kiel eternan posedajxon.

5 Kaj nun viaj du filoj, kiuj naskigxis al vi en la lando Egipta antaux mia alveno al vi en Egiptujon, estas miaj; Efraim kaj Manase estu al mi, kiel Ruben kaj Simeon.

6 Sed viaj infanoj, kiuj naskigxos al vi post ili, estu viaj; per la nomo de siaj fratoj ili estos nomataj en sia hereda parto.

7 Kiam mi venis el Mezopotamio, mortis cxe mi Rahxel en la lando Kanaana, dum la vojo, kiam restis ankoraux iom da tero gxis Efrata; kaj mi enterigis sxin tie sur la vojo al Efrata, kiu estas nomata ankaux Bet-Lehxem.

8 Kaj Izrael ekvidis la filojn de Jozef, kaj diris: Kiuj estas cxi tiuj?

9 Kaj Jozef diris al sia patro: Ili estas miaj filoj, kiujn donis al mi Dio cxi tie. Kaj tiu diris: Alkonduku ilin al mi, kaj mi benos ilin.

10 La okuloj de Izrael malfortigxis de maljuneco, li ne povis bone vidi. Jozef alkondukis ilin al li, kaj li kisis ilin kaj cxirkauxprenis ilin.

11 Kaj Izrael diris al Jozef: Vidi vian vizagxon mi ne esperis, kaj jen Dio vidigis al mi ecx vian idaron.

12 Kaj Jozef forigis ilin de liaj genuoj, kaj klinigxis antaux li vizagxaltere.

13 Kaj Jozef prenis ambaux, Efraimon per sia dekstra mano, kontraux la maldekstra de Izrael, kaj Manasen per sia maldekstra mano, kontraux la dekstra de Izrael, kaj alkondukis ilin al li.

14 Sed Izrael etendis sian dekstran manon kaj metis gxin sur la kapon de Efraim, kvankam li estis la pli juna, kaj sian maldekstran sur la kapon de Manase; li intence tiel faris per siaj manoj, cxar Manase estis la unuenaskito.

15 Kaj li benis Jozefon, kaj diris: Dio, antaux kiu iradis miaj patroj Abraham kaj Isaak, Dio, kiu pasxtis min de mia naskigxo gxis la nuna tago,

16 la angxelo, kiu savis min de cxia malbono-Li benu la knabojn; oni nomu ilin per mia nomo kaj per la nomo de miaj patroj Abraham kaj Isaak, kaj ili kresku kaj multigxu sur la tero.

17 Jozef vidis, ke lia patro metis sian dekstran manon sur la kapon de Efraim, kaj tio ne placxis al li; kaj li prenis la manon de sia patro, por deturni gxin de la kapo de Efraim sur la kapon de Manase.

18 Kaj Jozef diris al sia patro: Ne tiel, mia patro, cxar cxi tiu estas la unuenaskito; metu vian dekstran manon sur lian kapon.

19 Sed lia patro rifuzis, kaj diris: Mi scias, mia filo, mi scias; li ankaux farigxos popolo kaj li ankaux farigxos granda, sed lia pli juna frato estos pli granda ol li, kaj lia idaro estos multenombra inter la popoloj.

20 Kaj li benis ilin en tiu tago, dirante: Per vi benados Izrael, dirante: Dio vin faru kiel Efraim kaj Manase. Kaj li metis Efraimon antaux Manase.

21 Kaj Izrael diris al Jozef: Jen mi mortas; kaj Dio estos kun vi kaj revenigos vin en la landon de viaj patroj.

22 Kaj mi donas al vi unu pecon da lando preferece antaux viaj fratoj, kiun mi prenis el la manoj de la Amoridoj per mia glavo kaj pafarko.

   

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Arcana Coelestia #6256

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6256. 'And the eyes of Israel were weak' means his obscurity of discernment. This is clear from the meaning of 'the eyes' as the sight of the understanding, dealt with in 2701, 4087, 4379, 4403-4421, also meant by 'seeing', as above in 6249; from the representation of 'Israel' as spiritual good within the natural, dealt with above in 6253; and from the meaning of 'being weak', when used in reference to the eyes, as obscurity, thus obscurity of discernment. The reason Why Israel's discernment had become obscure when he blessed Joseph's sons was that he had reached the final phase of his representation, though a more general reason is that an obscurity of perception exists in the spiritual good which 'Israel' represents; for that good comes from the natural, in which inferior natural light predominates, not superior heavenly light in which spiritual and celestial good from the rational dwells. Such is the nature of the external man, also called the natural man. When the expression 'spiritual good from the natural' is used, people whose good is such are meant. They are those who belong to the Lord's spiritual Church, which also is why 'Israel' represents that Church, 4286; and compared with celestial people, members of that Church, who are spiritual people, live in obscurity, see 2708, 2715, 2716, 2718, 2831, 2849, 2935, 2937, 3246, 4402. And since they live in obscurity they also put the truth of faith in the first place, even as Israel did here, in that he made Ephraim take precedence over Manasseh.

[2] The reason why spiritual people believe that the truth of faith takes precedence is that it is by means of truth that they are led on to good, 2954; and while they are being led to it they have no perception of good because good flows from within into an affection for truth, and so does not enter their discernment until they have been regenerated. This also explains why they call the good deeds of charity the fruits of faith, though little concern is shown for such fruits by those who suppose that faith alone without good works saves a person, even in the final hour when he dies, irrespective of the life he had led before that. This way of thinking is clearly an obscurity of discernment regarding goodness and truth. But be that as it may, those who make faith take precedence over charity on doctrinal grounds and yet lead a charitable life are people who belong to the Lord's spiritual Church and are saved. For in life they make the good of charity take precedence, but in doctrine the truth of faith.

  
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2689. 'And lifted up her voice and wept' means a further degree of grief. This becomes clear from the meaning of 'lifting up the voice and weeping' as the utmost extremity of grief, for weeping with a loud voice is nothing else. Described in this verse is a state of desolation of truth and of withdrawal from truths, as experienced by those who are becoming spiritual. What this state is like must be explained briefly: People who are not able to be reformed have no knowledge at all of what it is to grieve on account of being deprived of truths, for they imagine that no one can possibly become distressed for a reason such as that. The only circumstances, they believe, which can lead to such distress exist when someone is deprived of those good gifts to men that are of a bodily and worldly kind, such as health, position, reputation, wealth, and life. But those who are able to be reformed believe altogether differently. They are maintained by the Lord in the affection for good and in the thought of truth, and therefore come to be distressed when deprived of these.

[2] It is well known that all distress and grief are the result of a person's being deprived of the things for which he has affection, that is, which he loves. Those whose affection is solely for bodily and worldly things, that is, who love solely these, grieve when deprived of them, whereas those whose affection is for spiritual goods and truths, and who love these, grieve when deprived of them. The life in any person is nothing else than affection or love. From this one may see the nature of the state of those who are desolated as regards the goods and truths for which they have affection, that is, which they love; that is to say, one may see that their state of grief, being more interior, is more severe, and that in being deprived of good and truth it is not death of the body which they are bothered about but eternal death. It is their state which is described here.

[3] So that it may also be known which people can be maintained by the Lord in the affection for good and truth and so be reformed and become spiritual, and which ones cannot, this too must be explained briefly. In childhood everyone, when being for the first time endowed with goods and truths, is maintained by the Lord in the affirmative attitude that anything said or taught by parents and teachers is true. With those who are able to become spiritual this affirmative attitude is strengthened by means of facts and cognitions, for whatever they learn and is relevant introduces itself into the affirmative outlook and strengthens it, leading more and more towards affection for it. These are ones who become spiritual in accordance with the essence of the truth in which they have faith, and who are victorious in temptations. But it is quite different with those who are not able to become spiritual. Although in childhood an affirmative attitude exists with them, when they are older they allow doubts to enter in which thus destroy the affirmative attitude towards good and truth. And when they reach adult years they allow denials to enter in, and even the affection for what is false to enter in. If such people were led into temptations they would give in completely. Consequently they are kept free from them.

[4] But the real reason why they allow doubts and subsequently denials to enter in may be traced back to their life of evil. People who lead a life of evil cannot possibly do otherwise. The life in any person, as has been stated, is affection or love, and as is the nature of that affection or love so is the nature of his thought. The affection for evil and the thought of truth never join themselves together. In cases where they seem to join themselves, they do not in fact do so, for the thought of truth exists without the affection for it. With such people therefore truth is not truth, but merely a sound or something on the lips, from which the heart is far away. Even very wicked people can know such truth, better than anybody else sometimes. Some are also so strongly persuaded by truth of that kind that no one can see it as other than genuine. But it is not genuine truth if the life of good is absent. It is affection belonging to self-love or love of the world which causes that strong persuasion of it, which they also defend with a vehemence that is evidence of apparent zeal; indeed they go so far as to condemn people who do not receive it or believe it in a similar way. But this kind of truth varies from one person to another according to his basic way of thinking, the strength of that truth depending on the strength of his self-love or his love of the world. It is, it is true, born together with evil, but it does not join itself to evil, and therefore in the next life is rooted out. It is different in the case of those who lead a life of good; in them the truth itself finds its soil, and its ability to grow, and from the Lord its life.

  
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