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1 Mutta nälänhätä oli maassa kova.

2 Ja kun he olivat syöneet loppuun sen viljan, jonka olivat tuoneet Egyptistä, sanoi heidän isänsä heille: "Menkää jälleen ostamaan meille vähän elintarpeita".

3 Juuda vastasi hänelle sanoen: "Se mies teroitti meille teroittamalla: 'Ette saa tulla minun kasvojeni eteen, ellei veljenne ole teidän kanssanne'.

4 Jos annat veljemme seurata meidän mukanamme, niin me lähdemme ostamaan sinulle elintarpeita.

5 Mutta jos et anna, niin emme lähde; sillä se mies sanoi meille: 'Ette saa tulla minun kasvojeni eteen, ellei veljenne ole teidän kanssanne'."

6 Israel sanoi: "Minkätähden teitte niin pahasti minua kohtaan, että ilmaisitte tuolle miehelle teillä olevan vielä veljen?"

7 He vastasivat: "Mies kyseli tuiki tarkasti meitä ja meidän sukuamme, sanoen: 'Elääkö isänne vielä? Onko teillä vielä veljeä?' Silloin me ilmoitimme hänelle, niinkuin asia on. Saatoimmeko tietää, että hän sanoisi: 'Tuokaa tänne veljenne'?"

8 Ja Juuda sanoi isällensä Israelille: "Anna nuorukaisen seurata minun mukanani, niin me nousemme ja lähdemme matkalle, että jäisimme eloon, sekä me että sinä ja vaimomme ja lapsemme, emmekä kuolisi.

9 Minä vastaan hänestä; minun kädestäni saat vaatia hänet. Jos en tuo häntä takaisin sinun luoksesi ja aseta häntä eteesi, niin minä olen syyllinen sinun edessäsi kaiken elinaikani.

10 Totisesti, jos emme olisi näin vitkastelleet, niin olisimme jo kaksikin kertaa voineet olla sieltä kotona."

11 Silloin heidän isänsä Israel sanoi heille: "Jos niin on, tehkää ainakin tämä: ottakaa säkkeihinne maan parhaimpia tuotteita ja viekää ne sille miehelle lahjaksi: vähän balsamia ja vähän hunajaa, kumihartsia ja hajupihkaa, pähkinöitä ja manteleita.

12 Ja ottakaa mukaanne kaksinkertainen raha, niin että viette takaisin sen rahan, joka palautettiin säkkienne suussa. Ehkä se oli erehdys.

13 Ottakaa sitten mukaanne myöskin veljenne ja nouskaa ja menkää jälleen sen miehen luo.

14 Jumala, Kaikkivaltias, suokoon, että se mies tekisi teille laupeuden ja antaisi toisen veljenne sekä Benjaminin palata kotiin teidän kanssanne. Mutta jos tulen lapsettomaksi, niin tulen lapsettomaksi."

15 Niin miehet ottivat mukaansa lahjan ja kaksinkertaisen rahan sekä myöskin Benjaminin ja nousivat ja menivät Egyptiin; ja he astuivat Joosefin eteen.

16 Kun Joosef näki Benjaminin heidän seurassaan, sanoi hän huoneenhaltijalleen: "Vie nämä miehet sisään; teurasta teuras ja valmista se, sillä miehet saavat syödä päivällistä minun kanssani".

17 Ja mies teki, niinkuin Joosef oli käskenyt, ja vei miehet Joosefin taloon.

18 Mutta miehet pelkäsivät, kun heitä vietiin Joosefin taloon, arvellen: "Sen rahan tähden, joka viime kerralla tuli takaisin meidän säkeissämme, ne nyt vievät meitä tänne hyökätäkseen ja karatakseen meidän kimppuumme, ottaakseen meidät orjiksi ja anastaakseen aasimme".

19 Niin he menivät Joosefin huoneenhaltijan luo ja puhuttelivat häntä talon ovella

20 ja sanoivat: "Oi kuule, herra, me olemme kerran ennen käyneet täällä ostamassa elintarpeita,

21 ja kun me tulimme yöpaikkaan ja avasimme säkkimme, niin katso, jokaisen raha oli hänen säkkinsä suussa täysipainoisena; olemme nyt tuoneet ne mukanamme takaisin.

22 Ja olemme tuoneet mukanamme toisenkin rahan ostaaksemme viljaa elatukseksemme. Emme tiedä, kuka on pannut meidän rahamme säkkeihimme."

23 Hän vastasi: "Olkaa rauhassa, älkää peljätkö. Teidän Jumalanne ja teidän isänne Jumala on antanut teidän löytää aarteen säkeistänne. Teidän rahanne minä olen saanut." Ja hän toi heidän luokseen Simeonin.

24 Ja hän vei miehet Joosefin taloon ja antoi heille vettä jalkain pesemiseksi ja heidän aaseilleen rehua.

25 He laittoivat lahjansa järjestykseen siksi, kunnes Joosef tulisi päivälliselle; sillä he olivat kuulleet, että saisivat aterioida siellä.

26 Kun Joosef oli tullut kotiin, veivät he hänelle huoneeseen lahjat, jotka heillä oli mukanaan, ja kumartuivat maahan hänen edessänsä.

27 Hän tervehti heitä ja kysyi: "Kuinka voi teidän vanha isänne, josta puhuitte? Vieläkö hän elää?"

28 He vastasivat: "Palvelijasi, meidän isämme, voi hyvin; hän elää vielä". Ja he kumartuivat ja heittäytyivät maahan.

29 Ja hän nosti silmänsä ja näki veljensä Benjaminin, äitinsä pojan, ja kysyi: "Onko tämä teidän nuorin veljenne, josta puhuitte?" Sitten hän sanoi: "Jumala olkoon sinulle, poikani, armollinen".

30 Mutta silloin Joosef keskeytti äkkiä puheensa, sillä nähdessään veljensä hän tuli sydämessään liikutetuksi ja etsi tilaisuutta itkeäkseen; niin hän meni sisähuoneeseen ja itki siellä.

31 Senjälkeen hän pestyään kasvonsa tuli ulos, hillitsi itsensä ja käski: "Tarjotkaa ruokaa".

32 Ja tarjottiin erikseen hänelle ja erikseen heille ja erikseen egyptiläisille, jotka aterioivat hänen kanssaan; egyptiläiset näet eivät saata syödä yhdessä hebrealaisten kanssa, sillä se on egyptiläisille kauhistus.

33 He istuivat vastapäätä häntä iän mukaan, esikoinen ensimmäisenä ja nuorin viimeisenä; ja ihmetellen miehet katselivat toisiaan.

34 Ja hän antoi kantaa omasta pöydästään ruokia heille, ja Benjaminin annos oli viisi kertaa suurempi kuin kaikkien muiden. Ja he joivat hänen kanssaan ja juopuivat.

   

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Arcana Coelestia #5639

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5639. 'And Joseph saw Benjamin with them' means the discernment by the celestial of the spiritual that the spiritual intermediary was present with the truths. This is clear from the meaning of 'seeing' as understanding and discerning, dealt with in 2150, 2807, 3764, 4567, 4723, 5400; from the representation of the ten sons of Jacob - to whom 'with them', that is, the ones whom Joseph saw Benjamin with, refers - as the truths within the natural, dealt with in 5403, 5419, 5427, 5458, 5512; and from the representation of 'Benjamin' as the intermediary, dealt with in 5411, 5413, 5443. The reason the expression 'spiritual intermediary' is used here is that the truths which are represented by 'the ten sons of Jacob' had now to be joined to truth from the Divine, which was 'Joseph'; but that joining together does not take place except through an intermediary that is a spiritual one. Therefore immediately after that intermediary had been recognized, Joseph told the man over his house, 'Bring the men to the house, and slaughter and prepare [an animal]; for the men will eat with me at midday', meaning that they would be brought in and joined to him because they were accompanied by the intermediary.

[2] A further brief statement needs to be made about what the spiritual compared with the natural is since the majority living in the Christian world do not know what the spiritual is. They are so ignorant of what it is that when they hear the term they are at a loss, saying to themselves, What the spiritual is, no one knows. Essentially the spiritual existing with a person is his actual affection for what is good and true, loved for its own sake and not for any selfish reason, as well as an affection for what is right and fair, likewise loved for its own sake and not for any selfish reason. When a person has inward feelings of delight and pleasure, and more so if feelings of blessedness and bliss flow from them, they constitute the spiritual present with him, which does not come to him from the natural world but from the spiritual world or heaven, that is, from the Lord by way of heaven. This then is the spiritual which, when it reigns in a person, influences and so to speak gives colour to everything he thinks, wills, or does, and which causes his thoughts and acts of will to partake of what is spiritual, till at length these too become spiritual qualities present with him when he passes from the natural world into the spiritual world. In short, the spiritual consists in an affection stirred by charity and faith, that is, an affection for what is good and true, and in the delight and pleasure, and even more so in the blessedness and bliss that flow from them, which are feelings residing with a person inwardly and making him someone truly Christian.

[3] The majority in the Christian world are ignorant of what the spiritual is for the reason that they make faith, not charity, the essential virtue in the Church. Consequently, since the few who do bother about faith give little if any thought at all to charity or know what charity is, and since therefore they have no knowledge or any perception of the affection characteristic of charity, an affection that is not present in them, they cannot possibly know what the spiritual is. This is especially so at the present day when scarcely any charity exists with anyone, for now is the final period of the Church. But it should be recognized that in a general sense the spiritual means an affection both for what is good and for what is true, which is why heaven is called the spiritual world and the internal sense of the Word is called the spiritual sense. But more specifically what is essentially an affection for good is called the celestial, while that which is essentially an affection for truth is called the spiritual.

  
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Arcana Coelestia #4922

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4922. 'And bound on his hand a twice-dyed thread' means that a sign was placed on it, namely on that power - 'twice-dyed' meaning good. This is clear from the meaning of 'binding on the hand' as placing a sign on power, for 'the hand' means power, 4920; and from the meaning of 'twice-dyed' as good, in particular spiritual good. The reason 'twice-dyed' means spiritual good is that this expression describes a shade of scarlet, and in the next life whenever one sees scarlet spiritual good is meant, which is the good of charity towards the neighbour. For all colours clearly visible in the next life mean something connected with good and truth since they are products of the light of heaven, which essentially is wisdom and intelligence flowing from the Lord's Divine. The variegations or modifications of that light are consequently variegations and so to speak modifications of wisdom and intelligence, and therefore of good and truth. For details about the light in heaven flowing from the Lord's Divine wisdom and intelligence, where the Lord is seen as the Sun, see 1053, 1521-1533, 1619-1632, 2776, 3138, 3167, 3190, 3195, 3222, 3223, 3225, 3337, 3339, 3340, 3485, 3636, 3643, 3862, 3993, 4180, 4214, 4302, 4405, 4408, 4413, 4415, 4523-4533; and for details about colours having their origin in that light and about their being variegations and modifications of that light, and therefore of intelligence and wisdom, 1042, 1043, 1053, 1624, 3993, 4530, 4677, 4742.

[2] As regards 'twice-dyed' meaning spiritual good, this is evident from places in the Word where this expression is used, as in Jeremiah,

If therefore you have been laid waste, what will you do? If you clothe yourself in twice-dyed and deck yourself with ornaments of gold, in vain will you make yourself beautiful; your lovers will abhor you. Jeremiah 4:30.

This refers to Judah. 'Clothing yourself in twice-dyed' stands for spiritual good, 'decking yourself with ornaments of gold' for celestial good. In 2 Samuel,

David lamented over Saul and over Jonathan, and wrote it down that they teach the children of Judah the bow. Daughters of Israel, weep over Saul who clothed you in twice-dyed delicately, 1 and placed an ornament of gold on your apparel. 2 Samuel 1:17-18, 24.

Here 'teaching the bow' stands for teaching the doctrine of love and charity, for 'the bow' means that doctrine. 'Clothing in twice-dyed' stands for spiritual good, as previously, and 'placing an ornament of gold on one's apparel' for celestial good.

[3] Such being the meaning of 'twice-dyed', instructions were also given to use twice-dyed scarlet on the curtains of the Dwelling-place, the veil, the covering for the door of the tent, the covering to the gate of the court, the table of the Presence when they were about to set out, Aaron's sacred vestments such as the ephod, the breastplate of judgement, and the fringes of the robe of the ephod:

The curtains of the Dwelling-place

You shall make for the Dwelling-place ten curtains - fine-twined linen, and violet and purple and twice-dyed scarlet. Exodus 26:1.

The veil

You shall make a veil of violet and purple, and of twice-dyed scarlet, and of fine-twined linen. Exodus 26:31.

The covering for the door of the tent

You shall make a covering for the door of the tent, of violet and purple and twice-dyed scarlet, and of fine-twined linen. Exodus 26:36.

[4] The covering to the gate of the court

For the gate of the court you shall make a covering of violet and purple and twice-dyed scarlet, and fine-twined linen, the work of an embroiderer. Exodus 27:16.

The table of the Presence when they were about to set out

When the camp sets out they shall spread over the table of the Presence a cloth of twice-dyed scarlet, and shall cover this with a covering of badger skin. Numbers 4:8.

The ephod

You shall make an ephod out of gold, violet and purple, and twice-dyed scarlet, fine-twined linen, the work of a craftsman; and the girdle similarly. Exodus 28:5-6, 8; 39:2-3.

The breastplate of judgement

You shall make the breastplate of judgement, the work of a craftsman, like the work of the ephod, out of gold, violet, and purple. and twice-dyed scarlet, and fine-twined linen. Exodus 28:15.

The fringes of the robe of the ephod

Pomegranates of violet, and purple, and twice-dyed scarlet. Exodus 28:33.

[5] It was because the Tent of Meeting with the Ark in it represented heaven that the colours mentioned in these places were required. They meant in their order celestial and spiritual things, as follows: 'Violet and purple' meant celestial kinds of good and truth, 'twice-dyed scarlet and fine-twined linen' spiritual kinds of good and truth. Anyone believing that the Word is holy can recognize that each has a specific meaning, and anyone believing that the Word is holy for the reason that it has been sent down from the Lord by way of heaven can recognize that the celestial and spiritual things belonging to His kingdom are meant. Similar instructions were given, in cleansings from leprosy, to use 'cedarwood, scarlet, and hyssop', Leviticus 14:4, 6, 52; and to cast 'cedarwood and hyssop and twice-dyed of purple' on to the fire in which the red heifer was being burned, from which the water of separation was prepared, Numbers 19:6.

[6] The profanation of good and truth is described by similar words in John,

I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast, full of blasphemous names. It had seven heads and ten horns. The woman was clothed in purple and scarlet. and covered 2 with gold and precious stones and pearls. holding in her hand a golden cup, full of abominations and the uncleanness of whoredom. Revelation 17:3-4.

And after this,

Woe, woe, the great city, you that were clothed in fine linen and purple and scarlet, and covered' with gold and precious stones and pearls. Revelation 18:16.

This refers to 'Babel' by which the profanation of good is meant, 1182, 1283, 1295, 1304, 1306-1308, 1321, 1322, 1326, in this case the profanation both of good and of truth, which is 'Babylonian'. Among the Prophets in the Old Testament 'Babel' describes the profanation of good and 'Chaldea' the profanation of truth.

[7] In the contrary sense 'scarlet' means the evil that is the contrary of spiritual good, as in Isaiah,

Though your sins are like scarlet, they will be white as snow. Though they are red as crimson, 3 they will be as wool. Isaiah 1:18.

The reason 'scarlet' means this evil is that 'blood', likewise, because of its red colour, in the genuine sense means spiritual good or charity towards the neighbour, and in the contrary sense violence done to charity, 374, 1005.

അടിക്കുറിപ്പുകൾ:

1. literally, with delights

2. literally, gilded

3. literally, purple

  
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