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创世记 14

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1 当暗拉非作示拿,亚略作以拉撒,基大老玛作以拦,提达作戈印的时候,

2 他们都攻打所多玛比拉、蛾摩拉比沙、押玛示纳、洗扁善以别,和比拉;比拉就是琐珥。

3 这五都在西订会合;西订就是

4 他们已经事奉基大老玛十二年,到十三年就背叛了。

5 十四年,基大老玛和同盟的在亚特律加宁,杀败了利乏音人,在哈麦杀败了苏西人,在沙微基列亭杀败了以米人,

6 在何利人的西珥杀败了何利人,一直杀到靠近旷野的伊勒巴兰。

7 他们回到安密巴,就是加低斯,杀败了亚玛力全地的人,以及在哈洗逊他玛的亚摩利人。

8 於是所多玛王、蛾摩拉王、押玛王、洗扁王,和比拉王(比拉就是琐珥)都出来,在西订摆阵,与他们交战,

9 就是与以拦基大老玛、戈印提达、示拿暗拉非、以拉撒亚略交战;乃是与五交战。

10 西订有许多石漆坑。所多玛和蛾摩拉逃跑,有掉在坑里的,其馀的人都往逃跑

11 四王就把所多玛和蛾摩拉所有的财物,并一切的粮食都掳掠去了;

12 又把亚伯兰的侄儿罗得和罗得的财物掳掠去了。当时罗得正所多玛

13 有一个逃出的人告诉希伯来人亚伯兰亚伯兰正住在亚摩利人幔利的橡树那里。幔利和以实各并亚乃都是弟兄,曾与亚伯兰联盟。

14 亚伯兰见他侄儿(原文作弟兄)被掳去,就率领他家里生养的精练壮丁一十八人,直追到但,

15 便在夜间,自己同仆人分队杀败敌人,又追到大马色左边的何把,

16 将被掳掠的一切财物夺回来,连他侄儿罗得和他的财物,以及妇女、人民也都夺回来

17 亚伯兰杀败基大老玛和与他同盟的回来的时候,所多玛出来,在沙微迎接他;沙微就是

18 又有撒冷王麦基洗德带着饼和酒出来迎接;他是至神的祭司。

19 他为亚伯兰祝福:愿的主、至的神赐福与亚伯兰

20 的神把敌人交在你里,是应当称颂的!亚伯兰就把所得的拿出十分之一来,麦基洗德。

21 所多玛王对亚伯兰:你把人口我,财物你自己拿去罢!

22 亚伯兰所多玛:我已经向─至的神耶和华起誓:

23 凡是你的东西,就是一根线、一根鞋带,我都不拿,免得你:我使亚伯兰富足!

24 只有仆人所的,并与我同行的亚乃、以实各、幔利所应得的分,可以任凭他们拿去。

   

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Arcana Coelestia #1740

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1740. That 'the king of Sodom' means the evil and falsity that had been overcome is clear from the meaning of 'Sodom' as evil and falsity, as shown above in this chapter. Verse 17 above says that 'the king of Sodom went out to meet Abram' which meant that evil and falsity submitted. The present verse continues the idea that they were suppliant.

[2] The reason why evil and falsity were overcome, or why evils and falsities are overcome by means of the conflicts constituting temptations, and so why goods and truths are acquired, is that this is the manner in which evils and falsities are dispelled. Once these have been dispelled goods and truths take their place, and in the end are confirmed more and more and so strengthened. Indeed it is evil spirits who activate evils and falsities, and unless they do so a person scarcely knows that they are evils and falsities. But once activated they are evident. And the longer the conflicts brought about by temptations persist, the more evident such evils and falsities become, till at length they are regarded with abhorrence.

[3] And as evils and falsities are dispelled, so goods and truths take their place; and the more a person contracts an abhorrence of evils and falsities, the more love the Lord instills for goods and truths. Furthermore the greater that abhorrence of evils and falsities becomes, the less do evil spirits dare to approach, for they cannot stand this aversion to and abhorrence of the evils and falsities constituting their life. Sometimes they are seized with terror the moment they start to approach. And the more love there is for goods and truths, the more do angels love to be with man, and this to the angels is heaven; for their own life exists with them when the goods of love and the truths of faith exist with them.

  
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