The Bible

创世记 13

¹ 亚伯兰带着他的妻子与罗得，并一切所有的，都从埃及上南地去。

² 亚伯兰的金、银、牲畜极多。

³ 他从南地渐渐往伯特利去，到了伯特利和艾的中间，就是从前支搭帐棚的地方，

⁴ 也是他起先筑坛的地方；他又在那里求告耶和华的名。

⁵ 与亚伯兰同行的罗得也有牛群、羊群、帐棚。

⁶ 那地容不下他们；因为他们的财物甚多，使他们不能同居。

⁷ 当时，迦南人与比利洗人在那地居住。亚伯兰的牧人和罗得的牧人相争。

⁸ 亚伯兰就对罗得说：你我不可相争，你的牧人和我的牧人也不可相争，因为我们是骨肉(原文作弟兄)。

⁹ 遍地不都在你眼前麽？请你离开我：你向左，我就向右；你向右，我就向左。

¹⁰ 罗得举目看见约但河的全平原，直到琐珥，都是滋润的，那地在耶和华未灭所多玛、蛾摩拉以先如同耶和华的园子，也像埃及地。

¹¹ 於是罗得选择约但河的全平原，往东迁移；他们就彼此分离了。

¹² 亚伯兰住在迦南地，罗得住在平原的城邑，渐渐挪移帐棚，直到所多玛。

¹³ 所多玛人在耶和华面前罪大恶极。

¹⁴ 罗得离别亚伯兰以後，耶和华对亚伯兰说：从你所在的地方，你举目向东西南北观看；

¹⁵ 凡你所看见的一切地，我都要赐给你和你的後裔，直到永远。

¹⁶ 我也要使你的後裔如同地上的尘沙那样多，人若能数算地上的尘沙才能数算你的後裔。

¹⁷ 你起来，纵横走遍这地，因为我必把这地赐给你。

¹⁸ 亚伯兰就搬了帐棚，来到希伯仑幔利的橡树那里居住，在那里为耶和华筑了一座坛。

From Swedenborg's Works

Arcana Coelestia #1614

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1614. 'For to you will I give it' means that it was His. This is clear without explanation. That 'the land', or heavenly kingdom, is the Lord's alone is clear from what has been shown many times, namely that there is no other Lord of heaven. And being the Lord of heaven He is also the Lord of the Church. This is also clear from the fact that everything celestial and spiritual, or good and true, comes from the Lord alone. The Lord is therefore the All in all of His heaven, insomuch indeed that anyone who has no discernment of good and truth from the Lord is no longer in heaven. This sphere is the sphere that reigns throughout the whole of heaven. It is also the very soul of heaven, and is the life that flows into all who are governed by good.

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