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创世记 22

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1 这些事以要试验亚伯拉罕,就呼叫他亚伯拉罕!他:我在这里。

2 :你带着你的儿子,就是你独生的儿子,你所以撒,往摩利亚去,在我所要指示你的上,把他献为燔祭。

3 亚伯拉罕起来,备上,带着两个仆人和他儿子以撒,也劈好了燔祭的柴,就起身往所指示他的地方去了。

4 到了第三日,亚伯拉罕举目远远的见那地方

5 亚伯拉罕对他的仆人:你们和在此等候,我与童子往那里去拜一拜,就回到你们这里来。

6 亚伯拉罕把燔祭的柴放在他儿子以撒身上,自己里拿着与刀;於是人同行。

7 以撒对他父亲亚伯拉罕父亲哪!亚伯拉罕:我儿,我在这里。以撒:请看,与柴都有了,但燔祭的羊羔在那里呢?

8 亚伯拉罕:我儿,必自己预备作燔祭的羊羔。於是人同行。

9 他们到了所指示的地方亚伯拉罕在那里筑,把柴摆好,捆绑他的儿子以撒,放在的柴上。

10 亚伯拉罕就伸拿刀,要杀他的儿子

11 耶和华的使者从呼叫亚伯拉罕亚伯拉罕!他:我在这里。

12 天使:你不可在这童子身上下。一点不可害他!现在我知道你是敬畏的了;因为你没有将你的儿子,就是你独生的儿子,留下不给我。

13 亚伯拉罕举目观,不料,有一只公,两角扣在稠密的小树中,亚伯拉罕就取了那只公来,献为燔祭,代替他的儿子

14 亚伯拉罕给那地方起名耶和华以勒(意思就是耶和华必预备的意思),直到今日人还:在耶和华的上必有预备。

15 耶和华的使者第二次从呼叫亚伯拉罕说:

16 耶和华:你既行了这事,不留下你的儿子,就是你独生的儿子,我便指着自己起誓

17 论福,我必赐大福给你;论子孙,我必叫你的子孙多起来,如同上的边的沙。你子孙必得着仇敌的城

18 并且上万国都必因你的後裔得福,因为你听从了我的话。

19 於是亚伯拉罕回到他仆人那里,他们一同起身往别是巴去,亚伯拉罕在别是巴。

20 这事以,有人告诉亚伯拉罕说:密迦给你兄弟拿鹤生了几个儿子

21 长子是乌斯,他的兄弟是布斯和亚兰的父亲基母利,

22 并基薛、哈琐、必达、益拉、彼土利(彼土利生利百加)。

23 个人都是密迦给亚伯拉罕的兄弟拿鹤生的。

24 拿鹤的妾名叫流玛,生了提八、迦含、他辖,和玛迦。

   

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Arcana Coelestia #2776

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2776. 'Offer him as a burnt offering' means that He was to sanctify Himself to the Divine. This is clear from the representation of 'a burnt offering' among the Hebrew nation, and in the Jewish Church, as the holiest act of their worship. There were burnt offerings and there were sacrifices, and as regards what these represented, see 922, 923, 1823, 2180. Sanctifications were effected by means of burnt offerings and sacrifices, and that is why in this verse 'offering a burnt offering' means being sanctified to the Divine. For the Lord sanctified Himself to the Divine, that is, He united the Human to the Divine by means of the conflicts brought about by temptations, and by means of the victories in these, see 1663, 1690, 1692 (end), 1692, 1737, 1787, 1812, 1813, 1820.

[2] It is generally believed at the present day that the burnt offerings and sacrifices were signs of the Lord's passion, and that by His passion the Lord atoned for the iniquities of all. Indeed it is believed that He drew away those iniquities on to Himself, and thus bore them Himself, so that those who believe are made righteous and are saved, if only they think, even in the last hour prior to death, that the Lord suffered on their behalf, no matter how they may have lived throughout the whole course of their lives. But such beliefs are mistaken. The passion of the Cross was the utmost degree of temptation endured by the Lord, by means of which He fully united the Human to the Divine and the Divine to the Human, and by doing this glorified Himself. That union itself is the means by which people possessing faith in Him that is grounded in charity are able to be saved. For the Supreme Divine Itself was no longer able to reach the human race which had removed itself so far away from the celestial things of love, and from the spiritual things of faith, that people did not even recognize them any more, let alone perceive them. Consequently to enable the Supreme Divine to come down to all such as this, the Lord came into the world and united the Human to the Divine within Himself. This union could not have been effected except by means of the very severe conflicts brought about by temptations and by means of victories in these, and at length by means of the final temptation, which was that of the Cross.

[3] As a result of this the Lord is able from the Divine Human to enlighten human minds, even those that are quite remote from the celestial things of love, provided that faith grounded in charity is present in them. For in the next life the Lord appears to celestial angels as the Sun, and to spiritual angels as the Moon, 1053, 1521, 1529, 1530, 2441, 2495 - all the light of heaven flowing from Him. The light of heaven is such that when it enlightens the eyes of spirits and angels it also at the same time enlightens their understanding. This ability to enlighten the understanding also exists inherently within that light, so that the amount of internal light, that is, of understanding, which anyone possesses in heaven is the same as the amount of external light he has. This shows the way in which the light of heaven is different from the light of the world. It is the Lord's Divine Human that enlightens both the eyes and the understanding of those who are spiritual, but this could never be done unless the Lord had united the Human Essence to the Divine Essence. And unless He had united them neither men in the world, nor indeed any spiritual angel in heaven, would any longer have possessed any ability to understand or to perceive that which is good or true. Nor thus would they have possessed any blessedness and happiness at all, nor consequently any salvation at all. From this it becomes clear that the human race could not have been saved unless the Lord had assumed the Human and glorified it.

[4] From what has now been stated anyone may decide for himself the truth or otherwise of the idea that people are saved, no matter how they may have lived, if only they think from some inner emotion that the Lord suffered on their behalf and bore their sins. But in reality the light of heaven received from the Lord's Divine Human is able to reach none except those with whom there exists the good that accompanies faith, that is, who lead charitable lives, or what amounts to the same, who possess conscience. The level itself into which that light can operate, that is, the receptacle for that light, is the good that accompanies faith, which is charity and thus conscience. That those who are spiritual have salvation from the Lord's Divine Human, see 1043, 2661, 2716, 2718.

  
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