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Postanak 16

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1 Abramova žena Saraja nije mu rađala djece. A imaše ona sluškinju Egipćanku - zvala se Hagara.

2 I reče Saraja Abramu: "Vidiš, Jahve me učinio nerotkinjom. Hajde k mojoj sluškinji, možda ću imati djece." Abram posluša riječ Sarajinu.

3 Tako, pošto je Abram proboravio deset godina u zemlji kanaanskoj, njegova žena Saraja uzme Hagaru, Egipćanku, sluškinju svoju, pa je dade svome mužu Abramu za ženu.

4 Uđe on k Hagari te ona zače. A kad je vidjela da je začela, s prezirom je gledala na svoju gospodaricu.

5 Tada reče Saraja Abramu: "Nepravda što se meni nanosi tvoja je krivnja! Prepustila sam svoju sluškinju tvome zagrljaju, ali otkako opazi da je zanijela, s prezirom na me gleda. Jahve sudio i meni i tebi!"

6 Nato Abram odvrati Saraji: "Tvoja je sluškinja u tvojoj ruci: kako ti se čini da je dobro, tako prema njoj postupi!" Saraja postupi prema njoj tako loše da ona od nje pobježe.

7 Anđeo Jahvin nađe je kod izvora u pustinji - uz vrelo što je na putu prema Šuru -

8 pa je zapita: "Hagaro, sluškinjo Sarajina, odakle dolaziš i kamo ideš?" "Bježim, evo, od svoje gospodarice Saraje", odgovori ona.

9 Nato joj anđeo Jahvin reče: "Vrati se svojoj gospodarici i pokori joj se!"

10 Još joj reče anđeo Jahvin: "Tvoje ću potomstvo silno umnožiti; od mnoštva se neće moći ni prebrojiti."

11 Dalje joj je anđeo Jahvin rekao: "Gle, zanijela si i rodit ćeš sina. Nadjeni mu ime Jišmael, jer Jahve ču jad tvoj.

12 On će biti kao divlje magare: ruka će se njegova dizati na svakoga i svačija ruka na njega; i pred licem sve mu braće on će stan sebi podići."

13 A Jahvu koji joj govoraše nazva: "Ti si El Roi - Svevid Bog", jer - reče ona - "vidjeh Boga i nakon viđenja - još živim!"

14 Stoga se taj zdenac zove Beer Lahaj Roi - Zdenac životvornog Svevida, a eno ga između Kadeša i Bereda.

15 Rodi Hagara Abramu sina, a Abram sinu što mu ga Rodi Hagara nadjene ime Jišmael.

16 Abramu je bilo osamdeset i šest godina kad mu je Hagara rodila Jišmaela.

   

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Arcana Coelestia #1955

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1955. 'For she said, Have I not also here seen after Him who sees me?' means influx into the life of the exterior man without the rational serving as a go-between. This is clear from 'seeing after one who sees'. 'Seeing after one who sees' is seeing from that which is interior or higher. In the internal sense that which is inward or higher is expressed in the sense of the letter as after when what is inside or higher is manifesting itself in what is outward or lower. It is Hagar who is speaking here, and she, as shown already, means the life possessed by knowledge and belonging to the exterior man. Since it was that life from which the first rational sprang, the Lord therefore saw the reason why it did so; He saw it from His Interior Man within the Exterior Man, and without the Rational serving as a go-between. Anyone may see that these words embody arcana, if only from the consideration that nobody is able to know what is meant by seeing after Him who sees me except from the internal sense, where matters such as this are present which cannot be explained intelligibly except by means of ideas like those that angels have. These ideas do not fall into words, only into the sense conveyed by words - abstractedly, quite apart from the material ideas out of which the ideas come that belong to the sense conveyed by the words. These matters, which seem so obscure to man, present to the angels ideas so clear and distinct, ideas enriched by so many representations, that if anyone wrote about just a tiny fraction of them he would fill a whole book.

  
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