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Genesis 13

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1 Ja Aabram läks Egiptusest üles Lõunamaale, tema ja ta naine ja kõik, mis tal oli; ja Lott oli koos temaga.

2 Ja Aabram oli väga rikas karja, hõbeda ja kulla poolest.

3 Ja ta rändas peatuspaigast teise, Lõunamaalt Peeteli poole, sinna paika, kus ta telk enne oli olnud, Peeteli ja Ai vahel,

4 altari paika, mille ta varem sinna oli teinud; ja Aabram hüüdis seal appi Issanda nime.

5 Aga ka Lotil, kes rändas koos Aabramiga, oli lambaid ja kitsi, veiseid ja telke.

6 Kuid maa ei suutnud neid toita, et üheskoos elada, sest nende varandus oli nii suur, et neil oli võimatu üheskoos elada.

7 Ja Aabrami loomade karjaste ja Loti loomade karjaste vahel tekkis riid; kaananlased ja perislased elasid siis veel sellel maal.

8 Siis Aabram ütles Lotile: 'Ärgu olgu riidu minu ja sinu vahel, minu karjaste ja sinu karjaste vahel. Meie, mehed, oleme ju vennad!

9 Eks ole kogu maa su ees lahti? Mine nüüd minu juurest ära, lähed sina vasakut kätt, lähen mina paremat kätt; lähed sina paremat kätt, lähen mina vasakut kätt.'

10 Siis Lott tõstis oma silmad üles ja nägi, et kogu Jordani piirkond oli kõikjal veerikas; enne kui Issand Soodoma ja Gomorra hävitas, oli see kuni Soarini otsekui Issanda rohuaed, samasugune nagu Egiptusemaa.

11 Ja Lott valis enesele kogu Jordani piirkonna; Lott läks teele hommiku poole ja nad lahkusid teineteisest.

12 Aabram jäi Kaananimaale ja Lott asus piirkonna linnadesse ning lõi oma telgid üles Soodomani.

13 Aga Soodoma mehed olid väga pahad ja patused Issanda ees.

14 Ja Issand ütles Aabramile, pärast seda kui Lott tema juurest oli lahkunud: 'Tõsta nüüd oma silmad üles ja vaata paigast, kus sa oled, põhja ja lõuna ja hommiku ja õhtu poole,

15 sest kogu maa, mida sa näed, ma annan sinule ja su soole igaveseks ajaks!

16 Ja ma teen su soo maapõrmu sarnaseks: kui keegi suudab maapõrmu ära lugeda, siis on sinugi sugu äraloetav.

17 Võta kätte, käi maa läbi pikuti ja põiki, sest ma annan selle sinule!'

18 Ja Aabram võttis telgid ja tuli ning elas Mamre tammikus, mis on Hebroni juures; ja ta ehitas sinna altari Issandale.

   

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Arcana Coelestia #1555

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1555. From the south and even to Bethel. That this signifies from the light of intelligence into the light of wisdom, is evident from the signification of “the south,” as being the light of intelligence, or what is the same, a state of light as to the interiors (spoken of before, n. 1458); and from the signification of “Bethel,” as being celestial light arising from knowledges (concerning which before, n. 1453). That is called the light of intelligence which is procured by means of the knowledges of the truths and goods of faith; but the light of wisdom is that of the life which is thence acquired. The light of intelligence regards the intellectual part, or the understanding; but the light of wisdom regards the will part, or the life.

[2] Few, if any, know how man is brought to true wisdom. Intelligence is not wisdom, but leads to wisdom; for to understand what is true and good is not to be true and good, but to be wise is to be so. Wisdom is predicated only of the life-that the man is such. A man is introduced to wisdom or to life by means of knowing [scire et nosse], that is, by means of knowledges [scientiae et cognitiones]. In every man there are two parts, the will and the understanding; the will is the primary part, the understanding is the secondary one. Man’s life after death is according to his will part, not according to his intellectual part. The will is being formed in man by the Lord from infancy to childhood, which is effected by means of the innocence that is insinuated, and by means of charity toward parents, nurses, and little children of a like age; and by means of many other things that man knows nothing of, and which are celestial. Unless these celestial things were first insinuated into a man while an infant and a child, he could by no means become a man. Thus is formed the first plane.

[3] But as a man is not a man unless he is endowed also with understanding, will alone does not make the man, but understanding together with will; and understanding cannot be acquired except by means of knowledges [scientiae et cognitiones] and therefore he must, from his childhood, be gradually imbued with these. Thus is formed the second plane. When the intellectual part has been instructed in knowledges [scientiae et cognitiones], especially in the knowledges of truth and good, then first can the man be regenerated; and, when he is being regenerated, truths and goods are implanted by the Lord by means of knowledges in the celestial things with which he had been endowed by the Lord from infancy, so that his intellectual things make a one with his celestial things; and when the Lord has thus conjoined these, the man is endowed with charity, from which he begins to act, this charity being of conscience. In this way he for the first time receives new life, and this by degrees. The light of this life is called wisdom, which then takes the first place, and is set over the intelligence. Thus is formed the third plane. When a man has become like this during his bodily life, he is then in the other life being continually perfected. These considerations show what is the light of intelligence, and what the light of wisdom.

  
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