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1 Kuin nämä olivat niin tapahtuneet, tuli Herran sana Abramin tykö näyssä, sanoen: älä pelkää Abram, minä olen sinun kilpes, ja sangen suuri palkkas.

2 Mutta Abram sanoi: Herra, Herra, mitäs minulle annat? minä lähden lapsetoinna täältä, ja minun huoneeni haltia on tämä Eleasari Damaskusta.

3 Ja Abram taas sanoi: mutta minulle et sinä antanut siementä. Ja katsos, minun kotopalkolliseni tulee minun perillisekseni.

4 Ja katso, Herran sana tuli hänen tykönsä, sanoen: ei tämä sinua peri: vaan joka sinun ruumiistas tulee, se tulee sinun perillisekses.

5 Niin hän vei hänen ulos, ja sanoi: katso taivaaseen ja lue tähdet, jos sinä ne taidat lukea. Ja sanoi hänelle: niin sinun siemenes on oleva.

6 (Abram) uskoi Herran, ja hän luki hänelle sen vanhurskaudeksi.

7 Ja sanoi hänelle: minä se Herra olen, joka vein sinun ulos Kaldean Uurista, antaakseni sinulle tämän maan omakses.

8 Ja hän sanoi: Herra, Herra, mistä minä tietäisin sen omistavani?

9 Ja hän sanoi hänelle: ota minulle kolmivuotinen hehkonen, ja kolmivuotinen vuohi, ja kolmivuotinen oinas: niin myös mettinen, ja nuori kyhkyläinen.

10 Ja hän otti hänelle nämät kaikki, ja jakoi keskeltä kahtia, ja pani itsekunkin osan toinen toisensa kohdalle; vaan lintuja ei hän jakanut.

11 Niin linnut tulivat lihain päälle; ja Abram karkotti ne.

12 Ja tapahtui auringon laskeissa, että raskas uni lankesi Abramin päälle: ja katso, hämmästys ja synkkä pimeys tuli hänen päällensä.

13 Niin hän sanoi Abramille: sinun pitää totisesti tietämän, että sinun siemenes tulee muukalaiseksi sille maalle, joka ei heidän omansa ole, ja he saattavat heitä orjaksi, ja vaivaavat heitä neljäsataa ajastaikaa.

14 Mutta sille kansalle, jonka orjana he ovat, kostan minä: ja sitte he lähtevät ulos suurella tavaralla.

15 Ja sinä menet isäis tykö rauhassa, ja haudataan hyvässä ijässä.

16 Vaan neljännessä miespolvessa he tänne palajavat: sillä Amorilaisten pahuus ei ole vielä täytetty.

17 Ja koska aurinko oli laskenut, ja pimeys joutunut: katso, pätsi suitsi, ja liekki kävi kappaleitten keskeltä.

18 Sinä päivänä teki Herra liiton Abramin kanssa, sanoen: sinun siemenelles annan minä tämän maan, hamasta Egyptin virrasta, niin suureen virtaan Phratiin asti.

19 Keniläiset, ja Kenitsiläiset, ja Kadmonilaiset,

20 Ja Hetiläiset, ja Pheresiläiset, ja Kalevan pojat,

21 Ja Amorilaiset, ja Kanaanealaiset, ja Gergesiläiset, ja Jebusilaiset.

   


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Arcana Coelestia #1444

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1444. 'And the Canaanite was at that time in the land' means the hereditary evil from the mother, in His external man. This becomes clear from what has been stated already about the Lord's heredity; for He was born as any other is born and from the mother acquired evils which He fought against and overcame. It is well known that the Lord underwent and endured very severe temptations - which will in the Lord's Divine mercy be described further on - temptations so great in fact that He fought by Himself and from His own power against the whole of hell. Nobody can undergo temptation unless he has evil clinging to him. The person who has no evil cannot experience the smallest temptation, for it is evil that spirits from hell stir up.

[2] With the Lord no evil of His own doing or that was His own was present, as there is with all human beings, only hereditary evil from the mother, which is here called 'the Canaanite at that time in the land'. For this matter see what has been stated above in verse 1, in 1414, to the effect that people are born with two heredities in them, the first from the father, the second from the mother. What comes from the father remains for ever, but what comes from the mother is dispelled by the Lord when the person is being regenerated. The Lord's heredity from His Father however was Divine, while the heredity from the mother was the hereditary evil referred to here, through which He underwent temptations. Regarding His temptations, see Mark 1:12-13; Matthew 4:1; Luke 4:1-2. But, as has been stated, He had no evil of His own doing or which was His own, nor did He have any hereditary evil from the mother after He had overcome hell by means of temptations. It is for this reason that the expression at that time occurs here, that is to say, 'the Canaanite was at that time in the land'.

[3] The Canaanites were people who dwelt by the sea and by the bank of the Jordan, as is clear in Moses,

The spies returned and said, We came into the land to which you sent us, and it is indeed flowing with milk and honey, and this is its fruit. Nevertheless the people dwelling in the land are powerful and the cities are very strongly fortified, and also we saw the descendants of Anak there. The Amalekite dwells in the south, and the Hittite, Jebusite, and Amorite dwell in the mountains, and the Canaanite dwells by the sea and by the bank of the Jordan. Numbers 13:27-29.

'The Canaanite dwelt by the sea and by the bank of the Jordan' meant evil consequently residing with the external man, such as that acquired by heredity from the mother, for the sea and the Jordan were boundaries.

[4] That this kind of evil is meant by 'the Canaanite' is clear also in Zechariah,

And there will no longer be a Canaanite in the house of Jehovah Zebaoth on that day. Zechariah 14:21.

This refers to the Lord's kingdom. It means that the Lord overcame the evil meant by 'the Canaanite' and drove it out of His kingdom. Evils of every kind are meant by the idolatrous nations in the land of Canaan, among which were the Canaanites, Genesis 15:19-21; Exodus 3:8, 17; 23:23, 28; 33:2; 34:11; Deuteronomy 7:1; 20:17; Joshua 3:10; 24:11; Judges 3:5. Which evil is meant by each nation specifically will in the Lord's Divine mercy be stated elsewhere.

  
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