The Bible

 

synty 21

Study

   

1 Ja Herra etsei Saaraa, niinkuin hän sanonut oli: ja Herra teki Saaralle niinkuin hän puhunut oli.

2 Ja Saara tuli raskaaksi, ja synnytti Abrahamille pojan hänen vanhuudessansa; sillä ajalla kuin Jumala hänelle sanonut oli.

3 Ja Abraham kutsui poikansa nimen, joka hänelle syntynyt oli, ja jonka Saara hänelle synnyttänyt oli, Isaak.

4 Ja Abraham ympärileikkasi poikansa Isaakin kahdeksan päiväisenä: niinkuin Jumala hänen käskenyt oli.

5 Ja Abraham oli sadan ajastaikainen, koska Isaak hänen poikansa hänelle syntyi.

6 Ja Saara sanoi: Jumala on tehnyt minulle nauron: kuka ikänä sen saa kuulla, hän nauraa minua.

7 Ja sanoi vielä: kuka olis taitanut sanoa Abrahamille: Saara on lapsia imettävä; sillä minä olen synnyttänyt pojan hänen vanhuudessansa.

8 Ja lapsi kasvoi ja vieroitettiin: ja Abraham teki suuren pidon sinä päivänä, jona Isaak vieroitettiin.

9 Ja Saara näki Egyptiläisen Hagarin pojan, jonka se Abrahamille synnyttänyt oli, pilkkaajaksi.

10 Ja sanoi Abrahamille: aja ulos tämä palkkavaimo poikinensa: sillä palkkavaimon pojan ei pidä perimän minun poikani Isaakin kanssa.

11 Ja tämä sana oli Abrahamin mielestä sangen karvas, hänen poikansa tähden.

12 Mutta Jumala sanoi Abrahamille: älä ota sitä pahakses pojasta ja palkkapiiastas: kaikki mitä Saara sinulle sanoo, niin kuule häntä: sillä Isaakissa pitää sinulle siemen kutsuttaman.

13 Minä teen myös piikas pojan (suureksi) kansaksi; että hän sinun siemenes on.

14 Niin nousi Abraham aamulla varhain, ja otti leipiä ja vesileilin; ja antoi Hagarille, ja pani hänen selkäänsä, ja (antoi hänelle) pojan, ja laski hänen menemään. Ja hän meni matkaansa, ja eksyi BerSaban korvessa.

15 Koska vesi oli loppunut leilistä, heitti hän pojan puun alle.

16 Ja meni pois, ja istui hänen kohdallensa taamma, liki joutsen kantamalle; sillä hän sanoi: en minä voi nähdä pojan kuolemaa. Ja hän istui hänen kohdallensa, korotti äänensä ja itki.

17 Ja Jumala kuuli pojan äänen, ja Jumalan enkeli huusi Hagaria taivaasta, ja sanoi hänelle: mikä sinun on, Hagar? älä pelkää; sillä Jumala on kuullut pojan äänen, kussa hän makaa.

18 Nouse, ota poika, ja tue häntä kädelläs: sillä minä teen hänen suureksi kansaksi.

19 Ja Jumala avasi hänen silmänsä, että hän näki vesikaivon; niin hän meni ja täytti leilin vedellä, ja antoi pojan juoda.

20 Ja Jumala oli pojan kanssa, ja hän kasvoi; ja asui korvessa, ja tuli tarkaksi joutsimieheksi.

21 Ja asui Paranin korvessa; ja hänen äitinsä otti hänelle emännän Egyptin maalta.

22 Sillä ajalla puhui Abimelek ja hänen sotapäämiehensä Phikol Abrahamille, sanoen: Jumala on sinun kanssas kaikissa mitä sinä teet.

23 Niin vanno nyt minulle tässä Jumalan kautta, ettes ole minulle, ja minun pojalleni, ja poikanipojalle petollinen; vaan sen laupiuden jälkeen, jonka minä tein sinun kanssas, tee sinä myös minun kanssani, ja sen maan kanssa, jossa sinä olet muukalainen.

24 Niin sanoi Abraham: minä vannon.

25 Ja Abraham nuhteli Abimelekiä, sen vesikaivon tähden, kun Abimelekin palveliat olivat väkivallalla ottaneet.

26 Ja Abimelek sanoi: en ole minä tietänyt kuka sen teki; etkä sinä ilmoittanut minulle; enkä minä sitä ole ennen kuullut, kuin tänä päivänä.

27 Niin otti Abraham lampaita ja karjaa, ja antoi Abimelekille; ja he tekivät molemmat liiton keskenänsä.

28 Ja Abraham asetti seitsemän karitsaa laumasta erinänsä.

29 Ja Abimelek sanoi Abrahamille: mihinkä ne seitsemän karitsaa, jotkas olet asettanut erinänsä?

30 Hän vastasi: nämät seitsemän karitsaa pitää sinun ottaman minun kädestäni, todistukseksi minulle, että minä olen tämän kaivon kaivanut.

31 Sentähden kutsui hän sen sian BerSaba: sillä siinä he molemmat vannoivat keskenänsä.

32 Ja niin he tekivät liiton BerSabassa. Ja Abimelek nousi ja Phikol hänen sotapäämiehensä, ja palasivat Philistealaisten maalle.

33 Ja Abraham istutti puita BerSabassa; ja saarnasi siinä Herran ijankaikkisen Jumalan nimestä.

34 Ja oli muukalainen Philistealaisten maalla kauvan aikaa.

   


SWORD version by Tero Favorin (tero at favorin dot com)

From Swedenborg's Works

 

Arcana Coelestia #2654

Study this Passage

  
/ 10837  
  

2654. 'Mocking' means not in agreement with or favourably disposed towards the Divine Rational. This becomes clear from the meaning of 'mocking' as the product of an affection contrary to that which is not in agreement with or favourably disposed towards oneself. In the previous verse it was said that 'the boy grew and was weaned' and that 'Abraham made a great feast when he weaned Isaac', the meaning of which was that when the Lord's rational was made Divine the rational that existed first was separated. There now follows immediately therefore a reference to the son of Hagar the Egyptian, who is used to mean that first rational, as has been shown in the explanation of Chapter 16 where Ishmael and Hagar are the subject. From this it is also evident that the details in the internal sense follow, linked together in a continuous chain.

[2] But as regards the Lord's first rational, because it was born as with any other, that is to say, by means of knowledge and cognitions, it was inevitably immersed in appearances of truth, which are not in themselves truths, as may become clear from what has been presented in 1911, 1936, 2196, 2203, 2209, 2519. And because it was immersed in appearances of truth, truths devoid of appearances, as Divine truths are, were not able to agree with it nor to be favourably disposed towards it, not only because that rational can have no grasp of them but also because they are opposed to it. Let the following examples illustrate the matter:

[3] The human rational - that is to say, the rational formed from images of worldly things received through the senses, and later on from images of things analogous to actual worldly ones, such as are received from factual knowledge and from cognitions - virtually laughs or mocks if it is told that it does not live of itself but only appears to itself to do so. It likewise laughs if it is told that the less anyone believes that he lives of himself, the more he is truly living, that is, the more wise and intelligent he is, and the more blessed and happy. And it also laughs if it is told that that life is the life which angels possess, especially those who are celestial and are inmost or nearest to the Lord; for these know that nobody except Jehovah alone, that is, the Lord, lives of himself.

[4] This rational would also mock if it were told that it has nothing of its own, and that its possessing anything of its own is an illusion or an appearance. Still more would it mock if it were told that the more it is subject to the illusion that it possesses anything of its own the less it in fact possesses, and vice versa. It would likewise mock if it were told that whatever it thinks and does from what is its own is evil, even though it was good [in its effect], and if it were told that it has no wisdom until it believes and perceives that all evil comes from hell and all good from the Lord. This is a conviction, indeed a perception, that exists in all angels, yet they possess selfhood or a proprium in fuller measure than all others. But they realize and perceive that their selfhood comes from the Lord, even though it seems to be completely their own.

[5] This rational would again mock if it were told that in heaven the greatest are those who are least; that the wisest are those who believe and perceive that they themselves are the least wise; that the happiest are those who wish the greatest happiness to others and the least to themselves; that heaven consists in wishing to be below everyone else, but hell in wishing to be above everyone else; and that consequently the glory of heaven does not hold within it anything at all of that which the glory of the world holds.

[6] This rational would similarly mock if it were told that in the next life space and time do not exist at all but states in accordance with which there are appearances of space and time, and that life becomes more heavenly the further removed it is from the things that belong to space and time and the closer it comes to that which is eternal - for that which is eternal has absolutely nothing within it that is received from the notion of time or anything analogous to it. In the same way would the rational mock at countless other things it could be told.

[7] The Lord saw that such things were present in the merely human rational and that this rational therefore mocked Divine things. He did so from the Divine spiritual, which is meant by the words 'Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian', 2651, 2652. The fact that a person is able from within to have insight into the things residing with him that are below is well known from experience to those who have perception, and also to those who have conscience, for they see clearly enough to reproach themselves for what they think. This exemplifies how regenerate persons are able to see what their rational prior to regeneration is like. In man's case however such perception is received from the Lord, but in the Lord's case it was Self-derived.

  
/ 10837  
  

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