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1 Ja Saaran elinaika oli sata ja seitsemänkolmattakymmentä ajastaikaa: ne olivat Saaran ikävuodet.

2 Ja Saara kuoli Arban kaupungissa, joka (on) Hebron Kanaanin maalla. Niin tuli Abraham murehtimaan Saaraa ja itkemään häntä.

3 Sitte nousi hän kuolleensa tyköä; ja puhui Hetin lapsille sanoen:

4 Minä olen muukalainen ja kuitenkin asuvainen teidän tykönänne, antakaat minulle perintöhauta teidän tykönänne, haudatakseni minun kuolleeni, joka on minun edessäni.

5 Niin vastasivat Hetin lapset Abrahamia, sanoen hänelle:

6 Kuule meitä, rakas herra: sinä olet Jumalan ruhtinas meidän seassamme, hautaa sinun kuollees meidän parhaisiin hautoihimme: ei yksikään meistä sinua kiellä hautaamasta kuolluttas hänen hautaansa.

7 Niin Abraham nousi ja kumarsi itsensä maan kansan edessä, (nimittäin) Hetin lasten edessä.

8 Ja hän puhui heille, sanoen: jos teidän mielenne on, että minä hautaan minun kuolleeni, joka minun edessäni on; niin kuulkaat minua, ja rukoilkaat minun edestäni Ephronia Zoarin poikaa.

9 Että hän antais minulle Makpelan luolan, joka hänellä on, vainionsa perällä: täyden hinnan edestä antakaan sen minulle teidän keskellänne perintöhaudaksi.

10 Sillä Ephron asui Hetin lasten seassa. Niin vastasi Ephron Hetiläinen Abrahamia, Hetin poikain kuullen, kaikkein sisälle ja ulos käyväisten hänen kaupunkinsa portista, sanoen:

11 Ei, minun herrani, vaan kuule minua; vainion minä annan sinulle, ja luolan, joka siinä on, annan minä sinulle: minun kansani lasten nähden annan minä sen sinulle; hautaa kuollees.

12 Abraham kumarsi maan kansan edessä.

13 Ja puhui Ephronille maan kansan kuullen, sanoen: jos sinä minua kuulet: minä annan rahan vainion edestä, ota se minulta, ja minä hautaan minun kuolleeni siihen.

14 Ephron vastasi Abrahamia, sanoen hänelle:

15 Minun herrani, kuule minua: maa maksaa neljäsataa sikliä hopiaa; vaan mitä se on minun ja sinun välilläs? hautaa sinun kuollees.

16 Abraham kuuli Ephronia, ja punnitsi hänelle rahan, jonka hän nimittänyt oli Hetin lasten kuullen: neljäsataa sikliä hopiaa, käypää rahaa.

17 Ja niin vahvistettiin Ephronin vainio, joka Makpelassa on Mamren kohdalla, sekä pelto että luola joka siinä on, ja kaikki puut siinä vainiossa, jotka ympäri kaikissa sen rajoissa ovat.

18 (Kaikki ne tulivat) Abrahamille omaisuudeksi Hetin lasten nähden: kaikkein (nähden), jotka sisällekävivät hänen kaupunkinsa portista.

19 Ja sitte hautasi Abraham emäntänsä Saaran siihen luolaan, joka oli Makpelan vainiossa Mamren kohdalla; se on Hebron Kanaanin maalla:

20 Niin vahvistettiin siis vainio ja luola, joka siinä oli, Abrahamille perintöhaudaksi, Hetin lapsilta.

   


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Arcana Coelestia #3077

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3077. And behold Rebekah came out. That this signifies the affection of truth from doctrinal things, is evident from the representation of Rebekah, as being the truth Divine that was to be conjoined with the Divine good of the rational; but here, before she was betrothed, she puts on the representation of the affection of truth from doctrinal things; for from this comes truth, truth not being truth unless it has life, and its life is affection which is of love. That Rebekah represents the truth Divine that was to be conjoined with the Divine good of the rational, is evident from the several things contained in this chapter in the internal sense, and also from the fact that Isaac represents the Lord’s Divine rational (n. 1893, 2066, 2083, 2630); thus Rebekah, who became wife to Isaac, represents that in the rational which was conjoined as a wife to a husband; and it may be seen that this is Divine truth. For in the same way Abraham represented the Divine good itself, and Sarah his wife the Divine truth itself conjoined with the Divine good (n. 1468, 1901, 2063, 2065, 2904); and it is the same with Isaac and Rebekah, but in the Lord’s Divine Human, namely, in His rational. In general, by a husband in the Word is signified good, and by a wife its truth (n. 1468, 2517). Moreover the essence of all marriage also (that is, conjugial love) is from the Divine marriage of good and truth, and of truth and good, in the the Lord, (n. 2508, 2618, 2728, 2729, 2803). That the affection of truth is from doctrinal things, is because it is said that she “came out,” that is, from the city; and that by a “city” are signified doctrinal things, may be seen above (n. 402, 2451). Moreover truths are from doctrinal things.

  
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Arcana Coelestia #1901

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1901. It may be that I shall be built up by her. That this signifies that in this way the rational could be born, may be seen from the signification of being “built up,” when predicated of generation, and thus without explication. By “Sarai,” as has been said, is signified intellectual truth which has been adjoined as a wife to good. Intellectual truth, which appertains to the inmost, is altogether barren, or like a childless mother, when as yet there is not any rational into which and through which it may inflow; for without the rational as a medium intellectual truth cannot inflow with any truth into the exterior man, as may be seen from the case of little children, who can know nothing whatever of truth until they have been imbued with knowledges; but, as before said, the better and more perfectly they are imbued with knowledges, so much the better and more perfectly can intellectual truth which appertains to the inmost, or to good, be communicated.

[2] This intellectual truth, represented by Sarai, is the spiritual itself which flows in through heaven, and this by an internal way, and with every man; and it continually meets the knowledges that are insinuated by means of the things of sense, and are implanted in the memory. Man is not aware of this intellectual truth because it is too pure to be perceived by a general idea. It is like a kind of light that illuminates the mind, and confers the faculty of knowing, thinking, and understanding. As the rational cannot come into existence except by means of the influx of the intellectual truth represented by Sarai, it stands related to this truth as a son. When the rational is being formed from truths that have been adjoined to good, and still more when it is being formed from the goods from which are truths, it is then a genuine son. Before this it is indeed acknowledged as a son, yet not as a genuine son, but as coming from a handmaid; and still it is adopted, which is the reason why it is here said that she might be built up by her.

  
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