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1 Mose 13

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1 Also zog Abram herauf aus Ägypten mit seinem Weibe und mit allem, das er hatte, und Lot auch mit ihm, gegen den Mittag.

2 Abram aber war sehr reich von Vieh, Silber und Gold.

3 Und er zog immer fort von Mittag bis gen Bethel, an die Stätte da am ersten seine Hütte war, zwischen Bethel und Ai,

4 eben an den Ort, da er vorhin den Altar gemacht hatte. Und er predigte allda den Namen des HERRN.

5 Lot aber, der mit Abram zog, der hatte auch Schafe und Rinder und Hütten.

6 Und das Land mochte es nicht ertragen, daß sie beieinander wohneten; denn ihre Habe war groß, und konnten nicht beieinander wohnen.

7 Und war immer Zank zwischen den Hirten über Abrams Vieh und zwischen den Hirten über Lots Vieh. So wohneten auch zu der Zeit die Kanaaniter und Pheresiter im Lande.

8 Da sprach Abram zu Lot: Lieber, laß nicht Zank sein zwischen mir und dir und zwischen meinen und deinen Hirten; denn wir sind Gebrüder.

9 Stehet dir nicht alles Land offen? Lieber, scheide dich von mir! Willst du zur Linken, so will ich zur Rechten; oder willst du zur Rechten, so will ich zur Linken.

10 Da hub Lot seine Augen auf und besah die ganze Gegend am Jordan. Denn ehe der HERR Sodoma und Gomorrha verderbete, war sie wasserreich, bis man gen Zoar kommt, als ein Garten des HERRN, gleichwie Ägyptenland.

11 Da erwählete ihm Lot die ganze Gegend am Jordan und zog gegen Morgen. Also schied sich ein Bruder von dem andern,

12 daß Abram wohnete im Lande Kanaan und Lot in den Städten der selben Gegend; und setzte seine Hütten gen Sodom.

13 Aber die Leute zu Sodom waren böse und sündigten sehr wider den HERRN.

14 Da nun Lot sich von Abram geschieden hatte, sprach der HERR zu Abram: Hebe deine Augen auf und siehe von der Stätte an, da du wohnest, gegen Mitternacht, gegen den Mittag, gegen den Morgen und gegen den Abend.

15 Denn alle das Land, das du siehest, will ich dir geben und deinem Samen ewiglich.

16 Und will deinen Samen machen wie den Staub auf Erden. Kann ein Mensch den Staub auf Erden zählen, der wird auch deinen Samen zählen

17 Darum so mach dich auf und zeuch durch das Land in die Länge und Breite; denn dir will ich's geben.

18 Also erhub Abram seine Hütten, kam und wohnete im Hain Mamre; der zu Hebron ist, und bauete daselbst dem HERRN einen Altar.

   

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Arcana Coelestia #1603

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1603. 'After Lot had been separated from him' means when the desires of the External Man had been removed so that they did not obstruct. This is clear from the representation of 'Lot' as the External Man, and from what has been said already about his being separated, that is, those things that would cause obstruction. When these had been removed the Internal Man, or Jehovah, acted as one with the External Man, or the Lord's Human Essence. It is the external things that disagree - these alone - which have been spoken of already, that obstruct and so prevent the internal man, when operating into the external, from making it one with itself. The external man is no more than a kind of implement or organ, and does not in itself possess any life at all. From the internal man however it can receive life, and then it seems as though the external man does possess life from itself.

[2] With the Lord however after He had cast out hereditary evil and so purified the organic elements of the Human Essence, these too received life so that the Lord, who was already Life as regards the internal Man, became Life as regards the External Man as well. This is what 'glorification' means in John,

Jesus said, Now is the Son of Man glorified, and God glorified in Him. If God is glorified in Him, God will also glorify Him in Himself, and will glorify Him at once. John 13:31-32.

In the same gospel,

Father, the hour has come. Glorify Your Son, that Your Son also may glorify You. Now therefore, Father, glorify Me in Your Own Self with the glory which I had with You before the world was. John 17:1, 5.

In the same gospel,

Jesus said, Father, glorify Your name. A voice therefore came from heaven, I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again. John 12:8.

  
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Genesis 13

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1 Abram went up out of Egypt: he, his wife, all that he had, and Lot with him, into the South.

2 Abram was very rich in livestock, in silver, and in gold.

3 He went on his journeys from the South even to Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai,

4 to the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first. There Abram called on the name of Yahweh.

5 Lot also, who went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents.

6 The land was not able to bear them, that they might live together: for their substance was great, so that they could not live together.

7 There was a strife between the herdsmen of Abram's livestock and the herdsmen of Lot's livestock: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite lived in the land at that time.

8 Abram said to Lot, "Please, let there be no strife between me and you, and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen; for we are relatives.

9 Isn't the whole land before you? Please separate yourself from me. If you go to the left hand, then I will go to the right. Or if you go to the right hand, then I will go to the left."

10 Lot lifted up his eyes, and saw all the plain of the Jordan, that it was well-watered everywhere, before Yahweh destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like the garden of Yahweh, like the land of Egypt, as you go to Zoar.

11 So Lot chose the Plain of the Jordan for himself. Lot traveled east, and they separated themselves the one from the other.

12 Abram lived in the land of Canaan, and Lot lived in the cities of the plain, and moved his tent as far as Sodom.

13 Now the men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked and sinners against Yahweh.

14 Yahweh said to Abram, after Lot was separated from him, "Now, lift up your eyes, and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward,

15 for all the land which you see, I will give to you, and to your offspring forever.

16 I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then your seed may also be numbered.

17 Arise, walk through the land in its length and in its breadth; for I will give it to you."

18 Abram moved his tent, and came and lived by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and built an altar there to Yahweh.