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1 이 후에 여호와의 말씀이 이상 중에 아브람에게 임하여 가라사대 아브람아 두려워 말라! 나는 너의 방패요, 너의 지극히 큰 상급이니라

2 아브람이 가로되 `주 여호와여 무엇을 내게 주시려나이까 ? 나는 무자하오니 나의 상속자는 이 다메섹 엘리에셀이니이다'

3 아브람이 또 가로되 `주께서 내게 씨를 아니주셨으니 내 집에서 길리운 자가 나의 후사가 될 것이니이다'

4 여호와의 말씀이 그에게 임하여 가라사대 그 사람은 너의 후사가 아니라 네 몸에서 날 자가 네 후사가 되리라 하시고

5 그를 이끌고 밖으로 나가 가라사대 하늘을 우러러 뭇 별을 셀 수 있나 보라 ! 또 그에게 이르시되 네 자손이 이와 같으리라

6 아브람이 여호와를 믿으니 여호와께서 이를 그의 의로 여기시고

7 또 그에게 이르시되 나는 이 땅을 네게 주어 업을 삼게 하려고 너를 갈대아 우르에서 이끌어 낸 여호와로라 !

8 그가 가로되 `주, 여호와여 ! 내가 이 땅으로 업을 삼을 줄을 무엇로 알리이까 ?'

9 여호와께서 그에게 이르시되 나를 위하여 삼년 된 암소와, 삼년 된 암염소와, 삼년 된 수양과, 산비둘기와, 집비둘기 새끼를 취할지니라

10 아브람이 그 모든 것을 취하여 그 중간을 쪼개고 그 쪼갠 것을 마주 대하여 놓고 그 새는 쪼개지 아니하였으며

11 솔개가 그 사체위에 내릴 때에는 아브람이 쫓았더라

12 해질 때에 아브람이 깊이 잠든 중에 캄캄함이 임하므로 심히 두려워하더니

13 여호와께서 아브람에게 이르시되 너는 정녕히 알라 네 자손이 이방에서 객이 되어 그들을 섬기겠고 그들은 사백 년 동안 네 자손을 괴롭게 하리니

14 그 섬기는 나라를 내가 징치할지며 그 후에 네 자손이 큰 재물을 이끌고 나오리라

15 너는 장수하다가 평안히 조상에게로 돌아가 장사될 것이요

16 네 자손은 사 대만에 이 땅으로 돌아 오리니 이는 아모리 족속의 죄악이 아직 관영치 아니함이니라 하시더니

17 해가 져서 어둘 때에 연기 나는 풀무가 보이며 타는 횃불이 쪼갠 고기 사이로 지나더라

18 그 날에 여호와께서 아브람으로 더불어 언약을 세워 가라사대 내가 이땅을 애굽강에서부터 그 큰 강 유브라데까지 네 자손에게 주노니

19 곧 겐 족속과, 그니스 족속과, 갓몬 족속과,

20 헷 족속과, 브리스 족속과, 르바 족속과,

21 아모리 족속과, 가나안 족속과, 기르가스 족속과, 여부스 족속의 땅이니라 하셨더라

   

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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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