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Genesis 35

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1 εἶπον-VBI-AAI3S δέ-X ὁ- A--NSM θεός-N2--NSM πρός-P *ἰακώβ-N---ASM ἀναἵστημι-VH--AAPNSM ἀναβαίνω-VZ--AAD2S εἰς-P ὁ- A--ASM τόπος-N2--ASM *βαιθηλ-N----S καί-C οἰκέω-V2--PAD2S ἐκεῖ-D καί-C ποιέω-VA--AAD2S ἐκεῖ-D θυσιαστήριον-N2N-ASN ὁ- A--DSM θεός-N2--DSM ὁ- A--DSM ὁράω-VV--APPDSM σύ- P--DS ἐν-P ὁ- A--DSN ἀποδιδράσκω-V1--PAN σύ- P--AS ἀπό-P πρόσωπον-N2N-GSN *ησαυ-N---GSM ὁ- A--GSM ἀδελφός-N2--GSM σύ- P--GS

2 εἶπον-VBI-AAI3S δέ-X *ἰακώβ-N---NSM ὁ- A--DSM οἶκος-N2--DSM αὐτός- D--GSM καί-C πᾶς-A3--DPM ὁ- A--DPM μετά-P αὐτός- D--GSM αἴρω-VA--AAD2P ὁ- A--APM θεός-N2--APM ὁ- A--APM ἀλλότριος-A1A-APM ὁ- A--APM μετά-P σύ- P--GP ἐκ-P μέσος-A1--GSM σύ- P--GP καί-C καθαρίζω-VA--AMD2P καί-C ἀλλάσσω-VA--AAD2P ὁ- A--APF στολή-N1--APF σύ- P--GP

3 καί-C ἀναἵστημι-VH--AAPNPM ἀναβαίνω-VZ--AAS1P εἰς-P *βαιθηλ-N---AS καί-C ποιέω-VA--AAS1P ἐκεῖ-D θυσιαστήριον-N2N-ASN ὁ- A--DSM θεός-N2--DSM ὁ- A--DSM ἐπιἀκούω-VA--AAPDSM ἐγώ- P--DS ἐν-P ἡμέρα-N1A-DSF θλῖψις-N3I-GSF ὅς- --NSM εἰμί-V9--IAI3S μετά-P ἐγώ- P--GS καί-C διασώζω-VAI-AAI3S ἐγώ- P--AS ἐν-P ὁ- A--DSF ὁδός-N2--DSF ὅς- --DSF πορεύομαι-VCI-API1S

4 καί-C δίδωμι-VAI-AAI3P ὁ- A--DSM *ἰακώβ-N---DSM ὁ- A--APM θεός-N2--APM ὁ- A--APM ἀλλότριος-A1A-APM ὅς- --NPM εἰμί-V9--IAI3P ἐν-P ὁ- A--DPF χείρ-N3--DPF αὐτός- D--GPM καί-C ὁ- A--APN ἐνώτιον-N2N-APN ὁ- A--APN ἐν-P ὁ- A--DPN οὖς-N3T-DPN αὐτός- D--GPM καί-C κατακρύπτω-VAI-AAI3S αὐτός- D--APN *ἰακώβ-N---NSM ὑπό-P ὁ- A--ASF τερέβινθος-N2--ASF ὁ- A--ASF ἐν-P *σικιμος-N2--DPM καί-C ἀποὀλλύω-VAI-AAI3S αὐτός- D--APN ἕως-P ὁ- A--GSF σήμερον-D ἡμέρα-N1A-GSF

5 καί-C ἐκαἴρω-VAI-AAI3S *ἰσραήλ-N---NSM ἐκ-P *σικιμος-N2--DPM καί-C γίγνομαι-VBI-AMI3S φόβος-N2--NSM θεός-N2--GSM ἐπί-P ὁ- A--APF πόλις-N3I-APF ὁ- A--APF κύκλος-N2--DSM αὐτός- D--GPM καί-C οὐ-D καταδιώκω-VAI-AAI3P ὀπίσω-P ὁ- A--GPM υἱός-N2--GPM *ἰσραήλ-N---GSM

6 ἔρχομαι-VBI-AAI3S δέ-X *ἰακώβ-N---NSM εἰς-P *λουζα-N---ASF ὅς- --NSF εἰμί-V9--PAI3S ἐν-P γῆ-N1--DSF *χανααν-N----S ὅς- --NSF εἰμί-V9--PAI3S *βαιθηλ-N---NS αὐτός- D--NSM καί-C πᾶς-A3--NSM ὁ- A--NSM λαός-N2--NSM ὅς- --NSM εἰμί-V9--IAI3S μετά-P αὐτός- D--GSM

7 καί-C οἰκοδομέω-VAI-AAI3S ἐκεῖ-D θυσιαστήριον-N2N-ASN καί-C καλέω-VAI-AAI3S ὁ- A--ASN ὄνομα-N3M-ASN ὁ- A--GSM τόπος-N2--GSM *βαιθηλ-N---AS ἐκεῖ-D γάρ-X ἐπιφαίνω-VDI-API3S αὐτός- D--DSM ὁ- A--NSM θεός-N2--NSM ἐν-P ὁ- A--DSN ἀποδιδράσκω-V1--PAN αὐτός- D--ASM ἀπό-P πρόσωπον-N2N-GSN *ησαυ-N---GSM ὁ- A--GSM ἀδελφός-N2--GSM αὐτός- D--GSM

8 ἀποθνήσκω-VBI-AAI3S δέ-X *δεββωρα-N---NSF ὁ- A--NSF τροφός-N2--NSF *ρεβεκκα-N---GSF κατώ-P *βαιθηλ-N---GS ὑπό-P ὁ- A--ASF βάλανος-N2--ASF καί-C καλέω-VAI-AAI3S *ἰακώβ-N---NSM ὁ- A--ASN ὄνομα-N3M-ASN αὐτός- D--GSF *βάλανος-N2--NSF πένθος-N3E-GSN

9 ὁράω-VVI-API3S δέ-X ὁ- A--NSM θεός-N2--NSM *ἰακώβ-N---DSM ἔτι-D ἐν-P *λουζα-N---DS ὅτε-D παραγίγνομαι-VBI-AMI3S ἐκ-P *μεσοποταμία-N1A-GSF ὁ- A--GSF *συρία-N1A-GSF καί-C εὐλογέω-VAI-AAI3S αὐτός- D--ASM ὁ- A--NSM θεός-N2--NSM

10 καί-C εἶπον-VBI-AAI3S αὐτός- D--DSM ὁ- A--NSM θεός-N2--NSM ὁ- A--NSN ὄνομα-N3M-NSN σύ- P--GS *ἰακώβ-N---NSM οὐ-D καλέω-VC--FPI3S ἔτι-D *ἰακώβ-N---NSM ἀλλά-C *ἰσραήλ-N---NSM εἰμί-VF--FMI3S ὁ- A--NSN ὄνομα-N3M-NSN σύ- P--GS

11 εἶπον-VBI-AAI3S δέ-X αὐτός- D--DSM ὁ- A--NSM θεός-N2--NSM ἐγώ- P--NS ὁ- A--NSM θεός-N2--NSM σύ- P--GS αὐξάνω-V1--PMD2S καί-C πληθύνω-V1--PMD2S ἔθνος-N3E-NPN καί-C συναγωγή-N1--NPF ἔθνος-N3E-GPN εἰμί-VF--FMI3P ἐκ-P σύ- P--GS καί-C βασιλεύς-N3V-NPM ἐκ-P ὁ- A--GSF ὀσφύς-N3--GSF σύ- P--GS ἐκἔρχομαι-VF--FMI3P

12 καί-C ὁ- A--ASF γῆ-N1--ASF ὅς- --ASF δίδωμι-VX--XAI1S *αβρααμ-N---DSM καί-C *ισαακ-N---DSM σύ- P--DS δίδωμι-VX--XAI1S αὐτός- D--ASF σύ- P--DS εἰμί-VF--FMI3S καί-C ὁ- A--DSN σπέρμα-N3M-DSN σύ- P--GS μετά-P σύ- P--AS δίδωμι-VF--FAI1S ὁ- A--ASF γῆ-N1--ASF οὗτος- D--ASF

13 ἀναβαίνω-VZI-AAI3S δέ-X ὁ- A--NSM θεός-N2--NSM ἀπό-P αὐτός- D--GSM ἐκ-P ὁ- A--GSM τόπος-N2--GSM οὗ-D λαλέω-VAI-AAI3S μετά-P αὐτός- D--GSM

14 καί-C ἵστημι-VAI-AAI3S *ἰακώβ-N---NSM στήλη-N1--ASF ἐν-P ὁ- A--DSM τόπος-N2--DSM ὅς- --DSM λαλέω-VAI-AAI3S μετά-P αὐτός- D--GSM στήλη-N1--ASF λίθινος-A1--ASF καί-C σπένδω-VAI-AAI3S ἐπί-P αὐτός- D--ASF σπονδή-N1--ASF καί-C ἐπιχέω-V2I-IAI3S ἐπί-P αὐτός- D--ASF ἔλαιον-N2N-ASN

15 καί-C καλέω-VAI-AAI3S *ἰακώβ-N---NSM ὁ- A--ASN ὄνομα-N3M-ASN ὁ- A--GSM τόπος-N2--GSM ἐν-P ὅς- --DSM λαλέω-VAI-AAI3S μετά-P αὐτός- D--GSM ἐκεῖ-D ὁ- A--NSM θεός-N2--NSM *βαιθηλ-N---AS

16 ἀποαἴρω-VA--AAPNSM δέ-X *ἰακώβ-N---NSM ἐκ-P *βαιθηλ-N---GS πήγνυμι-VAI-AAI3S ὁ- A--ASF σκηνή-N1--ASF αὐτός- D--GSM ἐπέκεινα-D ὁ- A--GSM πύργος-N2--GSM *γαδερ-N---GS γίγνομαι-VBI-AMI3S δέ-X ἡνίκα-D ἐγγίζω-VAI-AAI3S *χαβραθα-N---DS εἰς-P γῆ-N1--ASF ἔρχομαι-VB--AAN *εφραθα-N----S τίκτω-VBI-AAI3S *ραχηλ-N---NSF καί-C δυστοκέω-VAI-AAI3S ἐν-P ὁ- A--DSM τοκετός-N2--DSM

17 γίγνομαι-VBI-AMI3S δέ-X ἐν-P ὁ- A--DSM σκληρῶς-D αὐτός- D--ASF τίκτω-V1--PAN εἶπον-VBI-AAI3S αὐτός- D--DSF ὁ- A--NSF μαῖα-N1A-NSF θαρρέω-V2--PAD2S καί-C γάρ-X οὗτος- D--NSM σύ- P--DS εἰμί-V9--PAI3S υἱός-N2--NSM

18 γίγνομαι-VBI-AMI3S δέ-X ἐν-P ὁ- A--DSN ἀποἵημι-V7--PAN αὐτός- D--ASF ὁ- A--ASF ψυχή-N1--ASF ἀποθνήσκω-V1I-IAI3S γάρ-X καλέω-VAI-AAI3S ὁ- A--ASN ὄνομα-N3M-ASN αὐτός- D--GSM *υἱός-N2--NSM ὀδύνη-N1--GSF ἐγώ- P--GS ὁ- A--NSM δέ-X πατήρ-N3--NSM καλέω-VAI-AAI3S αὐτός- D--ASM *βενιαμίν-N---ASM

19 ἀποθνήσκω-VBI-AAI3S δέ-X *ραχηλ-N---NSF καί-C θάπτω-VDI-API3S ἐν-P ὁ- A--DSF ὁδός-N2--DSF *εφραθα-N---GS οὗτος- D--NSF εἰμί-V9--PAI3S *βηθλεεμ-N---NS

20 καί-C ἵστημι-VAI-AAI3S *ἰακώβ-N---NSM στήλη-N1--ASF ἐπί-P ὁ- A--GSN μνημεῖον-N2N-GSN αὐτός- D--GSF οὗτος- D--NSF εἰμί-V9--PAI3S στήλη-N1--NSF μνημεῖον-N2N-GSN *ραχηλ-N---GSF ἕως-P ὁ- A--GSF σήμερον-D ἡμέρα-N1A-GSF

22 γίγνομαι-VBI-AMI3S δέ-X ἡνίκα-D καταοἰκέω-VAI-AAI3S *ἰσραήλ-N---NSM ἐν-P ὁ- A--DSF γῆ-N1--DSF ἐκεῖνος- D--DSF πορεύομαι-VCI-API3S *ρουβην-N---NSM καί-C κοιμάω-VCI-API3S μετά-P *βαλλα-N---GSF ὁ- A--GSF παλλακή-N1--GSF ὁ- A--GSM πατήρ-N3--GSM αὐτός- D--GSM καί-C ἀκούω-VAI-AAI3S *ἰσραήλ-N---NSM καί-C πονηρός-A1A-NSN φαίνω-VDI-API3S ἐναντίον-P αὐτός- D--GSM εἰμί-V9--IAI3P δέ-X ὁ- A--NPM υἱός-N2--NPM *ἰακώβ-N---GSM δώδεκα-M

23 υἱός-N2--NPM *λεια-N---GSF πρωτότοκος-A1B-NSM *ἰακώβ-N---GSM *ρουβην-N---NSM *συμεων-N---NSM *λευί-N---NSM *ἰούδας-N---NSM *ισσαχαρ-N---NSM *ζαβουλων-N---NSM

24 υἱός-N2--NPM δέ-X *ραχηλ-N---GSF *ιωσηφ-N---NSM καί-C *βενιαμίν-N---NSM

25 υἱός-N2--NPM δέ-X *βαλλα-N---GSF παιδίσκη-N1--GSF *ραχηλ-N---GSF *δαν-N---NSM καί-C *νεφθαλι-N---NSM

26 υἱός-N2--NPM δέ-X *ζελφα-N---GSF παιδίσκη-N1--GSF *λεια-N---GSF *γαδ-N---NSM καί-C *ασηρ-N---NSM οὗτος- D--NPM υἱός-N2--NPM *ἰακώβ-N---GSM ὅς- --NPM γίγνομαι-VBI-AMI3P αὐτός- D--DSM ἐν-P *μεσοποταμία-N1A-DSF ὁ- A--GSF *συρία-N1A-GSF

27 ἔρχομαι-VBI-AAI3S δέ-X *ἰακώβ-N---NSM πρός-P *ισαακ-N---ASM ὁ- A--ASM πατήρ-N3--ASM αὐτός- D--GSM εἰς-P *μαμβρη-N---AS εἰς-P πόλις-N3I-ASF ὁ- A--GSN πεδίον-N2N-GSN οὗτος- D--NSF εἰμί-V9--PAI3S *χεβρων-N---NS ἐν-P γῆ-N1--DSF *χανααν-N----S οὗ-D παραοἰκέω-VAI-AAI3S *αβρααμ-N---NSM καί-C *ισαακ-N---NSM

28 γίγνομαι-VBI-AMI3P δέ-X ὁ- A--NPF ἡμέρα-N1A-NPF *ισαακ-N---GSM ὅς- --APF ζάω-VAI-AAI3S ἔτος-N3E-NPN ἑκατόν-M ὀγδοήκοντα-M

29 καί-C ἐκλείπω-VB--AAPNSM ἀποθνήσκω-VBI-AAI3S καί-C προςτίθημι-VCI-API3S πρός-P ὁ- A--ASN γένος-N3E-ASN αὐτός- D--GSM πρεσβύτερος-A1A-NSMC καί-C πλήρης-A3H-NSM ἡμέρα-N1A-GPF καί-C θάπτω-VAI-AAI3P αὐτός- D--ASM *ησαυ-N---NSM καί-C *ἰακώβ-N---NSM ὁ- A--NPM υἱός-N2--NPM αὐτός- D--GSM

   

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Arcana Coelestia #4599

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4599. 'And pitched his tent beyond the tower of Eder' means more interior aspects of this. This is clear from the meaning of 'pitching a tent' as an advance in holiness, in this case towards more interior aspects - 'a tent' meaning holiness, see 414, 1102, 2145, 2152, 3312, 4391; from the meaning of 'beyond the tower' as into more interior aspects, dealt with below; and from the meaning of 'Eder' as the nature of the state, that is to say, the nature of the advance made in holiness towards more interior aspects. This tower possessed that meaning from of old, but because there is no further reference to it in the Word apart from Joshua 15:21, this cannot be proved from parallel passages in the way other names can. The reason 'beyond the tower' means towards more interior aspects is that things which are more interior are expressed as objects that are lofty and high - as mountains, hills, towers, housetops, and the like. The reason for this is that minds which form their ideas from natural objects in the world as perceived through the external senses see things of an interior nature as objects that are higher than others, 2148.

[2] That 'towers' means interior things may also be seen from other places in the Word, as in Isaiah,

My beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill, 1 which he surrounded [with an enclosure] and gathered out the stones, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it. Isaiah 5:1-2.

'A vineyard' stands for the spiritual Church, 'the choicest vine' for spiritual good, 'he built a tower in the midst of it' for the interior aspects of truth. Similarly also in the Lord's parable in Matthew,

A householder planted a vineyard, and set a hedge around it, and dug a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to tenants. Matthew 21:33; Mark 12:1.

[3] In Ezekiel,

The sons of Arvad, and your army, were on your walls round about, and Gammadim were in your towers; they hung their shields on your walls round about; they made perfect your beauty. Ezekiel 27:11.

This refers to Tyre, by which are meant cognitions of good and truth, or people who possess these cognitions. 'Gammadim in its tower' stands for cognitions of interior truth.

[4] In Micah,

Jehovah will reign over them in Mount Zion, from now on and for ever. And you, O tower of the flock, hill of the daughter of Zion, to you will it come, and the former kingdom will return, the kingdom of the daughter of Jerusalem. Micah 4:7-8.

This describes the Lord's celestial kingdom. 'Mount Zion' describes the inmost part of it, which is love to the Lord; 'hill of the daughter of Zion' its immediate derivative, which is mutual love, called in the spiritual sense charity towards the neighbour; 'tower of the flock' describes its interior truths of good. The existence of a spiritual-celestial kingdom from this is meant by 'the kingdom of the daughter of Jerusalem'. In David,

Mount Zion will be glad, the daughters of Judah will be exultant, because of Your judgements. Encompass Zion, and go around her; count up her towers. Psalms 48:11-12.

Here 'towers' stands for interior truths which defend the things that constitute love and charity.

[5] In Luke,

Whoever does not carry his own cross and come after Me cannot be My disciple. For who of you, when he wishes to build a tower, does not first sit down and work out the cost, whether he has the means to complete it? Or what king going to encounter another king in war does not first sit down and take counsel whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand? So every one of you who does not renounce all that is his own cannot be My disciple. Luke 14:27-28, 31, 33.

Anyone who is not acquainted with the internal sense of the Word can only suppose that here the Lord was using comparisons, and that the expressions 'building a tower' and 'going to war' were not used to mean anything more. He does not know that each comparison in the Word has a spiritual meaning, and is representative, and that 'building a tower' means acquiring interior truths to oneself and 'going to war' fighting from those truths. For the subject in this quotation is the temptations undergone by those who belong to the Church and are here called the Lord's disciples. Those temptations are meant by 'his own cross' which each of them has to carry; and the truth that they do not in any way conquer of themselves and from what is their own but from the Lord is meant by 'he who does not renounce all that is his own cannot be My disciple'. This is how these expressions hang together; but if the references to a tower and to war are understood to be simply comparisons without a more interior sense they do not hang together. From this one may see what light flows from the internal sense.

[6] The interiors of those who are governed by self-love and love of the world, and so the falsities from which they fight and from which they reinforce their kind of religion, are also expressed as 'towers' in the contrary sense, as in Isaiah,

The height of men (vir) will be brought low, and Jehovah alone will be exalted on that day, for the day of Jehovah Zebaoth will be against everyone that is lofty and high, and against everyone that is lifted up, and he will be humbled; and against all the cedars of Lebanon that are high and lifted up and against all the oaks of Bashan, and against all high mountains, and against all hills that are lifted up, and against every lofty tower and against every fortified wall. Isaiah 2:11-18.

Here the interior and exterior aspects of those loves are described by cedars, oaks, mountains, hills, a tower, and a wall - interior falsities being described by 'a tower'. Thus interior things are again described by objects that are 'high'. The difference however is this: People who are governed by these - by evils and falsities - believe that they themselves are high and above others, whereas those who are governed by goods and truths believe that they themselves are least and below others, Matthew 20:26-27; Mark 10:44. All the same, goods and truths are described as things that are 'high' because in heaven they are closer to the Most High, that is, to the Lord. Furthermore 'towers' is used in the Word in reference to truths, but 'mountains' to forms of good.

Footnotes:

1. literally, on a horn of a son of oil

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