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Бытие 20

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1 Авраамъ пошелъ оттуда въ землю полуденную; и сталъ жить между Кадесомъ и между Суромъ; и пришелъ на время въ Гераръ.

2 И сказалъ Авраамъ о Саррј, женј своей: она сестра моя. И послалъ Авимелехъ, царь Герарскій, и взялъ Сарру.

3 И пришелъ Богъ къ Авимелеху ночью во снј, и сказалъ ему: вотъ, ты умрешь за сію женщину, которую ты взялъ; ибо она имјетъ мужа.

4 Впрочемъ Авимелехъ не прикасался къ ней, и сказалъ: Господи! не ужели Ты погубишь и неповинный народъ?

5 Не самъ ли онь сказалъ мнј: она сестра моя? и она сама сказала: онъ братъ мой. Я сдјлалъ это въ простотј сердца и чистыми руками.

6 И сказалъ ему Богъ во снј: и Я знаю, что ты сдјлалъ сіе въ простотј сердца, Я же и удержалъ тебя отъ грјха предо Мною, потому и не допустилъ тебя прикоснуться къ ней.

7 Итакъ, возврати жену мужу: ибо онъ пророкъ, и помолится о тебј, и ты будешь живъ; а если не возвратишь, то знай, что непремјнно умрешь ты, и всј твои.

8 Авимелехъ всталъ рано, и призвалъ всјхъ рабовъ своихъ, и пересказалъ всј слова сіи въ уши ихъ; и сіи люди весьма испугались.

9 И призвалъ Авимелехъ Авраама, и сказалъ ему: что ты съ нами сдјлалъ? чјмъ согрјшилъ я противъ тебя, что ты навелъ было на меня и на царство мое столь великій грјхъ? ты сдјлалъ со мною дјла. какихъ не дјлають.

10 И сказалъ Авимелехъ Аврааму: что ты имјлъ въ виду, когда дјлалъ такое дјло?

11 Авраамъ сказалъ: я подумалъ: можетъ быть, нјтъ страха Божія на мјстј семъ, и убьютъ меня за жену мою.

12 Да она и подлинно сестра мнј; она дочь отца моего, только не дочь матери моей; и сдјлалась моею женою.

13 Итакъ, когда Богъ повелъ меня изъ дома отца моего странствовать, то я сказалъ ей: сдјлай со мною сію милость, въ какое ни придемъ мы мјсто, вездј говори обо мнј: это братъ мой.

14 Тогда Авимелехъ взялъ мјлкаго и крупнаго скота, и рабовъ, и рабынь, и далъ Аврааму; и возвратилъ ему Сарру, жену его.

15 И сказалъ Авимелехъ: вотъ, земля моя предъ тобою; живи, гдј понравится глазамъ твоимъ.

16 А Саррј сказалъ: вотъ, я далъ брату твоему тысячу сиклей серебра; вотъ, это тебј покрывало для очей, предъ всјми находящимися съ тобою, и предъ всјми прочими, чтобы знали тебя.

17 И помолился Авраамъ Богу, и изцјлилъ Богъ Авимелеха, и жену его, и рабынь его, и онј стали рождать.

18 Ибо совсјмъ заключилъ было Іегова всякое чрево въ домј Авимелеха, за Сарру, жену Авраамову.

   

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Arcana Coelestia #2554

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2554. 'They will kill me on account of my wife' means that this being so the celestial things of faith would perish also if they were to think that spiritual truth alone could be joined to celestial good. This is clear from the meaning of 'killing' as perishing, and from the meaning of 'a wife' as spiritual truth joined to celestial good, dealt with in 2507. This is a second reason why the Lord's thought was such - that Divine Good, called celestial good here, is united as by marriage to Divine Truth, called spiritual truth here, 2508. And although Divine Good is united in this manner to Divine Truth alone, it nevertheless flows into lower truths and joins itself to them, but not as by marriage; for it flows into rational truths, which are merely appearances of truth, and joins itself to them. Indeed it flows as well into factual and sensory truths which are little more than illusions and joins itself to these. If it did not do so no one at all could possibly have been saved. For these matters, see Volume One, in 1831, 1832. To enable Divine Good to be joined to rational truths and to factual and sensory truths, and so to enable a person to be saved, was another reason for the Lord's Coming into the world, for unless the Lord's Human had been made Divine, Divine Good could not possibly be joined to those truths. But through Him they are so joined.

[2] In addition to this arcanum, there are many other arcana within these words, 'They will kill me on account of my wife', which mean that such being so the celestial things of faith would perish if men were to think that spiritual truth alone could be joined to celestial good. One arcanum within them is that when people had no respect for spiritual truth, celestial good would thereby perish, for once spiritual truth is rejected celestial good perishes. Another arcanum is that unless it had been declared that they were to worship the Father - though there is no other way to Him except through the Son, and 'he who sees the Son sees the Father', John 14:8-12 - it would not have been accepted. And there are other arcana in them besides these.

  
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