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Бытие 22

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1 И было, послј сихъ происшествій, что Богъ искушалъ Авраама, и сказалъ ему: Авраамъ! онъ отвјтствовалъ: вотъ я.

2 Богъ сказалъ: возми сына твоего, единственнаго твоего, котораго ты любишь, Исаака; и поди въ землю Моріа, и тамъ принеси его во всесожженіе, на одной изъ горъ, которую Я укажу тебј.

3 Авраамъ всталъ рано, осјдлалъ осла своего, взялъ съ собою двоихъ изъ рабовь своихъ, и Исаака, сына своего; накололъ дровъ для всесожженія и вставъ, пошелъ на мјсто, которое указалъ ему Богъ.

4 На третій день Авраамъ, возведши очи свои, увидјлъ мјсто издалека.

5 Тогда Авраамъ сказалъ рабамъ своимъ: останьтесь здјсь съ осломъ; а я и сынъ пойдемъ туда, и поклонясь возвратимся къ вамъ.

6 И взялъ Авраамъ дрова для всесожженія, и возложилъ на Исаака, сына своего; а самъ взялъ въ руки огонь и ножъ, и пошли оба вмјстј.

7 И началъ Исаакъ говорить Аврааму, отцу своему, и сказалъ: батюшка! Онъ отвјчалъ: что сынъ мой? Онъ сказалъ: вотъ огонь и дрова, гдј же агнецъ во всесожженіе?

8 Авраамъ сказалъ: Богъ усмотритъ для Себя агнца во всесожжеиіе, сынъ мой. И шли далје оба вмјстј.

9 И когда они пришли на мјсто, которое указалъ ему Богъ: тогда Авраамъ устроилъ тамъ жертвенникъ, разложилъ дрова, и, связавъ сына своего Исаака, положилъ его на жертвенникъ поверхъ дровъ.

10 И простеръ Авраамъ руку свою и взялъ ножъ, чтобы заколоть сына своего.

11 Тогда Ангелъ Іеговы воззвалъ къ нему съ небесъ, и сказалъ: Авраамъ! Авраамъ! Онъ сказалъ: вотъ я.

12 Ангелъ сказалъ: не поднимай руки твоей на отрока, и не дјлай надъ нимъ ничего; ибо теперь Я знаю, что боишься Бога, когда ты не пожалјлъ сына твоего, единственнаго твоего, для Меня.

13 И возвелъ Авраамъ очи свои и увидјлъ: и вотъ назади овенъ, запутавшійся въ чащј рогами своими. Авраамъ пошелъ, взялъ овна, и принесъ его во всесожженіе вмјсто сына своего.

14 И назвалъ Авраамъ имя мјсту тому: Іегова-Ире (Господъ усмотритъ). Посему и нынј говорится: на горј Іеговы усмотрится.

15 Потомъ вторично воззвалъ къ Аврааму Ангелъ Іеговы съ небесъ,

16 и сказалъ: Мною клянусь, говоритъ Іегова, что поелику ты сдјлалъ сіе дјло, и не пожалјлъ сына твоего, единственнаго твоего:

17 то Я благословляя благословлю тебя, и умножая умножу сјмя твое, какъ звјзды небесныя, и какъ песокъ на берегу моря; и наслјдуетъ сјмя твое города враговъ своихъ,

18 и благословятся въ сјмени твоемъ всј народы земные; за то, что ты послушался гласа Моего.

19 И возвратился Авраамъ къ рабамъ своимъ, и встали, и пошли вмјстј въ Беэр-Шаву; и жилъ Авраамъ въ Беэр-Шавј.

20 Послј сихъ происшествій Аврааму возвјстили и сказали: вотъ и Милка родила Нахору, брату твоему, сыновъ:

21 Уца, первенца его, Вуза, брата сему, Кемуила, отца Арамова,

22 Кеседа, Хазо, Пилдаша, Идлафа и Ваѕуила,

23 Отъ Ваѕуила родилась Ревекка. Восьмерыхъ сихъ родила Милка Нахору, брату Авраамову.

24 И наложница его, именемъ Реума, также родила Теваха, Гахама, Тахаша и Мааху.

   

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Arcana Coelestia #2795

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2795. 'And return to you' means conjunction after that. This too becomes clear without explanation. The subject of this chapter being the Lord's severest and inmost temptations, all the states are described which He assumed when undergoing those temptations. The first state is described in verse 3, the second state in the present verse, the third state in the verse that follows next and in all the rest after that. But these states cannot possibly be explained to the ordinary mind unless many other things are known first, not only about the Lord's Divine which is represented here by 'Abraham' but also about His Divine Human which is represented by 'Isaac', and about the state - when He went into and underwent the conflicts brought about by temptations - of this Rational, meant here by 'the boy'. In addition to this one has to know what the first rational was, and the nature of it, as well as the natural that went with that rational, and also the nature of the state when one was joined to the other, and the nature of the state when they were more or less separated. What is more, one needs to know many things regarding temptations, such as what exterior and interior temptations are, and from this what were the inmost and severest temptations that were the Lord's, which are the subject in this chapter. As long as all these matters remain unknown the things within this verse cannot possibly be described intelligibly. And if they were described, even in the clearest possible manner, they would still appear obscure. To angels, since they dwell in the light of heaven flowing from the Lord, all these matters are plain and clear, and indeed blessed because these matters are supremely heavenly.

[2] This alone need be said here, that the Lord could not possibly be tempted when He was one with the Divine itself, for the Divine is infinitely above all temptation. But He could experience temptation as to His human. This is the reason why, when He was to undergo the severest and inmost temptations, He joined the first human to Himself, that is to say, the rational and the natural degrees of it, as described in verse 3, and after that separated Himself from them, as stated in the present verse, though still retaining certain traits through which He could be tempted. It is for this reason that here Isaac is not spoken of as 'my son' but as 'the boy', an expression used to mean the Divine Rational in that particular state, that is to say, in a state of truth, equipped for the severest and inmost conflicts brought about by temptations, see 2793. The truth that neither the Divine itself nor the Divine Human could be tempted may become clear to anyone merely from the fact that not even angels can approach the Divine, still less the spirits who bring temptations about, and least of all the hells. From all this it is evident why the Lord came into the world and took on the human state of being with all its weakness, for by doing so He was able to be tempted as regards the human and by means of temptations to suppress the hells. He was able to restore every single thing to obedience and to order, and to save the human race which had removed itself so far away from the Supreme Divine.

  
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