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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 #2861

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2861. That 'so it was, after these events' means the things that had been accomplished in regard to those within the Church is clear from the meaning of 'words' as real things. In the original language real things are called 'words', so that 'after these events' means the things that had been accomplished. The subject in what has gone before, from verse 13 to the present verse, has been the salvation of those who are spiritual by the Lord's Divine Human, and indeed of those who are endowed with good within the Church. These are ones who are able to be truly spiritual because they possess the Word and so the truths of faith. It is by means of the truths of doctrine joined to goodness of life that a person becomes spiritual. Everything spiritual originates in these when joined together. But gentiles outside the Church, because they do not possess the Word nor thus the truths of faith as long as they are in the world, even though the good of charity exists with them, are not truly spiritual until they have been taught the truths of faith. And because most gentiles in the world are not able to be taught, those who have led charitable and obedient lives one with another are, in the Lord's providence and mercy, taught in the next life. At that time they accept the truths of faith without difficulty and become spiritual. For such is the state and condition of gentiles in the next life, see 2589-2604.

[2] Since those within the Church who are saved by the Lord's Divine Human have been the subject in what has gone before, the subject in what follows from here to the end of the chapter is therefore those outside the Church who are saved. These are meant by the sons who were born to Nahor, Abraham's brother, by Milkah his wife and by Reumah his concubine. This also follows in the sequence of thought. Anyone who is unacquainted with the internal sense of the Word would imagine that these words merely presented the family-tree of the house of Terah, given on account of Rebekah, who became the wife of Isaac, and also on account of Bethuel, whose two granddaughters, Leah and Rachel, became the wives of Jacob. But in fact, as has often been stated and shown, all names in the Word mean real things, 1224, 1264, 1876, 1888. And unless they meant real things the Word would not be Divine but worldly. From this it may also become clear that the words which follow have regard in the train of thought to the Lord's spiritual Church, but that Church as it exists among gentiles. It was traced back through Nahor, Abraham's brother, so as to mean those who exist in a brotherly relationship by virtue of good, as shown below in 2863.

  
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