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Бытие 27

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1 Когда Исаакъ состарјлся, и притупилось зрјніе очей его, тогда онъ призвалъ старшаго сына своего Исава, и сказалъ ему: сынъ мой! сей отвјтствовалъ: вотъ я!

2 Онъ продолжалъ: вотъ я состарјлся. не знаю дня смерти моей.

3 Итакъ возьми теперь орудія твои, колчанъ твой, и лукъ твой, поди въ поле и налови мнј дичи,

4 и приготовь мнј похлебку, какъ я люблю, и принеси мнј јсть, дабы благословила тебя душа моя, прежде нежели я умру.

5 Ревекка слышала, какъ Исаакъ говорилъ сіе сыну своему Исаву. И когда Исавъ пошель въ поле достать и принесть дичи,

6 тогда Ревекка сказала сыну своему Іакову: вотъ я слышала, какъ отецъ твой говорилъ брату твоему Исаву:

7 принеси мнј дичи, и приготовь мнј похлебку; я појмъ, и благословлю тебя предъ лицемъ Іеговы, предъ смертію моею.

8 Теперь, сынъ мой, послушайся словъ моихъ въ томъ, что я прикажу тебј.

9 Поди въ стадо мелкаго скота, возми мнј оттуда два козленка хорошихъ; и я приготовлю изъ нихъ отцу твоему похлебку, какъ онъ любитъ.

10 А ты понеси отцу твоему, чтобы онъ јлъ, чтобы благословилъ тебя предъ смертію своею.

11 Но Іаковъ сказалъ Ревеккј, матери своей: Исавъ, братъ мой, весь въ волосахъ, а у меня тјло гладко;

12 можетъ статься, ощупаетъ меня отецъ мой, тогда я буду въ глазахъ его обманщикомъ, и наведу на себя проклятіе, а ее благословеніе.

13 На сіе мать отвјчала ему: на мнј пусть будетъ проклятіе твое, сынъ мой, только послушайся словъ моихъ, и поди, принеси мнј.

14 Тогда онъ пошелъ и взялъ, и принесъ матери своей; и мать его сдјлала похлебку, какъ любилъ отецъ его.

15 И взяла Ревекка богатую одежду старшаго сына своего Исава, бывшую у ней въ домј, и одјла въ нее младшаго сына своего Іакова;

16 а руки его и гладкую шею его обложила кожею козлятъ.

17 И дала приготовленную ею похлебку и хлјбъ въ руки Іакову, сыну своему.

18 Онъ вошелъ къ отцу своему, и сказалъ: батюшка! Отецъ же сказалъ: я; кто ты, сынъ мой?

19 Тогда Іаковъ сказалъ отцу своему: я Исавъ, первенецъ твой; я сдјлалъ, какъ ты сказалъ мнј; встань, сядь, и јшь, что я изловилъ, дабы благословила меня душа твоя.

20 Исаакъ спросилъ сына своего: что такъ скоро нашелъ ты, сынъ мой? Онъ отвјчалъ: потому что Іегова Богъ твой послалъ мнј на встрјчу.

21 Потомъ Исаакъ сказалъ Іакову: подойди, я ощупаю тебя, сынъ мой, ты ли сынъ мой Исавъ, или нјтъ?

22 Іаковъ подошелъ къ Исааку, отцу своему; а сей ощупалъ его, и сказалъ: голосъ, голосъ Іакова, а руки, руки Исавовы.

23 И не узналъ его, потому что руки его были, какъ руки Исава, брата его, въ волосахъ, и благословилъ его.

24 Спросилъ вновь: ты ли сынъ мой Исавъ? Онъ отвјчалъ: я.

25 Потомъ Исаакъ сказалъ: подай мнј, я појмъ, что изловилъ ты, сынъ мой, дабы благословила тебя душа моя. Іаковъ подалъ ему, и онъ јлъ; принесъ ему и вина, и онъ пилъ.

26 Наконецъ Исаакъ, отецъ его, сказалъ ему: подойди, поцјлуй меня. сынъ мой.

27 Онъ подошелъ, и поцјловалъ его. И ощутилъ Исаакъ запахъ отъ одежды его, и благословилъ его, говоря: Вотъ, запахъ отъ сына моего, какъ запахъ отъ поля, Которое благословилъ Іегова.

28 Итакъ, да дастъ тебј Богъ росу съ небесъ, и тука земли, И множество хлјба и вина.

29 Да покорствуютъ тебј народы, И да поклонятся тебј племена; Будь господинъ надъ братьями твоими, И да поклонятся тебј сыны матери твоей; Проклинающіе тебя - прокляты; Благословляющіе тебя - благословенны!

30 Какъ скоро совершилъ Исаакъ благословеніе надъ Іаковомъ; и какъ только вышелъ Іаковъ отъ лица Исаака, отца своего, тотчасъ Исавъ, братъ его, пришелъ съ ловли своей.

31 Приготовилъ и онъ похлебку, и принесъ отцу своему, и сказалъ отцу своему: встань, батюшка; појшь, что изловилъ сынъ твой, дабы благословила меня душа твоя.

32 Но Исаакъ, отецъ его, сказалъ ему: кто ты? Онъ отвјчалъ: я сынъ твой, первенецъ твой, Исавъ.

33 Тогда Исаакъ вострепеталъ весьма великимъ трепетомъ, и сказалъ: ктожъ это, который досталъ дичи и принесъ мнј, и я јлъ все, прежде нежели ты пришелъ, и я благословилъ его? Онъ и будетъ благословенъ!

34 Исавъ, выслушавъ слова отца своего, поднялъ громкій и весьма жалостный вопль, и сказалъ отцу своему: родитель мой! благослови и меня!

35 Но онъ сказалъ: братъ твой пришелъ съ хитростію и взялъ благословеніе твое.

36 Тогда Исавъ сказалъ: не даромъ дали ему имя: Іаковъ; онъ запнулъ меня уже два раза; онъ взялъ первородство мое, и вотъ, теперь взялъ благословеніе мое. И говорилъ: неужели ты не оставилъ мнј благословенія?

37 Исаакъ сказалъ въ отвјтъ Исаву: вотъ я поставилъ его господииомъ надъ тобою, и всјхъ братьевъ его отдалъ ему въ рабы; и снабдилъ его хлјбомъ и виномъ: что же я сдјлаю тебј, сынъ мой?

38 Но Исавъ сказалъ отцу своему: неужели, батюшка. одно это у тебя благословеніе? благослови и мена, батюшка! И поднялъ Исавъ вопль, и сталъ плакать.

39 Тогда отвјтствовалъ ему Исаакъ, отецъ его, и сказалъ ему: Вотъ, будетъ въ мјстахъ обитанія твоего тукъ земли, И роса небесная свыше;

40 Но ты будешь жить мечемъ твоимъ, И будешь рабомъ брату твоему; Но будетъ время, что ты, воспротивясь, Свергнешь иго его съ выи твоей.

41 И возненавидјлъ Исавъ Іакова за благословеніе, которымъ благословилъ его отецъ его; и сказалъ Исавъ въ сердцј своемъ: скоро придутъ дни плача по отцј моемъ, тогда я убъю Іакова, брата моего.

42 Когда Ревеккј пересказаиы были слова Исава, старшаго сына ея; то она послала, и призвала младшаго сына своего Іакова, и сказала ему: вотъ, Исавъ, братъ твой, грозитъ убить тебя.

43 Итакъ, сынъ мой, послушайся словъ моихъ; встань, бјги къ Лавану, брату моему, въ Харранъ;

44 и поживи у него нјсколько времени, пока утолится ярость брата твоего,

45 пока пройдетъ гнјвъ брата твоего на тебя, и онъ позабудеть, что ты сдјлалъ ему. Тогда я пошлю, и возьму тебя оттуда. Ибо для чего мнј въ одинъ день лишиться обоихъ васъ?

46 Потомъ Ревекка сказала Исааку: мнј жизнь скучна отъ дочерей Хеттейскихъ; если Іаковъ возьметъ жену изъ дочерей Хеттейскихъ, каковы эти, изъ дочерей этой земли; то что мнј и въ жизни?

   

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Arcana Coelestia #3540

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3540. 'And she put the skins of the kids of the she-goats' means the external truths clothing homeborn good. This is clear from the meaning of 'skins' as external things, dealt with below, and from the meaning of 'the kids of the she-goats', coming as they did from the flock bred within the homestead, as the truths which clothe homeborn good, dealt with in 3518, 3519, where it is also evident what homeborn good is and what truths from that source are. Any good whatever has its own truths, and any truths whatever have their own good. And they must be joined together - good to truths - if anything at all is to exist. The reason why 'skins' means external things is that the skin is the outer covering of an animal to which its exterior parts extend, even as the skin or the cuticles is such with a human being. The latter receives its spiritual meaning from what is representative in the next life, where there are people who belong to the province of the skin. These will in the Lord's Divine mercy be described at the ends of chapters below where the Grand Man will be presented as a separate subject. They are people in whom none but external good and the truths which go with this are present. This is why the skin, human or animal, means things that are external. The same is also evident from the Word, as in Jeremiah,

On account of the greatness of your iniquity your skirts have been uncovered, your heels have suffered violence. Can the Ethiopian change his skin and the leopard its spots? Also are you able to do good, having been taught to do evil? Jeremiah 13:22-23.

Here 'skirts' means external truths, 'heels' the lowest goods - 'the heel' and 'shoes' being the lowest natural things, see 259, 1748. And because those truths and goods, as it is said, spring from evil, they are compared to an 'Ethiopian', who was black, and his 'skin', and also to 'a leopard and its spots'.

[2] In Moses,

If you take your neighbour's clothing as a pledge you shall restore it to him before the sun goes down; for this is his only covering; it is his clothing for his skin, in which he will lie down. Exodus 22:26-27.

Inasmuch as all the laws contained in the Word, including civil and judicial ones, have a correspondence with laws in heaven concerning what is good and true, and from this correspondence came to be laid down, so it was with the law just quoted. For why else would it have ever been laid down that they were to restore clothing that had been pledged before the sun went down, and why else is it said that 'it is his clothing for his skin, in which he lies down'? The correspondence is evident from the internal sense, which is that people were not to cheat their neighbour of external truths, which are the matters of doctrine by which they conduct their lives, and also religious observances - 'clothing' meaning such truths, see 297, 1073, 2576, and 'the sun' the good of love or of life that ensues from those truths, 1529, 1530, 2441, 2495. The prevention of that good from perishing is meant by the statement about the restoration of the pledge before the sun went down. And since the things laid down in those laws are the external coverings of interior things, or the outermost aspects of these, the words 'his clothing for his skin in which he lies down' are used.

[3] Because 'skins' meant external things it was commanded that there should be for the tent a covering made of red ram skins and over that a covering of badger skins, Exodus 26:14. For the tent was representative of the three heavens, and so of the celestial and spiritual things of the Lord's kingdom. The curtains enveloping it represented natural things, which are external, 3478; and these are the ram skins and the badger skins. And since external things are those which cover internal, or natural things are those which cover spiritual and celestial, in the way that the body does the soul, that command was therefore given. It was for a like reason commanded that when the camp was on the move Aaron and his sons were to cover the ark of the testimony with the veil and were to place a badger-skin covering over it. And over the table and what was on it they were to spread a twice-dyed scarlet cloth and then cover that with a badger-skin covering. They were likewise required to place the lampstand and all its vessels under a covering made of badger skin - also all the vessels for ministering they were to place under a violet cloth, and then cover them with a badger-skin covering, Numbers 4:5-6, 8, 10-12. Anyone who thinks about the Word in a devout way may see that Divine things were represented by all these objects, such as the ark, the table, the lampstand, and the vessels for ministering, also the coverings of twice-dyed scarlet and of violet, as well as the coverings of badger skin, and that these objects represented Divine things contained within external ones.

[4] Because the prophets represented those who teach, and therefore represented teaching from the Word concerning what is good and true, 2534; and because Elijah represented the Word itself, 2762, as also did John, who for that reason is called the Elijah who is to come, Matthew 17:10-13; and in order that these might represent the nature of the Word in its external form, that is, in the letter,

Elijah wore a skin girdle around his loins. 2 Kings 1:8. And John had a garment of camel hair and a skin girdle around his waist. Matthew 3:4.

Because animal 'skin' and human 'skin' means external things, which in relation to spiritual and celestial are natural things, and because it was customary in the Ancient Church to speak and to write by means of meaningful signs, reference is also made to both types of skin, and with the same meaning, in Job, a book of the Ancient Church. This becomes clear from a number of places in that book, including the following,

I know my Redeemer; He is alive; and at the last He will rise above the dust; and afterwards these things will be encompassed by my skin, and out of my flesh shall I see God. Job 19:25-26.

'Encompassed by skin' stands for the natural as it exists with someone after he has died, dealt with in 3539. 'Out of one's flesh seeing God' is doing so from a proprium made alive. For the proprium is meant by 'flesh', see 148, 149, 780; and the Book of Job is a book of the Ancient Church, a fact which is evident, as has been stated, from its style which draws on representatives and meaningful signs. It is not however one of the books called the Law and the Prophets, the reason being that it has no internal sense in which the one subject is the Lord and His kingdom. For it is this alone that determines whether any book is a Book of the true Word.

  
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