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Бытие 33

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1 И возвелъ Іаковъ очи свои, и видитъ, и вотъ идетъ Исавъ, и съ нимъ четыреста человјкъ. Тогда онъ раздјлилъ дјтей - Ліи, Рахили и двумъ служанкамъ;

2 и поставилъ служанокъ и дјтей ихъ впереди, Лію и дјтей ея за нпми, а Рахиль и Іосифа позади.

3 А самъ пошелъ передъ ними, и поклонился до земли семь разъ, подходя къ брату своему.

4 Исавъ побјжалъ ему на встрјчу, обнялъ его, бросился ему на шею, и цјловалъ его, и плакали.

5 И возведши очи свои, увидјдъ женъ и дјтей, и спросидъ: кто это у тебя? Іаковъ отвјчалъ: дјти, которыхъ Богъ даровалъ рабу твоему.

6 И подошли служанки, сами и дјти ихъ, и поклонились.

7 Потомъ подошла Лія, и дјти ея, и поклонились. Наконецъ подошли Іосифъ и Рахиль и поклонились.

8 Еще спросилъ: что значитъ у тебя все это ополченіе, съ которымъ я встрјтился? онъ отвјчалъ: дабы обрјсти благодать въ очахъ господина моего.

9 Исавъ сказалъ: у меня много, братецъ; пусть твое - у тебя.

10 Но Іаковъ сказалъ: нјтъ, сдјлай милость; если я обрјлъ благоволеніе въ очахъ твоихъ, прими даръ мой отъ руки моей; ибо я увидјлъ лице твое, какъ бы кто увидјлъ лице Божіе, и ты принялъ меня милостиво.

11 Прими благословеніе мое, которое представлено тебј; потому что Богъ даровалъ мнј, и есть у меня все. И принудилъ его, и онъ взялъ.

12 Исавъ сказалъ: поднимемся в пойдемъ; и я пойду предъ тобою.

13 Онъ отвјчалъ ему: господинъ мой знаетъ, что дјти мои молоды, а мелкій и крупный скотъ дойный; если погнать его одинъ день, то помретъ весь скотъ.

14 Пусть господинъ мой пойдетъ впереди раба своего, а я пойду тихимъ шагомъ своимъ, какъ пойдетъ скотъ, который передо мною, и какъ пойдутъ дјти; и приду къ господину моему въ Сеиръ.

15 Исавъ сказалъ: такъ я оставлю съ тобою нјсколько изъ людей, которые при мнј. Онъ отвјчалъ: на что это? только бы мнј обрјсти благоволеніе въ очахъ господина моего!

16 И возвратился Исавъ въ тотъ же день путемъ своимъ въ Сеиръ.

17 А Іаковъ пошелъ въ Сюкоѕъ, и построилъ себј домъ, и для скота своего сдјлалъ дворы. Отъ сего дано имя мјсту: Сюкоѕъ.

18 Іаковъ, пришедши изъ Падан-Арама, въ мирј пришелъ въ городъ Сихемъ, который въ землј Ханаанской, и расположился противъ города.

19 И купилъ часть поля, на которомъ онъ раскинулъ шатеръ свой, у сыновъ Эммора, отца Сихемова, за сто монетъ.

20 И поставилъ тамъ жертвенникъ; и назвалъ его: Богъ крјпкій, Богъ Израилевъ.

   

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Arcana Coelestia #4341

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4341. And with him four hundred men. That this signifies its state, here the state of the conjunction of Divine good with truth in the natural, is because this conjunction is the subject treated of. “Four hundred” in the Word signifies the state and duration of temptation (n. 1847, 2959, 2966); and as all the conjunction of good with truth is effected through temptations, therefore it is a state of temptations which is here meant. (That goods are conjoined with truths through temptations, see n. 2272, 3318; and that temptations come when good begins to act the first part, n. 4248, 4249; and also that the union of the Lord’s Divine essence with His Human essence was effected through temptations, n. 1737)

[2] The good itself which is to be conjoined with truth is not tempted, but the truth. And moreover truth is not tempted by good, but by falsities and evils, and also by fallacies and illusions and the affection of these, which adhere to truths in the natural. For when good flows in, which is effected by an internal way, or through the internal rational man, the ideas of the natural man, formed from the fallacies of the senses and the derivative illusions, cannot endure its approach, for they are in disagreement with it, and hence comes anxiety in the natural, and temptation. These are the things which are described in this chapter in the internal sense by Jacob’s coming into fear and thence into anxiety, and consequently into a state of submission and humiliation, when Esau came with four hundred men; for their conjunction is not effected in any other way. From this it may be seen that by the “four hundred men” is signified a state of temptations; by “four hundred,” this state itself, and by “men,” the rational truths which are conjoined with good when it flows into the natural. (That by “men” are signified intellectual and rational things, may be seen n. 265, 749, 1007, 3134.)

[3] But these things are such as fall into obscurity with man, for the reason that when he is living in the body, the distinction between the rational and the natural does not appear-not at all to those who are not regenerate, and very little even to those who are regenerate. For they do not reflect upon it, nor indeed do they care about it, for the knowledges of the interior things of man have been almost obliterated, and yet in old time these made the all of intelligence with men within the church. These things may however in some degree appear from what has been shown before concerning the rational and its influx into the natural, namely, that the natural is regenerated through the rational (n. 3286, 3288), and that the rational receives truths before the natural (n. 3321, 3368, 3671). These truths, which inflow with good from the rational into the natural, are what in the internal sense are signified by the “four hundred men” who came with Esau.

  
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