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Бытие 33

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1 Взглянул Иаков и увидел, и вот, идет Исав, и сним четыреста человек. И разделил детей Лии, Рахили и двух служанок.

2 И поставил служанок и детей их впереди, Лию и детей ее за ними, аРахиль и Иосифа позади.

3 А сам пошел пред ними и поклонился до земли семь раз, подходя к брату своему.

4 И побежал Исав к нему навстречу и обнял его, и пал на шею его и целовал его, и плакали.

5 И взглянул и увидел жен и детей и сказал: ктоэто у тебя? Иаков сказал: дети, которых Бог даровал рабу твоему.

6 И подошли служанки и дети их и поклонились;

7 подошла и Лия и дети ее и поклонились; наконец подошли Иосиф и Рахиль и поклонились.

8 И сказал Исав: для чего у тебя это множество, которое я встретил? И сказал Иаков: дабыприобрести благоволение в очах господина моего.

9 Исав сказал: у меня много, брат мой; пусть будет твое у тебя.

10 Иаков сказал: нет, если я приобрел благоволение в очах твоих, прими дар мой от руки моей, ибо я увидел лице твое, как бы кто увидел лицеБожие, и ты был благосклонен ко мне;

11 прими благословение мое, которое я принес тебе, потому что Бог даровал мне, и есть у меня все. И упросил его, и тот взял

12 и сказал: поднимемся и пойдем; и я пойду пред тобою.

13 Иаков сказал ему: господин мой знает, что дети нежны, а мелкий икрупный скот у меня дойный: если погнать его один день,то помрет весь скот;

14 пусть господин мой пойдет впереди раба своего, а япойду медленно, как пойдет скот, который предо мною, и как пойдут дети, и приду к господину моему в Сеир.

15 Исав сказал: оставлю я с тобою несколько из людей, которые при мне. Иаков сказал: к чему это? только бы мне приобрести благоволение в очах господина моего!

16 И возвратился Исав в тот же день путем своим в Сеир.

17 А Иаков двинулся в Сокхоф, и построил себе дом, и для скота своегосделал шалаши. От сего он нарек имя месту: Сокхоф.

18 Иаков, возвратившись из Месопотамии, благополучно пришел в город Сихем, который в земле Ханаанской, и расположился пред городом.

19 И купил часть поля, на котором раскинул шатер свой, у сынов Еммора, отца Сихемова, за сто монет.

20 И поставил там жертвенник, и призвал имя Господа Бога Израилева.

   

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Arcana Coelestia #4248

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4248. 'And four hundred men with him' means its state now, set to take up the first position. This is clear from the meaning of 'four hundred' strictly speaking as temptations and the time these lasted, dealt with in 2959, 2966. This is the state that is meant, as becomes clear from the details that follow, namely that he was exceedingly afraid and was distressed and therefore divided his camp into two, verses 7-8, and also that out of fear he prayed intensely to Jehovah, verses 9-12, and finally wrestled with an angel, by which wrestling is meant temptation, as will be clear from the explanation of that wrestling later on in this chapter. When the state of one who is being regenerated is turned around, that is, when good takes up the first position, temptations arrive. He is unable to undergo them prior to that because he does not as yet possess the cognitions with which he may defend himself and to which he may resort to receive comfort. For this reason also no one undergoes temptations until he reaches adult life, temptations being experiences which unite truths to good, 2272, 3318, 3696, 3928. From this it is evident that 'four hundred men with him' means a state when good is set to take up the first position.

  
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Arcana Coelestia #2966

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2966. 'Four hundred shekels of silver' means the price of redemption, as has been shown above in 2959. But what the price of redemption is will now be stated. Redemption is attributable to the Lord alone, and so also is the price of redemption. Yet the latter may also be spoken of in reference to man's receptivity, though with him the price of redemption is determined by the measure of his receptivity. The price of redemption is the Lord's merit and righteousness acquired through the severest temptations by which He united the Human Essence to the Divine Essence, and the Divine Essence to the Human Essence, doing so by His own power. And through that uniting of them He has saved the human race, especially those who belong to the spiritual Church.

For the Lord's becoming righteousness through the severest temptations, see 1813, 2025-2027.

For the Lord's uniting of the Human Essence to the Divine Essence, and the Divine Essence to the Human Essence, 1725, 1729, 1733, 1737, 1813, 2083.

For His doing this by His own power, 1616, 1921, 2025, 2026, 2083, 2500, 2523, 2632.

And for His salvation of the human race, especially those who belong to the spiritual Church, through that uniting of both, 2661, 2716.

These are the factors meant by the price of redemption.

[2] As regards the consideration that this price may also be spoken of in reference to man's receptivity, though with him that price is determined by the measure of his receptivity, this may be seen from the truth that it is the Lord's Divine which constitutes the Church with man. For the Church does not hearken to anything except that which is the Lord's own. It is the good of love and charity, and the truth of faith, that constitute that which is called the Church. For it is well known that all good comes from the Lord and that all truth comes from the Lord. Good and truth that come from man are not good and truth. From this it is evident that the price of redemption is with man determined by the measure of his receptivity.

[3] Because among the Jews the Lord's redemption was rated so low as to be scarcely anything at all, it is therefore said in Zechariah,

I said to them, If it is good in your eyes, give me my wages; and if not, withhold them. And they weighed out my wages, thirty pieces of silver. And Jehovah said to me, Throw it to the potter, the magnificent price I was valued at among them. Zechariah 11:12-13.

And in Matthew,

They took the thirty pieces of silver, the price set on him whom they had bought from the children of Israel, and gave them for the potter's field, as the Lord commanded me. Matthew 27:9-10.

'Thirty' is that which is so little as to be scarcely anything, see 2276. Thus the meaning is that the Jews rated the Lord's merit and redemption as nothing, but among those who believed that all good and all truth came from the Lord, the price of redemption is meant by 'forty' and to a higher degree by 'four hundred'.

  
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