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Genesis 21

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3 Ig'Ibrahim i rur-es wa igraw əd Sarata da eṣəm Isxaq.

4 Isammaṇkad-tu əzəl wa d-iga əṭṭam aḍan əd təhut, təməwit t'as t'omar Məššina.

5 Iga Ibrahim ɣur təhut n Isxaq temeḍay n awatay.

6 Təṇṇa Sarata: «Məššina isisag-i taḍaza ən tədəwit. Aytedan kul win əslanen Isxaq ad-agin taḍaza ta əgeɣ.»

7 Təlas təṇṇa: «Ma iṃos wa z-issuḍəfan Ibrahim as Sarata ilkam daɣ-as əsəṇkəs ən bararan? Ənta əkfeq-qu barar daɣ tušaray-nnet.»

8 Idwal barar. Əzəl w'ad təmməzay Sarata d əsəṇkəs-net ig'Ibrahim ṣaksas zəwwəran ən tədəwit.

9 Tənay Sarata barar ən wələt Maṣar ta təgat Hajara, wa təla d Ibrahim, itajab daɣ barar-net Isxaq.

10 Təṇṇa y Ibrahim: «Əstəɣ taklit a da ənta əd rur-es. Wa da, wər z-inəməkusət əd barar-in Isxaq»

11 Awalan win əkman Ibrahim wəllen fəlas Ismaɣil ənta da rur-es.

12 Mišan iṇṇ-as Məššina: «A-kay-wər-takmu batu ən barar əd tawahayt-nak. Ardu s igi n a w'as dak təṇṇa Sarata. Id fəlas aganna wa n Isxaq a daɣ z-agu əzzurriya-nnak.

13 Amaran barar wa n tawahayt ad-iqqəl amaraw ən tamattay iyyat, id ənta da rur-ek.»

14 Aɣóra ṭufat inzay Ibrahim daɣ adakal ən təgəlla d əṇwar iḍnayan aṃan, ikf-en i Hajara, issəwar-tan əzir-net, ikf-et barar, issəgl-et. Təgla, teway əd taṇeray ən Ber-Šeba, təxrak.

15 As əɣradan aṃan daɣ əṇwar, toyya-ddu rur-es daw təfsəq.

16 Təzzar təkk-as əḍḍəkud ən taggor təqqim fəl-as təṇṇa: «Wər areɣ ad haṇṇaya barar-in itiba-tu.» Təqqim-in sen da ad təhallu.

17 Məššina isla i tala ən barar təzzar iɣra-ddu Angalos ən Məššina daɣ jənnawan Hajara iṣṣəstan-tat: «Ma kam igrawan, Hajara? Ad wər tərməɣa. Məššina isla i barar ihallu daɣ adag wa daq-q in toyye.

18 Əbdəd! Ədkəl barar-nam, əṣṣən daɣ-as, id ad-t-aga əmaraw ən tamattay tagget.

19 Olam Məššina šiṭṭawen ən Hajara təzzar togg'aṇu. Təgla təḍnay aṇwar təššəšwa barar-net. Daɣ təɣlift ən Məššina idwal barar, iqqal ənaṇḍab ən təganzay isaḍasan. Iɣsar daɣ taṇeray ən Faran. Təzzəzlaf-tu ṃa-s wələt Maṣar.

22 Daɣ azzaman win di Abimelek oṣa-ddu Ibrahim, iddew əd Fikol əmənokal ən nammagaran-net. Iṇṇa Abimelek y Ibrahim: «Məššina og̣az kay daɣ a wa tətagga kul.

23 Əmərədda əhəḍ-i əs Məššina as wər di-za-takkaddala nak wala bararan-in wala əzzurriya-nnin. Əmmək w'as dak-əmmozala s əlləllu, mazal-i sər-əs, nak d akal a daɣ təɣsara.»

24 «Əhaḍa sər-əs» iṇṇa Ibrahim.

25 Mišan išaššawad Ibrahim Abimelek təṇṇa ta təgat daɣ batu n aṇu wa əgdalan eklan-net.

26 Ijjəwwab-as Abimelek: «Wər əṣṣena wa igan a di. Kay iṃan-nak wər di-təṇṇeɣ araṭ, amaran wər əsleɣ i sər-əs immigradan har azalada.»

27 Idkal Ibrahim eharay wa ənḍərran əd šitan ikf-en y Abimelek, əsammarkaṣan taṣṣaq gar-essan.

28 Iṣkat Ibrahim šibəgag əṣṣayat daɣ aharay-nnet.

29 «Ma fəl ənṣanat, iṇṇ-as Abimelek, əṣṣayat təbəgag šin təṣkata da?»

30 «Əṣṣayat təbəgag a da a tanat təqbəla əg̣mədnat-in əfuṣ-in, əṃosnat təgəyya n as nak a iɣazan aṇu a da.»

31 A di da a fəl ig'adagg a da eṣəm Ber-Šeba: anu wa fəl əhaḍan ket-nasan.

32 Dəffər as saṃṃarkasan taṣṣaq daɣ Ber-Šeba iqqal Abimelek akal ən Kəl Filist, ənta əd Fikol wa n əmənokal ən nammagaran-net.

33 Ibrahim iṇbal ašək igan eṣəm ešel daɣ Ber-Šeba, amaran iɣbad Əməli, Məššina Amaɣlol daɣ adag wen.

34 Igla Ibrahim iɣsar daɣ akal ən Kəl Filist har iga tamert.

   

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Arcana Coelestia #2724

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2724. 'And there he called on the name of [Jehovah,] the God of Eternity' means worship from it. This is clear from the meaning of 'calling on the name of God' as worship, dealt with in 440. Those who belonged to the Ancient Church did not understand merely name by the word 'name' but the entire nature, see 144, 145, 340, 768, 1754, 1896, 2009. Thus by 'the name of God' they understood everything in one embrace by which God was worshipped, consequently everything of love and faith. But once the internal aspect of worship perished and only the external was left people began to understand nothing else by 'the name of God' than the name. Indeed they went so far as to worship the name itself, being quite indifferent to what the love and the faith were in which their worship was grounded. As a result of this nations began to identify themselves by the names of their gods, the Jews and Israelites setting themselves above the rest because they worshipped Jehovah. They made the utterance and the calling upon the name itself the essential feature of worship; but in fact worship of the name alone is not worship at all, for that practice may exist even among the worst of people who in worshipping the name alone become greater profaners.

[2] Now because 'the name of God' means the entirety of worship, that is, the love and faith in their entirety from which He is worshipped, it is therefore clear what is meant by hallowed be Your name - in the Lord's Prayer, Matthew 6:9, and what by the following words spoken by the Lord,

You will be hated by everyone for My name's sake. Matthew 10:22.

If two of you agree in My name on earth about anything they ask, it will be done for them by My Father who is in heaven. Where two or three are gathered in My name, there am I in the midst of them. Matthew 18:19-20.

He who leaves houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or fields, for My name's sake, will receive a hundredfold and will be allotted the inheritance of eternal life. Matthew 19:29.

Hosanna to the son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. Matthew 21:9.

Jesus said, You will not see Me from now on until you say, Blessed is the one coming in the name of the Lord. Matthew 23:39.

You will be hated by all nations for My name's sake. Then many will stumble and betray one another, and hate one another, and all for My name's sake. 1 Matthew 24:9-10.

As many as received Him, to them He gave power to be sons of God, to those believing in His name, John 1:12.

He who does not believe is judged already because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. John 3:17-18.

Jesus said, Whatever you ask in My name, I will do it. John 14:14-15; 15:16; 16:23-24, 26-27.

Jesus said, I have manifested Your name to men. John 17:6.

Holy Father, keep them in Your name whom You have given Me, that they may be one as We are one. John 17:11-12.

I made known to them Your name, and I will make known that the love with which You have loved Me may be in them, and I in them. John 17:26.

That you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in His name. John 20:31.

There are in addition very many places in the Old Testament in which the name of Jehovah and of God is not used to mean the name but love and faith in their entirety in which worship is grounded.

[3] But those who worship the name alone, without love and faith, are spoken of in Matthew as follows,

Many will say to Me on that day, Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy through Your name, and cast out demons through Your name, and do many mighty works in Your name? But I will confess to them, I do not know you; depart from Me, you workers of iniquity. Matthew 7:22-23.

As has been stated, once the member of the Church from being internal became external, and began to make worship consist in a name alone, people no longer acknowledged one God but many. For it was a custom among the ancients to add something after the name of Jehovah and by doing that to call to mind some benefit or attribute of His, as in the present verse, 'He called on the name of [Jehovah,] the God of Eternity'. Another example occurs in the next chapter,

Abraham called the name of that place Jehovah Jireh (that is, Jehovah will see). Genesis 22:14.

And the following, among others, are further examples,

Moses built an altar and called the name of it Jehovah Nissi (that is, Jehovah is my banner). Exodus 17:15.

Gideon built an altar to Jehovah and called it [the altar] of Jehovah Shalom (that is, of peace). Judges 6:24.

It was from this custom that those who made worship consist in a name alone came to acknowledge so many gods, and also that among the gentiles, especially those in Greece and Rome, so many gods came to be acknowledged and worshipped, whereas the Ancient Church from which those attributive names derived always worshipped but one God who was revered under so many names, for the reason that by 'name' they understood the essential nature.

Footnotes:

1. These six words which Swedenborg apparently copied from the Schmidius Latin version do not occur in the original Greek.

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.

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Matthew 6

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1 "Be careful that you don't do your charitable giving before men, to be seen by them, or else you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.

2 Therefore when you do merciful deeds, don't sound a trumpet before yourself, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may get glory from men. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward.

3 But when you do merciful deeds, don't let your left hand know what your right hand does,

4 so that your merciful deeds may be in secret, then your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.

5 "When you pray, you shall not be as the hypocrites, for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. Most certainly, I tell you, they have received their reward.

6 But you, when you pray, enter into your inner room, and having shut your door, pray to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.

7 In praying, don't use vain repetitions, as the Gentiles do; for they think that they will be heard for their much speaking.

8 Therefore don't be like them, for your Father knows what things you need, before you ask him.

9 Pray like this: 'Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy.

10 Let your Kingdom come. Let your will be done, as in heaven, so on earth.

11 Give us today our daily bread.

12 Forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors.

13 Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For yours is the Kingdom, the power, and the glory forever. Amen.'

14 "For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.

15 But if you don't forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

16 "Moreover when you fast, don't be like the hypocrites, with sad faces. For they disfigure their faces, that they may be seen by men to be fasting. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward.

17 But you, when you fast, anoint your head, and wash your face;

18 so that you are not seen by men to be fasting, but by your Father who is in secret, and your Father, who sees in secret, will reward you.

19 "Don't lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal;

20 but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consume, and where thieves don't break through and steal;

21 for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

22 "The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is sound, your whole body will be full of light.

23 But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!

24 "No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can't serve both God and Mammon.

25 Therefore, I tell you, don't be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn't life more than food, and the body more than clothing?

26 See the birds of the sky, that they don't sow, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns. Your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren't you of much more value than they?

27 "Which of you, by being anxious, can add one moment to his lifespan?

28 Why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. They don't toil, neither do they spin,

29 yet I tell you that even Solomon in all his glory was not dressed like one of these.

30 But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today exists, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, won't he much more clothe you, you of little faith?

31 "Therefore don't be anxious, saying, 'What will we eat?', 'What will we drink?' or, 'With what will we be clothed?'

32 For the Gentiles seek after all these things; for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.

33 But seek first God's Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

34 Therefore don't be anxious for tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Each day's own evil is sufficient.