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1 И призрел Господь на Сарру, как сказал; и сделал Господь Сарре, как говорил.

2 Сарра зачала и родила Аврааму сына в старости его во время, о котором говорил ему Бог;

3 и нарек Авраам имя сыну своему, родившемуся у него, которого родила ему Сарра, Исаак;

4 и обрезал Авраам Исаака, сына своего, в восьмой день, как заповедал ему Бог.

5 Авраам был ста лет, когда родился у него Исаак, сын его.

6 И сказала Сарра: смех сделал мне Бог; кто ни услышит обо мне, рассмеется.

7 И сказала: кто сказал бы Аврааму: Сарра будет кормить детей грудью? ибо в старости его я родила сына.

8 Дитя выросло и отнято от груди; и Авраам сделал большой пир в тот день, когда Исаак отнят был от груди.

9 И увидела Сарра, что сын Агари Египтянки, которого она родилаАврааму, насмехается,

10 и сказала Аврааму: выгони эту рабыню и сына ее, ибо не наследует сын рабыни сей с сыном моим Исааком.

11 И показалось это Аврааму весьма неприятным ради сына его.

12 Но Бог сказал Аврааму: не огорчайся ради отрока и рабыни твоей; вовсем, что скажет тебе Сарра, слушайся голоса ее, ибо в Исааке наречется тебе семя;

13 и от сына рабыни Я произведу народ, потому что он семя твое.

14 Авраам встал рано утром, и взялхлеба и мех воды, и дал Агари, положив ей на плечи, и отрока, и отпустил ее. Она пошла, и заблудилась в пустыне Вирсавии;

15 и не стало воды в мехе, и она оставила отрока под одним кустом

16 и пошла, села вдали, в расстоянии на один выстрел из лука. Ибо она сказала: не хочу видеть смерти отрока. И она села против, и подняла вопль, и плакала;

17 и услышал Бог голос отрока; и Ангел Божий с неба воззвал к Агари и сказал ей: что с тобою, Агарь? не бойся; Бог услышал голос отрока оттуда, где он находится;

18 встань, подними отрока и возьми его за руку, ибо Я произведу от него великий народ.

19 И Бог открыл глаза ее, и она увидела колодезь с водою, и пошла, наполнила мех водою и напоила отрока.

20 И Бог был с отроком; и он вырос, и стал жить в пустыне, и сделался стрелком из лука.

21 Он жил в пустыне Фаран; и мать его взяла ему жену из земли Египетской.

22 И было в то время, Авимелех с Фихолом, военачальником своим, сказал Аврааму: с тобою Бог во всем, что ты ни делаешь;

23 и теперь поклянись мне здесь Богом, что ты не обидишь ни меня, ни сына моего, ни внука моего; и как я хорошо поступал с тобою, так и ты будешь поступать со мною и землею, в которой ты гостишь.

24 И сказал Авраам: я клянусь.

25 И Авраам упрекал Авимелеха за колодезь с водою, который отняли рабы Авимелеховы.

26 Авимелех же сказал: не знаю, кто это сделал, и ты не сказал мне; я даже и не слыхал о том доныне.

27 И взял Авраам мелкого и крупного скота и дал Авимелеху, и они оба заключили союз.

28 И поставил Авраам семь агниц из стада мелкого скота особо.

29 Авимелех же сказал Аврааму: на что здесь сии семь агниц, которых ты поставил особо?

30 он сказал: семь агниц сих возьми от руки моей, чтобы онибыли мне свидетельством, что я выкопал этот колодезь.

31 Потому и назвал он сие место: Вирсавия, ибо тут оба они клялись

32 и заключили союз в Вирсавии. И встал Авимелех, и Фихол, военачальник его, и возвратились в землю Филистимскую.

33 И насадил Авраам при Вирсавии рощу и призвал там имя Господа, Бога вечного.

34 И жил Авраам в земле Филистимской, как странник, дни многие.

   

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Arcana Coelestia #2625

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2625. 'At the appointed time' means when the Rational was such that it was receptive. This becomes clear from the meaning of 'time'. There are two things which appear to be indispensable while a person lives in the world because they exist as essential elements of the natural order - those two things being space and time. Living in the world or natural order therefore is living in space and time. But these two cease to have any existence in the next life. They do, it is true, appear to exist to some extent in the world of spirits, the reason for this being that spirits recently arrived from life in the body bring with them mental pictures of natural things. But subsequently they perceive that space and time do not exist in that life but states instead, and that states in the next life correspond to extensions of space and of time within the natural order - states in respect to Being corresponding to those of space, and in respect to Manifestation to those of time. Regarding space or place, see 1274, 1379, 1380, 1382.

[2] From this anyone may see what kind of mental pictures a person is able to have while in the world or natural order regarding things which belong to the next life and about many arcana of faith. He may see that such a person is unwilling to believe those things unless he can take them in by means of objects that exist in the world, indeed by sensory evidence. For he cannot do other than suppose that if he were to divest himself of his mental pictures that have been formed from space and time, more so to divest himself of space and time themselves, he would cease to be anything at all and so would have nothing left to him from which he could perceive with his senses or have thoughts of anything apart from that which was unintelligible to him. But in actual fact quite the reverse is the case: the life of angels is such that it is the wisest and happiest of all.

[3] This is the reason why people's ages mentioned in the Word do not in the internal sense mean ages but states, so that in this verse 'old age' does not mean old age. Nor does any number mean a number but some specific state, as in the case of 'a hundred years' mentioned further on. From this it now becomes clear that 'the appointed time' means the state when the rational was such that it was receptive.

[4] As regards the specific teaching presented here - that the Divine Rational received being and was given manifestation from the Lord's Divine spiritual united to His Divine celestial, when the days had been completed for him to cast off the human and when the Rational was such that it was receptive (meant in the internal sense by 'Sarah conceived and bore to Abraham a son in his old age, at the appointed time') - the following needs to be known:

The human has its beginnings in the inmost part of the rational, see 2106, 2194. The Lord advanced gradually towards the union of the Human Essence with the Divine Essence, and of the Divine Essence with the Human Essence, 1864, 2033, 2523.

He did so by His own power, 1921, 2025, 2026, 2083, through continuing temptations and repeated victories, 1690, 1737, 1813, and through receiving revelations repeatedly from His own Divine, 1616, 2500, till at length He cast out the whole human from the mother, 1414, 1444, 2574.

And in this way He made His Human - as to the Rational - Divine, as taught by the things that occur in this verse.

From all this it is evident how the explanation 'when the days had been completed for Him to cast off the human and when the Rational was such that it was receptive' is to be understood.

[5] Some idea of this matter may be had from what happens to people who are being regenerated. The celestial things of love, and the spiritual things of faith, are instilled into them by the Lord not all at once but gradually; and when by means of those things a person's rational has become such that it is able to be receptive, he is for the first time becoming regenerate, mostly by means of temptations in which he overcomes. While these experiences are taking place the days are being completed to cast off the old man and put on the new. Regarding man's regeneration, see 677, 679, 711, 848, 986, 1555, 2475.

  
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Arcana Coelestia #986

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986. That 'the fear of you and the dread of you' means the lordship of the internal man - 'fear' having regard to evils and 'dread' to falsities - becomes clear from the state of a regenerate person. A person's state prior to regeneration is one in which the evil desires and the falsities that belong to the external man predominate all the time, which gives rise to conflict. But once he has been regenerated the internal man rules over the external, that is, over his desires and falsities. When it is the internal man that rules, the person has a fear of evils and a dread of falsities, for both evils and falsities are contrary to conscience, and to act contrary to conscience is abhorrent to him.

[2] It is not however the internal man that fears evils and dreads falsities, but the external; hence the statements at this point about the fear of you and the dread of you being upon every beast of the earth and every bird of the air 1 , that is, over all evil desires meant by 'beast' and over falsities meant by 'bird of the air'. 1 This fear and this dread are seemingly the person's own, but the reality is this: As stated already everybody has at least two angels with him through whom he has communication with heaven, and two evil spirits through whom he has communication with hell. When the angels rule, as is so with a regenerate person, the evil spirits who are present dare not do anything contrary to what is good and true, for they are at that time held in bonds. And when they do try to do anything evil or to utter what is false - that is, to activate it - some hellish kind of fear and dread instantly overtakes them. This fear and this dread are what a person feels within himself for things that are contrary to conscience. This also is why, as soon as he does or utters anything contrary to conscience, he runs into temptation and the gnawings of conscience, that is, into a kind of hellish torment.

[3] On the point that fear has reference to evils and dread to falsities, the situation Is this: The spirits that reside with a person are less afraid of practising evil deeds than of uttering falsities, the reason being that a person is born again and receives a conscience by means of truths of faith, and consequently spirits are not allowed to activate falsities. Indeed nothing but evil is present with every one of them, so that they are immersed in evil; their whole nature, and consequently everything they attempt is evil; and since they are immersed in evil and their own life within them consists in evil, their performance of evil is ignored when they are serving some use. But they are not permitted to utter anything false, for the reason that they may learn what is true, and in so doing may be corrected, so far as possible, to perform some inferior kind of service. But more concerning these matters will in the Lord's Divine mercy be mentioned later on. It is similar with a regenerate person, for his conscience is formed from truths of faith. Consequently his conscience is a conscience for what is right. For him the very evil of life lies in falsity because falsity is the reverse of the truth of faith. But with the member of the Most Ancient Church who had perception it was different. He perceived evil of life as evil, and falsity of faith as falsity.

Voetnoten:

1. literally, bird of heaven (or the sky)

  
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