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1 Mose 39

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1 Joseph ward hinab in Ägypten geführet; und Potiphar, ein ägyptischer Mann, des Pharao Kämmerer und Hofmeister, kaufte ihn von den Ismaeliten, die ihn hinabbrachten.

2 Und der HERR war mit Joseph, daß er ein glückseliger Mann ward; und war in seines HERRN, des Ägypters, Hause.

3 Und sein HERR sah, daß der HERR mit ihm war; denn alles, was er tat, da gab der HERR Glück zu durch ihn,

4 also daß er Gnade fand vor seinem HERRN und sein Diener ward. Der setzte ihn über sein Haus, und alles, was er hatte, tat er unter seine Hände.

5 Und von der Zeit an, da er ihn über sein Haus und alle seine Güter gesetzt hatte, segnete der HERR des Ägypters Haus um Josephs willen, und war eitel Segen des HERRN in allem, was er hatte, zu Hause und zu Felde.

6 Darum ließ er alles unter Josephs Händen, was er hatte; und er nahm sich keines Dinges an, weil er ihn hatte, denn daß er und trank. Und Joseph war schön und hübsch von Angesicht.

7 Und es begab sich nach dieser Geschichte, daß seines HERRN Weib ihre Augen auf Joseph warf und sprach: Schlafe bei mir!

8 Er weigerte sich's aber und sprach zu ihr: Siehe, mein HERR nimmt sich nichts an vor mir, was im Hause ist; und alles, was er hat, das hat er unter meine Hände getan;

9 und hat nichts so groß in dem Hause, das er vor mir verhohlen habe, ohne dich, indem du sein Weib bist. Wie sollt ich denn nun ein solch groß Übel tun und wider Gott sündigen?

10 Und sie trieb solche Worte gegen Joseph täglich. Aber er gehorchte ihr nicht, daß er nahe bei ihr schlief noch um sie wäre.

11 Es begab sich der Tage einen, daß Joseph in das Haus ging, sein Geschäft zu tun, und war kein Mensch vom Gesinde des Hauses dabei.

12 Und sie erwischte ihn bei seinem Kleid und sprach: Schlafe bei mir! Aber er ließ das Kleid in ihrer Hand und floh und lief zum Hause hinaus.

13 Da sie nun sah, daß er sein Kleid in ihrer Hand ließ und hinaus entfloh,

14 rief sie dem Gesinde im Hause und sprach zu ihnen: Sehet, er hat uns den ebräischen Mann hereingebracht, daß er uns zuschanden mache. Er kam zu mir herein und wollte bei mir schlafen; ich rief aber mit lauter Stimme.

15 Und da er hörete, daß ich ein Geschrei machte und rief, da ließ er sein Kleid bei mir und floh und lief hinaus.

16 Und sie legte sein Kleid neben sich, bis sein HERR heim kam,

17 und sagte zu ihm eben dieselben Worte und sprach: Der ebräische Knecht, den du uns hereingebracht hast, kam zu mir herein und wollte mich zuschanden machen.

18 Da ich aber ein Geschrei machte und rief, da ließ er sein Kleid bei mir und floh hinaus.

19 Als sein HERR hörete die Rede seines Weibes, die sie ihm sagte und sprach: Also hat mir dein Knecht getan, ward er sehr zornig.

20 Da nahm ihn sein HERR und legte ihn ins Gefängnis, da des Königs Gefangene innen lagen; und er lag allda im Gefängnis.

21 Aber der HERR war mit ihm und neigte seine Huld zu ihm und ließ ihn Gnade finden vor dem Amtmann über das Gefängnis,

22 daß er ihm unter seine Hand befahl alle Gefangenen im Gefängnis, auf daß alles, was da geschah, durch ihn geschehen mußte.

23 Denn der Amtmann über das Gefängnis nahm sich keines Dinges an; denn der HERR war mit Joseph, und was er tat, da gab der HERR Glück zu.

   

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Joseph

  

Joseph in his highest meaning represents the life of Jesus. He also represents the state of knowing truths and using them to do good. This is phrased in many of the attached references as the celestial of the spiritual, or the good of truth, which is the good that is done because we know truths that are our guides to life.

(Referências: Arcana Coelestia 3969, 4607, 4669, 4682, 4741, 4988, 5036, 5094, 5249, 5316, 5876, 5890, 5974, 5975, 6275, Genesis 30, 30:24, 30:25)

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5094. 'The cupbearer and the baker' means regarding both kinds of sensory powers. This is clear from the meaning of 'the cupbearer' as the sensory powers subordinate to the understanding part of the mind, dealt with in 5077, and from the meaning of 'the baker' as the sensory powers subordinate to the will part, dealt with in 5078, which, as stated above in 5083, 5089, were cast aside by the interior natural. But it should be realized that the actual powers of the senses were not cast aside - that is to say, sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch, for the life of the body is dependent on these - but the insights or thoughts, as well as the affections and desires, that are dependent on them. Objects belonging to the world enter a person's external or natural memory by way of his senses on the one hand and by way of his rational thought on the other. These objects then divide themselves off from one another in that memory; those entering through rational thought place themselves in a more internal position, whereas those entering through the senses do so in a more external one, as a consequence of which the natural comes to have two parts - the interior part and the exterior - as has also been stated above.

[2] The interior natural is what 'Pharaoh king of Egypt' represents, while the exterior natural is what 'the cupbearer and the baker' represents. The nature of the difference between the two becomes clear from the different ways they look at things, that is, from their thoughts and their conclusions based on those thoughts. The person who uses the interior natural to think with and to form conclusions is rational, and is so insofar as he has absorbed what comes to him through rational thought; but the person who uses the exterior natural to think with and form conclusions is governed by his senses, and is so insofar as he has absorbed what comes to him from sensory evidence. Such a person is called one governed by his senses, whereas the other is called one who is rational-natural. When a person dies he has the entire natural with him; and its form remains the same as that which it took in the world. He is also rational-minded to the extent he has absorbed ideas from rational thought, but sensory-minded to the extent he has absorbed ideas from his senses. The difference between the two is that, to the extent it has absorbed ideas from rational thought and made them its own, the natural looks down on the senses belonging to the exterior natural and controls them by disparaging and casting aside illusions formed by the senses. But to the extent that it has absorbed ideas formed by the bodily senses and made them its own the natural looks down on rational thought by disparaging this and casting it aside.

[3] An example of the difference between the two may be seen in the ability of the rational-natural man to comprehend that no one's life is self-existent but that it comes to him through an influx of life from the Lord by way of heaven, and the inability of one governed by the senses to comprehend the same. For the latter says his senses tell him and he can plainly see that his life is self-existent and that it is pointless to contradict the evidence of the senses. Let another example be given. The rational-natural man comprehends the existence of a heaven and a hell; but one governed by his senses denies the existence of these because he has no conception of another world purer than the one he sees with his eyes. The rational-natural man comprehends the existence of spirits and angels who are not visible to him; but one governed by the senses cannot comprehend the same, for he imagines that what he cannot see or touch has no existence.

[4] Here is another example. The rational-natural man comprehends that it is the mark of an intelligent being to have ends in view, and with foresight to be directing means towards some final end. When he looks at the natural creation from the point of view of the order of everything, he sees the natural creation as a complex system of means and realizes that an intelligent Supreme Being has given them direction, though to what final end he cannot see unless he becomes spiritual. But a person governed by his senses does not comprehend how anything distinct and separate from the natural creation can exist or how some Being superior to the natural order can do so. He has no notion of what exercising intelligence, exercising wisdom, having ends in view, or giving direction to means may be unless all these activities are being spoken of as natural ones; and when they are spoken of as such, his idea of them is like that of one who is designing a machine. These few examples show what is meant by the interior natural and the exterior natural, and by the powers of the senses being cast aside - not sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch in the body, but the conclusions reached by these about interior matters.

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