A Bíblia

 

Бытие 25

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1 И взялъ Авраамъ еще жену, именемъ Хеттуру.

2 Она родила ему Зимрана, Іокшана, Медана, Мадіана, Ишбака и Шуаха.

3 Отъ Іокшана родились Шева и Деданъ. Сыны Дедана были: Ашуримъ, Летушимъ и Леюмимъ.

4 Сыны Мадіана: Ефа, Еферъ, Ханохъ, Авида и Елдага. Всј сіи суть сыны Хеттуры.

5 Впрочемъ Авраамъ отдалъ все имјніе свое Исааку.

6 А сынамъ наложницъ, которыя были у Авраама, далъ Авраамъ дары, и отпустилъ ихъ отъ Исаака, сына своего, еще при жизни своей, къ востоку, въ землю восточную.

7 Дней жизни Авраамовой, которые онъ прожилъ, было сто семьдесять пять лјтъ.

8 И скончался Авраамъ, и умеръ въ старости доброй, будучи престарјлъ и насыщенъ жизнію, и присоединился къ народу своему.

9 И погребли его Исаакъ и Измаилъ, сыновьа его, въ пещерј Махпелј, на полј ЕФрона, сына Цохара, Хеттеянина, которое находится противъ Мамре,

10 на полј, которое Авраамъ приобрјлъ отъ сыновъ Хетовыхъ. Тамъ погребены Авраамъ и Сарра, жена его.

11 По смерти Авраама, Богъ благословилъ Исаака, сына его. Исаакъ жилъ при Беэр-лахай-рои.

12 Вотъ родословіе Измаила, сына Авраамова, котораго родила Аврааму Агарь, Египтянка, служанка Саррина;

13 и вотъ имена сыновъ Измаиловыхъ, имена ихъ по поколјніямъ ихъ: первенецъ Измаиловъ Наваіоѕъ, за нимъ Кедаръ, Адбеелъ, Мивсамъ,

14 Мишма, Дума, Масса,

15 Хададъ, Ѕема, Іетуръ, Нафишъ и Кедма.

16 Сіи суть сыны Измаиловы, и сіи суть имена ихъ въ родахъ ихъ, въ кочевьяхъ ихъ. Это двјнадцать князей племенъ ихъ.

17 Лјтъ же жизни Измаиловой было сто тридцать семь лјтъ; и скончался онъ, и умеръ, и присоединился къ народу своему.

18 Потомки его разселились отъ Хавилы до Сура, что противъ Египта, и даже до Ассиріи. Такъ палъ ему жребій жить предъ лицемъ всјхъ братьевъ своихъ.

19 Воть родословіе Исаака, сына Авраамова. Авраамъ родилъ Исаака.

20 Исааку было сорокъ лјтъ отъ рожденія, когда онъ взялъ себј въ жену Ревекку, дочь Ваѕуила Арамеянина изъ Месопотаміи, сестру Лавана Арамеянина.

21 И молился Исаакъ Іеговј о женј своей, потому что она была неплодна: и услышалъ его Іегова, и зачала Ревекка, жена его.

22 И стали биться младенцы въ утробј ея; тогда сказала она: если такъ, то для чего мнј это? и пошла вопросить Іегову.

23 Іегова сказалъ ей: Два племени во чревј твоемъ, И Два различныхъ народа произойдутъ изъ утробы твоей; Одинъ народъ сдјлается сильнје другаго, И большій будетъ въ порабощеніи у меньшаго.

24 Когда настало время родить ей: оказалось, что въ утробј ея были близнецы.

25 Первый вышелъ рыжій, весь какъ волосяная одежда; и нарекли ему имя: Исавъ.

26 Потомъ вышелъ братъ его, держась рукою своею за пяту Исава; и наречено ему имя: Іаковъ. Исааку же было шестьдесятъ лјтъ, когда они родились.

27 Дјти выросли. Исавъ былъ человјкъ искусный въ звјроловствј, любящій быть въ полј; а Іаковъ человјкъ кроткій, живущій въ шатрахъ.

28 Исаакъ любилъ Исава, потому что любилъ јсть изловленное; а Ревекка любила Іакова.

29 Однажды сварилъ Іаковъ похлебку; а Исавъ пришелъ съ поля и усталъ.

30 И сказалъ Исавъ Іакову: дай мнј појсть краснаго, краснаго этого, ибо я усталъ. Отъ сего дано ему прозваніе: Эдомъ.

31 Но Іаковъ сказалъ: продай мнј теперь свое первородство.

32 Исавъ сказалъ: вотъ я скоро умру; что мнј въ этомъ первородствј?

33 Іаковъ сказалъ: поклянись мнј теперь же. Онъ поклялся, и такимъ образомъ продалъ первородство свое Іакову.

34 Тогда Іаковъ далъ Исаву хлјба и похлебки изъ чечевицы; и онъ јлъ, и пилъ, и всталъ, и пошелъ; и за ничто почелъ Исавъ первородство.

   

Das Obras de Swedenborg

 

Arcana Coelestia # 3318

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3318. And he was weary. That this signifies a state of combat, is evident from the signification of “weary,” or “weariness,” as being the state after combat; here, a state of combat, because the subject is the conjunction of good with truth in the natural man. That “weary” here signifies a state of combat, cannot appear except from the series of things in the internal sense, and especially from the consideration that good cannot be conjoined with truth in the natural man without combats, or what is the same, without temptations. That it may be known how the case herein is in respect to man, it shall be briefly told.

[2] Man is nothing but an organ, or vessel, which receives life from the Lord; for man does not live from himself (n. 290, 1954, 2021, 2536, 2706, 2886-3001). The life which inflows with man from the Lord is from His Divine love. This love, or the life thence derived, inflows and applies itself to the vessels which are in man’s rational, and to those which are in his natural. In consequence of the hereditary evil into which man is born, and of the actual evil which he acquires, these vessels are in a contrary position within him relatively to the inflowing life, yet insofar as the life which flows in can dispose the vessels to receive it, it does so dispose them. These vessels in the rational man, and in the natural, are what are called truths, but in themselves they are merely perceptions of the variations of form of these vessels, and of the changes of state according to which in divers ways these variations come forth, being effected in the most subtle substances, by methods inexpressible (n. 2487). Good itself, which has life from the Lord, or which is life, is that which flows in and disposes.

[3] When therefore these vessels, which are to be varied as to forms, are as before said in a contrary position and direction in respect to the life, it is evident that they must be reduced to a position in accordance with the life, or into compliance with it. This cannot possibly be effected so long as the man is in that state into which he is born, and to which he has reduced himself; for the vessels are not obedient, being obstinately resistant, and hardening themselves against the heavenly order according to which the life acts; for the good which moves them, and with which they comply, is of the love of self and of the world; which good, from the gross heat that is in it, causes them to be of such a quality; and therefore before they can be rendered compliant and fit to receive anything of the life of the Lord’s love, they must be softened. This softening is effected by no other means than temptations; for temptations remove all that is of the love of self and of contempt for others in comparison with self, consequently all that is of self-glory, and also of hatred and revenge on this account. When therefore the vessels have been somewhat tempered and subdued by temptations, they begin to become yielding to, and compliant with, the life of the Lord’s love, which continually flows in with man.

[4] Hence then it is that good begins to be conjoined with truths; first in the rational man, and afterwards in the natural; for as before said truths are nothing else than perceptions of the variations of form according to states that are continually being changed; and these perceptions are from the life which flows in. This is the reason why man is regenerated, that is, made new, by temptations; or what is the same, by spiritual combats; and that he is afterwards gifted with another nature; being made mild, humble, simple, and contrite in heart. From these considerations it may now be seen what use temptations promote, namely, that good from the Lord may not only flow in, but may also dispose the vessels to obedience, and thus conjoin itself with them. That truths are vessels receptive of good, may be seen above (n. 1496, 1832, 1900, 2063, 2261, 2269). Here therefore, because the subject is the conjunction of good and truth in the natural man, and the first of conjunction takes place by means of combats, which are those of temptations, it is evident that by “he was weary” is signified a state of combat.

[5] But as regards the Lord, who in the supreme sense is here treated of, He by the most grievous temptation combats reduced all things in Himself into Divine order, insomuch that there remained nothing at all of the human which He had derived from the mother (n. 1444, 1573, 2159, 2574, 2649, 3036), so that He was not made new as are other men, but altogether Divine. For the man who is made new by regeneration still retains in himself an inclination to evil, and even evil itself; but is withheld from evil by an influx of the life of the Lord’s love, and this with a force exceedingly great; whereas the Lord utterly cast out all the evil that was hereditary to Him from the mother, and made Himself Divine, even as to the vessels, that is, as to truths. This is that which in the Word is called “glorification.”

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