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Genesis 50

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1 Tedy padl Jozef na tvář otce svého, a plakal nad ním, líbaje ho.

2 A poručil služebníkům svým lékařům, aby vonnými věcmi pomazali otce jeho. I pomazali lékaři vonnými věcmi Izraele.

3 A vyplnilo se při něm čtyřidceti dní; (nebo tak vyplňují se dnové těch, kteříž mazáni bývají vonnými věcmi). I plakali ho Egyptští za sedmdesáte dní.

4 Když pak dnové pláče toho pominuli, mluvil Jozef k domu Faraonovu, řka: Jestliže jsem nyní nalezl milost před očima vašima, mluvte, prosím, v uši Faraonovy, a rcete:

5 Otec můj přísahou mne zavázal, řka: Aj, já umírám; v hrobě mém, kterýž jsem sobě vykopal v zemi Kananejské, tam mne pochovej. Nyní tedy, prosím, nechť vstoupím a pochovám otce svého, a navrátím se zase.

6 I řekl Farao: Vstup a pochovej otce svého tak, jakž tě přísahou zavázal.

7 Tedy vstoupil Jozef, aby pochoval otce svého, a vstoupili s ním všickni služebníci Faraonovi, starší domu jeho a všickni starší země Egyptské,

8 Všecken také dům Jozefův, a všickni bratří jeho i dům otce jeho; toliko dětí svých, ovec a volů nechali v zemi Gesen.

9 Vstoupili s ním také i vozové a jezdci, a bylo vojsko to veliké velmi.

10 I přišli až k místu Atád, kteréž jest při brodu Jordánském, a kvílili tam kvílením velikým a velmi žalostným; i držel tu zámutek po otci svém za dnů sedm.

11 Vidouce pak obyvatelé země té, totiž Kananejští, zámutek na místě tom Atád, řekli: Těžký to mají zámutek Egyptští. Protož nazváno jest jméno jeho Abel Mizraim, a to jest při brodu Jordánském.

12 Učinili tedy s ním synové jeho tak, jakž jim byl poručil.

13 A donesše ho do země Kananejské, pochovali ho v jeskyni na poli Machpelah, kterouž byl koupil Abraham s tím polem k dědičnému pohřbu od Efrona Hetejského, naproti Mamre.

14 A když pochoval Jozef otce svého, navrátil se do Egypta s bratřími svými a se všemi, kteříž byli vstoupili s ním, aby pochovali otce jeho.

15 Vidouce pak bratří Jozefovi, že umřel otec jejich, řekli: Snad v nenávisti nás míti bude Jozef, a vrchovatě nahradí nám všecko zlé, kteréž jsme jemu činili.

16 Protož vzkázali Jozefovi, řkouce: Otec tvůj ještě před smrtí svou přikázal, řka:

17 Takto díte Jozefovi: Prosím, odpusť již bratřím svým přestoupení a hřích jejich; nebo zle učinili tobě. Protož již odpusť, prosím, přestoupení služebníkům Boha, jehož ctil otec tvůj. I rozplakal se Jozef, když k němu mluvili.

18 Přistoupili potom také bratří jeho, a padše před ním, řekli: Aj, my jsme služebníci tvoji.

19 Jimž odpověděl Jozef: Nebojte se; nebo zdaliž jsem já vám za Boha?

20 Vy zajisté skládali jste proti mně zlé; ale Bůh obrátil to v dobré, aby učinil to, což vidíte nyní, a při životu zachoval lid mnohý.

21 Protož nebojte se již; já chovati vás budu i děti vaše. A tak těšil je, a mluvil k srdci jejich.

22 Bydlil pak Jozef v Egyptě, on i dům otce jeho, a živ byl Jozef sto a deset let.

23 A viděl Jozef syny Efraimovy až do třetího pokolení; ano i synové Machira, syna Manassesova, vychováni jsou u Jozefa.

24 Mluvil potom Jozef bratřím svým: Já tudíž umru; Bůh pak jistotně navštíví vás, a vyvede vás z země této do země, kterouž přisáhl Abrahamovi, Izákovi a Jákobovi.

25 Protož přísahou zavázal Jozef syny Izraelovy, řka: Když navštíví vás Bůh, vynestež kosti mé odsud.

26 I umřel Jozef, když byl ve stu a v desíti letech; a pomazán jsa vonnými věcmi, vložen jest do truhly v Egyptě.

   

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Apocalypse Revealed #20

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20. And makes us kings and priests. (1:6) This symbolically means, who grants those who are born from Him, that is, who are reborn or regenerated, to be governed by wisdom from Divine truths, and by love from Divine goods.

People know that in the Word the Lord is called a king and also a priest. He is called a king owing to His Divine wisdom, and a priest owing to His Divine love. People who are governed by wisdom from the Lord are consequently called children of the king, and also kings, while people who are governed by love from Him are called ministers and priests. For the wisdom and the love in them do not originate from them, and so are not theirs but the Lord's. It is these people who are therefore meant in the Word by kings and priests. Not that they are kings and priests, but that they have the Lord in them, and He causes them to be termed such.

Such people are called also children born of Him, children of the kingdom, children of the Father, and heirs - children born of Him in John 1:12-13ff.), children of the kingdom in Matthew 8:12; 13:38, children of their Father in heaven in Matthew 5:45, and heirs in Psalms 127:3, 1 Samuel 2:8, Matthew 25:34. And being heirs, children of the kingdom, and children born of the Lord as their Father, they are therefore called kings and priests. Moreover, in Revelation 3:21 it is also said that they will sit with the Lord on His throne.

[2] The whole of heaven has been divided into two kingdoms - the spiritual kingdom and the celestial kingdom. The spiritual kingdom is what is called the Lord's kingship, and because all who are in it are governed by wisdom founded on truths, therefore it is they who are meant by the kings that the Lord will make those people who are governed by wisdom from Him. The celestial kingdom, on the other hand, is what is called the Lord's priesthood, and because all who are in it are governed by love arising from goodness, therefore it is they who are meant by the priests that the Lord will make those people who are governed by love from Him. The Lord's church on earth is likewise divided into two kingdoms. Regarding these two kingdoms, see nos. 24, 226 in the book Heaven and Hell, published in London, 1758.

[3] Someone who does not know the spiritual meaning of kings and priests may be deluded in regard to many things said in the prophets and in the book of Revelation about them. For example, in regard to these statements in the prophets:

The sons of foreigners shall build up your walls, and their kings shall minister to you... You shall suck the milk of gentiles, even the breasts of kings you shall suck, that you may know that I, Jehovah, am your Savior and your Redeemer... (Isaiah 60:10, 16)

Kings shall be your foster fathers, and their princesses your wet nurses. (Isaiah 49:23)

Also elsewhere, as in Genesis 49:20; Psalms 2:10; Isaiah 14:9; 24:21; 52:15; Jeremiah 2:26; 4:9; 49:3; Lamentations 2:6, 9; Ezekiel 7:26-27; Hosea 3:4; Zephaniah 1:8. Kings there do not mean kings, but people who are governed by Divine truths from the Lord, and abstractly, Divine truths themselves, from which comes wisdom.

"The king of the south" and "the king of the north" who waged war with each other in Daniel 11 do not mean kings either, but the king of the south means people who are governed by truths, and the king of the north people who are caught up in falsities.

[4] Likewise in the book of Revelation, which many times mentions kings, as in the following passages:

The sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up, so that the way of the kings from the rising of the sun might be prepared. (Revelation 16:12)

(With) the great harlot who sits on many waters... the kings of the earth committed whoredom... (Revelation 17:1-2)

...of the wine of the wrath of (Babylon's) whoredom all the nations have drunk, and the kings of the earth have committed whoredom with her... (Revelation 18:3)

And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war with Him who sat on the (white) horse... (Revelation 19:19)

And the nations that are saved shall walk in His light, and the kings of the earth shall bring their glory and honor into (the New Jerusalem). (Revelation 21:24)

Elsewhere also, as in Revelation 16:14; 17:9-14; 18:9-10. The kings there means people who are governed by truths, and in an opposite sense, people caught up in falsities, and abstractly, truths or falsities themselves. The whoredom of Babylon with the kings of the earth means the falsification of the truth of the church. Obviously Babylon, or the woman who sat on the scarlet beast, did not commit whoredom with kings, but rather falsified truths of the Word.

[5] It is apparent from this that the Lord's going to make people who are wise from Him kings does not mean that they will be kings, but that they will be wise. The reality of this is also something that enlightened reason sees.

Likewise in the following:

You have made us kings and priests to our God, that we may reign on the earth. (Revelation 5:10)

That by king the Lord meant truth is apparent from His words to Pilate:

Pilate... said to Him, "Are You a king then?"

Jesus answered, "As you have said, because I am a king. For this I was born, and for this I have come into the world, to bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears My voice."

Pilate said to Him, "What is truth?" (John 18:27, 38)

To bear witness to the truth is to be Himself the embodiment of truth. And because He called Himself a king by virtue of it, Pilate said, "What is truth?" - which is to say, "Is truth a king?

As for priests, we will see in later explanations that they symbolize people who are governed by the goodness of love, and abstractly, goods of love themselves.

  
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Many thanks to the General Church of the New Jerusalem, and to Rev. N.B. Rogers, translator, for the permission to use this translation.

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Isaiah 24:21

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21 It shall happen in that day that Yahweh will punish the army of the high ones on high, and the kings of the earth on the earth.