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Genesis 18

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1 Ja Issand ilmutas ennast temale Mamre tammikus, kui ta istus telgi ukse ees kõige palavamal päevaajal.

2 Ta tõstis oma silmad üles ja vaatas, ja ennäe, kolm meest seisid ta ees. Ja nähes neid, tõttas ta telgi ukse juurest neile vastu ja kummardas maani

3 ning ütles: 'Issand, kui ma sinu silmis armu leian, siis ära mine oma sulasest mööda!

4 Toodagu nüüd pisut vett, peske jalgu ja nõjatuge puu alla!

5 Ma toon palukese leiba, kinnitage südant, enne kui edasi lähete, kui juba kord olete oma sulase kaudu käimas!' Ja nemad vastasid: 'Tee nõnda, nagu sa oled rääkinud!'

6 Ja Aabraham tõttas telki Saara juurde ning ütles: 'Võta ruttu kolm mõõtu nisujahu, sõtku ja tee kooke!'

7 Ja Aabraham jooksis karja juurde, võttis ühe noore ja ilusa vasika, andis poisi kätte ja see tõttas seda valmistama.

8 Ja ta tõi võid, piima ja vasika, mis oli valmistatud, ja pani nende ette; ta ise seisis nende juures puu all, kui nad sõid.

9 Siis nad küsisid temalt: 'Kus su naine Saara on?' Ja ta vastas: 'Seal telgis.'

10 Siis üks neist ütles: 'Ma tulen sinu juurde kindlasti tagasi aasta pärast samal ajal, ja vaata, su naisel Saaral saab olema poeg!' Ja Saara kuulis seda tema selja taga oleva telgi ukse juures.

11 Aga Aabraham ja Saara olid vanad ja elatanud; Saaral oli lakanud olemast ka see, mis muidu naistele on omane.

12 Ja Saara naeris iseeneses ja mõtles: 'Nüüd, kui ma olen vanaks jäänud, peaks mul veel himu olema! Ja ka mu isand on vana.'

13 Aga Issand ütles Aabrahamile: 'Miks Saara naerab ja ütleb: Kas ma tõesti peaksin sünnitama, kuna ma ju olen vana?

14 Kas peaks Issandal midagi olema võimatu? Ma tulen su juurde tagasi aasta pärast samal ajal, ja Saaral saab olema poeg!'

15 Kuid Saara salgas, öeldes: 'Mina ei naernud.' Sest ta kartis. Tema aga ütles: 'Sa naersid küll!'

16 Siis mehed tõusid sealt üles ja vaatasid alla Soodoma poole; ja Aabraham läks koos nendega, neid saatma.

17 Ja Issand ütles: 'Kas peaksin varjama Aabrahami eest, mida tahan teha?

18 Aabraham saab ometi suureks ja vägevaks rahvaks ja tema kaudu õnnistatakse kõiki maailma rahvaid.

19 Sest ma tean temast, et ta käsib oma poegi ja järeltulevat sugu hoida Issanda teed ning teha, mis õige ja kohus, et Issand võiks anda Aabrahamile, mis ta temale on tõotanud.'

20 Siis ütles Issand: 'Hädakisa Soodoma ja Gomorra pärast on suur ja nende patud on väga rasked!

21 Seepärast ma lähen alla ja vaatan, kas minuni jõudnud kisa kohaselt on nad teinud kõike seda või mitte. Ma tahan seda teada!'

22 Ja mehed pöördusid sealt ära ja läksid Soodomasse, aga Aabraham jäi veel seisma Issanda ette.

23 Ja Aabraham astus ligi ning ütles: 'Kas tahad tõesti hävitada õige koos õelaga?

24 Vahest on linnas viiskümmend õiget? Kas tahad siis need hävitada ega taha paigale andeks anda nende viiekümne õige pärast, kes seal on?

25 Jäägu sinust kaugele see tegu, et tapad õige koos õelaga, et õigel käib käsi nagu õelalgi! Jäägu see sinu poolt tegemata! Kas kogu maailma kohtumõistja ei peaks tegema õigust?'

26 Ja Issand ütles: 'Kui ma Soodoma linnast leian viiskümmend õiget, siis annan nende pärast andeks kogu paigale.'

27 Aga Aabraham kostis ning ütles: 'Vaata, ma olen nõuks võtnud siiski Issandaga rääkida, kuigi olen põrm ja tuhk.

28 Vahest puudub viiekümnest õigest viis? Kas tahad siis nende viie pärast hävitada kogu linna?' Ja tema vastas: 'Ma ei hävita, kui leian sealt nelikümmend viis.'

29 Ja ta jätkas veelgi kõnelust temaga ning ütles: 'Vahest leidub seal nelikümmend?' Ja tema vastas: 'Ma ei tee seda neljakümne pärast.'

30 Aga ta ütles: 'Ärgu süttigu põlema Issanda viha, et ma veel räägin! Vahest leidub seal kolmkümmend?' Ja tema vastas: 'Ma ei tee seda, kui leian sealt kolmkümmend.'

31 Siis ta ütles: 'Vaata, ma olen nõuks võtnud siiski Issandaga rääkida. Vahest leidub seal kakskümmend?' Ja tema vastas: 'Ma ei hävita kahekümne pärast.'

32 Aga ta ütles: 'Ärgu süttigu põlema Issanda viha, et ma veel üksainus kord räägin! Vahest leidub seal kümme?' Ja tema vastas: 'Ma ei hävita kümne pärast.'

33 Ja Issand läks ära, kui oli lõpetanud kõneluse Aabrahamiga; ja Aabraham läks koju.

   

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2025. That 'I will give to you, and to your seed after you, the land of your sojournings' means that the Lord acquired to Himself by His own powers all things meant by 'the land of sojournings' is clear from the meaning of 'sojourning' as receiving instruction, dealt with in 1463. And because man acquires life to himself chiefly through instruction in facts, matters of doctrine, and cognitions of faith, sojourning is consequently the life so acquired. When applied to the Lord it is the life which He obtained for Himself through cognitions, through the conflicts that constituted temptations, and through victories in temptations; and because He obtained it by His own powers, this is what 'the land of your sojournings' means here.

[2] That the Lord obtained all things for Himself by His own powers, and by His own powers united the Human Essence to the Divine Essence and Divine Essence to Human Essence, and that He alone in this way became righteousness, is quite clear in the Prophets, as in Isaiah,

Who is this coming from Edom, marching in the vast numbers of His strength? I have trodden the winepress alone, and from the peoples no one was with Me. I looked around and there was no one helping; and I was astonished that there was no one upholding; therefore My own arm brought Me salvation. Isaiah 63:1, 3, 5.

'Edom' stands for the Lord's Human Essence, 'strength' and 'arm' for power. Plain statements to the effect that He acted from His own power are contained in the phrases 'no one helping' and 'no one upholding', and in that about His own arm bringing Him salvation.

[3] In the same prophet,

He saw that there was no one, and wondered that there was nobody to intercede; and His own arm brought salvation to Him, and His righteousness upheld Him. And He put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation on His head. Isaiah 59:16-17.

This similarly means that He acted by His own power, and in so doing became righteousness. That the Lord is righteousness is stated in Daniel,

Seventy weeks have been decreed to atone for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophet, and to anoint the Most Holy Place. Daniel 9:24.

And in Jeremiah,

I will raise up for David a righteous branch, and He will reign as king and act with understanding, and He will execute judgement and righteousness in the land. In His days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell in confidence. And this is His name which they will call Him, Jehovah our Righteousness. Jeremiah 23:5-6; 33:15-16.

For this reason He is also called 'the Habitation of Righteousness' in Jeremiah 31:23; 50:7, and 'wonderful' and 'Hero' in Isaiah 9:6.

[4] The reason why the Lord so many times attributes to the Father that which is His own has been explained above in 1999, 2004; for Jehovah was within Him, and so within every single part of Him. Something similar in man may be used for illustration, although there can be no comparison. Within man is his soul, and because it is within him, the soul is within every individual part of him, that is to say, within every individual part of his thinking and every individual part of his activity. Anything that does not have his soul within it is not part of him. The Lord's soul was Life itself or Being (Esse) itself, which is Jehovah, for He was conceived from Jehovah; thus Life itself was present within every individual part of Him. And because Life itself, or Being (Esse) itself, which is Jehovah, belonged to Him in the way that the soul does to man, so that which was Jehovah's was His, which is what the Lord says in His statements about His being in the bosom of the Father, John 1:18, and about all things that the Father has being His, John 16:15; 17:10-11.

[5] From good which is Jehovah's He united the Divine Essence to the Human Essence, and from truth united the Human Essence to the Divine Essence, and so achieved every single thing all from Himself. Indeed His Human was left to Itself in order that of Himself He might fight against all the hells and overcome them; and because He had life within Himself, as stated, which was His own, He overcame them by His own power and strength, as is also clearly stated in the places quoted from the Prophets. So then, because He acquired all things to Himself by His own powers, He became Righteousness, cleared the world of spirits of hellish genii and spirits, and in so doing rescued the human race from destruction - for the human race is governed by means of spirits - and thus redeemed it. This is why the Old Testament Word speaks so often of Him as Rescuer and Redeemer, and also Saviour, as His name Jesus describes.

  
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John 1:18

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18 No one has seen God at any time. The one and only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he has declared him.