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1 Но Сара, жена Аврамова, не раждала ему. И какъ у ней была служанка Египтянка, именемъ Агарь;

2 то Сара сказала Авраму: вотъ Іегова заключилъ чрево мое, чтобы мнј нс раждать; итакъ войди къ служанкј моей; можетъ быть, я буду имјть дјтей отъ нея. Аврамъ послушался словъ Сары.

3 Такимъ образомъ, по исполненіи десяти лјтъ пребыванія Аврамова въ землј Ханаанской, взяла Сара, жена Аврамова, служанку свою Египтянку Агарь, и дала ее Авраму, мужу своему, въ жену.

4 Онъ вошелъ къ Агари, и она зачала. Когда же она увидјла, что зачала: то стала презирать госпожу свою.

5 Тогда Сара сказала Авраму: въ обидј моей ты виновенъ; я отдала служанку мою въ нјдро твое; а она, увидя, что зачала, смотритъ на меня съ презрјніемъ; Іегова будетъ судить меня съ тобою.

6 Аврамъ сказалъ Сарј: вотъ, служанка твоя въ твоихъ рукахъ, дјлай съ нею, что тебј заблагоразсудится. Итакъ Сара стала смирять ее; а та убјжала отъ нея.

7 И нашелъ ее Ангелъ Іеговы у источника водъ въ пустынј, у источника на дорогј къ Суру,

8 и сказалъ: Агарь, раба Сарина! откуда ты пришла, и куда идешь? Она отвјчала: я бјгу отъ лица Сары, госпожи моей.

9 Но Ангелъ Іеговы сказалъ ей: возвратись къ госпожј своей, и покорись ей.

10 Потомъ сказалъ ей Ангелъ Іеговы: умножая умножу потомство твое, такъ что нельзя и счесть отъ множества.

11 Наконецъ Ангелъ Іеговы сказалъ ей: вотъ ты беременна, и родишь сына и наречешь ему имя Измаилъ; ибо услышалъ Іегова страданіе твое.

12 Онъ будетъ онагръ-человјкъ; руки его на всјхъ, и руки всјхъ на него; жить будетъ онъ предъ лицемъ всјхъ братьевъ своихъ.

13 Тогда она нарекла Іегову, Который говорилъ къ ней, симъ именемъ: Ты Богъ видјнія! Ибо сказала она: даже и здјсъ я видјла въ слјдъ Видящаго меня!

14 Посему источникъ тотъ называется: Беэр-лахай-рои (источникъ Живаго, Видящаго). Онъ находится между Кадесомъ и между Баредомъ.

15 Агарь родила Авраму сына; и нарекъ Аврамъ имя сыну своему, рожденному отъ Агари, Измаилъ.

16 Авраму было восемьдесятъ шесть лјтъ оть рожденія, когда Агарь родила Авраму Измаила.

   

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Arcana Coelestia #1803

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1803. 'But he who comes out of your own loins' means those in whom love to Him and love towards the neighbour are present. This is clear from the meaning of 'the loins', and of 'going out of the loins' as being born, here those who are being born from the Lord. People who are being born from the Lord, that is, being regenerated by Him, are receiving the Lord's life. As has been stated, the Lord's life is Divine love, that is, a love towards the entire human race, which love is such that His will is to bring eternal salvation, if possible, to the whole of it, that is, to all men. People who do not possess the Lord's love, that is, who do not love their neighbour as themselves, in no sense possess the Lord's life, and so are not in any sense born from Him, that is, they have not 'come out of His loins', and consequently cannot be heirs of His kingdom.

[2] From these considerations it is clear that 'going out of the loins' here means in the internal sense people in whom love to the Lord and love towards the neighbour are present, as in Isaiah,

Thus said Jehovah, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel, I am Jehovah your God, teaching you to profit, making you go in the way you should walk. O that you had hearkened to My commandments! Then your peace would have been like a river and your righteousness like the waves of the sea; and your seed would have been like the sand, and those who have gone out of your loins like its grains. Isaiah 48:17-19.

'Seed like the sand' stands for good, 'those who have gone out of your loins like its grains' for truth. Thus it stands for people in whom love is present, for with them alone does a love of good and truth exist.

[3] In addition the loins in the Word also mean love or mercy, the reason being that the generative organs, especially the mother's womb, represent and so mean chaste conjugial love and the love of children which is derived from that love, as in Isaiah,

The yearning of Your loins and of Your compassion 1 towards me have held themselves back. Isaiah 63:15.

In Jeremiah,

Is not Ephraim a precious son to Me? Is he not a delightful child? Therefore My loins are troubled for him, I will surely have mercy on him. Jeremiah 31:20.

[4] From this it is clear that love itself, or the Lord's mercy itself and compassion towards the human race, are what the internal sense means by 'the loins', and by 'going out of the loins'. Consequently 'those who have gone out of the loins' means people in whom love is present. Concerning the Lord's kingdom as mutual love, see what has appeared already in 548, 549, 684, 693, 694

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1. literally, compassions

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