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1 А Іаковъ пошелъ въ путь свой. И встрјтили его ангелы Божіи.

2 Іаковъ, увидя ихъ, сказалъ: это ополченіе Божіе; и нарекъ имя мјсту тому: Маханаимъ.

3 Потомъ Іаковъ послалъ предъ собою вјстниковъ къ брату своему Исаву въ землю Сеиръ, въ область Эдомъ;

4 и далъ имъ приказаніе, говоря: такъ скажите господину моему Исаву: вотъ что говоритъ рабъ твой Іаковъ: я жилъ у Лавана и прожилъ донынј;

5 и есть у меня волы и ослы, и мелкій скотъ, и рабы и рабыни; и я послалъ извјстить о себј господина моего, дабы пріобрјсть благоволеніе предъ очами твоими.

6 Вјстники, возвратясь къ Іакову, сказалп: мы ходили къ брату твоему Исаву; онъ идетъ на встрјчу тебј, и съ нимъ четыреста человјкъ.

7 Тогда Іаковъ очень испугался, и былъ въ затрудненіи; и раздјлилъ людей, бывшихъ съ нимъ, и скотъ мелкій и крупный и верблюдовъ, на два ополченія,

8 и сказалъ: если Исавъ нападетъ на одно ополченіе, и побіетъ его; то остальное ополченіе можетъ спастись.

9 И сказалъ Іаковъ: Боже отца моего Авраама, и Боже отца моего Исаака, Іегова, Ты, который сказалъ мнј: возвратисъ въ землю твою, на родину твою, и Я буду благотворить тебј!

10 Малъ я предъ всјми милостями, и предъ всею истиною, которую Ты сотворилъ рабу Твоему: ибо я съ жезломъ моимъ перешелъ этотъ Іорданъ, а теперь у меня два ополченія.

11 Избавь меня отъ руки брата моего, отъ руки Исава; ибо я боюсь, чтобъ онъ, пришедши, не убилъ меня, и матерей съ дјтьми.

12 Ибо ты сказалъ: Я буду благотворить тебј; и дамъ тебј потомство, какъ песокъ морскій, котораго не изчислить отъ множества.

13 И ночевалъ тутъ Іаковъ въ ту ночь. И взялъ изъ того, что у него было, въ подарокъ Исаву брату своему:

14 двјсти козъ, двадцать козловъ, двјсти овецъ, двадцать овновъ,

15 верблюдовъ дойныхъ съ дјтьми ихъ тридцать, сорокъ коровъ, десять воловъ, двадцать ослицъ, десять ословъ.

16 И далъ въ руки рабамъ своимъ, каждое стадо особо, и сказалъ рабамъ своимъ: подите предо мною, и оставляйте разстояніе отъ стада до стада.

17 И приказалъ первому, говоря: когда братъ мой Исавъ встрјтится тебј и спроситъ тебя, говоря: чей ты? и куда идешь? и чье это стадо предъ тобою?

18 ты скажи: раба твоего Іакова; это подарокъ, посланный господину моему Исаву; вотъ, онъ и самъ за нами.

19 Тоже приказалъ онъ и второму и третьему, и всјмъ, которые шли за стадами, говоря: такъ скажите Исаву, когда встрјтитесь съ нимъ.

20 И скажите: вотъ, рабъ твой Іаковъ за нами: ибо онъ сказалъ самъ въ себј: умилостивлю его дарами, которые пойдутъ передо мною; и потомъ увижу лице его; можетъ быть и приметъ меня.

21 Такимъ образомъ дары пошли предъ нимъ; и онъ ту ночь ночевалъ въ стану своемъ.

22 И всталъ въ ту ночь, и, взявъ двухъ женъ своихъ, и двухъ рабынь своихъ. и одиннадцать сыновъ своихъ, перешелъ черезъ Іавокъ въ бродъ.

23 И когда взявъ ихъ, перевелъ черезъ потокъ, перевелъ также и все, что у него было.

24 И остался Іаковъ одинъ. Тогда нјкто боролся съ нимъ до появлешя зари;

25 и когда увидјлъ, что не одолјваетъ его, коснулся состава стегна его, повредилъ составъ стегна у Іакова, когда онъ боролся съ нимъ,

26 и сказалъ: пусти меня: ибо взошла заря; Іаковъ отвјчалъ: не пущу тебя, если ее благословишь меня.

27 И спросилъ его: какъ тебј имя? онъ отвјчалъ: Іаковъ.

28 Онъ сказалъ: отнынј имя тебј будетъ не Іаковъ, а Израиль; ибо ты борешься съ Богомъ и съ человјками, и одолјваешь.

29 Спросилъ и Іаковъ, говоря: скажи имя Твое; но Онъ сказалъ: на что ты спрашиваешь о имени Моемъ? и благословилъ его тамъ.

30 И нарекъ Іаковъ имя мјсту тому: Пеніилъ; ибо, говорилъ онъ: я видјлъ Бога лицемъ къ лицу, и сохранилась душа моя.

31 И взошло солнце, когда онъ проходилъ Пеніилъ, и онъ хромалъ отъ поврежденія стегна своего.

32 Посему и донынј сыны Израилевы не јдятъ жилы, которая у стегна, потому что Боровшійся тронулъ жилу на стегнј у Іакова.

   

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Arcana Coelestia #4123

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4123. 'For seven days' means the holiness of truth. This is clear from the meaning of 'a way' as truth, dealt with in 627, 2333, and from the meaning of 'seven' as holiness, dealt with in 395, 433, 716, 881. Here the meaning is that there was an intense desire to be joined, that is, to join itself to the holiness of truth:

  
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627. 'For all flesh had corrupted its way upon the earth 1 ' means that man's bodily-mindedness destroyed all understanding of truth. This is clear from the meaning of 'flesh', dealt with already at verse 3, as in general the whole of mankind, and in particular the bodily-minded man, or everything of a bodily nature; and from the meaning of 'way' as the understanding of truth, or truth itself. The fact that 'way' has reference to the understanding of truth, or to truth itself, becomes clear from the examples already quoted in several places as well as from the following,

Jehovah said, Get up, go down quickly from here, for your people have corrupted themselves. They have suddenly turned aside from the way which I commanded them. They have cast for themselves a metal image. Deuteronomy 9:11, 16.

This means that they forsook His commandments, which are truths.

[2] In Jeremiah,

Whose eyes have been opened upon all the ways of the sons of man, giving to every man (vir) according to his ways and according to the fruit of his works. Jeremiah 32:19.

'Ways' means life according to the commandments, 'fruit of his works' life based on charity. 'Way' accordingly has reference to truths, which comprise commandments and ordinances, and so do 'son of man' and 'man' (vir), as shown above. Jeremiah 7:3; 17:10, also contain similar usages.

In Hosea,

I will visit upon him his ways, and require him for his works. Hosea 4:9.

In Zechariah,

Return from your evil ways and from your evil works. As Jehovah Zebaoth thought to deal with us for our ways and for our works. Zechariah 1:4, 6.

Similar phrases appear here, yet they are the contrary in meaning to those mentioned before them, since they are 'evil ways' and 'evil works'.

In Jeremiah,

I will give them one heart and one way. Jeremiah 32:39.

'Heart' stands for goods, 'way' for truths. In David,

Make me understand the way of Your commandments. Take from me the way of untruth, and graciously grant me Your law. I have chosen the way of truth. I will run in the way of Your precepts. Psalms 119:26-27, 29-30, 32, 35.

Here 'the way of the commandments and precepts' is called 'the way of truth', and the contrary of this, 'the way of untruth'.

[3] In the same author,

Make Your ways known to me, O Jehovah, teach me Your paths, guide my way in Your truth, and teach me. Psalms 25:4-5.

This in like manner plainly stands for the truth. In Isaiah,

With whom did Jehovah consult, and he instructed Him, and taught Him the path of judgement, and taught Him knowledge, and made Him know the way of understanding? Isaiah 40:14.

This plainly stands for an understanding of truth. In Jeremiah,

Thus said Jehovah, Stand upon the highways and look, and ask concerning the paths of old, which is the good way, and go in it. Jeremiah 6:16.

This in like manner stands for an understanding of truth. In Isaiah,

I will lead the blind in a way they do not know; and in paths they do not know I will guide them. Isaiah 42:16.

The expressions way, by-path, pathway, road, and street all have reference to truths because they lead to what is true, as also in Jeremiah,

They have caused them to stumble in their ways, in the pathways of old, going into by-paths and not the highway. Jeremiah 18:15.

Similarly in the Book of Judges,

In the days of Jael pathways ceased to be. And those who went along the paths kept to twisting pathways; the streets in Israel ceased to be. Judges 5:6-7.

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