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创世记第16章

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1 亚伯兰的妻子撒莱不给他生儿女。撒莱有一个使女,名叫夏甲,是埃及人。

2 撒莱对亚伯兰耶和华使我不能生育。求你和我的使女同房,或者我可以因他得孩子(原文作被建立)。亚伯兰听从了撒莱的话。

3 於是亚伯兰的妻子撒莱将使女埃及人夏甲丈夫为妾;那时亚伯兰迦南已经年。

4 亚伯兰与夏甲同房,夏甲就怀了孕;他见自己有孕,就小他的主母。

5 撒莱对亚伯兰:我因你受屈。我将我的使女放在你怀中,他见自己有了孕,就小我。愿耶和华在你我中间判断

6 亚伯兰对撒莱:使女在你下,你可以随意待他。撒莱苦待他,他就从撒莱面前逃走了。

7 耶和华的使者在旷野书珥上的泉旁遇见他,

8 对他:撒莱的使女夏甲,你从那里?要往那里去?夏甲:我从我的主母撒莱面前逃出

9 耶和华的使者对他:你回到你母那里,服在他

10 :我必使你的後裔极其繁多,甚至不可胜

11 :你如今怀孕要生一个儿子,可以给他起名以实玛利,因为耶和华见了你的苦情。(以实玛利就是神见的意思)

12 他为人必像野驴。他的要攻打人,人的也要攻打他;他必住在众弟兄的东边。

13 夏甲就称那对他说话耶和华顾人的神。因而:在这里我也见那顾我的麽?

14 所以这庇耳拉海莱。这正在加低斯和巴列中间。

15 後来夏甲给亚伯兰生了一个儿子亚伯兰给他起名以实玛利

16 夏甲给亚伯兰以实玛利的时候,亚伯兰八十六岁。

   

来自斯威登堡的著作

 

Arcana Coelestia#1917

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1917. 'May Jehovah judge between me and you!' means the Lord's righteous anger. This is clear from what has just been stated, and so is clear without explanation. Nobody can gain a fuller grasp of these matters except people who have experienced conflicts brought about by temptations. Temptations bring states of vastation and desolation, states of despair, and consequently of grief and anger, in addition to other inward painful emotions. These things occur varyingly and alternatingly according to the states of evil and falsity which evil genii and spirits arouse and against which conflict takes place. Devilish spirits like nothing better than to discover some falsity; indeed it is quite common for them to introduce a falsity from themselves into a person, and then at the same time to charge him with possessing it. This was why the Lord's anger was so great, for within His first rational there was no falsity, but there was the appearance of truth which in itself was not true, as dealt with already in 1661, 1911 (end).

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