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创世记第35章

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1 雅各起来!上伯特利去,在那里;要在那里筑一座,就是你逃避你哥哥以扫的时候向你显现的那位。

2 雅各就对他家中的人并一切与他同在的人:你们要除掉你们中间的外邦,也要自洁,更换衣裳。

3 我们起来,上伯特利去,在那里我要筑一座给神,就是在我遭难的日子应允我的祷告、在我行的上保佑我的那位。

4 他们就把外邦人的像和他们耳朵上的环子交雅各雅各都藏在示剑那里的橡树

5 他们便起行前往。使那周围城邑的人都甚惊惧,就不追赶雅各的众子了。

6 於是雅各和一切与他同在的人到了迦南的路斯,就是伯特利

7 他在那里筑了一座,就给那地方起名伊勒伯特利(就是伯特利之的意思);因为他逃避他哥哥的时候,在那里向他显现。

8 利百加的奶母底波拉死了,就葬在伯特利边橡树底;那棵树名亚伦巴古。

9 雅各从巴旦亚兰回又向他显现,赐福与他,

10 且对他:你的名原是雅各,从今以後不要再雅各,要以色列。这样,他就改名以色列

11 又对他:我是全能的;你要生养众多,将来有一族和多国的民从你而生,又有君从你而出。

12 我所赐亚伯拉罕以撒的,我要赐你与你的裔。

13 就从那与雅各说话地方升上去了。

14 雅各便在那里立了一根柱,在柱子上奠酒,浇

15 雅各就给那地方起名伯特利

16 他们从伯特利起行,离以法他还有一段程,拉结临产甚是艰难。

17 正在艰难的时候,收生婆对他:不要,你又要得一个儿子了。

18 他将近於灵魂要走的时候,就给他儿子起名便俄尼;他父亲却给他起名便雅悯。

19 拉结死了,葬在以法他旁;以法他就是伯利恒

20 雅各在他的坟上立了一统碑,就是拉结的墓碑,到今日还在。

21 以色列起行前往,在以得楼那边支搭帐棚。

22 以色列住在那的时候,流便去与他父亲的妾辟拉同寝,以色列见了。雅各共有十二个儿子。

23 利亚所生的是雅各长子流便,还有西缅、利未、犹大、以萨迦、西布伦。

24 拉结所生的是约瑟、便雅悯。

25 拉结的使女辟拉所生的是但、拿弗他利。

26 利亚的使女悉帕所生的是迦得、亚设。这是雅各在巴旦亚兰所生的儿子。

27 雅各到他父亲以撒那里,到了基列亚巴的幔利,乃是亚伯拉罕以撒寄居的地方;基列亚巴就是希伯仑。

28 以撒共活了一八十岁。

29 以撒年纪老迈,日子满足,气绝而,归到他列祖(原文作本民)那里。他两个儿子以扫雅各把他埋葬了。

   

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Apocalypse Revealed#349

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349. Sealed out of every tribe of Israel. This symbolizes the heaven and Lord's church formed from those people.

A tribe symbolizes religion as regards goodness of life, and every tribe symbolizes the church in respect to every good of love and every truth springing from that good, which produces goodness of life. For there are two elements which form the church: the goodness of love and doctrinal truth. The marriage of these two constitutes the church. The twelve tribes of Israel represented and so symbolized the church with respect to that marriage, and each tribe represented and so symbolized some universal truth accompanying goodness or some goodness accompanying truth present in that marriage.

But what each tribe symbolized has not been revealed previously to anyone, nor could it have been revealed, lest an ill-connected exposition profane the holiness that lies within these things when joined together, since their symbolism depends on their conjunction.

[2] They have one symbolism in the order in which they are listed according to their births (Genesis 29, 30, 35:18). The order there is: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Issachar, Zebulun, Joseph, Benjamin.

They have another symbolism in the order in which they are listed when they went into Egypt, namely, Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun, Gad, Asher, Joseph, Benjamin, Dan, Naphtali (Genesis 46:8-25).

Still another symbolism in the order in which they were blessed by their father Israel, namely, Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Zebulun, Issachar, Dan, Gad, Asher, Naphtali, Joseph, Benjamin (Genesis 49).

Still another symbolism in the order in which they were blessed by Moses, namely, Reuben, Judah, Levi, Benjamin, Joseph, Ephraim, Manasseh, Zebulun, Gad, Dan, Naphtali, Asher (Deuteronomy 33) - Ephraim and Manasseh being listed there, and not Simeon or Issachar.

[3] Still another symbolism in the order in which they encamped and set out, namely, the tribes of Judah, Issachar and Zebulun on the east side, the tribes of Reuben, Simeon and Gad on the south side, the tribes of Ephraim, Manasseh and Benjamin on the west side, and the tribes of Dan, Asher and Naphtali on the north side, with the tribe of Levi in the middle (Numbers 2:1-34).

And still another symbolism in the order in which they are listed elsewhere, as in Genesis 35:23-26, Numbers 1:5-16; 7:1-89; 13:4-15; 26:5-57; 34:17-28, Deuteronomy 27:12-13, Joshua 15; 16; 17; 18; 19, Ezekiel 48:1-35.

Consequently, when Balaam saw Israel dwelling according to their tribes, he said, "How good are your tents, O Jacob, and your tabernacles, O Israel" (Numbers 24:1-4ff.).

[4] On the breastpiece of judgment, namely, the Urim and Thummim, containing twelve precious stones according to the names of the children of Israel (Exodus 28:15-21), the symbolism of the tribes in their arrangement depended on the inquiry to which they provided a response.

But what they symbolized in the order in which they are mentioned here in the book of Revelation, which is still another order, will be told in what follows.

Tribes symbolize religion, and the twelve tribes the church and everything pertaining to it, because "tribe" and "scepter" are, in Hebrew, the same word, 1 and a scepter means a kingdom, and the Lord's kingdom is heaven and the church.

脚注:

1. Hebrew מַטֶּה or שֵׁבֶט, and also מַשְׁעֵנָה.

  
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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.