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创世记第39章

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1 约瑟被带埃及去。有一个埃及人,是法老的内臣─护卫长波提乏,从那些带他来的以实玛利人买了他去。

2 约瑟住在他埃及的家中,耶和华与他同在,他就百事顺利。

3 人见耶和华与他同在,又见耶和华使他里所办的尽都顺利,

4 约瑟就在主人眼前蒙恩,伺候他主人,并且主人派他管理家务,把一切所有的都交在他里。

5 自从人派约瑟管理家务和他一切所有的,耶和华就因约瑟的缘故赐福与那埃及人的家;凡家里和田间一切所有的都蒙耶和华赐福。

6 波提乏将一切所有的都交在约瑟的中,除了自己所的饭,别的事一概不知。约瑟原来秀雅俊美。

7 这事以,约瑟人的妻以目送情给约瑟,:你与我同寝罢!

8 约瑟不从,对他人的妻:看哪,一切家务,我人都不知道;他把所有的都交在我里。

9 在这家里没有比我的;并且他没有留下一样不交给我,只留下了你,因为你是他的妻子。我怎能作这恶,得罪呢?

10 後来他和约瑟,约瑟却不从他,不与他同寝,也不和他在一处。

11 一天,约瑟进里去办事,家中没有一个在那里,

12 妇人就拉住他的衣裳,:你与我同寝罢!约瑟把衣裳丢在妇人里,跑到外边去了。

13 妇人见约瑟把衣裳丢在他里跑出去了,

14 了家里的,对他们:你们!他带了一个希伯进入我们家里,要戏弄我们。他到我这里,要与我同寝,我就声喊

15 见我放声喊起来,就把衣裳丢在我这里,跑到外边去了。

16 妇人把约瑟的衣裳放在自己那里,等着他人回家,

17 就对他如此如此:你所带到我们这里的那希伯仆人要戏弄我,

18 我放声喊起来,他就把衣裳丢在我这里,跑出去了。

19 约瑟的见他妻子对他所:你的仆人如此如此待我,他就生气,

20 把约瑟下在监里,就是王的囚犯被囚的地方。於是约瑟在那里坐监。

21 耶和华与约瑟同在,向他施恩,使他在司狱的眼前蒙恩。

22 司狱就把监里所有的囚犯都交在约瑟下;他们在那里所办的事都是经他的

23 凡在约瑟的事,司狱一概不察,因为耶和华与约瑟同在;耶和华使他所做的尽都顺利。

   

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Arcana Coelestia#4976

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4976. 'And ministered to him' means that factual knowledge was assigned to its own good. This is clear from the meaning of 'ministering' as serving by supplying what another has need of, in this case as being assigned to since the subject is natural good to which factual knowledge is to be assigned. 'Ministering' is also used to describe known facts, for in the Word a minister and a servant mean factual knowledge or natural truth because this is subservient to good as its lord. Factual knowledge stands in relation to delight present in the natural man - or what amounts to the same, natural truth stands in relation to its good - in exactly the same way as water does to bread, or drink to food. Water or drink enables bread or food to be dissolved, and once dissolved to be conveyed into the blood, from which it passes into all parts around the body and nourishes them. Without the water or drink the bread or food is not broken down into extremely small particles and carried around the body to fulfill its purpose.

[2] The same applies to factual knowledge in relation to delight, or truth in relation to good. That being so, good longs for and desires truth, and does so because of the purpose such truth can fulfill by ministering to it and serving it. Food and drink also correspond to these. No one in the next life is nourished by any natural food or natural drink, only by spiritual food and spiritual drink, spiritual food being good, and spiritual drink truth. This is why, when bread or food is mentioned in the Word, angels understand spiritual bread or food, which is the good of love and charity; and when water or drink is mentioned they understand spiritual water or drink, which is the truth of faith. From this one may see what the truth of faith without the good of charity is, and also what kind of nourishment the former without the latter is able to supply to the internal man; that is to say, it is like the nourishment supplied by water or drink alone without bread or food. It is well known that a person fed on water or drink alone wastes away and dies.

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