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创世记第43章

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1 的饥荒甚大。

2 他们从埃及的粮食尽了,他们的父亲就对他们:『你们再去给我籴些粮。』

3 犹大对他:『那谆谆地告诫我们:「你们的兄弟若不与你们同来,你们就不得见我的面。」

4 你若打发我们兄弟我们同去,我们去给你籴粮;

5 你若不打发他去,我们就不去,因为那我们:「你们的兄弟若不与你们同来,你们就不得见我的面。」』

6 以色列:『你们为什麽这样害我,告诉你们还有兄弟呢?』

7 他们回答:『那详细问到我们我们的亲属,:「你们的父亲还在吗?你们还有兄弟吗?」我们就按着他所问的告诉他,焉能知道他要「必须把你们的兄弟来」呢?』

8 犹大又对他父亲以色列:『你打发童子与我同去,我们就起身下去,好叫我们和你,并我们的妇人孩子,都得存活,不至於

9 我为他作保;你可以从我中追讨,我若不他回来交在你面前,我情愿永远担罪。

10 我们若没有耽搁,如今第二次都回来了。』

11 他们的父亲以色列:『若必须如此,你们就当这样行:可以将这土产中最好的乳香、蜂蜜、香料、没药、榧子、杏仁都取一点,收在器具里,带去送给那礼物

12 又要里加倍地带子,并将归还在你们袋内的子仍带在里;那或者是错了。

13 也带着你们的兄弟,起身去见那

14 但愿全能的神使你们在那面前蒙怜悯,释放你们的那弟兄和便雅悯回来。我若丧了儿子,就丧了吧!』

15 於是,他们拿着那礼物,又里加倍地带子,并且带着便雅悯,起身埃及,站在约瑟面前。

16 约瑟见便雅悯和他们同来,就对家宰:『将这些人领到里。要宰杀牲畜,预备筵席,因为晌这些人同我饭。』

17 家宰就遵着约瑟的命去行,领他们进约瑟的里。

18 他们因为被领到约瑟的里,就害怕:『领我们到这里,必是因为头次归还在我们口袋里的子,找我们的错缝,下手害我们,强取我们为奴仆,抢夺我们。』

19 他们就挨约瑟的家宰,在口和他说话

20 :『我啊,我们头次来实在是要籴粮。

21 到了住宿的地方,我们打开袋,不料,各子,分量足数,仍在各袋内,现在我们里又回来了。

22 另外又带子来籴粮。不知道先前谁把子放在我们的口袋里。』

23 家宰:『你们可以放心,不要害怕,是你们的和你们父亲你们财宝在你们的口袋里;你们的子,我早已收了。』他就把西缅,交他们。

24 家宰就领他们进约瑟的里,他们,又他们料喂

25 他们就预备那礼物,等候约瑟晌,因为他们见要在那里饭。

26 约瑟到家里,他们就把中的礼物拿进去给他,又俯伏在,向他下拜。

27 约瑟问他们好,又问:『你们的父亲─就是你们所的那老人家平安吗?他还在吗?』

28 他们回答:『你仆人─我们的父亲平安;他还在。』於是他们低头下拜。

29 约瑟举目见他同母的兄弟便雅悯,就:『你们向我所那顶小的兄弟就是这位吗?』又:『小儿啊,愿赐恩给你!』

30 约瑟爱弟之情发动,就急忙寻找可哭之地,进入自己的屋里,哭了一场。

31 了脸出来,勉强隐忍,吩咐人摆饭。

32 他们就为约瑟单摆了一席,为那些人又摆了一席,也为和约瑟同饭的埃及人另摆了一席,因为埃及人不可和希伯来人一同饭;那原是埃及人所厌恶的。

33 约瑟使众弟兄在他面前排列席,都按着长幼的次序,众弟兄就彼此诧异。

34 约瑟把他面前的食物分出来,送给他们;但便雅悯所得的比别人多五倍。他们就饮酒,和约瑟一同宴乐。

   

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Arcana Coelestia#5663

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5663. 'Your God and the God of your father' means the Lord's Divine Human. This becomes clear from the fact that where the name God or the name Jehovah is used in the Word, the Lord and no one else is meant, 1343, 1736, 2921, 3035. And when the words 'your God and the God of your father' are used - that is, the God of Israel and Jacob and of his sons - the Lord's Divine Human is meant, in particular His Divine Natural, 3305, 4286, 4570; for 'Israel' represented the Lord's interior Natural, 'Jacob' His exterior Natural, and 'his sons' the truths present in that Natural.

[2] The truth that the Lord was meant by God and Jehovah in the Word was unknown to the Jewish Church; and the Christian Church at the present day does not know it, the reason for its ignorance of this truth being that it has distinguished the Divine into three separate persons. But the Ancient Church which existed after the Flood, and especially the Most Ancient Church which existed before the Flood, did not understand by Jehovah and God anyone else than the Lord, in particular His Divine Human. They did know about the Divine Himself who dwells within the Lord, and whom the Lord calls His Father; but they could not engage in any thought about the Divine Himself who dwells within the Lord, only about His Divine Human, and consequently could not be joined to any other that is Divine. For that linking together is effected through thought which is the activity of the understanding and through affection which is the activity of the will, thus through faith and love. When anyone thinks about the Divine Himself his thought becomes lost so to speak in boundless space and so is dissipated. As a consequence no joining together can result. But it is different when anyone thinks about the Divine Himself as the Divine Human. Those people living in former times also knew that unless they were joined to the Divine they could not be saved.

[3] It was therefore a Divine Human that the Ancient Churches worshipped, and it was Jehovah in this Divine Human that revealed Himself among them. That Divine Human was also the Divine Himself in heaven, for heaven consists of a single human being called the Grand Man, dealt with at the ends of chapters up to this point. The Divine in heaven is essentially the Divine Himself; but He exists in heaven as a Divine Man. This Man is the one the Lord took upon Himself, made Divine within Himself, and made one with the Divine Himself, even as He had from eternity been made one with Him; for He has from eternity been one. He acted in that way because the human race could not otherwise be saved. The channel formed by heaven, and so by the Divine Human there, by means of which the Divine Himself came into people's minds was no longer adequate; therefore the Divine Himself was willing to make the Divine Human one with Himself through the Human He actually took upon Himself in the world. This Divine Human and that Divine Himself are the Lord.

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