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创世记第49章

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1 雅各了他的儿子们来,:你们都来聚集,我好把你们日後必遇的事告诉你们。

2 雅各的儿子们,你们要聚集而,要你们父亲以色列的话。

3 流便哪,你是我的长子,是我力量强壮的时候生的,本当大有尊荣,权力超众。

4 但你放纵情欲,滚沸如,必不得居首位;因为你上了你父亲,污秽了我的榻。

5 西缅和利未是弟兄;他们的刀剑是残忍的器具。

6 我的灵阿,不要与他们同谋;我的心哪,不要与他们联络;因为他们趁怒杀害命,任意砍断牛腿大筋。

7 他们的怒气暴烈可咒;他们的忿恨残忍可诅。我要使他们分居在雅各家里,散住在以色列地中。

8 犹大阿,你弟兄们必赞美你;你必掐住仇敌的颈项;你父亲儿子们必向你下拜。

9 犹大是个小狮子;我儿阿,你抓了食便上去。你屈下身去,卧如公狮,蹲如母狮,谁敢惹你?

10 圭必不离犹大,杖必不离他两之间,直等细罗(就是赐平安者)到,万民都必归顺。

11 犹大把小拴在葡萄树上,把驹拴在美好的葡萄树上。他在葡萄酒中洗了衣服,在葡萄汁中洗了袍褂。

12 他的眼睛必因酒红润;他的牙齿必因奶白亮。

13 西布伦必住在口,必成为停口;他的境界必延到西顿。

14 以萨迦是个强壮的,卧在羊圈之中。

15 他以安静为佳,以肥为美,便低肩背重,成为服苦的仆人。

16 但必判断他的民,作以色列支派之

17 但必作道上的中的虺,咬伤蹄,使骑的坠落於後。

18 耶和华阿,我向来等候你的救恩

19 迦得必被敌军追逼,他却要追逼他们的脚跟

20 亚设之地必出肥美的粮食,且出君的美味。

21 拿弗他利是被释放的母鹿;他出嘉美的言语。

22 约瑟是多结果子的树枝,是泉旁多结果的枝子;他的枝条探出外。

23 弓箭手将他苦害,向他射箭,逼迫他。

24 但他的仍旧坚硬;他的健壮敏捷。这是因以色列的牧者,以色列的─就是雅各的大能者。

25 父亲的神必帮助你;那全能者必将上所有的福,地里所藏的福,以及生产乳养的福,都赐给你。

26 父亲所祝的福,胜过我祖先所祝的福,如永世的山岭,至极的边界;这些福必降在约瑟的上,临到那与弟兄迥别之人的顶上。

27 便雅悯是个撕掠的早晨他所抓的,晚上要分他所夺的。

28 这一切是以色列的十二支派;这也是他们的父亲对他们所的话,为他们所祝的福,都是按着各人的福分为他们祝福

29 他又嘱咐他们:我将要归到我列祖(原文作本民)那里,你们要将我葬在赫人以弗仑田间的洞里,与我祖我父在一处,

30 就是在迦南幔利前、麦比拉田间的洞;那洞和田是亚伯拉罕向赫人以弗仑买来为业,作坟的。

31 他们在那里葬了亚伯拉罕和他妻撒拉,又在那里葬了以撒和他的妻子利百加;我也在那里葬了利亚。

32 那块田和田间的洞原是向赫人买的。

33 雅各嘱咐众子已毕,就把收在床上,气绝而死,归到列祖(原文作本民)那里去了。

   

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Arcana Coelestia#2184

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2184. That 'butter' is the celestial part of the rational, 'milk' the spiritual deriving from this, and 'the young bull' the corresponding natural part, is clear from the meaning of 'butter', and of 'milk', and also of 'a young bull'. As regards 'butter', this in the Word means that which is celestial, and this because of the fat present in butter; for 'fat' means that which is celestial, as shown in Volume One, in 353, and 'oil', being fat, means the celestial itself, in 886. That 'butter' has the same meaning becomes clear in Isaiah,

Behold, a virgin is bearing a son, and will call His name Immanuel. Butter and honey will he eat that he may know to refuse the evil and choose the good. Isaiah 7:14-15.

This refers to the Lord, who is Immanuel; and anyone may see that butter is not meant by 'butter', nor honey by 'honey'. But by 'butter' is meant His celestial, and by 'honey' that which is derived from that celestial.

[2] In the same chapter,

And it will be, because of the abundance of milk which they give, that he will eat butter, for butter and honey will everyone eat that is left in the midst of the land. Isaiah 7:22.

This refers to the Lord's kingdom, and to those on earth who are members of the Lord's kingdom. 'Milk' here stands for spiritual good, 'butter' for celestial good, and 'honey' for the happiness derived from this.

[3] In Moses,

Jehovah alone leads him, and there is no foreign god with him. He causes him to ride on the heights of the land, and He feeds [him] with the produce of the fields, and He causes him to suck honey out of the rock and oil out of the flinty rock - butter from the herd, and milk from the flock, with the fat of lambs and of rams, the breed 1 of Bashan, and of goats, with the kidney-fat of wheat; and of the blood of the grape you will drink unmixed wine. Deuteronomy 32:12-14.

No one is able to understand what all these things mean unless he knows the internal sense of each one. It seems like a pile of expressions such as belong to the oratory employed by the wise men of the world. But yet each expression means that which is celestial and that which is spiritual going with it, and also the blessing and happiness which flow from these, and all of them in a co-ordinated sequence. 'Butter from the herd' is the celestial-natural, 'milk from the flock' the celestial-spiritual of the rational.

[4] As regards 'milk' however, this means, as has been stated, that which is spiritual derived from that which is celestial, that is, the celestial-spiritual. What the celestial-spiritual is, see Volume One, in 1577, 1824, and in various other places. The reason 'milk' means that which is spiritual derived from that which is celestial is that 'water' means that which is spiritual, 680, 739, while milk, because of the fat in it, means the celestial-spiritual; or (what amounts to the same) truth rooted in good; or (also amounting to the same) faith grounded in love or charity; or (yet the same) the understanding part of the good present in the will; or (likewise amounting to the same) the affection for truth that has the affection for good within it; or (still yet the same) the affection for cognitions and facts that springs from the affection that belongs to charity towards the neighbour, such as exists with those who love the neighbour and confirm themselves in this love from the cognitions of faith and also from factual knowledge, which they love because they love the neighbour. All these are the same as the celestial-spiritual, and may be used in reference to any particular matter under discussion.

[5] That the celestial-spiritual is meant is also evident from the Word, as in Isaiah,

Everyone who thirsts, come to the waters, and he who has no money, come, buy, and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. Why do you spend money on that which is not bread? Isaiah 55:1-2.

Here 'wine' stands for the spiritual element of faith, 'milk' for the spiritual element of love. In Moses,

He washes his garment in wine and his vesture in the blood of grapes. His eyes are redder than wine, and his teeth are whiter than milk. Genesis 49:11-12.

This is the prophecy of Jacob, who by now was Israel, regarding Judah - 'Judah' being used here to describe the Lord. By 'teeth whiter than milk' is meant the celestial-spiritual which belonged to His Natural.

[6] In Joel,

It will be, on that day, that the mountains will drip new wine, and the hills will run with milk, and all the streams of Judah will run with water. Joel 3:18.

Here, where the subject is the Lord's kingdom, 'milk' stands for the celestial-spiritual. Also in the Word the land of Canaan, which represents and means the Lord's kingdom, is called 'a land flowing with milk and honey', as in Numbers 13:27; 14:8; Deuteronomy 26:9, 15; 27:3; Jeremiah 11:5; 32:22; Ezekiel 20:6, 15. In these places nothing else is meant by 'milk' than the abundance of celestial-spiritual things, and by 'honey' the abundant happiness derived from these. 'Land' is the celestial part itself of the kingdom from which they come.

[7] As regards 'a young bull' meaning the celestial-natural, this has been shown just above in 2180. The celestial-natural is the same as natural good, that is, good within the natural. Man's natural, like his rational, has its own good and its own truth, for then a marriage of good and truth exists everywhere, as stated above in 2173. The good that belongs to the natural is the delight which is perceived from charity, that is, from the friendship that is the product of charity; and from that delight springs the joy or satisfaction which belongs properly to the body. The truth of the natural consists in that factual knowledge which gives support to that delight. All this shows what the celestial-natural is.

脚注:

1. literally, sons

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