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创世记第17章

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1 亚伯兰岁的时候,耶和华向他显现,对他:我是全能的神。你当在我面前作完全人,

2 我就与你立约,使你的後裔极其繁多。

3 亚伯兰俯伏在地;又对他

4 我与你立约:你要作多国的父。

5 从此以後,你的名不再亚伯兰,要亚伯拉罕,因为我已立你作多国的父。

6 我必使你的後裔极其繁多;国度从你而立,君从你而出。

7 我要与你并你世世代裔坚立我的约,作永远的约,是要作你和你裔的

8 我要将你现在寄居的,就是迦南,赐你和你的永远为业,我也必作他们的

9 又对亚伯拉罕:你和你的裔必世世代遵守我的约。

10 你们所有的男子都要受割礼;这就是我与你并你的裔所立的约,是你们所当遵守的。

11 你们都要受割礼(原文作割阳皮;14,23,24,25节同);这是我与你们立约的证据。

12 你们世世代的男子,无论是家里生的,是在你後裔之外用子从外人买的,生下来第八日,都要受割礼

13 你家里生的和你用子买的,都必须受割礼。这样,我的约就立在你们体上作永远的约。

14 但不受割礼的男子必从民中剪除,因他背了我的约。

15 又对亚伯拉罕:你的妻子撒莱不可再撒莱,他的名要撒拉。

16 我必赐福他,也要使你从他得一个儿子。我要赐福他,他也要作多国之母;必有百姓的君从他而出。

17 亚伯拉罕就俯伏在地喜笑,:一岁的人还能得孩子麽?撒拉已经九十岁了,还能生养麽?

18 亚伯拉罕:但愿以实玛利活在你面前。

19 :不然,你妻子撒拉要给你生一个儿子,你要给他起名以撒。我要与他坚定所立的约,作他永远的约。

20 至於以实玛利,我也应允你:我必赐福他,使他昌盛,极其繁多。他必生十二个族长;我也要使他成为国。

21 到明年这时节,撒拉必给你生以撒,我要与他坚定所立的约。

22 亚伯拉罕完了话,就离开他上升去了。

23 正当那日,亚伯拉罕遵着的命,给他的儿子以实玛利和家里的一切男子,无论是在家里生的,是用子买的,都行了割礼

24 亚伯拉罕割礼的时候年岁。

25 儿子以实玛利割礼的时候年十三岁。

26 正当那日,亚伯拉罕和他儿子以实玛利一同受了割礼

27 家里所有的人,无论是在家里生的,是用子从外人买的,也都一同受了割礼

   

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Arcana Coelestia#2063

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2063. 'You will not call by her name Sarai, for Sarah will be her name' means that He will cast off the human and put on the Divine. This is clear from what has been stated at verse 5 above regarding Abraham, where it is said, 'No longer will your name be called Abram, but your name will be Abraham', words which in a similar way mean that He will cast off the human and put on the Divine, dealt with in 2009. Indeed the letter H added to Sarah's name was taken from the name of Jehovah, in order that Sarah, like Abraham, might represent the Lord's Divine, that is to say, in order that the Divine marriage of Good and Truth in the Lord might be represented - 'Abraham' being Divine Good and 'Sarah' Divine Truth. And from that marriage the Divine Rational, which is Isaac, was to be born.

[2] Divine Good, which in itself is love, and in relation to the entire human race is mercy, was the Lord's Internal, that is, Jehovah, who is Good itself. This Good is represented by 'Abraham'. Truth that was to be joined to Divine Good was represented by 'Sarai', but once this too has become Divine, it is represented by 'Sarah', for the Lord advanced towards union with Jehovah gradually, as mentioned in various places above. 'Sarai' represented truth not yet Divine - when it was still not so thoroughly united to Good that Good was the source of truth. But once it was so thoroughly united to Good that it stemmed from Good it was at that point Divine, and Truth itself was in that case also Good since it was truth inhering in Good. Truth tending towards good so that it may be united to good is one thing, while truth so united to good that it stems completely from good is another. Truth tending towards good is still drawing on something of what is human, but once it is united completely to good it casts aside everything that is human and takes on what is Divine.

[3] This matter, like others previously, can be illustrated by what occurs with man. When a person is being regenerated, that is, when he is to be joined to the Lord, he moves towards that conjunction by means of truth, that is, by means of the truths of faith, for nobody can be regenerated except by means of cognitions of faith, which are the truths by means of which he moves towards such conjunction. These truths the Lord goes to meet by way of good, that is, of charity, and introduces this charity into the cognitions of faith, that is, into its truths. For all truths are the recipient vessels of good; and therefore the more genuine the truths are and the more they are multiplied, the more abundantly is good able to accept them as vessels, to bring them into a state of order, and only then to reveal itself, doing so in the end in such a way that the truths are not seen, except insofar as good shines through them. In this way truth becomes celestial-spiritual. And since the Lord is present solely within the good that flows from charity, a person is in this manner joined to the Lord, and by means of good, that is, of charity, has conscience conferred on him, from which he then thinks what is true and does what is right. But this conscience is a conscience in keeping with the truths and the things that are right into which good or charity has been introduced.

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