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创世记第19章

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1 那两个天使晚上到了所多玛;罗得正所多玛门口见他们,就起来迎接,脸伏於下拜,

2 :我阿,请你们到仆人家里,住一夜,清起来再走。他们:不!我们要在街上过夜。

3 罗得切切的请他们,他们这才进去,到他里。罗得为他们预备筵席,无酵饼,他们就吃了

4 他们还没有躺下,所多玛城里各处的人,连老带少,都来围住那房子,

5 呼叫罗得:今日晚上到你这里的人在那里呢?把他们,任我们所为。

6 罗得出来,把上,到众人那里,

7 :众弟兄,请你们不要作这恶事。

8 我有两个女儿,还是处女,容我领出,任凭你们的心愿而行;只是这两个既然到我舍,不要向他们作甚麽。

9 :退去罢!又:这个寄居,还想要作官哪!现在我们要害你比害他们更甚。众就向前拥挤罗得,要攻

10 只是那二人伸出来,将罗得拉进去,把上,

11 并且使外的人,无论老少,眼都昏迷;他们摸来摸去,总寻不着房

12 二人对罗得:你这里还有甚麽人麽?无论是女婿是儿女,和这城中一切属你的人,你都要将他们从这地方带出去。

13 我们要毁灭这地方;因为城内罪恶的声音在耶和华面前甚大,耶和华我们来,要毁灭这地方

14 罗得就出去,告诉娶了(或作将要娶)他女儿的女婿们:你们起来离开这地方,因为耶和华要毁灭这城。他女婿们却以为他的是戏言。

15 天明了,天使催逼罗得说:起来!带着你的妻子和你在这里的两个女儿出去,免得你因这城里的罪恶同被剿灭。

16 但罗得迟延不走。人因为耶和华怜恤罗得,就拉着他的和他妻子的,并他两个女儿,把他们领出来,安置在城外;

17 领他们出来以,就:逃命罢!不可回头,也不可在平原站住。要往上逃跑,免得你被剿灭。

18 罗得对他们:我阿,不要如此!

19 仆人已经在你眼前蒙恩;你又向我显出莫大的慈爱,我的性命。我不能逃到上去,恐怕这灾祸临到我,我便死了

20 看哪,这座城又小又近,容易逃到,这不是一个小的麽?求你容我逃到那里,我的性命就得存活。

21 天使对他:这事我也应允你;我不倾覆你所的这城。

22 你要速速地逃到那城;因为你还没有到那里,我不能作甚麽。因此那城名琐珥(就是小的意思)。

23 罗得到了琐珥,日头已经出来了

24 当时,耶和华硫磺耶和华那里降与所多玛和蛾摩拉,

25 把那些城和全平原,并城里所有的居民,连地上生长的,都毁灭了。

26 罗得的妻子边回头一看,就变成了一根柱。

27 亚伯拉罕起来,到了他从前站在耶和华面前的地方

28 所多玛和蛾摩拉与平原的全,不料,那方烟气上腾,如同烧窑一般。

29 毁灭平原诸城的时候,他记念亚伯拉罕,正在倾覆罗得所之城的时候,就打发罗得从倾覆之中出来。

30 罗得因为在琐珥,就同他两个女儿从琐珥上去,里;他和两个女儿在一个洞里。

31 大女儿对小女儿我们父亲老了,上又无按着世上的常规进到我们这里。

32 来!我们可以叫父亲喝酒,与他同寝。这样,我们好从他存留後裔。

33 於是,那夜他们叫父亲喝酒,大女儿就进去和他父亲同寝;他几时躺下,几时起来父亲都不知道

34 第二天,大女儿对小女儿:我昨夜与父亲同寝。今夜我们再叫他喝酒,你可以进去与他同寝。这样,我们好从父亲存留後裔。

35 於是,那夜他们又叫父亲喝酒,小女儿起来与他父亲同寝;他几时躺下,几时起来父亲都不知道

36 这样,罗得的两个女儿从他父亲怀了孕。

37 大女儿生了儿子,给他起名摩押,就是现今摩押人的始祖。

38 小女儿也生了儿子,给他起名便亚米,就是现今亚扪人的始祖。

   

来自斯威登堡的著作

 

Arcana Coelestia#2442

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2442. 'And Lot came to Zoar' means that those with the affection for truth are saved. This is clear from the meaning of 'Zoar' as the affection for truth, dealt with in 2439. From this it also becomes clear that even people who are governed by faith are saved provided there is good within their faith, that is, they are moved by an affection for the truths of faith for the sake of good, that is, originating in good. The entire life of faith has no other source. That charity is the essential element of faith, indeed that it is faith itself because it is the very substance of faith, see 379, 389, 654, 724, 809, 916, 1162, 1176, 1798, 1799, 1834, 1844, 2049, 2116, 2189, 2190, 2228, 2261, 2343, 2349, 2417.

  
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Arcana Coelestia#916

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916. 'Every wild animal and every creeping thing means his goods, 'wild animal' goods belonging to the internal man, 'creeping things' goods belonging to the external, while 'every bird, and everything creeping over the earth' means truths, 'bird' truths belonging to the internal man, creeping thing over the earth' truths belonging to the external. This becomes clear from what has been stated and shown in the previous verse about 'wild animals', 'birds', and 'creeping things that creep'. That verse mentions 'creeping thing that creeps', for the two phrases -'creeping thing' and 'that which creeps' - meant both the good and the truth belonging to the external man. Since this verse forms a conclusion to what goes before it, these attributes of the Church, namely its truths and goods, are added. These also indicate the character of the Church, namely that it was a spiritual one, and that having become spiritual it was a Church where charity or good was the chief thing. This is why 'wild animal and creeping thing' are here mentioned first, and 'bird' and 'that which creeps' after that.

[2] It is called a spiritual Church when its actions spring from charity, that is, from the good of charity, but never when it claims to have faith independently of charity. In that case it is not even a Church. For what does faith teach but that which charity teaches? And what other purpose does the teaching of faith have but that what it teaches may be practised? Merely knowing and thinking what it teaches is ineffectual. It is only the practice of what it teaches that is effectual. Consequently the spiritual Church starts to be a Church, or what amounts to the same, the member of the Church starts to be a Church, when its actions spring from charity, the substance of what faith teaches. What is the purpose of a commandment? Not merely that a person may know but that he may live according to what is commanded. And when he does so he has the Lord's kingdom within him, for the Lord's kingdom consists solely in mutual love and resulting happiness.

[3] People who separate faith from charity and place salvation in faith apart from the good works of charity are 'Cainites' who slay brother Abel, that is, charity. They are like birds hovering around a corpse, for that kind of faith is like a bird, and a person devoid of charity like a corpse. And as is very well known in the Christian world they also acquire a false (spuria) conscience to the effect that they may live as the devil does, may hate and harass the neighbour, may go on committing adultery all through life, and nevertheless be saved. What can sound sweeter to a person's ears and more persuasive than the suggestion that he is able to be saved even though he lives like an utter brute? Even gentiles perceive that this is a falsehood, many of whom on seeing the way Christians live find their teaching abhorrent. This is clear also from the fact that nowhere else is the way people live more despicable than in the Christian world.

  
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