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创世记第27章

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1 以撒年老,眼睛昏花,不能见,就了他大儿子以扫来,:我儿。以扫:我在这里。

2 :我如今老了,不知道一天死。

3 现在拿你的器械,就是箭囊和,往田野去为我打猎,

4 照我所的做成美味,拿给我,使我在未之先给你祝福

5 以撒对他儿子以扫说话,利百加也见了。以扫往田野去打猎,要得野味带来

6 利百加就对他儿子雅各:我见你父亲对你哥哥以扫

7 你去把野兽带来,做成美味给我,我好在未死之先,在耶和华面前给你祝福

8 现在,我儿,你要照着我所吩咐你的,从我的话。

9 你到羊群里去,给我拿两只肥山羊羔来,我便照你父亲的给他做成美味。

10 你拿到你父亲那里给他,使他在未之先给你祝福

11 雅各对他母亲利百加:我哥哥以扫浑身是有毛的,我身上是光滑的;

12 倘若我父亲摸着我,必以我为欺哄人的,我就招咒诅,不得祝福。

13 母亲对他:我儿,你招的咒诅归到我身上;你只管我的话,去把羊羔给我拿来。

14 他便去拿来,交给他母亲;他母亲就照他父亲的做成美味。

15 利百加又把家里所存大儿子以扫上好的衣服给他小儿子雅各穿上,

16 又用山羊包在雅各的上和颈项的光滑处,

17 就把所做的美味和饼交在他儿子雅各里。

18 雅各到他父亲那里:我父亲!他:我在这里。我儿,你是谁?

19 雅各对他父亲:我是你的长子以扫;我已照你所吩咐我的行了。请起来坐着我的野味,好给我祝福

20 以撒对他儿子:我儿,你如何得这麽呢?他:因为耶和华─你的使我遇见好机会得着的。

21 以撒雅各:我儿,你前来,我摸摸你,知道你真是我的儿子以扫不是?

22 雅各就挨父亲以撒以撒摸着他,声音雅各声音却是以扫

23 以撒就辨不出他来;因为他上有毛,像他哥哥以扫一样,就给他祝福

24 :你真是我儿子以扫麽?他:我是。

25 以撒:你递给我,我好儿子的野味,给你祝福。雅各就递给他,他便吃了,又拿酒给他,他也了。

26 父亲以撒对他:我儿,你上前来与我亲嘴。

27 他就上前与父亲亲嘴。他父亲一衣服上的香气,就给他祝福:我儿的香气如同耶和华赐福之田地的香气一样。

28 赐你上的甘上的肥土,并许多五谷新酒

29 愿多民事奉你,多国跪拜你。愿你作你弟兄的主;你母亲的儿子向你跪拜。凡咒诅你的,愿他受咒诅;为你祝福的,愿他蒙福。

30 以撒雅各祝福已毕,雅各从他父亲那里才出,他哥哥以扫正打猎回

31 也做了美味,拿来给他父亲:请父亲起来,儿子的野味,好给我祝福

32 父亲以撒对他:你是谁?他:我是你的长子以扫

33 以撒地战兢,:你未之先,是谁得了野味拿给我呢?我已经吃了,为他祝福;他将也必蒙福。

34 以扫了他父亲,就放声痛哭,:我父阿,求你也为我祝福

35 以撒:你兄弟已经用诡计将你的福分夺去了。

36 以扫:他名雅各,岂不是正对麽?因为他欺骗了我两次:他从前夺了我长子的名分,你看,他现在又夺了我的福分。以扫又:你没有留下为我可祝的福麽?

37 以撒回答以扫:我已立他为你的主,使他的弟兄都他作仆人,并赐他五谷新酒可以养生。我儿,现在我还能为你做甚麽呢?

38 以扫对他父亲:父阿,你只有样可祝的福麽?我父阿,求你也为我祝福以扫就放声而哭。

39 父亲以撒上的肥土必为你所上的甘必为你所得。

40 你必倚靠刀度日,又必事奉你的兄弟;到你强盛的时候,必从你颈项上挣开他的轭。

41 以扫因他父亲雅各祝的福,就怨恨雅各:为我父亲居丧的日子近了,到那时候,我要杀我的兄弟雅各

42 有人把利百加大儿子以扫告诉利百加,他就打发人去,了他小儿子雅各来,对他:你哥哥以扫想要杀你,报仇雪恨。

43 现在,我儿,你要我的话:起来,逃往哈兰、我哥哥拉班那里去,

44 同他些日子,直等你哥哥的怒气消了。

45 哥哥向你消了怒气,忘了你向他所做的事,我便打发人去把你从那里带回来。为甚麽日丧你们人呢?

46 利百加对以撒:我因这赫人的女子连性命都厌烦了;倘若雅各也娶赫人的女子为妻,像这些一样,我活着还有甚麽益处呢?

   

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Apocalypse Explained#1159

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1159. And all things fat and splendid have departed from thee.- That this signifies that all goods and truths, and things auspicious and magnificent, which they have persuaded themselves, they would be able to acquire by means of that religion, are changed into the contrary, is evident from the signification of fat things, which denote goods and auspicious things therefrom, of which we shall speak presently; and from the signification of things splendid, which denote truths and things magnificent therefrom. The reason why this is the signification of things splendid, is, that splendour is the result of light, and the light of heaven is Divine Truth or Divine Wisdom, which is the cause of all things in the heavens shining with a splendour unknown in the world. It may be compared with the brilliancy of a diamond turned to the sun, but the splendour seen in heaven far exceeds this, just as the light of heaven exceeds the light of the world, the difference between which is so great, that while it may be illustrated by comparisons, yet it cannot be described. All the magnificent things of heaven, exist from that light, and these chiefly consist of forms corresponding to wisdom, which are such that in the world they can neither be pictured nor described. For in them art itself is in its art, and science is in its wisdom, consequently they are of ineffable beauty. It is evident from these facts why things splendid signify truths and thence things magnificent.

[2] The reason why fat things signify goods and auspicious things therefrom, is, that the fat is the best part of flesh, and that it is like oil, which signifies the good of love. That fatness signifies good and those things that belong to it, thus happiness and joys, is clear from the following passages in the Word.

In Isaiah:

"Attending attend unto me, eat ye good, that your soul may be delighted in fatness" (55:2).

To eat good signifies to appropriate good to themselves; thence by delighting in fatness is signified to be in a state of happiness and blessedness.

In Jeremiah:

"I will fill the soul of the priests with fatness, and my people shall be satisfied with good" (31:14).

Here also fatness signifies happiness and blessing from the good of love.

In David:

"My soul shall be satisfied with fat and fatness, and my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips" (Psalm 63:5).

The soul being satisfied with fat and fatness, signifies to be filled with the good of love and with joy therefrom. To praise with joyful lips signifies to worship by means of truths which gladden the mind.

Again:

"Thy houses shall be filled with fatness, and thou shalt cause them to drink of the stream of delights" (Psalm 36:8).

The fatness with which the houses shall be filled, signifies the good of love, and happiness therefrom, houses denoting things pertaining to the mind. The river of the delights, of which they shall drink, signifies intelligence and happiness therefrom.

[3] In Isaiah:

"In this mountain shall Jehovah Zebaoth make to all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wine on the lees, of fat things full of marrow and of wine on the lees well refined" (25:6).

These things are said concerning the state of those who would acknowledge and adore the Lord. By that mountain is signified a new church from them; by the feast of fat things, of fat things full of marrow, is signified good both natural and spiritual with joy of heart; and by the lees, lees well refined, are signified truths from that good with the happiness therefrom.

In the same prophet:

"Jehovah shall give the rain of thy seed, with which thou shalt sow the earth, and bread of the produce of the earth, and it shall be fat and plenteous" (30:23).

The rain of seed signifies the multiplication of truth; and bread of produce the fructification of good. By fat and plenteous is signified good and truth with all its satisfaction and happiness.

In David:

"As yet they shall have increase in old age, they shall be fat and green, to show that Jehovah is right" (Psalm 92:14, 15).

To be fat and green signifies to be in goods and truths of doctrine.

Again:

"Jehovah shall remember all thy offerings and shall make fat thy burnt offering" (Psalm 20:3).

By offerings and burnt offering is signified worship, and by making it fat is signified that it is from the good of love.

The signification of fatness in Ezekiel 34:3; Genesis 27:39, and elsewhere is similar. Because fat and fatness signify the good of love, and because all worship, which is truly worship, must be from the good of love, therefore it was a law that all the fat in the sacrifices should be burnt upon the altar (Exodus 29:13, 22; Leviticus 1:8; 3:3-16; 4:8-35; 7:3, 4, 30, 31; 17:6; Numbers 18:17, 18); for the sacrifices and burnt offerings signified worship.

[4] Since the Jews and Israelites were only in external worship, and not at the same time in internal worship, and not therefore in any good of love, or in any good of charity and faith, they were therefore prohibited from eating fat and blood, and it was a law that if they ate these, they should be cut off (Leviticus 3:17; 7:23, 25). But to those who are in internal worship, and thence in external worship - as those will be who shall belong to the Lord's New Church - it is said, that they shall eat fat to fulness, and drink blood to drunkenness (ebrietas) (Ezekiel 39:19). Fat there signifies all the good of heaven and of the church, and blood all the truth of these. In the opposite sense the fat ones signify those who loathe good and who utterly despise and reject it (Deuteronomy 32:15; Jeremiah 5:28; 50:11; Psalm 17:10; 20:4; 68:31; 119:70; and elsewhere).

[5] Continuation.- Such, however, is not the lot of those who are continually evil, for these are in hell according to the loves of their life. There they think, and from their thought, speak, although they utter falsities; they also will, and, from their will they act, although their actions are evil. They appear, moreover to one another as men, although in the light of heaven they are of a monstrous form. It is therefore evident, why it is in accordance with a law of order relating to reformation, and called a law of Divine Providence, that a man is admitted into the truths of faith and the goods of love, only so far as he can be withheld from evils and kept in goods to the end of his life and that it is better that he should be always evil, than that he should be good and afterwards evil; for in this case he becomes profane. The Lord, who both provides and foresees all things, for this reason conceals the operations of His Providence, and to such a degree that man scarcely knows whether there is any providence at all. He permits him rather to attribute ordinary events to prudence, and contingencies to fortune, and even to ascribe many things to nature, rather than that, through any striking and manifest signs of the Divine Providence and Presence, he should plunge unreasonably into the midst of holy things in which he would not remain. The Lord also permits similar things in accordance with other laws of His Providence, namely, that man should enjoy freedom, and that in all that he does he should act according to reason, thus entirely as if from himself. For it is better that he should ascribe the operations of the Divine Providence to prudence and fortune, than that he should acknowledge them, and still live as a devil. From these facts it is evident that the laws of permission, which are numerous, proceed from the laws of Providence.

  
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Translation by Isaiah Tansley. Many thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.