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创世记第29章

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1 雅各起行,到了东方人之

2 见田间有一,有卧在旁;因为人饮羊群都是用那里的上的石头的。

3 常有羊群在那里聚集,牧人把石头转离,随後又把石头放在的原处。

4 雅各对牧人弟兄们,你们是那里来的?他们:我们是哈兰来的。

5 他问他们:拿鹤的孙子拉班,你们认识麽?他们:我们认识。

6 雅各:他平安麽?他们:平安。看哪,他女儿拉结领着来了

7 雅各:日头还,不是羊群聚集的时候,你们不如饮,再去放一放。

8 他们:我们不能,必等羊群聚齐,人把石头转离才可饮

9 雅各正和他们说话的时候,拉结领着他父亲来了,因为那些是他牧放的。

10 雅各见母舅拉班的女儿拉结和母舅拉班的羊群,就上前把石头转离,饮他母舅拉班的羊群

11 雅各与拉结亲嘴,就放声而哭。

12 雅各告诉拉结,自己是他父亲的外甥,是利百加的儿子,拉结就跑去告诉他父亲

13 拉班见外甥雅各的信息,就跑去迎接,抱着他,与他亲嘴,领他到自己的家。雅各将一切的情由告诉拉班

14 拉班对他:你实在是我的。雅各就和他同一个月

15 拉班雅各:你虽是我的骨肉(原文作弟兄),岂可白白地服事我?请告诉我,你要甚麽为工价?

16 拉班有两个女儿,大的名叫利亚,小的名叫拉结。

17 利亚的眼睛没有神气,拉结却生得美貌俊秀。

18 雅各拉结,就:我愿为你小女儿拉结服事你年。

19 拉班:我把他你,胜似,你与我同罢!

20 雅各就为拉结服事了年;他因为深爱拉结,就看这年如同几

21 雅各拉班:日期已经满了,求你把我的妻子给我,我好与他同房。

22 拉班就摆设筵席,请齐了那地方的众人。

23 晚上,拉班将女儿利亚送给雅各,雅各就与他同房。

24 拉班又将婢女悉帕女儿利亚作使女。

25 到了早晨,雅各一看是利亚,就对拉班:你向我做的是甚麽事呢?我服事你,不是为拉结麽?你为甚麽欺哄我呢?

26 拉班:大女儿还没有人,先把小女儿人,在我们这地方没有这规矩。

27 你为这个满了日,我就把那个也你,你再为他服事我年。

28 雅各就如此行。满了利亚的七日,拉班便将女儿拉结雅各为妻。

29 拉班又将婢女辟拉女儿拉结作使女。

30 雅各也与拉结同房,并且拉结胜似利亚,於是又服事了拉班年。

31 耶和华见利亚失宠(原文作被恨;下同),就使他生育,拉结却不生育。

32 利亚怀孕生子,就给他起名流便(就是有儿子的意思),因而耶和华见我的苦情,如今我的丈夫我。

33 他又怀孕生子,就耶和华因为见我失宠,所以又赐我这个儿子,於是他起名西缅(就是见的意思)。

34 他又怀孕生子,起名利未(就是联合的意思),:我给丈夫生了儿子,他必与我联合。

35 他又怀孕生子,:这回我要赞美耶和华,因此给他起名犹大(就是赞美的意思)。这才停了生育。

   

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Arcana Coelestia#3854

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3854. 'Jehovah saw' means the Lord's foresight and providence. This is clear from the meaning of 'seeing' in reference to the Lord as foresight and providence, dealt with in the next verse where Reuben is the subject, who was so named from the expression 'to see' - 'Jehovah' being the Lord, see 1343, 1736, 1793, 2156, 2329, 2921, 3023, 3035.

[2] As regards foresight and providence in general, foresight has reference more to man, providence more to the Lord. The Lord foresaw from eternity what the human race was going to be like in the future and what every member of it was going to be like, and that evil was going to increase all the time, so that at length man, of himself, would rush headlong into hell. That being so, the Lord has provided not only the means by which He makes it possible for him to be diverted from hell and led towards heaven, but also does in His providence divert and lead him all the time. The Lord also foresaw that it would be impossible for any good to take root in man except in his freedom, for that which does not take root in freedom is dispelled at the first sign of evil and of temptation. This the Lord foresaw, as well as the fact that of himself, that is, from his own freedom, man would be inclined towards the deepest hell. That being so, the Lord provided that if he would not allow himself to be led in freedom towards heaven he could still be diverted towards a milder hell; but if he would allow himself to be led in freedom towards good then he could be diverted towards heaven. From these considerations one may see what foresight is and what providence is, and that appropriate provisions are made for things that are foreseen.

[3] From this it may be seen how far someone errs who believes that the Lord has not foreseen and does not see the smallest individual thing with man, or that within the smallest individual thing He does not foresee and lead, when in fact the Lord's foresight and providence are present within the tiniest details of all the smallest individual things with him, and in details so tiny that it is impossible to comprehend in any manner of thought one in many millions of them. For every smallest fraction of a moment of a person's life entails a chain of consequences extending into eternity. Indeed every one is like a new beginning to those that follow, and so every single moment of the life both of his understanding and of his will is a new beginning. And since the Lord foresaw from eternity what man was going to be like in the future and even into eternity it is clear that providence is present in the smallest individual things, and, as has been stated, is governing him and diverting him so that he may be such, this being achieved by constant re-shaping of his freedom. But this subject will in the Lord's Divine mercy be discussed further later on.

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