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创世记第34章

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1 利亚给雅各所生的女儿底拿出去,要见那的女子们。

2 的主─希未人、哈抹的儿子示剑见他,就拉住他,与他行淫,玷辱他。

3 示剑的系恋雅各的女儿底拿,喜这女子,甜言蜜语地安慰他。

4 示剑对他父亲哈抹:求你为我聘这女子为妻。

5 雅各见示剑玷污了他的女儿底拿。那时他的儿子们正和群畜在田野,雅各就闭口不言,等他们回

6 示剑的父亲哈抹出来见雅各,要和他商议。

7 雅各的儿子们见这事,就从田野回,人人忿恨,十分恼怒;因示剑在以色列家作了丑事,与雅各的女儿行淫,这本是不该做的事。

8 哈抹和他们商议:我儿子示剑的心恋慕这女子,求你们将他我的儿子为妻。

9 你们与我们彼此结亲;你们可以把女儿我们,也可以娶我们女儿

10 你们与我们罢!这都在你们面前,只管在此居住,做买卖,置产业。

11 示剑对女儿的父亲弟兄们:但愿我在你们眼前蒙恩,你们向我要甚麽,我必你们。

12 任凭向我要多重的聘金和礼物,我必照你们所你们;只要把女子我为妻。

13 雅各的儿子们因为示剑玷污了他们的妹子底拿,就用诡诈的话回答示剑和他父亲哈抹,

14 对他们我们不能把我们的妹子没有受割礼的人为妻,因为那是我们的羞辱。

15 惟有一件才可以应允:若你们所有的男丁都受割礼,和我们一样,

16 我们就把女儿你们,也娶你们的女儿我们便与你们同,两下成为样的人民。

17 倘若你们不我们割礼我们就带着妹子走了。

18 哈抹和他的儿子示剑喜欢这

19 那少年人做这事并不迟延,因为他喜爱雅各的女儿;他在他父亲家中也是人最尊重的。

20 哈抹和他儿子示剑到本城的门口,对本城的人

21 这些人与我们和睦,不如许他们在这居住,做买卖;这也宽阔,足可容下他们。我们可以娶他们的女儿为妻,也可以把我们女儿他们。

22 惟有件事我们必须做,他们才肯应允和我们,成为样的人民:就是我们中间所有的男丁都要受割礼,和他们样。

23 他们的群畜、货财,和一切的牲口岂不都归我们麽?只要依从他们,他们就与我们

24 凡从城出入的人就都从哈抹和他儿子示剑的话;於是凡从城出入的男丁都受了割礼

25 第三,众正在疼痛的时候,雅各的两个儿子,就是底拿的哥哥西缅和利未,各拿刀,趁着众想不到的时候到城中,把一切杀了,

26 又用刀杀了哈抹和他儿子示剑,把底拿从示剑家里带出来就走了。

27 雅各的儿子们因为他们的妹子受了玷污,就被杀的人那里,掳掠那城,

28 夺了他们的羊群牛群,和,并城里田间所有的;

29 又把他们一切货财、孩子、妇女,并各房中所有的,都掳掠去了。

30 雅各西缅和利未:你们连累我,使我在这居民中,就是在迦南人和比利洗人中,有了名。我的人丁既然稀少,他们必聚集来击杀我,我和全家的人都必灭绝。

31 他们:他岂可待我们的妹子如同妓女麽?

   

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Arcana Coelestia#4502

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4502. 'And they took Dinah from Shechem's house, and went away' means that they took away the affection for truth. This is clear from the representation of 'Dinah' as the affection for truth, dealt with above in 4498. The meaning according to the internal proximate sense is that they took away the affection for truth from those who were part of the remnants of the Most Ancient Church, for the phrase 'from Shechem's house' is used and by 'Shechem's house' is meant the good of truth of that Church. But as the subject here is the utter destruction of truth and good among those descended from Jacob, who are meant here by Jacob's sons, and as every detail mentioned has a specific application to the particular subject that is under discussion, 'Shechem's house' therefore means here simply the good of truth, like that which had existed with the member of the Most Ancient Church. Thus the meaning is that this good was wiped out among the nation descended from Jacob. For in the internal sense of the Word every expression or name means some aspect of the subject to which it belongs. At the same time the extinction of good and truth among Hamor and Shechem and his family is meant, because they accepted external usages, as shown in 4493.

[2] The truth of what has been explained so far regarding Simeon and Levi becomes clear from the prophetical utterances of Jacob before he died, where the following occurs,

Simeon and Levi are brothers; instruments of violence are their swords. Into their secret place let my soul not come; in their congregation let not my glory be united; for in their anger they killed a man, in their pleasure they hamstrung an ox. Cursed be their anger, for it is fierce, and their fury, for it is severe. I will divide them in Jacob, and will scatter them in Israel. Genesis 49:5-7.

'Simeon and Levi' means the truth of faith which among the descendants of Jacob was turned into falsity, and the good of charity into evil, as above in 4499, 4500. They are called 'brothers' because good is the brother of truth, or charity is the brother of faith, 4498. 'Instruments of violence are their swords' means that falsities and evils did violence to truths and goods, 4499. 'Into their secret place let my soul not come, in their congregation let not my glory be united' means severance as regards life and doctrine, for in the Word 'soul' is used to refer to life, 1000, 1040, 1742, 3299, and 'glory' to doctrine. 'For in their anger they killed a man, in their pleasure they hamstrung an ox' means that with evil intent they annihilated the truth of the Church and the good of the Church, 'a man' meaning the truth of the Church, 3134, and 'an ox' its good, 2180, 2566, 2781. 'Cursed be their anger, for it is fierce, and their fury, for it is severe' means the punishment incurred for turning away from truth and good - 'cursing' meaning turning oneself away and also being punished on that account, 245, 379, 1423, 3530, 3584, while anger means the departure from good, and 'fury' the departure from truth, 357, 3614. 'I will divide them in Jacob, and will scatter them in Israel' means that goods and truths will exist no longer within either the external or the internal aspect of their Church - 'dividing' and 'scattering' meaning separating and completely removing from them, 4424, 'Jacob' being the external aspect of the Church and 'Israel' the internal, 4286.

[3] These things are said about Simeon and Levi in this prophetical utterance because those two mean in general the truth and good of the Church, and when these cease to exist, and more so when falsities and evils take their place, the Church has been wiped out. Nothing other than this is contained in these prophetical words, as may be seen from the fact that neither the tribe of Simeon nor the tribe of Levi was cursed more than any other tribe. For the tribe of Levi was selected for the priesthood, and the tribe of Simeon existed as one of the rest of the tribes of Israel.

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