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創世記第24章

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1 亞伯拉罕年紀老邁,向在一切事上耶和華都賜福給他。

2 亞伯拉罕對管理他全業最老的僕人:請你把放在我大腿

3 我要叫你指著耶和華起誓,不要為我兒子娶這迦南中的女子為妻。

4 你要往我本本族去,為我的兒子以撒娶一個妻子

5 僕人對他:倘若女子不肯跟我到這方來,我必須將你的兒子帶回你原出之麼?

6 亞伯拉罕對他:你要謹慎,不要帶我的兒子回那裡去。

7 耶和華上的曾帶領我離開父家和本族的,對我說話,向我起誓:我要將這你的後裔。他必差遣使者在你面前,你就可以從那裡為我兒子娶一個妻子

8 倘若女子不肯跟你來,我使你起的誓就與你無干了,只是不可帶我的兒子回那裡去。

9 僕人就把放在他亞伯拉罕的大腿,為這事向他起誓。

10 僕人從他人的駱駝裡取了駱駝,並帶些他人各樣的財物,起身往米所波大米去,到了拿鶴的城。

11 天將晚,眾女子出來打的時候,他便叫駱駝跪在城外的那裡。

12 耶和華─我亞伯拉罕的阿,求你施恩給我亞伯拉罕,使我今日遇見好機會。

13 我現今站在井旁,城內居民的女子們正出來打

14 我向那一個女子:請你拿下水瓶來,給我水,他若:請!我也給你的駱駝,願那女子就作你所預定給你僕人以撒的妻。這樣,我便知道你施恩給我人了。

15 話還沒有說完,不料,利百加肩頭上扛著水瓶出來。利百加是彼土利所生的;彼土利是亞伯拉罕兄弟拿鶴妻子密迦的兒子

16 那女子容貌極其俊美,還是處女,也未曾有親近他。他到井旁,打滿了瓶,又上來。

17 僕人跑上前去迎著他,:求你將瓶裡的給我一點喝。

18 女子:我!就急忙拿瓶來,托在上給他

19 女子給他了,就:我再為你的駱駝打水,叫駱駝足。

20 他就急忙把瓶裡的水倒在裡,又跑到旁打水,就為所有的駱駝打上水來。

21 定睛看他,一句話也不,要曉得耶和華賜他通達的道路沒有。

22 駱駝足了,那就拿一個環,重半舍客勒,兩個鐲,重舍客勒,給了那女子,

23 :請告訴我,你是誰的女兒?你父親家裡有我們住宿的地方沒有?

24 女子:我是密迦與拿鶴之子彼土利的女兒;

25 我們家裡足有糧,也有住宿的地方

26 就低頭向耶和華下拜,

27 耶和華─我亞伯拉罕的是應當稱頌的,因他不斷地以慈愛誠實待我人。至於我,耶和華上引領我,直走到我人的兄弟家裡。

28 女子跑回去,照著這些告訴他母親和他家裡的人。

29 利百加有一個哥哥,名叫拉班,看見金環,又看見金鐲在他妹子的手上,並聽見他妹子利百加的話,說那對我如此如此說。拉班就跑出來往井旁去,到那跟前,見他仍站在駱駝旁邊的井旁那裡,

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31 便對他:你這蒙耶和華賜福的,請進,為甚麼站在外邊?我已經收拾了房屋,也為駱駝預備了地方

32 就進了拉班的家。拉班卸了駱駝,用料餵上,拿和跟隨的

33 把飯擺在他面前,叫他,他卻:我不,等我明白我的事情再。拉班:請

34 :我是亞伯拉罕的僕人

35 耶和華大大地賜福人,使他昌大,又賜羊群牛群、僕婢、駱駝,和

36 人的妻子撒拉年老的時候人生了一個兒子;我人也將一切所有的都了這個兒子

37 人叫我起誓說:你不要為我兒子娶迦南的女子為妻。

38 你要往我父家、我本族那裡去,為我的兒子娶一個妻子

39 我對我:恐怕女子不肯跟我來。

40 他就:我所事奉的耶和華必要差遣他的使者與你同去,叫你的道路通達,你就得以在我父家、我本族那裡,給我的兒子娶一個妻子

41 只要你到了我本族那裡,我使你起的誓就與你無干。他們若不把女子交你,我使你起的誓也與你無干。

42 我今日到了井旁,便耶和華─我亞伯拉罕的阿,願你叫我所行的道路通達。

43 我如今站在井旁,對那一個出來打的女子:請你把你瓶裡的給我一點喝;

44 他若:你只管,我也為你的駱駝打水;願那女子就作耶和華給我兒子所預定的妻。

45 裡的話還沒有完,利百加就出來,肩頭上扛著水瓶,到井旁打水。我便對他:請你給我水喝。

46 他就急忙從肩頭上拿瓶來,:請!我也給你的駱駝。我便了;他又給我的駱駝了。

47 我問他:你是誰的女兒?他:我是密迦與拿鶴之子彼土利的女兒。我就把環子戴在他鼻子上,把鐲子戴在他兩上。

48 隨後我低頭向耶和華下拜,稱頌耶和華─我亞伯拉罕的;因為他引導我走合式的道路,使我得著我兄弟的孫女,給我人的兒子為妻。

49 現在你們若願以慈愛誠實待我人,就告訴我;若不然,也告訴我,使我可以或向左,或向右。

50 拉班和彼土利回答:這事乃出於耶和華我們不能向你歹。

51 看哪,利百加在你面前,可以將他帶去,照著耶和華的,給你人的兒子為妻。

52 亞伯拉罕的僕人見他們這,就向耶和華俯伏在

53 當下僕人拿出器、器,和衣服利百加,又將寶物送哥哥和他母親

54 僕人和跟從他的人吃了了,住了一夜。早晨起來,僕人就:請打發我回我人那裡去罷。

55 利百加的哥哥和他母親:讓女子同我們,至少十,然他可以去。

56 僕人耶和華既賜給我通達的道路,你們不要耽誤我,請打發我走,回我人那裡去罷。

57 他們我們把女子來問問他,

58 了利百加來,問他:你和這同去麼?利百加:我去。

59 於是他們打發妹子利百加和他的母,同亞伯拉罕的僕人,並跟從僕人的,都走了。

60 他們就給利百加祝福:我們的妹子阿,願你作萬人的母!願你的後裔得著仇敵的城

61 利百加和他的使女們起來,駱駝,跟著那僕人僕人就帶著利百加走了。

62 那時,以撒,剛從庇耳•拉海•萊回

63 天將晚,以撒在田間默想,舉目一,見來了駱駝

64 利百加舉目以撒,就急忙下了駱駝

65 問那僕人:這田間走來迎接我們的是誰?僕人:是我的。利百加就拿帕子蒙上臉。

66 僕人就將所辦的一切事都告訴以撒

67 以撒便領利百加進了他母親撒拉的帳棚,娶了他為妻,並且他。以撒自從他母親不在了,這才得了安慰

   

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Arcana Coelestia#3063

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3063. 'And deal mercifully' means an influx of love. This is clear from the consideration that the essence of mercy is love. Love itself is converted into mercy and becomes mercy when anyone in need of help is regarded with love or charity. Consequently mercy is the expression of love towards those who are needy and wretched. But here in the internal sense 'mercy' is used to mean love and 'dealing mercifully' an influx of love, since it was an influx from the Lord's Divine itself into His Divine Human. In fact it was by means of Divine love that is the Lord's that He made His Human Divine, for love is the very being (esse) of life, while Divine love exists in none but the Lord. See what has been stated already about the Lord's love in the following places:

The Lord's life was a love towards the whole human race, 2253, and from that love He did battle, 1690, 1789, 1812, 1813, 1820.

It surpasses all understanding, 1799, 2077.

The Lord is Divine love itself, 2077, 2500, 2572.

Jehovah is love, 1735.

Nothing apart from love has life, 1589.

Anyone who possesses mutual love possesses the Lord's life, 1799, 1802, 1803.

Love and charity are the celestial itself, 1419, 1824.

  
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Arcana Coelestia#1820

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1820. 'By what shall I know that I shall inherit it?' means temptation directed against the Lord's love which wished to be made quite certain of the outcome. This becomes clear from the feeling of doubt which the words express. Anyone who is undergoing temptation experiences doubt as regards the end in view. That end is the love against which evil spirits and evil genii fight and in so doing place the end in doubt. And the greater his love is, the more they place it in doubt. Unless the end in view which a person loves is placed in doubt, and even in despair, there would be no temptation. A feeling of certainty about the outcome precedes, and is part of, victory.

[2] Since few people know what temptations really are, let a brief explanation of them be given here. Evil spirits never contend against any other things than those which a person loves, and the more intensely he loves them the more fiercely do those spirits contend. Evil genii are the ones that contend against the things of affection for what is good, and evil spirits are the ones that do so against the affection for what is true. As soon as they detect even the smallest thing that a person loves or get a scent, so to speak, of what is delightful and precious to him, they attack it instantly and try to destroy it, and so the whole person, since his life consists in his loves. Nothing ever gives them greater delight than to destroy a person; nor would they leave off but would continue even for ever, if the Lord did not drive them away. Those who are ill-disposed and deceitful worm their way into those very loves by flattering them, and in this way they bring a person in among themselves. And once they have so brought him in, they very soon try to destroy his loves and so to slay that person, which they do in a thousand unimaginable ways.

[3] Nor are the attacks which they make solely those in which they reason against goods and truths - the making of such attacks being nothing to them, for if they were defeated a thousand times over they would carry on with them because their supply of reasonings against goods and truths can never be exhausted. Rather, in their attacks, they pervert goods and truths, setting these ablaze with a certain kind of evil desire and of persuasion, so that the person himself does not know any other than that similar desire and persuasion reign within him. At the same time they infuse those goods and truths with delight which they seize from the delight which that person has in some other thing. In these ways they infect and infest him most deceitfully, doing it all so skillfully by leading him from the one thing to another that if the Lord did not come to his aid, that person would never know other than that it was indeed so.

[4] They act in similar ways against the affections for truth that constitute conscience. As soon as they become aware of anything, whatever the nature of it, that is a constituent part of that conscience, they mould an affection out of the falsities and weaknesses that exist with that person, and by means of that affection they dim the light of truth and so pervert it, or else they cause him anxiety and torment. In addition to this they keep his thought firmly fixed on one single thing; and they fill that thought with delusions, at the same time secretly incorporating evil desires within those delusions. Besides this they use countless other devices which cannot possibly be described so as to be understood. These are a few of the ways - and only very general ones - by which they are able to get at a person's conscience, which above all else they take the greatest delight in destroying.

[5] These few, indeed very few, observations show the nature of temptations - in general that the nature of a person's temptations is as the nature of his loves. They also show the nature of the Lord's temptations, that these were the most dreadful of all, for as is the intensity of the love so is the dreadfulness of the temptations. The Lord's love - a most ardent love - was the salvation of the whole human race; it was therefore a total affection for good and affection for truth in the highest degree. Against these all the hells contended, employing the most malicious forms of guile and venom, but the Lord nevertheless conquered them all by His own power. Victories have this effect, that after they have been won, wicked genii and spirits do not dare to attempt anything; for their life consists in their being able to destroy, but when they perceive that a person is able to withstand them, they flee even when they are making their first assault, as they usually do when they draw near to merely the threshold of heaven. They are straightaway gripped with horror and dread and hurl themselves back in retreat.

  
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