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創世記第41章

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1 過了兩年,法老做夢,夢見自己站在河邊,

2 隻母從河裡上來,又美好又肥壯,在蘆荻中吃

3 又有隻母從河裡上來,又醜陋又乾,與那隻母一同站在河邊。

4 這又醜陋又乾隻母盡了那又美好又肥壯的隻母法老就醒了。

5 他又睡著,第二回做夢,夢見棵麥子長了個穗子,又肥大又佳美,

6 又長了個穗子,又細弱又被東風吹焦了。

7 這細弱的穗子了那個又肥大又飽滿的穗子。法老醒了,不料是個夢。

8 到了早晨法老心裡不安,就差人召了埃及所有的術士和博士來;法老就把所做的夢告訴他們,卻沒有人能給法老圓解。

9 那時酒政對法老:我今日想起我的罪來。

10 從前法老惱怒臣僕,把我和膳長下在護衛長府內的監裡。

11 我們同夜各做夢,各夢都有講解。

12 在那裡同著我們有一個希伯來的少年,是護衛長的僕人我們告訴他,他就把我們的夢圓解,是按著各的夢圓解的。

13 後來正如他給我們圓解的成就了;我官復原職,膳長被起來了。

14 法老遂即差人去召約瑟,他們便急忙帶他出監,他就剃頭,刮臉,換衣裳,進到法老面前。

15 法老對約瑟:我做了一夢,沒有人能解;我見人,你了夢就能解。

16 約瑟回答法老:這不在乎我,必將平安的話回答法老

17 法老對約瑟:我夢見我站在河邊,

18 隻母從河裡上來,又肥壯又美好,在蘆荻中吃

19 又有隻母上來,又軟弱又醜陋又乾瘦,在埃及,我沒有見過這樣不好的。

20 這又乾瘦又醜陋的母盡了那以先的隻肥母

21 吃了以後卻看不出是吃了,那醜陋的樣子仍舊和先前一樣。我就醒了。

22 我又夢見棵麥子,長了個穗子,又飽滿又佳美,

23 又長了個穗子,枯槁細弱,被東風吹焦了。

24 這些細弱的穗子了那個佳美的穗子。我將這夢告訴了術士,卻沒有人能給我解說。

25 約瑟對法老法老的夢乃是個。已將所要做的事指示法老了。

26 年,穗子也是年;這夢乃是個。

27 那隨上來的隻又乾瘦又醜陋的母年,那個虛空、被東風吹焦的穗子也是年,都是個荒年。

28 這就是我對法老已將所要做的事顯明給法老了。

29 埃及豐年,

30 又要來個荒年,甚至埃及忘了先前的豐收,全必被饑荒所滅。

31 因那以的饑荒甚大,便不覺得先前的豐收了。

32 至於法老兩回做夢,是因命定這事,而且必速速成就。

33 所以,法老當揀選一個有聰明有智慧的,派他治理埃及

34 法老當這樣行,又派員管理這。當個豐年的時候,征收埃及的五分之一,

35 叫他們把將豐年一切的糧食聚斂起,積蓄五穀,收存在各城裡做食物,歸於法老的

36 所積蓄的糧食可以防備埃及將來的個荒年,免得這被饑荒所滅。

37 法老和他一切臣僕都以這事為妙。

38 法老對臣僕:像這樣的,有的靈在他裡頭,我們豈能得著呢?

39 法老對約瑟既將這事都指示你,可見沒有人像你這樣有聰明有智慧。

40 你可以掌管我的家;我的民都必聽從你的話。惟獨在寶座上我比你大。

41 法老又對約瑟:我派你治理埃及

42 法老就摘下上打印的戒指,戴在約瑟的上,給他穿上細麻衣,把鍊戴在他的頸項上,

43 約瑟坐他的副車,喝道的在前呼叫說:跪下。這樣、法老派他治理埃及

44 法老對約瑟:我是法老,在埃及,若沒有你的命令,不許擅自辦事(原文作動)。

45 法老賜名約瑟,撒發那忒巴內亞,又將安城的祭司波提非拉的女兒亞西納他為妻。約瑟就出去巡行埃及

46 約瑟見埃及法老的時候年三十歲。他從法老面前出去,遍行埃及

47 個豐年之內,的出產極豐極盛(原文作一把一把的),

48 約瑟聚歛埃及個豐年一切的糧食,把糧食積存在各城裡;各城周圍田的糧食都積存在本城裡。

49 約瑟積蓄五穀甚多,如同邊的沙,無法計算,因為穀不可勝

50 荒年未到以前,安城的祭司波提非拉的女兒亞西納給約瑟生了兩個兒子。

51 約瑟給長子起名瑪拿西(就是使之忘了的意思),因為他使我忘了一切的困苦和我父的全家。

52 他給次子起名以法蓮(就是使之昌盛的意思),因為他使我在受苦的方昌盛。

53 埃及個豐年一完,

54 個荒年就來了。正如約瑟所的,各都有饑荒;惟獨埃及有糧食。

55 及至埃及有了饑荒,眾民向法老哀求糧食,法老對他們:你們往約瑟那裡去,凡他所的,你們都要做。

56 當時饑荒遍滿天下,約瑟開了各處的倉,糶糧給埃及人;在埃及饑荒甚大。

57 的人都往埃及去,到約瑟那裡糴糧,因為天下的饑荒甚大。

   

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Arcana Coelestia#5365

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5365. 'And the people cried out to Pharaoh for bread' means the need of good which was felt by truth. This is clear from the meaning of 'crying out' as the expression of someone enduring pain and grief, and so of someone in need; from the meaning of 'people' as truth, dealt with in 1259, 1260, 3295, 3581; from the representation of 'Pharaoh' as the natural, dealt with in 5079, 5080, 5095, 5160; and from the meaning of 'bread' as the celestial element of love, and so good, dealt with in 276, 680, 2165, 2177, 3464, 3478, 3735, 3813, 4211, 4217, 4735, 4976. From these meanings it follows that 'the people cried out to Pharaoh for bread' means the need of good that was felt by truth in the natural. This meaning seems, it is true, to be remote from the historical sense of the letter. Nevertheless, since people acquainted with the internal sense understand 'crying out', 'the people', 'Pharaoh', and 'bread' in no other way than mentioned above, such is the meaning that emerges from those words.

[2] What is implied by the need of good which was felt by truth must be stated. Truth has a need of good, and good has a need of truth; also, when truth has a need of good, truth is joined to good, and when good has a need of truth, good is joined to truth. The reciprocal joining together of good and truth - that is to say, the joining of truth to good, and of good to truth - is the heavenly marriage. During the initial phases when a person is being regenerated truth is multiplied, but good less so. And because at these times truth has no good to which it is joined, truth is therefore drawn into and deposited within the interior parts of the natural, so that it may be called forth from there in the measure that good is increased. In this state truth stands in need of good, and in the measure that good enters the natural a joining of truth to good is effected. Even so, this joining together does not lead to any fruitfulness. But once the person has been regenerated good increases, and as it does so it stands in need of truth and also acquires truth to itself and becomes joined to it. This is a joining of good to truth, and when this takes place truth is made fruitful by good, and good by truth.

[3] This process is one about which people in the world are totally ignorant, whereas those in heaven have a very good knowledge of it. If people in the world however knew, and not only knew but also had a perception of what celestial love or love to the Lord was, and what spiritual love or charity towards the neighbour was, they would also know what good was; for all good is the object of those loves. Above all they would know that good had a desire for truth, and truth had a desire for good, and that this desire and the essential nature of it determine the extent to which the two are joined together. Such would be evident to them from the fact that whenever they are thinking about truth, good presents itself linked together with that truth; and when good is stimulated, truth presents itself linked together with that good. And whenever both present themselves together they are accompanied by affection, desire, delight. or sacred yearning, from which they would then know what the joining together was essentially like. But because no knowledge is acquired by them as a result of an inner awareness or perception of what good is, such matters do not begin to be recognized by them. For what people know nothing about is unintelligible to them even if it happens to them.

[4] Also, because people are ignorant of what spiritual good is - that it is charity towards the neighbour - controversy therefore exists in the world, especially among the learned, over what the highest good may be. Scarcely anyone says 1 it is the feeling of delight, bliss, blessedness, and happiness which flows from mutual love that does not have any selfish or worldly end in view attached to it and which constitutes heaven itself. From this it is also evident that the world at the present day knows nothing at all about what spiritual good is. Still less does it know that good and truth form themselves into a marriage, or that heaven consists in this marriage, or that those in whom the marriage exists possess wisdom and intelligence, or that they enjoy feelings of bliss and happiness in endless, indescribable variety. The world knows nothing about even a single one of those variations; consequently it neither acknowledges nor believes that any such thing exists, when in fact it is heaven itself or heavenly joy itself, about which the Church has so much to say.

脚注:

1. Reading dicit (says), which Swedenborg has in his rough draft, for dixit (has said)

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