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創世記第49章

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1 雅各了他的兒子們來,:你們都來聚集,我好把你們日後必遇的事告訴你們。

2 雅各的兒子們,你們要聚集而,要你們父親以色列的話。

3 流便哪,你是我的長子,是我力量強壯的時候生的,本當大有尊榮,權力超眾。

4 但你放縱情慾,滾沸如,必不得居首位;因為你上了你父親,污穢了我的榻。

5 西緬和利未是弟兄;他們的刀劍是殘忍的器具。

6 我的靈阿,不要與他們同謀;我的心哪,不要與他們聯絡;因為他們趁怒殺害命,任意砍斷牛腿大筋。

7 他們的怒氣暴烈可咒;他們的忿恨殘忍可詛。我要使他們分居在雅各家裡,散住在以色列地中。

8 猶大阿,你弟兄們必讚美你;你必掐住仇敵的頸項;你父親兒子們必向你下拜。

9 猶大是個小獅子;我兒阿,你抓了食便上去。你屈下身去,臥如公獅,蹲如母獅,誰敢惹你?

10 圭必不離猶大,杖必不離他兩之間,直等細羅(就是賜平安者)到,萬民都必歸順。

11 猶大把小拴在葡萄樹上,把駒拴在美好的葡萄樹上。他在葡萄酒中洗了衣服,在葡萄汁中洗了袍褂。

12 他的眼睛必因酒紅潤;他的牙齒必因奶白亮。

13 西布倫必住在口,必成為停口;他的境界必延到西頓。

14 以薩迦是個強壯的,臥在羊圈之中。

15 他以安靜為佳,以肥為美,便低肩背重,成為服苦的僕人。

16 但必判斷他的民,作以色列支派之

17 但必作道上的中的虺,咬傷蹄,使騎的墜落於後。

18 耶和華阿,我向來等候你的救恩

19 迦得必被敵軍追逼,他卻要追逼他們的腳跟

20 亞設之地必出肥美的糧食,且出君的美味。

21 拿弗他利是被釋放的母鹿;他出嘉美的言語。

22 約瑟是多結果子的樹枝,是泉旁多結果的枝子;他的枝條探出外。

23 弓箭手將他苦害,向他射箭,逼迫他。

24 但他的仍舊堅硬;他的健壯敏捷。這是因以色列的牧者,以色列的─就是雅各的大能者。

25 父親的神必幫助你;那全能者必將上所有的福,地裡所藏的福,以及生產乳養的福,都賜給你。

26 父親所祝的福,勝過我祖先所祝的福,如永世的山嶺,至極的邊界;這些福必降在約瑟的上,臨到那與弟兄迥別之人的頂上。

27 便雅憫是個撕掠的早晨他所抓的,晚上要分他所奪的。

28 這一切是以色列的十二支派;這也是他們的父親對他們所的話,為他們所祝的福,都是按著各人的福分為他們祝福

29 他又囑咐他們:我將要歸到我列祖(原文作本民)那裡,你們要將我葬在赫人以弗崙田間的洞裡,與我祖我父在一處,

30 就是在迦南幔利前、麥比拉田間的洞;那洞和田是亞伯拉罕向赫人以弗崙買來為業,作墳的。

31 他們在那裡葬了亞伯拉罕和他妻撒拉,又在那裡葬了以撒和他的妻子利百加;我也在那裡葬了利亞。

32 那塊田和田間的洞原是向赫人買的。

33 雅各囑咐眾子已畢,就把收在床上,氣絕而死,歸到列祖(原文作本民)那裡去了。

   

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Apocalypse Revealed#354

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354. Of the tribe of Naphtali twelve thousand were sealed. This symbolizes a perception of useful endeavor, and of what is useful, in those people who will be in the New Heaven and in the Lord's New Church.

In the highest sense Naphtali symbolizes the intrinsic power of the Lord's Divine humanity; in the spiritual sense, temptation or trial, and victory; and in the natural sense, resistance on the part of the natural self. For his name was derived from a word meaning wrestling. Here, however, Naphtali symbolizes a perception of useful endeavor, and of what is useful, because in the series he comes after Asher, who symbolizes a love of useful services. Moreover those people who have overcome in temptations or trials have an interior perception of useful ends; for temptations or trials open the interior constituents of the mind.

The perception that those people have is described in Jeremiah 31:33-34. 1 They sense in themselves what is good, and see in themselves what is true.

That the tribe of Naphtali symbolizes angels and people in respect to that perception can be confirmed from the following verses in the Word:

...Naphtali... on the heights of the field. (Judges 5:18)

The heights of the field are the interior qualities of the Church as regards perception.

O Naphtali, abounding in favor, and full of the blessing of Jehovah, possess the west and the south. (Deuteronomy 33:23)

To possess the west is to possess the goodness of a love that serves, and the south is the light of wisdom which constitutes the aforesaid perception.

Naphtali is a deer let loose, who provides elegant discourses. (Genesis 49:21)

Thus is described the state after temptation or trial as to its free expression from perception.

It is recorded also that a certain man of the tribe of Naphtali, "being filled with wisdom, understanding and knowledge," did all work in bronze for Solomon's temple (1 Kings 7:14).

The narrative portions of the Word as regards names and tribes are just as symbolic as the prophetic portions.

脚注:

1. "But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says Jehovah: I will put My law in their minds and write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. No more shall every man teach his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, 'Know Jehovah,' for they all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says Jehovah. For I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more."

  
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Many thanks to the General Church of the New Jerusalem, and to Rev. N.B. Rogers, translator, for the permission to use this translation.