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Genesis第34章

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1 Vyšla pak Dína, dcera Líe, kterouž porodila Jákobovi, aby se dívala na dceryzemě.

2 Kteroužto uzřev Sichem, syn Emora Hevejského, knížete v krajině té, vzal ji, i ležel s ní, a ponížil jí.

3 I připojila se duše jeho k Díně, dceři Jákobově; a zamilovav děvečku, mluvil k srdci jejímu.

4 Mluvil potom Sichem k Emorovi, otci svému, těmito slovy: Vezmi mi děvečku tuto za manželku.

5 Uslyšev pak Jákob, že poškvrnil Díny dcery jeho, (a synové jeho byli s stádem na poli), mlčel, až oni přišli.

6 Tedy vyšel Emor, otec Sichemův, k Jákobovi, aby mluvil s ním o to.

7 A v tom synové Jákobovi přišli s pole; a uslyšavše o tom, bolestí naplněni jsou muži ti, a rozhněvali se velmi, proto že hanebnou věc učinil v Izraeli, ležav se dcerou Jákobovou, čehož činiti nenáleželo.

8 I mluvil Emor s nimi na tento způsob: Sichem, syn můj, hoří milostí k vaší dceři; prosím, dejte mu ji za manželku.

9 A spřízněte se s námi: Dcery své dávejte nám, a naše Dcery pojímejte sobě.

10 A bydlete s námi, nebo všecka země bude před vámi; osaďte se a obchod veďte v ní, a vládněte jí.

11 Mluvil i Sichem otci jejímu, a bratřím jejím: Nechť naleznu milost před očima vašima, dám, co mi koli díte.

12 Jmenujte mi věno i dary jak chcete veliké, dám, jak mi koli řeknete; jen mi tu děvečku dejte za manželku.

13 Odpovídajíce pak synové Jákobovi Sichemovi a Emorovi, otci jeho, lstivě mluvili, proto že poškvrnil Díny sestry jich.

14 A řekli jim: Nemůžeme učiniti toho, abychom dali sestru svou za muže neobřezaného; nebo to ohavnost jest u nás.

15 Než na tento způsob vám povolíme: Jestliže se chcete srovnati s námi, aby obřezán byl každý z vás pohlaví mužského:

16 Tedy budeme dávati dcery své vám, a dcery vaše bráti sobě; a budeme bydliti s vámi, a budeme lid jeden.

17 Pakli neuposlechnete nás, abyste se obřezali, vezmeme zase dceru svou a odejdeme.

18 Tedy líbila se řeč jejich Emorovi i Sichemovi, synu Emorovu.

19 A nemeškal mládenec učiniti toho; nebo se mu zalíbila dcera Jákobova. A on byl nejvzácnější ze všech v domě otce svého.

20 I přišel Emor a Sichem, syn jeho, k bráně města svého; a mluvili mužům města svého, řkouce:

21 Muži tito pokojně se mají k nám, nechť tedy bydlí v zemi této, a obchod vedou v ní, (nebo země jest dosti široká a prostranná před nimi;) dcery jejich budeme sobě bráti za manželky, a dcery své budeme dávati jim.

22 Než na tento způsob přivolí nám ti muži k tomu, aby bydlili s námi, a abychom byli jeden lid: Jestliže obřezán bude každý pohlaví mužského mezi námi, tak jako oni jsou obřezáni.

23 Dobytek jejich a statek jejich, i všecka hovada jejich, zdaliž nebudou naše? Toliko v tom jim povolme, a budou bydliti s námi.

24 I uposlechli Emora a Sichema, syna jeho, všickni vycházející branou města jeho; a obřezali se všickni pohlaví mužského, což jich koli vycházelo z brány města jeho.

25 A toť dne třetího, když oni největší bolest měli, dva synové Jákobovi, Simeon a Léví, bratří Díny, vzav každý z nich meč svůj, vpadli do města směle, a pomordovali všecky pohlaví mužského.

26 Emora také a Sichema, syna jeho, zamordovali mečem, a vzavše Dínu z domu Sichemova, odešli.

27 Potom synové Jákobovi přišedše na zbité, vzebrali město, proto že poškvrnili sestry jejich.

28 Stáda jejich, a voly i osly jejich, a což bylo v městě i po poli, pobrali.

29 K tomu i všecko jmění jejich, a všecky malé dítky jejich, a ženy jejich zajali, a vybrali, co kde v domích bylo.

30 Řekl pak Jákob Simeonovi a Léví: Zkormoutili jste mne, a zošklivili jste mne u obyvatelů krajiny této, u Kananejských a Ferezejských, a já jsem s malým počtem lidí. Seberou-li se na mne, zbijí mne, a tak vyhlazen budu já i dům můj.

31 A oni odpověděli: A což měli jako nevěstky zle užívati sestry naší?

   

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Arcana Coelestia#4450

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4450. 'And intermarry with us; give your daughters to us, and take our daughters to yourselves' means the union of goods and truths. This is clear from the meaning of 'intermarrying' as union, dealt with in 4434; from the meaning of 'daughters' as affections, and so goods, dealt with in 489-491, 2362, 3963. Its being a union with truths is meant by 'give to us' and 'take to yourselves', for 'Shechem' and 'the sons of Jacob' mean truths, as shown above. From this it is evident that these words mean the union of goods and truths, that is, that through that union this new Church was to be similar to the Ancient Church not only in outward appearance but also in inward.

  
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4434. 'And his soul clung to Dinah, [the daughter of Jacob]' means the inclination to be joined to it. This is clear from the meaning of 'the soul clinging' as an inclination. It is evident that an inclination to be joined is meant because things connected with conjugial love imply in the internal sense the joining together of truth and good, and of good and truth. The reason why things connected with conjugial love imply in the internal sense that spiritual joining together is that conjugial love has its origin in the marriage of truth and good and of good and truth, see 2618, 2727-2729, 2737, 2803, 3132. Consequently the adulteration of good is meant by an act of adultery, and the falsification of truth by an act of whoredom described in the Word, 2466, 2729, 2750, 3399. From these considerations it may be seen that all the details mentioned in this chapter concerning Shechem and Dinah mean nothing else in the internal sense than the joining of truth, represented by 'Shechem', to the affection for truth, represented by 'Dinah', so that the words 'his soul clung to Dinah' mean the inclination to be joined to this affection.

[2] Since the subject in the whole of this chapter is Shechem's love towards Dinah and how he sought to make her his wife, and since things connected with conjugial love mean spiritual joining together, let it now be established from the Word that marriages and things that have a connection with marriages do not imply anything else: In John,

Let us be glad and exult, and let us give glory to Him, for the time of the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His Wife has made herself ready. Blessed are those who have been called to the marriage supper of the Lamb. Revelation 19:7, 9.

In the same book,

I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. One of the seven angels spoke to me, saying, Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb. He carried me away in the spirit onto a great and high mountain and showed me the great city, the holy Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God. Revelation 21:2, 9-10.

It is quite evident that betrothal and marriage in these places mean nothing other than the joining of the Lord to the Church, which is effected by means of truth and good. For 'the holy city' and 'the new Jerusalem' mean nothing other than the Church - 'city' meaning the truth of the Church, see 402, 2268, 2449, 2451, 2712, 2943, 3216, and 'Jerusalem' the spiritual Church, 402, 2117, 3654.

[3] In Malachi,

Judah has acted faithlessly, and abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem, for Judah has profaned the holiness of Jehovah, for he loved and married the daughter of a foreign god. Jehovah was a witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have acted faithlessly. Malachi 2:11, 14-15.

'Loving and marrying the daughter of a foreign god' means joining oneself to falsity instead of truth, which is 'the wife of one's youth'.

[4] In Ezekiel,

You took your sons and your daughters whom you had borne to Me, and sacrificed them so as to be devoured. Was the matter of your acts of whoredom a small one? You are your mother's daughter who loathes her husband and her sons, and you are the sister of your sisters who loathed their husbands and their sons. Ezekiel 16:20, 45.

This refers to the abominations of Jerusalem which, because they were the product of evils and falsities, are described in this chapter by means of the kind of things that are the direct opposite of marriages, that is to say, acts of adultery and of whoredom. 'The husbands' whom they loathed are goods, 'the sons' truths, and 'the daughters' the affections for these.

[5] In Isaiah,

Sing, O barren one that did not bear; resound with singing and cry out for joy, O one that has not been in travail, for the sons of her that is desolate will be more than the sons of her that is married. You will not remember any more the reproach of your widowhood, for your Maker is your Husband, 1 Jehovah Zebaoth is His name, and your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel, the God of the whole earth He is called. For Jehovah has called you like a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth when she is put away, said your God. All your sons are taught by Jehovah, and much is the peace of your sons. Isaiah 54:1, 4-6, 13.

Since 'a marriage' means the joining together of truth and good and of good and truth, one may see what is meant by husband and wife, sons and daughters, widows, women who have been put away, and by bearing, giving birth, being desolate, and being barren; for all these expressions have some connection with marriage. The meaning in the spiritual sense of each of these expressions has been shown many times in the explanatory sections.

[6] In the same prophet,

For Zion's sake I will not keep silent, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest. You will no more be called Deserted, but your land will be named Married, for Jehovah will take His pleasure in you, and your land will be married. Forasmuch as a young man will marry a virgin, your sons will marry you; and there will be the joy of a bridegroom over a bride, your God will rejoice over you. Isaiah 62:1, 4-5.

Anyone unacquainted with the internal sense of the Word may suppose that such imagery in the Word is simply an employment of comparisons like many of those used in everyday speech, and that this is the reason why the Church is compared to a daughter, a virgin, and a wife, and so why matters of faith and charity are compared to things which have some connection with marriage. But in the Word everything is representative of that which is spiritual or celestial, and it is a real correspondence; for the Word has come down from heaven, and because it has come down from there it is in origin something Divinely celestial and spiritual, to which everything in the sense of the letter corresponds. Consequently things connected with the heavenly marriage, which is good and truth joined together, pass into those that correspond to them, and so into those which have some connection with marriages on earth.

[7] This also explains why the Lord likened the kingdom of heaven - that is, His kingdom in heaven and His kingdom on earth, which is the Church - to a certain king, who arranged a wedding for his son and invited many to it, Matthew 22:2 and following verses, and also to ten virgins who took lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom, Matthew 25:1 and following verses. The Lord also referred to those who belong to the Church as 'the sons of the wedding',

Jesus said, Can the sons of the wedding mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast. Matthew 9:15.

[8] For the same reasons the affection for good and the affection for truth are called 'the joy and gladness of a bridegroom and bride', for heavenly joy is the product of those affections and resides within them, as in Isaiah,

Your sons will marry you; and there will be the joy of a bridegroom over a bride, Jehovah your God will rejoice over you. Isaiah 62:5.

In Jeremiah,

The voice of joy and the voice of gladness, and the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voice of those that say, Give thanks 2 to Jehovah, for Jehovah is good. Jeremiah 33:11.

In the same prophet,

I will make to cease from the cities of Judah and from the streets of Jerusalem the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, for the land will turn into a waste. Jeremiah 7:34; 16:9; 25:10.

And in John,

The light of a lamp will not shine in Babylon any more, and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride will not be heard in it any more. Revelation 18:23.

[9] Since marriages on earth correspond through truly conjugial love to the heavenly marriage which is that of good and truth, the laws laid down in the Word concerning betrothals and marriages correspond completely to the spiritual laws of the heavenly marriage, such as the law that men were to marry one wife only, Mark 10:2-8; Luke 16:18; for in the case of the heavenly marriage the situation is that no good can be joined to any but its own truth, or truth to any but its own good. If joined to any truth other than its own, good could not possibly be held together but would be torn apart and so would perish. In the spiritual Church 'wife' (uxor) represents good and 'man' (vir) represents truth, but in the celestial Church 'husband' (maritus) represents good and 'wife' (uxor) truth. Furthermore - and this is an arcanum - they not only represent those things but also in actual fact correspond to them.

[10] The laws also concerning marriages which have been laid down in the Old Testament have in a similar way a correspondence with the laws of the heavenly marriage, such as those in Exodus 21:7-11; 22:15-16, 17; 34:16; Numbers 36:6; Deuteronomy 7:3-4; 22:28-29; and also the laws about the forbidden degrees of affinity, Leviticus 18:6-20. In the Lord's Divine mercy these will be dealt with individually in some other place. The fact that the degrees and laws of marriages have their origin in the laws of truth and good which belong to the heavenly marriage and with which they correlate is evident in Ezekiel,

The priests the Levites shall not take as wives for themselves a widow or a woman that has been put away, but virgins from the seed of the house of Israel; only a widow who is the widow of a priest may they take. Ezekiel 44:22.

This refers to the holy city, the new Jerusalem, and to the heavenly Canaan which clearly mean the Lord's kingdom and His Church. Consequently 'the Levites' do not mean Levites, nor do 'a widow and a woman who has been put away' mean a widow and one put away, but the kind of things they correspond to.

脚注:

1. In both the Latin and the original Hebrew the words meaning Maker and Husband are plural at this point.

2. literally, Confess

  
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