Arcana Coelestia#2673
2673. 'In the morning Abraham rose up early' means the Lord's clear perception from the Divine. This is clear from the meaning of 'morning' and of 'rising up in the early morning' as perceiving clearly, dealt with in 2540, where the same words occur, and from the representation of 'Abraham' as the Lord's Divine, often dealt with already. The Lord had a clear perception from the Divine regarding the state of His spiritual kingdom, that is to say, what those who belong to that kingdom or Church are like at the beginning, what they are like in the consecutive stages after that, and what they at length come to be like. For every one of their states is described exactly and completely in the internal sense of verses 13-21 of this chapter.
Genesis第21章:13-21
13
I will also make a nation of the son of the handmaid, because he is your seed."
14
Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread and a bottle of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder; and gave her the child, and sent her away. She departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.
15
The water in the bottle was spent, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs.
16
She went and sat down opposite him, a good way off, about a bow shot away. For she said, "Don't let me see the death of the child." She sat over against him, and lifted up her voice, and wept.
17
God heard the voice of the boy. The angel of God called to Hagar out of the sky, and said to her, "What ails you, Hagar? Don't be afraid. For God has heard the voice of the boy where he is.
18
Get up, lift up the boy, and hold him in your hand. For I will make him a great nation."
19
God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. She went, filled the bottle with water, and gave the boy drink.
20
God was with the boy, and he grew. He lived in the wilderness, and became, as he grew up, an archer.
21
He lived in the wilderness of Paran. His mother took a wife for him out of the land of Egypt.
