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1 Post tiuj okazintajxoj oni sciigis al Jozef: Jen, via patro estas malsana. Kaj li prenis kun si siajn du filojn, Manase kaj Efraim.

2 Kaj oni sciigis al Jakob, dirante: Jen via filo Jozef venas al vi. Tiam Izrael strecxis siajn fortojn kaj sidigxis sur la lito.

3 Kaj Jakob diris al Jozef: Dio la Plejpotenca aperis al mi en Luz, en la lando Kanaana, kaj benis min.

4 Kaj Li diris al mi: Mi fruktigos vin kaj multigos vin kaj faros vin amaso da popoloj, kaj Mi donos cxi tiun landon al via idaro post vi kiel eternan posedajxon.

5 Kaj nun viaj du filoj, kiuj naskigxis al vi en la lando Egipta antaux mia alveno al vi en Egiptujon, estas miaj; Efraim kaj Manase estu al mi, kiel Ruben kaj Simeon.

6 Sed viaj infanoj, kiuj naskigxos al vi post ili, estu viaj; per la nomo de siaj fratoj ili estos nomataj en sia hereda parto.

7 Kiam mi venis el Mezopotamio, mortis cxe mi Rahxel en la lando Kanaana, dum la vojo, kiam restis ankoraux iom da tero gxis Efrata; kaj mi enterigis sxin tie sur la vojo al Efrata, kiu estas nomata ankaux Bet-Lehxem.

8 Kaj Izrael ekvidis la filojn de Jozef, kaj diris: Kiuj estas cxi tiuj?

9 Kaj Jozef diris al sia patro: Ili estas miaj filoj, kiujn donis al mi Dio cxi tie. Kaj tiu diris: Alkonduku ilin al mi, kaj mi benos ilin.

10 La okuloj de Izrael malfortigxis de maljuneco, li ne povis bone vidi. Jozef alkondukis ilin al li, kaj li kisis ilin kaj cxirkauxprenis ilin.

11 Kaj Izrael diris al Jozef: Vidi vian vizagxon mi ne esperis, kaj jen Dio vidigis al mi ecx vian idaron.

12 Kaj Jozef forigis ilin de liaj genuoj, kaj klinigxis antaux li vizagxaltere.

13 Kaj Jozef prenis ambaux, Efraimon per sia dekstra mano, kontraux la maldekstra de Izrael, kaj Manasen per sia maldekstra mano, kontraux la dekstra de Izrael, kaj alkondukis ilin al li.

14 Sed Izrael etendis sian dekstran manon kaj metis gxin sur la kapon de Efraim, kvankam li estis la pli juna, kaj sian maldekstran sur la kapon de Manase; li intence tiel faris per siaj manoj, cxar Manase estis la unuenaskito.

15 Kaj li benis Jozefon, kaj diris: Dio, antaux kiu iradis miaj patroj Abraham kaj Isaak, Dio, kiu pasxtis min de mia naskigxo gxis la nuna tago,

16 la angxelo, kiu savis min de cxia malbono-Li benu la knabojn; oni nomu ilin per mia nomo kaj per la nomo de miaj patroj Abraham kaj Isaak, kaj ili kresku kaj multigxu sur la tero.

17 Jozef vidis, ke lia patro metis sian dekstran manon sur la kapon de Efraim, kaj tio ne placxis al li; kaj li prenis la manon de sia patro, por deturni gxin de la kapo de Efraim sur la kapon de Manase.

18 Kaj Jozef diris al sia patro: Ne tiel, mia patro, cxar cxi tiu estas la unuenaskito; metu vian dekstran manon sur lian kapon.

19 Sed lia patro rifuzis, kaj diris: Mi scias, mia filo, mi scias; li ankaux farigxos popolo kaj li ankaux farigxos granda, sed lia pli juna frato estos pli granda ol li, kaj lia idaro estos multenombra inter la popoloj.

20 Kaj li benis ilin en tiu tago, dirante: Per vi benados Izrael, dirante: Dio vin faru kiel Efraim kaj Manase. Kaj li metis Efraimon antaux Manase.

21 Kaj Izrael diris al Jozef: Jen mi mortas; kaj Dio estos kun vi kaj revenigos vin en la landon de viaj patroj.

22 Kaj mi donas al vi unu pecon da lando preferece antaux viaj fratoj, kiun mi prenis el la manoj de la Amoridoj per mia glavo kaj pafarko.

   

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Arcana Coelestia#6306

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6306. 'Which I took out of the hand of the Amorite' means because of the victory over evil. This is clear from the representation of 'the Amorite' as evil, dealt with in 1857; and from the meaning of 'taking out of the hand' as acquiring through victory. As regards 'the Amorites', it should be recognized that they mean evil, just as 'the Canaanites' and all the other nations in the land that are mentioned in the Word mean various kinds of evil and also of falsity. Such things were represented by the nations when the children of Israel were taking possession of the land of Canaan. The reason for this was that whenever the children of Israel represented the things of heaven those nations represented the things of hell; thus the land of Canaan represented every state that exists in the next life. Also, because the nations represented the things of hell they were utterly destroyed; and entrance into any treaty with those who might remain was forbidden.

[2] The action of the children of Israel, of their taking possession of and dwelling in the land of those who represented the hells, was representative. It represented what happened around the time of the Lord's Coming, when spirits from hell had possession of a large part of heaven but He, by coming into the world and making the human within Himself Divine, cast them out of there and down into hell, and thereby delivered heaven from them, which He then gave as an inheritance to those who belonged to His spiritual kingdom.

[3] The representation of the Amorite nation as evil in general is evident from the places where it is referred to, as in Ezekiel, Thus said the Lord Jehovih to Jerusalem, 1 Your tradings and your births are of the land of the Canaanite. Your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite. Ezekiel 16:3, 45.

'Father' in the internal sense means the Church's good, or in the contrary sense evil, and 'mother' means the Church's truth, or in the contrary sense falsity; and this is why it is said, 'Your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite'.

[4] In Amos,

I destroyed the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and whose strength was like the oaks. I led you in the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite. Amos 2:9-10.

Here also 'the Amorite' stands for evil, for the evil of self-love is described by 'the height of the cedars' and 'the strength of an oak'. The reason why 'the Amorite' means evil in general is that the entire land of Canaan was called 'the land of the Amorite'; for it says, 'I led you in the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite'. In addition the second Book of Kings says,

Manasseh king of Judah did what was evil, greater than all the evil which the Amorites did, who were before him. 2 Kings 21:11.

[5] 'With my sword' means through truth engaged in conflict. This is clear from the meaning of 'sword' as truth engaged in conflict, dealt with in 2799, 4499.

'And my bow' means received from doctrine. This is clear from the meaning of 'bow' as doctrine, dealt with in 2686, 2709.

[6] The words used here, 'the portion which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and my bow' were, it is quite evident, uttered by Israel on account of the internal sense; for Jacob did not take that portion from the Amorite with sword or bow. He bought it from the sons of Hamor, as is evident from Genesis 33, where these words occur, Jacob came to Salem, the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, as he was coming from Paddan Aram; and he encamped towards the face of the city. And he bought the portion of the field where he had stretched his tent, from the hand of the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem, for a hundred kesitahs. Genesis 33:18-19.

The fact that this field was the portion he gave to Joseph is clear in Joshua,

The bones of Joseph which the children of Israel caused to be brought up out of Egypt they buried in Shechem, in the part of the field which Jacob bought from the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem, for a hundred kesitahs; and they had become an inheritance for the children of Joseph. Joshua 24:32.

From this it is evident that the portion had been bought, and that this is what was given to Joseph. Nor was the city of Shechem nearby meant, the city in which Simeon and Levi killed every male and which they took with the sword, Genesis 34. This is made clear by the fact that Jacob detested what they did and for that reason cursed Simeon and Levi, completely dissociating himself from the crime. He said,

Simeon and Levi are brothers; instruments of violence are their swords. Into their secret place let my soul not come; in their congregation let not my glory be united; for in their anger they killed a man, and in their pleasure they hamstrung an ox. Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce, and their wrath, for it was hard. 2 I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel. Genesis 49:5-7.

From all this it may now be seen that the words 'the portion which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and my bow' were uttered by him, when the spirit of prophecy rested on him, for the sake of the internal sense.

脚注:

1. The Latin means O Jerusalem but the Hebrew means to Jerusalem, which Swedenborg has in other places where he quotes this verse (and possibly in his rough draft here).

2. i.e. cruel

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