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1 Kaj Jakob alvokis siajn filojn, kaj diris: Kolektigxu, kaj mi sciigos al vi, kio farigxos al vi en la tempo venonta.

2 Kunvenu kaj auxskultu, filoj de Jakob, Kaj auxskultu Izraelon, vian patron.

3 Ruben, vi estas mia unuenaskito, Mia forto kaj komenco de mia vireco, Supro de digno kaj supro de potenco;

4 Rapidema kiel akvo, vi ne staros plej alte, CXar vi supreniris sur la liton de via patro; Tiam vi malhonoris mian liton per la supreniro.

5 Simeon kaj Levi, fratoj; Iloj kruelaj estas viaj glavoj,

6 En ilian konsilon mia animo ne iru, Al ilia kunveno ne aligxu mia honoro; CXar en sia kolero ili mortigis viron Kaj pro sia kaprico ili kripligis bovon.

7 Malbenita estu ilia kolero, cxar gxi estas forta, Kaj ilia furiozo, cxar gxi estas kruela. Mi dividos ilin en Jakob, Kaj mi disjxetos ilin en Izrael.

8 Jehuda, vin lauxdos viaj fratoj; Via mano estas sur la nuko de viaj malamikoj; Klinigxos antaux vi la filoj de via patro.

9 Juna leono estas Jehuda; De cxasakiro, mia filo, vi levigxis. Li genuigxis, kusxigxis kiel leono kaj kiel leonino; Kiu lin levos?

10 Ne forprenigxos sceptro de Jehuda, Nek regbastono de inter liaj piedoj, GXis venos paco Kaj al li humiligxos la popoloj.

11 Li alligas al la vinbertrunko sian azenidon Kaj al la delikata vinberbrancxo la filon de sia azenino; Li lavas en vino sian veston Kaj en sango de vinberoj sian mantelon.

12 Liaj okuloj estas rugxaj de vino Kaj la dentoj blankaj de lakto.

13 Zebulun logxos cxe la bordo de maro, CXe albordigxejo de sxipoj, Kaj lia limo atingos Cidonon.

14 Isahxar estas fortosta azeno; Li kusxos inter la barajxoj.

15 Kaj li vidis, ke ripozo estas bona Kaj la tero estas agrabla; Kaj li klinis sian sxultron por portado Kaj farigxis laboristo por tributo.

16 Dan jugxos sian popolon, Kiel unu el la triboj de Izrael.

17 Dan estos serpento cxe la vojo, Cerasto cxe la irejo, Mordanto de kalkano de cxevalo, Ke gxia rajdanto falas malantauxen.

18 Vian helpon mi esperas, ho Eternulo.

19 Gadon premos amaso, Sed li repremos gxin je la kalkano.

20 CXe Asxer estas grasa lia pano, Kaj li liverados frandajxojn al regxoj.

21 Naftali estas belkura cervo; Li donas belajn parolojn.

22 Fruktoporta arbo estas Jozef, Fruktoporta arbo super fonto; La brancxoj etendigxis super la muron.

23 CXagrenis lin pafistoj Kaj pafis kaj malamikis kontraux li;

24 Sed forta restis lia pafarko Kaj elastaj estas liaj brakoj, Per la manoj de la Potenculo de Jakob, Per la Pasxtisto, la Roko de Izrael.

25 La Dio de via patro donos al vi helpon, La Plejpotenculo benos vin Per benoj de la cxielo supre, Per benoj de la abismo, kiu kusxas malsupre, Per benoj de la mamoj kaj de la utero.

26 La benoj de via patro estas pli fortaj, Ol la benoj de miaj gepatroj, GXis la limo de la eternaj altajxoj. Ili estu sur la kapo de Jozef Kaj sur la verto de la elektito inter liaj fratoj.

27 Benjamen estas lupo karnosxira; Matene li mangxos cxasakiron, Kaj vespere li dividos rabajxon.

28 Tio estas cxiuj dek du triboj de Izrael; kaj tio estas, kion diris al ili ilia patro; kaj li benis ilin, cxiun per aparta beno li benis.

29 Kaj li ordonis al ili, kaj diris al ili: Mi alkolektigxas al mia popolo; enterigu min apud miaj patroj en la kaverno, kiu trovigxas sur la kampo de Efron la HXetido,

30 en la duobla kampa kaverno, kiu trovigxas antaux Mamre en la lando Kanaana kaj kiun Abraham acxetis kune kun la kampo de Efron la HXetido kiel tomban posedajxon.

31 Tie oni enterigis Abrahamon kaj lian edzinon Sara, tie oni enterigis Isaakon kaj lian edzinon Rebeka, kaj tie mi enterigis Lean,

32 sur la kampo kaj en la kaverno sur gxi, kiuj estas acxetitaj de el la filoj de HXet.

33 Kaj Jakob finis la ordonadon al siaj filoj, kaj li kunigis siajn piedojn sur la lito, kaj mortis kaj alkolektigxis al sia popolo.

   

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Arcana Coelestia#6432

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6432. 'The blessings of the breasts' means with affections for goodness and truth. This is clear from the meaning of 'the breasts' as affections for goodness and truth. 'The breasts' means those affections because the breasts communicate with the generative organs, and for that reason they too belong to the province of conjugial love (regarding that province see 5050-5062). Now conjugial love corresponds to the heavenly marriage, which is a marriage of goodness and truth (for conjugial love comes down from that marriage, see 2618, 2728, 2729, 2803, 3132, 4434, 4835, 6179), and therefore 'the breasts' means affections for goodness and truth. In addition they derive that meaning from the fact that the breasts are what feed infants and so mean, through the affection that goes with breast-feeding, conjugial love when joined to the love of offspring.

[2] The same affections are also meant by 'the breasts' in Isaiah,

You will suck the milk of nations, and the breasts of kings you will suck. Instead of bronze I will bring gold, and instead of iron silver. Isaiah 60:16-17.

'Sucking the breasts of kings' stands for good obtained from truth, for by 'kings' truths are meant, 1672, 2015, 2069, 3009, 3670, 4575, 4581, 4966, 5044, 5068, 6148. 'The milk of nations' and 'the breasts of kings' plainly mean some profoundly spiritual matter, for those words would otherwise be meaningless. The fact that goodness and truth are meant is clear from the words that follow, which are 'Instead of bronze I will bring gold, and instead of iron silver'; for 'bronze' is natural good, 425, 1551, and 'gold' celestial good, 113, 1551, 1552, 5658; 'iron' is natural truth, 425, 426, and 'silver' spiritual truth, 1551, 2954, 5658, 6112.

[3] In Ezekiel,

As regards increase, I gave you to be like the seed of the field, out of which you grew up and matured and reached full beauty; your breasts were formed and your hair had grown. Ezekiel 16:7.

This refers to Jerusalem, which here means the Ancient spiritual Church. 'Breasts that were formed' stands for interior affections for goodness and truth, 'your hair had grown for exterior affections belonging to the natural - 'hair' being the natural as regards truth, see 3301, 5247, 5569-5573. These words plainly contain a spiritual sense which is not visible in the letter, for without that sense why would it say of Jerusalem that its breasts were formed and its hair had grown?

[4] In the same prophet,

Two women, the daughters of one mother, committed whoredom in Egypt. In their youth they committed whoredom; there their breasts were squeezed, and there they contemplated their virgin busts. Ezekiel 23:2-3, 8, 21.

This passage in Ezekiel states that the two women are Jerusalem and Samaria, by whom Churches are meant in the internal sense. The statement that in their youth they committed whoredom with Egypt means that they falsified the truths of the Church by their use of factual knowledge - 'committing whoredom' is falsifying truths, see 2466, 4865, and 'Egypt' is factual knowledge, 1164, 1165, 1186, 1462, 5700, 5702. Consequently 'their breasts were squeezed' stands for affections for goodness and truth that became perverted through falsifications. The fact that the women's whoredom and the squeezing of their breasts mean such things can be seen by those who are prepared to look into what is meant in the description of those women.

[5] In Hosea,

Contend with your mother, let her remove her whoredoms from her sight, 1 and her adulteries from between her breasts, lest perhaps I strip her naked, and make her like a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst. Hosea 2:1, 3.

'Mother' here stands for the Church, 289, 2691, 2717, 3703, 4257, 5581, whoredoms' for falsifications of truth, 2466, 4865, 'adulteries' for adulterations of good, 2466, 2729, 3399. Consequently 'adulteries from between her breasts' stands for adulterated affections for goodness and truth, 'stripping naked' for depriving of all truth, 1073, 4958, 5437, 'making like a wilderness, setting like a dry land, and slaying with thirst' for the annihilation of all truth.

[6] In the same prophet,

Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts. Hosea 9:14.

'Dry breasts' stands for affections for neither truth nor good. In Isaiah,

O women without anxiety, stand still, hear My voice; O confident daughters, perceive My speech with your ears. Strip and make yourself bare, and gird [sackcloth] around your waist 2 - people beating themselves on their breasts for the fields of unmixed wine, and the fruitful vine. Isaiah 32:9, 11-12.

'Daughters' stands for affections, 2362, 3024, 3963, 'being stripped bare' for being deprived of truth, 1073, 4958, 5433, 'girding [sackcloth] around one's waist' for suffering grief over good that has been lost, 'beating on breasts' for suffering grief over the good of truth that has been lost. Since these things are meant, it also says 'for the fields of unmixed wine, and the fruitful vine'; for 'the field' is the Church in respect of good, thus the Church's good, 2971, 3196, 3310, 3766, and 'vine' is the spiritual Church, and therefore the good of truth, 5113, 6375, 6376.

[7] In the Book of Revelation,

I saw seven golden lampstands, and in the midst of the seven lampstands one like the Son of Man, clothed with a long robe, and surrounded by a golden girdle around the breasts. Revelation 1:12-13.

'Golden lampstands' are truths of good, 'the Son of Man' is Divine Truth, 'surrounded by a golden girdle around the breasts' the good of love. Anyone may deduce from the holiness of the Word that the things John saw concealed within themselves realities such as belong to the Lord's kingdom and His Church; for what holiness would there be in making predictions about kingdoms in the world? From this one may recognize that they are heavenly things that are meant by 'lampstands' and by 'the Son of Man, clothed with a long robe, and surrounded by a golden girdle around the breasts'.

[8] In Luke,

A certain woman lifted up her voice out of the crowd; 3 she said about Jesus, Blessed is the womb that carried You, and the breasts that You sucked. But Jesus said, Rather than that, blessed are those who hear the Word of God and keep it. Luke 11:27-28.

The Lord's reply shows what 'blessed is the womb' and what 'the breasts' mean - 'those who hear the Word of God and keep it', thus affections for truth which exist with those who hear the Word or God, and affections for good which exist with those who keep it, that is, put it into practice.

脚注:

1. literally, faces

2. literally, upon your loins

3. literally, the people

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