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Genesis第14章

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1 Ja Sineari kuninga Amrafeli, Ellasari kuninga Arjoki, Eelami kuninga Kedorlaomeri ja Goojimi kuninga Tideali päevil sündis,

2 et nad alustasid sõda Soodoma kuninga Bera, Gomorra kuninga Birsa, Adma kuninga Sineabi, Seboimi kuninga Semeeberi ja Bela, see on Soari kuninga vastu.

3 Need kõik kogunesid Siddimi orgu, kus nüüd on Soolameri.

4 Kaksteist aastat olid nad Kedorlaomerit orjanud, aga kolmeteistkümnendal aastal nad tõstsid mässu.

5 Ja neljateistkümnendal aastal tulid Kedorlaomer ja need kuningad, kes olid koos temaga, ja lõid refalasi Astarot-Karnaimis, susiite Haamis, emiite Kirjataimi tasandikul

6 ja horiite nende mäestikus Seiris kuni Eel-Paaranini, mis on kõrbe ääres.

7 Siis nad pöördusid tagasi ja tulid Een-Mispatti, see on Kaadesisse, ja vallutasid kogu amalekkide väljade ala, samuti võitsid nad emorlasi, kes elasid Haseson-Taamaris.

8 Aga Soodoma kuningas, Gomorra kuningas, Adma kuningas, Seboimi kuningas ja Bela, see on Soari kuningas, läksid välja ja valmistusid tapluseks nende vastu Siddimi orus:

9 Eelami kuninga Kedorlaomeri, Goojimi kuninga Tideali, Sineari kuninga Amrafeli ja Ellasari kuninga Arjoki vastu - neli kuningat viie vastu.

10 Aga Siddimi org oli täis maapigi auke. Kui Soodoma ja Gomorra kuningad põgenesid, siis nad langesid neisse, kuna ülejäänud põgenesid mäestikku.

11 Ja nad võtsid kogu Soodoma ja Gomorra varanduse ja kogu nende toiduse ning läksid ära.

12 Ja ära minnes nad võtsid kaasa ka Loti, Aabrami vennapoja, ja tema varanduse; ta elas ju Soodomas.

13 Aga üks põgenik tuli ja teatas Aabramile, heebrealasele, kes elas emorlase Mamre, Eskoli ja Aaneri venna tammikus; ja need olid Aabrami liitlased.

14 Kui Aabram kuulis, et ta vennapoeg oli vangi viidud, siis ta viis välja oma kodakondsed, kes tema peres olid sündinud, arvult kolmsada kaheksateist, ja ajas vaenlasi taga kuni Daanini.

15 Ta jaotas öösel oma sulased nende vastu, lõi neid ja jälitas neid kuni Hoobani, mis on Damaskusest vasakut kätt.

16 Ja ta tõi tagasi kogu varanduse; ka Loti, oma vennapoja, ja tema varanduse ta tõi tagasi, samuti naised ja rahva.

17 Ja kui ta Kedorlaomerit ja koos temaga olevaid kuningaid löömast tagasi tuli, läks Soodoma kuningas temale vastu Saave orgu, see on Kuningaorgu.

18 Ja Melkisedek, Saalemi kuningas, tõi leiba ja veini, sest tema oli kõige kõrgema Jumala preester,

19 ja õnnistas teda ning ütles: 'Olgu õnnistatud Aabram, kõige kõrgema Jumala, taeva ja maa Looja poolt!

20 Olgu kiidetud kõige kõrgem Jumal, kes sinu vaenlased su kätte andis!' Ja Aabram andis temale kümnist kõigest.

21 Ja Soodoma kuningas ütles Aabramile: 'Anna hingelised mulle, aga varandus võta enesele!'

22 Kuid Aabram ütles Soodoma kuningale: 'Ma tõstan oma käe üles Issanda, kõige kõrgema Jumala poole, kes on taeva ja maa Looja,

23 et ma ei võta lõngaotsa ega jalatsipaelagi kõigest sellest, mis on sinu oma, et sa ei saaks öelda: Mina olen Aabrami rikkaks teinud!

24 Mul pole midagi vaja - ainult, mis poisid sõid, ja mehed, kes koos minuga käisid - Aaner, Eskol ja Mamre -, need võtku oma osa!'

   

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Arcana Coelestia#1661

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1661. 'And so it was in the days of Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim' means just so many kinds of apparent goods and truths which are not in themselves goods and truths, and which were present with the Lord's external Man. This becomes clear from the meaning of all these in the internal sense, and also from what follows. For the subject is the Lord's conflict against evils and falsities, here His first conflict which came during His childhood and earliest adolescence. That conflict He first entered into and endured after He had been endowed with knowledge and cognitions, hence the expression 'in the days of' these kings.

[2] Nobody can possibly fight against evils and falsities until he knows what evil and falsity are, not therefore until he has received instruction. A person does not know what evil is, still less what falsity is, before he is capable of understanding and of forming judgements for himself, which is the reason why a person does not enter into temptations until he has reached the age of maturity. Thus everyone is tempted in adult life, but the Lord was tempted even in childhood.

[3] Everyone fights first of all from the goods and truths he has received by means of cognitions, and it is from them and by means of them that he forms judgements concerning evils and falsities. Everyone furthermore when he first starts to fight imagines that these goods and truths from which he fights are his own, that is, he ascribes them to himself, and at the same time ascribes to himself the power by which he resists. This is allowed because a person cannot at the time know anything different. Before anyone has been regenerated he cannot possibly know, so as to be able to say that he knows, acknowledges, and believes, that no good or truth at all comes from self, but that everything good and true comes from the Lord; nor can he possibly know that he is unable by his own power to resist any evil or falsity. Indeed he does not know that evil spirits are activating and implanting the evils and falsities, still less that he is in communication with hell by means of evil spirits, and that hell presses on him like the sea against every part of a dike, which he can by no means resist by his own strength. Yet because he cannot do otherwise, until he has been regenerated, than imagine that he resists by his own strength, this too is permitted; and in this condition he is admitted into conflicts, or temptations. Subsequently however he becomes more and more enlightened.

[4] When a person's state is such that he imagines that good and truth originate in himself and that the power to resist is his own, the goods and truths from which he fights against evils and falsities are not really goods and truths, however much they appear to be so, for they have that which is his own within them, and he places self-merit in victory, boasting as though it were he that had overcome evil and falsity, when in fact it is the Lord alone who fights and overcomes. That this is indeed so none can know except those who are being regenerated by means of temptations.

[5] Because the Lord in earliest childhood was led into very serious conflicts against evils and falsities it was inevitable that at that time even He should think that way. This happened both because it was according to Divine order that His Human Essence should through continuous conflicts and victories be brought to the Divine Essence and united to it, and because the goods and truths from which He fought against evils and falsities belonged to the External Man. And because those goods and truths were not completely Divine they are for that reason called appearances of good and truth. His Divine Essence brought the Human Essence to itself in this way in order that it might overcome by its own power. The arcana here however are more than can possibly be described. In short, in those first conflicts the goods and truths residing with the Lord from which He fought were permeated by things inherited from the mother, and insofar as they were permeated by things inherited from the mother they were not Divine. Gradually however, as He overcame evil and falsity they were purified and made Divine.

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