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1 Ja tapahtui jonkun ajan kuluttua, että Egyptin kuninkaan juomanlaskija ja leipoja rikkoivat herraansa, Egyptin kuningasta, vastaan.

2 Ja farao vihastui näihin kahteen hoviherraansa, ylimmäiseen juomanlaskijaan ja ylimmäiseen leipojaan,

3 ja panetti heidät vankeuteen henkivartijain päämiehen taloon, samaan vankilaan, jossa Joosef oli vankina.

4 Ja henkivartijain päämies antoi heille Joosefin heitä palvelemaan. Niin he olivat jonkun aikaa vankeudessa.

5 Ollessaan vankilassa vangittuina he molemmat, Egyptin kuninkaan juomanlaskija ja leipoja, näkivät samana yönä unta, kumpikin unensa, ja kummankin unella oli oma selityksensä.

6 Ja kun Joosef aamulla tuli heidän luokseen, huomasi hän heidät alakuloisiksi.

7 Silloin hän kysyi faraon hoviherroilta, jotka olivat hänen kanssansa vankeudessa hänen isäntänsä talossa: "Miksi te olette tänään niin murheellisen näköiset?"

8 He vastasivat hänelle: "Olemme kumpikin nähneet unen, eikä ole niiden selittäjää". Ja Joosef sanoi heille: "Unien selitykset ovat Jumalan; kertokaa kuitenkin minulle".

9 Niin ylimmäinen juomanlaskija kertoi unensa Joosefille ja sanoi hänelle: "Minä näin unta, ja katso, minun edessäni oli viinipuu;

10 viinipuussa oli kolme oksaa, ja samassa kun se alkoi versoa, sen kukat puhkesivat ja marjat sen rypäleissä kypsyivät.

11 Ja minulla oli faraon malja kädessäni, ja minä otin marjat ja pusersin niistä mehun faraon maljaan ja annoin maljan faraon käteen."

12 Ja Joosef sanoi hänelle: "Tämä on sen selitys: kolme oksaa merkitsee kolmea päivää.

13 Kolmen päivän kuluttua farao korottaa sinun pääsi ja asettaa sinut jälleen virkaasi. Ja sinä annat faraon maljan hänen käteensä niinkuin ennenkin, kun olit hänen juomanlaskijansa.

14 Mutta muista minua, kun sinun hyvin käy, ja tee minulle laupeus mainitsemalla minusta faraolle ja toimittamalla minut pois tästä talosta.

15 Sillä minut on varastettu hebrealaisten maasta, enkä minä ole täälläkään tehnyt mitään, mistä minut olisi tullut panna tähän vankikuoppaan."

16 Kun ylimmäinen leipoja näki, että Joosef antoi hyvän selityksen, sanoi hän hänelle: "Myöskin minä näin unen, ja katso, kolme nisuleipäkoria oli minun pääni päällä.

17 Ja ylimmässä korissa oli kaikenlaisia leivoksia faraon syötäväksi, mutta linnut söivät ne korista, joka oli minun pääni päällä."

18 Joosef vastasi ja sanoi: "Tämä on sen selitys: kolme koria merkitsee kolmea päivää.

19 Kolmen päivän kuluttua farao korottaa sinun pääsi ripustamalla sinut hirsipuuhun, ja taivaan linnut syövät sinun lihasi."

20 Kolmantena päivänä sen jälkeen, faraon syntymäpäivänä, tämä laittoi pidot kaikille palvelijoilleen. Silloin hän korotti palvelijainsa joukosta sekä ylimmäisen juomanlaskijan että ylimmäisen leipojan pään.

21 Ylimmäisen juomanlaskijan hän asetti hänen entiseen juomanlaskijan toimeensa, niin että hän sai antaa maljan faraon käteen;

22 mutta ylimmäisen leipojan hän hirtätti, niinkuin Joosef oli heille selityksessään sanonut.

23 Mutta ylimmäinen juomanlaskija ei muistanut Joosefia, vaan unhotti hänet.

   

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Arcana Coelestia#5159

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5159. 'And it happened on the third day' means in the final phase. This is clear from the meaning of 'the third day' as the final phase of a state; for 'day' means state, 23, 487, 488, 493, 893, 2788, 3462, 3785, 4850, and 'third' that which is complete, and so comes last, 1815, 2788, 4495. By the final phase of a state is meant the point when the previous state comes to an end and the new one begins. In the case of the person who is being regenerated a new state begins when order is turned around. The change takes place when interior things are given dominion over exterior ones, and exterior things begin to serve interior ones - which involves both ideas in the understanding and desires in the will. People who are being regenerated are conscious of this change as an inner urge not to allow sensory delights and bodily or earthly pleasures to take control, and draw ideas present in the understanding over to their own side to support them. When this change takes place the previous state has reached its final phase and the new one is entering its first. This is what is meant by 'on the third day'.

[2] In everyone, whether or not he is being regenerated, changes of state take place, and order is turned around. Yet such changes are different in the case of those who are being regenerated than in the case of those who are not being regenerated. With those who are not being regenerated those changes of state or order are due to physical causes or are attributable to causes associated with life in the community. Physical causes are those impulses which arise at one stage in life and subside at another, in addition to the giving of deliberate thought to physical health and a long life in the world. The causes connected with life in the community are the external, visible curbs a person has to place on his real desire, so that he may earn a reputation for being a wise person and a lover of what is righteous and good, when in fact the acquisition of position and material gain is his real reason for pursuing such. But in the case of people who are being regenerated, such changes of state or order are attributable to spiritual causes which spring from goodness and righteousness themselves; and when a person starts to have an affection for these he is at the end of the previous state and at the beginning of the new one.

[3] But as few are capable of seeing the truth of all this, let an example serve to shed light on the matter. Anyone who does not allow himself to be regenerated loves things of the body for their own sake, not for any other reason; and he loves the world too for its own sake. His love does not reach any higher because at heart he refuses to accept anything higher or more interior. On the other hand one who is being regenerated also loves things of the body, and worldly things likewise. Yet he loves them for higher or more interior reasons. He loves things of the body because he wishes to have a healthy mind inside a healthy body. Also, he loves his own mind and its healthiness for an even more interior reason, namely that he may have a wise discernment of what is good and an intelligent understanding of what is true. He also loves worldly things as much as others do, yet for the reason that the world, worldly wealth, possessions, and positions of importance may serve him as the means to put what is good and true or what is just and fair into effect.

[4] This example enables one to see what each one - the regenerate and the unregenerate - is really like, and to see that outwardly the two are apparently alike but that inwardly they are totally different. From this one may also recognize the identity and the essential nature of the causes which bring about the changes of state and turnings around of order that take place with people who are not being regenerated and those that take place with people who are being regenerated. One may also see that in the case of regenerate persons interior things have dominion over exterior ones, whereas in the case of unregenerate persons exterior ones have dominion over interior. The reasons or the ends that a person has in view are what have dominion, for those ends subordinate everything else in a person and make it subject to themselves. The person's whole life is conditioned entirely by his end in view, for that end is what he loves all the time.

  
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Arcana Coelestia#893

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893. Verse 13 And it happened in the six hundred and first year, at the beginning, on the first of the month, that the waters dried up from over the earth, and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and saw out, and behold, the face 1 of the ground was dry.

'It happened in the six hundred and first year' means a finishing point. 'At the beginning, on the first of the month' means a starting point. 'The waters dried up from over the earth' means that falsities were not at that time apparent. 'And Noah removed the covering of the ark, and saw out' means the light, once falsities had been removed, shed by the truths of faith, which he acknowledged and in which he had faith. 'And behold, the face 1 of the ground was dry' means regeneration.

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1. literally, the faces

[893a] 1 That 'it happened in the six hundred and first year means a finishing point is clear from the meaning of the number six hundred, dealt with at Chapter 7:6, in 737, as a beginning, and in particular in that verse as the beginning of temptation. The end of it is specified by the same number, with a whole year having now passed by. It took place therefore at the end of a year, and this also is why the words are added 'at the beginning, on the first of the month', meaning a starting point. In the Word any complete period is specified either by a day, or a week, or a month, or a year, and even by a hundred or a thousand years - for example, 'the days' mentioned in Genesis 1, which meant stages in the regeneration of the member of the Most Ancient Church. For in the internal sense day and year mean nothing else than a period of time; and meaning a period of time they also mean a state. Consequently a year stands in the Word for a period of time and for a state, as in Isaiah,

To proclaim the year of Jehovah's good pleasure, and the day of vengeance for our God; to comfort all who mourn. Isaiah 61:2.

This refers to the Lord's Coming. In the same prophet,

The day of vengeance was in My heart, and the year of My redeemed had come. Isaiah 63:4.

Here too 'day' and 'year' stand for a period of time and for a state. In Habakkuk,

Your work, O Jehovah, in the midst of the years make it live, in the midst of the years do You make it known. Habakkuk 3:2.

Here 'years' stands for a period of time and for a state. In David,

'You are God Himself, and Your years have no end. Psalms 102:27.

This statement, in which 'years' stands for periods of time, means that time does not exist with God. The same applies in the present verse where 'the year' of the flood in no way means any one particular year but a period of time that is not determined by a specific number of years. At the same time it means a state. See what has been said already about 'years' in 482, 487, 488, 493.

1. This paragraph is not numbered in the Latin.

  
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