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Genèse第23章

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1 Or Sara vécut cent vingt-sept ans; ce sont là les années de sa vie.

2 Et elle mourut en Kirjath-Arbah, qui est Hébron, au pays de Canaan; et Abraham vint pour plaindre Sara, et pour la pleurer.

3 Et s'étant levé de devant son mort, il parla aux Héthiens, en disant :

4 Je suis étranger et forain parmi vous; donnez-moi une possession de sépulcre parmi vous, afin que j'enterre mon mort, [et que je l'ôte] de devant moi.

5 Et les Héthiens répondirent à Abraham, et lui dirent :

6 Mon Seigneur, écoute-nous; tu es parmi nous un Prince excellent, enterre ton mort dans le plus distingué de nos sépulcres; nul de nous ne te refusera son sépulcre, afin que tu y enterres ton mort.

7 Alors Abraham se leva, et se prosterna devant le peuple du pays; [c'est-à-dire], devant les Héthiens.

8 Et il leur parla, et dit : S'il vous plaît que j'enterre mon mort, [et que je l'ôte] de devant moi, écoutez-moi, et intercédez pour moi envers Héphron, fils de Tsohar;

9 Afin qu'il me cède sa caverne de Macpéla, qui est au bout de son champ; qu'il me la cède au milieu de vous, pour le prix qu'elle vaut, et que je la possède pour en faire un sépulcre.

10 Or Héphron était assis parmi les Héthiens. Héphron donc Héthien répondit à Abraham, en présence des Héthiens, qui l'écoutaient, savoir de tous ceux qui entraient par la porte de sa ville, en disant :

11 Non, mon Seigneur, écoute-moi : Je te donne le champ, je te donne aussi la caverne qui y est, je te la donne en présence des enfants de mon peuple; enterres-y ton mort.

12 Et Abraham se prosterna devant le peuple du pays.

13 Et il parla à Héphron, tout le peuple du pays l'entendant, et lui dit : S'il te plaît, je te prie, écoute-moi : Je donnerai l'argent du champ; reçois-le de moi, et j'y enterrerai mon mort.

14 Et Héphron répondit à Abraham, en disant :

15 Mon Seigneur, écoute-moi : La terre [vaut] quatre cents sicles d'argent entre moi et toi; mais qu'est-ce que cela ? Enterre donc ton mort.

16 Et Abraham ayant entendu Héphron, lui paya l'argent dont il avait parlé, les Héthiens l'entendant, [savoir] quatre cents sicles d'argent, ayant cours entre les marchands.

17 Et le champ d'Héphron, qui était en Macpéla au devant de Mamré, tant le champ que la caverne qui y était, et tous les arbres qui étaient dans le champ, et dans tous ses confins tout autour,

18 Tout fut acquis en propriété à Abraham, en présence des Héthiens, [savoir] de tous ceux qui entraient par la porte de la ville.

19 Et après cela Abraham enterra Sara sa femme dans la caverne du champ de Macpéla, au devant de Mamré, qui est Hébron, au pays de Canaan.

20 Le champ donc et la caverne qui y est, fut assuré par les Héthiens à Abraham, afin qu'il le possédât pour y faire son sépulcre.

   

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Arcana Coelestia#2913

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2913. 'And spoke to the sons of Heth, saying' means those with whom a new spiritual Church was to exist. This becomes clear from the meaning of 'Heth' and of Hittite. Many were the nations inhabiting the land of Canaan who are mentioned one by one in various places in the Word, among them the Hittites, see Genesis 15:20; Exodus 3:8, 17; 13:5; 23:23; Deuteronomy 7:1; 20:17; Joshua 3:10; 11:1, 3; 12:8; 24:11; 1 Kings 9:20; and elsewhere. Most of them belonged to the Ancient Church which was spread through many lands, including the land of Canaan, see 1238, 2385. All who belonged to that Church acknowledged charity as the chief thing, and everything they taught was about charity or life. People who cultivated teachings about faith were called Canaanites and were separate from the rest of the inhabitants in the land of Canaan, Numbers 13:29 - see 1062, 1063, 1076.

[2] The Hittites belonged among those in the land of Canaan who were more acceptable. This is also made clear by the fact that Abraham, and subsequently Isaac and Jacob, dwelt among them and had a burial-place there, and also by the fact that they treated Abraham with greatest respect, as is quite clear from what is recorded about them in this chapter, especially verses 5-6, 10-11, 14-15. Since they were an upright nation they therefore represent and mean the spiritual Church, or the truth of the Church. But it happened that like all the others who belonged to the Ancient Church the Hittites fell away in the course of time from charity or good that goes with faith; and this explains why later on they mean the falsity of the Church, as in Ezekiel 16:3, 45, and elsewhere. Yet the Hittites did belong among those who were more honourable, as may be seen from the fact that David had Hittites with him, such as Ahimelech, 1 Samuel 26:6, and Uriah, who was a Hittite, 2 Samuel 11:3, 6, 17, 21 - by whose wife Bathsheba David begot Solomon, 2 Samuel 12:24. 'Heth' means exterior cognitions that have regard to life and which constitute the external truths of the spiritual Church, 1 see 1203.

[3] The subject in the present verse is a new Church which the Lord establishes when the previous one breathes its last, and in the verses which follow the subject is the reception of faith among those people. The subject is not some particular Church among the sons of Heth but in general the re-establishment by the Lord of a spiritual Church after its predecessor fades away and approaches its end. The sons of Heth are simply those who represent and carry a spiritual meaning. Please see what has been stated already about Churches in the following places:

In course of time a Church goes into decline and decay, 494, 501, 1327, 2422.

It departs from charity, and brings forth evils and falsities, 1834, 1835.

At that point the Church is said to be vastated and made desolate, 407-411, 2243.

The Church is established among gentiles; the reason why, 1366.

Within a Church undergoing vastation something of the Church is always preserved as a nucleus, 468, 637, 931, 2422.

If the Church did not exist in the world the human race would perish, ibid.

The Church is like the heart and lungs in that vast body, of which every member of the human race is a part, 637, 931, 2054, 2853.

The nature of the spiritual Church, 765, 2669.

Charity constitutes the Church, not faith separated from charity, 809, 916.

If all possessed charity the Church would be one even though they differ in matters of doctrine and in forms of worship, 1285, 1316, 1798, 1799, 1834, 1844, 2385.

All people on earth who belong to the Lord's Church, though they are scattered throughout the entire world, still so to speak make a single whole, as is the case in heaven, 2853.

Every Church is internal and external, and both together constitute a single Church, 409, 1083, 1098, 1100, 1242.

The external Church is valueless if there is no internal Church, 1795.

The Church is compared to the rise and the setting of the sun, to the seasons of the year, and also to the periods of the day, 1837.

The Last Judgement is the final period of the Church, 900, 931, 1850, 2117, 2118.

脚注:

1. Or, reading what Swedenborg has in his rough draft the truths of the external spiritual Church

  
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Arcana Coelestia#255

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255. 'The seed of the woman' is used to mean faith in the Lord. This is clear from the meaning of 'woman' as the Church, the seed of which is nothing else than faith. It is from faith in the Lord that the Church has its being and gets its name. In Malachi faith is called 'God's seed',

Jehovah was a witness between you and the wife of your youth. And not one has done so, though he has a residue of the spirit. And is there one seeking God's seed? But take heed within your spirit, lest he act treacherously against the wife of your youth. Malachi 2:14-15.

Here 'wife of your youth' is the Ancient Church and the Most Ancient, whose seed or faith is the subject. In Isaiah,

I will pour out waters upon the thirsty land, and streams on the dry. I will pour out [My] Spirit upon your seed and My blessing upon your descendants. Isaiah 44:3.

This too refers to the Church. In Revelation,

The dragon was angry with the woman, and went off to make war with the rest of her seed, who kept the commandments of God and bear testimony to Jesus Christ. Revelation 12:17.

And in David,

I have made a covenant with My Chosen One, I have sworn to David My servant, I will establish your seed even for ever; and I will set up his seed in perpetuity, and his throne as the days of the heavens; his seed will be for ever, and his throne will be like the sun in front of Me. Psalms 89:7, 4, 29, 36.

Here David is used to mean the Lord, 'his throne' to mean His Kingdom, 'the sun' love, and 'seed' faith.

  
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