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1 Mose第30章

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1 Und als ahel sah, daß sie dem Jakob nicht gebar, da beneidete ahel ihre Schwester und sprach zu Jakob: Gib mir Kinder! Und wenn nicht, so sterbe ich.

2 Da entbrannte der Zorn Jakobs wider ahel, und er sprach: Bin ich an Gottes Statt, der dir die Leibesfrucht versagt hat?

3 Und sie sprach: Siehe, da ist meine Magd Bilha; gehe zu ihr ein, daß sie auf meine Knie (Vergl. Kap. 50,23; uth 4,16. 17.; Hiob 3,12) gebäre und auch ich aus ihr erbaut werde. (Siehe die Anmerkung zu Kap. 16,2)

4 Und sie gab ihm ihre Magd Bilha zum Weibe; und Jakob ging zu ihr ein.

5 Und Bilha ward schwanger und gebar Jakob einen Sohn.

6 Da sprach ahel: Gott hat mir echt verschafft und auch auf meine Stimme gehört und mir einen Sohn gegeben! Darum gab sie ihm den Namen Dan. ( ichter; einer, der echt verschaft)

7 Und Bilha, die Magd ahels, ward wiederum schwanger und gebar dem Jakob einen zweiten Sohn.

8 Da sprach ahel: Kämpfe Gottes habe ich mit meiner Schwester gekämpft, habe auch obsiegt! Und sie gab ihm den Namen Naphtali. (Mein Kampf)

9 Und als Lea sah, daß sie aufhörte zu gebären, da nahm sie ihre Magd Silpa und gab sie Jakob zum Weibe.

10 Und Silpa, die Magd Leas, gebar dem Jakob einen Sohn.

11 Da sprach Lea: Zum Glück! (Nach and L.: Glück ist gekommen) Und sie gab ihm den Namen Gad. (Glück)

12 Und Silpa, die Magd Leas, gebar dem Jakob einen zweiten Sohn.

13 Da sprach Lea: Zu meiner Glückseligkeit! Denn glückselig preisen mich die Töchter. Und sie gab ihm den Namen Aser. (Glückselig)

14 Und uben ging aus in den Tagen der Weizenernte und fand Dudaim auf dem Felde; und er brachte sie seiner Mutter Lea. Und ahel sprach zu Lea: Gib mir doch von den Dudaim (Liebesäpfel, Alraunen) deines Sohnes.

15 Und sie sprach zu ihr: Ist es zu wenig, daß du meinen Mann genommen hast, daß du auch die Dudaim meines Sohnes nehmen willst? Da sprach ahel: So mag er denn diese Nacht bei dir liegen für die Dudaim deines Sohnes.

16 Und als Jakob am Abend vom Felde kam, da ging Lea hinaus, ihm entgegen, und sprach: Zu mir sollst du eingehen, denn ich habe dich gewißlich gedungen um die Dudaim meines Sohnes. Und er lag bei ihr in selbiger Nacht.

17 Und Gott hörte auf Lea, und sie ward schwanger und gebar dem Jakob einen fünften Sohn.

18 Da sprach Lea: Gott hat mir meinen Lohn gegeben, daß ich meine Magd meinem Manne gegeben habe! Und sie gab ihm den Namen Issaschar. (H. Issakar: er bringt Lohn; od. es gibt Lohn)

19 Und Lea ward wiederum schwanger und gebar dem Jakob einen sechsten Sohn.

20 Da sprach Lea: Mir hat Gott ein schönes Geschenk geschenkt; diesmal wird mein Mann bei mir wohnen, denn ich habe ihm sechs Söhne geboren! Und sie gab ihm den Namen Sebulon. (Wohnung)

21 Und danach gebar sie eine Tochter und gab ihr den Namen Dina. (Gerichtliche Entscheidung)

22 Und Gott gedachte an ahel, und Gott hörte auf sie und öffnete ihren Mutterleib.

23 Und sie ward schwanger und gebar einen Sohn; und sie sprach: Gott hat meine Schmach weggenommen!

24 Und sie gab ihm den Namen Joseph (Er füge hinzu! od. er nimmt (nahm) weg) und sprach: Jehova füge mir einen anderen Sohn hinzu!

25 Und es geschah, als ahel den Joseph geboren hatte, da sprach Jakob zu Laban: Entlaß mich, daß ich an meinen Ort und in mein Land ziehe.

26 Gib mir meine Weiber und meine Kinder, um welche ich dir gedient habe, daß ich hinziehe; denn du kennst ja meinen Dienst, den ich dir gedient habe.

27 Und Laban sprach zu ihm: Wenn ich doch Gnade gefunden habe in deinen Augen…! Ich habe gespürt, daß Jehova mich um deinetwillen gesegnet hat.

28 Und er sprach: Bestimme mir deinen Lohn, und ich will ihn geben.

29 Da sprach er zu ihm: Du weißt ja, wie ich dir gedient habe und was dein Vieh bei mir geworden ist.

30 Denn wenig war, was du vor mir hattest, und es hat sich ausgebreitet zu einer Menge, und Jehova hat dich gesegnet auf jedem meiner Tritte; und nun, wann soll ich auch für mein Haus schaffen?

31 Und er sprach: Was soll ich dir geben? Und Jakob sprach: Du sollst mir gar nichts geben; wenn du mir dieses tust, so will ich wiederum deine Herde (Eig. dein Kleinvieh; so auch v 32. 36) weiden und hüten:

32 Ich will heute durch deine ganze Herde gehen und daraus absondern jedes gesprenkelte und gefleckte Tier und jedes dunkelfarbige Tier unter den Schafen, und das Gefleckte und Gesprenkelte unter den Ziegen; und das sei mein Lohn.

33 Und meine Gerechtigkeit wird für mich zeugen (Eig. wider mich, d. h. die Gerechtigkeit Jakobs wird gleichsam als seine Gegenpartei auftreten und bezeugen, daß er nichts gestohlen hat) am morgenden Tage, (d. h. in Zukunft) wenn sie wegen meines Lohnes vor dich kommt; (O. wenn du kommst wegen meines Lohnes vor dir) alles, was nicht gesprenkelt und gefleckt ist unter den Ziegen und dunkelfarbig unter den Schafen, das sei gestohlen bei mir.

34 Und Laban sprach: Siehe, es geschehe nach deinem Worte!

35 Und er sonderte an selbigem Tage die gestreiften und gefleckten Böcke ab und alle gesprenkelten und gefleckten Ziegen, alles, woran Weißes war, und alles Dunkelfarbige unter den Schafen, und gab sie in die Hand seiner Söhne.

36 Und er setzte einen Weg von drei Tagereisen zwischen sich und Jakob; und Jakob weidete die übrige Herde Labans.

37 Und Jakob nahm sich frische Stäbe von Weißpappel, Mandelbaum und Platane und schälte weiße Streifen daran, indem er das weiße entblößte, das an den Stäben war.

38 Und er legte die Stäbe, die er geschält hatte, in die Tränkrinnen, in die Wassertränken, wohin die Herde zu trinken kam, vor die Herde hin; und sie wurde brünstig, wenn sie zu trinken kam.

39 Und die Herde wurde brünstig vor den Stäben, und die Herde gebar gestreifte, gesprenkelte und gefleckte.

40 Und Jakob schied die Lämmer aus, und er richtete das Gesicht der Herde auf das Gestreifte und alles Dunkelfarbige in der Herde Labans; und so machte er sich Herden besonders und tat sie nicht zu der Herde Labans.

41 Und es geschah, so oft das kräftige Vieh brünstig wurde, dann legte Jakob die Stäbe vor die Augen der Herde in die Tränkrinnen, damit sie bei den Stäben brünstig würden;

42 wenn aber das Vieh schwächlich war, legte er sie nicht hin. Also wurden die schwächlichen dem Laban und die kräftigen dem Jakob.

43 Und der Mann breitete sich sehr, sehr aus, und er bekam viele Herden, und Mägde und Knechte, und Kamele und Esel.

   

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3875. 'And she said, Now this time my husband will cling to me' means in the highest sense love and mercy, in the internal sense charity, in the external sense a joining together - spiritual love being meant here. This is clear from the meaning of 'clinging to'. As regards 'clinging' in the external sense, or inner sense nearest to the literal, meaning a joining together, this may be seen without explanation; and as regards 'clinging' in the internal sense meaning charity, this is evident from the consideration that charity, or what amounts to the same, mutual love, is a spiritual joining together. For mutual love is a joining together of affections belonging to the will and a consequent agreement of thoughts belonging to the understanding, and so is a joining of minds as to both parts. That 'clinging' in the highest sense means love and mercy is evident from this, for when the description 'infinite and eternal' is applied to charity or spiritual love the attribute of mercy is meant, mercy being Divine love directed towards the human race engulfed in such great miseries. For man of himself is nothing but evil, and what is within him, insofar as this has its origin in himself, is altogether from hell. Yet the Lord beholds him with Divine Love, and therefore the raising up of him from the hell in which of himself he dwells and his deliverance from it is called mercy. And because that mercy is an attribute of Divine Love, 'clinging' in the highest sense therefore means both love and mercy.

[2] As regards 'clinging' in the internal sense meaning spiritual love, or what amounts to the same, charity towards the neighbour, this may also be seen from other places in the Word, as in Isaiah,

Do not let the son of the foreigner who has clung to Jehovah say, Jehovah surely separates me from being with His people. The sons of the foreigner who cling to Jehovah, to minister to Him and to delight in the name of Jehovah, will be His servants. Isaiah 56:3, 6.

'Clinging to Jehovah' stands for keeping His commandments, which is an act of spiritual love, for no one at heart keeps God's commandments except him in whom good that flows from charity towards the neighbour is present. In Jeremiah,

In those days the children of Israel will come, they and the children of Judah weeping as they come; and they will seek Jehovah their God. They will ask Zion concerning the way, their faces towards it, [saying,] Come and let us cling to Jehovah in an everlasting covenant that is not forgotten. Jeremiah 50:4-5.

'Clinging to Jehovah' in like manner stands for keeping His commandments at heart, that is, doing so from good that flows from charity.

[3] In Zechariah,

Many nations will cling to Jehovah on that day and will be My people. Zechariah 2:11.

Here the meaning is similar. In Isaiah,

Jehovah will have compassion on Jacob, and will again choose Israel, and will set them on their own land. And the sojourner will cling to them, and they will join themselves to the house of Jacob. Isaiah 14:1.

'The sojourner clinging to them' stands for having a similar allegiance to the law. 'Joining themselves to the house of Jacob' stands for the good that flows from charity, which is present in those meant by 'the house of Jacob'. In Matthew,

No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other or he will cling to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon. Matthew 6:24.

Here the celestial form of love is meant by 'loving', the spiritual form by 'clinging to'. Both of these expressions are used because those two forms of love are distinct and separate. Otherwise one expression would have been sufficient.

[4] People who are stirred by spiritual love are therefore called 'the sons of Levi', as in Malachi,

Who can endure the day of His coming, and who will stand when He appears? He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and He will purify the sons of Levi and purge them like gold, and like silver. Malachi 3:2-3.

In the highest sense the Lord is meant by 'Levi' by virtue of Divine love and of mercy towards those in whom spiritual love is present. This may be seen in the same prophet,

That you may know that I have sent this command to you, to be My covenant with Levi, said Jehovah Zebaoth. My covenant with him will be [a covenant] of life and peace. You have turned back from the way; you have caused many to stumble at the law, you have corrupted the covenant of Levi; therefore I have made you despised. Malachi 2:4-5, 8-9.

And because in the highest sense the Lord's Divine Love or His Mercy was meant by 'Levi', and in the internal sense spiritual love, the tribe of Levi was therefore established as the priesthood; for in the internal sense of the Word 'the priesthood' is nothing other than the holiness of love and 'kingship' the holiness of faith, 1728, 2015 (end), 3670.

[5] Because the expression 'cringing to' from which Levi received his name means spiritual love, which is the same as mutual love, the same expression in the original language is used to mean lending and borrowing. 1 And these two - lending and borrowing - in the Jewish Church represented mutual love, a representation which will in the Lord's Divine mercy be dealt with elsewhere. Mutual love is different from friendship inasmuch as mutual love has a person's good in view, and in directing itself towards that good is directed towards the person in whom good is present. Friendship however has the person in view, which is also mutual love when it looks at that person from the point of view of, that is, on account of, that good. But when it does not look at him from the point of view of good or on account of that good but on account of self which it calls good, friendship is not in that case mutual love but something close to the love of self. And insofar as it is close to this it is opposed to mutual love. In itself mutual love is nothing else than charity towards the neighbour, for in the internal sense 'the neighbour' means nothing else than good, and in the highest sense the Lord because all good originates in Him and He is Good itself, see 2425, 3419. This mutual love or charity towards the neighbour is what is understood by spiritual love and meant by 'Levi'. What is more, in the Word celestial love, and also conjugial love, is expressed in the sense of the letter as 'clinging to', but this is derived from a different expression in the original language from that from which the name Levi is obtained.

[6] This other expression means an even closer joining together, as in the following places: In Moses,

You shall fear Jehovah your God: you shall serve Him and cling to Him. Deuteronomy 10:20.

You shall go after Jehovah your God, and fear Him, and keep His commandments, and hear His voice, and serve Him, and cling to Him. Deuteronomy 13:4.

To love Jehovah your God, to go in all His ways, and to cling to Him. Deuteronomy 11:22.

To love Jehovah your God, to obey His voice, and to cling to Him, for He is your life. Deuteronomy 30:20.

In Joshua,

Take good care to carry out the commandment and the law which Moses the servant of Jehovah commanded you, to love Jehovah your God, and to walk in all His ways, and to keep His commandments, and to cling to Him, and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul. Joshua 22:5.

In the second Book of Kings,

King Hezekiah trusted in Jehovah the God of Israel. He clung to Jehovah; he did not turn back from going after Him, and he kept His commandments which

Jehovah had commanded Moses. 2 Kings 18:5-6.

In Jeremiah,

As a waistcloth clings to the loins of a man, so I made the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah to cling to Me, to be for Me a people, a name, a praise, and a glory; but they were not obedient. Jeremiah 13:11.

[7] The fact that conjugial love as well is expressed by 'clinging to' is evident from the following,

Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother and will cling to his wife, and they will be one flesh. Genesis 2:24.

On account of your hardness of heart Moses wrote this commandment, but from the beginning of creation God made them male and female. For this reason a man (homo) will leave his father and mother and cling to his wife, and the two will be one flesh. What therefore God has joined together man (homo) must not put asunder. Mark 10:5-9; Matthew 19:5.

The soul of Shechem clung to Dinah, Jacob's daughter. He loved the girl, and spoke to the girl's heart. Genesis 34:3.

Solomon loved many foreign women. Solomon clung to these in love. 1 Kings 11:1-2.

These quotations show then that 'clinging to' is an expression descriptive of love which was adopted in ancient times by Churches in which meaningful signs were prominent, and that it means nothing else in the internal sense than a spiritual joining together, which is charity and love.

脚注:

1. literally, mutually giving and receiving

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

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Genesis第29章

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1 Then Jacob went on his journey, and came to the land of the children of the east.

2 He looked, and behold, a well in the field, and, behold, three flocks of sheep lying there by it. For out of that well they watered the flocks. The stone on the well's mouth was large.

3 There all the flocks were gathered. They rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the stone again on the well's mouth in its place.

4 Jacob said to them, "My relatives, where are you from?" They said, "We are from Haran."

5 He said to them, "Do you know Laban, the son of Nahor?" They said, "We know him."

6 He said to them, "Is it well with him?" They said, "It is well. See, Rachel, his daughter, is coming with the sheep."

7 He said, "Behold, it is still the middle of the day, not time to gather the livestock together. Water the sheep, and go and feed them."

8 They said, "We can't, until all the flocks are gathered together, and they roll the stone from the well's mouth. Then we water the sheep."

9 While he was yet speaking with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep, for she kept them.

10 It happened, when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban, his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban, his mother's brother, that Jacob went near, and rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother's brother.

11 Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept.

12 Jacob told Rachel that he was her father's brother, and that he was Rebekah's son. She ran and told her father.

13 It happened, when Laban heard the news of Jacob, his sister's son, that he ran to meet Jacob, and embraced him, and kissed him, and brought him to his house. Jacob told Laban all these things.

14 Laban said to him, "Surely you are my bone and my flesh." He lived with him for a month.

15 Laban said to Jacob, "Because you are my brother, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what will your wages be?"

16 Laban had two daughters. The name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.

17 Leah's eyes were weak, but Rachel was beautiful in form and attractive.

18 Jacob loved Rachel. He said, "I will serve you seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter."

19 Laban said, "It is better that I give her to you, than that I should give her to another man. Stay with me."

20 Jacob served seven years for Rachel. They seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her.

21 Jacob said to Laban, "Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in to her."

22 Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast.

23 It happened in the evening, that he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to him. He went in to her.

24 Laban gave Zilpah his handmaid to his daughter Leah for a handmaid.

25 It happened in the morning that, behold, it was Leah. He said to Laban, "What is this you have done to me? Didn't I serve with you for Rachel? Why then have you deceived me?"

26 Laban said, "It is not done so in our place, to give the younger before the firstborn.

27 Fulfill the week of this one, and we will give you the other also for the service which you will serve with me yet seven other years."

28 Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week. He gave him Rachel his daughter as wife.

29 Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah, his handmaid, to be her handmaid.

30 He went in also to Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.

31 Yahweh saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.

32 Leah conceived, and bore a son, and she named him Reuben. For she said, "Because Yahweh has looked at my affliction. For now my husband will love me."

33 She conceived again, and bore a son, and said, "Because Yahweh has heard that I am hated, he has therefore given me this son also." She named him Simeon.

34 She conceived again, and bore a son. Said, "Now this time will my husband be joined to me, because I have borne him three sons." Therefore was his name called Levi.

35 She conceived again, and bore a son. She said, "This time will I praise Yahweh." Therefore she named him Judah. Then she stopped bearing.