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1 Mose第49章

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1 Und Jakob rief seine Söhne und sprach: Versammelt euch, und ich will euch verkünden, was euch begegnen wird in künftigen Tagen. (O. am Ende der Tage)

2 Kommet zusammen und höret, ihr Söhne Jakobs, und höret auf Israel, euren Vater!

3 uben, mein Erstgeborener bist du, meine Kraft und der Erstling meiner Stärke! Vorzug an Hoheit und Vorzug an Macht!

4 Überwallend wie die Wasser, sollst du keinen Vorzug haben, denn du hast das Lager deines Vaters bestiegen; da hast du es entweiht. Mein Bett hat er bestiegen!

5 Simeon und Levi sind Brüder, Werkzeuge der Gewalttat ihre Waffen. (Der Sinn des Wortes ist zweifelhaft; And. üb.: Anschläge)

6 Meine Seele komme nicht in ihren geheimen at, meine Ehre (Viell. wie Ps. 7,5) vereinige sich nicht mit ihrer Versammlung! Denn in ihrem Zorn haben sie den Mann erschlagen und in ihrem Mutwillen den Stier gelähmt.

7 Verflucht sei ihr Zorn, denn er war gewalttätig, und ihr Grimm, denn er war grausam! Ich werde sie verteilen in Jakob und sie zerstreuen in Israel.

8 Dich Juda, dich werden deine Brüder preisen; (Der Segen Judas und Dans enthält eine Anspielung auf die Bedeutung ihrer Namen) deine Hand wird sein auf dem Nacken deiner Feinde, vor dir werden sich niederbeugen die Söhne deines Vaters.

9 Juda ist ein junger Löwe; vom aube, mein Sohn, bist du emporgestiegen. Er duckt sich, er legt sich nieder wie ein Löwe und wie eine Löwin; wer will ihn aufreizen? (Vergl. 4. Mose 24,9)

10 Nicht weichen wird das Scepter von Juda, noch der Herrscherstab (And.: Gesetzgeber) zwischen seinen Füßen hinweg, bis Schilo (d. h. der uhebringende, Friedenschaffende) kommt, und ihm werden die Völker gehorchen. (And. üb.: sich anschließen)

11 Er bindet an den Weinstock sein Eselsfüllen und an die Edelrebe das Junge seiner Eselin; er wäscht im Weine sein Kleid und im Blute der Trauben sein Gewand;

12 die Augen sind trübe von Wein, und weiß die Zähne von Milch.

13 Sebulon, am Gestade der Meere wird er wohnen, und am Gestade der Schiffe wird er sein und seine Seite gegen Sidon hin.

14 Issaschar ist ein knochiger Esel, der sich lagert zwischen den Hürden.

15 Und er sieht, daß die uhe (O. uhestätte) gut und daß das Land lieblich ist; und er beugt seine Schulter zum Lasttragen und wird zum fronpflichtigen Knecht.

16 Dan wird sein Volk richten, wie einer der Stämme Israels.

17 Dan wird eine Schlange sein am Wege, eine Hornotter am Pfade, die da beißt in die Fersen des osses, und rücklings fällt sein eiter.

18 Auf deine ettung harre ich, Jehova!

19 Gad, Scharen werden ihn drängen, und er, er wird ihnen nachdrängen auf der Ferse.

20 Von Aser kommt Fettes, sein Brot; und er, königliche Leckerbissen wird er geben.

21 Naphtali ist eine losgelassene (Viell. schlanke) Hindin; er, der schöne Worte gibt.

22 Sohn eines Fruchtbaumes (d. h. ein junger Fruchtbaum, oder Zweig eines Fruchtbaumes) ist Joseph, Sohn eines Fruchtbaumes am Quell; die Schößlinge treiben über die Mauer.

23 Und es reizen ihn und schießen, und es befehden ihn die Bogenschützen; (Eig. Pfeilschützen)

24 aber sein Bogen bleibt fest, und gelenkig (O. stark, rüstig) sind die Arme (O. ist die Kraft) seiner Hände durch die Hände des Mächtigen Jakobs. Von dannen ist der Hirte, der Stein Israels:

25 von dem Gott (El) deines Vaters, und er wird dir helfen, und dem Allmächtigen, und er wird dich segnen mit Segnungen des Himmels droben, mit Segnungen der Tiefe, die unten liegt, mit Segnungen der Brüste und des Mutterleibes.

26 Die Segnungen deines Vaters überragen die Segnungen meiner Voreltern (W. Erzeuger) bis zur Grenze der ewigen Hügel. Sie werden sein auf dem Haupte Josephs und auf dem Scheitel des Abgesonderten (Eig. des Nasiräers; And.: des Gekrönten) unter seinen Brüdern.

27 Benjamin ist ein Wolf, der zerreißt; am Morgen verzehrt er aub, und am Abend verteilt er Beute.

28 Alle diese sind die zwölf Stämme Israels, und das ist es, was ihr Vater zu ihnen redete und womit er sie segnete; einen jeden nach seinem Segen segnete er sie.

29 Und er gebot ihnen und sprach zu ihnen: Bin ich versammelt zu meinem Volke, so begrabet mich zu meinen Vätern in der Höhle, die in dem Felde Ephrons, des Hethiters, ist,

30 in der Höhle, die in dem Felde Machpela vor Mamre ist, im Lande Kanaan, welche Abraham samt dem Felde von Ephron, dem Hethiter, zum Erbbegräbnis gekauft hat.

31 Dort haben sie Abraham begraben und sein Weib Sara; dort haben sie Isaak begraben und sein Weib ebekka; und dort habe ich Lea begraben;

32 das Feld und die Höhle, die darin ist, sind erkauft von den Kindern Heth.

33 Und als Jakob geendet hatte, seinen Söhnen Befehle zu geben, zog er seine Füße aufs Bett herauf und verschied und wurde versammelt zu seinen Völkern.

   

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Arcana Coelestia#6427

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6427. What these three 1 verses contain in the internal sense is evident from the explanations that have been given. But even so, they inevitably remain obscure unless one knows what the spiritual kingdom is like. This kingdom consists of those who, possessing the truth of faith, make this truth part of their life and thus convert it into good. When a person leads a life in accordance with the truth of faith it is made into good and is called the good of truth; yet essentially it is truth in action. The truth of faith in the Lord's spiritual Church is varying, for in one Church that is said to be the truth which in another is said not to be the truth, the doctrine taught by each Church being what leads to such variation. And in this way particular teachings come to be called truths. These truths are the ones that become linked to good and constitute good in the spiritual Church. Consequently the quality of its good comes to be that of its truth, for truths give good the quality it possesses.

[2] From this one may see that the good of the spiritual Church is impure and that as it is impure spiritual people cannot be admitted into heaven except by Divine means. The most important Divine means consisted in the Lord's coming into the world and making the Human within Himself Divine. By that means spiritual people have been saved; yet because with them good is impure they are inevitably under attack from evils and falsities and so are engaged in conflict. But the Lord sees to it that through those conflicts what is impure with them is gradually made purer; for the Lord fights for them. These considerations are what are meant by 'a daughter marches onto the wall' and by 'they exasperate him and shoot at him and hate him, do the archers; and he will sit in the strength of his bow, and the arms of his hands are made strong by the hands of the powerful Jacob; from there is the shepherd, the stone of Israel'.

[3] See what has been stated already about those who belong to the spiritual Church:

They live in obscurity so far as truth and the good resulting from truth are concerned, 2708, 2715, 2718, 2831, 2935, 2937, 3241, 3246, 3833, 6289.

Light is brought to that obscurity from the Lord's Divine Human, 2716. Before the Lord's Coming the spiritual kingdom was not the same as it was after His Coming, 6372.

The Lord came into the world to save those who are spiritual; and they are saved by means of the Lord's Divine Human, 2661, 2716, 2833, 2834, 3969. From these places it is also evident that 'the arms of his hands are made strong by the hands of the powerful Jacob; from there is the shepherd, the stone of Israel' means the power that the forces involved in fighting possess, received from the almighty power of the Lord's Divine Human, from which springs all the goodness and truth that the spiritual kingdom possesses, 6424-6426.

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1. The Latin says two.

  
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2715. Two arcana exist here, the first being that, compared with the good of the celestial man, that of the spiritual man is obscure, the second that this obscurity is brightened by light from the Lord's Divine Human. As regards the first of these - that the good residing with the spiritual man is obscure compared with the celestial man's - this may be seen from what has been stated above in 2708 about the state of the spiritual man in comparison with that of the celestial man. From a comparison of the two states the fact of that obscurity is quite evident. With those who are celestial good itself exists implanted in the will part of their mind, and from there light enters the understanding part. But with those who are spiritual the whole of the will part is corrupted, so that they have no good at all from there, and therefore the Lord implants good in the understanding part of their mind, see 863, 875, 895, 927, 928, 1023, 1043, 1044, 2124, 2256. The will part is, in the main, the part of man's mind that possesses life, whereas the understanding part receives life from the will. Since therefore the will part in the case of the spiritual man is so corrupted as to be nothing but evil, and yet evil is flowing in from there unceasingly and constantly into the understanding part, that is, into his thought, it is clear that the good there is obscure compared with the celestial man's good.

[2] As a consequence those who are spiritual do not have love to the Lord, as those who are celestial do; nor therefore does that humility exist with them which is essential in all worship and by means of which good can flow in from the Lord; for a heart that is haughty is not at all receptive, only one that is humble. Nor do those who are spiritual have love towards the neighbour, as those who are celestial do, because self-love and love of the world are constantly flowing in from the will part of their mind, bringing obscurity into the good that goes with that love towards the neighbour. This may also become clear to one who reflects from the fact that when he helps another he does so for worldly reasons; thus though he may not consciously have it in mind he is nevertheless thinking about what he will get in return either from those he helps or in the next life from the Lord, which being so his good is still defiled with merit-seeking. It may also become clear to him from the fact that when he has done anything good and is able to speak about it to others and so set himself up above others, he is in his element. But those who are celestial love the neighbour more than they love themselves, and do not ever think about repayment or in any way set themselves up above others.

[3] The good residing with those who are spiritual is in addition made obscure by persuasive beliefs that are the product of various assumptions, which likewise have their origin in self-love and love of the world. For the nature of their persuasive beliefs even in matters of faith, see 2682, 2689 (end). This too is a product of the influx of evil from the will part of their mind.

[4] It may in addition become clear that the good residing with the spiritual man is obscure compared with the celestial man's, from the fact that he does not know what truth is, as those who are celestial do, from any perception. Instead he knows what truth is from what he has learned from parents and teachers, and also from the doctrine into which he was born. And when he adds to this anything from himself and from his own thinking, it is for the most part the senses and the illusions of the senses, also the rational and the appearances present within the rational, that predominate, and these make it barely possible for him to acknowledge any pure truth like that acknowledged by those who are celestial. But in spite of this, within things that are seemingly true the Lord implants good, even though these truths are mere illusions or else appearances of truth. But this good is made obscure by such truths, for it derives its specific nature from the truths to which it is joined. It is like the light of the sun falling upon objects. The nature of the objects receiving the light causes the light to be seen within those objects in the form of colours, which are beautiful if the nature of the recipient form and the manner of its receiving are fitting and correspondent, hideous if the nature of the recipient form and the manner of its receiving are not fitting and so not correspondent. In the same way good itself acquires a specific nature from the truth [to which it is joined].

[5] The same arcanum is also evident from the fact that the spiritual man does not know what evil is. He scarcely believes that any other evils exist than actions contrary to the Ten Commandments. Of evils present in affection and thought, which are countless, he has no knowledge nor does he reflect on them or call them evils. All delights whatever that go with evil desires and pleasures he does not regard as other than good; and the actual delights that are part of self-love he both pursues, approves of, and excuses, without knowing that such things have an effect on his spirit and that he becomes altogether such in the next life.

[6] From this it is in a similar way clear that although the whole of the Word deals with scarcely any other matter than the good which goes with love to the Lord and love towards the neighbour, the spiritual man does not know that that good is the sum and substance of faith, nor even what the essential nature of love and charity is. It is also clear that though something which is a matter of faith may be known to him - faith being considered by him to be essential in itself - he nevertheless discusses whether it is true, unless he has been confirmed by much experience of life. Those who are celestial do not discuss the same because they know and have a perception that it is true hence the Lord's statement in Matthew,

Let your words be, Yes, yes; No, no; anything beyond this is from evil. 1 Matthew 5:37.

For those who are celestial are immersed in the truth itself about which those who are spiritual dispute. Consequently because those who are celestial are immersed in the truth itself, they are able to see from it numberless facets of that truth, and so from light to see so to speak heaven in its entirety. But those who are spiritual, because they dispute whether it is true, cannot - so long as they do so - arrive at the remotest boundary of the light existing with those who are celestial, let alone behold anything from their light.

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1. or from the evil one

  
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