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1 Mose第48章

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1 Und es geschah nach diesen Dingen, daß man dem Joseph sagte: Siehe, dein Vater ist krank. Und er nahm seine beiden Söhne, Manasse und Ephraim, mit sich.

2 Und man berichtete dem Jakob und sprach: Siehe, dein Sohn Joseph kommt zu dir. Und Israel machte sich stark und setzte sich aufs Bett.

3 Und Jakob sprach zu Joseph: Gott, der Allmächtige, erschien mir zu Lus im Lande Kanaan, und er segnete mich

4 und sprach zu mir: Siehe, ich will dich fruchtbar machen und dich mehren und dich zu einem Haufen Völker machen, und ich will dieses Land deinem Samen nach dir zum ewigen Besitztum geben.

5 Und nun, deine beiden Söhne, welche dir im Lande Ägypten geboren sind, ehe ich zu dir nach Ägypten kam, sollen mein sein; Ephraim und Manasse sollen mein sein wie Ruben und Simeon.

6 Aber dein Geschlecht, das du nach ihnen gezeugt hast, soll dein sein; nach dem Namen ihrer Brüder sollen sie genannt werden in ihrem Erbteil.

7 Denn ich, als ich aus Paddan kam, starb Rahel bei mir im Lande Kanaan auf dem Wege, als noch eine Strecke Landes war, um nach Ephrath zu kommen; und ich begrub sie daselbst auf dem Wege nach Ephrath, das ist Bethlehem.

8 Und Israel sah die Söhne Josephs und sprach: Wer sind diese?

9 Und Joseph sprach zu seinem Vater: Das sind meine Söhne, die Gott mir hier gegeben hat. Da sprach er: Bringe sie doch zu mir her, daß ich sie segne!

10 Die Augen Israels aber waren schwer vor Alter, er konnte nicht sehen. Und er führte sie näher zu ihm, und er küßte sie und umarmte sie.

11 Und Israel sprach zu Joseph: Ich hatte nicht gedacht, dein Angesicht wiederzusehen, und siehe, Gott hat mich sogar deinen Samen sehen lassen!

12 Und Joseph führte sie von seinen Knien heraus und beugte sich auf sein Angesicht zur Erde nieder.

13 Und Joseph nahm sie beide, Ephraim mit seiner Rechten, zur Linken Israels, und Manasse mit seiner Linken, zur Rechten Israels, und führte sie näher zu ihm.

14 Und Israel streckte seine Rechte aus und legte sie auf das Haupt Ephraims er war aber der Jüngere und seine Linke auf das Haupt Manasses; er legte seine Hände absichtlich also, denn Manasse war der Erstgeborene.

15 Und er segnete Joseph und sprach: Der Gott, vor dessen Angesicht meine Väter, Abraham und Isaak, gewandelt haben, der Gott, der mich geweidet hat, seitdem ich bin bis auf diesen Tag,

16 der Engel, der mich erlöst hat von allem Übel, segne die Knaben; und in ihnen werde mein Name genannt und der Name meiner Väter, Abraham und Isaak, und sie sollen sich mehren zu einer Menge inmitten des Landes!

17 Und als Joseph sah, daß sein Vater seine rechte Hand auf das Haupt Ephraims legte, war es übel in seinen Augen; und er faßte seines Vaters Hand, um sie von dem Haupte Ephraims hinwegzutun auf das Haupt Manasses.

18 Und Joseph sprach zu seinem Vater: Nicht also, mein Vater! Denn dieser ist der Erstgeborene; lege deine Rechte auf sein Haupt.

19 Aber sein Vater weigerte sich und sprach: Ich weiß es mein Sohn, ich weiß es. Auch er wird zu einem Volke werden, und auch er wird groß sein; aber doch wird sein jüngerer Bruder größer sein als er, und sein Same wird eine Fülle von Nationen werden.

20 Und er segnete sie an selbigem Tage und sprach: In dir wird Israel segnen und sprechen: Gott mache dich wie Ephraim und wie Manasse! Und er setzte Ephraim vor Manasse.

21 Und Israel sprach zu Joseph: Siehe, ich sterbe; und Gott wird mit euch sein und euch in das Land eurer Väter zurückbringen.

22 Und ich gebe dir einen Landstrich über deine Brüder hinaus, den ich von der Hand der Amoriter genommen habe mit meinem Schwerte und mit meinem Bogen.

   

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Arcana Coelestia#9594

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9594. 'And you shall make the dwelling-place' means the second or middle heaven. This is clear from the meaning of 'the dwelling-place', when it refers to the Divine, as heaven - the middle or second heaven, strictly speaking. It is well known that there are three heavens, namely the inmost, middle, and lowest, or third, second, and first. All these heavens were represented by the tabernacle; the inmost or third heaven was represented by the ark where the Testimony was, the middle or second heaven by the dwelling-place where the table for the loaves of the Presence and the lampstand were, and the lowest or first heaven by the court. The reason why there are three heavens is that there are three degrees of life with the human being. (Human beings, who become angels after death, constitute heaven; angels have no other beginning, and the heavens spring from no other source.) The inmost degree of his life exists for the inmost heaven, the middle degree of life for the middle heaven, and the lowest for the lowest heaven. And because the human being is like this, or has been so formed, and heaven springs from the human race, there are three heavens.

[2] These degrees of life with a person are opened up in successive stages. The first degree is opened up by a life led in accord with what is right and fair, the second degree by a life in accord with the truths of faith drawn from the Word and with forms of the good of charity towards the neighbour that follow on from those truths, and the third degree by a life in accord with the good of mutual love and the good of love to the Lord. These virtues are the means by which those three degrees of life with a person, and so the three heavens with him, are opened up in successive stages. But it should be recognized that to the extent that a person departs from good in life and moves towards evil in life those degrees are closed, that is, the heavens with him are closed; for just as good in life opens them, so evil in life closes them. This being so, all who are steeped in evil are outside heaven, thus are in hell. It should also be recognized that with some people - since the heavens with a person are opened up in successive stages according to the good present in his life, as stated above - the first heaven and not the second is opened up; that with some others the second heaven and not the third is opened up; but that the third heaven is opened up solely with those governed by good in life springing from love to the Lord. For the human being is heaven in its smallest form, and has been created so as to conform to an image of heaven and of the world, see the places referred to in 9279.

[3] There is therefore an inmost heaven, represented by the ark of the Testimony, which was the subject in the previous chapter; a middle heaven, represented by the dwelling-place, which is the subject in the present chapter; and a lowest heaven, represented by the court, which is the subject in the next chapter. Heaven is called God's dwelling-place because what is Divine and the Lord's dwells there; for Divine Truth emanating from the Lord's Divine Good is what makes heaven, indeed gives life to the angels there. And since the Lord dwells with angels in that which comes from Him, 9338 (end), heaven is called God's dwelling-place, and the actual Divine Truths emanating from Divine Good, which angels or angelic communities are recipients of, are called dwellings, as in David,

Send out Your light and Your truth; let them lead me, let them lead me to [Your] holy mountain and to Your dwellings, that I may go in to the altar of God, to God ... Psalms 43:3-4.

In the same author,

There is a river whose streams will make glad the city of God, the holy place of the dwellings of the Most High. Psalms 46:4.

In the same author,

Down to the ground 1 they have profaned the dwelling-place of Your name. Psalms 74:7.

In the same author,

How lovely are Your dwellings, O Jehovah! Psalms 84:1.

[4] The fact that the Divine realities which emanate from the Lord's Divine Human are what are rightly called 'dwellings', as a result of which heaven itself is called 'the dwelling-place', is also clear in David,

He swore to Jehovah, he made a vow to the Mighty One of Jacob, Surely I will not give sleep to my eyes, until I find a place for Jehovah, the dwelling-places for the Mighty One of Jacob. Behold, we heard of Him in Ephrathah, we found Him in the fields of the wood. We will enter His dwelling-places. Psalms 132:2, 4-7.

'The Mighty One of Jacob' is the Lord's Divine Human, 6425. 'Ephrathah', where He was to be found, is Bethlehem where He was born, Genesis 35:19; 48:7; Micah 5:2; Matthew 2:5-6. 'The fields of the wood' are the forms of good composing the Church among gentiles.

[5] In Ezekiel,

They will dwell in the land which I gave to My servant Jacob. They will dwell in it, they [and their sons] and their sons' sons forever. And David My servant will be their prince forever. I will make with them a covenant of peace; it will be an eternal covenant with them. And I will set My sanctuary in their midst forever; so shall My dwelling-place be among them. Ezekiel 37:25-27.

'David, who will be their prince forever' stands for the Lord, 1888; 'the sanctuary' (sanctuarium) stands for the Lord's Divine Human, since He is the source of all holiness (sanctum), 3210, 9229, so that 'dwelling-place' stands for heaven and for the Church, where the Lord is.

[6] In Jeremiah,

Thus said Jehovah, Behold, I will bring back the captivity 2 of the tents of Jacob, and will have compassion on his dwellings, that the city may be built upon its mound. Jeremiah 30:18.

'Bringing back the captivity of the tents of Jacob' stands for restoring the external Church's forms of good and truths which had been destroyed, 'having compassion on his dwellings' for restoring the internal Church's truths, 'the city which was to be built upon its mound' for doctrinal teachings about the truth, 2449, 2943, 3216, 4492, 4493.

[7] How the Lord dwells in the heavens may be seen from what has been shown previously regarding the Lord, that is to say, where it has been shown that the Lord's Divine Human is the Sun, the source of heat and light in the heavens. The heat radiating from the Lord as the Sun is love, while the light is faith. The Lord therefore dwells with those who receive from Him the good of love and the truth of faith, which are the heat and light of life; and how fully He is present depends on their degree of receptivity.

脚注:

1. literally, Into the earth or land

2. i.e. restore the fortunes

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