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Genesi第35章

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1 Iddio disse a Giacobbe: "Lèvati, vattene a Bethel, dimora quivi, e fa’ un altare all’Iddio che ti apparve, quando fuggivi dinanzi al tuo fratello Esaù".

2 Allora Giacobbe disse alla sua famiglia e a tutti quelli ch’erano con lui: "Togliete gli dèi stranieri che sono fra voi, purificatevi, e cambiatevi i vestiti;

3 e leviamoci, andiamo a Bethel, ed io farò quivi un altare all’Iddio che mi esaudì nel giorno della mia angoscia, e ch’è stato con me nel viaggio che ho fatto".

4 Ed essi dettero a Giacobbe tutti gli dei stranieri ch’erano nelle loro mani e gli anelli che avevano agli orecchi; e Giacobbe li nascose sotto la quercia ch’è presso a Sichem.

5 Poi si partirono; e un terrore mandato da Dio invase le città ch’erano intorno a loro; talché non inseguirono i figliuoli di Giacobbe.

6 Così Giacobbe giunse a Luz, cioè Bethel, ch’è nel paese di Canaan: egli con tutta la gente che avea seco;

7 ed edificò quivi un altare, e chiamò quel luogo El-Bethel, perché quivi Iddio gli era apparso, quando egli fuggiva dinanzi al suo fratello.

8 Allora morì Debora, balia di Rebecca, e fu sepolta al di sotto di Bethel, sotto la quercia, che fu chiamata Allon-Bacuth.

9 Iddio apparve ancora a Giacobbe, quando questi veniva da Paddan-Aram; e lo benedisse.

10 E Dio gli disse: "Il tuo nome è Giacobbe; tu non sarai più chiamato Giacobbe, ma il tuo nome sarà Israele". E gli mise nome Israele.

11 E Dio gli disse: "Io sono l’Iddio onnipotente; sii fecondo e moltiplica; una nazione, anzi una moltitudine di nazioni discenderà da te, e dei re usciranno dai tuoi lombi;

12 e darò a te e alla tua progenie dopo di te il paese che detti ad Abrahamo e ad Isacco".

13 E Dio risalì di presso a lui, dal luogo dove gli avea parlato.

14 E Giacobbe eresse un monumento di pietra nel luogo dove Iddio gli avea parlato; vi fece sopra una libazione e vi sparse su dell’olio.

15 E Giacobbe chiamò Bethel il luogo dove Dio gli avea parlato.

16 Poi partirono da Bethel; e c’era ancora qualche distanza per arrivare ad Efrata, quando Rachele partorì. Essa ebbe un duro parto;

17 e mentre penava a partorire, la levatrice le disse: "Non temere, perché eccoti un altro figliuolo".

18 E com’ella stava per rendere l’anima (perché morì), pose nome al bimbo Ben-Oni; ma il padre lo chiamò Beniamino.

19 E Rachele morì, e fu sepolta sulla via di Efrata; cioè di Bethlehem.

20 E Giacobbe eresse un monumento sulla tomba di lei. Questo è il monumento della tomba di Rachele, il quale esiste tuttora.

21 Poi Israele si partì, e piantò la sua tenda al di là di Migdal-Eder.

22 E avvenne che, mentre Israele abitava in quel paese, Ruben andò e si giacque con Bilha, concubina di suo padre. E Israele lo seppe.

23 Or i figliuoli di Giacobbe erano dodici. I figliuoli di Lea: Ruben, primogenito di Giacobbe, Simeone, Levi, Giuda, Issacar, Zabulon.

24 I figliuoli di Rachele: Giuseppe e Beniamino.

25 I figliuoli di Bilha, serva di Rachele: Dan e Neftali.

26 I figliuoli di Zilpa, serva di Lea: Gad e Ascer. Questi sono i figliuoli di Giacobbe che gli nacquero in Paddan-Aram.

27 E Giacobbe venne da Isacco suo padre a Mamre, a Kiriath-Arba, cioè Hebron, dove Abrahamo e Isacco aveano soggiornato.

28 E i giorni d’Isacco furono centottant’anni.

29 E Isacco spirò, morì, e fu raccolto presso il suo popolo, vecchio e sazio di giorni; ed Esaù e Giacobbe, suoi figliuoli, lo seppellirono.

   

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Arcana Coelestia#2970

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2970. 'Which was in Machpelah, which was before Mamre' means the nature and extent of regeneration. This is clear from the meaning of 'Machpelah' as regeneration by means of the truth of faith, and from the meaning of 'Mamre' as the nature and extent of it. When the word 'cave' is combined with the name Machpelah - that is, when the expression 'the cave of Machpelah' is used - faith enveloped in obscurity is meant by it, 2935. But when Machpelah is mentioned by itself, and then followed by the phrase 'the field and the cave', regeneration is meant, for 'the field and the cave' means the good and truth of faith by means of which regeneration is accomplished. Furthermore Machpelah was a plot of land in which also there was a grave, which means regeneration, 2916. But 'Mamre', being Hebron, as stated below in verse 19, or 'in Hebron', as stated in Genesis 13:18, here means nothing else than the particular kind of a thing and the measure in which this exists. In this case the kind of regeneration and the measure of it is meant when 'Mamre' is linked with 'Machpelah'; the kind of Church and the degree to which it exists when 'Mamre' is linked with 'Hebron'; and the kind of perception and the measure of the same when 'Mamre' is linked with 'the oak-groves', as in 1616. Thus Mamre merely defines the state of the thing, for it was a place where Abraham dwelt, Genesis 13:18, and where Isaac dwelt and to which Jacob came, Genesis 35:27.

  
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1616. That 'Abram moved his tent, and came and dwelt in the oak groves of Mamre which are in Hebron' means that the Lord arrived at a perception more interior still is clear from the meaning of 'moving one's tent', that is, moving it and pitching it once again, as the process of being joined together; for 'a tent' is the holiness of worship, as shown already in 414, 1452, by which the external man is joined to the internal. It is also clear from the meaning of 'an oak-grove' as perception, dealt with already in 1442, 1443, where the phrase that occurred was 'the oak-grove of Moreh', meaning a first perception, whereas here the plural 'the oak-groves of Mamre' is used, which means a fuller, that is, more interior perception. This perception is called 'the oak-groves of Mamre which are in Hebron'. Mamre is also mentioned elsewhere in the Word, as in Genesis 14:13; 18:1; 23:17-19; 35:27; and Hebron too, in Genesis 35:27; 37:14; Joshua 10:36, 39; 14:13-15; 15:13, 54; 20:7; 21:11, 13; Judges 1:10, 20; and elsewhere. But what Mamre and Hebron mean where they are so mentioned will in the Lord's Divine mercy be seen when these other parts of the Word are explained.

[2] The implications of 'the oak-groves of Mamre which are in Hebron' meaning perception more interior still are as follows: To the extent that those things belonging to the external man are joined to celestial things belonging to the internal man perception grows and becomes more interior. Conjunction with celestial things confers perception, for within the celestial things that belong to love to Jehovah dwells the life itself of the internal man, or what amounts to the same, within celestial things which belong to love, that is, within celestial love, Jehovah is present. This presence is not perceived in the external man however until the conjunction has taken place. All perception is the result of conjunction.

[3] From the internal sense here it is clear what the situation was in the Lord's case: His External Man, or Human Essence, was joined step by step to the Divine Essence as cognitions multiplied and became fruitful. No one can ever, insofar as he is human, be joined to Jehovah, or the Lord, except by means of cognitions, for it is by means of cognitions that a person is made human. This applied to the Lord too since He was born as any other is born, and received instruction as any other does. Yet in the cognitions He had as receptacles celestial things were being instilled continually, with the result that His cognitions were constantly being made into the recipient vessels of celestial things; and these vessels also were themselves made celestial.

[4] Constantly the Lord advanced in this manner towards the celestial things of infancy, for, as stated already, the celestial things which belong to love are being instilled in a person from earliest infancy to childhood and on into adolescence as well. Since he is a human being, at that time and later on he is endowed with knowledge and cognitions. If a person is such that he can be regenerated, that knowledge and those cognitions are filled with celestial things that belong to love and charity, and are accordingly implanted within the celestial things he was endowed with from infancy through to childhood and adolescence, and in this way his external man is joined to his internal. First of all they are implanted in the celestial things he was endowed with in adolescence, then in those he was endowed with in childhood, and finally in those he was endowed with in infancy. At that point he is 'the little child' regarding whom the Lord said 'of such is the kingdom of God'. This implanting is done by the Lord alone, and therefore nothing celestial with man either does or can exist with man that does not come from, and belong to, the Lord.

[5] The Lord however from His own power joined His External Man to His Internal Man and filled His cognitions with celestial things, and He implanted them in celestial things, doing so according to Divine Order. First of all He implanted them in the celestial things of childhood, then in the celestial things of the age of childhood and back to infancy, and finally in the celestial things of His infancy. In this way He at the same time became as regards the Human Essence Innocence itself and Love itself, from which derive all innocence and all love in heaven and on earth. Such Innocence is true Infancy because it is simultaneously Wisdom. But the innocence of infancy is of no use at all unless by means of cognitions it becomes the innocence of wisdom, and this is why little children in the next life are endowed with cognitions. As the Lord implanted cognitions in celestial things, so He had perception, for, as stated, all perception is the result of conjunction. He had His first perception when He implanted the facts acquired in childhood, a perception meant by 'the oak-grove of Moreh'; and He had His second, which is the subject here, and which is more interior, when He implanted cognitions, a perception meant by 'the oak-groves of Mamre which are in Hebron'.

  
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