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創世記第27章

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1 イサクは年老い、がかすんで見えなくなった時、長エサウを呼んで言った、「よ」。彼は答えて言った、「ここにおります」。

2 イサクは言った。「わたしは年老いて、いつ死ぬかも知れない。

3 それであなたの武器、矢をもって野に出かけ、わたしのために、しかの肉をとってきて、

4 わたしの好きなおいしい食べ物を作り、持ってきて食べさせよ。わたしは死ぬ前にあなたを祝福しよう」。

5 イサクがそのエサウに語るのをリベカは聞いていた。やがてエサウが、しかの肉を獲ようと野に出かけたとき、

6 リベカはそのヤコブに言った、「わたしは聞いていましたが、父はエサウに、

7 『わたしのために、しかの肉をとってきて、おいしい食べ物を作り、わたしに食べさせよ。わたしは死ぬに、主のであなたを祝福しよう』と言いました。

8 それで、よ、わたしの言葉にしたがい、わたしの言うとおりにしなさい。

9 群れの所へ行って、そこからやぎの子の良いのを頭わたしの所に取ってきなさい。わたしはそれで父のために、父の好きなおいしい食べ物を作りましょう。

10 あなたはそれを持って行って父に食べさせなさい。父は死ぬにあなたを祝福するでしょう」。

11 ヤコブはリベカに言った、「エサウは毛深い人ですが、わたしはなめらかです。

12 おそらく父はわたしにさわってみるでしょう。そうすればわたしは父を欺く者と思われ、祝福を受けず、かえってのろいを受けるでしょう」。

13 は彼に言った、「よ、あなたがうけるのろいはわたしが受けます。ただ、わたしの言葉に従い、行って取ってきなさい」。

14 そこで彼は行ってやぎの子を取り、の所に持ってきたので、は父の好きなおいしい食べ物を作った。

15 リベカにあった長エサウの晴着を取って、弟ヤコブに着せ、

16 また子やぎの皮をなめらかな所とにつけさせ、

17 彼女が作ったおいしい食べ物とパンとをそのヤコブのにわたした。

18 そこでヤコブは父の所へ行って言った、「父よ」。すると父は言った、「わたしはここにいる。よ、あなたはだれか」。

19 ヤコブは父に言った、「長子エサウです。あなたがわたしに言われたとおりにいたしました。どうぞ起きて、すわってわたしのしかの肉を食べ、あなたみずからわたしを祝福してください」。

20 イサクはそのに言った、「よ、どうしてあなたはこんなに早く手に入れたのか」。彼は言った、「あなたのがわたしにしあわせを授けられたからです」。

21 イサクはヤコブに言った、「よ、近寄りなさい。わたしは、さわってみて、あなたが確かにわがエサウであるかどうかをみよう」。

22 ヤコブが、父イサクに近寄ったので、イサクは彼にさわってみて言った、「声はヤコブの声だが、エサウだ」。

23 ヤコブのエサウのように毛深かったため、イサクはヤコブを見わけることができなかったので、彼を祝福した。

24 イサクは言った、「あなたは確かにわがエサウですか」。彼は言った、「そうです」。

25 イサクは言った、「わたしの所へ持ってきなさい。わがのしかの肉を食べて、わたしみずから、あなたを祝福しよう」。ヤコブがそれを彼の所に持ってきたので、彼は食べた。またぶどう酒を持ってきたので、彼は飲んだ

26 そして父イサクは彼に言った、「よ、さあ、近寄ってわたしに口づけしなさい」。

27 彼が近寄って口づけした時、イサクはその着物のかおりをかぎ、彼を祝福して言った、「ああ、わがのかおりは、祝福された野のかおりのようだ。

28 どうかが、天のと、地の肥えたところと、多くの穀物と、新しいぶどう酒とをあなたに賜わるように。

29 もろもろの民はあなたに仕え、もろもろの国はあなたに身をかがめる。あなたは兄弟たちの主となり、あなたのらは、あなたに身をかがめるであろう。あなたをのろう者はのろわれ、あなたを祝福する者は祝福される」。

30 イサクがヤコブを祝福し終って、ヤコブが父イサクの前から出て行くとすぐ、エサウが狩から帰ってきた。

31 彼もまたおいしい食べ物を作って、父の所に持ってきて、言った、「父よ、起きてあなたののしかの肉を食べ、あなたみずから、わたしを祝福してください」。

32 父イサクは彼に言った、「あなたは、だれか」。彼は言った、「わたしはあなたの、長エサウです」。

33 イサクは激しくふるえて言った、「それでは、あのしかの肉を取って、わたしに持ってきた者はだれか。わたしはあなたが来る前に、みんな食べて彼を祝福した。ゆえに彼が祝福を得るであろう」。

34 エサウは父の言葉聞いた時、大声をあげ、激しく叫んで、父に言った、「父よ、わたしを、わたしをも祝福してください」。

35 イサクは言った、「あなたの弟が偽ってやってきて、あなたの祝福を奪ってしまった」。

36 エサウは言った、「よくもヤコブと名づけたものだ。彼は二度までもわたしをおしのけた。さきには、わたしの長子の特権を奪い、こんどはわたしの祝福を奪った」。また言った、「あなたはわたしのために祝福を残しておかれませんでしたか」。

37 イサクは答えてエサウに言った、「わたしは彼をあなたの主人とし、兄弟たちを皆しもべとして彼に与え、また穀物とぶどう酒を彼に授けた。わがよ、今となっては、あなたのために何ができようか」。

38 エサウは父に言った、「父よ、あなたの祝福はただ一つだけですか。父よ、わたしを、わたしをも祝福してください」。エサウは声をあげて泣いた。

39 父イサクは答えて彼に言った、「あなたのすみかは地の肥えた所から離れ、また上なる天のから離れるであろう。

40 あなたはつるぎをもって世を渡り、あなたの弟に仕えるであろう。しかし、あなたが勇み立つ時、から、そのくびきを振り落すであろう」。

41 こうしてエサウは父がヤコブに与えた祝福のゆえにヤコブを憎んだ。エサウの内で言った、「父の喪のも遠くはないであろう。その時、弟ヤコブを殺そう」。

42 しかしリベカは長エサウのこの言葉を人づてに聞いたので、人をやり、弟ヤコブを呼んで言った、「エサウはあなたを殺そうと考えて、みずから慰めています。

43 よ、今わたしの言葉に従って、すぐハランにいるわたしのラバンのもとにのがれ、

44 あなたの怒りが解けるまで、しばらく彼の所にいなさい。

45 の憤りが解けて、あなたのした事を忘れるようになったならば、わたしは人をやって、あなたをそこから迎えましょう。どうして、わたしは一日のうちにあなたがたふたりを失ってよいでしょうか」。

46 リベカはイサクに言った、「わたしはヘテびとのどものことで、生きているのがいやになりました。もしヤコブがこの地の、あのどものようなヘテびとのにめとるなら、わたしは生きていて、何になりましょう」。

   

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Arcana Coelestia#3570

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3570. 'And he brought it to him, and he ate' means first of all a conjunction of good, 'and he brought him wine, and he drank' means followed by a conjunction of truth. This is clear from the meaning of 'eating' as being joined and being made one's own as regards good, dealt with just above in 3568; from the meaning of 'wine' as truth deriving from good, dealt with in 1071, 1798; and from the meaning of 'drinking' as being joined and being made one's own as regards truth, 3168. The implications of this - that the good of the rational, represented by Isaac, first of all joins good to itself, then it joins truth to itself, which it does through the natural, represented by Jacob - are as follows: While the natural dwells in that state when good occupies the external position and truth the internal one, dealt with above in 3539, 3548, 3556, 3563, many things are allowed to come in which are not good but which are nevertheless useful - such things as serve as means towards good in their own order. But the good of the rational does not join to itself and make its own anything from that source apart from that which is suited to its own good, for it receives no other kind of good. Whatever is unsuited it rejects. All else in the natural it leaves behind to serve as the means for allowing in and introducing further things suited to itself.

[2] It is the rational that exists within the internal man. What goes on there is unknown to the natural since it is above its range of discernment. Consequently anyone who leads a merely natural life cannot know anything whatever about those things that are going on with him in his internal man, that is, in his rational. The Lord re-arranges those things without a person's being at all conscious of it. Consequently he knows nothing at all about how he is regenerated; indeed he is scarcely aware of his being regenerated. If he does wish to know however let him merely pay attention to his ultimate intentions, which are rarely disclosed to anyone. If those intentions are directed towards good, that is to say, if he considers the neighbour and the Lord more than he does himself he is in a state of regeneration. But if his intentions are directed towards evil, that is to say, if he considers himself more than he does the neighbour and the Lord, let him realize that he is not in any state of regeneration.

[3] A person's ultimate aims and intentions in life determine where he is in the next life, aims which look towards what is good placing him among angels in heaven, aims which look towards what is evil placing him among devils in hell. A person's ultimate intentions are nothing else than his loves; for what a person loves he has as his end in view. And being his loves, his ultimate aims and intentions constitute his inmost life, see 1317, 1568, 1571, 1645, 1909, 3425, 3562, 3565. Aims present in a person which look towards what is good reside in his rational, and are called the rational as regards good or the good of the rational. Through those aims residing there, that is, by means of the good there, the Lord re-arranges all things that are in the natural; for the end in view is like the soul, and the natural like the body belonging to that soul. The nature of the soul determines that of the body which surrounds it, as does the nature of the rational as regards good determine that of the natural clothing it.

[4] It is well known that a person's soul begins in the mother's ovum, and is after that developed in her womb, and is there surrounded with a tiny body, which indeed is such that by means of it the soul is able to function properly in the world into which it is born. A similar situation exists when a person is born again, that is, when he is regenerated. The new soul which he acquires at that time is an end which has good in view. This end in view has its beginnings in the rational, where first of all it is so to speak in the ovum, and is after that developed so to speak in the womb. The tiny body with which that soul is surrounded is the natural, and the good there comes to be of such a nature that it acts in obedience to the soul's ends in view. The truths there are like fibres in the body, for it is from good that truths take shape, 3470. From this it is clear that a person's reformation is imaged by the formation of him in the womb. And if you are willing to believe it, it is also celestial good and spiritual truth from the Lord that are shaping him and at that time endowing him with power that enables him to receive that good and that truth gradually - and indeed in the manner and to the extent that he looks as a human being towards ends that are of heaven and not as an animal towards those that are of the world.

[5] The matter of the rational as regards good first of all joining the good, then the truth, to itself by means of the natural - meant by Jacob's bringing savoury food and bread to Isaac and his eating it, and bringing him wine and his drinking it - may also be illustrated by means of the duties the body performs for its soul. It is the soul that enables the body to desire food and it is also the soul that enables the body to savour it. Different kinds of food are introduced through the delight that goes with appetite and the delight that goes with taste, thus through external good; but not all of these pass into the life of the body. Rather, some kinds of food serve as solvents to digest food, some as neutralizers, some as openers of and others as introducers into vessels. But good types of food are selected and introduced into the bloodstream, and then become blood. And from the latter the soul joins to itself such things as are of use to it.

[6] A similar situation exists with the rational and the natural. Corresponding to the desire for food and to taste are the desire and the affection for knowing truth; and corresponding to different kinds of food are facts and cognitions, 1480. And because they so correspond a similar situation exists with them. The soul which is the good of the rational provides the desire for those things and is moved by them, so that the things which belong to knowledge and doctrine are introduced through the delight that belongs to desire, and through the good that belongs to affection. But not everything that is introduced is such that it becomes the good which nourishes life; instead some things serve as the means so to speak to digest and neutralize, some to open up and introduce. But goods which nourish life are applied by the soul, and so joined by the soul, to itself, and from these it forms truths for itself. From this it is evident how the rational re-arranges the natural so that the rational as the soul may be served by it, or what amounts to the same, so that the natural may serve the end in view, which is the soul, in developing itself so that it may be of use in the Lord's kingdom.

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