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1 Så hendte det da to år var omme, at Farao drømte han stod ved elven*. / {* Nilen.}

2 Og se, det steg op av elven syv kyr, vakre å se til og fete, og de gikk og beitet i elvegresset.

3 Og efter dem steg det op av elven syv andre kyr, stygge å se til og magre, og de stod ved siden av de andre kyr på elvebredden.

4 Og de stygge og magre kyr åt op de syv vakre og fete kyr. Da våknet Farao.

5 Så sovnet han igjen og drømte annen gang, og se, syv aks, frodige og gode, vokste op på ett strå.

6 Og efter dem skjøt det op syv aks som var tynne og svidd av østenvind.

7 Og de tynne aks slukte de syv frodige og fulle aks. Da våknet Farao, og skjønte at det var en drøm.

8 Men om morgenen var han urolig til sinns, og han sendte bud og lot kalle alle tegnsutleggerne og alle vismennene i Egypten; og Farao fortalte dem sine drømmer, men det var ingen som kunde tyde dem for ham.

9 Da talte den øverste munnskjenk til Farao og sa: Jeg må idag minne om mine synder.

10 Farao blev vred på sine tjenere og satte mig fast hos høvdingen over livvakten, både mig og den øverste baker.

11 Da hadde vi hver sin drøm i samme natt, jeg og han, og våre drømmer hadde hver sin mening.

12 Og det var en hebraisk gutt sammen med oss der; han var tjener hos høvdingen over livvakten; ham fortalte vi våre drømmer, og han tydet dem for oss; efter som enhver hadde drømt, tydet han dem.

13 Og som han tydet dem for oss, således gikk det; jeg blev satt i mitt embede igjen, og han blev hengt.

14 Da sendte Farao bud og lot Josef kalle, og de førte ham skyndsomt ut av fengslet; og han lot sig rake og skiftet klær og trådte frem for Farao.

15 Da sa Farao til Josef: Jeg har hatt en drøm, og det er ingen som kan tyde den; men jeg har hørt si om dig at så snart du hører en drøm, kan du tyde den.

16 Og Josef svarte Farao og sa: Det står ikke til mig; Gud vil gi et svar som spår lykke for Farao.

17 Da sa Farao til Josef: Jeg syntes i drømme at jeg stod på elvebredden.

18 Og se, av elven steg det op syv kyr, fete og vakre av skikkelse, og de gikk og beitet i elvegresset.

19 Og efter dem steg det op syv andre kyr, tynne og svært stygge av skikkelse og magre; jeg har aldri sett så stygge kyr i hele Egyptens land.

20 Og de magre og stygge kyr åt op de syv første, fete kyr.

21 Og da de hadde fått dem til livs, kunde det ikke merkes på dem, de var like stygge å se til som før. Da våknet jeg.

22 drømte jeg igjen, og se: Syv aks, fulle og gode, vokste op på ett strå.

23 Og efter dem skjøt det op syv aks som var fortørket og tynne og svidd av østenvind.

24 Og de tynne aks slukte de syv gode aks. Og jeg fortalte det til tegnsutleggerne, men ingen kunde forklare det for mig.

25 Da sa Josef til Farao: Faraos drømmer har én mening; hvad Gud vil gjøre, har han latt Farao få vite.

26 De syv gode kyr er syv år, og de syv gode aks er syv år; det er en og samme drøm.

27 Og de syv magre og stygge kyr som steg op efter dem, er syv år, og de syv tomme aks som var svidd av østenvinden, er syv hungersår, som skal komme.

28 Det er som jeg sa til Farao: Hvad Gud vil gjøre, har han latt Farao se.

29 Det kommer syv år med stor overflod i hele Egyptens land;

30 men efter dem kommer det syv hungersår, så all denne overflod skal bli glemt i Egyptens land, og hungeren skal arme ut landet;

31 og ingen skal minnes den overflod som var i landet, for hungeren bakefter; for den skal bli meget hård.

32 Men at drømmen kom to ganger for Farao, det vil si at saken er fast besluttet av Gud, og at Gud vil gjøre det snart.

33 Nu skulde Farao utse sig en forstandig og vis mann og sette ham over Egyptens land!

34 Det skulde Farao gjøre og så sette opsynsmenn over landet og ta femtedelen av avgrøden i Egyptens land i de syv overflodsår.

35 Og de skal samle alt som kan tjene til føde, i disse gode år som kommer, og under Faraos hånd dynge op korn i byene til føde og ta vare på det.

36 Og kornet skal tjene til forråd for landet i de syv hungersår som skal komme over Egyptens land, så landet ikke skal ødelegges av hungeren.

37 Disse ord syntes Farao og alle hans tjenere godt om.

38 Og Farao sa til sine tjenere: Mon det finnes nogen som han, en mann som har Guds ånd?

39 sa Farao til Josef: Siden Gud har latt dig vite alt dette, så er det ingen så forstandig og vis som du.

40 Du skal forestå mitt hus, og hele mitt folk skal rette sig efter ditt ord; bare tronen vil jeg ha fremfor dig.

41 Og Farao sa fremdeles til Josef: Se, jeg setter dig over hele Egyptens land.

42 Og Farao tok sin signetring av sin hånd og satte den på Josefs hånd og klædde ham i klær av fint lin og hengte en gullkjede om hans hals.

43 Og han lot ham kjøre i den vogn som var nærmest efter hans egen, og de ropte foran ham: Abrek!* Og han satte ham over hele Egyptens land. / {* bøi kne!.}

44 Og Farao sa til Josef: Jeg er Farao, og uten din vilje skal ingen mann løfte hånd eller fot i hele Egyptens land.

45 Og Farao gav Josef navnet Sofnat-Paneah* og gav ham til hustru Asnat, en datter av Potifera, presten i On. Så drog Josef omkring i Egyptens land. / {* måskje: Verdens frelser.}

46 Josef var tretti år gammel da han stod for Egyptens konge Faraos åsyn. Og efterat Josef var gått ut fra Farao, reiste han gjennem hele Egyptens land.

47 Og jorden bar rikelig i de syv overflodsår.

48 Og han samlet alle slags grøde i de syv gode år som kom i Egyptens land, og la den op i byene; i hver by la han op avgrøden fra landet som lå omkring.

49 Så hopet da Josef op korn som havets sand, i svære mengder, inntil de holdt op med å telle; for det var ikke tall på det.

50 Før det første hungersår kom, fikk Josef to sønner med Asnat, datter av Potifera, presten i On.

51 Og Josef kalte sin førstefødte sønn Manasse*; for [sa han] Gud har latt mig glemme all min møie og hele min fars hus. / {* en som får folk til å glemme.}

52 Og den andre sønn kalte han Efra'im*; for [sa han] Gud har gjort mig fruktbar i det land som jeg led ondt i. / {* dobbelt frukt.}

53 Da de syv overflodsår i Egyptens land var til ende,

54 begynte de syv hungersår å komme, således som Josef hadde sagt. Da blev det hungersnød i alle landene, men i hele Egyptens land var det brød.

55 Og da hele Egyptens land led hunger, ropte folket til Farao om brød. Da sa Farao til alle egypterne: Gå til Josef! Hvad han sier eder, skal I gjøre.

56 Da det nu var hungersnød over hele landet, åpnet Josef alle oplagshusene og solgte korn til egypterne; for hungersnøden var hård i Egyptens land.

57 Og fra alle landene kom de til Josef i Egypten for å kjøpe korn; for hungersnøden var hård i alle landene.

   

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655. Where also our Lord was crucified.- That this signifies by means of which He was rejected and condemned, namely, by means of evils, and falsities therefrom springing from infernal love, is evident from this consideration, that evils themselves and their consequent falsities arising from infernal love are what reject and condemn the Lord, and these evils and the falsities therefrom are signified by Sodom and Egypt, therefore it is said concerning the city of Jerusalem that it is called so spiritually, for to be spiritually called signifies evil itself, and the falsity therefrom.

[2] The hells are separated into two kingdoms opposite the two kingdoms in the heavens; the kingdom opposite the celestial kingdom is at the back, and those who are there are called genii, and this kingdom is what is understood in the Word by "devil." But the kingdom opposite the spiritual kingdom is in front, and those who are there are called evil spirits; this kingdom is what is meant in the Word by "Satan." These hells, or these two kingdoms into which the hells are separated, are meant by Sodom and Egypt. Whether it is said evils and falsities therefrom, or those hells, it is the same thing, since from these all evils and falsities ascend.

[3] The Jews of Jerusalem crucifying the Lord signifies that the evils and the falsities therefrom which they loved crucified Him; for all things recorded in the Word concerning the Lord's passion represented the perverted state of the church with that nation. For although they accounted the Word holy, yet they perverted all things therein by their traditions until there was no longer any Divine Good and Truth remaining with them, and, when the Divine Good and Truth that are in the Word no longer remain, then evils and falsities from infernal love succeed in their place, and these are what crucify the Lord. That such things are signified by the Lord's passion, may be seen above (n. 83, 195:21, 627:16, at the end). The Lord is said to be slain because it signifies His being rejected and denied, as may be seen above (n. 328). Concerning the nature and quality of the Jews, see above (n. 122, 433:28, 619), and in the Doctrine of the New Jerusalem 248).

[4] Since it is here said "where our Lord was crucified," it shall be explained what crucifixion, or suspension upon wood, signified with the Jews. There were two punishments of death with them, crucifixion and stoning; and by crucifixion was signified condemnation and a curse on account of the destruction of good in the church, and by stoning was signified condemnation and a curse on account of the destruction of truth in the church. Crucifixion signified condemnation and a curse on account of the destruction of good in the church, because wood, upon which they were suspended, signified good, and, in the opposite sense, evil, both pertaining to the will. Stoning signified condemnation and a curse on account of the destruction of truth in the church, because stone, with which stoning was effected, signified truth, and, in the opposite sense falsity, both pertaining to the understanding. For all things instituted with the Israelitish and Jewish nation were representative, and thence significative. That wood signifies good, and, in the opposite sense, evil, and that stone signifies truth, and, in the opposite sense, falsity, may be seen in the Arcana Coelestia 643, 3720, 8354). But because it has been hitherto unknown whence the punishment of the cross and of stoning came to the Jews and Israelites, and since it is nevertheless important that this should be known, I will also adduce confirmations from the Word to show that these two punishments also were representative.

[5] That suspension upon wood, or crucifixion, was inflicted on account of the destruction of good in the church, and that thus was represented evil from infernal love, from which comes condemnation and a curse is evident from the following passages.

In Moses:

"If there be a stubborn and rebellious son, obeying not the voice of his father and mother, all the men of the city shall stone him with stones that he die. And if there be in a man sin and judgment of death, and he be slain, thou shalt hang him upon wood; his carcase shall not remain all night upon wood, but burying thou shalt bury him the same day; for he that is hanged is the curse of God, and thou shalt not defile thy land." (Deuteronomy 21:18, 20-23.)

Not obeying the voice of father and mother, signifies in the spiritual sense, to live contrary to the precepts and truths of the church; the punishment for it was therefore stoning. The men of the city who shall stone him signify those who are in the doctrine of the church, a city denoting doctrine. If there be in a man sin and judgment of death, thou shalt hang him upon wood, means if one has done evil against the good of the Word and of the church. Because this was a capital crime, he was to be hung upon wood, for wood, in the Word, signifies good, and in the opposite sense evil. His carcase shall not remain all night upon the wood, but thou shalt bury him the same day, signifies lest there be a representative of eternal damnation. Thou shalt not defile thy land, signifies that it would be a scandal to the church.

[6] In Lamentations:

"Our skins are become black as an oven, because of the storms of famine; they ravished the women in Zion, the virgins in the cities of Judah; their princes were hanged up by the hand, the faces of the elders are not honoured, the young men they have led away to grind, and the boys stumble under wood" (5:10-13).

Zion means the celestial church, which is in the good of love to the Lord; was represented by the Jewish nation. The virgins in the cities of Judah signify the affections for truth from the good of love; the perishing of truths from good by falsities from evil is signified by, their princes were hanged up by the hand. The faces of the elders which are not honoured signify the goods of wisdom; the young men who are led away to grind signify truths from good; and grinding signifies to acquire falsities and to confirm them from the Word; the boys who stumble under wood signify goods just springing up and perishing through evils.

[7] Since a baker, just as bread, signifies the good of love, and a butler, just as wine, signifies the truth of doctrine, therefore the baker was hanged on account of his crime against king Pharaoh. (Genesis 40:19-22; 41:13.) This may be seen explained in the Arcana Coelestia 5139-5169). Since Moab means those who adulterate the goods of the church, and Baalpeor signifies the adulteration of good, therefore it came to pass, that all the chiefs of the people were hung up before the sun, because the people committed whoredom with the daughters of Moab, and bowed themselves down to their gods, and joined themselves to Baalpeor (Numbers 25:1-4). To commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab signifies to adulterate the goods of the church; and to be hung up before the sun signifies condemnation and a curse on account of the destruction of the good of the church.

[8] Because Ai signified knowledges of good and in the opposite sense, confirmations of evil, therefore the king of Ai was hanged on wood, and afterwards thrown down at the entrance of the gate of the city, and the city itself was burned (Joshua 8:26-29). And because the five kings of the Amorites signified evils and falsities therefrom, destroying the goods and truths of the church, therefore those kings were hanged by Joshua, and afterwards cast into the cave of Makkedah (Joshua 10:26, 27). The cave of Makkedah signifies direful falsity from evil.

[9] To be hung upon wood, or crucified, signifies the punishment of evil destroying the good of the church, in Matthew Jesus said,

"I send unto you prophets, wise men, and scribes; some of them ye will kill, crucify, and scourge in the synagogues, and persecute them from city to city" (23:34).

All things which the Lord spoke He spoke from the Divine, but the Divine things from which He spoke fell into the ideas of natural thought and the resulting expressions according to correspondences, like those here and elsewhere in the Evangelists; and as all the words have a spiritual sense, therefore in that sense, prophets, wise men, and scribes, are not meant, but instead of them the truth and good of doctrine and of the Word. For spiritual thought and speech therefrom, like that of the angels, is without the idea of person, therefore by a prophet is signified the truth of doctrine, by wise men the good of doctrine, and by scribes the Word from which is doctrine. It therefore follows, that to kill has reference to the truth of the doctrine of the church, which is meant by a prophet, to crucify has reference to the good of doctrine, which is meant by a wise man, and to scourge has reference to the Word, which is meant by a scribe and that thus "to kill" signifies to extinguish, "to crucify" to destroy, and "to scourge" to pervert. That they will wander from one falsity of doctrine to another is signified by persecuting them from city to city, a city denoting doctrine. This is the spiritual sense of the above words.

[10] In the same,

Jesus said unto the disciples that He must suffer at Jerusalem, and that the Son of Man must be delivered to the chief priests and scribes, and that "they shall condemn him, and deliver him up to the nations to be mocked, to be scourged, and to be crucified, and that on the third day he shall rise again" (Matthew 20:18, 19; Mark 10:32-34).

The spiritual sense of these words is, that Divine Truth, in the church where mere falsities of doctrine and evils of life reign, shall be blasphemed, its truth perverted, and its good destroyed. The Son of Man signifies Divine Truth, which is the Word, and Jerusalem signifies the church where mere falsities and evils reign. The chief priests and scribes signify the adulterations of good and falsifications of truth, both of them from infernal love. By condemning and delivering Him to the nations is signified to relegate Divine Truth and Divine Good to hell, and to deliver them to the evils and falsities which are therefrom, the nations signifying the evils which are from hell and which destroy the goods of the church. To be mocked, to be scourged, and to be crucified, signifies to blaspheme, falsify, and pervert the truth, and to adulterate and destroy the good of the church and of the Word (as above). And the third day He shall rise again, signifies the complete glorification of the Lord's Human.

[11] From these things it is evident what is signified in the spiritual sense by the crucifixion of the Lord, also what is signified by the various mockings on that occasion, as that they set a crown of thorns upon His head; that they smote Him with a reed, and that they spat in His face, besides other things related in the Evangelists, signifying that the Jewish nation thus impiously treated the Divine Truth and Good itself, which the Lord was. For the Lord suffered the impious state of that church to be represented in Himself; this also was signified by His bearing their iniquities (Isaiah 53:11). For it was a common thing for a prophet to take upon himself the representation of the impious states of the church. Thus the prophet Isaiah was commanded to go naked and barefoot three years, in order to represent the church as destitute of good and truth (Isaiah 20:3, 4). The prophet Ezekiel bound in cords laid siege against a tile, on which Jerusalem was portrayed, and ate a cake of barley made with the dung of an ox, to represent that the truth and good of the church were thus besieged by falsities and polluted by evils (Ezekiel 4:1-13). The prophet Hosea was commanded to take to himself a harlot for a woman, and children of whoredoms, in order to represent what was then the quality of the church (Hosea 1:1-11); besides other things of a similar nature. That this was bearing the iniquities of the house of Israel or the church is openly declared in Ezekiel (chap. 4:5, 6). From these things it is evident that everything recorded concerning the Lord's passion was representative of the state of the church with the Jewish nation at that time.

[12] Thus much concerning the punishment of suspension upon wood, or crucifixion. It does not belong to this place to confirm from the Word that the other punishment of death, which was stoning, signified condemnation and a curse on account of the destruction of the truth of the church, still it is evident from the passages in the Word where stoning is mentioned, as in Exodus 21:28-33; Leviticus 24:10-17, 23; Numbers 15:32-37; Deuteronomy 13:10; 17:5-7; 22:20, 21, 24; Ezekiel 16:39-41; 23:45-47; Matthew 23:37; Luke 13:34; 20:6; John 8:7; 10:31, 32; and elsewhere.

  
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Translation by Isaiah Tansley. Many thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.