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1 А Іаковъ жилъ въ землј странствованія отца своего, въ землј Ханаанской.

2 Вотъ приключенія рода Іаковлева. Іосифъ, будучи семнадцати лјтъ, пасъ вмјстј съ братьями своими скотъ. Сей отрокъ находился при сыновьяхъ Валлы и при сыновьяхъ Зелфы, женъ отца своего. И доводилъ Іосифъ худые о нихъ слухи до отца ихъ.

3 Израиль любилъ Іосифа болје всјхъ сыновей своихъ, потому что онъ у него былъ сынъ старости, и сдјлалъ ему разноцвјтную одежду.

4 Когда братья его увидјли, что отецъ его любитъ его болје всјхъ братъевъ его: то они возненавидјли его, и не могли говорить съ нимъ мирно.

5 Однажды видјлъ Іосифъ сонъ, и разсказалъ братъямъ своимъ: и они возненавидјли его еще болје.

6 Онъ сказалъ имъ: послушайте, какой видјлъ я сонъ.

7 Мы вязали снопы посреди поля; и вотъ мой снопъ всталъ, и сталъ прямо; и вотъ ваши снопы окружили его, и поклонились моему снопу.

8 На сіе братья его сказали ему: не ужели ты будешь царствовать надъ нами? не ужели будешь владјть нами? и возненавидјли его еще болје за сны его, и за слова его.

9 Онъ еще видјлъ другой сонъ, и разсказалъ его братьямъ своимъ, говоря: вотъ я видјлъ еще сонъ; вотъ солнце и луна, и одиннадцать звјздъ поклонились мнј.

10 Когда онъ разсказалъ сіе отцу своему и братьямъ своимъ: тогда и отецъ его побранилъ его, в сказалъ ему: что это за сонъ, который ты видјлъ? не ужели я, и твоя мать, и твои братья, придемъ поклониться тебј до земли?

11 Братья его досадовали на него; а отецъ замјтилъ слово сіе.

12 Братья его пошли въ Сихемъ, пасти скотъ отца своего,

13 Израиль сказалъ Іосифу: братья твои пасутъ въ Сихемј: поди, я пошлю тебя къ нимъ. Онъ отвјчалъ ему: вотъ я.

14 Израиль сказалъ ему: поди же, посмотри, благополучны ли братья твои, и благополученъ ли скотъ, и принеси мнј отвјтъ. И послалъ его изъ долины Хевронской, и онъ пришелъ въ Сихемъ.

15 Тутъ нашелъ его нјкто, блуждающаго по полю, и спросилъ его тотъ человјкъ, говоря: чего ты ищешь?

16 Онъ сказалъ: я ищу братьевъ моихъ; скажи мнј, гдј они пасутъ?

17 И сказалъ тотъ человјкъ: они ушли отсюда; ибо я слышалъ, какъ они говорили: пойдемъ въ Доѕанъ. И пошелъ Іосифъ за братьями своими, и нашелъ ихъ въ Доѕанј.

18 Они, увидя его издали, прежде нежели онъ подошелъ къ нимъ, стали умышлять противъ него, чтобы убить его.

19 И сказали другъ другу: вотъ идетъ этотъ сновидецъ.

20 Пойдемъ теперь, и убьемъ его, и бросимъ его въ какой нибудь колодезь, и скажемъ, что лютый звјрь съјлъ его; тогда посмотримъ, что будетъ изъ его сновъ.

21 Но Рувимъ услышавъ сіе, избавилъ его отъ рукъ ихъ, сказавъ: не станемъ убивать его.

22 И сказалъ имъ Рувимъ: не проливайте крови; бросьте его въ этотъ колодезь, который въ пустынј, а рукъ не налагайте на него. Сіе говорилъ онъ, чтобы избавить его отъ рукъ ихъ, и возвратить его къ отцу его.

23 Когда Іосифъ пришелъ къ братьямъ своимъ: тогда они сняли съ Іосифа одежду его, одежду разноцвјтную, которая была на немъ.

24 И, взявъ его, бросили въ колодезь; колодезь же тотъ былъ пустъ, и воды въ немъ не было.

25 Потомъ они сјли јсть хлјбъ, и взглянувъ, видятъ, что идетъ изъ Галаада караванъ Измаильтянъ, у которыхъ верблюды навьючены стираксою, бальзамомъ и ладаномъ, и которые везутъ это въ Египетъ.

26 Тогда Іуда сказалъ братьямъ своимъ: что намъ пользы убивать брата нашего, и скрывать кровь его?

27 Пойдемъ, продадимъ его Измаильтянамъ, а рукъ нашихъ не наложимъ на него; ибо это братъ нашъ, плоть наша. Братья его послушались.

28 И, когда проходили купцы Мадіамскіе, они вытащили Іосифа изъ колодезя, и продали Іосифа Измаильтянамъ за двадцать сиклей серебра; а они отвезли Іосифа въ Египетъ.

29 Рувимъ же пришелъ опять къ колодезю; и вотъ, нјтъ Іосифа въ колодезј. Тогда онъ разодралъ одежды свои,

30 и возвратился къ братьямъ своимъ, и сказалъ: отрока нјтъ, а я, куда я пойду?

31 И взяли одежду Іосифа, и, заколовъ козла, вымарали одежду кровію;

32 и послали разноцвјтную одежду, и принесли къ отцу своему, и сказали: мы это нашли: узнавай, сына ли твоего эта одежда, или нјтъ?

33 Онъ узналъ ее, и сказалъ: эта одежда сына моего; лютый звјръ съјлъ его; вјрно растерзанъ Іосифъ!

34 И разодралъ Іаковъ на себј одежды, и возложилъ вретище на чресла свои; и оплакивалъ сына своего многіе дни.

35 Собрались было всј сыновья его, и всј дочери его, чтобы утјшить его; но онъ отвергъ утјшеніе, и сказалъ: съ печалью сойду къ сыну моему въ Шеолъ. Такъ оплакивалъ его отецъ его.

36 Между тјмъ Мадіанитяне продали его въ Египтј Потифару, евнуху Фараонову, начальнику тјлохранителей.

   

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Arcana Coelestia#5828

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5828. 'And I said, He has surely been torn to pieces' means a perception that it was destroyed by evils and falsities. This is clear from the meaning of 'saying' as perception, dealt with often; and from the meaning of 'being torn to pieces as being destroyed by evils and internal good represented by 'Joseph' was destroyed, 5805. 'Being torn to pieces' has this meaning because no other kind of tearing to pieces takes place in the spiritual world than that of good by evils and falsities. It is the same with death and anything having to do with death, by which is meant in the spiritual sense not natural death but spiritual death, which is damnation. No other kind of death occurs in the spiritual world. So too with 'a tearing to pieces'. This does not mean in the spiritual sense the kind of tearing to pieces that wild animals engage in, but the tearing to pieces of good by evils and falsities. Also, in the spiritual sense, 'wild animals that tear to pieces' means evil desires and derivative false ideas; and such ideas are also represented in the next life by wild animals.

[2] The good which constantly comes from the Lord to a person is destroyed by nothing other than evils and derivative falsities, and by falsities and consequent evils. For as soon as that constantly inflowing good, coming by way of the internal man, reaches the external or natural man it encounters evil and falsity, which - acting like wild animals - employ various methods to tear apart and annihilate that good. For that reason the inflow of good by way of the internal man is blocked and halted, and the interior mind through which the inflow comes is consequently closed. Only as much of what is spiritual is allowed through as will enable the natural man to reason and speak, though he does so in terms that are solely earthly, bodily, and worldly, either in opposition to what is good and true, or else in keeping with such but in a false or deceitful way.

[3] It is a universal law that an inflow adjusts itself to the outflow, and if the outflow is blocked, so is the inflow. Through the internal man there is an inflow of good and truth from the Lord, and through the external there should be an outflow, an outflow into life, that is, in the exercise of charity. As long as that outflow is taking place the inflow from heaven, that is, from the Lord by way of heaven, is continuous. If however no outflow takes place but something stands in the way in the external or natural man, namely evil and falsity which tear the inflowing good to pieces and annihilate it, it follows from the universal law mentioned above that the inflow adjusts itself to the outflow. All this being so, the inflow of good holds itself back and accordingly closes the internal through which the inflow comes; and that closing of it leads to stupidity in spiritual matters, which is so great that the person who is like this neither knows nor wishes to know anything at all about eternal life. At length he becomes so senseless that he raises falsity as an obstacle to truth, calling falsities truths and truths falsities, and raises evil as an obstacle to good, regarding evils as forms of good and forms of good as evils. In this way he tears good completely to pieces.

[4] The word 'torn' occurs in various places in the Word, the proper meaning of which is falsities that arise from evils, while that which is destroyed by evils is called 'a carcass'. When however the expression 'torn' is used by itself, both ideas are meant since the one includes the meaning carried by the other. It is different when the one is referred to together with the other, because in that case a distinction is being made. Since what had been torn meant in the spiritual sense what had been destroyed by falsities arising from evils, people were forbidden in the representative Church to eat anything torn. They would never have been forbidden to eat it if that spiritual evil had not been meant in heaven. Apart from this, what evil could have lain in eating flesh torn by a wild animal?

[5] Regarding their not eating anything torn the following is stated in Moses,

The fat of a carcass and the fat of that which has been torn may be put to any use, provided that you do not eat it at all. Leviticus 7:24.

In the same author,

He shall not eat a carcass or that which has been torn, to be defiled by it. I am Jehovah. Leviticus 12:8.

In the same author,

You shall be men who are sanctified to Me; therefore you shall not eat flesh torn in the field, you shall throw it to the dogs. Exodus 21:31.

In Ezekiel,

Ah Lord Jehovih! The prophet says, Behold, my soul has not been polluted, and from my youth even till now I have not eaten any carcass or that which has been torn, so that abominable flesh has not come into my mouth. Ezekiel 4:14.

From these quotations it is evident that it was an abomination to eat what had been torn, not because it had been torn but because a tearing to pieces of good by falsities arising from evils was meant, 'a carcass' on the other hand being the death of good caused by evils.

[6] A tearing to pieces of good by falsities and evils is also meant in the internal sense of the following places in David,

The wicked is like a lion, he desires to tear, and like a young lion who sits in hiding-places. Psalms 17:12.

Elsewhere,

They opened their mouth against me - a lion tearing and roaring. Psalms 22:13.

And in yet another place,

Lest like a lion they seize my soul, tearing it to pieces and there is none to deliver. Psalms 7:1.

'A lion' stands for those who lay waste the Church. Above, where Joseph was the subject - at the point where he was sold by his brothers, and his tunic, which had been dipped in blood, was sent to his father - his father too said at that time,

My son's tunic! An evil wild animal has devoured him; Joseph has been torn to pieces. Genesis 37:33.

'His having been torn to pieces' means being scattered by falsities arising from evils, see 4777.

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