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1 В то время Иуда отошел от братьев своих и поселился близ одногоОдолламитянина, которому имя: Хира.

2 И увидел там Иуда дочь одного Хананеянина, которому имя: Шуа; ивзял ее и вошел к ней.

3 Она зачала и родила сына; и он нарек ему имя: Ир.

4 И зачала опять, и родила сына, и нарекла ему имя: Онан.

5 И еще родила сына и нарекла ему имя: Шела. Иуда был в Хезиве, когдаона родила его.

6 И взял Иуда жену Иру, первенцу своему; имя ей Фамарь.

7 Ир, первенец Иудин, был неугоден пред очами Господа, и умертвилего Господь.

8 И сказал Иуда Онану: войди к жене брата твоего, женись на ней, как деверь, и восстанови семя брату твоему.

9 Онан знал, что семя будет не ему, и потому, когда входил к жене брата своего, изливал на землю, чтобы не дать семени брату своему.

10 Зло было пред очами Господа то, что он делал; и Он умертвил и его.

11 И сказал Иуда Фамари, невестке своей: живи вдовою в доме отца твоего, пока подрастет Шела, сын мой. Ибо он сказал: не умер бы и он подобно братьям его. Фамарь пошла и стала житьв доме отца своего.

12 Прошло много времени, и умерла дочь Шуи, жена Иудина. Иуда, утешившись, пошел в Фамну к стригущим скот его,сам и Хира, друг его, Одолламитянин.

13 И уведомили Фамарь, говоря: вот, свекор твой идет в Фамну стричь скот свой.

14 И сняла она с себя одежду вдовства своего, покрыла себя покрывалом и, закрывшись, села у ворот Енаима, что на дороге в Фамну. Ибо видела, что Шела вырос, и она не дана ему в жену.

15 И увидел ее Иуда и почел ее за блудницу, потому что она закрыла лице свое.

16 Он поворотил к ней и сказал: войду я к тебе. Ибоне знал, что это невестка его. Она сказала: что ты дашь мне, если войдешь ко мне?

17 Он сказал: я пришлю тебе козленка из стада. Она сказала: дашь ли ты мне залог, пока пришлешь?

18 Он сказал: какой дать тебе залог? Она сказала: печать твою, и перевязь твою, и трость твою, которая в руке твоей. И дал он ей и вошел к ней; и она зачала от него.

19 И, встав, пошла, сняла с себя покрывало свое и оделась в одежду вдовства своего.

20 Иуда же послал козленка чрез друга своего Одолламитянина, чтобывзять залог из руки женщины, но он не нашел ее.

21 И спросил жителей того места, говоря: где блудница, которая была в Енаиме при дороге? Но они сказали: здесь не было блудницы.

22 И возвратился он к Иуде и сказал: я не нашел ее; да и жители места того сказали: здесь не было блудницы.

23 Иуда сказал: пусть она возьмет себе, чтобы только нестали над нами смеяться; вот, я посылал этого козленка, но ты не нашел ее.

24 Прошло около трех месяцев, и сказали Иуде, говоря: Фамарь, невестка твоя, впала в блуд, и вот, она беременна от блуда. Иуда сказал: выведите ее, и пусть она будет сожжена.

25 Но когда повели ее, она послала сказать свекру своему: я беременнаот того, чьи эти вещи. И сказала: узнавай, чья эта печать и перевязь и трость.

26 Иуда узнал и сказал: она правее меня, потому что я не дал ее Шеле, сыну моему. И не познавал ее более.

27 Во время родов ее оказалось, что близнецы в утробе ее.

28 И во время родов ее показалась рука; и взяла повивальная бабка и навязала ему на руку красную нить, сказав: этот вышел первый.

29 Но он возвратил руку свою; и вот, вышел брат его. И она сказала: какты расторг себе преграду? И наречено ему имя: Фарес.

30 Потом вышел брат его с красной нитью на руке. Инаречено ему имя: Зара.

   

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Arcana Coelestia#4814

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4814. 'It happened at that time' means the state belonging to the things that follow. This is clear from the meaning of 'time' as state, dealt with in 2625, 2788, 2837, 3254, 3356, 3404, 3938. The state belonging to the things that follow is indeed the meaning of 'it happened at that time', because what happened next is recorded in the descriptions that follow. What is more, these descriptions carry on from the train of thought contained in the descriptions that go immediately before them. For the subject in the previous chapter is the sons of Jacob and their selling of Joseph. They were persuaded to sell him by Judah, of whom the previous chapter speaks as follows,

Judah said to his brothers, What profit' is there in our killing our brother and our concealing his blood? Come, and let us sell him to the Ishmaelites. Genesis 37:26-27.

The meaning there is that Divine Truth was alienated by the brothers, especially by Judah, who at that point means in the proximate sense the tribe of Judah, and in general the corrupt within the Church who are opposed to all good whatever, see 4750, 4751. A reference back to this is contained in the words 'at that time'. For now the subject is Judah, his sons by the Canaanite woman, and after these his sons by Tamar his daughter-in-law, all of which in the internal sense describes the tribe of Judah so far as things of the Church established among that tribe were concerned.

[2] As for 'time' meaning state, and 'it happened at that time' consequently meaning the state belonging to the things that follow, this is bound to appear quite strange, for the reason that no one can comprehend how the idea of a time can be turned into that of a state; that is, how when reading 'time' in the Word one has to understand something to do with some state. But it should be realized that angels' thoughts are not formed from anything having a temporal or a spatial origin, because they are in heaven. When they left the world they also left behind all idea of time and space and adopted ideas of state, that is, of the state in which good and truth exist. Therefore when a person reads the Word and from this thinks of a certain time and of the things taking place at that time, the angels present with him do not perceive anything to do with a certain time but instead the aspects of a state, to which those things also correspond.

Nor indeed with his interior thought does the reader conceive of a time, only with his exterior thought, as may be recognized from the state when a person's exterior thought lies dormant, that is, while he is asleep, as well as from many other kinds of experience.

[3] But it should be realized that in general there are two kinds of state - a state involving good and one involving truth. The former is called a state of being (esse), but the latter a state of manifestation (existere), for being is the essential characteristic of good, and the manifestation of this the essential characteristic of truth. Space corresponds to a state of being, time to a state of manifestation. From this it may be seen that when a person reads this statement 'and it happened at that time', the angels present with him cannot perceive these words at all in the way that the reader does. Similarly with every other statement, for whatever has been written in the Word is such that among angels it is converted into a corresponding meaning which cannot at all be seen in the sense of the letter; for that which is worldly belonging to the sense of the letter is converted into that which is spiritual belonging to the internal sense.

  
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Arcana Coelestia#4751

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4751. 'What profit is there in our killing our brother and concealing his blood?' means that no advantage would be gained, nor any supremacy, if that truth was completely destroyed. This is clear from the meaning of 'what profit?' as no advantage gained, nor any supremacy, dealt with below; from the meaning of 'killing' as destroying, in this case Divine Truth, specifically the Truth regarding the Lord's Divine Human, which 'brother', that is, Joseph, is used to mean; and from the meaning of 'concealing blood' as removing holy truth completely out of sight, 'blood' meaning holy truth, see above in 4735. The implications of all this are made plain in what follows below.

[2] The reason why 'profit' here means not only advantage but also superiority - that is, why 'what profit?' means that no advantage would be gained, nor any superiority - is that what was said was motivated by the desire for gain and by avarice. For the desire for gain and avarice hold within themselves not only the wish to possess the whole world but also, for the sake of gain, to rob and even to kill no matter whom. Indeed one who is minded in this way would kill for little return if laws did not stand in the way to deter him. Furthermore, in the gold and silver he possesses such a person sees himself as one who is very powerful, however much to outward appearance he seems to be anything but powerful. From this it is evident that avarice includes not only love of the world but also self-love, indeed the foulest self-love. But with the disgustingly avaricious the sense of superiority or arrogance is not so obvious to outward appearance - for sometimes they have no interest in wealth for the sake of show, and do not have that kind of self-love which is usually tied up with the pursuit of pleasures. Indeed the disgustingly avaricious take little interest in their body, or in food and clothing for it. Theirs is a wholly earthly love, aiming at nothing else than money which, they believe, makes them, potentially if not actually, superior to all. From this one may see that avarice holds within it the lowest and basest self-love of all, which is why the avaricious in the next life seem to themselves to live among pigs, 939. They are also opposed more than anyone else to all good whatever. They dwell as a consequence in darkness so thick that they cannot by any means see what good is or what truth is. They do not grasp at all the idea that in the human being there is something internal which lives after death, and in their hearts they mock those who say there is.

[3] The Jewish nation was like this from the start, and for that reason nothing internal could be plainly revealed to it, as is evident from the Old Testament Word. They were indeed rooted in this worst kind of self-love, and therefore, if their avarice had not removed them very far away from internal things and as a consequence had not kept them in thickest darkness, they would have defiled interior truths and goods, and in so defiling them would have rendered them profane more than anyone else did. For they are unable to profane them as long as they do not acknowledge them, 1008, 1010, 1059, 2051, 3398, 3402, 3489, 3898, 4289, 4601. This is why the Lord says of them in John,

You are from your father the devil, and the desires of your father you will to do. He was a murderer from the beginning. John 8:44.

And of Judas Iscariot who represented the Jewish Church He says in the same gospel,

Did I not choose you twelve, but one of you is a devil? John 6:70.

Also when he sold the Lord, Judas' representation was similar to that which Judah has here who said, Come, and let us sell Joseph.

  
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