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Génesis第40章

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1 Y aconteció después de estas cosas, que pecaron el maestresala del rey de Egipto, y el panadero, contra su señor el rey de Egipto.

2 Y el Faraón se enojó contra sus dos oficiales, contra el principal de los maestresalas, y contra el principal de los panaderos;

3 y los puso en la cárcel de la casa del capitán de los de la guardia, en la casa de la cárcel donde José estaba preso.

4 Y el capitán de los de la guardia dio cargo de ellos a José, y él les servía; y estuvieron días en la cárcel.

5 Y ambos a dos, el maestresala y el panadero del rey de Egipto, que estaban presos en la cárcel, soñaron un sueño, cada uno su sueño en una misma noche, cada uno conforme a la declaración de su sueño.

6 Y vino a ellos José por la mañana, y los miró, y he aquí que estaban tristes.

7 Y él preguntó a aquellos oficiales del Faraón, que estaban con él en la cárcel de la casa de su señor, diciendo: ¿Por qué parecen hoy mal vuestros rostros?

8 Y ellos le dijeron: Hemos tenido un sueño, y no hay quién lo declare. Entonces les dijo José: ¿No son de Dios las declaraciones? Contádmelo ahora.

9 Entonces el principal de los maestresalas contó su sueño a José, y le dijo: Yo soñaba que veía una vid delante de mí,

10 y en la vid tres sarmientos; y ella como que florecía, salía su renuevo, maduraron sus racimos de uvas;

11 y que el vaso de Faraón estaba en mi mano, y que yo tomaba las uvas, y las exprimía en el vaso del Faraón, y daba el vaso en la mano del Faraón.

12 Y le dijo José: Esta es su declaración: Los tres sarmientos son tres días;

13 al cabo de tres días el Faraón levantará tu cabeza, y te hará volver a tu asiento; y darás el vaso al Faraón en su mano, como solías cuando eras su maestresala.

14 Por tanto te acordarás de mí dentro de ti cuando tuvieres bien, y te ruego que hagas conmigo misericordia, que hagas mención de mí al Faraón, y me saques de esta casa;

15 porque he sido hurtado de la tierra de los hebreos; y tampoco he hecho aquí porqué me hubiesen de poner en la cárcel.

16 Y viendo el principal de los panaderos que había declarado para bien, dijo a José: También yo soñaba que veía tres canastillos blancos sobre mi cabeza;

17 y en el canastillo más alto había de todas las viandas del Faraón, obra de panadero; y que las aves las comían del canastillo de sobre mi cabeza.

18 Entonces respondió José, y dijo: Esta es su declaración: Los tres canastillos tres días son.

19 Al cabo de tres días quitará el Faraón tu cabeza de sobre ti, y te hará colgar en la horca, y las aves comerán tu carne de sobre ti.

20 Y fue al tercer día el día del nacimiento del Faraón, e hizo banquete a todos sus siervos; y alzó la cabeza del príncipe de los maestresalas, y la cabeza del príncipe de los panaderos, entre sus siervos.

21 E hizo volver a su oficio al príncipe de los maestresalas; y dio el vaso en mano del Faraón.

22 Mas hizo colgar al príncipe de los panaderos, como le había declarado José.

23 Y el príncipe de los maestresalas no se acordó de José, sino que se olvidó de él.

   

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Arcana Coelestia#5159

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5159. 'And it happened on the third day' means in the final phase. This is clear from the meaning of 'the third day' as the final phase of a state; for 'day' means state, 23, 487, 488, 493, 893, 2788, 3462, 3785, 4850, and 'third' that which is complete, and so comes last, 1815, 2788, 4495. By the final phase of a state is meant the point when the previous state comes to an end and the new one begins. In the case of the person who is being regenerated a new state begins when order is turned around. The change takes place when interior things are given dominion over exterior ones, and exterior things begin to serve interior ones - which involves both ideas in the understanding and desires in the will. People who are being regenerated are conscious of this change as an inner urge not to allow sensory delights and bodily or earthly pleasures to take control, and draw ideas present in the understanding over to their own side to support them. When this change takes place the previous state has reached its final phase and the new one is entering its first. This is what is meant by 'on the third day'.

[2] In everyone, whether or not he is being regenerated, changes of state take place, and order is turned around. Yet such changes are different in the case of those who are being regenerated than in the case of those who are not being regenerated. With those who are not being regenerated those changes of state or order are due to physical causes or are attributable to causes associated with life in the community. Physical causes are those impulses which arise at one stage in life and subside at another, in addition to the giving of deliberate thought to physical health and a long life in the world. The causes connected with life in the community are the external, visible curbs a person has to place on his real desire, so that he may earn a reputation for being a wise person and a lover of what is righteous and good, when in fact the acquisition of position and material gain is his real reason for pursuing such. But in the case of people who are being regenerated, such changes of state or order are attributable to spiritual causes which spring from goodness and righteousness themselves; and when a person starts to have an affection for these he is at the end of the previous state and at the beginning of the new one.

[3] But as few are capable of seeing the truth of all this, let an example serve to shed light on the matter. Anyone who does not allow himself to be regenerated loves things of the body for their own sake, not for any other reason; and he loves the world too for its own sake. His love does not reach any higher because at heart he refuses to accept anything higher or more interior. On the other hand one who is being regenerated also loves things of the body, and worldly things likewise. Yet he loves them for higher or more interior reasons. He loves things of the body because he wishes to have a healthy mind inside a healthy body. Also, he loves his own mind and its healthiness for an even more interior reason, namely that he may have a wise discernment of what is good and an intelligent understanding of what is true. He also loves worldly things as much as others do, yet for the reason that the world, worldly wealth, possessions, and positions of importance may serve him as the means to put what is good and true or what is just and fair into effect.

[4] This example enables one to see what each one - the regenerate and the unregenerate - is really like, and to see that outwardly the two are apparently alike but that inwardly they are totally different. From this one may also recognize the identity and the essential nature of the causes which bring about the changes of state and turnings around of order that take place with people who are not being regenerated and those that take place with people who are being regenerated. One may also see that in the case of regenerate persons interior things have dominion over exterior ones, whereas in the case of unregenerate persons exterior ones have dominion over interior. The reasons or the ends that a person has in view are what have dominion, for those ends subordinate everything else in a person and make it subject to themselves. The person's whole life is conditioned entirely by his end in view, for that end is what he loves all the time.

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