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Genesis第25章

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1 At si Abraham ay nagasawa ng iba, at ang pangalan ay Cetura.

2 At naging anak nito sa kaniya si Zimram at si Joksan, at si Medan, at si Midiam, at si Ishbak, at si Sua.

3 At naging anak ni Joksan si Seba at si Dedan. At ang mga anak na lalake ni Dedan, ay si Assurim at si Letusim, at si Leummim.

4 At ang mga anak ni Midian: si Epha at si Epher, at si Enech, at si Abida, at si Eldaa. Lahat ng ito ay mga anak ni Cetura.

5 At ibinigay ni Abraham ang lahat ng kaniyang tinatangkilik kay Isaac.

6 Datapuwa't ang mga anak ng naging mga babae ni Abraham, ay pinagbibigyan ni Abraham ng mga kaloob; at samantalang nabubuhay pa siya ay mga inilayo niya kay Isaac na kaniyang anak sa dakong silanganan sa lupaing silanganan.

7 At ito ang mga araw ng mga taon ng buhay na ikinabuhay ni Abraham, isang daan at pitong pu't limang taon.

8 At nalagot ang hininga ni Abraham at namatay sa mabuting katandaan, matanda at puspos ng mga taon; at nalakip sa kaniyang bayan.

9 At inilibing siya ni Isaac at ni Ismael na kaniyang mga anak sa yungib ng Macpela, sa parang ni Ephron, na anak ni Zohar na Hetheo, na nasa tapat ng Mamre;

10 Sa parang na binili ni Abraham sa mga anak ni Heth: doon inilibing si Abraham at si Sara na kaniyang asawa.

11 At nangyari, pagkamatay ni Abraham, na pinagpala ng Dios si Isaac na kaniyang anak; at si Isaac ay nanahan sa tabi ng Beer-lahai-roi.

12 Ang mga ito nga ang sali't saling lahi ni Ismael, anak ni Abraham, na naging anak kay Abraham ni Agar na taga Egipto, na alila ni Sara:

13 At ito ang mga pangalan ng mga anak ni Ismael, ayon sa kanikaniyang lahi: ang panganay ni Ismael ay si Nabaioth; at si Cedar, at si Adbeel, at si Mibsam,

14 At si Misma, at si Duma, at si Maasa,

15 At si Hadad, at si Tema, si Jetur, si Naphis, at si Cedema:

16 Ito ang mga anak ni Ismael, at ito ang kanikaniyang pangalan, ayon sa kanikaniyang nayon, at ayon sa kanikaniyang hantungan: labing dalawang pangulo ayon sa kanilang bansa.

17 At ito ang mga naging taon ng buhay ni Ismael, isang daan at tatlong pu't pitong taon; at nalagot ang hininga at namatay; at siya'y nalakip sa kaniyang bayan.

18 At nagsisitahan sila mula sa Havila hanggang sa Shur, na natatapat sa Egipto, kung patutungo sa Asiria; siya'y tumahan sa harap ng lahat niyang mga kapatid.

19 At ito ang mga sali't saling lahi ni Isaac, na anak ni Abraham: naging anak ni Abraham si Isaac,

20 At si Isaac ay may apat na pung taon, nang siya'y magasawa kay Rebeca, na anak ni Bethuel na taga Siria sa Padan-aram, kapatid na babae ni Laban na taga Siria.

21 At nanalangin si Isaac sa Panginoon dahil sa kaniyang asawa, sapagka't baog; at nadalanginan niya ang Panginoon, at si Rebeca na kaniyang asawa ay naglihi.

22 At nagbubuno ang mga bata sa loob niya; at kaniyang sinabi, Kung ganito'y bakit nabubuhay pa ako? At siya'y yumaong nagsiyasat sa Panginoon.

23 At sinabi sa kaniya ng Panginoon, Dalawang bansa ay nasa iyong bahay-bata, At dalawang bayan ay papaghihiwalayin mula sa iyong tiyan: At ang isang bayan ay magiging malakas kaysa isang bayan; At ang matanda ay maglilingkod sa bata.

24 At nang matupad ang mga araw ng kaniyang kapanganakan, narito't kambal sa kaniyang bahay-bata.

25 At ang unang lumabas ay mapula na buong katawa'y parang mabalahibong damit; at siya'y pinanganlang Esau.

26 At pagkatapos ay lumabas ang kaniyang kapatid, at ang kaniyang kamay ay nakakapit sa sakong ni Esau; at ipinangalan sa kaniya ay Jacob: at si Isaac ay may anim na pung taon na, nang sila'y ipanganak ni Rebeca.

27 At nagsilaki ang mga bata; at si Esau ay naging maliksi sa pangangaso, lalake sa parang; at si Jacob ay lalaking tahimik, na tumatahan sa mga tolda.

28 Minamahal nga ni Isaac si Esau, sapagka't kumakain ng kaniyang pinangangasuhan: at minamahal ni Rebeca si Jacob.

29 At nagluto si Jacob ng lutuin: at dumating si Esau na galing sa parang, at siya'y nanglalambot:

30 At sinabi ni Esau kay Jacob, Ipinamamanhik ko sa iyo na pakanin mo ako niyaong mapulang lutuin; sapagka't ako'y nanglalambot: kaya't tinawag ang pangalan niya na Edom.

31 At sinabi ni Jacob, Ipagbili mo muna sa akin ang iyong pagkapanganay.

32 At sinabi ni Esau, Narito, ako'y namamatay: at saan ko mapapakinabangan ang pagkapanganay?

33 At sinabi ni Jacob, Isumpa mo muna sa akin; at isinumpa niya sa kaniya: at kaniyang ipinagbili ang kaniyang pagkapanganay kay Jacob.

34 At binigyan ni Jacob si Esau ng tinapay at nilutong lentehas; at siya'y kumain, at uminom, at bumangon at yumaon: gayon niwalang halaga ni Esau ang kaniyang pagkapanganay.

   

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Arcana Coelestia#3318

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3318. 'And he was weary' means a state of conflict. This becomes clear from the meaning of 'weary' or weariness as the state following conflict. Here however, because the subject is a state of conflict in which good and truth within the natural man are joined together, the state of conflict itself is meant. As regards 'weary' here meaning a state of conflict, this is not apparent except from the train of thought in the internal sense, and in particular from the fact that without conflicts, or what amounts to the same, without temptations, good is unable to be joined to truth in the natural man.

[2] So that the nature of this state may be known - though only as man experiences it - let a brief statement be made regarding it. Man is nothing other than an organ or vessel which receives life from the Lord, for man does not live of himself, 290, 1954, 2021, 2536, 2706, 2886-2889, 3001. The life flowing in with man from the Lord comes from His Divine Love. This Love, that is, the life from it, flows in and applies itself to the vessels that are in man's rational and that are in his natural. On account of the hereditary evil into which man is born, and on account of the evil of his own doing which man acquires to himself, these vessels with him are set the wrong way round for receiving that life. But insofar as it is possible for this inflowing life to do so, it resets those vessels to receive it. These vessels within the rational man and within his natural are such as are called truths. In themselves they are nothing else than perceptions of the variations in form possessed by those vessels and of the changes of state which in different ways give rise to those variations, which are produced in the most delicate of organic substances, and in ways that defy description, 2487. Good itself, which possesses life from the Lord, that is, which is life, is that which flows in and resets them.

[3] When therefore those vessels, varying in the forms they take, are set and turned, as has been stated, the wrong way round for inflowing life, they clearly have to be re-positioned to receive that life, that is, to be controlled by it. This cannot possibly be effected as long as the person remains in that condition into which he was born or which he has brought upon himself. Indeed at that time they are unsubmissive because they resolutely withstand and harden themselves against the heavenly order governing the way that life acts. Indeed the good which moves them, and to which they are subservient, is that which stems from self-love and love of the world. From the dull warmth it contains that good makes these vessels what they are. Consequently before they can be made submissive and capable of receiving any of the life that belongs to the Lord's love, they have to be softened. The only ways that such softening can be achieved is by temptations, for temptations take away the things that constitute self-love and contempt for others in comparison with oneself, consequently that constitute self-glory, and also hatred and revenge on account of that. When therefore they have to some extent been subdued and mellowed by means of temptations those vessels start to become yielding and compliant to the life which belongs to the Lord's love and which is constantly flowing in with man.

[4] From this point onwards good, first of all in the rational man and then in the natural, starts to be joined to the truths there, for as has been stated, truths are nothing else than perceptions of the variations in form which are determined by the states that are changing all the time - those perceptions being a product of the life that is flowing in. This is the reason why a person is regenerated, that is, is made new, by means of temptations, or what amounts to the same, by means of spiritual conflicts, and after that receives an inward disposition different from before, that is to say, becomes gentle, humble, single-minded, and contrite at heart. From these considerations one may now see the use served by temptations, which is that good from the Lord may not only flow in but also render the vessels subservient and so join itself to them. For truths are the recipient vessels of good, see 1496, 1832, 1900, 2063, 2261, 2269. Here therefore, since the subject is the joining together of good and truth in the natural man, and since the first stage of that conjunction comes about through the conflicts brought about by temptations, 'he was weary' clearly means a state of conflict.

[5] As for the Lord however, who is the subject here in the highest sense, He so imposed Divine order on everything within Himself by means of the very severe conflicts that went with temptations that nothing remained of the human He had derived from the mother, 1444, 1573, 2159, 2574, 2649, 3036, so that He was not made new as any other human being but was made altogether Divine. For man, who is made new through regeneration, nevertheless retains within himself the inclination towards evil; indeed he retains the evil itself but is withheld from it by the influx of the life that is the life of the Lord's love, and by an extremely powerful force. But the Lord cast out completely everything evil that was His by heredity from the mother and made Himself Divine, doing so even as to the vessels, that is, as to the truths. This is what in the Word is called Glorification.

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