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Sáng thế第16章

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1 Vả, Sa-rai, vợ của Áp-ram, vẫn không sanh con; nàng có một con đòi Ê-díp-tô, tên là A-ga.

2 Sa-rai nói cùng Áp-ram rằng: Nầy, Ðức Giê-hô-va đã làm cho tôi son sẻ, vậy xin ông hãy lại ăn ở cùng con đòi tôi, có lẽ tôi sẽ nhờ nó mà có con chăng. Áp-ram bèn nghe theo lời của Sa-rai.

3 Sau khi Áp-ram đã trú ngụ mười năm tại xứ Ca-na-an, Sa-rai, vợ người, bắt A-ga, là con đòi Ê-díp-tô mình, đưa cho chồng làm hầu.

4 Người lại cùng con đòi, thì nàng thọ thai. Khi con đòi thấy mình thọ thai, thì khinh bỉ bà chủ mình.

5 Sa-rai nói cùng Áp-ram rằng: Ðiều sỉ nhục mà tôi bị đây đổ lại trên ông. Tôi đã phú con đòi tôi vào lòng ông, mà từ khi nó thấy mình thọ thai, thì lại khinh tôi. Cầu Ðức Giê-hô-va xét đoán giữa tôi với ông.

6 Áp-ram đáp cùng Sa-rai rằng: Nầy, con đòi đó ở trong tay ngươi, phân xử thể nào, mặc ý ngươi cho vừa dạ. Ðoạn Sa-rai hành hạ A-ga, thì nàng trốn đi khỏi mặt người.

7 Nhưng thiên sứ của Ðức Giê-hô-va thấy nàng ở trong đồng vắng gần bên suối nước, nơi mé đường đi và Su-rơ,

8 thì hỏi rằng: Hỡi A-ga, đòi của Sa-rai, ngươi ở đâu đến, và sẽ đi đâu? Nàng thưa rằng: Tôi lánh xa mặt Sa-rai, chủ tôi.

9 Thiên sứ của Ðức Giê-hô-va dạy nàng rằng: Ngươi hãy trở về chủ ngươi, và chịu lụy dưới tay người.

10 Thiên sứ của Ðức Giê-hô-va lại phán rằng: Ta sẽ thêm dòng dõi ngươi nhiều, đông đảo đến đỗi người ta đếm không đặng nữa.

11 Lại phán rằng: Nầy, ngươi đương có thai, sẽ sanh một trai, đặt tên là Ích-ma-ên; vì Ðức Giê-hô-va có nghe sự sầu khổ của ngươi.

12 Ðứa trẻ đó sẽ như một con lừa rừng; tay nó sẽ địch cùng mọi người, và tay mọi người sẽ địch lại nó. Nó sẽ ở về phía đông đối mặt cùng hết thảy anh em mình.

13 Nàng gọi Ðức Giê-hô-va mà đã phán cùng mình, danh là "Ðức Chúa Trời hay đoái xem," vì nàng nói rằng: Chính tại đây, tôi há chẳng có thấy được Ðắng đoái xem tôi sao?

14 Bởi cớ ấy, người ta gọi cái giếng nầy ở về giữa khoảng của Ca-đe và Bê-re, là giếng La-chai- oi.

15 ồi nàng A-ga sanh được một con trai; Áp-ram đặt tên đứa trai đó là Ích-ma-ên.

16 Vả lại, khi A-ga sanh Ích-ma-ên cho Áp-ram, thì Áp-ram đã được tám mươi sáu tuổi.

   

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Arcana Coelestia#2051

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2051. That 'he must be circumcised' 1 means that they, namely those inside the Church meant by him 'born in the house' and him 'bought with silver', must completely remove from themselves self-love and love of the world is clear from the representation of 'circumcision' as purification from self-love and love of the world, dealt with above in 2039. Here the requirement for them to be circumcised is repeated in the command 'he must be circumcised 1 ' which expresses the necessity for them to be purified completely from those loves. And because it means those who are inside the Church no reference is made here to sons who are foreigners, for the latter, as shown above in 2049, mean those outside the Church.

[2] From this repetition of what has been stated in the previous verse concerning those 'born in the house' and those 'bought with silver', anyone may see that there is a Divine arcanum that is not evident from the sense of the letter. The arcanum is that purification from those foul loves is absolutely vital inside the Church, for the reason also that people inside the Church are capable of rendering sacred things unclean, something that those outside the Church, that is, gentiles, cannot do. For this reason those inside the Church stand in greater danger of condemnation. What is more, those inside the Church are capable of formulating and adopting false assumptions that are contrary to truths of faith themselves, whereas those outside the Church cannot do so because they have no knowledge of those truths. Thus those inside the Church are capable of profaning sacred truths, but not those outside. For more on these matters, see Volume One, in 1059, 1327, 1328.

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1. literally, By being circumcised he shall be circumcised

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

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Genesis第17章

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1 When Abram was ninety-nine years old, Yahweh appeared to Abram, and said to him, "I am God Almighty. Walk before me, and be blameless.

2 I will make my covenant between me and you, and will multiply you exceedingly."

3 Abram fell on his face. God talked with him, saying,

4 "As for me, behold, my covenant is with you. You will be the father of a multitude of nations.

5 Neither will your name any more be called Abram, but your name will be Abraham; for I have made you the father of a multitude of nations.

6 I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make nations of you. Kings will come out of you.

7 I will establish my covenant between me and you and your seed after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to you and to your seed after you.

8 I will give to you, and to your seed after you, the land where you are traveling, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession. I will be their God."

9 God said to Abraham, "As for you, you will keep my covenant, you and your seed after you throughout their generations.

10 This is my covenant, which you shall keep, between me and you and your seed after you. Every male among you shall be circumcised.

11 You shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin. It will be a token of the covenant between me and you.

12 He who is eight days old will be circumcised among you, every male throughout your generations, he who is born in the house, or bought with money from any foreigner who is not of your seed.

13 He who is born in your house, and he who is bought with your money, must be circumcised. My covenant will be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.

14 The uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that soul shall be cut off from his people. He has broken my covenant."

15 God said to Abraham, "As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but her name will be Sarah.

16 I will bless her, and moreover I will give you a son by her. Yes, I will bless her, and she will be a mother of nations. Kings of peoples will come from her."

17 Then Abraham fell on his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, "Will a child be born to him who is one hundred years old? Will Sarah, who is ninety years old, give birth?"

18 Abraham said to God, "Oh that Ishmael might live before you!"

19 God said, "No, but Sarah, your wife, will bear you a son. You shall call his name Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant for his seed after him.

20 As for Ishmael, I have heard you. Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly. He will become the father of twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation.

21 But my covenant I establish with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this set time next year."

22 When he finished talking with him, God went up from Abraham.

23 Abraham took Ishmael his son, all who were born in his house, and all who were bought with his money; every male among the men of Abraham's house, and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the same day, as God had said to him.

24 Abraham was ninety-nine years old, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

25 Ishmael, his son, was thirteen years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

26 In the same day both Abraham and Ishmael, his son, were circumcised.

27 All the men of his house, those born in the house, and those bought with money of a foreigner, were circumcised with him.

   

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