forth in the natural tincture in the light's property. But the Adamical soul is from the fire's property, from whence the light receives its original and manifestation; so that the light's property in Christ assumed the fire's property, viz. the Adamical soul; and the inward hidden [divine and heavenly being] which was sealed up and quite faded as to the light's life, in Adam, did again open and put forth itself afresh.
60. Therefore, seeing a Christian is under Christ, and in Christ becomes again manifest in God, the figure of Christ is represented here in this figure in the number of 30, and that of a Christian in the number of 20: for a Christian is sold into the hands of men to suffer; but Christ must not only suffer in the hands of men, but give himself up also to the wrath of God, whereupon he sweat blood.
61. And this whole history of Joseph does excellently decipher to us how a Christian stands in his figure before God and the world: for the whole acts 1 of Joseph do point out how Adam comes to be a Christian; how he must in the process of Christ be put into Christ's figure, and become an image of Christ; and how God does in Christ's process exalt him again in the kingdom of Christ, and sets him at the right hand of God: as Joseph was set at the right hand of King Pharaoh after that he had continued in the process of Christ, and was brought through it.
1 Or, history.
The Sixty-Fifth Chapter
Of Judah and Tamar: being a Mystical Figure of Adam and Christ, in which the New Birth is excellently prefigured [Gen. xxxviii.]
1. WHEN we consider the history of Joseph according to outward reason, then reason demands, wherefore Joseph's history is not set down together in the Bible without any interruption, whereas one act followed so upon another. Why does Moses put this typical figure of Judah and Tamar between? But ifwe look upon, examine and consider this history of Judah and Tamar, and likewise the figure of Joseph, with a right understanding, we find and see that the Holy Ghost has of set purpose so ordered and disposed them in their right and true order.
2. For Joseph represents a true Christian, showing how he must behave himself before God, and the world, and how he is put in the process and figure of Christ. But this history of Judah and Tamar is a figure of a Christian's growth out of Adam's image, according to the humanity in the kingdom of nature; showing how he must spring forth out of the first Adamical image, and how this same Adamical image is evil and must die, which the anger of God kills; and yet that the first right must stand; that a Christian, according to the human nature and property, is only the Adamical image, and no new or strange thing; and how Christ manifests himself in this Adamical evil image, and kills the evil; and yet during the time of this life outwardly it hangs to a Christian: this the spirit here powerfully prefigures.
3. Here we see a powerful figure in Judah, in whom stood the line of Christ in the order of the genealogy, out of which Christ was to be manifested: This Judah went away from his brethren, and applied himself to a man of Odollam [Adullam], called Hirah. And there Judah saw a Canaanitish man 's daughter, called Shuah; and he took her and went in unto her, so she conceived and bare a son, and he called his name Er. And she conceived again and bare a son, whose name she called Onan. And she conceived once more and bare another son, whose name she called Shelah; and she was at Chezib when she
forth in the natural tincture in the light's property. But the Adamical soul is from the fire's property, from whence the light receives its original and manifestation; so that the light's property in Christ assumed the fire's property, viz. the Adamical soul; and the inward hidden [divine and heavenly being] which was sealed up and quite faded as to the light's life, in Adam, did again open and put forth itself afresh.
60. Therefore, seeing a Christian is under Christ, and in Christ becomes again manifest in God, the figure of Christ is represented here in this figure in the number of 30, and that of a Christian in the number of 20: for a Christian is sold into the hands of men to suffer; but Christ must not only suffer in the hands of men, but give himself up also to the wrath of God, whereupon he sweat blood.
61. And this whole history of Joseph does excellently decipher to us how a Christian stands in his figure before God and the world: for the whole acts 1 of Joseph do point out how Adam comes to be a Christian; how he must in the process of Christ be put into Christ's figure, and become an image of Christ; and how God does in Christ's process exalt him again in the kingdom of Christ, and sets him at the right hand of God: as Joseph was set at the right hand of King Pharaoh after that he had continued in the process of Christ, and was brought through it.
1 Or, history.
The Sixty-Fifth Chapter
Of Judah and Tamar: being a Mystical Figure of Adam and Christ, in which the New Birth is excellently prefigured [Gen. xxxviii.]
1. WHEN we consider the history of Joseph according to outward reason, then reason demands, wherefore Joseph's history is not set down together in the Bible without any interruption, whereas one act followed so upon another. Why does Moses put this typical figure of Judah and Tamar between? But ifwe look upon, examine and consider this history of Judah and Tamar, and likewise the figure of Joseph, with a right understanding, we find and see that the Holy Ghost has of set purpose so ordered and disposed them in their right and true order.
2. For Joseph represents a true Christian, showing how he must behave himself before God, and the world, and how he is put in the process and figure of Christ. But this history of Judah and Tamar is a figure of a Christian's growth out of Adam's image, according to the humanity in the kingdom of nature; showing how he must spring forth out of the first Adamical image, and how this same Adamical image is evil and must die, which the anger of God kills; and yet that the first right must stand; that a Christian, according to the human nature and property, is only the Adamical image, and no new or strange thing; and how Christ manifests himself in this Adamical evil image, and kills the evil; and yet during the time of this life outwardly it hangs to a Christian: this the spirit here powerfully prefigures.
3. Here we see a powerful figure in Judah, in whom stood the line of Christ in the order of the genealogy, out of which Christ was to be manifested: This Judah went away from his brethren, and applied himself to a man of Odollam [Adullam], called Hirah. And there Judah saw a Canaanitish man 's daughter, called Shuah; and he took her and went in unto her, so she conceived and bare a son, and he called his name Er. And she conceived again and bare a son, whose name she called Onan. And she conceived once more and bare another son, whose name she called Shelah; and she was at Chezib when she
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