Chuàngshìjì 48:4

4 Duì wǒ shuō , wǒ bì shǐ nǐ shēng yǎng zhòngduō , chéngwéi duō mín , yòu yào bǎ zhè dì cìgĕi nǐde hòuyì , yǒngyuǎn wéi yè .

Chuàngshìjì 48:4 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 48:4

And said unto me, behold, I will make thee fruitful
In a spiritual sense, in grace and good works; in a literal sense, in an increase of worldly substance, and especially of children: and multiply thee;
make his posterity numerous as the sand of the sea: and I will make of thee a multitude of people;
a large nation, consisting of many tribes, even a company of nations, as the twelve tribes of Israel were; and I will give this land unto thy seed after thee, [for] an
everlasting possession;
the land of Canaan, they were to possess as long as they were the people of God, and obedient to his law; by which obedience they held the land, even unto the coming of the Messiah, whom they rejected, and then they were cast out, and a "Loammi" (i.e. not my people, ( Hosea 1:9 ) ) written upon them, and their civil polity, as well as church state, at an end: and besides, Canaan was a type of the eternal inheritance of the saints in heaven, the spiritual Israel of God, which will be possessed by them to all eternity.

Chuàngshìjì 48:4 In-Context

2 Yǒu rén gàosu Yǎgè shuō , qǐng kàn , nǐ érzi Yūesè dào nǐ zhèlǐ lái le . Yǐsèliè jiù miǎnqiǎng zaì chuáng shàng zuò qǐlai .

3 Yǎgè duì Yūesè shuō , quánnéng de shén céng zaì Jiānán dì de Lùsī xiàng wǒ xiǎnxiàn , cì fú yǔ wǒ ,

4 Duì wǒ shuō , wǒ bì shǐ nǐ shēng yǎng zhòngduō , chéngwéi duō mín , yòu yào bǎ zhè dì cìgĕi nǐde hòuyì , yǒngyuǎn wéi yè .

5 Wǒ wèi dào Āijí jiàn nǐ zhī xiān , nǐ zaì Āijí dì suǒ shēng de Yǐfǎlián hé Mǎnáxī zhè liǎng gè érzi shì wǒde , zhēng rú Liúbiàn hé Xīmiǎn shì wǒde yíyàng .

6 Nǐ zaì tāmen yǐhòu suǒ shēng de jiù shì nǐde , tāmen kĕyǐ guīyú tāmen dìxiōng de míng xià de chǎnyè .