창세기 28:11의 제2성전 문헌

[61] What Haran is and why the man who leaves the Well of the Oath comes to it, has been made evident. We must consider the point which naturally comes next, our third point, namely what the place is which he lights upon or meets, for we read “he met a place” (Gen. 28:11).

[72] The lawgiver further states the reason why Jacob “meta” a place: “for the sun was set,” it says (Gen. 28:11), not this sun which shews itself to our eyes, but the light of the supreme and invisible God most brilliant and most radiant. When this shines upon the understanding, it causes those lesser luminaries of words  to set, and in a far higher degree casts into shade all the places of sense-perception; but when it has gone elsewhither, all these at once have their dawn and rising.

[116] That is why, in this passage, he says “he met a place; for the sun was set” (Gen. 28:11). For when the soul is forsaken by the rays of God, by means of which apprehensions of things are gained in greatest distinctness, there rises the secondary feebler light, not as before of facts but of words,  just as is the case in this material world; for the moon, ranking second to the sun when that has set, sends forth upon the earth a dimmer light.