וְהִנֵּ֨ה דְבַר־יְהוָ֤ה אֵלָיו֙ לֵאמֹ֔ר לֹ֥א יִֽירָשְׁךָ֖ זֶ֑ה כִּי־אִם֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר יֵצֵ֣א מִמֵּעֶ֔יךָ ה֖וּא יִֽירָשֶֽׁךָ׃
Então eis que a palavra de Hashem lhe veio, dizendo: "Este não será teu herdeiro; mas aquele que sairá de tuas próprias entranhas será teu herdeiro."
Who is the Heir of Divine Things
[66] At that point God in His turn hastens to forestall the questioner, with a message of instruction, which we may almost say anticipates his speaking. For “straightway,” we are told, “a voice of God came to him with the words ‘He shall not be thy heir’ ” (Gen. 15:4). No, none of those who fall under the evidence which the senses give. For it is incorporeal natures that inherit intellectual things.
Who is the Heir of Divine Things
[68] Who then shall be the heir? Not that way of thinking which abides in the prison of the body of its own free will, but that which released from its fetters into liberty has come forth outside the prison walls, and if we may so say, left behind its own self. For “he who shall come out of thee,” it says, “shall be thy heir” (Gen. 15:4).