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4 Mosebok 13

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1 Og Herren talte til Moses og sa:

2 Send avsted menn for å utspeide Kana'ans land, som jeg nu vil gi Israels barn! En mann for hver fedrenestamme skal I sende; hver av dem skal være En høvding blandt folket.

3 Da sendte Moses dem fra ørkenen Paran efter Herrens ord; alle var de overhoder for Israels barn.

4 Og dette var deres navn: For ubens stamme Sammua, Sakkurs sønn,

5 for Simeons stamme Safat, Horis sønn,

6 for Juda stamme Kaleb, Jefunnes sønn,

7 for Issakars stamme Jigeal, Josefs sønn,

8 for Efra'ims stamme Hosea, Nuns sønn,

9 for Benjamins stamme Palti, afus sønn,

10 for Sebulons stamme Gaddiel, Sodis sønn,

11 for Josefs stamme, for Manasse stamme Gaddi, Susis sønn,

12 for Dans stamme Ammiel, Gemallis sønn,

13 for Asers stamme Setur, Mikaels sønn,

14 for Naftali stamme Nahbi, Vofsis sønn,

15 for Gads stamme Ge'uel, Makis sønn.

16 Dette var navnene på de menn som Moses sendte for å utspeide landet; men Moses gav Hosea, Nuns sønn, navnet Josva.

17 Og Moses sendte dem for å utspeide Kana'ans land, og han sa til dem: Dra op her til sydlandet og stig op i fjellene

18 og se hvordan landet er, og om folket som bor der, er sterkt eller svakt, om det er lite eller stort,

19 og hvordan det land er som det bor i, om det er godt eller dårlig, og hvordan de byer er som det bor i, om det bor i leire eller i festninger,

20 og hvordan jorden er, om den er fet eller mager, om det er trær der eller ikke! Vær ved godt mot og ta med eder av landets frukt! Det var nettop på den tid de første druer blev modne.

21 Så drog de da op og utspeidet landet fra ørkenen Sin til ehob, bortimot Hamat.

22 De drog op til sydlandet og kom til Hebron; der bodde Akiman, Sesai og Talmai, Anaks barn - Hebron var bygget syv år før Soan i Egypten.

23 kom de til Eskol-dalen; der skar de av en vinranke med en drueklase, og den bar to mann mellem sig på en stang; likeledes tok de granatepler og fikener.

24 Dette sted blev kalt Eskol-dalen* efter den drueklase som Israels barn skar av der. / {* d.e. drueklasens dal.}

25 Da firti dager var til ende, vendte de tilbake efter å ha utspeidet landet.

26 De gikk avsted og fant Moses og Aron og hele Israels barns menighet i ørkenen Paran, i Kades, og gav dem og hele menigheten beskjed om hvad de hadde sett, og viste dem landets frukt.

27 De fortalte ham og sa: Vi kom til det land du sendte oss til, og det flyter virkelig med melk og honning, og her er dets frukt.

28 Men det folk som bor i landet, er sterkt, og byene er som festninger og meget store; der så vi også Anaks barn.

29 Amalekittene bor i sydlandet, og hetittene og jebusittene og amorittene bor i fjellbygdene, og kana'anittene bor ute ved havet og langsmed Jordan.

30 Men da folket knurret mot Moses, søkte Kaleb å stagge dem og sa: Vi vil dra op og ta landet i eie; vi skal nok få det i vår makt.

31 Men de menn som hadde vært med ham der op, sa: Vi makter ikke å dra op mot det folk; for det er sterkere enn vi.

32 Og de talte ille blandt Israels barn om det land de hadde utspeidet, og sa: Det land vi drog igjennem for å utspeide det, er et land som fortærer* sine innbyggere, og alle de vi så der, var høivoksne folk; / {* ved de kriger som føres der.}

33 der så vi kjempene, Anaks barn av kjempeætten, og mot dem var vi i våre egne øine som gresshopper, og det syntes også de at vi var.

   

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Arcana Coelestia #8351

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8351. 'And the people grumbled against Moses' means grief caused by the bitterness of the temptation. This is clear from the meaning of 'grumbling' as complaint, the kind made in temptations, thus grief caused by the bitterness of the temptation. The temptations which those belonging to the Lord's spiritual Church underwent after they had been delivered from molestations, in addition to the temptations which members of that Church are destined to undergo, are described by the grumblings of the children of Israel in the wilderness. And since spiritual temptations are as a general rule protracted till a person is in despair, 1787, 2694, 5279, 5280, 7147, 7166, 8165, 'grumbling' means complaint because of grief felt in temptations, as in Exodus 16:2-3; 17:3; Numbers 14:27, 29, 36; 16:11. The words 'against Moses' are used because it was a grumbling against what was Divine; for 'Moses' represents Divine Truth, 6723, 6752, 6771, 6827, 7010, 7014, 7089, 7382.

[2] As regards the temptations which those belonging to the spiritual Church underwent, and the temptations which members of that Church are destined to undergo, it should be recognized that no faith, nor thus any charity, can ever be instilled into those who belong to the spiritual Church except by means of temptations. In temptations a person is involved in conflict against falsity and evil. These - falsity and evil - flow into the external man from the hells, while goodness and truth flow in from the Lord by way of the internal man; and so there arises from a conflict of the internal man with the external that which is called temptation. And in the measure that the external man is brought into a state of obedience to the internal, faith and charity are instilled; for the external or natural level of a person is a receptacle of truth and good from the internal. If the receptacle is not properly adjusted it does not receive anything flowing in from the more internal level but either repels, destroys, or stifles it, as a consequence of which there is no regeneration. So it is that temptation is necessary, in order that a person may undergo regeneration, which is effected through the instillation of faith and charity, and thereby through the formation of a new will and new understanding. This also explains why the term 'militant' is applied to the Lord's Church. See what has been stated and shown already about these matters in 3928, 4249, 4341, 4572, 5356, 6574, 6611, 6657, 7090 (end), 7122, 8159, 8168, 8179, 8273.

  
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7090. 'And said to Pharaoh' means an admonition [from them] to those who are opposed to the Church's truths. This is clear from the meaning of 'saying' - since it came by Divine command from Moses and Aaron - as an admonition, as also in 7033; and from the representation of 'Pharaoh' as factual knowledge that is opposed to the Church's truths, dealt with in 6651, 6673, 6683, thus people who are opposed to them. Here and in what follows the subject is those belonging to the spiritual Church who were saved through the Lord's Coming into the world but who before His Coming had been held back on the lower earth, where they were harassed by falsities, that is, by those from hell steeped in falsities stemming from evil. That lower earth is situated below the soles of the feet and is surrounded by hells - in front of it those who have falsified truths and adulterated forms of good; to the right those who pervert Divine order and thereby strive to obtain power; to the rear the evil genii who, motivated by self-love, have secretly devised evil against their neighbour; and deep down underneath those who have rejected the Divine with utter contempt and worshipped nature, and in so doing have banished from themselves everything spiritual. Such are the hells surrounding those on the lower earth, where before the Lord's Coming people belonging to the spiritual Church were held in safe keeping. Though they were molested there the Lord protected them, and they were brought into heaven with the Lord when He rose again. See what has been stated and shown already regarding these people in 6854, 6865, 6914, 6945, 7035.

[2] The lower earth where those who belonged to the spiritual Church were held in safe keeping up to the Lord's Coming is mentioned a number of times in the Word, as in Isaiah,

Sing, O heavens, for Jehovah has done [it]! Shout, you lower parts of the earth! Be filled, O mountains, with singing, O forest and every tree in it! For Jehovah has redeemed Jacob, and made Himself glorious in Israel. Isaiah 44:23.

This refers to those on the lower earth, to the fact that they were saved by the Lord. 'Jacob' and 'Israel' are the spiritual Church, 'Jacob' being the external Church, 'Israel' the internal Church, 3305, 4286, 6426. In Ezekiel,

I will cause you to go down with those going down to the pit, to the people of old, 1 and I will cause you to dwell in the land of the lower ones in desolations. Ezekiel 16:20.

In the same prophet,

. . . to the lower earth in the midst of the sons of men, to those going down to the pit. Consequently all the trees of Eden, the choicest and the most excellent of Lebanon, all those drinking water, will comfort themselves on the lower earth. Ezekiel 31:14, 16.

This refers to the lower earth where those who belonged to the spiritual Church were.

[3] At the present day too those belonging to the Church who have filled their minds with worldly and also earthly ideas and have acted in such a way that the truths of faith have become tied up with them are sent down to the lower earth, where they likewise have battles to fight. These battles continue until their worldly and earthly ideas have been separated from the truths of faith and other notions have been introduced, of such a nature that they cannot be linked together any longer. Once this has been accomplished those people are raised from there into heaven; for until such ideas of theirs have been removed they cannot possibly be in the company of angels, since those ideas are full of darkness and defilement that do not accord with the light and purity of heaven. Those worldly and earthly ideas cannot be separated and removed except by means of battles against falsities, battles which take place in the following manner: Those on that lower earth are molested by illusions and by falsities based on them which emanate from inhabitants of the surrounding hells; but the Lord employs heaven to rebut those illusions and falsities and at the same time to introduce truths. These truths seem to reside with those undergoing the conflicts.

[4] All this being so, the spiritual Church ought to be spoken of as a militant Church. But at the present day it is rarely militant with anyone in the world; for while a member of the Church is living in the world he does not experience conflict, because of the wicked crowded around him and because of the weakness of the flesh in which he lives. In the next life a person may be held firmly by the bonds of conscience, but not so in the world, for if in the world he is subjected to any degree of despair, as normally happens to those undergoing conflicts, he instantly breaks those bonds. And if he breaks them he gives in; and if he gives in he is done for so far as his salvation is concerned. This explains why the Lord allows few within the Church at the present day to enter into battles against falsities on behalf of truths; those battles are spiritual temptations. See also what has been shown already regarding the lower earth and vastations that take place there, in 4728, 4940-4951, 6854.

Бележки под линия:

1. literally, eternity

  
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