تثنية 21:9

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9 فتنزع الدم البري من وسطك اذا عملت الصالح في عيني الرب


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By Alexander Payne

Verse 9. And thus you shall be saved from the rejection or perversion of the Divine Influx into the soul, when you shall carry out the Lord's will as far as perception of it is given you. [Note (verses 1-9).—From this passage may we not learn that the soul will sometimes discover in the course of regeneration that all the good that flows in from heaven is extinguished by the evil tendencies of the natural man? but need not despair; for is it not warned in the Word beforehand that the unregenerate heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked? Only let the regenerating be careful that all their powers are directed to guard against the tendencies to evil in the external man being conjoined to the interior soul, by being embraced by the affections, and permitted by the understanding. If the soul is in the perception that all good is from the Lord and implores His aid, and that all evil is from hell and its own perverted tendencies, and desires to shun them; no evil will be imputed to it. (See Arcana Coelestia 10219, 6325, 6203-6204). The Lord Himself had all the tendencies to evil that we have from His Humanity derived from the mother, but as He never permitted them to be conjoined to Himself by adoption, He was without sin, and conjoined this perfected Humanity in Himself to the Divinity, which was His interior soul. Thus by His conquest over these tendencies to evil the human race became conjoined to the Divinity, and it is by our conquest over these tendencies by the Divine aid thus acquired, that we become conjoined to the Divine life— that is, saved. (See Arcana Coelestia 1414, 9452.)]