Phục truyền luật lệ ký 27:19

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19 Ðáng rủa sả thay người nào làm cong-vạy phép chánh của khách lạ, kẻ mồ côi, và người góa bụa! Cả dân sự phải đáp: A-men!


Commentary on this verse  

By Alexander Payne

Verse 19. It curses the soul by averting it from heaven for the understanding, when enlightened, to favour evil by perverting the judgement of those faculties in the soul which desire instruction, or those which desire good but have not attained it, or of those which are in good and seek for genuine truths but have not yet found them; and all the mind must be brought to assent. [Note.—When the understanding is enlightened to know what is right, the responsibility comes upon the interior will not to allow the other faculties of the mind to lapse into error. About the words sojourners, orphans, and widows, so frequently occurring in the books of Moses; Swedenborg gives this explanation in Arcana Coelestia 9200: These three, when they are thus named together, fall into one sense with the angels, namely, into this, that with those who are in the Church good and truth ought to be conjoined according to order, thus reciprocally truth with good and good with truth; for by a sojourner are meant those who are willing to be instructed in such things as are of the Church; by widows, the conjunction of good with truth; and by orphans, the conjunction of truth with good, which conjunction is reciprocal.]