5 Mosebok 23:3

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3 Ingen ammonit eller moabit skall komma in i HERRENS församling; icke ens den som i tionde led är avkomling av en sådan skall någonsin komma in i HERRENS församling --


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Napsal(a) Alexander Payne

Verse 3. Those who have falsified truth and adulterated good shall not enter into heaven, because they have no remains of genuine good and truth. [Note.—Ammon and Moab are thus described in the Arcana Coelestia 2468: "They in general denote those who are principled in external worship, which appears in some respect holy, but not in internal worship,* and who eagerly embrace as good and true whatever relates to external worship, but reject and despise what relates to internal worship: such worship and such a religion takes especial root in those who are principled in natural good, but who despise others in comparison with themselves." In the same article, near the end, these verses in Deuteronomy are briefly described, and it is shown how if all the good in the soul becomes adulterated with evil, and all the truth mixed with falsity, all interior religion is despised and rejected; thus all the good stored up by the Lord in the soul is destroyed.] * Internal worship is to carry put the Divine Will, as revealed in the Word and the Divine Humanity (who is the Word brought forth to view in a Divine Person, John 1:1, 14, 18), by a life of the highest usefulness that can be attained, see Arcana Coelestia 7884.