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马太福音 11

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1 耶稣吩咐完了十二个门徒,就离开那里,往各城去传道,教训人。

2 约翰在监里基督所作的事,就打发两个门徒去,

3 问他:那将要的是你麽?还是我们等候别人呢?

4 耶稣回答:你们去,把所见,所看见的事告诉约翰。

5 就是瞎子看见,瘸子行走,长大麻风的洁净,聋子见,死人复活,穷人有福音传给他们。

6 凡不因我跌倒的就有福了!

7 他们走的时候,耶稣就对众人讲论约翰:你们从前出到旷野是要看甚麽呢?要看风吹动的芦苇麽?

8 你们出去到底是要看甚麽?要看穿细软衣服的人麽?那穿细软衣服的人是在王宫里。

9 你们出去究竟是为甚麽?是要看先知麽?我告诉你们,是的,他比先知大多了。

10 经上记着:我要差遣我的使者在你前面预备道路,所的就是这个人。

11 我实在告诉你们,凡妇人所生的,没有一个兴起来大过施洗约翰的;然而国里最小的比他还大。

12 从施洗约翰的时候到如今,国是努力进入的,努力的人就得着了。

13 因为众先知和律法说预言,到约翰为止。

14 你们若肯领受,这人就是那应当的以利亚。

15 有耳可的,就应当

16 我可用甚麽比这世代呢?好像孩童在街市上招呼同伴,说:

17 我们向你们吹笛,你们不跳舞;我们向你们举哀,你们不捶胸。

18 约翰了,也不吃也不喝,人就他是被鬼附着的;

19 人子了,也吃也喝,人又他是贪食好酒的人,是税吏和罪人的朋友。但智慧之子总以智慧为是(有古卷:但智慧在行为上就显为是)。

20 耶稣在诸城中行了许多异能,那些城的人终不悔改,就在那时候责备他们,

21 哥拉汛哪,你有了!伯赛大阿,你有了!因为在你们中间所行的异能,若行在推罗、西顿,他们早已披麻蒙灰悔改了。

22 但我告诉你们,当审判的日子,推罗、西顿所受的,比你们还容易受呢!

23 迦百农阿,你已经升到上(或作:你将要升到上麽),将来必坠落阴间;因为在你那里所行的异能,若行在所多玛,他还可以存到今日。

24 但我告诉你们,当审判的日子,所多玛所受的,比你还容易受呢!

25 那时,耶稣:父阿,地的主,我感谢你!因为你将这些事向聪明通达人就藏起来,向婴孩就显出来。

26 父阿,是的,因为你的美意本是如此。

27 一切所有的,都是我父交付我的;除了父,没有人知道子;除了子和子所愿意指示的,没有人知道父。

28 凡劳苦担重担的人可以到我这里来,我就使你们得安息。

29 我心里柔和谦卑,你们当负我的轭,学我的样式;这样,你们心里就必得享安息。

30 因为我的轭是容易的,我的担子是轻省的。

   

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Heaven and Hell # 353

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353. By false intelligence and wisdom we mean any intelligence and wisdom that is devoid of acknowledgment of the Divine. In fact, people who do not acknowledge the Divine Being but put nature in place of the Divine all think on the basis of their physical bodies. They are merely sense-centered, no matter how scholarly and learned they are considered in this world. 1 Their learning, though, does not rise any higher than the things in front of their eyes in this world, things that they keep in their memory and inspect almost physically. This is the case even though the very same branches of knowledge serve truly intelligent people as a means of forming their understanding. By "branches of knowledge" we mean the various experimental disciplines such as physics, astronomy, chemistry, mechanics, geometry, anatomy, psychology, philosophy, and political history, as well as the realms of literature and criticism and language study.

[2] There are church dignitaries who deny the Divine. They do not raise their thoughts any higher than the sensory concerns of the outer person. They look on the contents of the Word as no different from knowledge about anything else; they do not treat those contents as subjects of thought or of any thorough consideration by an enlightened rational mind. This is because their own deeper levels are closed off, and along with them, the more outward levels that are next to these deeper ones. The reason they are closed is that they have turned their backs on heaven and reversed the things that they could see there, things that are proper to the deeper levels of the human mind, as we have noted before. This is why they cannot see what is true and good - because these matters are in darkness for them, while what is false and evil is in the light.

[3] Nevertheless, sense-centered people can think logically, some of them actually with more skill and penetration than other people. However, they rely on deceptive sensory appearances bolstered by their own learning, and since they can think logically in this fashion, they think they are wiser than other people. 2 The fire that fuels their reasoning is the fire of love for themselves and the world.

These are the people who are devoted to false intelligence and wisdom, the ones meant by the Lord in Matthew: "Seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand" (Matthew 13:13-15); and again, "Things are hidden from the intelligent and wise and revealed to children" (Matthew 11:25-26).

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1. [Swedenborg's footnote] The sensory level is the outmost level of our life, attached to and embedded in our bodies: 5077, 5767, 9212, 9216, 9331, 9730. We call people sense-centered if they evaluate and decide about everything on the basis of their physical senses and do not believe anything unless they see it with their eyes and touch it with their hands: 5094, 7693. People like this do their thinking in their most external minds, and not more inwardly within themselves: 5089, 5094, 6564, 7693. Their deeper levels are closed, so that they can see nothing of divine truth: 6564, 6844-6845. In short, they are in a crude natural illumination and can see nothing that comes from heaven's light: 6201, 6310, 6564, 6844-6845, 6598, 6612, 6614, 6622, 6624. So they are profoundly opposed to whatever involves heaven and the church: 6201, 6316 [6310?], 6844-6845, 6948-6949. Scholars who have convinced themselves in opposition to the truths of the church are sense-centered: 6316. A description of the nature of sense-centered people: 10236.

2. [Swedenborg's footnote] The logical thinking of sense-centered people is both keen and skillful because they place all intelligence in talking from their physical memory: 195-196, 5700, 10236. However, all this relies on deceptive sensory appearances: 5084, 6948-6949, 7693. Sense-centered people are more canny and vicious than others: 7693, 10236. The ancients called people like this "serpents of the tree of knowledge": 195-197, 6398, 6949, 10313.

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Foundation for the permission to use this translation.