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马太福音 9

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1 耶稣上了船,渡过海,来到自己的城里。

2 有人用褥子抬着一个瘫子到耶稣跟前来。耶稣见他们的信心,就对瘫子:小子,放心罢!你的罪赦了。

3 有几个文士心里:这个人僭妄的话了。

4 耶稣知道他们的心意,就:你们为甚麽心里怀着恶念呢?

5 :你的罪赦了,或:你起来行走,那一样容易呢?

6 但要叫你们知道,人子在地上有赦罪的权柄;就对瘫子起来!拿你的褥子回家去罢。

7 那人就起来,回家去了。

8 众人看见都惊奇,就归荣耀与神,因为他将这样的权柄赐给人。

9 耶稣从那里往前走,看见一个人名叫马太,在税关上,就对他:你跟从我来。他就起来跟从了耶稣。

10 耶稣在屋里席的时候,有好些税吏和罪人,与耶稣和他的门徒一同席。

11 法利赛人看见,就对耶稣的门徒:你们的先生为甚麽和税吏并罪人一同吃饭呢?

12 耶稣见,就:康健的人用不着医生,有病的人才用得着。

13 经上说:我喜爱怜恤,不喜爱祭祀。这句话的意思,你们且去揣摩。我本不是召人,乃是召罪人。

14 那时,约翰的门徒来见耶稣,说:我们和法利赛人常常禁食,你的门徒倒不禁食,这是为甚麽呢?

15 耶稣对他们新郎和陪伴之人同在的时候,陪伴之人岂能哀恸呢?但日子将到,新郎要离开他们,那时候他们就要禁食

16 没有人把新布补在旧衣服上;因为所补上的反带坏了那衣服,破的就更大了。

17 也没有人把新酒装在旧皮袋里;若是这样,皮袋就裂开,酒漏出来,连皮袋也坏了。惟独把新酒装在新皮袋里,两样就都保全了。

18 耶稣这话的时候,有一个管会堂的拜他,:我女儿刚才死了,求你去按手在他身上,他就必活了。

19 耶稣便起来跟着他去;门徒也跟了去。

20 有一个女人,患了十二年的血漏,来到【 雅吾赎瓦】背后,摸祂的衣裳繸子,

21 因为他心里:我只摸他的衣裳,就必痊愈。

22 耶稣过来,看见他,就:女儿,放心!你的信救了你。从那时候,女人就痊愈了。

23 耶稣到了管会堂的家里,看见有吹手,又有许多人乱嚷,

24 :退去罢!这闺女不是死了,是睡着了。他们就嗤笑他。

25 众人既被撵出,耶稣就进去,拉着闺女的手,闺女便起来了。

26 於是这风声传遍了那地方。

27 耶稣从那里往前走,有两个瞎子跟着他,喊叫说:大卫的子孙,可怜我们罢!

28 耶稣进了房子,瞎子就到他跟前。耶稣:你们信我能作这事麽?他们:主阿,我们信。

29 耶稣就摸他们的眼睛,:照着你们的信给你们成全了罢。

30 他们的眼睛就开了。耶稣切切的嘱咐他们:你们要小心,不可叫人知道。

31 他们出去,竟把他的名声传遍了那地方。

32 他们出去的时候,有人将鬼所附的一个吧带到耶稣跟前来。

33 鬼被赶出去,吧就出话来。众人都希奇,:在以色列中,从来没有见过这样的事。

34 法利赛人:他是靠着鬼王赶鬼。

35 耶稣走遍各城各乡,在会堂里教训人,宣讲天国的福音,又医治各样的病症。

36 他看见许多的人,就怜悯他们;因为他们困苦流离,如同羊没有牧人一般。

37 於是对门徒:要收的庄稼多,作工的人少。

38 所以,你们当求庄稼的主打发工人出去收他的庄稼。

   

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8364. 'I will not put on you any sickness that I put on the Egyptians' means that they are to be withheld from the evils present among those who uphold separated faith and lead a life of evil. This is clear from the meaning of 'sickness' as evil, dealt with below; from the representation of 'the Egyptians' as those who uphold separated faith and lead a life of evil, dealt with in 7097, 7317, 7926, 8148; and from the meaning of 'not putting on you' - when used in association with 'sickness', which means evil - as withholding from evil. For Jehovah, that is, the Lord, does not take away evil but withholds a person from it and maintains him in good, 929, 1581, 2256, 2406, 4564, 8206. So it is that 'not putting a sickness on them' means that they are to be withheld from evils.

[2] The reason why 'sickness' means evil is that in the internal sense the kinds of things that attack spiritual life are meant. The sicknesses which attack it are evils, and they are called evil desires and cravings; and the components of spiritual life are faith and charity. That life is sick when falsity exists instead of the truth of faith and evil instead of the good of charity, because they lead to the death of that life, which is called spiritual death and is damnation, just as sicknesses lead to the death of natural life. This is why in the internal sense 'sickness' means evil, and 'the sicknesses of the Egyptians' means the evils which those upholding separated faith and leading a life of evil cast themselves into, and which they used to molest the upright. Those evils have been dealt with in what has gone before, where the plagues in Egypt were the subject.

[3] Evils are again meant by 'sicknesses' elsewhere in the Word, as in Moses,

If you keep the commandments and the statutes and the judgements which I am commanding you today, Jehovah will take away all sickness from you, and will not put on you any of the evil diseases of Egypt which you have known, but will lay them on [all] who hate you. Deuteronomy 7:11, 15.

In the same author,

If you will not obey the voice of Jehovah your God, taking care to do all His commandments and His statutes, Jehovah will send on you cursing, confusion, and rebuke in all that you set your hand to do, 1 until you are destroyed, because of the wickedness of your deeds by which you have forsaken Me. Jehovah will make the pestilence cling to you, until He has consumed you from upon the land. Jehovah will strike you with consumption, and hot fever, and burning fever, and raging fever, and drought, and blight, and mildew, which will pursue you until you perish. Jehovah will strike you with the sores of Egypt, and with hemorrhoids, and the scab, and the itch, so that you cannot be healed. Jehovah will strike you with madness, and blindness, and stupefaction. 2 You will be made mad by what your eyes will see 3 . Jehovah will strike you with evil sores on the knees and on the thighs, from which you cannot be healed, from the sole of your foot to the top of your head. He will throw back onto you every disease of Egypt, also every sickness and every plague that is not written in the book of this Law. Jehovah will give you a trembling heart, failing 4 of eyes, and distress of soul. Deuteronomy 28:15, 20-22, 27-28, 34-35, 60-61, 65.

All the sicknesses mentioned here mean spiritual sicknesses, which are evils destructive of the life of a will desiring what is good and falsities destructive of the life of an understanding seeing what is true, in short things destructive of spiritual life composed of faith and charity. Natural sicknesses also correspond to such things, for every sickness present among the human race has its origin in spiritual ones, because each exists as a result of sin, 5712, 5726. Each sickness furthermore corresponds to its own evil. The explanation for this is that everything composing a person's life originates in the spiritual world. If therefore his spiritual life is sick, evil spreads from it into his natural life and becomes a sickness there. See what has been stated from experience in 5711-5727 about the correspondence of sicknesses with evils.

[4] The same things are meant by 'sicknesses' elsewhere, as in Moses,

You shall worship Jehovah your God, in order that He may bless your bread and your water; and I will take sickness out of your midst. Exodus 23:25.

In the same author,

If you despise My statutes, and if your soul abhors My judgements, so that you do not do all My commandments, while you make void My covenant, I will appoint terror over you, along with consumption, and burning fever, which will consume the eyes and torment the soul. Leviticus 26:15-16.

'Consumption' stands for the decrease of truth and the increase of falsity, 'burning fever' for the desire for evil. Further still, in Isaiah,

Why will you also defect? 5 The whole head [departs] into sickness, and the whole heart is diseased. From the sole of the foot even to the head there is no soundness in it, but wounds, and scars, and recent blows. They are not pressed out, nor bound up, nor softened with oil. Isaiah 1:5-6.

Here nobody can fail to see that 'sickness', 'wounds', 'scars', and 'blows' are used to mean sins. Similarly in Ezekiel,

Woe to the shepherds of Israel! The weak sheep you have not strengthened, the sick you have not healed, and the broken you have not bound up. Ezekiel 34:2, 4.

In David,

My iniquities have gone over my head. My wounds have become putrid, they have rotted away because of my foolishness. For my intestines are full of burning, and there is no soundness in my flesh. Psalms 38:4-7.

[5] Since the disorders and evils of spiritual life are meant by 'sicknesses', the various kinds of disorders and evils of that life are meant by the various kinds of sicknesses. 'Pestilence' means the vastation or laying waste of goodness and truth, see 7102, 7505; and 'leprosy' means the profanation of truth, 6963. In general 'sicknesses' means sins, as may also be seen in Isaiah,

... a man of sorrows, and acquainted with sickness, on account of which as it were men hid their faces from Him. He was despised, so that we did not esteem Him. Nevertheless He has borne our sicknesses and carried our sorrows, and through His wounds healing has been given to us. Isaiah 53:3-5.

This refers to the Lord.

[6] Since sicknesses represented the unrighteous ways and the evils of spiritual life the sicknesses which the Lord healed have as their meaning deliverance from the different kinds of evil and falsity that were molesting the Church and human race and that would have brought spiritual death. Divine miracles are distinguishable from other miracles by the fact that they involve and have regard to states of the Church and the heavenly kingdom; and this is why the Lord's miracles were primarily healing of sicknesses. These miracles are meant by the Lord's words addressed to the disciples sent by John,

Tell John the things which you hear and see: the blind see and the lame walk; lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear; the dead rise again and the poor hear the gospel. Matthew 11:4-5.

This is why it says so many times that the Lord healed every sickness and every disease among the people, Matthew 4:23; 9:35; 14:14, 35-36; Luke 4:40; 5:15; 6:17; 7:21; Mark 1:32-34; 3:10.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. literally, in every sending of your hand which you shall do

2. literally, astonishment of heart

3. literally, by the sight of your eyes

4. literally, consumption

5. literally, Why will you add to a going back?

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