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如申命记 7

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1 耶和華─你領你進入要得為業之,從你面前趕出許多國民,就是赫人、革迦撒人、亞摩利人、迦南人、比利洗人、希未人、耶布斯人,共國的民,都比你強大。

2 耶和華─你將他們交你擊殺,那時你要把他們滅絕淨盡,不可與他們立約,也不可憐恤他們。

3 不可與他們結親。不可將你的女兒嫁他們的兒子,也不可叫你的兒子娶他們的女兒

4 因為他必使你兒子離不跟從,去事奉別,以致耶和華的怒氣向你們發作,就速速地將你們滅絕。

5 你們卻要這樣待他們:拆毀他們的祭壇,打碎他們的柱像,砍下他們的木偶,用焚燒他們雕刻的偶像。

6 因為你歸耶和華─你為聖潔的民;耶和華─你從地上的萬民中揀選你,特作自己的子民。

7 耶和華專愛你們,揀選你們,並非因你們的人數多於別民,原來你們的人數在萬民中是最少的。

8 只因耶和華愛你們,又因要守他向你們列祖所起的誓,就用大能的領你們出來,從為奴之家救贖你們脫離埃及法老的

9 所以,你要知道耶和華─你的,他是,是信實的;向他、守他誡命的人守約,施慈愛,直到

10 向恨他的人當面報應他們,將他們滅絕。凡恨他的人必報應他們,決不遲延。

11 所以,你要謹守遵行我今日所吩咐你的誡命、律例、典章。

12 你們果然從這些典章,謹守遵行,耶和華─你就必照他向你列祖所起的誓守約,施慈愛。

13 他必你,賜福與你,使你人數增多,也必在他向你列祖起誓應許你的地上賜福與你身所生的,地所產的,並你的五穀、新酒,和油,以及牛犢、羔。

14 你必蒙福勝過萬民;你們的男女沒有不能生養的,牲畜也沒有不能生育的。

15 耶和華必使一切的病症離開你;你所知道埃及各樣的惡疾,他不加在你身上,只加在一切恨你的人身上。

16 耶和華─你所要交你的一切人民,你要將他們除滅;你眼不可顧惜他們。你也不可事奉他們的,因這必成為你的網羅。

17 你若心裡,這些國的民比我更多,我怎能趕出他們呢?

18 你不要懼他們,要牢牢記念耶和華─你法老埃及全地所行的事,

19 就是你親眼所見的試驗、蹟、奇事,和能的,並伸出來的膀,都是耶和華─你領你出來所用的。耶和華─你必照樣待你所懼怕的一切人民。

20 並且耶和華─你必打發黃蜂飛到他們中間,直到那剩下而藏躲的人從你面前滅亡。

21 你不要因他們驚恐,因為耶和華─你在你們中間是而可畏的

22 耶和華─你必將這些國的民從你面前漸漸趕出;你不可把他們速速滅盡,恐怕野地的獸多起來害你。

23 耶和華─你必將他們交你,的擾亂他們,直到他們滅絕了;

24 又要將他們的君交在你中,你就使他們的名從消滅。必無一能在你面前站立得住,直到你將他們滅絕了。

25 他們雕刻的像,你們要用焚燒;其上的,你不可貪圖,也不可收取,免得你因此陷入網羅;這原是耶和華─你所憎惡的。

26 可憎的物,你不可進家去;不然,你就成了當毀滅的,與那物一樣。你要十分厭惡,十分憎嫌,因為這是當毀滅的物。

   

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8286. 'And with the wind of Your nostrils the waters were heaped up' means falsities gathered together through heaven's presence. This is clear from the meaning of 'the wind of Your nostrils' as heaven, dealt with below; from the meaning of 'being heaped up' as being gathered into one; and from the meaning of 'the waters' as falsities, dealt with in 7307, 8137, 8138. Damnation and being cast into hell involves having all the falsities arising from evil gathered together, and then being hemmed in by them, see 8146, 8210, 8232; and this happens as a result simply of the Lord's presence, 8265. The reason why 'the wind of Jehovah's, or the Lord's, nostrils' means heaven is that the expression is used to denote the breath of life, that is, God's life; and since God's life constitutes heaven's life, heaven is meant by 'the wind of Jehovah's nostrils'. This also explains why the same word in the original language means both wind and spirit.

[2] The fact that Jehovah's wind or His breath means heaven's life, and the life of a person in heaven, that is, of one who has been regenerated, is clear in David,

By the Word of Jehovah were the heavens made, and all their host by the spirit (wind) of His mouth. Psalms 33:6.

In the same author,

You gather up their spirit, they breathe their last and fall back into their dust. You send forth Your spirit (wind), they are created. Psalms 104:29-30.

In Ezekiel,

Jehovah said to me, Will these bones live? Then He said, Prophesy over the spirit, prophesy, O son of man, and say to the wind, Thus said the Lord Jehovih, Come from the four winds, O spirit, and breathe into these killed, that they may live. And the spirit came into them, and they lived again. Ezekiel 37:3, 9-10.

In John,

I saw four angels standing over the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds of the earth, in order that the wind should not blow onto the earth, nor onto the sea, nor onto any tree. Revelation 7:1.

Here 'the wind' stands for heaven's life, which is God's life, as also in Job,

The spirit of God has made me, and the breath of Shaddai 1 has given me life. Job 33:4.

[3] Since 'wind' meant life the Lord also says, in His teaching about a person's regeneration,

The spirit (or wind) blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from or goes away to; so it is with everyone who has been born from the spirit. John 3:8.

And since life from God was meant by 'Jehovah's wind' or 'His breath' it therefore says of Jehovah, when Adam's new life is the subject, that

He breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. Genesis 2:7.

The word 'nostrils' is used because a person breathes by means of them and by means of breathing has life, as in Isaiah,

Turn yourselves away from the person in whose nostrils there is breath. 2 Isaiah 2:22.

In Jeremiah,

The Breath 3 Lamentations 4:20Job 27:3.

[4] Since therefore 'the wind of Jehovah's nostrils' means life which comes from the Lord, and so in the universal sense means heaven, and since through the Lord's presence - or through the presence of heaven, where the Lord is - evils and falsities are cast into hell, 8265, so also is the accomplishment of this meant by 'the wind of Jehovah's nostrils', as in David,

The channels of the sea were seen, the foundations of the world were revealed, because of Jehovah's rebuke, at the blast of breath from His nostrils. 4 Psalms 18:8, 15; 2 Samuel 22:16. 5

In Isaiah,

The breath of Jehovah like a stream 6 of brimstone sets it alight. Isaiah 30:33.

In the same prophet,

Indeed they are not planted, indeed they are not sown, indeed their trunk does not take root in the earth, and also He breathes onto them and they wither, so that the whirlwind may bear them away like stubble. Isaiah 40:24Psalms 147:1718

In addition this explains why 'the nose', when used in reference to Jehovah or the Lord, also means wrath, and so the punishment, vastation, and damnation suffered by those ruled by evils and falsities, as in Numbers 25:4; Deuteronomy 7:4; Judges 2:14; Isaiah 9:12; Jeremiah 4:8Hosea 14:4; Psalms 6:1; 86:15; 103:8; 145:8; and very many other times elsewhere. It explains too why 'breathing with the nostrils' or 'breathing out' means being angry, Deuteronomy 4:21; Isaiah 12:1; Psalms 2:12; 6:1; 60:1; 79:5; 85:5.

  
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