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申命记 31

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1 摩西去告诉以色列众人

2 :我现在一二十岁了,不能照常出入;耶和华也曾对我:你必不得过这约但河。

3 耶和华─你们的必引导你们过去,将这些国民在你们面前灭绝,你们就得他们的地。约书亚必引导你们过去,正如耶和华的。

4 耶和华必待他们,如同从前待他所灭绝的亚摩利二西宏与噩以及他们的国一样。

5 耶和华必将他们交你们;你们要照我所吩咐的一切命令待他们。

6 你们当刚强壮胆,不要害怕,也不要畏惧他们,因为耶和华─你的和你同去。他必不撇下你,也不丢弃你。

7 摩西召了约书亚来,在以色列众人眼前对他:你当刚强壮胆!因为,你要和这百姓一同进入耶和华向他们列祖起誓应许所赐之;你也要使他们承受那为业。

8 耶和华必在你前面行;他必与你同在,必不撇下你,也不丢弃你。不要惧,也不要惊惶。

9 摩西将这律法出来,交耶和华约柜的祭司利未子孙和以色列的长老

10 摩西吩咐他们:每逢年的末一年,就在豁免年的定期住棚节的时候,

11 以色列众人耶和华─你所选择的地方朝见他。那时,你要在以色列众人面前将这律法念给他们

12 要招聚他们男、女、孩子,并城里寄居的,使他们,使他们学习,好敬畏耶和华─你们的,谨守、遵行这律法的一切

13 也使他们未曾晓得这律法的儿女得以见,学习敬畏耶和华─你们的,在你们过约但河要得为业之地,存活的日子,常常这样行。

14 耶和华摩西:你的期临近了;要召约书亚来,你们二人站在会幕里,我好嘱咐他。於是摩西和约书亚去站在会幕里。

15 耶和华会幕中显现,停在会幕以上。

16 耶和华又对摩西:你必和你列祖同睡。这百姓要起来,在他们所要去的上,在那的人中,随从外邦行邪淫,离弃我,违背我与他们所立的约。

17 那时,我的怒气必向他们发作;我也必离弃他们,掩面不顾他们,以致他们被吞灭,并有许多的祸患灾难临到他们。那日他们必:这些祸患临到我们,岂不是因我们不在我们中间麽?

18 那时,因他们偏向别所行的一切恶,我必定掩面不顾他们。

19 现在你要一篇歌,教导以色列人,传给他们,使这歌见证他们的不是;

20 因为我将他们领进我向他们列祖起誓应许那流奶与蜜之地,他们在那里饱足,身体肥胖,就必偏向别,事奉他们,藐视我,背弃我的约。

21 那时,有许多祸患灾难临到他们,这歌必在他们面前作见证,他们後裔的中必念诵不忘。我未领他们到我所起誓应许之以先,他们所怀的意念我都知道了

22 当日摩西了一篇歌,教导以色列人

23 耶和华嘱咐嫩的儿子约书亚:你当刚强壮胆,因为你必领以色列人进我所起誓应许他们的;我必与你同在。

24 摩西将这律法的上,及至完了,

25 就吩咐抬耶和华约柜的利未人

26 将这律法放在耶和华─你们的约柜旁,可以在那里见证以色列人的不是;

27 因为我知道你们是悖逆的,是硬着颈项的。我今日还活着与你们同在,你们尚且悖逆耶和华,何况我呢?

28 你们要将你们支派的众长老长都招聚了来,我好将这些与他们听,并呼见证他们的不是。

29 知道我死,你们必全然败坏,偏离我所吩咐你们的道,行耶和华眼中看为恶的事,以所做的惹他发怒;日必有祸患临到你们。

30 摩西将这一篇歌的以色列会众听。

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 586

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586. 'The imagination of the thoughts of his heart was altogether evil all the day long' means that there was no perception of good and truth, the reason being, as has been stated and shown, that they immersed doctrinal matters concerning faith in their filthy desires. Once this had happened all perception perished, its place being taken by dreadful persuasion, that is, firmly fixed and lethal delusions, which also brought about their extinction and suffocation. Such deadly persuasion is here meant by 'the imagination of the thoughts of his heart'. But when 'the imagination of the heart' stands alone without the expression 'of the thoughts' the evil which belongs to self-love or to evil desires is meant, as in Chapter 8 below where, after Noah had offered burnt offerings, Jehovah said,

I will curse the ground no more on account of man, for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his childhood. Genesis 8:21.

[2] 'Imagination' is that which a person fashions for himself and of which he persuades himself, as in Habakkuk,

What profit is a graven image since its image-worker has graven it, a metal image and a teacher of lies, since the image-worker trusts in his own imagination to make dumb idols? Habakkuk 2:18.

'A graven image' means false persuasions resulting from ideas conceived and hatched by self. 'An image-worker' is someone who persuades himself, to whom 'imagination' has reference. In Isaiah,

O your perversity! Surely the potter will not be regarded as the clay, that the thing made will say to its maker, He did not make me? Or that the work of his imagination will say to its image-worker, He had no understanding? Isaiah 29:16.

'Imagination' here stands for thought originating in the proprium and for resulting false persuasion. In general 'imagination' is that which a person conceives from the heart or will, and also from his thinking or persuasion, as in David,

Jehovah knows our imagination, and remembers that we are dust. Psalms 103:14.

In Moses,

I know his imagination which he is performing this day, before I bring him into the land. Deuteronomy 31:21.

586[a] Verse 6 And Jehovah repented 1 that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.

'He repented' means mercy; 'He was grieved in heart' has a similar meaning. 'Repenting' has regard to wisdom, 'grieving in heart' to love.

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1. repent is not used in this section in the sense of being penitent or contrite over personal wrong-doing but in the sense of sorrow or regret over any past decision or course of action.

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