探索约书亚记1的意义
Napsal(a) New Christian Bible Study Staff, Julian Duckworth (strojově přeloženo do 中文)
约书亚记第一章：上帝委托约书亚记
约书亚记是关于进入，征服和定居的。以色列人要进入和生活在神应许给他们的土地上，在那里他们居住了多个世纪。
约书亚记第一章拉开了这个故事的序幕。约书亚（Joshua）担任以色列儿童的领袖，他受命带领人民穿越约旦河并占领该土地。这个故事的内在含义不是政治上的含义，而是因为它在圣经中是个人或精神上的含义。迦南土地是我们自己的个人生活（请参阅 启示录569[5]）以及以以色列人民所代表的崇高理想和良好意图，在以自我为中心，批判性，贪婪，有判断力（你叫出名字！）方面也是很人性化的-这些特质都得到了体现以色列在埃及的时候，迦南的几个支派在约书亚记中住了下来。他们的部落名称的含义包括“低洼”和“泥巴居民”。征服它们象征着我们需要在上帝的帮助下，克服人类这些低龄人的缺点，而要由上帝的真理来领导（天国的秘密4816）。
约书亚受上帝委托带领人民（天国的秘密8595）。摩西去世了，现在约书亚掌管了。在调试时，上帝描述了我们需要与个人相关的几件事。首先，我们被告知我们需要穿越约旦河才能进入陆地。河流是一个非常明确的边界，这告诉我们，旧生活与新生活之间存在明显的区别，没有灰色阴影。
接下来约书亚被告知，脚踩到的每个地方都应该属于你。这表明我们需要切实地通过生活和生活来使用上帝的真理，而不是从思想上仅仅考虑它们，因为我们的“脚”是我们身体的最低点，直接接触地面（参见 天堂与地狱97）。我们所走的基础是生命本身。
然后，以姓名（namem）描述迦南地的边界，这些边界使我们对需要挑战（荒野），善解人意（黎巴嫩），做好事（希蒂人）以及更多（大海）的想法。然后上帝说，如果我们决定实现上帝的真理，那么任何事情都将无法阻挡我们。
然后是著名的话“坚强和非常勇敢”（天国的秘密6343）。这些在第一章中多次出现，以鼓励我们并使我们保持上帝大能的力量。我们还被告知不要向右或向左转，这意味着我们要服从上帝，做对的事而不会偏离。伟大的开始之后，我们可以轻松地放慢脚步并转身离开。
法律之书不能脱离我们的嘴，但我们必须日夜沉思，并在我们的思想，我们的心，我们的行动和意图中将其保存在我们的嘴里。
然后，约书亚（Joshua）向领导人下达命令，使人民准备就绪。对我们来说，这意味着我们认识到我们必须跟随上帝并征服我们的生活，这需要从我们的思想中潜入我们的每一个细节，甚至最小化。并时刻准备着。
第1章的最后一部分是关于以色列的某些部落-鲁贝尼特人，加迪特人和玛拿西的一半。早些时候，这些部落决定，他们宁愿定居在约旦河东侧，那里有很好的牧场。摩西曾对他们说“是”，但现在约书亚说，在他们这样做之前，所有男人必须与所有人一起进入迦南并战斗，然后才返回约旦，与妻子，儿女和羊群在一起。
这告诉我们，我们的生活中存在着享乐的地方，但只有当我们首先拥有并生活了上帝的事物时（天国的秘密870).
The New Jerusalem and its Heavenly Teachings # 278
278. The inflow of life into human beings in particular. There is only one source of life; from it comes the life found in everyone in heaven and everyone in the world: 1954, 2021, 2536, 2658, 2886-2889, 3001, 3484, 3742, 5847, 6467. That life comes from the Lord alone: 2886-2889, 3344, 3484, 4319, 4320, 4524, 4882, 5986, 6325, 6468, 6469, 6470, 9276, 10196 (which include various illustrations). The Lord is life itself: see John 1:1, 4; 5:26; 14:6. Life flows from the Lord into angels, spirits, and people in this world in a wondrous way: 2886-2889, 3337, 3338, 3484, 3742. The Lord flows in because of his divine love, the nature of which is to want what belongs to it to belong to others: 3742, 4320. All love is like that, so divine love is infinitely that way: 1820, 1865, 2253, 6872. As a result, our life seems to be within us and does not seem to be flowing in: 3742, 4320. Another reason our life seems to be within us is that the principal cause, which is life from the Lord, and the instrumental cause, which is we ourselves as a recipient form, act as a single cause and therefore we as the instrument perceive life as our own 1 : 6325. The pinnacle of angels' wisdom and intelligence is to perceive and know that every bit of life comes from the Lord: 4318. I perceived a joy that angels were experiencing as a result of leading a life that comes from the Lord and not from themselves; things they said to me confirmed my perception: 6469. Evil people are unwilling to be persuaded that their life is flowing in: 3743. Doubts that our life flows in from the Lord cannot be removed as long as we are controlled by illusions, ignorance, and negativity: 6479. As all people in the church should know, everything good and true comes from heaven (that is, through heaven from the Lord) and everything evil and false comes from hell; in fact, every bit of life goes back to either goodness and truth or evil and falsity, and apart from these there can be no life at all: 2893, 4151. This is the clear message of the teachings of the church that have been drawn from the Word: 4249. Yet in spite of all this, people do not believe that life flows in: 4249. In reality, if our communication and connection with spirits and angels were taken away, we would die instantly: 2887. This also shows us that all life flows in from the primary reality underlying life. Nothing arises from itself; things arise only from other things that are prior (which means that absolutely everything arises from the primary underlying reality), and in all cases things maintain their existence in the same way that they arose, because continuing existence is constant coming into being: 4523, 4524. Angels, spirits, and people in this world have been created to receive life, so we are all simply forms that are receptive to life: 2021, 3001, 3318, 3344, 3484, 3742, 4151, 5114, 5986. The kind of forms we are depends on our receptivity: 2888, 3001, 3484, 5847, 5986, 6467, 6472. So the basic nature of people in this world, spirits, and angels depends on the basic nature of their forms for receiving life from the Lord: 2888, 5847, 5986, 6467, 6472. We have been created in such a way that in the inmost parts of ourselves, and therefore in other parts as well, we are capable of receiving what is divine and being raised up and joined to the Divine through the good things we love to do and the truths we believe; and therefore we, unlike animals, live forever: 5114.
[2] Life from the Lord also flows into evil people, so it flows into people in hell as well: 2706, 3743, 4417. However, they turn what is good into evil and what is true into falsity; so they turn life into spiritual death, since our nature is what determines how we accept the life that is flowing in: 4319, 4320, 4417. Goodness and truth are still constantly flowing into them from the Lord, but they reject or stifle or pervert them: 3743. The life that is in people who are devoted to evil and falsity is not genuine life; what the life they have is like: 726, 4623, 10284, 10286.
Poznámky pod čarou:
1. In the usage of Scholastic philosophers, a principal cause is “a cause which works by the power of its own form and makes the effect in some way like itself”; an instrumental cause is “an instrument or tool serving as a subordinate cause; a cause without initiative in the start of action, but applied and directed as a help to its efforts and purpose by a principal agent, and influencing the product chiefly according to the form and intention of the principal” (Wuellner 1956, 19; compare the discussion by the Catholic theologian Aquinas in his Summa Theologiae 3:62:1 [= Aquinas 2012, 20:22]). Swedenborg’s point is that human beings, though merely instruments of life, experience divine life (the principal cause) as inhering in themselves. He uses this terminology of principal and instrumental cause in other contexts; for example, in Secrets of Heaven 10738[4] he refers to the body as the instrumental cause and to the will as the principal. He emphasizes the apparent but misleading unity of principal and instrumental in other passages as well; see, for example, Secrets of Heaven 2021; Soul-Body Interaction 11[2]; True Christianity 473. [SS]
