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1 你们不可做甚麽虚无的像,不可立雕刻的偶像或是柱像,也不可在你们的上安甚麽錾成的像,向他跪拜,因为我是耶和华─你们的

2 你们要守我的安息日,敬我的圣所。我是耶和华

3 你们若遵行我的律例,谨守我的诫命,

4 我就你们降下时雨,叫生出土产,田野的树木结果子。

5 你们打粮食要打到摘葡萄的时候,摘葡萄要摘到撒种的时候;并且要饱足,在你们的上安然居住

6 我要赐平安在你们的上;你们躺卧,无人惊吓。我要叫恶兽从你们的上息灭;刀也必不经过你们的

7 你们要追赶仇敌,他们必倒在你们刀下。

8 你们五个人要追赶一人,一人要追赶一万人;仇敌必倒在你们刀下。

9 我要眷顾你们,使你们生养众多,也要与你们坚定所立的约。

10 你们要陈粮,又因新粮挪开陈粮。

11 我要在你们中间立我的帐幕;我的心也不厌恶你们。

12 我要在你们中间行走;我要作你们的,你们要作我的子民。

13 我是耶和华─你们的,曾将你们从埃及领出来,使你们不作埃及人的奴仆;我也折断你们所负的轭,叫你们挺身而走。

14 你们若不从我,不遵行我的诫命,

15 厌弃我的律例,厌恶我的典章,不遵行我一切的诫命,背弃我的约,

16 我待你们就要这样:我必命定惊惶,叫眼目乾瘪、精神消耗的痨病热病辖制你们。你们也要白白的撒种,因为仇敌要你们所种的。

17 我要向你们变脸,你们就要败在仇敌面前。恨恶你们的,必辖管你们;无人追赶,你们却要逃跑

18 你们因这些事若还不从我,我就要为你们的七倍惩罚你们。

19 我必断绝你们因势力而有的骄傲,又要使覆你们的,载你们的如铜。

20 你们要白白的劳力;因为你们的不出土产,其上的树木也不结果子。

21 你们行事若与我反对,不肯从我,我就要按你们的七倍降灾与你们。

22 我也要打发野地的走到你们中间,抢吃你们的儿女,吞灭你们的牲畜,使你们的人数减少,道路荒凉。

23 你们因这些事若仍不改正归我,行事与我反对,

24 我就要行事与你们反对,因你们的击打你们次。

25 我又要使刀临到你们,报复你们背约的仇;聚集你们在各城内,降瘟疫在你们中间,也必将你们交在仇敌的中。

26 我要折断你们的杖,就是断绝你们的粮。那时,必有女人个炉子给你们饼,按分量秤给你们;你们要,也不饱。

27 你们因这一切的事若不从我,却行事与我反对,

28 我就要发烈怒,行事与你们反对,又因你们的惩罚你们次。

29 并且你们要儿子,也要女儿

30 我又要毁坏你们的邱坛,砍下你们的日像,把你们的尸首扔在你们偶像的身上;我的心也必厌恶你们。

31 我要使你们的城邑变为荒凉,使你们的众圣所成为荒场;我也不你们馨香气

32 我要使成为荒场,在其上的仇敌就因此诧异。

33 我要把你们散在列邦中;我也要拔刀追赶你们。你们的要成为荒场;你们的城邑要变为荒凉。

34 你们在仇敌之居住的时候,你们的荒凉,要享受众安息;正在那时候,要歇息,享受安息。

35 地多时为荒场,就要多时歇息;地这样歇息,是你们在其上的安息年所不能得的。

36 至於你们剩下的人,我要使他们在仇敌之心惊胆怯。子被风吹的响声,要追赶他们;他们要逃避,像人逃避刀,无人追赶,却要跌倒。

37 无人追赶,他们要彼此撞跌,像在刀之前。你们在仇敌面前也必站立不住。

38 你们要在列邦中灭亡;仇敌之要吞你们。

39 你们剩下的人必因自己的罪孽和祖宗的罪孽在仇敌之消灭。

40 他们要承认自己的罪和他们祖宗的罪,就是干犯我的那罪,并且承认自己行事与我反对,

41 我所以行事与他们反对,把他们到仇敌之。那时,他们未受割礼的心若谦卑了,他们也服了罪孽的刑罚,

42 我就要记念我与雅各所立的约,与以撒所立的约,与亚伯拉罕所立的约,并要记念这

43 他们离开这在荒废无人的时候就要享受安息。并且他们要服罪孽的刑罚;因为他们厌弃了我的典章,心中厌恶了我的律例。

44 虽是这样,他们在仇敌之,我却不厌弃他们,也不厌恶他们,将他们尽行灭绝,也不背弃我与他们所立的约,因为我是耶和华─他们的

45 我却要为他们的缘故记念我与他们先祖所立的约。他们的先祖是我在列邦人眼前、从埃及领出来的,为要作他们的。我是耶和华

46 这些律例、典章,和度是耶和华以色列人在西乃藉着摩西立的。

   

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9228. That “seven” signifies an entire period from beginning to end, thus what is full, is evident from many passages in the Word.

In Isaiah:

The light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that Jehovah shall bind up the breach of His people (Isaiah 30:26).

The subject here treated of is the salvation of the faithful, and their intelligence and wisdom in the Lord’s kingdom. The “moon” denotes faith from the Lord, thus faith in the Lord; and the “sun,” love from the Lord, thus love to the Lord (see n. 30-38, 1521, 1529, 1531, 2441, 2495, 3636, 3643, 4060, 4321, 4696, 5377, 7078, 7083, 7171, 8644); “the light of the sun being sevenfold, as the light of seven days” denotes a full state of intelligence and wisdom from love and faith in the Lord.

[2] In Ezekiel:

They that dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth, and shall set on fire and burn the weapons, both the shield and the buckler, with the bow and with the arrows, and with the handstaff and with the spear; they shall kindle fire with them seven years; so that they shall bring no wood out of the field, neither cut down any out of the forests; and they shall cleanse the land seven months (Ezekiel 39:9, 12).

The subject here treated of is the destruction of falsity. The “weapons” here enumerated denote the falsities by means of which the evil fight against the truths of the church; “to kindle fire with them seven years” signifies complete destruction through the cupidities of the loves of self and of the world; that “they shall bring no wood out of the field, neither cut down any out of the forests” signifies until nothing of good remains, either in the interior or in the exterior man; “to cleanse the land seven months” signifies the complete restoration of good and truth in the church. It has already been shown in many places that “weapons” denote truths fighting against falsities, and in the opposite sense falsities fighting against truths; that “bows with arrows” denote doctrinal things of truth, and in the opposite sense doctrinal things of falsity; that a “handstaff” denotes the power of truth, and in the opposite sense the power of falsity; that “to set on fire and burn” denotes to lay waste through the cupidities of the loves of self and of the world; that “wood out of the field” denotes the interior goods of the church, and “wood out of the forests” the memory-knowledges of good and truth; and that “the land” denotes the church. Everyone can see that other things are here signified than those which appear in the letter, as that they should burn the weapons and kindle a fire with them seven years, and that they should bring no wood out of the field, neither cut down any out of the forests. Yet we know that holy and Divine things must be signified, because the Word is holy and from the Divine; but what holy and Divine things are contained in these words cannot possibly be known, unless it is known what is signified by “weapons,” what by “seven years” and by “seven months,” and what by “wood out of the field and wood out of the forests.” It is clear therefore that these prophetic words cannot in the least be apprehended without some acquaintance with the internal sense.

[3] In David:

Seven times a day do I praise Thee, because of the judgments of Thy righteousness (Psalms 119:164).

Render unto our neighbors sevenfold into their bosom (Psalms 79:12).

“Sevenfold” denotes to the full. In like manner in Moses, that they should be “punished sevenfold if they transgressed the commandments and the statutes” (Leviticus 26:18, 21, 24, 28). He who does not know that “seven” signifies an entire period from beginning to end, consequently what is full, must believe that “seven weeks” signify seven periods of time in the following passage in Daniel:

Know thou and perceive that from the going forth of the Word even unto the restoring and building of Jerusalem, even to Messiah the Prince, shall be seven weeks (Daniel 9:25);

but the “seven weeks even to Messiah the Prince,” signify that which is said of the Lord, that He will come “in the fullness of the times,” thus they signify an entire period. From this it is evident that “the seven spirits before the throne of God” (Revelation 1:4); the “book sealed with seven seals” (Revelation 5:1); and the “seven angels having seven vials which are the seven last plagues” (Revelation 15:1, 6-7; 21:9), do not mean seven spirits, nor seven seals, nor seven angels, nor seven vials, nor seven plagues; but all things in fullness. So by “the barren one bearing seven” (1 Samuel 2:5) is not meant seven, but much, even to fullness.

[4] Because “seven” had such a signification, it was therefore ordained that a priest, at his initiation, should “put on the garments seven days” (Exodus 29:30); that “his hands should be filled seven days” (verses 24-35); that “the altar should be sanctified seven days” (verse 37); and that “those who were initiated into the priesthood should not go out from the tent for seven days” (Leviticus 8:33). In like manner, “when the unclean spirit goeth out of a man and returneth with seven others” (Matthew 12:43-45; Luke 11:24-26); “if a brother sin seven times in the day, and seven times turn again, he should be forgiven” (Luke 17:4); and that “the heart of Nebuchadnezzar should be changed from a man’s, and a beast’s heart be given to him, until seven times had passed over him” (Daniel 4:16, 23, 25). From this also it was that Job’s friends “sat down with him upon the earth seven days and seven nights, and spoke nothing unto him” (Job 2:13). (That “seventy” in like manner signifies what is full, see n. 6508; and also a “week,” that is, seven days, n. 2044, 3845.) From all this it can now be seen that by “the eighth day” is signified the beginning of the following state.

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