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約書亞記 5

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1 約但河西亞摩利人的諸和靠迦南人的諸耶和華以色列人前面使約但河的乾了,等到我們過去,他們的心因以色列人的緣故就消化了,不再有膽氣。

2 那時,耶和華吩咐約書亞:你製造火石刀,第二以色列人割禮

3 約書亞就製造了火石刀,在除皮山那裡給以色列人割禮

4 約書亞行割禮的緣故,是因為從埃及出來的眾民,就是一切能打仗的男丁,出了埃及以後,都在曠野的上。

5 因為出來的眾民都受過割禮;惟獨出埃及以後、在曠野的上所生的眾民都沒有受過割禮

6 以色列人在曠野走了四十年,等到國民,就是出埃及的兵丁,都消滅了,因為他們沒有耶和華的話。耶和華曾向他們起誓,必不容他們耶和華向他們列祖起誓、應許賜我們,就是流奶與蜜之

7 他們的子孫,就是耶和華所興起來接續他們的,都沒有受過割禮;因為在上沒有給他們行割禮,約書亞這才給他們行了。

8 國民都受完了割禮,就住在中自己的地方,等到痊愈了。

9 耶和華對約書亞:我今日將埃及的羞辱從你們身上輥去了。因此,那地方吉甲吉甲就是輥的意思),直到今日。

10 以色列人吉甲安營。正十四晚上,在耶利哥平原逾越節

11 逾越節的次日,他們就吃了的出產;正當那日無酵餅和烘的穀。

12 他們吃了的出產,第二日嗎哪就止住了,以色列人也不再有嗎哪了。那一年,他們卻迦南的出產。

13 約書亞靠近耶利哥的時候,舉目觀,不料,有一個裡有拔出來的刀,對面站立。約書亞到他那裡,問他:你是幫助我們呢,是幫助我們敵人呢?

14 他回答:不是的,我是要作耶和華軍隊的元帥。約書亞就俯伏在下拜,:我有甚麼話吩咐僕人

15 耶和華軍隊的元帥對約書亞:把你上的鞋脫下來,因為你所站的地方的。約書亞就照著行了。

   

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Seven alter lamps in stained glass, Bryn Athyn Cathedral

The Bible describes many things as being holy, or sacred. The Ark of the Covenant is one very holy object. The inmost chamber of the tabernacle is called the "Holy of Holies". Things that proceed from the Lord are holy. Objects are holy if they contain something, or represent something, from the Lord. For that reason, the names of the Lord in human languages are holy because they represent qualities of the Lord, things that are Him. The Bible is holy because it contains, interiorly, the Lord's divine truth. The tabernacle of Israel was holy -- not because of the wood or gold or dyed cloth -- but because those things represented qualities that the Lord has. Those same qualities exist, as in an image, in the spiritual states of people who follow the Lord's laws. No person is holy, but if a person's mind contains truth from the Lord and his or her will comes to love the truths and the actions that these truths suggest to him, then his or her mind will contain holy things, because those truths and loves come from the Lord. These things become that person's life and they remain with that person in heaven, after death.

(Odkazy: Arcana Coelestia 3997, 4091, 8302)