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民數記 2

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1 耶和華曉諭摩西亞倫

2 以色列人要各歸自己的纛下,在本族的號那裡,對著會幕的四圍安營。

3 在東邊,向日出之地,照著軍隊的是猶大的纛。有亞米拿達的兒子拿順作猶大人的首領。

4 軍隊被數的,共有七萬名。

5 挨著他安營的是以薩迦支派。有蘇押的兒子拿坦業作以薩迦人的首領。

6 軍隊被數的,共有五萬名。

7 又有西布倫支派。希倫的兒子以利押作西布倫人的首領。

8 軍隊被數的,共有五萬名。

9 凡屬猶大、按著軍隊被數的,共有十八萬六名,要作第一隊往前行。

10 在南邊,按著軍隊是流便的纛。有示丟珥的兒子以利蓿作流便人的首領。

11 軍隊被數的,共有四萬六名。

12 挨著他安營的是西緬支派。蘇利沙代的兒子示路蔑作西緬人的首領。

13 軍隊被數的,共有五萬名。

14 又有迦得支派。丟珥的兒子以利雅薩作迦得人的首領。

15 軍隊被數的,共有四萬五五十名,

16 凡屬流便、按著軍隊被數的,共有十五萬五十名,要作第二隊往前行。

17 隨後,會幕要往前行,有利未在諸中間。他們怎樣安就怎樣往前行,各按本位,各歸本纛。

18 在西邊,按著軍隊以法蓮的纛。亞米忽的兒子以利沙瑪作以法蓮人的首領。

19 軍隊被數的,共有四萬零五名。

20 挨著他的是瑪拿西支派。比大蓿的兒子迦瑪列作瑪拿西人的首領。

21 軍隊被數的,共有三萬名。

22 又有便雅憫支派。基多尼的兒子亞比但作便雅憫人的首領。

23 軍隊被數的,共有三萬五名。

24 凡屬以法蓮、按著軍隊被數的,共有十萬零名,要作第三隊往前行。

25 邊,按著軍隊是但的纛。亞米沙代的兒子亞希以謝作但人的首領。

26 軍隊被數的,共有六萬名。

27 挨著他安營的是亞設支派。俄蘭的兒子帕結作亞設人的首領。

28 軍隊被數的,共有四萬名。

29 又有拿弗他利支派。以南的兒子亞希拉作拿弗他利人的首領。

30 軍隊被數的,共有五萬三名。

31 凡但被數的,共有十五萬名,要歸本纛作末隊往前行。

32 這些以色列人,照他們的宗族,按他們的軍隊,在諸中被數的,共有十萬零五十名。

33 惟獨利未人沒有數在以色列人中,是照耶和華所吩咐摩西的

34 以色列人就這樣行,各人照他們的家室、宗族歸於本纛,安營起行,都是照耶和華所吩咐摩西的

   

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10038. 'You shall burn with fire outside the camp' means that those things must be banished to hell and be consumed by the evils of self-love. This is clear from the meaning of 'burning with fire' as consuming by means of the evils of self-love, for 'burning' means consuming or devouring and 'fire' the evil of self-love (for these meanings of 'burning' and 'fire', see 1297, 5071, 5215, 6314, 6832, 7324, 7575, 9141, 9434); and from the meaning of 'the camp' as heaven and the Church, and in the contrary sense the place where heaven and the Church do not exist, thus where hell exists, dealt with below. The reason why 'being burned with fire' means being consumed by the evils of self-love is that that love consumes every good or truth of faith. Scarcely anyone at the present day knows that self-love does this, nor consequently that this love constitutes hell with a person and that it is what should be understood by hell-fire.

[2] There are two fires of life that exist with a person; one is self-love, the other is love to God. Those in whom self-love predominates cannot be governed by love to God, for those loves are opposites. They are opposites because self-love gives rise to all evils, which are contempt for others in comparison with self, enmity towards those who do not treat oneself favourably, and in the end to hatred, vengeance, brutality, and cruelty; and these evils act in total opposition to Divine influx, consequently annihilate truths and forms of the good of faith and charity, these being the things that flow in from the Lord. Anybody who stops to reflect may know that everyone's love is the fire of his life - for without love there is no life, and the character of the love determines that of the life - and therefore that self-love gives rise to evils of every kind, doing so in the measure that he has only himself in view, that is, self-love reigns in him. The worst kind of self-love is the love of dominion over others for selfish reasons, that is, the love of possessing dominion solely for the sake of position and gain. Those in whom that love predominates may, it is true, make profession of faith and charity, but they do so with their lips, not with their heart; indeed the worst among them look on the things that belong to faith and charity, thus the holy things of the Church, as means to their own ends. But self-love and all the different types of it, also the evils that gush out of it, and the condition of the selfish in the next life, must in the Lord's Divine mercy be stated in detail somewhere else. They have been referred to here to enable people to know what 'being burned with fire outside the camp' means.

[3] The fact that 'the camp' where the children of Israel were encamped represented heaven and the Church, and therefore that 'outside the camp' represented the place where heaven and the Church did not exist, thus where hell was, becomes clear from those places in the Word which mention the camp and the encampment of the children of Israel in the wilderness, such as the following in Moses,

The children of Israel shall camp, [every] man by his own camp, and [every] man by his own standard, according to their armies. And the Levites shall camp around the dwelling-place of the Testimony, that there may be no wrath on the congregation of the children of Israel. Numbers 1:52-53; 2:2.

In addition, Numbers 2:1-end says that the tribes of Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun encamped to the east; the tribes of Reuben, Simeon, and Gad to the south; the tribes of Ephraim, Manasseh, and Benjamin to the west; and the tribes of Dan, Asher, and Naphtali to the north. But the Levites were in the middle of their camps. The like applied when they set out on their journeys, Numbers 2:17; 10:1-end. The reason why their encampments were arranged in that kind of order was so that they might represent heaven and the Church, 9320 (end). Moreover the tribes according to which the children of Israel set up their camps represented all the forms of good and all the truths in their entirety that belonged to heaven and the Church, 3858, 3926, 3939, 4060, 6335, 6337, 6397, 6640, 7836, 7891, 7996, 7997. This explains why it says that Jehovah dwells in the middle of the camps, Numbers 5:3, and that He walks in the middle of them and they will therefore be holy, Deuteronomy 23:14, and why, in the prophecy uttered by Balaam, when he saw Israel dwelling according to their tribes, he said, How good are your tabernacles, O Jacob, and your dwelling-places, O Israel! Numbers 24:2-3, 5.

[4] Since heaven and the Church was represented by the camp it follows that 'outside the camp' meant the place where neither heaven nor the Church existed, thus where hell was. That is why everyone who was unclean and also anyone who was guilty was sent out there, as may be recognized from the following,

You shall send out of the camp everyone who is leprous, and everyone suffering a discharge, and everyone unclean on account of a soul 1 . Whether they are male or female 2 you shall send them outside the camp, so that they may not defile the camps, in the middle of which Jehovah dwells. Numbers 5:2-3; Leviticus 13:45-46.

A man who is not clean by reason of an accident in the night shall go outside the camp and not come into the middle of the camp. When he has washed himself with water and the sun has set he shall enter the camp. There shall be a space for you outside the camp where you may go out, and you shall cover your excrement by means of a spade 3 , since Jehovah walks in the middle of the camp. Therefore the camp shall be holy. Deuteronomy 23:10-14.

And the stoning of people was done outside the camp, Leviticus 24:14; Numbers 15:35-36.

From all this it is now clear that 'you shall burn with fire the flesh, skin, and dung of the young bull, outside the camp' means that evils, meant by these things, must be banished to hell.

[5] The same thing as was represented by the camp and the area outside it was also represented by the land of Canaan and the lands around it after that land had been divided up as inheritances among the children of Israel. This is why in the Word 'the land of Canaan' or simply 'the land' means heaven and the Church, and 'the children of Israel' those who are in heaven and the Church. For the meaning of 'the land' as heaven and the Church, see the places referred to in 9325; and for that of 'the children of Israel' as those who are there, 9340.

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1. i.e. unclean through contact with a dead body

2. literally, From male even to female

3. literally, peg or nail

  
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