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Deuteronomium 23

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1 Nevejde do shromáždění Hospodinova, kdož by měl stlučené aneb odňaté lůno.

2 Aniž vejde do shromáždění Hospodinova syn postranní; také i desáté koleno jeho nevejde do shromáždění Hospodinova.

3 Ammonitský tolikéž ani Moábský nevejde do shromáždění Hospodinova, ani desáté koleno jejich nevejde do shromáždění Hospodinova až na věky.

4 Proto že proti vám nevyšli s chlebem a s vodou na cestě, když jste šli z Egypta, a že ze mzdy najal proti tobě Baláma, syna Beor, z Petor Mezopotamie Syrské, aby zlořečil tobě:

5 (Ačkoli nechtěl Hospodin Bůh tvůj slyšeti Baláma, ale obrátil Hospodin Bůh tvůj tobě zlořečení v požehnání, nebo miloval tebe Hospodin Bůh tvůj.)

6 Nebudeš hledati pokoje jejich ani dobrého jejich po všecky dny své na věky.

7 Nebudeš míti v ohavnosti Idumejského, nebo bratr tvůj jest, aniž Egyptského v ohavnosti míti budeš, nebo jsi byl pohostinu v zemi jeho.

8 Synové, kteříž se jim zrodí v třetím kolenu, vejdou do shromáždění Hospodinova.

9 Když bys vytáhl vojensky proti nepřátelům svým, vystříhej se od všeliké zlé věci.

10 Bude-li mezi vámi kdo, ješto by poškvrněn byl příhodou noční, vyjde ven z stanů, a nevejde do nich;

11 Ale když bude k večerou, umyje se vodou, a po západu slunce vejde do stanů.

12 Také místo budeš míti vně za stany, abys tam chodíval ven;

13 A budeš míti kolík mezi jinými nástroji svými, a když bys chtěl sednouti vně, vykopáš jím důlek, a obrátě se, zahrabeš nečistotu svou.

14 Nebo Hospodin Bůh tvůj chodí u prostřed stanů tvých, aby tě vysvobodil, a dal tobě nepřátely tvé; protož ať jest příbytek tvůj svatý, tak aby nespatřil při tobě mrzkosti nějaké, pročež by se odvrátil od tebe.

15 Nevydáš služebníka pánu jeho, kterýž k tobě utekl od pána svého.

16 S tebou bydliti bude u prostřed tebe na místě, kteréž by vyvolil v některém městě tvém, kdežkoli jemu se líbiti bude; nebudeš ho mocí utiskati.

17 Nebude nevěstka žádná z dcer Izraelských, ani nečistý smilník z synů Izraelských.

18 Nepřineseš mzdy nevěstky, a mzdy psa do domu Hospodina Boha svého z jakéhokoli slibu, nebo to obé ohavnost jest Hospodinu Bohu tvému.

19 Nedáš na lichvu bratru svému ani peněz, ani pokrmu, ani jakékoli věci, kteráž se dává na lichvu.

20 Cizímu půjčíš na lichvu, ale bratru svému nedáš na lichvu, aby požehnal tobě Hospodin Bůh tvůj při všech věcech, k kterýmž bys vztáhl ruku svou v zemi, do níž vejdeš, abys dědičně obdržel ji.

21 Když bys učinil slib Hospodinu Bohu svému, neprodlévej splniti ho; nebo konečně toho vyhledávati bude Hospodin Bůh tvůj od tebe, a byl by na tobě hřích.

22 Pakli nebudeš slibovati, nebude na tobě hříchu.

23 Což jednou vyšlo z úst tvých, to splníš, a učiníš, jakž jsi slíbil Hospodinu Bohu svému dobrovolně, což jsi vynesl ústy svými.

24 Všel-li bys do vinice bližního svého, jísti budeš hrozny podlé žádosti své do sytosti své, ale do nádoby své nevložíš.

25 Všel-li bys do obilí bližního svého, natrháš sobě klasů rukou svou, ale srpem nebudeš žíti obilí bližního svého.

   

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9274. 'And in the seventh you shall let it rest, and let it lie fallow' means the second state, when the member of the Church is governed by good, and so enjoys peace and serenity. This is clear from the meaning of 'the seventh year' or 'the sabbath' as the time when a person is governed by good and is led by the Lord through good, dealt with in 8495, 8510, 8890, 8893; from the meaning of 'letting the land rest', or not sowing it, as not being led by truths as before; and from the meaning of 'letting it lie fallow' as enjoying peace and serenity. Also, the sabbath was representative of a state of peace in which [goodness and truth] are joined together, see 8494; for letting the land rest and lie fallow represented the rest, serenity, and peace enjoyed by those who are governed by good received from the Lord. Regarding the two states of a person who is being regenerated and coming to have the Church within him, the first being a time when he is led by the truths of faith towards the good of charity, and the second being a time when he is governed by the good of charity, see 7923, 7992, 8505, 8506, 8512, 8513, 8516, 8539, 8643, 8648, 8658, 8685, 8690, 8701, 8772, 9139, 9224, 9227, 9230.

[2] These two states of a person who is being regenerated and coming to have the Church within him have not been known up to now, the chief reason for this being that members of the Church have not drawn a clear distinction between truth and good, nor therefore between faith and charity. Another reason is that they have had no clear idea of the two powers of mind a person has - the understanding and the will - nor any clear idea that the function of the understanding is to see truths and forms of good, and that of the will to be stirred by affection for them and to love them. Consequently it was not possible for them to know that the first state of a person who is being regenerated consists in learning truths and seeing them, and the second state in willing and loving them, and that a person has made them his own only when he desires and loves those he has learned and seen. For the will is the person's true self, and the understanding is its servant. Had people known these things they could then have known and come to see clearly that a person who is being regenerated is endowed by the Lord with both a new understanding and a new will, and that unless he is endowed with both he is not a new person; for understanding is no more than the seeing of things that a person desires and loves, and so is simply a servant, as has been stated. And if people had known this they could consequently have known that the first state of a person who is being regenerated consists in being led by means of truths towards good, and the second state in being led by means of good. They could have known that in this second state order is turned around, that the person is now led by the Lord, and that therefore the person is now in heaven and so enjoys peace and serenity.

[3] This state is what is meant by the seventh day, by the seventh year, and also by a jubilee - which are the sabbath, and the sabbath of sabbaths - and by the land's resting in those years, in keeping with the following in Moses,

Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard, and gather in its produce; but in the seventh year there shall be a sabbath of sabbaths for the land, a sabbath to Jehovah. You shall not sow your field, and you shall not prune your vineyard. What grows of its own accord of your harvest you shall not reap. Leviticus 25:3-5.

And in reference to a jubilee,

In the year of a jubilee you shall not sow, nor shall you reap what grows of its own accord, nor shall you harvest the unattended 1 vines. Leviticus 25:11, 12.

The person who does not know anything about those two states cannot know either about very many things contained in the Word; for in the Word, especially the prophetical part, the first state is depicted clearly and so is the second. Indeed that person cannot understand the internal sense of the Word, nor even much that is contained in its literal sense, such as the following predictions by the Lord regarding the final period of the Church at the present day, which is there called 'the close of the age', in Matthew,

Then let those who are in Judea flee into the mountains; let him who is on the housetop not go down to take anything out of his house; and let him who is in the field not return to take his clothes. Matthew 24:16-18.

And in Luke,

On that day, whoever will be on the housetop with his vessels in the house, let him not come down to take them away; and whoever is in the field, let him likewise not return to the things behind him. Remember Lot's wife. Luke 17:31-32.

The second state is described in these places, together with a warning not to go back from it to the first, see 3650-3655, 5895 (end), 5897 (end), 8505, 8506, 8510, 8512, 8516.

[4] The fact that those states are distinct and separate from each other is also implied by the following words in Moses,

When you build 2 a new house you shall make a parapet for your roof. You shall not sow your vineyard and your field with mixed seed. You shall not plough with an ox and an ass together. You shall not wear a garment made of wool and flax mixed together. 3 Deuteronomy 22:8-11; Leviticus 19:19.

These laws serve to mean that anyone who is in the state of truth, that is, in the first state, cannot be in the state of good, that is, in the second state, nor vice versa, the reason being that one state is the inverse of the other. For in the first state a person looks from the world to heaven, but in the second from heaven to the world. In the first state truths come from the world by way of the understanding into the will, where they become forms of good because they are loved. But in the second state the forms of good so created come from heaven by way of the will into the understanding, where they appear in the form of faith. This faith is saving faith, because it comes out of the good of love, that is, comes from the Lord by way of the good of love; for this faith is charity in outward form.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. literally, separated

2. literally, make

3. literally, a mixed garment of wool and flax together

  
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