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Deuteronomium 27

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1 I přikázal Mojžíš a starší Izraelští lidu, řkouce: Ostříhejž každého přikázaní, kteréž já přikazuji vám dnes.

2 A když přejdeš přes Jordán do země, kterouž Hospodin Bůh tvůj dává tobě, vyzdvihneš sobě kameny veliké, a obvržeš je vápnem.

3 A napíšeš na nich všecka slova zákona tohoto, když přejdeš, abys všel do země, kterouž Hospodin Bůh tvůj dává tobě, do země oplývající mlékem a strdí, jakož jest mluvil Hospodin Bůh otců tvých tobě.

4 Když tedy přejdeš Jordán a vyzdvihneš ty kameny, kteréž já přikazuji vám dnes, na hoře Hébal, a obvržeš je vápnem,

5 A vzděláš tam oltář Hospodinu Bohu svému: oltář z kamenů, jichž nebudeš tesati železem,

6 Z kamení celého vzděláš oltář Hospodinu Bohu svému, abys na něm obětoval oběti zápalné Hospodinu Bohu svému.

7 Obětovati budeš i oběti pokojné, a jísti tu a veseliti se před Hospodinem Bohem svým.

8 Napíšeš pak na těch kameních všecka slova zákona toho dobře a zřetelně.

9 I mluvil Mojžíš a kněží Levítští ke všemu Izraelovi, řkouce: Pozoruj a slyš, Izraeli, dnes učiněn jsi lidem Hospodina Boha svého.

10 Protož poslouchej hlasu Hospodina Boha svého, a zachovávej přikázaní jeho i ustanovení jeho, kteráž já tobě dnes přikazuji.

11 I přikázal Mojžíš v ten den lidu, řka:

12 Tito stanou, aby dobrořečili lidu na hoře Garizim, když byste přešli Jordán: Simeon, Léví, Juda, Izachar, Jozef a Beniamin.

13 Tito pak stanou, aby zlořečili na hoře Hébal: Ruben, Gád, Asser, Zabulon, Dan a Neftalím.

14 I budou osvědčovati Levítové, a řeknou ke všechněm mužům Izraelským vysokým hlasem:

15 Zlořečený člověk, kterýž by udělal rytinu aneb věc slitou, ohavnost Hospodinu, dílo rukou řemeslníka, by ji pak i do skrýše odložil. I odpoví všecken lid a řekne: Amen.

16 Zlořečený, kdož sobě zlehčuje otce svého a matku svou; i řekne všecken lid: Amen.

17 Zlořečený, kdož přenáší mezník bližního svého; i řekne všecken lid: Amen.

18 Zlořečený, kdož zavodí slepého, aby bloudil po cestě; i řekne všecken lid: Amen.

19 Zlořečený, kdož převrací spravedlnost příchozího, sirotka a vdovy; a odpoví všecken lid: Amen.

20 Zlořečený, kdož by obýval s manželkou otce svého, nebo odkryl podolek otce svého; i řekne všecken lid: Amen.

21 Zlořečený, kdož by obýval s kterýmkoli hovadem; i dí všecken lid: Amen.

22 Zlořečený, kdož by obýval s sestrou svou, dcerou otce svého, aneb dcerou matky své; i řekne všecken lid: Amen.

23 Zlořečený, kdož by obýval s svegruší svou; i odpoví všecken lid: Amen.

24 Zlořečený, kdož by zbil bližního svého tajně; i řekne všecken lid: Amen.

25 Zlořečený, kdož by vzal dary, aby zabil člověka nevinného; i dí všecken lid: Amen.

26 Zlořečený, kdož by nezůstal v řečech zákona tohoto a nečinil jich; a řekne všecken lid: Amen.

   

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748. "And eat her flesh and burn her with fire." This symbolically means that Protestants will with hatred condemn and destroy in themselves the evils and falsities inherent in the Roman Catholic religion, and will renounce the religion itself and expunge it in themselves.

This is said of Protestants, who will deal thus with the harlot, that is, with the Roman Catholic religion. To eat her flesh means, symbolically, with hatred to condemn and destroy in themselves the inherent characteristics of that religion, which are evils and falsities, about which we will say more below. And to burn her with fire means, symbolically, to renounce that religion as profane and expunge it in themselves.

This is what burning with fire means because the penalty for profaning something holy was burning. Therefore, according to Divine law, people who profaned the name of Jehovah by worshiping other gods were burned with fire - they and all their belongings (Deuteronomy 13:12-18). Therefore Moses burned with fire the golden calf that the children of Israel were profanely worshiping (Exodus 32:20, Deuteronomy 9:21). Moreover, because two of Aaron's sons profaned holy things, they were consumed by fire from heaven (Leviticus 10:1-6). Nor is anything else symbolized by the fire and pyre in Tophet but the fire of hell, which awaits those who profane holy things (Isaiah 30:33, Jeremiah 7:11, 31-32; 19:5-6, 2 Kings 23:10), for there the people worshiped Molech with a heinous sacrifice. 1

[2] Since the fourth beast in Daniel 7 symbolizes a religion that profanes the Word and consequently the sanctities of the church (no. 717), therefore we are told that it was burned with fire (Daniel 7:11).

Now, because it is profane worship to worship a person instead of the Lord, we are accordingly told here that they burnt the harlot with fire, which symbolically means that they renounced the religion itself and expunged it in themselves.

To eat her flesh means, symbolically, with hatred to condemn and destroy in themselves the inherent characteristics of that religion, which are evils and falsities, because that is the symbolic meaning of eating her flesh. For flesh symbolizes the inherent characteristics of a thing which relate to goods and truths, and in an opposite sense, to evils and falsities, and to eat means, symbolically, to consume, thus to destroy.

That flesh symbolizes a person's inherent character, which in itself is evil, is clear from the following passages:

It is the spirit that gives life; the flesh profits nothing. (John 6:63)

That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. (John 3:6)

As many as received Him, to them He gave the right to be children of God...: who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh... (John 1:12-13)

(God) remembered that they were flesh, a breath that passes away and does not come again. (Psalms 78:39)

The Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses are flesh, and not spirit. (Isaiah 31:3)

(Jerusalem) committed harlotry with the Egyptians..., great of flesh. (Ezekiel 16:26)

Jesus... said to (Peter), ."..flesh and blood has not revealed this to you...." (Matthew 16:17)

Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his arm... (Jeremiah 17:5)

[3] Because flesh symbolizes a person's inherent character, and people who hate others attack their personal character with the intention of destroying it, therefore to eat the flesh has also this symbolic meaning, as in the following passages:

Let the dying die, and the cut off be cut off. Those that are left eat each other's flesh. (Zechariah 11:9)

They shall devour Israel with the whole mouth... Every man shall eat the flesh of his own arm - Manasseh, Ephraim, and Ephraim, Manasseh. (Isaiah 9:12, 20-21)

I will feed those who oppress you with their own flesh... (Isaiah 49:26)

...everyone shall eat the flesh of his friend... (Jeremiah 19:9)

To eat the flesh of sons and daughters (Jeremiah 19:9, Leviticus 26:29, Deuteronomy 28:53) means, symbolically, to destroy truths and goods in oneself, for sons symbolize truths, and daughters goods, as may be seen in nos. 139, 543, 545, 612[1-4] above.

Moreover, in the Word we find reference to "all flesh," and this symbolically means all mankind (Genesis 6:12-13, 17, 19).

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. The heinous sacrifice consisted of "passing infants through the fire to Molech," by burning them alive on a sacrificial altar. Vestiges of this worship have been found elsewhere, as far as northern Africa. Tophet was a site in the valley of Hinnom at the foot of Mount Zion on the south side. Because of the nature of its worship, the valley of Hinnon (Ge' Hinnom = Gehenna) became synonymous with Hades or hell.

  
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Many thanks to the General Church of the New Jerusalem, and to Rev. N.B. Rogers, translator, for the permission to use this translation.