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1 Toto pak jest, což dědičně obdrželi synové Izraelští v zemi Kanán, což uvedli jim právem dědičným k vládařství Eleazar kněz, a Jozue, syn Nun, a přední z otců, v pokolení synů Izraelských,

2 Losem dělíce dědictví jejich, jakož přikázal Hospodin skrze Mojžíše, aby dal devateru pokolení a polovici pokolení.

3 Nebo byl dal Mojžíš dědictví půltřetímu pokolení před Jordánem, Levítům pak nedal dědictví u prostřed nich.

4 Nebo synů Jozefových bylo dvoje pokolení, Manassesovo a Efraimovo; a nedali dílu Levítům v zemi, kromě měst k bydlení, a podměstí jejich pro dobytek a stáda jejich.

5 Jakož přikázal Hospodin Mojžíšovi, tak učinili synové Izraelští, a rozdělili zemi.

6 Přistoupili pak synové Juda k Jozue v Galgala, i promluvil k němu Kálef, syn Jefonův, Cenezejský: Ty víš, co jest mluvil Hospodin k Mojžíšovi, muži Božímu, z příčiny mé a tvé v Kádesbarne.

7 Ve čtyřidceti letech byl jsem, když mne poslal Mojžíš, služebník Hospodinův, z Kádesbarne k spatření země, a oznámil jsem jemu tu věc, jakž bylo v srdci mém.

8 Ale bratří moji, kteříž šli se mnou, zkormoutili srdce lidu, já pak cele kráčel jsem za Hospodinem Bohem svým.

9 I přisáhl Mojžíš toho dne, řka: Jistě že země, po kteréž jsi chodil nohama svýma, bude v dědictví tobě i synům tvým až na věky, proto že jsi cele následoval Hospodina Boha mého.

10 A nyní, aj, propůjčil mi Hospodin života, jakož zaslíbil. Již čtyřidceti a pět let jest od toho času, jakž toto mluvil Hospodin k Mojžíšovi, a jakž chodil Izrael po poušti, a aj, již dnes jsem v osmdesáti pěti letech,

11 A ještě nyní jsem při síle jako tehdáž, když poslal mne Mojžíš. Jaká byla síla má tehdáž, taková i nyní síla má jest k boji, a k vycházení i k vcházení.

12 Protož nyní dej mi horu tuto, o níž mluvil Hospodin onoho dne, nebo ty slyšel jsi toho dne, že Enakim jsou tam, a města veliká a pevně hrazená. Bude-li Hospodin se mnou, vyhladím je, jakož mluvil Hospodin.

13 I požehnal mu Jozue, a dal Hebron Kálefovi, synu Jefone, v dědictví.

14 Protož dostal se Hebron Kálefovi, synu Jefona Cenezejského, v dědictví až do tohoto dne, proto že cele kráčel za Hospodinem Bohem Izraelským.

15 Sloulo pak Hebron prvé město Arbe, kterýžto Arbe byl člověk veliký mezi Enakim. I odpočinula země od bojů.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 2909

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2909. 'In Kiriath Arba, which is Hebron in the land of Canaan' means within the Church. This becomes clear from the meaning of 'Kiriath Arba' as the Church as regards truth, and from the meaning of 'Hebron in the land of Canaan' as the Church as regards good. In the Word, especially the prophetical part, whenever truth is the subject, good also is included, on account of the heavenly marriage that exists in every detail of the Word, see 683, 793, 801, 2173, 2516, 2712. Here therefore when Kiriath Arba is mentioned, so also is 'Hebron in the land of Canaan'. The land of Canaan is the Lord's kingdom, 1413, 1437, 1607, and locations in that land were in varying ways representative, 1585, 1866.

[2] As regards 'Kiriath Arba, which is Hebron', this was a region where Abraham, Isaac and Jacob dwelt. Abraham's dwelling there is evident from what has gone before,

Abraham came and dwelt in [the oak-groves of] Mamre, which are in Hebron. Genesis 13:18.

And Isaac and Jacob's dwelling there too is evident from what comes further on, Jacob came to Isaac his father in Mamre, to Kiriath Arba, which is Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac sojourned. Genesis 35:27.

Joseph was sent by Jacob his father to his brothers, from the Valley of Hebron. Genesis 37:14.

From the representation dealt with already of those three personages it is clear that 'Kiriath Arba, which is Hebron' represented the Church before Jerusalem did so.

[3] In the course of time every Church deteriorates until it ceases to possess any faith or charity at all, at which point it is destroyed. This too was represented by 'Kiriath Arba, which is Hebron', that is to say, when this place was occupied by the Anakim, by whom dreadful false persuasions were meant, 581, 1673, regarding which occupation by the Anakim, see Numbers 13:21-22; Joshua 11:21; 14:15; 15:13-14; Judges 1:10. As regards the end or close of the Church and its destruction, this was represented by Joshua's utterly destroying everything in that place, Joshua 10:36-37; 11:21, and by Judah and Caleb's smiting the Anakim, Judges 1:10; Joshua 14:13-15; 15:13-14. The establishment again of a new Church was represented by the allotment of its fields and villages to Caleb as his inheritance, Joshua 21:12. The city itself however became a city of refuge, Joshua 20:7; 21:13, and a city for priests, for the sons of Aaron, Joshua 21:10-11, within the inheritance of Judah, Joshua 15:54.

[4] From this it is evident that Hebron represented the Lord's spiritual Church in the land of Canaan. For the same reason also David was ordered by Jehovah's command to go to Hebron and was there anointed king over the house of Judah; and after he had reigned there for seven years and six months he went to Jerusalem and took possession of Zion, see 2 Samuel 2:1-11; 5:5; 1 Kings 2:11, at which point the Lord's spiritual Church now began to be represented by Jerusalem, and His celestial Church by Zion.

  
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Arcana Coelestia # 1607

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1607. That 'for all the land which you see I will give to you' means the heavenly kingdom which was to be the Lord's is clear from the meaning of 'land' - the land of Canaan in this context since the words used are 'the land which you see' - as the heavenly kingdom. Indeed the land of Canaan represented the Lord's kingdom in the heavens, which is heaven, and also the Lord's kingdom on earth, which is the Church. This meaning of 'land' has been discussed frequently already. That the kingdom in heaven and on earth was given to the Lord is clear from various places in the Word, as in Isaiah,

A Boy is born, a Son is given to us; and the government will be upon His shoulder, and His name will be called, Wonderful, Counsellor, God, Hero, Father of Eternity, Prince of Peace. Isaiah 9:6.

In Daniel,

I saw in the night visions, and behold with the clouds of the heavens One like the Son of Man was coming, and He came even to the Ancient of Days, and they brought Him near before Him. And to Him was given dominion and glory and kingdom, and all peoples, nations, and languages will serve Him. His dominion is an eternal dominion which will not pass away, and His kingdom one that will not perish. Daniel 7:13-14.

The Lord Himself also says the same: in Matthew,

All things have been delivered to Me by My Father. Matthew 11:27; Luke 10:22.

Elsewhere in Matthew,

[All] power in heaven and on earth has been given to Me. Matthew 28:18.

In John,

You have given to the Son power over all flesh in order that all You have given Him, to them He may give eternal life. John 17:2-3.

And 'sitting on the right hand' has the same meaning, as in Luke,

From now on the Son of Man will be seated at the right hand of the power of God. Luke 22:69.

[2] As regards all power in heaven and on earth being given to the Son of Man, it should be recognized that the Lord already had power over all things in heaven and on earth before He came into the world, for He was God from eternity and He was Jehovah, as He Himself plainly declares in John,

Now, Father, glorify Me in Your Own Self with the glory I had with You before the world was. John 17:5.

And in the same gospel,

Truly, Truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am. 1 John 8:58.

In fact He was Jehovah and God to the Most Ancient Church which existed before the Flood, and was seen by them. He was also Jehovah and God to the Ancient Church which existed after the Flood; and He was the One whom all the religious observances of the Jewish Church represented, and the One they worshipped. The reason the Lord says that all power in heaven and on earth has been given to Him, as though it had not been His till then, is that 'the Son of Man' is used to mean His Human Essence which became Jehovah as well after it had been united to His Divine Essence. Power was given to Him at that point, which would not have been possible until He was glorified, that is, until His Human Essence as well, through union with the Divine Essence, had life in Itself and likewise became Divine and Jehovah, as He Himself declares in John,

As the Father has life in Himself, so He has granted the Son to have life in Himself. John 5:26.

[3] It is His Human Essence or External Man that is named 'the Son of Man' in the passage quoted from Daniel, and 'a Boy born, a Son given to us' in the passage quoted from Isaiah. The fact that the heavenly kingdom would be given to Him, and all power in heaven and on earth, was shown and promised to Him then, and is the meaning of the statement 'all the land which you see I will give to you, and to your seed after you for ever'. This was before His Human Essence had been united to His Divine Essence, a union which took place when He had overcome the devil and hell, that is to say, when by His own strength and powers He had cast out all evil, which alone causes the severance.

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1. The Latin means I was, but the Greek means I am, which Swedenborg has in other places where he quotes this verse.

  
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