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Numeri 13

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1 Potom pak bral se lid z Hazerot, a položil se na poušti Fáran.

2 I mluvil Hospodin k Mojžíšovi, řka:

3 Pošli sobě muže, kteříž by spatřili zemi Kananejskou, kterouž já dám synům Izraelským; jednoho muže z každého pokolení otců jejich vyšlete, ty, kteříž by byli přednější mezi nimi.

4 Poslal je tedy Mojžíš z pouště Fáran, jakž byl rozkázal Hospodin; a všickni ti muži byli knížata mezi syny Izraelskými.

5 Tato jsou pak jména jejich: Z pokolení Ruben Sammua, syn Zakurův;

6 Z pokolení Simeon Safat, syn Huri;

7 Z pokolení Juda Kálef, syn Jefonův;

8 Z pokolení Izachar Igal, syn Jozefův;

9 Z pokolení Efraim Ozeáš, syn Nun;

10 Z pokolení Beniamin Falti, syn Rafův;

11 Z pokolení Zabulon Gaddehel, syn Sodi;

12 Z pokolení Jozef a z pokolení Manasses Gaddi, syn Susi;

13 Z pokolení Dan Amiel, syn Gemalův;

14 Z pokolení Asser Setur, syn Michaelův;

15 Z pokolení Neftalím Nahabi, syn Vafsi;

16 Z pokolení Gád Guhel, syn Máchův;

17 Ta jsou jména mužů, kteréž poslal Mojžíš, aby shlédli zemi. I přezděl Mojžíš Ozeovi, synu Nun, Jozue.

18 Tedy poslal je Mojžíš, aby prohlédli zemi Kananejskou, a řekl jim: Jděte tudyto při straně polední a vejděte na hory.

19 A shlédněte, jaká jest země ta, i lid, kterýž bydlí v ní, silný-li jest či mdlý? málo-li jich, či mnoho?

20 A jaká jest též země ta, v níž on bydlí, dobrá-li jest, či zlá? a jaká jsou města, v nichž přebývají, v staních-li, či v hrazených místech?

21 Tolikéž jaká jest země, úrodná-li, či neúrodná, jest-li na ní stromoví, či není? A buďte udatné mysli, a přineste nám z ovoce té země. A byl tehdáž čas, v němžto hroznové zaměkali.

22 Odšedše tedy, prohlédli tu zemi od pouště Tsin až do Rohob, kudy se jde do Emat.

23 I šli stranou polední, a přišli až do Hebronu, kdežto byli Achiman a Sesai a Tolmai, synové Enakovi. Hebron pak o sedm let prvé ustaveno jest, nežli Soan, město Egyptské.

24 Potom přišli až do údolí Eškol, a tu uřezali ratolest s hroznem jedním jahodek plným, a nesli jej na sochoře dva; též i jablka zrnatá i fíky té země.

25 I nazváno jest to místo Nehel Eškol, od hroznu, kterýž tu uřezali synové Izraelští.

26 Navrátili se pak zase, prošedše zemi, po čtyřidcíti dnech.

27 A jdouce, přišli k Mojžíšovi a k Aronovi i ke všemu množství synů Izraelských, na poušti Fáran v Kádes, a oznámili jim i všemu množství to, co spravili, a ukázali jim ovoce země té.

28 A vypravujíce jim, řekli: Přišli jsme do země, do kteréž jsi nás poslal, kteráž v pravdě oplývá mlékem a strdí, a toto jest ovoce její.

29 Než že lid jest silný, kterýž bydlí v zemi té, města také pevná jsou a veliká velmi, k tomu i syny Enakovy tam jsme viděli.

30 Amalech bydlí v kraji poledním, a Hetejský, Jebuzejský a Amorejský bydlejí na horách, Kananejský pak bydlí při moři a při břehu Jordánském.

31 I krotil Kálef lid bouřící se proti Mojžíšovi, a mluvil: Jděme předce, a opanujme zemi, nebo zmocníme se jí.

32 Ale muži ti, kteříž chodili s ním, pravili: Nikoli nebudeme moci vstoupiti proti lidu tomu, nebo silnější jest nežli my.

33 I zhaněli a zošklivili zemi shlédnutou synům Izraelským, mluvíce: Země, již jsme prošli a spatřili, jest země taková, ješto hubí obyvatele své; a všecken lid, kterýž jsme viděli u prostřed ní, jsou muži postavy vysoké velmi. [ (Numbers 13:34) Také jsme tam viděli obry, syny Enakovy, kteříž jsou větší než jiní obrové, ješto se nám zdálo, že jsme proti nim jako kobylky,a takoví jsme se i jim zdáli. ]

   

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Explanation of Numbers 13

Napsal(a) Henry MacLagan

Verses 1-3. On self-examination, by means of truths, and by means of Divine light from the Lord's Divine Human, of the inmost of his life by man.

Verses 4-16. Concerning the general truths by which this examination is effected.

Verses 17-21. The extension of it is from where truth and good are in obscurity and coldness through the multiplication of truths advancing to a zealous state of natural good and its truths confirmed in ultimates.

Verses 22-25. It leads, also, by means of interior light and perception to the discovery of persuasions of falsity from the pride of selfish love, as well as to the perception of charity in its general form of natural truth and natural good, involving a complete state of trial and temptation.

Verses 26-33. The effect of this examination, through instruction, upon the evil and upon the good.

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Apocalypse Explained # 397

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397. Until their fellow-servants as well as their brethren, who were to be killed, as they also were, should be fulfilled, signifies until evils were consummated. This is evident from the signification of "until they should be fulfilled," as being until they were consummated; also from the signification of "their fellow-servants as well as their brethren, who were to be killed, as they also were," as being evils, for to kill these denotes evil, "fellow-servants" meaning those who are in truths, and "brethren" those who are in goods, and "fellow-servants" and "brethren" together those who are in truths from good; for in the internal sense the two are conjoined into one.

"Consummation" is mentioned in some passages in the Word, likewise "when evils are consummated," but scarcely anyone at this day knows what this signifies. In three articles above (n. 391, 392, 394) it is said that the former heaven consisted of such as had led a moral life in externals, and yet were internally evil, and that these dwelt in high places in the spiritual world, and therefore thought themselves to be in heaven.

These, because they were interiorly evil, would not tolerate among them those that were interiorly good, and this because their affections and thoughts were discordant, for all consociations in the spiritual world are effected according to agreement of affections and thence of thoughts; for angels and spirits are nothing but affections and thoughts therefrom in a human form; and as those who then were in the high places could not endure the presence of those who were interiorly good, they cast them out from among them, and wherever they saw them, treated them wrongfully and shamefully, consequently the good were delivered by the Lord from this violence and concealed under heaven and preserved; and this was taking place from the time when the Lord was in the world even until this time when the judgment was accomplished; then those who were on high places were cast down, and those who were under heaven were elevated. The evil were tolerated so long on the high places, and the good were detained so long under heaven, in order that both "might be fulfilled," which means that there might be a sufficient number of the good to form a new heaven, and also that the evil might sink down of themselves into hell; for the Lord casts no one down into hell, but the evil itself which is with evil spirits casts them down (as may be seen in the work on Heaven and Hell 545-550). This takes place when evils are consummated, that is, fulfilled.

[2] This also is what is meant by the Lord's words in Matthew:

The servants of the householder coming, said, Didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? whence then are the tares? And they said, Wilt thou therefore that we go and gather them up? But he said, Nay, lest in gathering the tares ye root up at the same time the wheat with them. Let both grow together until the harvest; and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them into bundles to burn them; but gather the wheat into the barn. So shall it be in the consummation of the age (Matthew 13:27-30, 37-42).

"The consummation of the age" is the last time when judgment takes place; "the time of harvest" is when all things are consummated, that is, are fulfilled; "the tares" mean evils or those in whom evils are, and "the wheat" means goods or those in whom goods are. (But of these see further in the small work on The Last Judgment 65-72.) From all this it can in some measure be known why it was said to them "that they should rest yet a little time, until their fellow-servants, as well as their brethren, who were to be killed, as they also were, should be fulfilled;" "to be killed" has here the like signification as "to be slain" above n. 392, namely, to be rejected by the evil because of Divine truth, and because of their confession of the Lord.

[3] When this is known it can be known what is signified by "consummation" and by "iniquity consummated" in the following passages. In Moses:

Jehovah said, I will go down and see whether they have made a consummation, according to the cry that is come unto Me (Genesis 18:20-21).

This is said of Sodom. In the same:

For the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet consummated [fulfilled] (Genesis 15:16).

In Isaiah:

A consummation and decision I have heard from the Lord Jehovih of Hosts upon the whole earth (Isaiah 28:22).

In the same:

A consummation is determined, righteousness has overflowed. For the Lord Jehovih of Hosts is making a consummation and a decision in the whole earth (Isaiah 10:22-23).

In Zephaniah:

In the fire of the zeal of Jehovah of Hosts the whole land shall be devoured; for He shall make a consummation, even a speedy one, with all the inhabitants of the land (Zephaniah 1:18).

In Daniel:

At last upon the bird of abominations shall be desolation, and even to the consummation and decision it shall drop upon the devastation (Daniel 9:27);

and elsewhere. "Consummation" and "decision" in these passages signify the last state of the church, a state in which there is no longer any truth because there is no good, or in which there is no longer any faith because there is no charity; and when this is the state of the church, then comes the Last Judgment. The Last Judgment then comes, for the further reason that the human race is the basis or foundation of the angelic heaven, for the conjunction of the angelic heaven with the human race is perpetual, the one subsisting by means of the other; when therefore the basis does not correspond the angelic heaven totters; consequently there must then be a judgment upon those who are in the spiritual world, that all things in the heavens as well as in the hells, may be reduced to order. (That the human race is the basis and foundation of the angelic heaven, and that the conjunction is perpetual, see in the work on Heaven and Hell 291-310.) From this it can be known that "consummation" means the last state of the church, when there is no longer any faith because there is no charity. This state of the church is also called in the Word "vastation" and "desolation," and by the Lord "the consummation of the age" (Matthew 13:39, 40, 49; 24:3; 28:20).

  
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