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1 Da blev Jesus af Ånden ført op i Ørkenen for at fristes af Djævelen.

2 Og da han havde fastet fyrretyve Dage og fyrretyve Nætter, blev han omsider hungrig.

3 Og Fristeren gik til ham og sagde: "Er du Guds Søn, da sig, at disse Sten skulle blive Brød."

4 Men han svarede og sagde: "Der er skrevet: Mennesket skal ikke leve af Brød alene, men af hvert Ord, som udgår igennem Guds Mund."

5 Da. tager Djævelen ham med sig til den hellige Stad og stiller ham Helligdommens Tinde og siger til ham:

6 "Er du Guds Søn, da kast dig herned; thi der er skrevet: Han skal give sine Engle Befaling om dig, og de skulle bære dig Hænder, for at du ikke skal støde din Fod nogen Sten."

7 Jesus sagde til ham: "Der er atter skrevet: Du må ikke friste Herren din Gud."

8 Atter tager Djævelen ham med sig op på et såre højt Bjerg og viser ham alle Verdens iger og deres Herlighed; og han sagde til ham:

9 "Alt dette vil jeg give dig, dersom du vil falde ned og tilbede mig."

10 Da siger Jesus til ham: "Vig bort, Satan! thi der er skrevet: Du skal tilbede Herren din Gud og tjene ham alene."

11 Da forlader Djævelen ham, og se, Engle kom til ham og tjente ham.

12 Men da Jesus hørte, at Johannes var kastet i Fængsel, drog han bort til Galilæa.

13 Og han forlod Nazareth og kom og tog Bolig i Kapernaum, som ligger ved Søen, i Sebulons og Nafthalis Egne,

14 for at det skulde opfyldes, som er talt ved Profeten Esajas, som siger:

15 "Sebulons Land og Nafthalis Land langs Søen, Landet hinsides Jordan, Hedningernes Galilæa,

16 det Folk, som sad i Mørke, har set et stort Lys, og for dem, som sad i Dødens Land og Skygge, for dem er der opgået et Lys."

17 Fra den Tid begyndte Jesus at prædike og sige: "Omvender eder, thi Himmeriges ige er kommet nær."

18 Men da han vandrede ved Galilæas Sø, så han to Brødre, Simon, som kaldes Peter, og Andreas, hans Broder, i Færd med at kaste Garn i Søen; thi de vare Fiskere.

19 Og han siger til dem: "Følger efter mig, så vil jeg gøre eder til Menneskefiskere."

20 Og de forlode straks Garnene og fulgte ham.

21 Og da han derfra gik videre, så han to andre Brødre, Jakob, Zebedæus's Søn, og Johannes, hans Broder, i Skibet med deres Fader Zebedæus, i Færd med at bøde deres Garn, og han kaldte på dem.

22 Og de forlode straks Skibet og deres Fader og fulgte ham.

23 Og Jesus gik omkring i hele Galilæa, idet han lærte i deres Synagoger og prædikede igets Evangelium og helbredte enhver Sygdom og enhver Skrøbelighed iblandt Folket.

24 Og hans y kom ud over hele Syrien; og de bragte til ham alle dem, som lede af mange Hånde Sygdomme og vare plagede af Lidelser, både besatte og månesyge og værkbrudne; og han helbredte dem.

25 Og store Skarer fulgte ham fra Galilæa og Dekapolis og Jerusalem og Judæa og fra Landet hinsides Jordan.

   


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4. IV. The Word is holy, even in its characters and points.

I once had a paper sent me from heaven written in the Hebrew alphabet, but as in the most ancient texts, where the letters, which today are to some extent composed of straight lines, were then curved with serifs pointing upwards. An angel who was with me said that he knew whole meanings simply from the letters, and each letter has its own particular meaning. They knew this from the curves of the lines in each letter, in addition to the subject which they knew separately from the letter as a whole. He then explained to me the meaning of yod (י), aleph (א) and he (ה), the two letters separately and when put together. He said that he, which is in [YHWH], and which was added to the names of Abraham and Sarah [Genesis 17:5, 15] meant what is infinite and eternal. He said that in many places the Word is so written; and when it is read in the Hebrew text by a Jew or a Christian, the meaning of the individual letters is known in the third heaven. For the angels of the third heaven have the Word written in such letters, and they read it letter by letter. They said that in the sense to be drawn from the letters the Word deals only with the Lord. The reason is that the curves in the letters derive from the flow of heaven, which influences especially the angels of the third heaven. Those angels therefore have an innate knowledge of this script, because they are subject to the order of heaven and live altogether in accordance with it. 1

[2] They explained to me also the meaning of Psalm 32:2 in the Word from the letters or syllables alone, and said that their meaning might be summarised as 'the Lord is merciful even to those who do evil'. They went on to say that the vowels there are to denote the sound corresponding to the affection. They could not pronounce the vowels i and e, but for i they pronounce y 2 or eu, for e they say eu. They use the vowels a, o and u, because these vowels give a full sound, but i and e a close sound. Also they do not pronounce some consonants with a hard, but a soft sound, and hard letters such (daleth) and (qoph), 3 etc. have no meaning for them unless pronounced softly. This too is the reason why many hard letters are also used with points inside them, meaning that [they are pronounced with a hard sound, but without a point] they are pronounced with a soft sound. 4 They added that hardness in letters is in use in the spiritual heaven, because those there are in possession of truths, and have understanding by their means. But in the celestial heaven all are in possession of the good of love and consequently of wisdom, and truth allows hardness, but good does not. These facts may establish what is the meaning of the Lord's saying that not a jot or a tittle or a serif will pass away from the Law (Matthew 5:18; Luke 16:17); and it is also clear from these facts that the Lord's Divine Providence ensured that all the letters in the Hebrew text of the Word were counted by the Massoretes.

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1. On the heavenly scripts see further, in nos. 14[4] and 26[3] in this version of this translation. In the printed version see nos. 33, 62. [NCBS Editor's note: This online version of Dr. Chadwick's translation was renumbered to match others on the site, with fewer main sections, and more subsections nested in them.]

The Author uses language appropriate to the alphabetical scripts he knew, but it is clear that he is really describing ideographic scripts similar to Chinese, where each character has a meaning rather than primarily a sound. -Translator

2. As in French u or German. -Translator

3. Probably an error for kaph. -Translator

4. The letters b, g, d, k, p, t seem to be meant, since in Hebrew these are pronounced as spirants except when they have a dot in the middle. The correction is due to B. Rogers. -Translator

  
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