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Exodus 22

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1 If a man steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it, or sell it, he shall restore five oxen for the ox, and four sheep for the sheep.

2 If the thief be encountered breaking in, and be smitten so that he die, there shall be no blood-guiltiness for him.

3 If the sun be risen on him, there shall be blood-guiltiness for him; he should have made full restitution: if he had nothing, he would have been sold for his theft.

4 If the stolen thing be actually found alive in his hand, whether it be ox, or ass, or sheep, he shall restore double.

5 If a man shall cause a field or vineyard to be eaten, and put in his cattle, and pasture in another man's field, of the best of his own field, and of the best of his own vineyard shall he make [it] good.

6 -- If fire break out, and seize the thorns, and the stacks of corn, or the standing corn, or the field be consumed, he that kindled the fire shall fully make it good.

7 -- If a man deliver unto his neighbour money or stuff to keep, and it be stolen out of the man's house; if the thief be found, let him restore double;

8 if the thief be not found, the master of the house shall be brought before the judges, [to see] if he has not put his hand unto his neighbour's goods.

9 As to all manner of fraud, -- as to ox, as to ass, as to sheep, as to clothing, as to everything lost, of which [a man] saith, It is this -- the cause of both parties shall come before the judges: he whom the judges shall condemn shall restore double to his neighbour.

10 If a man deliver unto his neighbour an ass, or an ox, or a sheep, or any cattle, to keep, and it die, or be hurt, or driven away, and no man see [it],

11 an oath of Jehovah shall be between them both, that he hath not put his hand unto his neighbour's goods; and the owner of it shall accept it, and he shall not make [it] good.

12 But if it have been stolen from him, he shall make [it] good unto its owner.

13 If it have been torn in pieces, let him bring it [as] witness: he shall not make good what was torn.

14 -- And if a man borrow anything of his neighbour, and it be hurt, or die, its owner not being with it, he shall fully make it good;

15 if the owner thereof be with it, he shall not make [it] good; if it be a hired [thing], it came for its hire.

16 And if a man seduce a virgin that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall certainly endow her, to be his wife.

17 If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall weigh money according to the dowry of virgins.

18 -- Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.

19 -- Every one that lieth with a beast shall certainly be put to death.

20 -- He that sacrificeth to [any] god, save to Jehovah only, shall be devoted to destruction.

21 Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him; for ye have been strangers in the land of Egypt.

22 Ye shall not afflict any widow or fatherless child.

23 If thou afflict him in any way, if he cry at all unto me, I will certainly hear his cry;

24 and my anger shall burn, and I will slay you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.

25 -- If thou lend money to my people, the poor with thee, thou shalt not be to him as a usurer: ye shall charge him no interest.

26 -- If thou at all take thy neighbour's garment in pledge, thou shalt return it to him before the sun goes down;

27 for that is his only covering, his garment for his skin: on what shall he lie down? And it shall come to pass, when he crieth unto me, that I will hear; for I am gracious.

28 Thou shalt not revile the judges, nor curse a prince amongst thy people.

29 -- Thou shalt not delay the fulness of thy [threshing-floor] and the outflow of thy [winepress]. The firstborn of thy sons shalt thou give unto me.

30 Likewise shalt thou do with thy calf, with thy sheep: seven days shall it be with its dam; on the eighth day thou shalt give it me.

31 -- And ye shall be holy men unto me; and ye shall not eat flesh torn in the field: ye shall cast it to the dog.

   

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Apocalypse Explained # 1121

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1121. And am not a widow.- That this signifies that they are not without protection is evident from the signification of a widow, as denoting one who is in the affection for good, and from that affection desires truth. A widow signifies here [without] protection, and therefore not to be a widow, signifies not to be without protection, because good and its affection do not protect themselves, but are protected by truth and the understanding of it; for man, who is the protector of woman, signifies the understanding of truth, thus truth. Between the marriage of man and woman and the marriage of truth and good there is a perfect resemblance; for man is born to be the understanding of truth, and therefore this predominates with him; and woman is born to be affection for good, and therefore this predominates with her. And as good and truth love each other in return and desire to be conjoined; so do the understanding of truth and the affection or will of good. The conjugial love of a husband and wife also derives its origin from the spiritual marriage of truth and good; on this subject see Heaven and Hell 366-386).

[2] The signification of widow here and in Isaiah is similar:

"Hear this, thou delicate one, sitting securely, saying in thine heart I and none as I besides; I shall not sit a widow, neither shall I know bereavement; but these two evils shall come upon thee in a moment, the loss of children and widowhood" (47:8, 9).

This also is said of Babel, and has a signification similar to that of these words in the Apocalypse: "I am not a widow, and shall not see mourning; therefore in one day shall her plagues come to thee, death, and mourning, and famine." By widows, also in other parts of the Word, are signified both males and females who are in good and not in truth, and yet desire truth, thus those who are without protection against falsity and evil, whom nevertheless the Lord defends. These are also meant in the opposite sense in Isaiah 9:17; chap. 10:1, 2; Jerem. 15:7, 8, 9; chap. 22:3; chap. 49:10, 11; Lament. 5:3; Ezekiel 22:6, 7; David, Psalm 68:5; Psalm 146:9; Exodus 22:22-24; Dent. 10:18; chap. 27:19; Matthew 23:14; Luke 20:47; and elsewhere.

[3] Continuation concerning the Athanasian Creed, and concerning the Lord.- Life considered in itself, which is God, cannot create another being, to be life itself; for the life which is God is uncreated, continuous, and inseparable; for this reason God is one. But the life which is God can create out of substances forms that are not lives in which it can exist, and impart to them the appearance of life. These forms are men, which, because they are receptacles of life, could not, in the primary creation, be any thing but images and likenesses of God - images from the reception of truth, and likenesses from the reception of good; for life and its recipient adapt themselves to each other like active and passive, but do not intermingle. Human forms, which are recipients of life, do not therefore live from themselves, but from God, who alone is life; consequently, all the good of love and all the truth of faith are from God, and nothing from man, as is known. For if the smallest part of life were a man's own, he would be able to will and do good from himself, and also understand and believe truth from himself, and thus claim merit when nevertheless, if he believes this, then the form recipient of life becomes closed above and perverted, and intelligence perishes. Good and its love, together with truth and its faith, are the life which is God, for God is good itself, and truth itself; in these He therefore dwells with man. From these things it also follows, that man of himself is nothing, and that he is only so far anything in the measure that he receives from the Lord, and at the same time acknowledges that what he receives is not his own but the Lord's; the Lord then causes him to be something, although not from himself but from the Lord.

  
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Translation by Isaiah Tansley. Many thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.