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Eliro 21

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1 Kaj jen estas la jugxoj, kiujn vi proponos al ili:

2 Se vi acxetos sklavon Hebreon, li servu dum ses jaroj; sed en la sepa li eliru libera senpage.

3 Se li venis sola, li eliru sola; se li estas edzigita, tiam lia edzino eliru kune kun li.

4 Se lia sinjoro donis al li edzinon kaj sxi naskis al li filojn aux filinojn, tiam la edzino kaj sxiaj infanoj restu cxe sia sinjoro, kaj li eliru sola.

5 Sed se la sklavo diros:Mi amas mian sinjoron, mian edzinon, kaj miajn infanojn, mi ne volas liberigxi;

6 tiam lia sinjoro alkonduku lin antaux la potenculojn kaj starigu lin apud la pordo aux apud la fosto, kaj lia sinjoro trapiku lian orelon per aleno, kaj li estu lia sklavo por cxiam.

7 Kaj se iu vendos sian filinon kiel sklavinon, sxi ne eliru kiel eliras la sklavoj.

8 Se sxi ne placxas al sia sinjoro, al kiu sxi estis fordonita, tiam li donu al sxi la eblon elacxetigxi; al fremda popolo sxin vendi li ne havas la rajton, cxar li kondutis ne honeste kontraux sxi.

9 Se iu transdonos sxin al sia filo, li agu kun sxi laux la rajto de filinoj.

10 Se li prenos por li alian edzinon, tiam nutrajxo, vestoj, kaj edzina vivo ne devas esti rifuzataj al sxi.

11 Kaj se tiujn tri aferojn li ne faros por sxi, tiam sxi eliru senpage, sen elacxeto.

12 Se iu batos homon kaj tiu mortos, li estu mortigita.

13 Sed se li ne agis malbonintence, nur Dio pusxis tiun sub lian manon, Mi difinas al vi lokon, kien li povas forkuri.

14 Sed se iu intence mortigis sian proksimulon per ruzo, tiam ecx de Mia altaro forprenu lin, ke li mortu.

15 Kiu batas sian patron aux sian patrinon, tiu devas esti mortigita.

16 Kaj se iu sxtelas homon por vendi lin, aux oni trovas tiun en lia mano, li devas esti mortigita.

17 Kiu malbenas sian patron aux sian patrinon, tiu devas esti mortigita.

18 Se homoj kverelos, kaj unu batos la alian per sxtono aux per pugno kaj tiu ne mortos, sed devos kusxi en lito:

19 se li levigxos kaj irados ekstere per apogilo, tiam la batinto estu senkulpa; li nur kompensu al li lian malliberigitecon kaj zorgu pri lia kuracado.

20 Se iu batos sian sklavon aux sian sklavinon per bastono, kaj tiu mortos sub lia mano, tiam oni devas lin puni;

21 sed se tiu restos viva dum unu aux du tagoj, tiam oni ne devas lin puni; cxar tio estas lia mono.

22 Se viroj kverelos kaj frapos gravedan virinon, kaj sxi abortos, sed ne farigxos malfelicxo, tiam oni punu lin per monpuno, kian metos sur lin la edzo de la virino, kaj li pagu gxin laux decido de jugxantoj.

23 Sed se farigxos malfelicxo, tiam donu animon pro animo,

24 okulon pro okulo, denton pro dento, manon pro mano, piedon pro piedo,

25 bruldifekton pro bruldifekto, vundon pro vundo, kontuzon pro kontuzo.

26 Kaj se iu batos okulon de sia sklavo aux de sia sklavino kaj difektos gxin, tiam li forliberigu tiun kompense pro la okulo.

27 Kaj se li elbatos denton de sia sklavo aux denton de sia sklavino, li forliberigu tiun kompense pro la dento.

28 Se bovo kornobatos viron aux virinon kaj tiu mortos, tiam oni sxtonmortigu la bovon kaj gxia viando ne estu mangxata, sed la mastro de la bovo restu senkulpa.

29 Sed se la bovo estis kornobatema antauxe kaj oni tion sciigis al gxia mastro kaj li gxin ne gardis kaj gxi mortigis viron aux virinon, tiam la bovon oni sxtonmortigu kaj gxian mastron oni mortigu.

30 Se oni metos sur lin elacxeton, tiam li donu pro sia animo tian elacxetan sumon, kia estos metita sur lin.

31 Se filo aux filino estos kornobatita, oni agu kun li en la sama maniero.

32 Se iun sklavon aux sklavinon kornobatos la bovo, tiam tridek sikloj da mono devas esti pagitaj al ties mastro kaj la bovo devas esti sxtonmortigita.

33 Se iu malfermos kavon, aux elfosos kavon, kaj ne kovros gxin, kaj falos tien bovo aux azeno,

34 tiam la mastro de la kavo devas kompensi per mono al gxia mastro, kaj la kadavro apartenu al li.

35 Se la bovo de iu homo kornobatos bovon de lia proksimulo tiel, ke gxi mortos, tiam ili vendu la vivan bovon kaj dividu inter si egalparte la monon pro gxi, kaj ankaux la kadavron ili dividu.

36 Sed se oni sciis, ke la bovo estis kornobatema antauxe, kaj gxia mastro gxin ne gardis, tiam ili pagu bovon pro la bovo, kaj la kadavro apartenu al li.

   

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9210. 'You shall not be like a money-lender' means that it must be done in a spirit of charity. This is clear from the meaning of 'a money-lender' as someone who does good for the sake of gain; for a money-lender entrusts money to another for the sake of interest and gives help to another for the sake of reward. And since real charity does not have gain or reward as the end in view, but the neighbour's good, 'you shall not be like a money-lender' means that the thing must be done in a spirit of charity. Anyone who does not know what Christian charity is may think that it consists not only in giving to the needy and poor but also in doing good to his fellow citizen, country, or Church for any reason whatever, that is, with no matter what end in view. But he should recognize that the end is what gives all of a person's deeds their true character. If the end or intention is to do good for the sake of reputation, in order to acquire important positions or else monetary gain, the good that he does is not good because it is done for the sake of self and thus also originates in self. But if the end is to do good for his fellow citizen's, country's, or Church's sake, thus for his neighbour's sake, the good he does is good since it is done for the sake of good itself, which in general is the real neighbour, 5025, 6706, 6711, 6712, 8123, and so is also done for the Lord's sake since such good does not have its origin in the person but in the Lord, and what originates in the Lord is the Lord's. This is the good that is meant by the Lord in Matthew,

Insofar as you did it to one of the least of these My brothers you did it to Me. Matthew 25:40.

[2] As it is with good, so it is also with truth. Those who do the truth for its own sake do it also for the Lord's sake since it comes from Him. Doing truth for its own sake is doing good; for truth becomes good when it passes from the understanding into the will, and from the will goes out into actions. Doing good in this manner is Christian charity. People who do good in the spirit of Christian charity may sometimes look for reputation earned as a result of doing it, so as to obtain an important position or else monetary gain. But their attitude is altogether different from that of anyone for whom these things are his end in view. For they regard what is good and right as the essential, one and only thing that matters, and accordingly rank it in highest position. As for monetary gain in comparison with this, or an important position, or reputation for the sake of them, they regard as non-essential, and accordingly rank it in lowest position. When the eyes of people such as these are fixed on what is right and good they are like soldiers fighting in battle for their country. During it they give no thought at all to their life, nor thus to their status or their assets in the world, which compared with what they are doing are of no importance to them. But those who rank self and the world at the top are the kind of people who do not even see what is right and good, because their eyes are fixed on themselves and on gain.

[3] All this shows what doing good for a selfish or a worldly reason is, what doing good for the Lord's or for the neighbour's sake is, and what is the difference between them. The difference is as great as that between two opposites, thus as great as that between heaven and hell. Furthermore those who do good for their neighbour's or for the Lord's sake are in heaven; but those who do it for a selfish or a worldly reason are in hell. For those who do good for their neighbour and the Lord's sake love the Lord above all things and their neighbour as themselves - commandments which are 'the first of all the commandments', Mark 12:28-31. But those who do everything for selfish and worldly reasons love themselves above all things, thus more than God; and they not only despise their neighbour but also hate him if he does not make common cause with them and align himself with them. This is the meaning of the Lord's teaching in Matthew,

No one can serve two lords, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will cling to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon. Matthew 6:24.

There are people who do serve both; but they are called 'lukewarm, neither cold nor hot, who are spewed out', Revelation 3:15-16. All this now shows what money-lenders who took interest represented, namely those who do good for the sake of gain.

[4] It makes plain the origin of this prohibition, that they were not to be like a money-lender, charging a brother interest, as again declared elsewhere in Moses,

You shall not charge your brother interest on silver, interest on food, interest on anything on which it is charged. A foreigner you shall charge interest, but your brother you shall not charge interest; so that Jehovah your God may bless you in everything to which you set your hand 1 in the land which you are entering to possess it. Deuteronomy 23:19-20; Leviticus 25:36-38.

'Charging a brother interest on silver' means lending truths, that is, giving instruction in them, for the sake of gain, 'charging interest on food' hiring out forms of the good of truth for the sake of gain; for 'silver' means truth, 1551, 2954, 5658, 6914, 6917, and 'food' the good of truth, 5147, 5293, 5340, 5342, 5576, 5410, 5426, 5487, 5582, 5588, 5655, 5915, 8562. The reason why those who do not charge it are blessed by Jehovah in everything to which they set their hand in the land is that their affection is for goodness and truth, so that the happiness which angels in heaven possess is theirs; for that affection, or the good of that love, holds heaven within it for a person, 6478, 9174. The reason why foreigners could be charged interest was that those who do not acknowledge anything of goodness or truth and are unreceptive of them are meant by 'foreigners', 7996, that is, they are those who do good solely for the sake of gain. These must serve a person, for in comparison they are servants or slaves, 1097. In David,

He walks blameless and does righteousness, and speaks the truth in his heart. He does not lend his silver at interest, and does not take a bribe 2 against the innocent. He who does this will never be moved. Psalms 15:2, 5.

'Lending his silver at interest' means teaching for the sake solely of gain, thus doing good for the sake of reward. Something similar occurs in Ezekiel,

A righteous man who executes judgement and righteousness does not lend at interest and does not take increase. Ezekiel 18:5, 8.

In the same prophet,

He who withdraws his hand from the needy, does not take interest or increase, executes My judgements, [and] walks in My statutes will surely live. Ezekiel 18:17.

In the same prophet,

In you they have taken bribes 2 to shed blood; you have taken interest and increase, and seized gain of your companions by violence. Ezekiel 22:12.

These things are said about 'the city of blood', by which falsity destroying truth and good is meant, 9127. 'Taking interest and increase' means doing good for the sake of gain and reward, thus not in a spirit of charity. In true charity there is no thought of earning a reward, see 2371, 2373, 2400, 4007, 4174, 4943, 6388-6390, 6392, 6478.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. literally, in every sending out of your hand

2. literally, a gift

  
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Matthew 25:40

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40 "The King will answer them, 'Most certainly I tell you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.'