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1 Need on sõnad, mis Mooses rääkis kogu Iisraelile kõrbes teisel pool Jordanit, lagendikul Suufi kohal, Paarani, Tofeli, Laabani, Haseroti ja Dii-Saahabi vahel -

2 üksteist päevateekonda on Hoorebilt Kaades-Barneani mööda Seiri mäestiku teed.

3 Ja neljakümnendal aastal, üheteistkümnenda kuu esimesel päeval rääkis Mooses Iisraeli lastele kõik, mis Issand teda oli käskinud neile rääkida,

4 pärast seda kui ta oli löönud Siihonit, emorlaste kuningat, kes elas Hesbonis, ja Oogi, Baasani kuningat, kes elas Astarotis Edreis.

5 Teisel pool Jordanit, Moabimaal, alustas Mooses seda Seaduse seletust, öeldes:

6 'Issand, meie Jumal, rääkis meiega Hoorebil, öeldes: Küllalt kaua olete viibinud selle mäe juures.

7 Pöörduge ja minge teele; minge emorlaste mäestikku ja kõigi nende naabrite juurde lagendikul, mäestikus ja madalikul, Lõunamaal ja mererannas, kaananlaste maale ja Liibanoni, kuni suure jõeni, Frati jõeni.

8 Vaata, mina annan selle maa teile ette: minge ja pärige maa, mille Issand on vandega tõotanud anda teie vanemaile, Aabrahamile, Iisakile ja Jaakobile, neile ja nende järglastele pärast neid!

9 Ja mina rääkisin teiega sel ajal, öeldes: 'Ei jaksa mina üksi teid kanda.

10 Issand, teie Jumal, on teinud teid paljuks, ja vaata, teid on tänapäeval nõnda palju nagu taevatähti.

11 Issand, teie vanemate Jumal, tehku teid veel tuhat korda rohkemaks, kui teid on, ja õnnistagu teid nõnda, nagu ta teile on rääkinud!

12 Kuidas ma siis jaksaksin üksinda kanda vaeva ja koormat teie pärast ja teie riidu?

13 Tooge endile suguharude kaupa tarku ja mõistlikke ning tuntud mehi, et saaksin nad panna teile peameesteks.'

14 Ja te vastasite mulle ning ütlesite: 'See on hea, mida sa oled käskinud teha!'

15 Siis ma võtsin teie suguharudest peamehi, tarku ja tuntud mehi, ja panin nad teile peameesteks, tuhande-, saja-, viiekümne- ja kümnepealikuiks ja ülevaatajaiks teie suguharudele.

16 Ja ma käskisin tol korral teie kohtumõistjaid, öeldes: Kuulake järele oma vendade vahel ja mõistke neile õigust venna ja venna vahel, või tema ja võõra vahel, kes ta juures on.

17 Te ei tohi kohtus olla erapoolikud, te peate kuulama niihästi väikest kui suurt; ärge kartke kedagi, sest kohus on Jumala päralt! Aga asi, mis teile on raske, tooge minu ette, et ma seda kuulaksin!

18 Nõnda ma andsin teile tol korral käsu kõige selle kohta, mida te pidite tegema.

19 Ja me läksime teele Hoorebilt ning rändasime läbi kogu selle suure ja koleda kõrbe, mida te olete näinud, emorlaste mäestikuteed mööda, nagu Issand, meie Jumal, meid oli käskinud, ja me tulime Kaades-Barneasse.

20 Ja ma ütlesin teile: Te olete tulnud emorlaste mäestikuni, mille Issand, meie Jumal, meile annab.

21 Vaata, Issand, su Jumal, annab maa sulle ette: mine võta see enesele, nagu Issand, su vanemate Jumal, sulle on öelnud. Ära karda ega kohku!

22 Siis te tulite kõik mu juurde ja ütlesite: 'Läkitagem oma ees mehi, et nad meile maad kuulaksid ja tooksid sõna tee kohta, mida mööda peaksime minema, ja linnade kohta, kuhu peaksime jõudma!'

23 See kõne oli mu silmis hea ja ma võtsin teie hulgast kaksteist meest, igast suguharust ühe,

24 ja need võtsid suuna ning läksid üles sinna mäestikku, jõudsid Kobaraorgu ja uurisid seda.

25 Ja nad võtsid kaasa maa vilju ja tõid alla meie juurde ning ütlesid: 'See on hea maa, mille Issand, meie Jumal, meile annab.'

26 Aga te ei tahtnud sinna minna ja tõrkusite Issanda, oma Jumala käsu vastu.

27 Te nurisesite oma telkides ja ütlesite: 'Sellepärast et Issand meid vihkab, on ta meid toonud Egiptusemaalt, et anda meid emorlaste kätte hävitamiseks.

28 Kuhu me läheme? Meie vennad on teinud meie südamed araks, öeldes: Rahvas on meist suurem ja arvukam, linnad on suured ja taevani kindlustatud; ja me nägime seal ka anaklasi.'

29 Siis ma ütlesin teile: Ärge heituge ja ärge kartke neid!

30 Issand, teie Jumal, kes käib teie ees, sõdib teie eest, nõnda nagu ta teie silme ees tegi teie heaks Egiptuses

31 ja kõrbes, nagu sa ise oled näinud, kuidas Issand, sinu Jumal, sind kandis nagu mees, kes kannab oma poega, kogu teekonnal, mida te olete käinud, kuni te jõudsite siia paika.

32 Aga sellest hoolimata ei ole te uskunud Issandasse, oma Jumalasse,

33 kes käis teekonnal teie ees, otsimas teile leeripaika: öösel tules näitamas teile teed, mida te pidite käima, ja päeval pilves.

34 Kui Issand kuulis teie valju kõnet, siis ta vihastus ja vandus, öeldes:

35 'Tõesti, ükski neist meestest sellest pahast sugupõlvest ei saa näha seda head maad, mille ma vandega olen tõotanud anda teie vanemaile,

36 peale Kaalebi, Jefunne poja: tema näeb seda ja temale ja tema lastele ma annan selle maa, millel ta on astunud, sellepärast et ta kõiges on järgnenud Issandale!'

37 Ka minu peale vihastus Issand teie pärast, öeldes: 'Sinagi ei pääse sinna.

38 Joosua, Nuuni poeg, kes teenib sind, jõuab sinna; kinnita teda, sest tema peab selle jaotama pärisosaks Iisraelile.

39 Ja teie lapsed, keda te ütlete saavat röövsaagiks, teie pojad, kes täna veel ei mõista head ja kurja, jõuavad sinna; neile ma annan maa ja nemad pärivad selle.

40 Teie aga pöörduge ja minge teele kõrbe poole mööda Kõrkjamere teed!'

41 Siis te vastasite ja ütlesite mulle: 'Me oleme Issanda vastu pattu teinud! Me tahame minna ja sõdida, nõnda nagu Issand, meie Jumal, meid on käskinud.' Ja te panite igaüks oma sõjariistad vööle ning olite valmis minema mäestikku.

42 Aga Issand ütles mulle: 'Ütle neile: Ärge minge ja ärge sõdige, sest mina ei ole teie keskel - et teid ei löödaks maha teie vaenlase ees!'

43 Ja ma rääkisin teile, aga te ei kuulanud, vaid tõrkusite Issanda käsu vastu ja olite ülemeelikud ning läksite mäestikku.

44 Aga emorlased, kes elasid seal mäestikus, tulid välja teie vastu ja ajasid teid taga mesilaste kombel ning hajutasid teid Seiris kuni Hormani.

45 Siis te pöördusite tagasi ja nutsite Issanda ees. Aga Issand ei kuulanud teie häält ega pannud teid tähele.

46 Ja te jäite Kaadesisse selleks pikaks ajaks, mis te seal viibisite.

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Arcana Coelestia # 1664

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1664. That the wars in this chapter mean in the internal sense nothing other than spiritual conflicts, which are temptations, has been stated already in the preliminary section. 1 Nor do the wars in the rest of the Word, especially in the Prophets, have any other meaning. Wars waged by men can have no place whatever in the internal parts of the Word, for such things as wars are not the spiritual and celestial things which alone constitute the Word. That 'wars' in the Word means conflicts with the devil, or what amounts to the same, with hell, becomes clear from the following places besides many others: In John,

They are spirits of demons, performing signs, to go out to the kings of the land and of the whole earth, to assemble them for the war of that great day of God Almighty. Revelation 16:14.

Here anyone may see that no other kind of war on the great day of God Almighty is meant.

[2] In the same book,

The beast that comes up from the Abyss will make war. Revelation 11:7.

Here 'the Abyss' is hell. In the same book,

The dragon was angry with the woman, and went off to make war with the rest of her seed, who kept the commandments of God and bear testimony to Jesus Christ. Revelation 12:17.

It 2 was allowed to make war on the saints. Revelation 13:7.

All these wars are conflicts such as constitute temptations. Nor are the wars of the kings of the south and of the north, and the other wars of Daniel 8, 11, and also those involving Michael, Daniel 10:13, 21; 12:1; Revelation 12:7, anything different.

[3] That wars have no other meaning is clear from the rest of the Prophets as well, as in Ezekiel,

You have not gone up into the breaches and made a hedge for the house of Israel, to stand in war on the day of Jehovah. Ezekiel 13:5.

This refers to the prophets. In Isaiah,

They will beat their swords into hoes, and their spears into pruning-hooks. Nation will not lift up sword against nation, neither will they learn war any more. Isaiah 2:4.

Clearly no other wars [than spiritual wars] are meant here, and therefore instruments of war, such as swords, spears, shields, and many others, mean nothing else in the Word than things that belong to such wars.

[4] In the same prophet,

To the thirsty bring water; O inhabitants of the land of Tema, meet with his bread the fugitive, 3 for they will flee 4 before the swords, before the drawn sword, and before the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war. Isaiah 21:14-15.

In Jeremiah,

Shepherds and their flocks will come against the daughter of Zion, they will pitch their tents against her round about; they will graze, each off his own space. Declare a sacred war against her; arise and let us go up at noon. Jeremiah 6:3-5.

Here, since it is waged against 'the daughter of Zion', that is, the Church, no other kind of war is meant.

[5] In the same prophet,

How is the city of praise not forsaken, the city of My joy? Therefore her young men will fall in her streets, and all the men of war will be cut down on that day. Jeremiah 49:25-26.

'The city of praise and of joy' stands for the things that belong to the Church, 'the men of war' for those who fight.

[6] In Hosea,

I will make for them a covenant on that day, with the wild animals of the field, and with the birds of the air, 5 and with the creeping things of the ground. And I will abolish 6 the bow, and the sword, and war from the land, and I will make them lie down in safety. Hosea 2:18.

Here similarly 'war' stands for conflicts, and the various instruments of war stand for the things belonging to spiritual conflict which are 'broken' when a person comes into the calmness of peace as evil desires and falsities come to an end.

[7] In David,

Behold the works of Jehovah who makes solitary places in the earth, making wars cease even to the end of the earth. He breaks the bow, and snaps the spear, He burns the chariots with fire. Psalms 46:8-9.

Here too the meaning is similar. In the same author,

In Salem is the dwelling-place of God, and His habitation in Zion. There He broke the bow's fiery arrows, the shield and the sword, and war. Psalms 76:2-3.

Because the priests represented the Lord who alone fights on man's behalf, their duties are called military service, Numbers 4:23, 35, 39, 43, 47.

[8] It is a constant truth that Jehovah alone, that is, the Lord, fights and overcomes the devil present with a person when he is involved in the conflicts brought by temptations, even though to that person this does not appear to be so. For evil spirits have no power at all to exert the slightest influence on man unless they are permitted to do so, and angels cannot act to avert anything at all unless enabled to do so by the Lord. Thus it is the Lord alone who endures every conflict and overcomes, something that was also represented at various times by the wars that the children of Israel waged against the nations. That He alone does so is also stated in Moses,

Jehovah your God is going 7 before you, He Himself will fight for you. Deuteronomy 1:30.

In the same book,

Jehovah your God is going 7 with you to fight for you with your enemies, to save you. Deuteronomy 20:4.

[9] So too in Joshua, such as 23:3, 5. For all the wars that were being waged at that time against the idolatrous inhabitants of the land of Canaan represented the Lord's conflicts with hell, and consequently the conflicts of His Church, and of members of the Church. This also accords with the following statements in Isaiah,

As the lion roars, and the young lion, over its prey (when a multitude of shepherds run towards him he is not dismayed by their voice nor daunted by the tumult they make) so Jehovah Zebaoth will come down to fight on Mount Zion and on its hill. Isaiah 31:4.

[10] For the same reasons also Jehovah, or the Lord, is called 'a Man of War', as in Moses,

Jehovah is a Man of War, Jehovah is His name. Exodus 15:3.

In Isaiah,

Jehovah will go forth as a Mighty Man, as a Man of Wars. He will stir up zeal; He will cry out, yes, He will shout aloud, He will prevail over His enemies. Isaiah 42:13.

This also is why many things that war entails are attributed to the Lord, such as 'crying out', and 'shouting aloud' here.

[11] Spirits and angels also appear as men of war, when a representation is being made, as in Joshua,

Joshua lifted up his eyes and saw, and behold, a man was standing before him, with his sword drawn in his hand. He said to Joshua, I am the Prince of the army of Jehovah; and Joshua fell on his face 8 to the earth. Joshua 5:13-14.

These things were seen taking the form they did because they were representative, and this also is why descendants of Jacob called their wars the Wars of ]Jehovah.

It was similar in the Ancient Churches among whom there were books which also were called The Wars of Jehovah, as is clear in Moses.

It is said in the Book of the Wars of Jehovah. Numbers 21:14-15.

These were written about in a way not unlike the wars described in this chapter; but wars involving the Church were meant. Such a manner of writing was common in those times, for they were interior men and their thoughts were of more exalted things.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. i.e. in 1659

2. i.e. the beast

3. literally, the wanderer

4. literally, they will wander

5. literally,. bird of the heavens (or the skies)

6. literally, break

7. literally, walking

8. literally, faces

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.