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Deuteronoomia 10

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1 Tol korral ütles Issand minule: 'Raiu enesele kaks kivilauda, endiste sarnased, ja tule mu juurde üles mäele! Ja valmista enesele puulaegas!

2 Mina kirjutan laudadele need sõnad, mis olid endistel laudadel, mis sa puruks lõid, ja pane need laekasse!'

3 Siis ma valmistasin akaatsiapuust laeka ja raiusin kaks kivilauda, endiste sarnased; siis ma läksin üles mäele ja need kaks kivilauda olid mul käes.

4 Ja tema kirjutas laudadele endise kirja sarnaselt need kümme käsusõna, mis Issand oli kogunemispäeval teile kõnelnud mäe peal tule seest. Ja Issand andis need mulle.

5 Siis ma pöördusin ümber, tulin mäelt alla ja panin lauad laekasse, mille ma olin valmistanud, ja need jäid sinna, nagu Issand oli mulle käsu andnud.

6 Ja Iisraeli lapsed läksid teele Beerot-Bene-Jaakanist Mooserasse. Seal suri Aaron ja ta maeti sinna. Ja tema poeg Eleasar sai tema asemel preestriks.

7 Ja sealt läksid nad teele Gudgodasse, ja Gudgodast Jotbatasse, veeojade maale.

8 Sel ajal eraldas Issand Leevi suguharu kandma seaduselaegast, seisma Issanda palge ees, teenima teda ja õnnistama tema nimel kuni tänapäevani.

9 Sellepärast ei ole Leevil osa ega pärandit koos vendadega; Issand on tema pärisosa, nagu Issand, su Jumal, temale on öelnud.

10 Ja ma viibisin mäel niisama kaua kui eelmisel korral, nelikümmend päeva ja nelikümmend ööd, ja Issand kuulis mind ka seekord: Issand ei tahtnud sind hukata.

11 Ja Issand ütles mulle: 'Võta kätte, käi teele minnes rahva ees, et nad läheksid ja päriksid maa, mille ma vandega nende vanemaile olen tõotanud neile anda!'

12 Ja nüüd, Iisrael, mida nõuab Issand, su Jumal, sinult muud, kui et sa kardaksid Issandat, oma Jumalat, käiksid kõigil tema teedel ja armastaksid teda, ja et sa teeniksid Issandat, oma Jumalat, kõigest oma südamest ja kõigest oma hingest,

13 et sa peaksid Issanda käske ja seadusi, mis ma täna sulle annan, et su käsi hästi käiks?

14 Vaata, Issanda, su Jumala päralt on taevas ja taevaste taevas, maa ja kõik, mis seal on.

15 Üksnes sinu vanemaid on Issand eelistanud, armastades neid, ja on pärast neid valinud nende soo, see on teid, kõigi rahvaste seast, nagu see tänapäeval on.

16 Lõigake siis ümber oma südame eesnahk ja ärge enam tehke oma kaela kangeks,

17 sest Issand, teie Jumal, on jumalate Jumal ja isandate Isand, suur, vägev ja kardetav Jumal, kes ei vaata isiku peale ega võta vastu meelehead,

18 kes teeb õigust vaeslapsele ja lesknaisele ja kes armastab võõrast, andes temale leiba ja riiet.

19 Seepärast armastage võõrast, sest te olete ise olnud võõrad Egiptusemaal!

20 Issandat, oma Jumalat, pead sa kartma, teda pead sa teenima ja tema poole hoidma ning tema nime juures vanduma!

21 Tema on su kiitus ja tema on su Jumal, kes sulle on teinud neid suuri ja kohutavaid tegusid, mida su silmad on näinud.

22 Seitsmekümne hingega läksid su vanemad alla Egiptusesse, aga nüüd on Issand, su Jumal, teinud sind rohkuse poolest taevatähtede sarnaseks.

   

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Explanation of Deuteronomy 10

Napsal(a) Alexander Payne

Verses 1-5. That a new regenerate will is required in the natural mind.

Verses 6-7. Progression in the religious opinions.

Verses 8-11. The faculty for receiving good in the new will entirely from heaven.

Verses 12-13. The whole duty of man is to keep the commandments.

Verses 14-22. The desire of the Lord to save all as far as possible.

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2069. 'Kings of peoples will be from her' means truths that are the product of truths and goods joined together, meant by 'kings of peoples'. This is clear from the meaning of 'kings' as all truths in general, dealt with above in 2015, and from the meaning of 'peoples' also as truths, in general all things that are spiritual. For 'kings' are spoken of in reference to peoples, and not so much in reference to nations except when the nations mean evils, dealt with in 1259, 1260. In the prophetical part of the Word kings and peoples are mentioned many times, but nowhere are they used to mean kings and peoples, for at no point are kings and peoples the subject in the Word proper, which is the internal sense, but the celestial and spiritual things comprising the Lord's kingdom, and so goods and truths. The sense of the letter expresses itself by means of perceivable objects, as anyone does with words, merely to enable understanding.

[2] Since the subject here is Sarah and the promise that 'kings of peoples will be from her', and since 'Sarah' means Divine Truth which was the Lord's, 'kings of peoples' clearly means truths that are the product of truths and goods joined together, which are all the truths of the internal Church, that is, the interior truths of faith. Because these truths come from the Lord, they are frequently called 'kings' in the Word, and also 'a king's sons', as shown above in 2015.

[3] Anyone may see that some internal Divine matter lies concealed in the words that 'kings of peoples will be from her'. For the subject in this verse is Isaac, of whom it is said, 'I will bless him, and he will become nations', but of Sarah that 'kings of peoples will be from her'. Almost the same was also said of Abraham in verse 6 above, that 'kings will go out of him'; but it did not say as it does of Sarah, 'kings of peoples'. The arcanum within this lies too deep to allow it to be uncovered and described in a few words. From the representation and meaning of 'Abraham' as Divine Good and from the representation and meaning of 'Sarah' as Divine Truth the arcanum is to some extent evident, namely that from the Lord's Divine Good meant by 'Abraham' all celestial truth will come forth and have its being, and from the Lord's Divine Truth meant by 'Sarah' all spiritual truth will do so. Celestial truth is the truth which exists with celestial angels, and spiritual truth that which exists with spiritual angels. Or what amounts to the same, celestial truth was the truth which existed with members of the Most Ancient Church which came before the Flood and which was a celestial Church, spiritual truth that which existed with members of the Ancient Church which came after the Flood and was a spiritual Church. For angels, as also members of the Church, are distinguished into celestial and spiritual. That which distinguishes the celestial from the spiritual is love to the Lord, and that which distinguishes spiritual from celestial is love towards the neighbour.

[4] No more can be said about celestial truth and spiritual truth however until the difference between the celestial and the spiritual is known, or what amounts to the same, the difference between the celestial Church and the spiritual. For this see Volume One, in 202, 337, 1577; then concerning the nature of the Most Ancient Church and the nature of the Ancient Church, in 597, 607, 640, 765, 1114-1125, and in many other places. On the point that possessing love to the Lord constitutes the celestial, and possessing love towards the neighbour the spiritual, see 2023.

[5] These considerations now show what the arcanum is, namely that 'the kings who will go out of Abraham', referred to in verse 6, mean celestial truths that flow in from the Lord's Divine Good, while 'the kings of peoples who will be from Sarah', referred to in the present verse, mean spiritual truths that flow in from the Lord's Divine Truth. For the Lord's Divine Good is unable to flow in except with the celestial man since it is an influx into the will part of his mind, as was the case with the Most Ancient Church, whereas with the spiritual man the Lord's Divine Truth is flowing in since the influx is solely into the understanding part, which in him has been separated from the will part, 2053 (end). Or what amounts to the same, celestial good is flowing in with the celestial man, and spiritual good with the spiritual man. As a consequence the Lord is seen by celestial angels as the Sun, but by spiritual angels as the Moon, 1529, 1530.

  
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