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Deuteronoomia 8

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1 Pidage hoolsasti kõiki käske, mis ma täna sulle annan, et te jääksite elama ja paljuneksite ning läheksite ja päriksite maa, mille Issand on vandega tõotanud teie vanemaile!

2 Ja tuleta meelde kogu teekonda, mida Issand, su Jumal, sind on lasknud käia need nelikümmend aastat kõrbes, et sind alandada, et sind proovile panna, et teada saada, mis on su südames: kas sa pead tema käske või mitte!

3 Tema alandas sind ja laskis sind nälgida, ja ta söötis sind mannaga, mida ei tundnud sina ega su vanemad, et teha sulle teatavaks, et inimene ei ela üksnes leivast, vaid inimene elab kõigest, mis lähtub Issanda suust.

4 Su riided ei kulunud seljas ega paistetanud su jalg need nelikümmend aastat.

5 Sa pead tundma oma südames, et nagu mees karistab oma poega, nõnda karistab sind Issand, su Jumal.

6 Pea Issanda, oma Jumala käske, käies tema teedel ja kartes teda!

7 Sest Issand, su Jumal, viib sind heale maale, veeojade, allikate ja sügavate vete maale, mis voolavad orgudes ja mägedes,

8 nisu, odra, viinapuude, viigipuude, granaatõunapuude, õlipuude ja mee maale,

9 maale, kus sa ei söö leiba kehvuses, kus sul midagi ei puudu, maale, mille kivid on raud ja mille mägedest sa saad raiuda vaske.

10 Kui sa sööd ja su kõht saab täis, siis kiida Issandat, oma Jumalat, hea maa pärast, mille ta sulle andis!

11 Hoia, et sa ei unusta Issandat, oma Jumalat, jättes pidamata tema käsud, seadlused ja määrused, mis ma täna sulle annan,

12 et kui sa sööd ja su kõht saab täis, ja sa ehitad ilusad kojad ning elad neis,

13 kui su veised, lambad ja kitsed sigivad, su hõbe ja kuld rohkeneb ja kõik, mis sul on, kasvab,

14 et su süda siis ei lähe suureliseks ja sa ei unusta Issandat, oma Jumalat, kes tõi sind välja Egiptusemaalt orjusekojast,

15 kes juhtis sind suures ja kardetavas mürkmadudega ja skorpionidega kõrbes, põuases paigas, kus ei olnud vett, kes laskis sulle vett voolata ränikivikaljust,

16 kes söötis sind kõrbes mannaga, mida su vanemad ei tundnud, et sind alandada ja proovile panna, et viimaks teha sulle head!

17 Ja ära ütle oma südames: Mu oma jõud ja mu käe ramm on soetanud mulle selle varanduse,

18 vaid tuleta meelde Issandat, oma Jumalat, et see on tema, kes annab sulle jõu varanduse soetamiseks, et kinnitada lepingut, mille ta vandudes tegi su vanematega, mis nüüd ongi teostunud!

19 Aga kui sa unustad Issanda, oma Jumala, ja käid teiste jumalate järel ja teenid neid ning kummardad nende ees, siis ma tunnistan täna teile, et te tõesti hukkute.

20 Nagu rahvad, keda Issand teie eest hävitab, nõnda hävite ka teie, kui te ei võta kuulda Issanda, oma Jumala häält.

   

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Apocalypse Revealed # 409

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409. And it fell on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water. This symbolically means that consequently all the Word's truths had been completely falsified.

Rivers symbolize truths in abundance, because waters symbolize truths (no. 50); and springs of water or fountains symbolize the Word (no. 384). The meaning is that the Word's truths had been completely falsified, because in the next verse we are told that a third of the waters became wormwood, and wormwood symbolizes hellish falsity (no. 410).

[2] That rivers symbolize truths in abundance can be seen from the following passages:

...I am doing a new thing... ...I will give waters in the wilderness and rivers in the desert, to give drink to My people, My chosen. (Isaiah 43:19-20)

...I will pour water on him who is thirsty, and rivers on the dry ground; I will pour My Spirit on your offspring, and My blessing on your descendants. (Isaiah 44:3)

Then... the tongue of the dumb shall sing; for waters shall burst forth in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert plain. (Isaiah 35:6)

I will open rivers in the heights, and put fountains in the midst of the valleys; I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water. (Isaiah 41:18)

(Jehovah) has founded (the world) upon the seas, ...established it upon the rivers. (Psalms 24:2)

I will set His hand over the sea, and His right hand on the rivers. (Psalms 89:25)

Was Jehovah angry with the rivers? Was Your anger against the rivers? Was Your wrath against the sea, that You rode on Your horses...? (Habakkuk 3:8)

There is a river whose streams shall make glad the city of God... (Psalms 46:4)

He showed me a pure river of water of life..., proceeding from the throne of God and of the Lamb. (Revelation 22:1)

He split the rocks in the wilderness, and made the great abysses drink... ...He struck the rock..., and rivers flowed out... (Psalms 78:15-16, 20, cf. 105:41)

The waters will fail in the sea, and the river will be... dried up. (Isaiah 19:5-7; cf. 42:15; 50:2, Nahum 1:4, Psalms 107:33, Job 14:11)

(Jesus said, "If anyone comes to Me,) as the Scripture has said, out of his belly will flow rivers of living water." (John 7:37-38)

And so, too, elsewhere, such as Isaiah 33:21, Jeremiah 17:7-8, Deuteronomy 8:7.

[3] In an opposite sense, however, rivers symbolize falsities in abundance, as can be seen from the following:

(It) will send ambassadors by sea... to a nation... downtrodden, whose land the rivers have despoiled. (Isaiah 18:2)

If not for Jehovah on our side..., ...the waters would have overwhelmed us, (and) the river would have gone over our soul. (Psalms 124:2, 4-5)

When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you. (Isaiah 43:2)

The cords of death surrounded me, and the rivers of Belial terrified me. (Psalms 18:5)

(The dragon) spewed water out of its mouth like a river after the woman, that it might cause her to be swallowed up by the stream. (Revelation 12:15)

...behold, Jehovah will cause to rise over them the waters of the river, strong and many..., and it will... overflow and pass through, and reach up to the neck. (Isaiah 8:7-8)

...the floods came, and... rushed upon that house; and (yet) it did not fall, for it was founded on the rock. (Matthew 7:25; cf. 7:27, Luke 6:48-49)

Rivers here, too, stand for falsities in abundance, because the rock symbolizes the Lord in relation to Divine truth.

Rivers also symbolize temptations or trials, because temptations or trials are inundations of falsities.

  
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Many thanks to the General Church of the New Jerusalem, and to Rev. N.B. Rogers, translator, for the permission to use this translation.