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Deuteronoomia 9

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1 Kuule, Iisrael! Sa lähed nüüd üle Jordani, et minna alistama rahvaid, kes on suuremad ja vägevamad sinust, linnu, suuri ja taevani kindlustatuid,

2 suurt ja pikakasvulist rahvast, anaklasi, keda sa tunned ja kellest sa oled kuulnud: 'Kes suudaks seista anaklaste ees?'

3 Tea siis nüüd, et Issand, su Jumal, on see, kes käib su ees nagu hävitav tuli; tema hävitab neid ja alandab nad su ees - siis ajad sa nad ära ja hukkad kiiresti, nõnda nagu Issand sulle on öelnud.

4 Kui Issand, su Jumal, ajab nad ära su eest, siis ära mõtle oma südames, öeldes: 'Minu õigsuse pärast on Issand mind toonud pärima seda maad!', vaid nende rahvaste jumalakartmatuse pärast ajab Issand nad ära su eest.

5 Mitte oma õigsuse ja südame siiruse pärast ei pääse sa nende maad pärima, vaid nende rahvaste jumalakartmatuse pärast ajab Issand, su Jumal, nad ära su eest, et pidada, mida Issand on vandega tõotanud su vanemaile, Aabrahamile, Iisakile ja Jaakobile.

6 Tea siis, et mitte sinu õigsuse pärast ei anna Issand, su Jumal, sulle pärimiseks seda head maad, sest sa oled kangekaelne rahvas!

7 Tuleta meelde, ära unusta, kuidas sa kõrbes vihastasid Issandat, oma Jumalat! Sellest päevast alates, mil sa lahkusid Egiptusemaalt, kuni teie tulekuni siia paika, olete osutanud vastupanu Issandale.

8 Juba Hoorebil te pahandasite Issandat ja Issand vihastus teie peale, tahtes teid hävitada.

9 Kui ma läksin üles mäele vastu võtma kivilaudu, selle seaduse laudu, mille Issand teile oli andnud, siis jäin ma mäele neljakümneks päevaks ja neljakümneks ööks, leiba söömata ja vett joomata.

10 Ja Issand andis mulle kaks kivilauda, millele oli kirjutatud Jumala sõrmega, ja nende peal olid kõik sõnad, mis Issand oli kogunemispäeval teile rääkinud mäel tule seest.

11 Neljakümne päeva ja neljakümne öö pärast andis Issand mulle need kaks kivilauda, seaduselauda.

12 Ja Issand ütles mulle: 'Tõuse ja mine siit kähku alla, sest su rahvas, kelle sa tõid Egiptusest välja, teeb pahasti: nad on juba lahkunud sellelt teelt, mida ma neid käskisin käia - nad on endale valmistanud valatud kuju!'

13 Ja Issand rääkis minuga, öeldes: 'Ma olen näinud seda rahvast, ja vaata, see on kangekaelne rahvas!

14 Jäta mind, ja ma hävitan nad ning kustutan nende nimed taeva alt, sinust aga teen ma vägevama ja suurema rahva kui see!'

15 Siis ma pöördusin ja läksin mäelt alla: mägi põles tules ja mul oli kaks seaduselauda teine teises käes.

16 Ja ma vaatasin, ja ennäe, te olite teinud pattu Issanda, oma Jumala vastu: te olite endile valmistanud valatud vasika, olite kiiresti lahkunud teelt, mida Issand teid oli käskinud käia.

17 Siis ma haarasin need kaks lauda ja viskasin need ära oma käest ning lõin need puruks teie silme ees.

18 Ja ma heitsin maha Issanda ette, olles nagu eelmiselgi korral nelikümmend päeva ja nelikümmend ööd leiba söömata ja vett joomata kõigi teie pattude pärast, mis te olite teinud, tehes kurja Issanda silmis ja vihastades teda.

19 Sest ma kartsin seda viha ja raevu, mis Issandat oli vallanud teie vastu, nõnda et ta tahtis teid hävitada. Ja Issand kuulis mind ka veel seekord.

20 Ka Aaroni peale vihastus Issand väga, tahtes teda hävitada, ja ma palusin siis ka Aaroni eest.

21 Aga teie patutöö, mille te olite valmistanud, vasika, ma võtsin ja põletasin seda tulega, lõin selle puruks, jahvatasin hästi, kuni see sai peeneks põrmuks, ja viskasin selle põrmu jõkke, mis mäelt alla voolab.

22 Ka Tabeeras ja Massas ja Kibrot-Hattaavas te vihastasite Issandat.

23 Ja kui Issand teid läkitas Kaades-Barneast, öeldes: 'Minge ja vallutage maa, mille ma teile annan!', siis te panite vastu Issanda, oma Jumala käsule, ei uskunud temasse ega kuulanud ta häält.

24 Te olete olnud Issandale vastupanijad, alates sellest päevast, mil tema teid tunneb.

25 Siis ma heitsin maha Issanda ette neiks neljakümneks päevaks ja neljakümneks ööks, sest Issand oli öelnud, et ta teid hävitab.

26 Ja ma palusin Issandat ning ütlesin: 'Issand Jumal, ära hukka oma rahvast ja oma pärisosa, kelle sa oled lunastanud oma suurusega ja kelle sa tõid Egiptusest välja vägeva käega!

27 Mõtle oma sulastele, Aabrahamile, Iisakile ja Jaakobile, ära pane tähele selle rahva kangust, ta nurjatust ja pattu,

28 et ei öeldaks maal, kust sa meid välja tõid: 'Sellepärast et Issand ei suutnud neid viia sellele maale, mille ta neile oli lubanud, ja et ta neid vihkas, viis ta nad välja, et neid kõrbes surmata!'

29 Ometi on nad ju sinu rahvas ja sinu pärisosa, kelle sa tõid välja oma suure rammuga ja väljasirutatud käsivarrega.'

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 10400

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10400. 'For this Moses, that man who caused us to come up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him' means a total unawareness of what other Divine Truth exists in the Word that raises a person from an external to an internal level and makes him an embodiment of the Church. This is clear from the representation of 'Moses' as the Word, thus Divine Truth, dealt with in the places referred to in 9372, so that an attitude of mind that doubts and denies the existence of any Divine Truth other than that which presents itself in the sense of the letter is meant by 'this Moses, that man, we do not know what has become of him' (the word 'man' is used here because in the Word 'man' means truth, see 3134, 3309, 3459, 7716, 9007); and from the meaning of 'causing the children of Israel to go up out of the land of Egypt' as a raising from the natural or external man to the internal or spiritual man, so that the person may be made an embodiment of the Church. For 'the land of Egypt' means the natural or external level of the Church, 'causing to come up' raising, and 'the children of Israel' the Church.

'The land of Egypt' means the natural or external level of the Church, see in the places referred to in 9391.

'Causing to come up' means raising from an external to an internal level, 3084, 4539, 4969, 5406, 5817, 6007, and so from the natural man to the spiritual man.

'The children of Israel' means the Church, see in the places referred to in 9340.

[2] From all this it is evident that 'this Moses, that man who caused us to come up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him' means a total unawareness of what Divine Truth exists in the Word to raise a person from an external to an internal level and to make him an embodiment of the Church other than that which presents itself in the sense of the letter. This also is what all who are restricted to external things devoid of anything internal think and say; and all are restricted to external things devoid of anything internal who are ruled by self-love and love of the world. With these people the internal man is closed and only the external man lies open; and what is seen by the external man without the internal when they read the Word is seen in thick darkness. This is so because in spiritual things natural illumination without light from heaven is complete darkness; and the light from heaven enters and illuminates the external man by way of the internal. This explains why so many heresies have arisen, why some call the Word a book of heresies, why people do not know at all that something internal is present within the Word, and why those who think that something is present there do not know exactly where. Such people are meant in Revelation 12 by the dragon which used its tail to draw from heaven a third part of the stars and cast them down to the earth, as will in the Lord's Divine mercy be shown elsewhere 1 .

[3] Let those who wish contemplate whether anyone at the present day has any other idea than that the actual Divine Truth of the Word resides in its literal sense. But let them also consider whether anyone can know the Divine Truths of the Word contained in that sense except with the aid of teachings drawn from that sense, and that if a person does not possess such teachings to serve as a lamp he is carried off into errors, in whatever direction the obscurity of his understanding and the delight of his will lead and take him. The teachings that must serve as a lamp are those that the internal sense provides, so that they constitute the actual internal sense. This sense is to some extent open to every person who, though he may not know what the internal sense is, has his external subject to his internal, that is, has his internal man lying open. For heaven, which is in possession of the internal sense of the Word, flows into that person when he reads the Word, brings him light, gives him discernment, and in this way teaches him. Indeed, if you are willing to believe it, a person's internal man is of itself in possession of the internal sense of the Word since the internal man constitutes heaven in the smallest form it takes, and when that internal man lies open the person is consequently present with angels in heaven, and therefore also possesses discernment similar to theirs. This becomes additionally clear from the consideration that the interior concepts within a person's understanding are not like his natural ones, though they are in agreement with these. What they are like however a person does not know as long as he lives in the body; but when he enters the next life he knows them automatically because they have been implanted within him, and by means of them he lives instantly in company with angels. From this it is evident that the person in whom the internal level lies open is in possession of the internal sense of the Word, though he does not know he is, and as a consequence has enlightenment when he reads the Word. But this depends on how much light he can receive by means of the cognitions or knowledge residing with him. Who exactly those people are however, see 9025, 9382, 9409, 9410, 9424, 9430, 10105, 10324.

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1. This proposal was not fulfilled in Arcana Caelestia but in works written at a later time.

  
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Jeremiah 30:7

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7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.