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Exodus 23

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1 Ära levita valekuuldusi! Ära löö kätt õelaga, et sa ei saaks valetunnistajaks!

2 Ära järgne jõugule kurja tegema ja ära kosta riiuasjas jõugu järele paindudes, et sa õigust ei väänaks!

3 Ära ole viletsa kasuks erapoolik tema riiuasjas!

4 Kui sa kohtad oma vihamehe eksinud härga või eeslit, siis vii see temale tagasi!

5 Kui sa näed oma vihamehe eeslit koorma all lamamas, siis ära jäta teda maha, vaid aita ta lahti päästa!

6 Ära vääna su juures oleva vaese õigust tema riiuasjas!

7 Pettusasjast hoia eemale; ja sa ei tohi tappa süütut ega õiget, sest mina ei mõista õigeks ühtki õelat!

8 Ära võta meelehead, sest meelehea pimestab nägijaid ja teeb õigete asjad segaseks!

9 Võõrale ära tee häda: te ju mõistate võõra hinge, sest te ise olete olnud võõrad Egiptusemaal!

10 Kuus aastat külva oma maale ja kogu sellelt saaki,

11 aga seitsmendal jäta see koristamata ja harimata, et su rahva vaesed saaksid sealt süüa; ja mis neist järele jääb, seda söögu metsloomad! Samuti talita ka oma viinamäe ja õlipuudega!

12 Kuus päeva tee oma tööd, aga seitsmendal päeval puhka, et su härg ja eesel kosuksid, ja su teenija poeg ning võõras saaksid hingata!

13 Kõik, mis ma teile olen rääkinud, pidage meeles! Teiste jumalate nimesid ei tohi te nimetada, ärgu seda kuuldagu sinu suust!

14 Kolm korda aastas pead mulle püha pidama!

15 Pea hapnemata leibade püha: seitse päeva söö hapnemata leiba, nõnda nagu ma sind olen käskinud, määratud ajal aabibikuus, sest siis sa tulid Egiptusest välja; aga tühje käsi ei tohi tulla mu palge ette!

16 Ja pea lõikuspüha oma varajase vilja saagile, mille oled külvanud põllule; ja vilja kokkupanemise püha aasta lõpus, kui sa oma saagi põllult koristad!

17 Kolm korda aastas peab kogu su meessugu tulema Issanda Jumala palge ette!

18 Sa ei tohi ohverdada mu tapaohvri verd haput leiba süües, ja mu pühade ohvrirasv ei tohi seista üle öö hommikuni!

19 Parim oma põllu uudseviljast vii Issanda, oma Jumala kotta! Ära keeda kitsetalle ta ema piimas!

20 Vaata, mina läkitan sinu eel ingli sind tee peal hoidma ja sind viima paika, mille ma olen valmistanud.

21 Ole valvel tema ees ja kuula ta häält, ära vihasta teda; sest ta ei andesta teie üleastumist, sellepärast et temas on minu nimi!

22 Aga kui sa tõesti kuulad tema häält ja teed kõike, mida ma käsin, siis ma olen sinu vaenlaste vaenlane ja vastaste vastane.

23 Sest minu ingel läheb sinu eel ja viib sind emorlaste, hettide, perislaste, kaananlaste, hiivlaste ja jebuuslaste juurde ja mina hävitan need.

24 Ära kummarda nende jumalaid ja ära teeni neid! Ja ära tee ka nende rahvaste tegude järgi, vaid kisu maha sootuks nende jumalad ja purusta täiesti nende ebaususambad!

25 Te peate aga teenima Issandat, oma Jumalat, siis ta õnnistab sinu leiba ja vett! Ja ma hoian tõve sinust eemal.

26 Enneaegselt sünnitajat ega sigimatut ei ole su maal. Ja ma teen täielikuks sinu päevade arvu.

27 Ma läkitan sinu eele hirmu ja viin segadusse kõik rahvad, kelle juurde sa tuled, ja teen, et kõik su vaenlased näitavad sulle selga.

28 Ma läkitan sinu eele masenduse, et see ajaks su eest ära hiivlased, kaananlased ja hetid.

29 Ma ei aja neid su eest ära ühe aastaga, et maa ei jääks tühjaks ja sulle ei sigineks metsloomi.

30 Ma ajan nad sinu eest ära vähehaaval, seni kui sa sigined ja pärid maa.

31 Ja ma annan sulle maa-ala Kõrkjamerest vilistite mereni ja kõrbest kuni Frati jõeni, sest ma annan maa elanikud teie kätte ja sina ajad need ära enese eest.

32 Sa ei tohi teha lepingut nendega ega nende jumalatega!

33 Nemad ei tohi jääda elama su maale, et nad ei mõjustaks sind minu vastu pattu tegema; sest kui sa nende jumalaid teenid, siis saab see sulle püüdepaelaks!'

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 9278

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9278. 'Six days you shall do your work' means a state of labour and conflict, when a person is governed by external delights that must be joined to things that are internal. This is clear from the meaning of 'six days' that come before the seventh, as states of labour and conflict, dealt with in 737, 900, 8510, 8888, 8975, the labour and conflict during them being meant by 'the work' that will be done on those days. 'The work' done during the six days and 'the rest' on the seventh day mean the things experienced by a person in his first state and in his second while being regenerated, and also those experienced by him after he has been regenerated. Regarding a person's first and second states while he is being regenerated, see above in 9274; and regarding the things experienced by him after he has been regenerated, 9213. The purpose of these experiences is that external things may be joined to internal ones; for there is an external man, which is also called natural, and there is an internal man, which is called spiritual. The external man is in contact with the world, and the internal with heaven.

[2] Divine order demands that heaven should rule the world with a person and not the world rule heaven with him; for when heaven rules a person, the Lord rules him, but when the world rules a person, the hells rule him. The natural disposition which a person is born with is such that he loves the world and self more than heaven and the Lord; and since this is the opposite of Divine order, an inversion must take place through regeneration. It takes place when the things that belong to heaven and the Lord are loved more than those which belong to the world and self. This is the reason why a person who has been regenerated, and also one who is in heaven, passes through two states that alternate with each other, in one of which external things prevail and in the other internal ones prevail; for by means of this alternation of states the external things are brought into agreement with the internal and at length made subordinate to them.

[3] When the external things prevail the person experiences labour and conflict; for he is immersed in the kind of life which savours of the world and into which the hells enter from every side, unceasingly endeavouring to engage in molestation, indeed to exercise control over the things of heaven with the person. But the Lord unceasingly protects and delivers him. This is the reason for the labour and conflict which are meant by the six days of the week in which work must be done. When however the internal things prevail, then - because the person is in heaven with the Lord - the labour and conflict come to an end, and he enjoys peace and serenity, in which also a joining together takes place. These blessings are what are meant by 'the seventh day'. The more internal aspects of the human being have been created in the image of heaven and the more external in the image of the world, so that the human being is a miniature form of heaven, also of the world, thus a microcosm, as the ancients called him, see 6057. So it is that Divine order demands that the Lord coming by way of heaven should rule the world with a person, and not at all vice versa.

[4] The nature of the labour and conflict experienced by the person when external things prevail may be recognized from this, that his state at that time is such that he is stirred by the world and indifferent towards heaven, unless it appears to him as the world does. But then the light by which he sees is so dim that he can only suppose that external things flow into internal ones, consequently that the eye sees or the ear hears by itself, that objects seen or heard by them are what produce thoughts and shape the understanding part of the mind, and that this gives him the ability to believe in and love God all by himself, and so to see heaven from the world. He cannot be easily led away from this illusion until he has been raised from external things to internal ones, and so to the light of heaven. Then he begins to perceive that things belonging to the world with him, thus those belonging to the body and its senses, see and act by means of influx from heaven, that is, from the Lord coming by way of heaven, and not at all by themselves. This goes to show why it is that a person thinking on the level of the senses supposes that his life is derived entirely from the world and the natural order, that there is no hell nor any heaven, and finally that there is no God. As a consequence he derides everything of the Church so far as he himself is concerned but is all in favour of it so far as the simple are concerned, as the means in addition to laws to keep them in check.

[5] From all this people may know what is meant by a situation in which external things prevail and not at the same time internal ones, and that when external things prevail a person feels indifferent towards what belongs to heaven or what belongs to the Lord and sees it in only dim light. They may also know who exactly in the world are the intelligent and wise, namely those who are governed by the Church's truth and good because they are recipients of wisdom from heaven, and who exactly are the stupid and foolish, namely those who are not governed by the Church's truth or good because the world is their only source of knowledge. And those among them who use worldly knowledge to set themselves firmly against the Church's truth and good are more foolish and stupid than the rest, no matter how much they suppose themselves to excel others in intelligence and wisdom and call people simple if they lead a good life based on the truths taught by doctrine. But such people's simplicity is wisdom in angels' eyes; and after death they are raised by the Lord into angelic wisdom.

[6] The Lord also teaches that this is so, in Matthew,

Therefore I speak in parables, because those who see do not see, and those who hear do not hear, nor do they understand. Matthew 13:13-14.

In John,

I will send the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him. Yet a little while, the world will see Me no longer. John 14:17, 19.

The world's inability to receive the Spirit of truth 'because it neither sees Him nor knows Him' means that it will not acknowledge the Lord with faith in the heart, because external things belonging to the world will obscure [Him]. This being so, is there anyone at the present day who worships Him as the Lord of the whole of heaven and of earth, Matthew 28:18? Yet all who are in heaven, and so with whom internal things prevail, see the Lord as their only God.

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