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Genesis 19

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1 Ja need kaks inglit jõudsid õhtul Soodomasse. Lott istus parajasti Soodoma väravas. Kui Lott neid nägi, siis ta tõusis neile vastu, kummardas silmili maha

2 ja ütles: 'Ennäe mu isandaid! Astuge ometi oma sulase kotta, jääge öömajale ja peske oma jalad! Hommikul võite vara üles tõusta ja oma teekonda jätkata!' Kuid nad vastasid: 'Ei, me jääme ööseks välja.'

3 Aga ta käis neile väga peale. Siis nad põikasid tema juurde ning tulid ta kotta. Ja ta valmistas neile pidusöögi, küpsetas hapnemata leibu ja nad sõid.

4 Nad ei olnud veel magama heitnud, kui linna mehed, Soodoma mehed, niihästi noored kui vanad, kogu rahvas viimseni, ümbritsesid koja

5 ja hüüdsid Lotti ning ütlesid temale: 'Kus on mehed, kes öösel tulid sinu juurde? Too nad välja meie kätte, et saaksime neid katsuda!'

6 Siis Lott läks välja nende juurde ukse ette, sulges ukse enese järel

7 ja ütles: 'Mu vennad, ärge ometi tehke kurja!

8 Vaadake, mul on kaks tütart, kes mehest veel midagi ei tea. Ma toon need välja teie kätte ja talitage nendega, nagu teie silmis hea on. Neile meestele ärge tehke midagi, sest nad on tulnud varjule minu katuse alla!'

9 Kuid nad vastasid: 'Käi minema!' Ja nad ütlesid: 'Ise on tulnud võõrana elama, aga tahab olla kohtumõistjaks! Nüüd me kohtleme sind halvemini kui neid!' Ja nad kippusid väga mehe, Loti kallale ning asusid ust maha murdma.

10 Siis mehed sirutasid käed välja, tõmbasid Loti enese juurde kotta ja sulgesid ukse.

11 Aga mehi, kes koja ukse taga olid, lõid nad pimestusega, niihästi väikesi kui suuri, nõnda et need väsisid ust otsimast.

12 Ja mehed ütlesid Lotile: 'Kes sul veel siin on, väimees ja pojad ja tütred ja kõik, kes sul linnas on, vii siit paigast ära,

13 sest me hävitame selle paiga, kuna hädakisa nende pärast on Issanda ees suur; ja Issand on meid läkitanud seda hävitama!'

14 Siis Lott läks välja ja kõneles oma väimeestega, kes pidid võtma ta tütred, ning ütles: 'Tõuske, minge siit paigast ära, sest Issand hävitab selle linna!' Aga oma väimeeste meelest heitis ta nalja.

15 Ja kui hakkas koitma, kiirustasid inglid Lotti, öeldes: 'Tõuse, võta oma naine ja kaks tütart, kes siin on, et sa ei hukkuks linna süü pärast!'

16 Ja kui ta veel kõhkles, siis haarasid mehed kinni ta käest, ja ta naise käest ja ta mõlema tütre käest, sest Issand tahtis teda säästa; ja nad viisid ta ära ning jätsid väljapoole linna.

17 Ja neid välja viies nad ütlesid: 'Päästa oma hing! Ära vaata selja taha ja ära peatu mitte kuskil ümbruskonnas! Põgene mäestikku, et sa ei hukkuks!'

18 Ja Lott vastas neile: 'Muidugi mitte, mu isand!

19 Vaata, su sulane on küll sinu silmis armu leidnud ja suur on su heldus, mida sa oled mulle osutanud, jättes mu hinge elama. Aga ma ei suuda põgeneda mäestikku, et õnnetus mind ei tabaks ja ma ei sureks.

20 Vaata, see linn taamal on nii ligidal, et sinna võiks põgeneda, ja on pisitilluke. Kui ma ometi sinna pääseksin - eks ole, see on ju pisitilluke? -, siis võiks mu hing jääda elama!'

21 Ja ta vastas temale: 'Vaata, ma võtan sind kuulda ka selles asjas ega paiska segi linna, millest sa räägid.

22 Tõtta, põgene sinna, sest ma ei või midagi teha enne, kui sa sinna oled jõudnud!' Seepärast pandi sellele linnale nimeks Soar.

23 Päike oli just tõusnud maa kohale, kui Lott jõudis Soari.

24 Ja Issand laskis sadada Soodoma ja Gomorra peale väävlit ja tuld Issanda juurest taevast

25 ning hävitas need linnad ja kogu ümbruskonna, kõik linnade elanikud ja maa taimestiku.

26 Aga Loti naine, kes ta järel käis, vaatas tagasi ja muutus soolasambaks.

27 Ja Aabraham läks hommikul vara paika, kus ta Issanda ees oli seisnud,

28 heitis pilgu alla Soodoma ja Gomorra poole ja kogu ümbruskonna maapinnale, vaatas, ja ennäe, maast tõusis suits otsekui sulatusahju suits.

29 Kui Jumal oli segi paisanud ümbruskonna linnad, mõtles Jumal Aabrahamile ja saatis Loti ära selle hävituse keskelt, millega ta segi paiskas need linnad, kus Lott oli elanud.

30 Ja Lott läks Soarist üles ning elas mäestikus koos oma kahe tütrega, sest ta kartis elada Soaris; ta elas ühes koopas, tema ise ja ta mõlemad tütred.

31 Kord ütles vanem nooremale: 'Meie isa on vana ja maal pole ühtegi meest, kes tuleks Meie juurde kogu maailma kombe järgi.

32 Tule, joodame oma isa veiniga ja magame temaga, et saaksime oma isalt järeltulija!'

33 Ja nad jootsid oma isa sel ööl veiniga ja vanem läks ning magas oma isaga; see ei märganudki, millal too maha heitis või üles tõusis.

34 Ja järgmisel päeval ütles vanem nooremale: 'Vaata, ma magasin eile oma isaga. Joodame ka sel ööl teda veiniga, siis mine maga sina temaga, et saaksime oma isalt järeltulija!'

35 Ja nad jootsid ka sel ööl oma isa veiniga ja noorem läks ning magas temaga; see ei märganudki, millal too maha heitis või üles tõusis.

36 Ja Loti mõlemad tütred jäid oma isast lapseootele.

37 Ja vanem sünnitas poja ning pani temale nimeks Moab; see on moabide isa tänapäevani.

38 Ja noorem sünnitas ka poja ning pani temale nimeks Ben-Ammi; see on ammonlaste isa tänapäevani.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 2426

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2426. 'In case the evil clings to me and I die' means it would inevitably result in evil existing with him at the same time and that this being so he would be condemned. This is clear without explanation. What these words embody can be recognized from what has been stated and shown already in 301-303, 571, 582, 1001, 1327, 1328 - that the Lord is continually making provision to prevent the mixing together of evil with good. But to the extent a person is immersed in evil, he is further away from good. It is better to be immersed completely in evil than in evil and at the same time in good. For if a person is under the influence of evil and of good simultaneously he inevitably stands condemned for ever. It is the deceitful and the hypocritical within the Church who more than anybody else stand in danger of this. This then is the meaning in the internal sense of 'in case the evil clings to me and I die'.

  
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Arcana Coelestia # 1001

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1001. 'Blood' means charity, as becomes clear from many considerations, and so means the new will part which a regenerate spiritual person receives from the Lord. This new will part is identical with charity, for it is from charity that the new will takes form. Indeed charity, or love, is the essential element or the life of the will, for nobody can possibly say he wills something unless he takes delight in it or loves it. When people say they have something in mind this does not imply that they will it, unless will is implicit in thought. This new will which is one of charity is 'the blood' here. It is not the person's own but the Lord's residing with him. And because it is the Lord's it must never be mixed together with things that belong to the person's own will which, as stated, is so foul. This was the reason why in the representative Church people were commanded not to eat flesh with its soul, that is, not to eat the blood. That is to say, they were not to mix the one with the other. Because 'blood' meant charity it meant that which was holy, and because 'flesh' meant what belonged to the merely human will, it meant that which was unholy. And because these, being opposites, were quite separate, people were forbidden to eat blood. For in those times 'the eating of flesh together with the blood' was representative in heaven of profanation, or the mixing together of holy and unholy - which representation in heaven could do nothing else than strike the angels with horror. For at that period of time all things that took place among members of the Church were converted among angels - according to the meaning such things had in the internal sense - into corresponding spiritual representations.

[2] Since the nature of everything depends on that of the person to whom it refers, the same holds true with regard to the meaning of blood. When it refers to a regenerate spiritual person 'blood' means charity or love towards the neighbour. When it refers to a regenerate celestial person it means love to the Lord. But when it refers to the Lord it means the whole of His Human Essence, and so Love itself, which is His mercy towards the human race. Consequently since 'blood' in general means love and what belongs to love, it means heavenly things that are the Lord's alone, and so in reference to man it means the heavenly things a person receives from the Lord. The heavenly things that a regenerate spiritual person receives from the Lord are celestial-spiritual. These in the Lord's Divine mercy will be dealt with elsewhere.

[3] That 'blood' means heavenly things, and in the highest sense meant the Lord's Human Essence, and so Love itself, which is His mercy towards the human race, becomes clear from the sacredness that the Jewish representative Church was required to attach to blood. For this reason blood was called 'the blood of the covenant'. It was sprinkled over the people, and also, together with the anointing oil, over Aaron and his sons. And [the blood] of every burnt offering and sacrifice was sprinkled over and around the altar. For these details, see Exodus 12:7, 13, 22-23; 24:6, 8; Leviticus 1:5, 11, 15; 4:6-7, 17-18, 25, 30, 34; 5:9; 16:12-15; 18, 19; Numbers 18:17; Deuteronomy 12:27.

[4] Because blood was held to be so holy, and what belonged to the merely human will was so unholy, they were strictly forbidden to eat blood because this represented the profanation of what is holy, as in Moses,

It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations, in all your dwelling-places, that you shall not eat any fat or any blood. Leviticus 3:17.

'Fat' stands for celestial life, and 'blood' in this instance for celestial-spiritual life. The celestial-spiritual is that which is spiritual having a celestial origin, as with the Most Ancient Church. With them love to the Lord was the celestial because this had been implanted in their will, while that which was celestial-spiritual with them was faith flowing from it, dealt with in 30-38, 337, 793, 398. But with a spiritual person the celestial does not exist, only the celestial-spiritual, because charity is implanted in the understanding part of his mind.

In the same author,

As for anyone from the house of Israel or from the sojourner sojourning among them who eats any blood, I will set My face 1 against the soul eating blood and will cut him off from among his people, for the soul of the flesh is in the blood; and I have given it for you upon the altar, to make atonement for your souls, for the blood itself will make atonement by reason of the soul. The soul of all flesh is the blood of it; everyone eating it shall be cut off. Leviticus 17:10-11, 14.

Here it is plainly stated that the soul of the flesh is in the blood and that the soul of [all] flesh is the blood, or that which is celestial, that is, that which is holy and is the Lord's.

[5] In the same author,

Be sure that you do not eat blood, for the blood is the soul and you shall not eat the soul with the flesh. Deuteronomy 12:23-25.

From these words similarly it is clear that the blood is called the soul, that is, celestial life, or that which is celestial, and was represented by the burnt offerings and sacrifices of that Church. In a similar way, it was the requirement not to mingle that which was celestial - the Lord's Proprium, which alone is celestial and holy - with man's proprium, which is unholy, that was represented also by their being forbidden to make a sacrifice of, that is, to offer, the blood of the sacrifice with anything leavened, Exodus 23:18; 34:25. That which was 'leavened' meant that which was corrupt and filthy.

[6] The reason Why 'blood' is called the soul and means the holiness of charity, and why the holiness of love was represented in the Jewish Church by 'blood', is that the life of the body lies in the blood. And because the life of the body lies in the blood it is its ultimate soul, so that the blood therefore may be called the bodily soul, or the place where a person's bodily life resides. And because in representative Churches internal things were represented by external, the soul or celestial life was therefore represented by 'the blood'.

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1. literally, faces

  
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