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1 Ja Issand rääkis Moosesega, öeldes:

2 'Läkita mehi uurima Kaananimaad, mille ma annan Iisraeli lastele; igast nende vanemate suguharust läkitage üks mees, igaüks neist olgu vürst!'

3 Siis läkitas Mooses Issanda käsul nad Paarani kõrbest; kõik need mehed olid Iisraeli laste peamehed.

4 Ja need on nende nimed: Ruubeni suguharust Sammua, Sakkuri poeg;

5 Siimeoni suguharust Saafat, Hoori poeg;

6 Juuda suguharust Kaaleb, Jefunne poeg;

7 Issaskari suguharust Jigal, Joosepi poeg;

8 Efraimi suguharust Hoosea, Nuuni poeg;

9 Benjamini suguharust Palti, Raafu poeg;

10 Sebuloni suguharust Gaddiel, Soodi poeg;

11 Joosepi suguharust, nimelt Manasse suguharust, Gaddi, Suusi poeg;

12 Daani suguharust Ammiel, Gemalli poeg;

13 Aaseri suguharust Setuur, Miikaeli poeg;

14 Naftali suguharust Nahbi, Vofsi poeg;

15 Gaadi suguharust Geuel, Maaki poeg.

16 Need olid nende meeste nimed, keda Mooses läkitas maad kuulama. Ja Mooses nimetas Hoosea, Nuuni poja, Joosuaks.

17 Ja läkitades neid Kaananimaad uurima, ütles Mooses neile: 'Minge sinna Lõunamaale ja minge üles mäestikku,

18 vaadake maad, missugune see on, ja rahvast, kes seal elab: on ta vägev või väeti, on teda pisut või palju?

19 Kas maa, kus ta elab, on hea või halb? Missugused on linnad, kus ta elab: kas leerid või kindlused?

20 Ja missugune on maa: kas rammus või lahja, kas seal on puid või ei ole? Olge vaprad ja võtke kaasa maa vilju!' Oli parajasti esimeste viinamarjade aeg.

21 Ja nad läksid ning uurisid maad Siini kõrbest kuni Rehobini, Hamati teelahkmeni.

22 Ja nad läksid lõuna poole ning tulid kuni Hebronini; seal olid Ahiman, Seesai ja Talmai, Anaki järeltulijad. Hebron oli ehitatud seitse aastat enne Egiptuse Soani.

23 Siis nad tulid Kobaraorgu ja lõikasid sealt viinapuuväädi üheainsa kobaraga ning kandsid seda kahe mehega põikpuus; nad võtsid ka granaatõunu ja viigimarju.

24 See paik nimetati Kobaraoruks viinamarjakobara pärast, mille Iisraeli lapsed sealt lõikasid.

25 Ja neljakümne päeva pärast tulid nad tagasi maad kuulamast.

26 Nad tulid ning läksid Moosese ja Aaroni ja kogu Iisraeli laste koguduse juurde Paarani kõrbe Kaadesisse ning tõid sõnumeid neile ja kogu kogudusele ja näitasid neile maa vilju.

27 Ja nad jutustasid temale ning ütlesid: 'Me jõudsime sellele maale, kuhu sa meid läkitasid. See voolab tõesti piima ja mett, ja siin on selle viljad.

28 Kuid rahvas, kes elab maal, on tugev, ja linnad on kindlustatud ja väga suured. Me nägime seal ka Anaki järeltulijaid.

29 Lõunamaal elavad amalekid, mäestikus elavad hetid, jebuuslased ja emorlased, mererannas ja Jordani ääres elavad kaananlased.'

30 Siis Kaaleb vaigistas rahvast Moosese ees ja ütles: 'Mingem siiski sinna ja vallutagem see, sest me suudame selle alistada!'

31 Aga mehed, kes olid käinud koos temaga, ütlesid: 'Me ei või minna selle rahva vastu, sest ta on meist vägevam.'

32 Ja nad levitasid Iisraeli laste ees laimu maa kohta, mida nad olid uurinud, öeldes: 'maa, mille me uurides läbi käisime, on maa, mis neelab oma elanikud, ja kogu see rahvas, keda me seal nägime, on pikakasvulised inimesed.

33 Me nägime seal hiiglasi, Anaki poegi hiiglaste soost: me olime iseendi silmis nagu rohutirtsud ja samasugused olime meie ka nende silmis.'

   

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Apocalypse Revealed # 425

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425. And to them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power. This symbolizes their power to persuade that their falsities are true.

A scorpion symbolizes a deadly persuasiveness, and a scorpion of the earth a deadly persuasiveness in matters having to do with the church, as the earth symbolizes the church (no. 285). For when a scorpion stings a person, it produces a numbness in the limbs, and if it is not treated, death. Persuasiveness does something similar to the intellect. A scorpion, moreover, has the same symbolism in the following places:

...do not be afraid of them or... of their words; they are... thorny..., ...you dwell among scorpions... ...they are brazen-faced and hard-hearted... (Ezekiel 2:4, 6)

(Jesus said to the seventy He had sent out,) "Behold, I give you the power to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, even so that nothing whatever hurts you. (Luke 10:19)

  
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Arcana Coelestia # 6398

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6398. 'Dan will be a serpent on the road' means their reasoning regarding truth, since good does not as yet lead them. This is clear from the representation of 'Dan' as those guided by truth but not as yet by good, dealt with above in 6396; from the meaning of 'a serpent' as reasoning based on sensory evidence, dealt with below; and from the meaning of 'the road' as truth, dealt with in 627, 2733. Thus 'Dan is a serpent on the road' means their reasoning regarding truth, since good does not as yet lead them. The nature of that reasoning and the nature of the truth resulting from it will be stated below.

[2] The reason why 'a serpent' means reasoning based on sensory evidence is that the interiors of a person are represented in heaven by living creatures of various kinds, and therefore in the Word similar things are meant by those same creatures. A person's sensory powers have come to be represented by serpents because they are the lowest of his mental powers. Compared with other mental powers those of the senses are on the ground so to speak, crawling around there, as may also be recognized from the forms that sensory impressions adopt when they enter in, which will in the Lord's Divine mercy be dealt with elsewhere. This explains why those sensory powers have come to be represented by 'serpents', so much so that the Lord's Divine sensory perception was represented by the bronze serpent in the wilderness, 4211 (end).

[3] True shrewdness and circumspection - qualities that reveal themselves in external affairs - were also meant by 'serpents', in Matthew,

Be shrewd as serpents and simple as doves. Matthew 10:16.

But in the case of a person who is governed by his senses and is far removed from what is internal - as those people are who are guided by truth but not as yet by good - and who speaks as his senses tell him, 'a serpent' means false reasoning. This therefore is why here, where Dan is the subject, reasoning regarding truth because good does not as yet lead him is meant. In other contexts ill-will, deceitfulness, and trickery are also meant by 'serpents', though in those places they are poisonous serpents - such as vipers and the like - whose reasoning is their poison.

'A serpent' is reasoning based on sensory evidence, see 195-197.

'A serpent' is all evil in general, and evils are distinguished from one another by different kinds of serpents, 251, 254, 257.

  
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