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1 Siis terve kogudus tõstis valjusti häält ja rahvas nuttis sel ööl.

2 Kõik Iisraeli lapsed nurisesid Moosese ja Aaroni vastu ja terve kogudus ütles neile: 'Oleksime ometi surnud Egiptusemaal või siin kõrbes! Oleksime ometi surnud!

3 Miks Issand viib meid sellele maale, kus me langeme mõõga läbi ja meie naised ja lapsed jäävad saagiks? Kas meil ei oleks parem minna tagasi Egiptusesse?'

4 Ja nad ütlesid üksteisele: 'Valigem pealik ja mingem tagasi Egiptusesse!'

5 Siis Mooses ja Aaron heitsid silmili maha kogu Iisraeli laste kokkutulnud koguduse ees,

6 Joosua, Nuuni poeg, ja Kaaleb, Jefunne poeg, maakuulajate hulgast aga käristasid oma riided lõhki

7 ja rääkisid kogu Iisraeli laste kogudusele, öeldes: 'Maa, mille me läbi käisime, et seda uurida, on väga hea Maa.

8 Kui Issandal on meist hea meel, siis ta viib meid sellele maale ja annab selle meile, maa, mis piima ja mett voolab.

9 Ärge ainult pange vastu Issandale ja ärge kartke maa rahvast, sest nad on meile parajaks palaks: nende kaitsja on nad maha jätnud, aga Issand on meiega! Ärge kartke neid!'

10 Siis ütles terve kogudus, et nad tuleks kividega surnuks visata! Aga Issanda auhiilgus ilmutas ennast kogudusetelgis kõigile Iisraeli lastele.

11 Ja Issand ütles Moosesele: 'Kui kaua see rahvas põlgab mind ja kui kaua nad ei usu mind hoolimata kõigist tunnustähtedest, mis ma nende keskel olen teinud?

12 Ma löön teda katkuga ja hävitan tema, aga sinust ma teen suurema ja vägevama rahva kui tema!'

13 Siis Mooses ütles Issandale: 'Egiptlased on muidugi kuulnud, et sa oma rammuga oled selle rahva ära toonud nende keskelt,

14 ja nad on seda rääkinud selle maa elanikele. Nemadki on siis kuulnud, et sina, Issand, oled selle rahva keskel, sina, Issand, kes ennast ilmutad silmast silma, ja et sinu pilv seisab nende kohal ning et sa käid nende ees päeval pilvesambas ja öösel tulesambas.

15 Aga kui sa nüüd surmad selle rahva nagu üheainsa mehe, siis räägivad rahvad, kes sinu kuulsusest on kuulnud, ja ütlevad:

16 Sellepärast et Issand ei suutnud viia seda rahvast maale, mille ta neile oli vandega tõotanud, tappis ta nad kõrbes.

17 Nüüd aga saagu Issanda ramm suureks, nagu sa oled tõotanud, öeldes:

18 Issand on pika meelega ja rikas heldusest, ta annab andeks patu ja üleastumise, aga kes ei jäta süüdlast karistamata, vaid nuhtleb vanemate patu laste kätte kolmanda ja neljanda põlveni.

19 Anna siis andeks selle rahva patt oma suure helduse pärast ja nagu sa sellele rahvale oled andeks andnud Egiptusemaalt kuni siiani!'

20 Ja Issand vastas: 'Ma annan andeks, nagu oled palunud!

21 Aga nii tõesti kui ma elan ja kogu maailm on täis Issanda auhiilgust:

22 ükski neist meestest, kes on näinud mu auhiilgust ja tunnustähti, mis ma tegin Egiptuses ja kõrbes, aga kes sellest hoolimata on mind kiusanud kümme korda ega ole võtnud kuulda mu häält,

23 ei saa näha maad, mille ma vandega olen tõotanud anda nende vanemaile; ükski, kes mind on põlanud, ei saa seda näha!

24 Aga oma sulase Kaalebi viin ma sellele maale, kus ta on käinud, ja tema sugu pärib selle, sellepärast et temas on teistsugune vaim ja tema on kõiges mulle järgnenud!

25 Amalekid ja kaananlased elavad ju orus. Homme pöörduge ümber ja minge teele kõrbe poole mööda Kõrkjamere teed!'

26 Ja Issand rääkis Moosesega ja Aaroniga, öeldes:

27 'Kui kaua peab mul olema kannatust selle halva kogudusega, kes nuriseb mu vastu? Iisraeli laste nurinaid, kuidas nad nurisevad mu vastu, ma olen kuulnud.

28 Ütle neile: Nii tõesti kui ma elan, on Issanda sõna, et nõnda nagu te minu kuuldes olete rääkinud, nõnda ma teen teiega!

29 Siia kõrbe langevad teie kehad, kõik teie äraloetud, nii palju kui teid on, kahekümneaastased ja üle selle, kes on nurisenud mu vastu.

30 Ükski teist ei pääse sellele maale, mille pärast ma oma käe olen vandudes üles tõstnud, et ma asustan teid sinna, peale Kaalebi, Jefunne poja, ja Joosua, Nuuni poja.

31 Aga teie lapsed, kelle kohta te ütlesite, et nad jäävad riisutavaiks, ma viin ja nad õpivad tundma maad, mida teie olete põlanud.

32 Kuid teie kehad langevad siia kõrbe

33 ja teie lapsed peavad olema kõrbes karjased nelikümmend aastat ja kandma teie uskmatuse süüd, kuni teie kehad on kõrbes hävinud.

34 Vastavalt päevade arvule, mis te uurisite seda maad, nelikümmend päeva, iga päeva kohta aasta, peate te kandma oma pattu nelikümmend aastat ja tundma minu vastupanu.

35 Mina, Issand, olen rääkinud! Tõesti, seda ma teen kogu selle halva kogudusega, kes on kogunenud mu vastu: nad peavad hukkuma selles kõrbes ja surema seal!'

36 Ja need mehed, keda Mooses oli läkitanud maad kuulama ja kes olid tagasi tulles ässitanud terve koguduse nurisema tema vastu, levitades maa kohta laimu,

37 need mehed, kes olid levitanud maa kohta halba laimu, surid Issanda ees äkitselt.

38 Aga Joosua, Nuuni poeg, ja Kaaleb, Jefunne poeg, jäid elama neist meestest, kes olid käinud maad kuulamas.

39 Kui Mooses rääkis needsamad sõnad kõigile Iisraeli lastele, siis rahvas kurvastas väga.

40 Aga järgmisel hommikul tõusid nad vara ja läksid üles mäestikku, öeldes: 'Vaata, siin me oleme ja me läheme paika, millest Issand on rääkinud, sest me oleme pattu teinud.'

41 Aga Mooses ütles: 'Miks te siis astute üle Issanda käsust? See ei õnnestu!

42 Ärge minge sinna üles, sest Issand ei ole teie keskel, et te ei kannaks kaotust oma vaenlaste ees!

43 Sest amalekid ja kaananlased on seal teie ees ja te langete mõõga läbi; sellepärast et te olete taganenud Issanda järelt, ei ole ka Issand teiega.'

44 Aga nad olid ülemeelsed minema üles mäestikku, kuigi Issanda seaduselaegas ja Mooses ei läinud leerist välja.

45 Amalekid ja kaananlased, kes elasid seal mäestikus, tulid siis alla ja lõid neid ning ajasid nad kuni Hormani.

   

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The Hebrew of the Old Testament has six different common words which are generally translated as "wife," which largely overlap but have different nuances. Swedenborg uses two different Latin words, which largely overlap but have different nuances. Meanwhile, "wife" is often paired with "man" or "husband," which are also catch-all translations for a basket of Hebrew and Latin terms. So it's hard to pin down one universal meaning for "wife"; context and subject matter have a large effect.

In general, though, marriage in the Bible represents the union we all seek between our hearts and our minds. If we know what is right and pursue it faithfully, the Lord will ultimately help us love doing what is good, and the two aspects of ourselves will be unified. On a higher level, marriage represents the union we can have with the Lord, both individually and collectively as a church. As an intrinsic part of the marriage, the wife plays a key role in that meaning. But that meaning is different depending on what is being described.

If the marriage is describing a person who is spiritual in nature – "spiritual" being the second degree of heavenly life, in which people are led by intellect and knowledge with the desire for good following – the wife represents the desire for good, the affections that drive the person. If the marriage is describing someone who is celestial in nature – "celestial" being the highest degree of heavenly life, in which people are led from love, with the intellect and ideas following – the wife represents the true ideas held by the person or church. If the marriage is describing the union between the Lord and the church, the wife represents the church.

In a way, these are symbolic meanings that actually have little to do with gender. When "wife" describes a church, obviously that church can include both male and female people. When "wife" describes an aspect of a person, that person can obviously be either male or female.

(Odkazy: Arcana Coelestia 915, 1468, 1904 [1-2], 3246 [3-4], 3398, 4823 [2])

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1904. That 'Sarai, Abram's wife, took' means the affection for truth, which in the genuine sense is 'Sarai the wife', is clear from the meaning of 'Sarai' as truth allied to good, and from the meaning of 'wife' as affection, dealt with already in 915, 1468. There are two affections, distinct and separate - the affection for good and the affection for truth. While a person is being regenerated the affection for truth takes the lead, for it is an affection for truth for the sake of good that moves him; but once he has been regenerated the affection for good takes the lead, and it is now an affection for truth originating in good that moves him. The affection for good belongs to the will, the affection for truth to the understanding. The most ancient people established a marriage so to speak between these two affections. They used to refer to good (or the love of good) and truth (or the love of truth) as Man, calling the former 'the husband' and the latter 'the wife'. The comparison of good and truth to a marriage has its origins in the heavenly marriage.

[2] Regarded in themselves good and truth do not possess any life, but they derive their life from love or affection. They are merely the instruments that serve life. Consequently as is the love producing the affection for good and truth, so is the life; for the whole of life constitutes the whole of love or affection. This is why 'Sarai his wife' in the genuine sense means the affection for truth. And because the Intellectual desired the Rational as its offspring, and because what she says is an expression of that desire or affection, this verse contains the explicit wording, 'Sarai, Abram's wife, gave to Abram her husband' which would be an unnecessary repetition - for in themselves these words would be quite superfluous - if such matters were not embodied within the internal sense.

[3] Intellectual truth is distinct and separate from rational truth, and rational truth from factual truth, just as what is internal, what is intermediate, and what is external are. Intellectual truth is internal, rational truth is intermediate, while factual truth is external. These are quite distinct and separate because one is interior to another. With everyone intellectual truth, which is internal, or that present within the inmost part of him, is not his own but is the Lord's with him. From this the Lord flows into the rational, where truth first appears as if it were the person's own, and through the rational into his faculty of knowing. From these considerations it is clear that nobody can possibly think as of himself from intellectual truth, but from rational truth and factual truth because these do appear as if they were his.

[4] Only the Lord, when He lived in the world, thought from intellectual truth, for that truth was His own Divine truth joined to good, or the Divine spiritual joined to the Divine celestial. In this respect the Lord was different from all others. Man in no way possesses the ability to think from the Divine existing within himself as his essential self, nor can that ability possibly exist within man, only within Him who was conceived from Jehovah. Because He thought from intellectual truth, that is, from the love or affection for intellectual truth, from that truth also He desired the Rational. This is why it is stated here that 'Sarai, Abram's wife', by whom is meant the affection for intellectual truth, 'took Hagar the Egyptian and gave her to Abram her husband as his wife (mulier)'.

[5] No other arcana concealed here can be brought out and explained intelligibly because the human being dwells in very great obscurity regarding his own internals. Indeed he has no conception of these, for he identifies the rational and the intellectual degrees of the mind with the factual degree, not knowing that these degrees are distinct and separate, so distinct in fact that the intellectual is able to exist without the rational, as also can the rational, while subordinate to the intellectual, exist without the factual. This must inevitably seem absurd to those wholly immersed in factual knowledge, but it is nevertheless the truth. It is not possible however for anyone to have truth present in the factual degree of his mind, that is to say, to have an affection for it and a belief in it, if truth is not present in the rational, into which and through which the Lord flows in from the intellectual degree. These arcana do not lie open to man's view except in the next life.

  
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