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Mooseksen kirja 17

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1 Älä uhraa Herralle sinun Jumalalles mitään nautaa eli lammasta, jossa joku virhe taikka puutos on: sillä se on Herralle sinun Jumalalles kauhistus.

2 Jos löydetään jossakussa sinun porteistas, jotka Herra sinun Jumalas antaa sinulle, joku mies eli vaimo, joka pahaa tekee Herran sinun Jumalas silmäin edessä, rikkoen hänen liittonsa,

3 Ja menee palvelemaan vieraita jumalia, ja kumartaa niitä, aurinkoa, kuuta tahi jotakuta taivaan joukosta, jota en minä käskenyt ole,

4 Ja se sanotaan sinulle, ja sinä kuulet sen, niin tiedustele visusti, ja koskas löydät totiseksi todeksi, että senkaltainen kauhistus Israelissa tehty on;

5 Niin vie se mies tahi vaimo ulos joka senkaltaisen pahuuden on tehnyt, sinun portteihis, ja kivitä hänet kuoliaaksi.

6 Kahden eli kolmen suun todistuksesta pitää sen kuoleman, joka kuoleman on ansainnut; mutta yhden suun todistuksesta ei pidä hänen kuoleman.

7 Todistajain käsi pitää ensin oleman hänen päällensä tappamaan häntä ja sitte kaiken kansan käsi: sinun pitää eroittaman pahan sinun seastas.

8 Jos joku asia tuomiossa näkyy sinulle pimiäksi, veren ja veren välillä, asian ja asian välillä, vahingon ja vahingon välillä, ja kuin eripuraiset asiat ovat sinun porteissas, niin nouse ja mene siihen paikkaan jonka Herra sinun Jumalas valitseva on,

9 Ja tule pappein, Leviläisten ja tuomarin tykö, jotka siihen aikaan ovat, ja kysy heiltä: he sanovat sinulle tuomion sanan,

10 Ja tee sen sanan jälkeen, jonka he sinulle julistavat, siinä paikassa minkä Herra valitseva on, ja ota vaari, ettäs teet kaikki mitä he sinulle opettavat.

11 Sen lain jälkeen jonka he opettavat sinulle, ja sen tuomion jälkeen jonka he sanovat sinun etees, pitää sinun tekemän, niin ettes siitä sanasta, kuin he sanovat sinulle, vilpistele et oikialle etkä vasemmalle.

12 Ja jos joku olis ollut ylpiä, niin ettei hän ole kuuliainen papille, joka siellä Herran sinun Jumalas palvelusta tekemässä seisoo, eli tuomarille, hänen pitää kuoleman: ja ota sinä paha Israelista pois,

13 Että kaikki kansa sen kuulevat ja pelkäävät, ja ei enää ylpiästi tee.

14 Koska tulet siihen maahan, kuin Herra sinun Jumalas sinulle antaa, omistaakses sitä ja asuakses siinä, ja sanot: minä asetan kuninkaan minulleni, niinkuin kaikki kansat jotka minun ympärilläni ovat;

15 Niin aseta se kuninkaaksi sinulles, jonka Herra sinun Jumalas valitsee. Aseta veljistäs kuningas sinulles: et sinä saa muukalaista asettaa sinulles, joka ei sinun veljes ole,

16 Ainoastaan ettei hän pidä monta hevosta, ja vie kansaa jälleen Egyptiin niiden monien hevosten tähden, ja että Herra teille sanoi: ettette enää tätä tietä tule.

17 Ei hänen myös pidä ottaman itsellensä monta emäntää, ettei hänen sydämensä kääntyisi pois, ja ei hänen pidä myös itsellensä aivan paljo hopiaa ja kultaa kokooman.

18 Ja kuin hän istuu valtakuntansa istuimella, niin ottakaan tämän lain papeilta Leviläisiltä, ja antakaan kirjoittaa toisen kappaleen siihen kirjaan.

19 Se olkoon hänen tykönänsä, ja lukekaan sitä kaiken elinaikansa, että hän oppis pelkäämään Herraa Jumalaansa, ja pitämään kaiken tämän lain sanat ja nämät säädyt, ja että hän tekis niiden jälkeen.

20 Niin ettei hän korottaisi sydäntänsä veljeinsä ylitse, eikä myös käskyistä vilpistelisi, oikialle eikä vasemmalle puolelle, että hän päivänsä pitentäisi valtakunnassansa, hän ja hänen poikansa Israelissa.

   


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7456. 'Will they not stone us?' means that they would thereby demolish the truths of faith that related to worship. This is clear from the meaning of 'stoning' as demolishing and wiping out falsities, but in the contrary sense, when done by the evil, as demolishing and wiping out the truths of faith. If the vile, foul, and hellish things referred to above in 7454 were to enter in among people whose worship is holy its holiness would be destroyed. The reason for this is that when a person's worship is holy he is withheld from such things, and people who are governed by good in faith and life are raised above the level of the senses on which such things reside. But when such objects do enter in the foul things present on the sensory level are stirred up - that is, the things which a person is withheld from when his worship is holy, as has been stated, and which people governed by good are raised above - and the holiness of the worship is destroyed. Experience too demonstrates this plainly, for if, when a person offers worship to God, some foul object appears and is not removed, worship ceases and is destroyed. This is what is meant when it is said that if those steeped in falsities arising from evils were nearby they would demolish the truths of faith that relate to worship.

[2] As for the meaning of 'stoning', it should be recognized that the Jews and Israelites, among whom a representative of the Church had been established, had two kinds of capital punishment, one being stoning, the other hanging on wood. Stoning was used if anyone sought to destroy the truths relating to worship which were commanded, while hanging was used if anyone sought to destroy goodness of life. The reason why those who sought to destroy truths relating to worship were stoned was that a stone was a sign of truth and in the contrary sense of falsity, 643, 1298, 3720, 6426. And the reason why those who sought to destroy goodness of life were hanged on wood was that wood was a sign of good and in the contrary sense of the evil belonging to evil desires, 643, 2784, 2812, 3720.

[3] The fact that punishment by stoning would be used if anyone should destroy truths relating to worship is evident from the following places: In Ezekiel,

Finally they will cause an assembly to come up upon you, and they will stone you with stones and cut you up with their swords. Ezekiel 16:40.

This refers to the perverse Jerusalem and the destruction of the truth of faith by means of falsities. This is why it says that 'they will stone with stones' and also 'cut up with swords', for 'a sword' means truth engaged in conflict with falsity and destroying it, and in the contrary sense falsity engaged in conflict with truth and destroying it, 2799, 4499, 6353, 7102.

[4] A similar statement occurs elsewhere in the same prophet,

Cause an assembly to come up against them, in order that the assembly may stone them with stones and tear them apart with their swords. Ezekiel 23:46-47.

This refers to Jerusalem and Samaria, by which the Church is meant. Jerusalem means the celestial-spiritual Church, Samaria the spiritual Church, and this chapter describes how forms of the good and truth of faith were destroyed in them.

[5] In Moses,

If an ox strikes a man or woman with its horn so that the person dies, the ox shall surely be stoned. Exodus 21:28.

'Striking a man or woman with the horn' means falsity engaged in conflict with truth and goodness and destroying them. For 'the horn' is falsity engaged in conflict, and also the power of falsity, 2832, while 'man and woman' in the Word means truth and goodness; and this makes plain what the internal sense of that command is and why it was that the ox had to be stoned.

[6] In the same author,

Anyone blaspheming the name of Jehovah shall surely be killed; all the congregation shall certainly stone him. Leviticus 24:16.

'Blaspheming the name of Jehovah' means using malevolent falsities to do violence to truths and forms of good that relate to worship. 'The name of Jehovah' means everything in one embrace that is used to worship Jehovah, see 2724, 3006, thus every aspect of faith and charity, 6674. This also explains why the Israelite woman s son who blasphemed the name of Jehovah was led outside the camp and stoned, Leviticus 24:11, 14, 23. Furthermore it had been commanded that those who served other gods should be stoned, Deuteronomy 17:3, 5, and also those who enticed anyone to serve other gods, Deuteronomy 13:6-10. 'Serving other gods' means profane worship by means of which true worship is destroyed.

[7] If no evidence of virginity were found with a young woman when she married she was to be stoned because she had played the fool in Israel by committing whoredom in her father's house, Deuteronomy 22:20-21. The reason for this was that 'whoredom' meant the falsification of truth, thus the destruction of it, 2466, 4865. If a man lay in the city with a young woman, a virgin, who was betrothed to a man, both were to be stoned, Deuteronomy 22:23-24, and for the same reason, namely whoredom; for spiritual whoredom is the falsification of truth. In Luke 20:5-6, [one reads about the chief priests, scribes, and elders] coming to the conclusion among themselves that if they said John's baptism was from heaven [the Lord] would say, 'Why did you not believe him?' But if they said 'From men', all the people would stone them. Here also 'stoning' is spoken of because of opposition to the truth.

The reason why the Jews sought to stone Jesus because He said, Before Abraham was, I am, John 8:58-59, was that that nation believed this to be false. In a similar way they sought to stone Jesus because He said He and His Father were one, John 10:30-33; for they thought, as these verses also state, that this was blasphemy.

From all this one may now see what stoning was and why it was commanded, and also that punishment by stoning, administered since ancient times as its use in Egypt proves, was derived from the representatives of the Ancient Church.

  
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