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Mooseksen kirja 23

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1 Ei kuohitun ja raajarikon pidä tuleman Herran seurakuntaan.

2 Eikä pidä myös äpärän tuleman Herran seurakuntaan, eipä vielä kymmenenteen polveenkaan asti pidä jonkun heistä Herran seurakuntaan tuleman.

3 Ammonilaiset ja Moabilaiset ei pidä tuleman Herran seurakuntaan, ei kymmenenteenkään polveen asti, ja ei ikänä tuleman Herran seurakuntaan,

4 Sentähden ettei he kohdanneet teitä tiellä leivällä ja vedellä, kuin te läksitte Egyptistä, ja että he palkkasivat teitä vastaan Bileamin Beorin pojan Mesopotamian Petorista, kiroomaan sinua.

5 Mutta Herra sinun Jumalas ei kuullut Bileamia, vaan Herra sinun Jumalas muutti sinulle kirouksen siunaukseksi; sillä Herra sinun Jumalas rakasti sinua.

6 Älä toivota heille rauhaa eli jotakin hyvää, kaikkena elinaikanas ijankaikkisesti.

7 Edomilaista älä kauhistu; sillä hän on sinun veljes. Älä myös Egyptiläistä kauhistu; sillä sinä olit muukalainen hänen maassansa.

8 Ne lapset, jotka heistä syntyvät kolmannessa polvessa, tulkaan Herran seurakuntaan.

9 Kuin lähdet leiristäs vihollisias vastaan, kavahda itsiäs kaikkinaisesta pahuudesta.

10 Jos joku on teidän seassanne, joka ei ole puhdas, että hänelle yöllä jotakin tapahtunut on; hänen pitää menemän pois leiristä, ja ei leiriin sisälle tuleman.

11 Ja hänen pitää ehtoona itsensä vedellä pesemän, ja sittekuin aurinko laskenut on, palatkaan leiriin.

12 Ulkona leiristä olkoon sinulla paikka, johonkas menet tarpeilles.

13 Ja sinulla pitää oleman vähä kalikka vyölläs, ja kuin menet tarpeilles, kaiva sillä, ja istuttuas, peitä saastaisuutes.

14 Sillä Herra sinun Jumalas vaeltaa sinun leiris lävitse pelastamaan sinua ja antamaan sinun vihollises sinun etees, sentähden pitää sinun leiris pyhä oleman, ettei häpiää näkyisi sinun seassas ja hän kääntäis itsensä sinusta pois.

15 Älä isännän haltuun anna orjaa, joka häneltä sinun tykös karannut on.

16 Hän olkaan sinun tykönäs, sinun keskelläs siinä paikassa, joka hänelle kelpaa, jossakussa sinun portissas, itsellensä hyväksi, älä sorra häntä.

17 Ei pidä yhtäkään porttoa oleman Israelin lasten tytärten seassa, eikä yhtään huorintekiää Israelin poikain seassa.

18 Älä kanna porton palkkaa eikä koiran hintaa Herran sinun Jumalas huoneesen, jonkun lupauksen edestä; sillä ne molemmat ovat Herralle sinun Jumalalles kauhistus.

19 Älä korkoa ota veljeltäs rahasta, syötävästä tahi muusta, josta korko otetaan.

20 Muukalaiselta ota korko, mutta älä veljeltäs, että Herra sinun Jumalas siunais sinua kaikessa aivoituksessas siinä maassa, johonkas tulet omistamaan sitä.

21 Kuin Herralle sinun Jumalalles lupauksen lupaat, niin älä viivytä maksaa sitä; sillä Herra sinun Jumalas on sen totisesti vaativa sinulta, ja se on sinulle synti.

22 Vaan jollet sinä lupaa, niin ei ole sinulla syntiä.

23 Pidä se, mikä sinun huulistas on käynyt ulos, ja tee, niinkuin sinä Herralle sinun Jumalalles hyvällä ehdolla luvannut olet sitä, minkä sinä suullas puhunut olet.

24 Kuin menet lähimmäises viinamäkeen, niin sinä saat syödä viinamarjoja himos jälkeen, ettäs ravitaan; mutta älä pane mitäkään astiaas.

25 Koskas menet lähimmäises laihoon, niin sinä saat katkoa tähkäpäitä kädelläs, mutta älä sirpillä lähimmäises laihoa niitä.

   


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Arcana Coelestia # 1947

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1947. 'Because Jehovah has hearkened to your affliction' means since it was submitting itself. This is clear from what has been stated above in 1937 about 'humiliating oneself and flinging oneself down' as meaning submitting oneself beneath the controlling power of the internal man, which submission was discussed there and was shown to consist in self-compulsion. It was also shown that in self-compulsion there is freedom, that is, what is willing and spontaneous, and that this distinguishes self-compulsion from being compelled. It was also shown that without this freedom, or willingness and spontaneity, a person cannot possibly be reformed and receive any heavenly proprium; also that though the contrary seems to be the case, there is more freedom in times of temptation than there is outside of them. Indeed at such times freedom increases as assaults are made by evils and falsities and it is consolidated by the Lord in order that a heavenly proprium may be given to the person. For that reason also the Lord is closer in times of temptation. It was shown as well that the Lord in no way compels anybody. No one who is compelled to think that which is true and to do that which is good is reformed, but instead thinks all the more what is false and wills all the more what is evil. This is so with all compulsion, as may also become clear from all the experience and lessons of life, which when learned prove two things - first, that human consciences will not allow themselves to be coerced, and second, that we strive after the forbidden.

[2] Furthermore everyone who is not free desires to become so, for this is his life. From this it is evident that nothing is in any way pleasing to the Lord that is not done in freedom, that is, spontaneously or willingly. For when anyone worships the Lord under circumstances in which he is not free he worships Him with nothing of himself. In his case that which moves the external is the external, that is, it is moved under compulsion - the internal being non-existent, or else incompatible, and even contradictory. When a person is being regenerated he compels himself from the freedom the Lord imparts to him, and humbles, and indeed afflicts, his rational, so that it may submit itself, and in consequence he receives a heavenly proprium. This proprium is then gradually perfected by the Lord and it becomes more and more free, so that as a result it becomes the affection for good and for truth deriving from that good, and possesses delight. And in that affection and delight there is happiness such as the angels experience. This freedom is what the Lord Himself is referring to in John.

The truth makes you free. If the Son makes you free, you are truly free. John 8:32, 36. 1

[3] What this freedom is, is totally unknown to those who do not have conscience, for they identify freedom with feelings of being at liberty and without restraint to think and utter what is false, and to will and do what is evil, and not to control and humble, still less to afflict, those feelings. Yet this is the complete reverse of freedom, as the Lord again teaches in the same place,

Everyone who commits sin is a slave of sin. John 8:34.

People acquire this slave-like freedom from the hellish spirits who reside with them and who inject it into them. When the life of those hellish spirits takes possession of them so do the loves and desires of those same spirits; for an unclean and utterly disgusting delight blows upon them, and being carried away so to speak in a stream they imagine themselves to be in freedom; but it is hellish freedom. The difference between this hellish freedom and heavenly freedom is that the former spells death and drags them down into hell, while the latter, that is, heavenly freedom, promises life and lifts them up to heaven.

[4] That all true internal worship springs from freedom, not from compulsion, and that unless it springs from freedom it is not internal worship, is clear from the Word, from the sacrifices - free-will, votive, and peace or eucharistic - which were called offerings and oblations, mentioned in Numbers 15:3 and following verses; Deuteronomy 12:6; 16:10-11; 23:23; and elsewhere. In David,

With a free-will offering I will sacrifice to You; I will confess Your name, O Jehovah, for it is good. Psalms 54:6.

From the thruma, 2 or the collection which the people were to contribute towards the Tabernacle and sacred vestments, referred to in Moses,

Speak to the children of Israel and let them receive for Me a collection; from every man whose heart makes him willing you shall receive My collection. Exodus 25:2.

And elsewhere in Moses,

Everyone who is willing in heart shall bring it, Jehovah's collection. Exodus 35:5.

[5] The humbling of the rational man, or affliction of it - as stated, from freedom - was also represented by the affliction souls underwent during festivals, referred to in Moses,

It shall be a statute to you for ever: in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall afflict your souls. Leviticus 16:29.

And elsewhere in Moses,

On the tenth day of the seventh month is the day of atonement; it shall be a holy convocation for you, and you shall afflict your souls. Every soul who does not afflict himself on that very day shall be cut off from his peoples. Leviticus 23:27, 29.

It is for this reason that unleavened bread in which no fermentation has taken place is called the bread of affliction in Deuteronomy 16:2-3. Affliction is referred to in David in the following way,

O Jehovah, who will sojourn in Your tent? Who will dwell on Your holy mountain? He who walks blameless and performs righteousness, who swears to the affliction of himself and changes not. Psalms 15:1-2, 4.

[6] That 'affliction' is the taming and subduing of evils and falsities rising up from the external man into the rational man may become clear from what has been stated. Thus it is not any reduction of oneself to poverty and misery - not a renunciation of bodily enjoyments - that is meant by affliction. No taming and subduing of evil can result from doing that; indeed it may give rise to an additional evil, namely the desire to receive merit for such a renunciation; and what is more, man's freedom suffers, in which alone, as its ground, the good and truth of faith is able to be sown. Affliction also means temptation; see what has been said already in 1846.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. In 9096, where this verse is quoted, the verbs are future tense, as in the Greek.

2. A Hebrew word meaning an offering

  
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