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1 Ja tämä on siunaus, jolla Moses Jumalan mies siunasi Israelin lapsia ennen kuolemaansa,

2 Ja sanoi: Herra on tullut Sinaista, ja noussut heille Seiristä, ja ilmestynyt Paranin vuorelta, ja on tullut kymmenentuhannen pyhän kanssa, ja tulinen laki hänen oikiassa kädessänsä heidän tykönsä.

3 Hän myös rakastaa kansoja; kaikki hänen pyhänsä ovat sinun kädessäs, ja he asettavat itsensä sinun jalkais juureen, ja ottavat opin sinun sanoistas.

4 Moses on meille käskenyt lain, Jakobin sukukunnalle perimisen.

5 Ja hän oli Kuningas oikeudessa; kansan päämiehet hän kokosi yhteen, ynnä Israelin sukukuntain kanssa.

6 Ruben eläkään, ja älkään kuolko, ja hänen kansansa olkoon luettava.

7 Tämä on Juudalle siunaus: ja hän sanoi: kuule Herra Juudan ääntä, ja johdata häntä kansansa tykö; ja hänen kätensä sotii puolestansa, sinä olet apu vastoin hänen vihollisiansa.

8 Ja hän sanoi Leville: sinun täydellisyytes ja sinun valkeutes olkoon sinun pyhän miehes tykönä, jota sinä kiusasit Massassa, ja saatit hänen riitelemään riitaveden tykönä.

9 Joka sanoo isällensä ja äidillensä: en minä nähnyt heitä, ja ei tunne veljiänsä, eikä tiedä pojistansa; ne pitävät sinun sanas, ja kätkevät sinun liittos.

10 He opettavat sinun oikeuksias Jakobille ja Israelille sinun lakis, he kantavat suitsutusta sinun nenäs eteen, ja kaikkinaiset uhrit uhraavat sinun alttarillas.

11 Siunaa Herra hänen voimansa ja anna hänen kättensä työ sinulle kelvata; riko heidän lanteensa, jotka karkaavat häntä vastaan ja häntä vihaavat, niin ettei he voisi ojentaa heitänsä.

12 Ja BenJaminille sanoi hän: Herran rakkaat pitää asuman turvallisesti hänen tykönänsä; hän suojelee heitä kaiken päivän, ja hän asuu heidän hartioidensa välillä.

13 Ja hän sanoi Josephille: hänen maansa olkoon siunattu Herralta, parhaista taivaan hedelmistä, kasteesta, ja syvyydestä, joka makaa alla.

14 Siinä olkoon ihanimmat hedelmät auringosta, ja ihanimmat kypsät hedelmät kuusta,

15 Ja itäisten vuorten kukkuloilta, ja ijäisiltä kukkuloilta parhaat hedelmät,

16 Ja ne kalliimmat maan hedelmät, ja mitä siinä on. Hänen suosionsa, joka asuu pensaassa, tulkoon Josephin päähän, ja Natsirin päälaelle veljeinsä keskellä.

17 Ja hänen kauneutensa olkoon niinkuin esikoisen härjän, ja hänen sarvensa olkoon niinkuin yksisarvisen sarvet, joilla hän kansaa kuokkii yhteen, hamaan maailman ääriin asti; nämät ovat Ephraimin kymmenentuhatta, ja nämät Manassen tuhannet.

18 Ja hän sanoi Sebulonille: iloitse Sebulon uloskäymisessäs, mutta sinä Isaskar iloitse majoissas.

19 Heidän pitää kutsuman kansaa vuorelle ja siellä vanhurskauden uhria uhraaman; sillä he imevät meren kyllyyden ja santaan kätketyt tavarat.

20 Ja hän sanoi Gadille: siunattu olkoon se, joka levittää Gadin, hän asuu niinkuin hotka jalopeura, ja ryöstää sekä käsivarren että päänlaen.

21 Ja hän katsoi itsellensä ensimäisen osan maasta, että hän siinä lainopettajalta annetussa osassa olis surutoin; kuitenkin tuli hän kansan päämiesten kanssa, ja teki Herran vanhurskautta, ja hänen oikiutensa Israelin kanssa.

22 Ja Danille sanoi hän: Dan niinkuin jalopeuran penikka, joka karkaa Basanista.

23 Ja Naphtalille sanoi hän: Naphtalilla on yltäkyllä, mitä hänen mielensä tekee, ja hän täytetään Herran siunauksella, lännen ja etelän pitää hänen omistaman.

24 Ja Asserille sanoi hän: Asser olkoon siunattu pojissa, hän olkoon veljillensä otollinen, ja kastakaan jalkansa öljyyn.

25 Rauta ja vaski olkoon sinun kenkäs; ja niinkuin sinun ikäs, niin myös sinun väkevyytes lisääntyy.

26 Ei yhtään ole niinkuin oikeuden Jumala, joka istuu taivaassa, hän olkoon sinun auttajas, ja hänen kunniansa on pilvissä.

27 Jumalan asuinsia on alusta, ijankaikkisten käsivartten alla. Ja hän ajaa ulos sinun vihollises sinun edestäs ja sanoo: ole hukutettu.

28 Israel asuu levollisesti yksinänsä, ja Jakobin silmä katsoo sen maan päälle, jossa jyviä ja viinaa on, siihen myös taivaat kastetta vuodattavat.

29 Autuas olet sinä Israel: kuka on sinun kaltaises? O sinä kansa, joka Herrassa autuaaksi tulet, joka sinun apus kilpi ja sinun kunnias miekka on. Vihollises valhettelevat sinulle, ja sinä astelet heidän kukkulainsa päällä.

   


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Arcana Coelestia # 9408

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9408. 'And it was like the substance of the sky for clearness' means the translucence of the angelic heaven. This is clear from the meaning of 'the sky (or heaven)' as the angelic heaven, dealt with below; and from the meaning of 'clearness' or purity of substance, when said of the sky, as translucence. What the translucence of the angelic heaven is when the Word is the subject must be stated briefly. The angelic heaven is said to be translucent when God's truth shines through; for the whole of heaven is nothing other than a receptacle of God's truth. Each angel is an individual recipient of it, so that all the angels or heaven as a whole is a general recipient. This explains why heaven is called 'God's dwelling-place' and also 'God's throne'. For 'dwelling-place' means God's truth emanating from the Lord and received in the inmost heaven, which in comparison is good, 8269, 8309; and 'throne' means God's truth emanating from the Lord and received in the middle heaven, 5313, 6397, 8625, 9039. Since that which shines through, out of the sense of the letter of the Word, is God's truth as it exists in the heavens, it is the angelic heaven that shines through. For the Word is Divine Truth adjusted to all the heavens, and as a consequence of this it joins the heavens to the world, that is, angels to men, 2143, 7153, 7381, 8920, 9094 (end), 9212 (end), 9216 (end), 9357, 9396. From all this it is evident what the words 'the translucence of the angelic heaven' are used to mean.

[2] The reasons why in the internal sense 'the sky (or heaven)' means the angelic heaven lie with correspondence and also with the appearance. So it is that where the words 'heavens' and 'heavens of heavens' occur in the Word the angelic heavens are meant in the internal sense. For the ancients had no other idea of the visible sky than this, that the inhabitants of heaven lived there and that the stars were their dwelling-places. At the present day too, simple people - especially young children - have the same idea. So it is also that people look upwards to the sky or heaven when they worship God. This action too arises from correspondence; for a sky with stars appears in the next life, but this is not the sky seen by people in the world. Instead it is a sky that takes on an appearance which accords with the spirits and angels' state of intelligence and wisdom. The stars in it are cognitions or knowledge of goodness and truth, and the clouds which are sometimes seen in the sky vary in meaning according to their colours, translucence, and movements, the blue of the sky being truth transparent with good. All this goes to prove that by 'heavens' the angelic heavens are meant. But by the angelic heavens God's truths are meant, because angels are recipients of God's truth emanating from the Lord.

[3] Similar things are meant by 'heavens' in David,

Praise Jehovah, heavens of heavens, and waters that are above the heavens! Psalms 148:4.

In the same author,

Make melody to the Lord who rides above the heaven of the heaven of old. Psalms 68:33.

In the same author,

By the Word of Jehovah were the heavens made, and all the host of them by the spirit 1 of His mouth. Psalms 33:6.

In the same prophet,

The heavens recount His glory, and the firmament declares the works of His hands. Psalms 19:1.

In the Book of Judges,

O Jehovah, when You went forth from Seir, the earth trembled, the heavens also dropped, the clouds indeed dropped water. Judges 5:4.

In Daniel,

The horn of the he-goat grew right on towards the host of the heavens, and cast down to the earth some of the host, and of the stars, and trampled on them. Daniel 8:10.

In Amos,

The Lord Jehovih, who builds His steps in the heavens ... Amos 9:6.

In Malachi,

If there is food in My house I will open the windows of heaven and pour out a blessing for you. Malachi 3:10.

In Isaiah,

Look out from the heavens, and see from the dwelling-place of Your holiness and of Your glory. Isaiah 63:15.

In Moses,

Blessed by Jehovah is the land of Joseph, in regard to the precious things of heaven, to the dew. Deuteronomy 33:13.

In Matthew,

Jesus said, You shall not swear by heaven, for it is God's throne. He who swears by heaven swears by God's throne and by Him who sits on it. Matthew 5:32; 23:22.

[4] In these and very many other places 'heavens' means the angelic heavens. And since the Lord's heaven on earth is the Church, the Church too is meant by 'heaven', as in the following places: In John,

I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the former heaven and the former earth had passed away. Revelation 21:1.

In Isaiah,

Behold, I am creating new heavens and a new earth; therefore the former things will not be remembered or come to mind. 2 Isaiah 65:17.

In the same prophet,

The heavens will vanish away like smoke, and the earth will grow old like a garment. Isaiah 51:6.

In the same prophet,

I clothe heaven with darkness, and I make sackcloth its covering. Isaiah 50:3.

In Ezekiel,

I will cover the heavens, and darken their stars; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon will not give its light. And all the bright lights in heaven I will make dark, and I will put darkness over the land. Ezekiel 32:7-8.

In Matthew,

After the affliction of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken. Matthew 24:29.

What the meaning is of 'sun', 'moon', 'stars', and 'in the heavens', see 4056-4060.

In Isaiah,

O Jehovah God of Israel, You are God alone over all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth. Isaiah 37:16.

In the same prophet,

[I am] Jehovah who makes all things, who spreads out the heavens Alone, who stretches out the earth by Myself. Isaiah 44:24.

In the same prophet,

Jehovah who created the heavens, who formed the earth, and made it, and prepared it, did not create it an emptiness. Isaiah 45:18.

[5] In the internal sense 'heaven and earth' in these and other places means the Church, the internal Church being meant by 'heaven' and the external Church by 'earth', see 1733, 1850, 2117, 2118 (end), 3355 (end), 4535. From all this it is evident that by creation in the earliest chapters of Genesis, where it says, In the beginning God created heaven and earth, Genesis 1:1, And the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them, Genesis 2:1, a new Church is meant. For creation there describes regeneration, which is also called the new creation, as has been shown and may be seen in the explanations of those chapters.

  
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Arcana Coelestia # 6397

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6397. 'Will judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel' means that it is one of the truths in general which the tribes of Israel represent. This is clear from the meaning of 'judging' as truth exercising its proper function, dealt with below; from the meaning of 'people' as those governed by truth, dealt with in 1259, 1260, 2928, 3295, 3581, 4619, at this point those guided by truth but not as yet by good, since they are Dan, that is, the people of Dan, 6396; and from the representation of 'the tribes of Israel' as all truths and forms of good in general, dealt with in 3858, 3926, 3939, 4060, 6335. Consequently 'will judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel' means that the truth which 'Dan' represents is one of the general truths that 'the tribes of Israel' represent. The reason why 'judging his people' means truth exercising its proper function is that all truths in general are represented by 'the tribes of Israel', as may become clear from the paragraphs referred to above; and since truths are what act as judges, 'judging his people' means truth exercising its proper function.

[2] In the Word one reads the description that the twenty-four elders will sit on thrones and judge nations and peoples, and that the twelve apostles will similarly sit on thrones and judge the twelve tribes of Israel. A person with no knowledge of the internal sense of the Word will think that precisely that is going to happen. But how those descriptions should be understood becomes clear when one knows from the internal sense what 'the twenty-four elders', 'the twelve apostles', and also 'thrones' mean, namely all truths in their entirety, in accordance with which judgement is effected. The same goes for one's understanding here of 'judging his people as one of the tribes of Israel'. The meaning is not that these or any other elders among them will act as judges, but that the actual truths meant by them, therefore the Lord alone since every truth comes forth from Him, will do so. The reference to the twenty-four elders who will sit on thrones and act as judges occurs in John as follows,

Around the throne were twenty-four thrones, and on the thrones I saw twenty-four elders seated, clad in white garments, who had crowns of gold on their heads. Revelation 4:4; 11:16.

In the same book,

I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgement was given to them. Revelation 20:4.

The reference to the twelve apostles occurs in Matthew,

Jesus said, You who have followed Me, in the regeneration, when the Son of Man sits on the throne of His glory, will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. Matthew 19:28.

And in Luke,

I bestow on you, just as My father bestowed on Me, a kingdom, that you may eat and drink at My table in My kingdom, and sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. Luke 21:29-30.

Here neither the twenty-four elders nor the twelve apostles are what are really meant but all truths and forms of good in general, as may be recognized from the consideration that nobody, not even any angel, can judge anyone; for no one except the Lord alone can know what a person is or ever will be like interiorly. With regard to the twelve apostles, that they had a similar meaning to the twelve tribes, which was all truths and forms of good in their entirety, see 2129, 2553, 3488, 3858 (end). From all this it is now evident that 'Dan will judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel' means that the truth represented by 'Dan' is one of the general truths by means of which judgement is effected.

  
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