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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 # 9216

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9216. 'In which he may sleep' means resting on them. This is clear from the meaning of 'sleeping' as resting, in this instance on the external and sensory level, meant by 'clothing', 9212; for it says that it is clothing 'in which he may sleep'. How the explanation that more internal things find rest on the sensory level should be understood must be stated. The sensory level is the last and lowest of a person's life, as has been shown above. What is lowest contains all the more internal levels and is general to them all; for they terminate in it and accordingly rest on it. It is like the skin, for example, which is the outermost covering of the body. The body and all things in it terminate in the skin, because it contains them and they accordingly rest on the skin. In a similar way it is like the peritoneum within the body. Because it contains the abdominal organs, these rest on it and are also linked to it all round. Or equally it is like the pleura's relationship to the organs in the chest.

[2] A similar situation exists with all the things that compose a person's actual life, with those for instance that are connected with his understanding and those that are connected with his will. These too follow one another in order from more internal things to relatively external ones. The relatively external ones are factual knowledge together with its delights, while the outermost things are those of the senses, which are in contact with the world through sight, hearing, taste, smell, and touch. The more internal things rest on them since they terminate in them. These are the matters that are meant in the spiritual sense by 'the covering' or 'the clothing in which he may sleep'. The reason why things on the level of the senses are meant by 'the clothing' or 'the covering' lies in correspondences; for as stated above in 9212, spirits and angels appear dressed in garments in keeping with their truths of faith. Those governed by truths springing from good appear in shining ones, as for instance those at the Lord's tomb did, Luke 24:4; Matthew 28:3, and also in ones of fine, white linen, as for instance those referred to in Revelation 19:14 did; and others appear in garments of various colours.

[3] Furthermore it should be realized that all things without exception proceed in successive stages from their first or inmost level to their terminations on the last and lowest and rest on them. Each thing at a prior or more internal stage in order has its own connection with terminations on the lowest level. Therefore if things on the lowest level are dispelled those on interior levels are also scattered. This also explains why there are three heavens. The inmost or third heaven flows into the middle or second heaven; the middle or second heaven flows into the first or lowest heaven, which in turn flows into and resides with mankind. Consequently the human race constitutes the lowest level of order; in it heaven terminates and on it heaven rests. This being so, the Lord in His Divine [Love and Care] always provides for the presence among the human race of a Church in which truth revealed by God exists; such truth on our planet is the Word. By means of this a continuous link exists between the human race and the heavens. This is why every detail of the Word has within it an internal sense which exists for heaven's benefit and whose nature is such that it joins angels' minds to those of people on earth in so firm a bond that they act as one. All this goes to show yet again the nature of a situation in which interior things rest on those at the lowest level.

  
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