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Joshua 14

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1 Ja nämät ovat ne mitkä Israelin lapset ovat perimiseksi saaneet Kanaanin maalla, jonka heille perinnöksi jakoi pappi Eleatsar ja Josua Nunin poika ja Israelin lasten sukukuntain ylimmäiset isät.

2 Ja he jakoivat sen heillensä arvalla, niinkuin Herra oli käskenyt Moseksen käden kautta, yhdeksälle sukukunnalle ja puolelle sukukunnalle.

3 Sillä Moses oli antanut puolelle kolmatta sukukunnalle perimisen tuolla puolella Jordania. Mutta Leviläisille ei hän antanut yhtään perimistä heidän seassansa.

4 Sillä Josephin lasten oli kaksi sukukuntaa, Manasse ja Ephraim; sentähden ei he Leviläisille yhtään osaa antaneet maakunnassa, vaan kaupungit heidän asuaksensa, ja esikaupungit, joissa heidän karjansa ja kalunsa oleman piti.

5 Niinkuin Herra oli Mosekselle käskenyt, niin tekivät Israelin lapset, ja jakoivat maakunnan.

6 Silloin menivät Juudan lapset Josuan tykö Gilgalissa, ja Kaleb Jephunnen poika Kenisiläinen sanoi hänelle: sinä tiedät, mitä Herra sanoi Jumalan miehelle Mosekselle minun ja sinun puolestas KadesBarneassa.

7 Minä olin neljänkymmenen ajastaikainen, kuin Moses Herran palvelia minun lähetti KadesBarneasta vakoomaan maata, ja minä sanoin hänelle jälleen vastauksen sydämeni jälkeen.

8 Mutta veljeni, jotka minun kanssani menneet olivat, saattivat kansalle vapisevaisen sydämen; mutta minä seurasin Herraa minun Jumalaani uskollisesti.

9 Ja Moses vannoi sinä päivänä ja sanoi: se maa, jonka päälle sinä jaloillas olet astunut, on sinun ja sinun lastes perittävä ijankaikkisesti, ettäs Herraa minun Jumalaani uskollisesti seurannut olet.

10 Ja nyt katso, Herra on antanut minun elää, niinkuin hän sanonut oli. Tämä on viides ajastaika viidettäkymmentä sittekuin Herra näitä sanoi Mosekselle, kuin Israel vaelsi korvessa. Ja katso, minä olen tänäpäivänä viiden ajastajan vanha yhdeksättäkymmentä,

11 Ja olen vielä tänäpäivänä niin väkevä, kuin minä sinä päivänä olin, jona Mosen minun lähetti; niinkuin väkevyyteni oli siihen aikaan, niin on se vielä nyt vahva sotimaan, käymään ulos ja sisälle.

12 Niin anna nyt minulle tämä vuori, josta Herra sanoi sinä päivänä, sillä sinä kuulit sen siihen aikaan. Ja Enakilaiset asuvat siellä, ja siellä ovat suuret ja vahvat kaupungit; jos Herra on minun kanssani, että minä ajaisin heidät pois, niinkuin Herra on sanonut.

13 Ja Josua siunasi häntä ja antoi Kalebille Jephunnen pojalle Hebronin perimiseksi.

14 Siitä oli Hebron Kalebin Jephunnen pojan Kenisiläisen perimys tähän päivään asti, että hän on uskollisesti seurannut Herraa Israelin Jumalaa.

15 Mutta Hebron kutsuttiin muinaiseen aikaan KirjatArba, joka oli suurin mies Enakilaisten seassa; ja maakunta lakkasi sotimasta.

   


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1616. That 'Abram moved his tent, and came and dwelt in the oak groves of Mamre which are in Hebron' means that the Lord arrived at a perception more interior still is clear from the meaning of 'moving one's tent', that is, moving it and pitching it once again, as the process of being joined together; for 'a tent' is the holiness of worship, as shown already in 414, 1452, by which the external man is joined to the internal. It is also clear from the meaning of 'an oak-grove' as perception, dealt with already in 1442, 1443, where the phrase that occurred was 'the oak-grove of Moreh', meaning a first perception, whereas here the plural 'the oak-groves of Mamre' is used, which means a fuller, that is, more interior perception. This perception is called 'the oak-groves of Mamre which are in Hebron'. Mamre is also mentioned elsewhere in the Word, as in Genesis 14:13; 18:1; 23:17-19; 35:27; and Hebron too, in Genesis 35:27; 37:14; Joshua 10:36, 39; 14:13-15; 15:13, 54; 20:7; 21:11, 13; Judges 1:10, 20; and elsewhere. But what Mamre and Hebron mean where they are so mentioned will in the Lord's Divine mercy be seen when these other parts of the Word are explained.

[2] The implications of 'the oak-groves of Mamre which are in Hebron' meaning perception more interior still are as follows: To the extent that those things belonging to the external man are joined to celestial things belonging to the internal man perception grows and becomes more interior. Conjunction with celestial things confers perception, for within the celestial things that belong to love to Jehovah dwells the life itself of the internal man, or what amounts to the same, within celestial things which belong to love, that is, within celestial love, Jehovah is present. This presence is not perceived in the external man however until the conjunction has taken place. All perception is the result of conjunction.

[3] From the internal sense here it is clear what the situation was in the Lord's case: His External Man, or Human Essence, was joined step by step to the Divine Essence as cognitions multiplied and became fruitful. No one can ever, insofar as he is human, be joined to Jehovah, or the Lord, except by means of cognitions, for it is by means of cognitions that a person is made human. This applied to the Lord too since He was born as any other is born, and received instruction as any other does. Yet in the cognitions He had as receptacles celestial things were being instilled continually, with the result that His cognitions were constantly being made into the recipient vessels of celestial things; and these vessels also were themselves made celestial.

[4] Constantly the Lord advanced in this manner towards the celestial things of infancy, for, as stated already, the celestial things which belong to love are being instilled in a person from earliest infancy to childhood and on into adolescence as well. Since he is a human being, at that time and later on he is endowed with knowledge and cognitions. If a person is such that he can be regenerated, that knowledge and those cognitions are filled with celestial things that belong to love and charity, and are accordingly implanted within the celestial things he was endowed with from infancy through to childhood and adolescence, and in this way his external man is joined to his internal. First of all they are implanted in the celestial things he was endowed with in adolescence, then in those he was endowed with in childhood, and finally in those he was endowed with in infancy. At that point he is 'the little child' regarding whom the Lord said 'of such is the kingdom of God'. This implanting is done by the Lord alone, and therefore nothing celestial with man either does or can exist with man that does not come from, and belong to, the Lord.

[5] The Lord however from His own power joined His External Man to His Internal Man and filled His cognitions with celestial things, and He implanted them in celestial things, doing so according to Divine Order. First of all He implanted them in the celestial things of childhood, then in the celestial things of the age of childhood and back to infancy, and finally in the celestial things of His infancy. In this way He at the same time became as regards the Human Essence Innocence itself and Love itself, from which derive all innocence and all love in heaven and on earth. Such Innocence is true Infancy because it is simultaneously Wisdom. But the innocence of infancy is of no use at all unless by means of cognitions it becomes the innocence of wisdom, and this is why little children in the next life are endowed with cognitions. As the Lord implanted cognitions in celestial things, so He had perception, for, as stated, all perception is the result of conjunction. He had His first perception when He implanted the facts acquired in childhood, a perception meant by 'the oak-grove of Moreh'; and He had His second, which is the subject here, and which is more interior, when He implanted cognitions, a perception meant by 'the oak-groves of Mamre which are in Hebron'.

  
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