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Matteus 9

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1 Ja hän astui haahteen, meni jälleen ylitse ja tuli omaan kaupunkiinsa.

2 Ja katso, he toivat hänen eteensä halvatun, joka makasi vuoteella. Ja kuin Jesus näki heidän uskonsa, sanoi hän halvatulle: poikani, ole hyvässä turvassa, syntis annetaan anteeksi sinulle.

3 Ja katso, muutamat kirjanoppineista sanoivat keskenänsä: tämä pilkkaa (Jumalaa).

4 Ja kuin Jesus näki heidän ajatuksensa, sanoi hän: miksi ajattelette pahaa sydämessänne?

5 Sillä kumpi on keviämpi sanoa: synnit annetaan anteeksi sinulle, taikka sanoa: nouse ja käy?

6 Mutta että teidän pitää tietämän Ihmisen Pojalla olevan vallan maan päällä synnit anteeksi antaa, (niin sanoi hän halvatulle:) nouse ja ota vuotees, ja mene kotias.

7 Ja hän nousi ja meni kotiansa.

8 Ja kuin kansa sen näki, ihmettelivät he ja kunnioittivat Jumalaa, joka oli ihmisille antanut senkaltaisen vallan.

9 Ja kuin Jesus sieltä kävi ohitse, näki hän ihmisen istuvan tullihuoneessa, nimeltä Matteus, ja sanoi hänelle: seuraa minua. Niin hän nousi ja seurasi häntä.

10 Ja tapahtui, kuin hän atrioitsi huoneessa, katso, niin tuli monta Publikania ja syntistä, ja atrioitsivat Jesuksen ja hänen opetuslastensa kanssa.

11 Ja kuin Pharisealaiset sen näkivät, sanoivat he hänen opetuslapsillensa: miksi teidän Mestarinne syö Publikanien ja syntisten kanssa?

12 Mutta kuin Jesus sen kuuli, sanoi hän heille: ei terve tarvitse parantajaa, vaan sairaat.

13 Mutta menkäät ja oppikaat, mikä se on: laupiutta minä tahdon, enkä uhria; sillä en minä tullut vanhurskaita kutsumaan, vaan syntisiä parannukseen.

14 Silloin tulivat Johanneksen opetuslapset hänen tykönsä, ja sanoivat: minkätähden me ja Pharisealaiset niin paljo paastoomme, mutta ei sinun opetuslapses paastoo?

15 Niin Jesus sanoi heille: taitaako hääjoukko niinkauvan murehtia, kuin ylkä on heidän kanssansa? mutta päivät tulevat, että ylkä otetaan heiltä pois, ja silloin heidän pitää paastooman.

16 Mutta ei kenkään paikkaa vanhaa vaatetta uuden veran tilalla; sillä paikka repee pois vaatteesta, ja läpi tulee pahemmaksi.

17 Ei myös pane kenkään nuorta viinaa vanhoihin leileihin; muutoin leilit pakahtuvat, ja viina vuotaa pois, ja leilit turmellaan; vaan nuorta viinaa lasketaan uusiin leileihin, ja niin he molemmat tähdellä ovat.

18 Kuin hän nämät heille puhunut oli, katso, niin päämies tuli ja kumarsi häntä, sanoen: nyt on minun tyttäreni kuolemallansa; mutta tule ja pane kätes hänen päällensä, niin hän virkoaa.

19 Niin Jesus nousi ja seurasi häntä, ja hänen opetuslapsensa.

20 Ja katso, vaimo, joka oli kaksitoistakymmentä ajastaikaa punaista tautia sairastanut, kävi takana, ja tarttui hänen vaatteensa liepeeseen;

21 Sillä hän oli itsellensä sanonut; jos minä ainoastaan rupeen hänen vaatteesensa, niin minä tulen terveeksi.

22 Niin Jesus käänsi itsensä, näki hänen ja sanoi: ole hyvässä turvassa, tyttäreni! sinun uskos on sinun terveeksi tehnyt. Ja vaimo tuli sillä hetkellä terveeksi.

23 Ja kuin Jesus tuli päämiehen huoneeseen, ja näki pillein soittajat ja kansan hymisevän,

24 Sanoi hän heille: menkäät pois; sillä ei piika ole kuollut, vaan hän makaa. Ja he nauroivat häntä.

25 Mutta kuin kansa oli ajettu ulos, meni hän sisälle ja tarttui hänen käteensä, ja piika nousi.

26 Ja sen sanoma kuului kaikkeen siihen maahan.

27 Ja kuin Jesus sieltä läksi, seurasi häntä kaksi sokiaa, huutain ja sanoen: Davidin poika, armahda meitä.

28 Ja kuin hän tuli huoneeseen, tulivat sokiat hänen tykönsä, ja Jesus sanoi heille: uskotteko minun sen voivan teille tehdä? He sanoivat hänelle: Herra, me uskomme.

29 Niin hän rupesi heidän silmiinsä, sanoen: tapahtukoon teille uskonne jälkeen.

30 Ja heidän silmänsä aukenivat. Niin Jesus haastoi heitä, sanoen: katsokaat, ettei kenkään saa tätä tietää.

31 Vaan kuin he menivät pois, niin he julistivat hänen sanomansa kaikessa siinä maassa.

32 Kuin nämät olivat menneet ulos, katso, niin he toivat mykän ja pirulta riivatun ihmisen hänen eteensä.

33 Ja kuin perkele oli ajettu ulos, niin mykkä puhui. Ja kansa ihmetteli ja sanoi: ei senkaltaista ole ikänä Israelissa nähty.

34 Mutta Pharisealaiset sanoivat: hän ajaa ulos perkeleet perkeleitten pääruhtinasten kautta.

35 Ja Jesus kävi kaikkia kaupungeita ja kyliä ympäri, ja opetti heidän synagogissansa, ja saarnasi valtakunnan evankeliumia, ja paransi kaikkinaisia tauteja ja kaikkea sairautta kansassa.

36 Ja kuin hän näki kansat, armahti hän heidän päällensä, että he olivat niin nääntyneet ja hajoitetut kuin lampaat, joilla ei ole paimenta.

37 Silloin hän sanoi opetuslapsillensa: eloa on tosin paljo, mutta työväkeä on vähä.

38 Rukoilkaat sentähden elon Herraa, että hän työväkeä lähettäis eloonsa.

   


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Abraham

  
Représentation d'Abraham, by Joseph Villiet

Abraham (or Abram, as he was named in the beginning of his story) was the ancestor of all the Children of Israel, through his son Isaac, and of the Arabs, through his son Ishmael.

Abraham represents the Divine good or love. His story foreshadows the life of Jesus, and our spiritual lives, too.

His life can be usefully seen as being divided into three periods. The first period includes the unknown early years from his birth in Ur, and his later move to Haran with his father Terah. The second section starts with Abram's being called by Jehovah to go to Canaan. It includes the adventures he had there, and continues until the events of the 17th chapter of Genesis where he is said to be 99 years old, rich, and powerful - but without a son by his wife Sarai. Once again the Lord appears to him, promises that his progeny will become a great nation, institutes the rite of circumcision, and changes his name to Abraham, adding the "ah" sound from Jehovah. The third and last period of his life sees the birth of Isaac, the death of Sarah (whose name was also changed), and the finding of a wife for Isaac from among Abraham's relatives back in Mesopotamia. Abraham is said to be 175 years old when he dies, as recorded in the 25th chapter of Genesis.

What we are here interested in is the deep representation of Abraham because he prophesies or foreshadows the inmost part of Jesus' life after He is born to Mary centuries after the man Abraham lived on the earth. Abraham represents the Divine good or love. The internal sense of the Word tells us that God himself provided the life into an ovum within Mary, so she could provide a natural body and a natural heredity from the Jewish religion, while the soul of Jesus was kept as a direct possessor of divine life. During Jesus' early life, probably up to adolescence, Jesus lived out those representative actions of Abraham in the innermost parts of his mind and spirit. Abraham as he pastured his sheep and ran his large household had no idea at all that this was true, and early in Jesus' life He didn't realize it either. There must have been perceptions as Jesus grew up, witness his visit to the temple when He was 12, but not a complete understanding until He was fully grown. And further, it isn't only Abraham. When Abraham dies, the representation attaches to Isaac, who represents the rational level of the mind, and then to both Jacob and Esau who represent the natural mind as to truth and good in the mind respectively. And then the trials of the twelve tribes, the kings, and all the sayings of the prophets become that same representation. So Jesus could say to the two disciples that He met on the road to Emmaus, "O fools and slow of heart... and beginning at Moses and all the Prophets He expounded to them in all the scriptures all the things concerning Himself." (The following references are chronologic as Abraham gets older, and are in biblical sequence.) And furthermore, the progress of mental and spiritual life in each one of us is a dim and finite image of that represented by Abraham's life if, that is, we are trying to follow the Lord's laws and precepts to love one another. We too have within us a journey to the land of Canaan, a hardworking sojourn in Egypt, a struggle in the wilderness, and a Saul, a David, and an Ahab. We have our home-grown Amalekites and Philistines. The whole of the Old Testament is a picture of how our spiritual life works.

In Genesis 20:7, Abraham signifies celestial truth, or doctrine from a celestial origin. (Arcana Coelestia 2533)

In Genesis 12:4, As ABRAHAM he represents the Lord as to His Human and Divine Essence; as ABRAM he represents the Lord as to His human essence only. (Arcana Coelestia 1426)

In Genesis 17:5, The name was changed by adding the letter H, so that the Divine Human could he represented, for H is the only letter which involves the Divine: it means I AM, or BEING. (Arcana Coelestia 1416[2])

(Odkazy: Genesis 17, 25)


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Genesis 17

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1 When Abram was ninety-nine years old, Yahweh appeared to Abram, and said to him, "I am God Almighty. Walk before me, and be blameless.

2 I will make my covenant between me and you, and will multiply you exceedingly."

3 Abram fell on his face. God talked with him, saying,

4 "As for me, behold, my covenant is with you. You will be the father of a multitude of nations.

5 Neither will your name any more be called Abram, but your name will be Abraham; for I have made you the father of a multitude of nations.

6 I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make nations of you. Kings will come out of you.

7 I will establish my covenant between me and you and your seed after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to you and to your seed after you.

8 I will give to you, and to your seed after you, the land where you are traveling, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession. I will be their God."

9 God said to Abraham, "As for you, you will keep my covenant, you and your seed after you throughout their generations.

10 This is my covenant, which you shall keep, between me and you and your seed after you. Every male among you shall be circumcised.

11 You shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin. It will be a token of the covenant between me and you.

12 He who is eight days old will be circumcised among you, every male throughout your generations, he who is born in the house, or bought with money from any foreigner who is not of your seed.

13 He who is born in your house, and he who is bought with your money, must be circumcised. My covenant will be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.

14 The uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that soul shall be cut off from his people. He has broken my covenant."

15 God said to Abraham, "As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but her name will be Sarah.

16 I will bless her, and moreover I will give you a son by her. Yes, I will bless her, and she will be a mother of nations. Kings of peoples will come from her."

17 Then Abraham fell on his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, "Will a child be born to him who is one hundred years old? Will Sarah, who is ninety years old, give birth?"

18 Abraham said to God, "Oh that Ishmael might live before you!"

19 God said, "No, but Sarah, your wife, will bear you a son. You shall call his name Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant for his seed after him.

20 As for Ishmael, I have heard you. Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly. He will become the father of twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation.

21 But my covenant I establish with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this set time next year."

22 When he finished talking with him, God went up from Abraham.

23 Abraham took Ishmael his son, all who were born in his house, and all who were bought with his money; every male among the men of Abraham's house, and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the same day, as God had said to him.

24 Abraham was ninety-nine years old, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

25 Ishmael, his son, was thirteen years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

26 In the same day both Abraham and Ishmael, his son, were circumcised.

27 All the men of his house, those born in the house, and those bought with money of a foreigner, were circumcised with him.