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1 Ja Israel asui Sittimissä, ja kansa rupesi tekemään huorin Moabilaisten tytärten kanssa,

2 Jotka kutsuivat kansan epäjumalainsa uhrille: ja kansa söi, ja kumarsi heidän epäjumaliansa.

3 Ja Israel yhdisti itsensä BaalPeorin kanssa: niin Herran viha julmistui Israelia vastaan.

4 Ja Herra sanoi Mosekselle: ota kaikki kansan päämiehet, ja hirtä heidät Herralle aurinkoa vastaan, että Herran vihan julmuus käännettäisiin Israelista pois.

5 Ja Moses sanoi Israelin tuomareille: jokainen tappakoon väkensä, jotka BaalPeorin kanssa ovat itsensä yhdistäneet.

6 Ja katso, mies Israelin lapsista tuli ja toi veljeinsä sekaan Midianilaisen vaimon, Moseksen ja kaikkein Israelin lasten joukon nähden, jotka itkivät seurakunnan majan ovessa.

7 Kuin Pinehas Eleatsarin poika, papin Aaronin pojanpoika sen näki, nousi hän kansan keskeltä ja otti keihään käteensä,

8 Ja meni Israelin miehen jälkeen makausmajaan, ja pisti heidät molemmat sekä Israelin miehen, että vaimon vatsasta lävitse: niin rangaistus lakkasi jälleen Israelin lapsista.

9 Ja siinä rangaistuksessa surmattiin neljäkolmattakymmentä tuhatta.

10 Ja Herra puhui Mosekselle, sanoen:

11 Pinehas Eleatsarin poika, papin Aaronin pojanpoika, on kääntänyt julmuuteni pois Israelin lasten päältä, siinä että hän oli kiivas minun kiivauteni tähden heidän keskellänsä, etten minä kiivaudessani hukuttanut Israelin lapsia.

12 Sentähden sano: katso, minä annan hänelle minun rauhani liiton.

13 Ja hänellä ja hänen siemenellänsä hänen jälkeensä pitää oleman ijankaikkisen pappeuden liiton, että hän oli kiivas Jumalallensa ja sovitti Israelin lapset.

14 Ja lyödyn Israelin miehen nimi, joka Midianilaisen vaimon kanssa lyötiin, oli Simri Salun poika, isän Simeonin huoneen päämies.

15 Mutta Midianilaisen vaimon nimi, joka myös lyötiin, oli Kosbi, Zurin, Midianin kansan huoneen päämiehen, tytär.

16 Ja Herra puhui Mosekselle, sanoen:

17 Ahdistakaat Midianilaisia, ja lyökäät heitä.

18 Sillä he ovat teitä ahdistaneet kavaluuksillansa, joilla he teidät pettäneet ovat Peorin kautta, ja sisarensa Kosbin kautta, Midianilaisten päämiehen tyttären, joka lyötiin rangaistuksen päivänä, Peorin tähden.

   


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Wife

  

The Hebrew of the Old Testament has six different common words which are generally translated as "wife," which largely overlap but have different nuances. Swedenborg uses two different Latin words, which largely overlap but have different nuances. Meanwhile, "wife" is often paired with "man" or "husband," which are also catch-all translations for a basket of Hebrew and Latin terms. So it's hard to pin down one universal meaning for "wife"; context and subject matter have a large effect.

In general, though, marriage in the Bible represents the union we all seek between our hearts and our minds. If we know what is right and pursue it faithfully, the Lord will ultimately help us love doing what is good, and the two aspects of ourselves will be unified. On a higher level, marriage represents the union we can have with the Lord, both individually and collectively as a church. As an intrinsic part of the marriage, the wife plays a key role in that meaning. But that meaning is different depending on what is being described.

If the marriage is describing a person who is spiritual in nature – "spiritual" being the second degree of heavenly life, in which people are led by intellect and knowledge with the desire for good following – the wife represents the desire for good, the affections that drive the person. If the marriage is describing someone who is celestial in nature – "celestial" being the highest degree of heavenly life, in which people are led from love, with the intellect and ideas following – the wife represents the true ideas held by the person or church. If the marriage is describing the union between the Lord and the church, the wife represents the church.

In a way, these are symbolic meanings that actually have little to do with gender. When "wife" describes a church, obviously that church can include both male and female people. When "wife" describes an aspect of a person, that person can obviously be either male or female.

(Odkazy: Arcana Coelestia 915, 1468, 1904 [1-2], 3246 [3-4], 3398, 4823 [2])

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Arcana Coelestia # 301

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301. As regards the second arcanum, if they had been instructed in mysteries of faith they would have perished for ever, meant by the words 'Now by chance he will put out his hand and also take from the tree of life 1 and eat, and live forever', the position is this: Once people have become reversed orders of life and are unwilling to rely on anything but self and the proprium as the source of their life and wisdom, they are given to reasoning as to whether any matter of faith which they hear about is so or not so. And because self, sensory evidence, and facts are the basis of their reasoning, they inevitably adopt a negative attitude. And when their attitude is negative they also speak blasphemy and practise profanation, and at length do not care whether or not they mingle together unholy things with holy. When man becomes such he stands so condemned in the next life that there is no hope of salvation for him, for the things that have been mingled through acts of profanation remain that way permanently. The moment some idea of what is holy enters in, so does the idea joined to it of what is unholy, and this makes it impossible for that person to live in any but a community of people who are condemned. Anything at all that has been joined to, and is present as, an idea within a person's thought is in the next life perceived very precisely even by spirits in the world of spirits, but more so by angelic spirits. It is perceived so precisely that from merely one idea they know his whole character. Getting rid of unholy things such as are joined on to those that are holy is not possible without hellish torment, which is so intense that if man knew about it he would beware of profanation as of hell itself.

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1. literally, of lives

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.