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Mooseksen kirja 22

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1 "Jos näet veljesi härän tai lampaan eksyneen, älä jätä sitä siihen; vie se takaisin veljellesi.

2 Jos veljesi ei asu sinua lähellä tai jos et tiedä, kuka hän on, niin korjaa eksynyt taloosi, ja olkoon se sinun huostassasi, kunnes veljesi tiedustelee sitä; anna se silloin hänelle takaisin.

3 Tee samoin, jos veljeltäsi on kadonnut aasi, samoin, jos vaate, samoin, jos mitä muuta hyvänsä, jonka löydät; älä jätä sitä siihen.

4 Jos näet veljesi aasin tai härän kaatuneen tielle, älä jätä sitä siihen; auta häntä nostamaan se jaloilleen.

5 Nainen älköön käyttäkö miehen tamineita, älköönkä mies pukeutuko naisen vaatteisiin; sillä jokainen, joka niin tekee, on kauhistus Herralle, sinun Jumalallesi.

6 Jos kulkiessasi tapaat puusta tai maasta linnun pesän, jossa on pojat tai munat ja emo makaamassa poikien tai munien päällä, niin älä ota emoa poikineen,

7 vaan päästä emo lentämään ja ota vain pojat, että menestyisit ja kauan eläisit.

8 Kun rakennat uuden talon, tee kaide kattosi ympärille, ettet saattaisi verenvikaa taloosi, jos joku sieltä putoaisi.

9 Älä kylvä viinitarhaasi kahdenlaista siementä, muutoin kaikki, mitä siinä on, sekä siemen, jonka kylvit, että viinitarhan sato, on oleva pyhäkölle pyhitetty.

10 Älä kynnä yhtaikaa härällä ja aasilla.

11 Älä pue yllesi vaatetta, joka on kudottu kahdenlaisista langoista, villaisista ja pellavaisista sekaisin.

12 Tee itsellesi tupsut viittasi neljään kulmaan, johon verhoudut.

13 Jos joku on ottanut vaimon ja yhtynyt häneen, mutta sitten hylkii häntä

14 ja esittää häntä vastaan perättömiä syytöksiä ja saattaa hänet pahaan maineeseen ja sanoo: 'Minä otin tämän naisen vaimokseni, mutta kun ryhdyin häneen, en tavannut hänessä neitsyyden merkkiä',

15 niin tytön isä ja äiti ottakoot ja tuokoot tytön neitsyyden merkin kaupungin vanhimmille, porttiin.

16 Ja tytön isä sanokoon vanhimmille: 'Minä annoin tyttäreni vaimoksi tälle miehelle, mutta hän hylkii häntä.

17 Ja katso, hän esittää häntä vastaan perättömiä syytöksiä sanoen: Minä en tavannut tyttäressäsi neitsyyden merkkiä. Mutta tässä on tyttäreni neitsyyden merkki.' Ja he levittäkööt vaatteen kaupungin vanhinten eteen.

18 Silloin kaupungin vanhimmat ottakoot sen miehen ja kurittakoot häntä. Ja he määrätkööt hänelle sakkoa sata hopeasekeliä annettavaksi tytön isälle, sentähden että hän saattoi Israelin neitsyen pahaan maineeseen.

19 Ja hän olkoon hänen vaimonsa; hän älköön hyljätkö häntä koko elinaikanansa.

20 Mutta jos syytös on tosi, jos tytössä ei tavattu neitsyyden merkkiä,

21 silloin vietäköön tyttö isänsä talon ovelle, ja kaupungin miehet kivittäkööt hänet kuoliaaksi, koska hän teki häpeällisen teon Israelissa, harjoittaen haureutta isänsä kodissa. Poista paha keskuudestasi.

22 Jos joku tavataan makaamasta naisen kanssa, joka on toisen miehen aviovaimo, niin kuolkoot molemmat, sekä mies, joka makasi vaimon kanssa, että vaimo. Poista paha Israelista.

23 Jos joku neitsyt on kihloissa miehen kanssa ja toinen tapaa hänet kaupungissa ja makaa hänen kanssaan,

24 niin viekää molemmat sen kaupungin portille ja kivittäkää heidät kuoliaaksi, tyttö siksi, että hän ei huutanut apua kaupungissa, ja mies siksi, että hän teki väkivaltaa lähimmäisensä morsiamelle. Poista paha keskuudestasi.

25 Mutta jos mies tapaa kihlatun tytön kedolla, käy häneen käsiksi ja makaa hänen kanssaan, niin mies, joka makasi hänen kanssaan, kuolkoon yksin.

26 Mutta tytölle älä tee mitään, sillä tyttö ei ole tehnyt kuoleman rikosta; tässä on samanlainen tapaus, kuin jos mies karkaa toisen kimppuun ja tappaa hänet.

27 Sillä hän tapasi hänet kedolla; kihlattu tyttö huusi, mutta hänellä ei ollut auttajaa.

28 Jos joku tapaa neitsyen, joka ei ole kihlattu, ja ottaa hänet kiinni ja makaa hänen kanssaan ja heidät siitä tavataan,

29 niin mies, joka makasi hänen kanssaan, antakoon tytön isälle viisikymmentä hopeasekeliä, ja tyttö tulkoon hänen vaimokseen, koska hän raiskasi hänet; hän älköön hyljätkö häntä koko elinaikanansa.

30 Älköön kukaan ottako vaimoksi äitipuoltaan älköönkä nostako isänsä peitettä."

   

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Apocalypse Explained # 196

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196. And they shall walk with Me in white, for they are worthy, signifies their spiritual life, which they have by means of the knowledges of truth and good from the Word. This is evident from the signification of "to walk," as being to live (See above, n. 97 [1-2]); from the signification of "in white," as being in truths, for "whiteness" and "brightness" in the Word are predicated of truths (of which presently); therefore by these words, "they shall walk with me in white," is signified spiritual life, since spiritual life is the life of truth, that is, a life according to truths, or according to the precepts of the Lord in the Word. This is evident also from the signification of "for they are worthy," as being because they have spiritual life from the Lord. So far as anyone receives from the Lord he is worthy; but so far as he receives from self, that is, from what is his, or from what is his own [proprium] he is not worthy. Nothing else constitutes spiritual life with man but the knowledges of truth and good from the Word applied to life; and they are applied to life when man holds them as the laws of his life, for he then looks to the Lord in everything, and with such the Lord is present, and gives intelligence and wisdom and an affection for them and delight in them. For the Lord is in His truths with man, since every truth proceeds from the Lord, and what proceeds from the Lord that is His, even so that it is He; therefore the Lord says:

I am the truth and the life (John 14:6).

He that doeth the truth cometh to the light, [that his works may be made manifest] that they have been wrought in God (John 3:21).

The Word was with God, and God was the Word. In Him was life; and the life was the light of men. That was the true light, that lighteth every man. And the Word was made flesh (John 1:1, 4, 9, 14).

The Lord is called "the Word" because the Word signifies Divine truth; He is also called "the Light" because Divine truth is the light in the heavens; He is also called "the Life," because everything that lives, lives from that life; from that also angels have intelligence and wisdom, in which their life consists. He who would derive life from any other source than from the Divine that proceeds from the Lord, which in heaven is called Divine truth and is there seen as light, is greatly mistaken. From this it can be seen how it is to be understood that "God was the Word," and that "in Him was life, and that the life was the light of men. "

[2] "White" in the Word is predicated of truths, because Divine truth is the light of heaven, as was just said, and whiteness and brightness are from the light of heaven. From this it was:

That when the Lord was transfigured before Peter, James, and John, His face appeared as the sun, and His garments as the light (Matthew 17:2);

And as white, dazzling (Luke 9:29);

And glistering as snow, so as no fuller on earth could whiten (Mark 9:3);

That the angels at the Lord's sepulcher had raiment white as snow (Matthew 28:3);

(Luke 24:4)

And shining (Luke 24:4);

That there appeared to John seven angels from the temple clothed in linen clean and shining (Revelation 15:6);

That those who stood before the throne of the Lamb were clothed in white robes (Revelation 6:11; 7:9, 13-14; 19:8);

That the armies of the One sitting upon the white horse followed Him on white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean (Revelation 14:14).

From this also it was:

That Aaron had garments of linen, and that he put them on when he went within the veil before the mercy-seat (Leviticus 16:1-5, 32).

"Linen" also signifies truth, because of its whiteness (Arcana Coelestia 7601, 9959). As "white" signifies truth, and truths are what disclose falsities and evil with man and thus purify him, it is said in David:

Behold, Thou desirest truth in the reins, and in the hidden part Thou makest me to know wisdom. Thou shalt purge me with hyssop that I may be made clean; Thou shalt wash me and I shall be whiter than snow (Psalms 51:6-7).

[3] Because the Nazirites represented the Lord in respect to Divine truth in ultimates, which on earth is the Word in the sense of the letter, and this with the Jews was falsified and perverted, it is said of them in Lamentations:

The Nazirites were whiter than snow, they were brighter than milk, their bones were more ruddy than pearls, their polishing was sapphire; but their form is darkened, that they are not known in the streets (Lamentations 4:7-8

(That "Nazirites" represented the Lord in respect to Divine truth, see Arcana Coelestia 6437; that "the crown of the head of the Nazirites" means Divine truths in ultimates, or the Word in the letter, n. 6437, 9407. That the "hair" which was of the Naziriteship, and was called "the crown of the head of the Nazirite," is Divine truth in ultimates, n. 3301, 5247, 10044. That Divine truth in ultimates has strength and power, n. 9836; that therefore the strength of Samson was in his hair, n. 3301.)

[4] From this it is clear what is signified by "the Nazirites were whiter than snow and brighter than milk," and "sapphire was the polishing of their bones; but their form was darkened, that they were not known in the streets;" for "whiteness" and "brightness" signify Divine truth in its light (as was said above); and "bones," as they are man's ultimates, being the supports of his whole body, correspond to ultimates in heaven. (For all things of man correspond, see in the work on Heaven and Hell 87-102; consequently "bones" signify the ultimates in the spiritual world, which are also the ultimates of Divine truth or the Word, Arcana Coelestia 5560-5564, 8005; that "sapphire" signifies what is translucent from truths, n. 9407; and "not to be known in the streets" signifies that Divine truth is no more seen, since "streets" signify where there are truths of doctrine, n. 2336.)

  
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Arcana Coelestia # 10017

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10017. 'And the priesthood shall be theirs' means the stages, following one after another, of the Lord's work of salvation. This is clear from the meaning of 'the priesthood' or 'the priestly office' as that which is representative of the Lord's whole work of salvation, dealt with in 9809. The reason why the stages following one after another is meant is that the priesthood of Aaron's sons is the subject here, and his sons represent the things which emanate and so follow in order one after another, 9807. The situation in all this is that the priesthood which Aaron represents consists in the work of saving those who are in the Lord's celestial kingdom, this kingdom being the proper meaning in the Word of 'a kingdom of priests'. But the priesthood which Aaron's sons represent consists in the work of saving those who are in the Lord's spiritual kingdom emanating directly from His celestial kingdom. From this it is evident that 'the priesthood' is used in the present instance to mean the stages, following one after another, of the Lord's work of salvation. But the priesthood which the Levites represent consists in the Lord's work of salvation at a further stage.

[2] There are three realities which follow one another in order. These are the celestial, which is the good of love to the Lord; the spiritual, which is the good of charity towards the neighbour; and the natural springing from these, which is the good of faith. Since these three are realities which follow one another in order there are also three heavens, and in them the types of good follow in that order. The work of saving those with whom celestial good exists is represented by Aaron's priesthood; but the work of saving those with whom spiritual good exists is represented by the priesthood of Aaron's sons, and the work of saving those with whom the natural good springing from these exists is represented by the priesthood of the Levites. And since the things following one another in order emanate from the good of love to the Lord, which is represented by Aaron and his priesthood, it is said of the Levites that they were given to Aaron. For things which emanate belong to that from which they emanate; such emanations or stages following one after another owe their very existence to that source, as accords with what has been stated a little above in 10011. The fact that the Levites were given to Aaron and his sons to perform priestly duties under them, see Numbers 3:1-end.

  
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