Bible

 

maastamuutto 20

Studie

   

1 Ja Jumala puhui kaikki nämä sanat ja sanoi:

2 "Minä olen Herra, sinun Jumalasi, joka vein sinut pois Egyptin maasta, orjuuden pesästä.

3 Älä pidä muita jumalia minun rinnallani.

4 Älä tee itsellesi jumalankuvaa äläkä mitään kuvaa, älä niistä, jotka ovat ylhäällä taivaassa, älä niistä, jotka ovat alhaalla maan päällä, äläkä niistä, jotka ovat vesissä maan alla.

5 Älä kumarra niitä äläkä palvele niitä. Sillä minä, Herra, sinun Jumalasi, olen kiivas Jumala, joka kostan isien pahat teot lapsille kolmanteen ja neljänteen polveen, niille, jotka minua vihaavat;

6 mutta teen laupeuden tuhansille, jotka minua rakastavat ja pitävät minun käskyni.

7 Älä turhaan lausu Herran, sinun Jumalasi, nimeä, sillä Herra ei jätä rankaisematta sitä, joka hänen nimensä turhaan lausuu.

8 Muista pyhittää lepopäivä.

9 Kuusi päivää tee työtä ja toimita kaikki askareesi;

10 mutta seitsemäs päivä on Herran, sinun Jumalasi, sapatti; silloin älä mitään askaretta toimita, älä sinä älköönkä sinun poikasi tai tyttäresi, sinun palvelijasi tai palvelijattaresi tai juhtasi älköönkä muukalaisesi, joka sinun porteissasi on.

11 Sillä kuutena päivänä Herra teki taivaan ja maan ja meren ja kaikki, mitä niissä on, mutta seitsemäntenä päivänä hän lepäsi; sentähden Herra siunasi lepopäivän ja pyhitti sen.

12 Kunnioita isääsi ja äitiäsi, että kauan eläisit siinä maassa, jonka Herra, sinun Jumalasi, sinulle antaa.

13 Älä tapa.

14 Älä tee huorin.

15 Älä varasta.

16 Älä sano väärää todistusta lähimmäisestäsi.

17 Älä himoitse lähimmäisesi huonetta. Älä himoitse lähimmäisesi vaimoa äläkä hänen palvelijaansa, palvelijatartaan, härkäänsä, aasiansa äläkä mitään, mikä on lähimmäisesi omaa."

18 Ja kaikki kansa havaitsi jylinän, tulen leimaukset, pasunan äänen ja vuoren suitsuamisen; ja kun he sen havaitsivat, vapisivat he ja pysyivät taampana.

19 Ja he sanoivat Moosekselle: "Puhu sinä meidän kanssamme, niin me kuulemme. Älköön Jumala puhuko meidän kanssamme, ettemme kuolisi."

20 Mutta Mooses vastasi kansalle: "Älkää peljätkö, sillä Jumala on tullut koettelemaan teitä, että Herran pelko olisi teidän silmäinne edessä ja ettette syntiä tekisi".

21 Ja kansa pysyi taampana, mutta Mooses lähestyi pimeyttä, jossa Jumala oli.

22 Ja Herra sanoi Moosekselle: "Sano israelilaisille näin: Te olette nähneet, että minä olen puhunut teille taivaasta.

23 Älkää tehkö jumalia minun rinnalleni; hopeaisia tai kultaisia jumalia älkää tehkö itsellenne.

24 Tee minulle alttari maasta, ja uhraa sen päällä polttouhrisi ja yhteysuhrisi, lampaasi ja raavaasi. Joka paikassa, mihin minä säädän nimeni muiston, minä tulen sinun tykösi ja siunaan sinua.

25 Mutta jos sinä teet minulle kivialttarin, niin älä rakenna sitä hakatusta kivestä; sillä jos sinä kosket taltallasi kiveen, niin sinä saastutat sen.

26 Äläkä nouse portaita myöten minun alttarilleni, ettei häpysi sen päällä paljastuisi."

   

Ze Swedenborgových děl

 

Apocalypse Explained # 972

Prostudujte si tuto pasáž

  
/ 1232  
  

972. Thou art just, O Lord, who is, and who was. That this signifies the Lord as to Divine good from eternity, is evident from the signification of just, when predicated of the Lord, as denoting Divine good; for just, in the Word, is said of good, and holy of truth (see above n. 204); and from the signification of, who is, and who was, as denoting the Infinite and Eternal. For Is and Was is the same as Jehovah. And the Lord in the Word is called Jehovah from Divine good, and God from Divine truth. And Esse, when said of the Lord, is to be from Himself, which is in Himself; and Existere, when said of Him, is also to exist from Himself and in Himself. And the Existere, in the relative sense, is the Esse in all things of heaven and the church, which is effected by Divine truth. This Esse is meant by eternal; for eternal, when said of the Lord, is understood in heaven apart from any idea of time, thus different from the understanding of it in the world. For eternal in the angelic idea is the state of the Divine Existence, which yet makes one with the Divine Essence, which is Jehovah. The Infinite as to Esse is signified by the "Is" in Jehovah; and the Infinite as to Existere is signified by the "Was" in Jehovah. The Infinite Existere, which also is Eternal, is the proceeding Divine, from which is heaven and everything pertaining to it. The Divine Existere is also the Divine Esse; but it is called Existere with respect to heaven, where it is the all in all.

Continuation concerning the Fifth Precept:-

He who abstains from thefts, understood in a broad sense, in fact, he who shuns them from any other reason than religion and for the sake of life eternal, is not purified from them; for no other reason opens heaven. For the Lord, by means of heaven, removes evils with man, as by this He also removes the hells.

For example, administrators of goods higher and lower, merchants, judges, officers of every kind, and labourers, who abstain from theft, that is from unlawful modes of gain and usury, and also shun them, but only for the sake of reputation, and, consequently, of honour and gain, or for the sake of civil and moral laws, in a word, from any natural love or fear, thus because of external bonds alone, and not because of religion - such persons are still, as to their interior life, full of the desire to thieve and plunder, which also breaks out when external bonds are removed. This is the case with every one after death. Their sincerity and rectitude is merely a mask, disguise, and cunning.

  
/ 1232  
  

Translation by Isaiah Tansley. Many thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.

Ze Swedenborgových děl

 

Arcana Coelestia # 2928

Prostudujte si tuto pasáž

  
/ 10837  
  

2928. 'To the people of the land, to the sons of Heth' means by those who belonged to the [new] spiritual Church. This is clear from the meaning of 'the people' as those who are governed by truths, and so those who are spiritual, dealt with in 1259, 1260; from the meaning of 'the land' as the Church dealt with in 662, 1066, 1068, 1262, 1733, 1850, 2117, 2118 (end); and from the meaning of 'the sons of Heth' as those who belonged to the new spiritual Church, dealt with above in 2913. The expression 'the people of the land' is used in various places in the Word when the subject is Israel and Jerusalem, and by those people is meant in the internal sense the spiritual Church or those who belong to the spiritual Church, for Israel and Jerusalem are used to mean that Church. When Judah and Zion are the subject however the expression 'the nation' is used. 'The nation' means the celestial Church, for Judah and Zion are used to mean that Church.

[2] That the expression 'the people of the land' is used when Israel and Jerusalem, and so when the spiritual Church are the subject, is clear from many places in the Word, as in Ezekiel,

Say to the people of the land, Thus says the Lord Jehovih to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, to the land of Israel, They will eat their bread in sorrow, and drink their waters in vastation, that her land may be devastated. The inhabited cities will be vastated and the land made desolate. Ezekiel 12:19-20.

Here in the internal sense 'Jerusalem' and 'the land of Israel' stand for the spiritual Church, 'bread' and 'waters' for charity and faith, or good and truth. 'The land' stands for the Church itself which as regards good is said to be 'vastated' and as regards truth to be 'made desolate'.

[3] In the same prophet,

The house of Israel will bury Gog and his multitude so that they will cleanse the land in seven months, and all the people of the land will bury them. Ezekiel 39:11-13.

'Gog' stands for external worship separated from internal, which is idolatrous, 1151. 'The house of Israel' stands for the spiritual Church as regards good, 'the people of the land' as regards truth, 'the land' for the Church itself. The reason 'the land' is the Church is that 'the land of Canaan' represented the Lord's kingdom and so the Church, since the Lord's kingdom on earth is the Church.

[4] In the same prophet,

All the people of the land will give 1 this thruma (oblation) to the prince of Israel. And the prince will prepare for himself on that day, and for all the people of the land a young bull for a sin offering. The people of the land will bow down at the door of the gate on the sabbaths and at new moons. And the people of the land will enter at the appointed feasts. Ezekiel 45:16, 22; 46:3, 9.

This refers to the New Jerusalem, that is, to the Lord's spiritual kingdom, whose subjects are here called 'the people of the land'. 'The prince' is Divine truth coming from the Lord. The expression 'the sons of Heth' is used because 'sons' means truths, see 489, 491, 533, 1147, 2623.

[5] The reason why truths are attributable to those who are spiritual is that these people are introduced to good by way of truths, that is, to charity by way of faith. And because the good they do is done from an affection for truth - for they do not know otherwise than that it is good because they have been taught that it is - their conscience too is founded on these truths of faith, see 1155, 1577, 2046, 2088, 2184, 2507, 2715, 2716, 2718.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. literally, will be to

  
/ 10837  
  

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