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Matteus 8

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1 Kun hän astui alas vuorelta, seurasi häntä suuri kansan paljous.

2 Ja katso, tuli pitalinen mies ja kumartui maahan hänen eteensä ja sanoi: "Herra, jos tahdot, niin sinä voit minut puhdistaa".

3 Niin hän ojensi kätensä, kosketti häntä ja sanoi: "Minä tahdon; puhdistu". Ja kohta hän puhdistui pitalistaan.

4 Ja Jeesus sanoi hänelle: "Katso, ettet puhu tästä kenellekään; vaan mene ja näytä itsesi papille, ja uhraa lahja, jonka Mooses on säätänyt, todistukseksi heille".

5 Ja kun hän saapui Kapernaumiin, tuli hänen tykönsä sadanpäämies ja rukoili häntä

6 ja sanoi: "Herra, minun palvelijani makaa kotona halvattuna ja on kovissa vaivoissa".

7 Hän sanoi hänelle: "Minä tulen ja parannan hänet".

8 Mutta sadanpäämies vastasi ja sanoi: "Herra, en minä ole sen arvoinen, että tulisit minun kattoni alle; vaan sano ainoastaan sana, niin minun palvelijani paranee.

9 Sillä minä itsekin olen toisen vallan alainen, ja minulla on sotamiehiä käskyni alaisina, ja minä sanon tälle: 'Mene', ja hän menee, ja toiselle: 'Tule', ja hän tulee, ja palvelijalleni: 'Tee tämä', ja hän tekee."

10 Tämän kuultuaan Jeesus ihmetteli ja sanoi niille, jotka häntä seurasivat: "Totisesti minä sanon teille: en ole kenelläkään Israelissa löytänyt näin suurta uskoa.

11 Ja minä sanon teille: monet tulevat idästä ja lännestä ja aterioitsevat Aabrahamin ja Iisakin ja Jaakobin kanssa taivasten valtakunnassa;

12 mutta valtakunnan lapset heitetään ulos pimeyteen; siellä on oleva itku ja hammasten kiristys."

13 Ja Jeesus sanoi sadanpäämiehelle: "Mene. Niinkuin sinä uskot, niin sinulle tapahtukoon." Ja palvelija parani sillä hetkellä.

14 Kun Jeesus tuli Pietarin kotiin, näki hän hänen anoppinsa makaavan sairaana kuumeessa.

15 Niin hän koski tämän käteen, ja kuume lähti hänestä; ja hän nousi ja palveli häntä.

16 Mutta illan tultua tuotiin hänen tykönsä monta riivattua. Ja hän ajoi henget ulos sanalla, ja kaikki sairaat hän paransi;

17 että kävisi toteen, mikä on puhuttu profeetta Esaiaan kautta, joka sanoo: "Hän otti päällensä meidän sairautemme ja kantoi meidän tautimme".

18 Mutta kun Jeesus näki paljon kansaa ympärillään, käski hän lähteä toiselle rannalle.

19 Ja eräs kirjanoppinut tuli ja sanoi hänelle: "Opettaja, minä seuraan sinua, mihin ikinä menet".

20 Niin Jeesus sanoi hänelle: "Ketuilla on luolat ja taivaan linnuilla pesät, mutta Ihmisen Pojalla ei ole, mihin hän päänsä kallistaisi".

21 Ja eräs toinen hänen opetuslapsistaan sanoi hänelle: "Herra, salli minun ensin käydä hautaamassa isäni".

22 Mutta Jeesus sanoi hänelle: "Seuraa sinä minua, ja anna kuolleitten haudata kuolleensa".

23 Ja hän astui venheeseen, ja hänen opetuslapsensa seurasivat häntä.

24 Ja katso, järvellä nousi kova myrsky, niin että venhe peittyi aaltoihin; mutta hän nukkui.

25 Niin he menivät ja herättivät hänet sanoen: "Herra, auta, me hukumme".

26 Hän sanoi heille: "Te vähäuskoiset, miksi olette pelkureita?" Silloin hän nousi ja nuhteli tuulia ja järveä, ja tuli aivan tyven.

27 Ja ihmiset ihmettelivät ja sanoivat: "Millainen tämä on, kun sekä tuulet että meri häntä tottelevat?"

28 Kun hän tuli toiselle rannalle, gadaralaisten alueelle, tuli häntä vastaan kaksi riivattua, jotka olivat haudoista lähteneet ja olivat kovin raivoisia, niin ettei kukaan voinut sitä tietä kulkea.

29 Ja katso, he huusivat sanoen: "Mitä sinulla on meidän kanssamme tekemistä, sinä Jumalan Poika? Oletko tullut tänne vaivaamaan meitä ennen aikaa?"

30 Ja etäällä heistä kävi suuri sikalauma laitumella.

31 Niin riivaajahenget pyysivät häntä sanoen: "Jos ajat meidät pois, niin lähetä meidät sikalaumaan".

32 Ja hän sanoi niille: "Menkää". Silloin ne lähtivät heistä ja menivät sikoihin. Ja katso, koko lauma syöksyi jyrkännettä alas järveen ja hukkui veteen.

33 Mutta paimentajat pakenivat; ja he menivät kaupunkiin ja ilmoittivat kaikki, myöskin sen, miten riivattujen oli käynyt.

34 Ja katso, koko kaupunki lähti Jeesusta vastaan; ja kun he hänet näkivät, pyysivät he häntä menemään pois heidän alueeltaan.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 3702

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3702. 'And behold, Jehovah was standing above it' means the Lord at the highest point. This becomes clear from the fact that the Lord is called Jehovah so many times in the Old Testament Word, see 1736, 3023, 3035, and that in the New Testament Word He is not referred to anywhere as Jehovah but as the Lord instead, 2921. As regards the meaning of 'standing above it' as being at the highest point, this is clear without explanation. The arcanum concealed in the internal sense of these words is that every good and truth come down from the Lord and go up to Him, that is, He is the First and the Last. For the human being has been so created that Divine things that are the Lord's may come down through him even to the lowest things of the natural order, and from the lowest things of the natural order may go up to Him. Thus the human being was created to be the means through which the Divine was linked to the natural world, and the natural world was linked to the Divine, and in this way through the human being as the means linking the two together, the lowest degree of the natural order might receive life from the Divine - which would be a reality if mankind had lived in accordance with Divine order.

[2] The creation of the human being in this particular form is evident from the fact that his body is a world in miniature, because every arcanum that is part of the natural world is also stowed in the body. Each arcanum present in the ever-changing sky is also stowed in the eye; and each one in the air is also stowed in the ear. Anything floating unseen and active in the air is stowed - where it is detected - in the organ of smell, anything unseen that is present in water or any other fluid is stowed in the organ of taste. And actual changes of state likewise occur in the sense of touch throughout the body. Besides these even further arcana are stored away in the body which could be detected by a person within his interior organs if his life accorded with order. From this it is evident that a descent of the Divine through the human being into the lowest degree of the natural order would take place, and from the lowest degree of the natural order an ascent to the Divine, if only the human being with heartfelt faith, that is, with love, acknowledged the Lord as his Final and Primary end.

[3] A state such as this existed with the most ancient people, who were celestial, for whatever they discerned with any of their senses was to them a means to thought about things which are the Lord's, and so about the Lord and His kingdom. This was the source of the delight they gained from worldly and earthly things, see 1409, 2896, 2897, 2995. Furthermore whenever these people contemplated in this fashion the lower and the lowest things of the natural order, such things appeared to them to have life in them; for the life from which these came down existed in those people's internal sight and perception. The objects which they saw with their eyes were so to speak images of that life, and although those images were inanimate they were nevertheless animate to those people. This is the kind of perception that celestial angels have of every thing in the world, as I have often been allowed to perceive, and it is also the source of the kind of perception which young children have, see 2297, 2298. This shows what those people are like through whom Divine things that are the Lord's come right down to the lowest things of the natural order, and from the lowest things of the natural order rise up to Him - people that represent Divine communication and the consequent joining together, meant in the highest sense by 'the angels going up and coming down the stairway set up on the earth, and its top reaching to heaven, with Jehovah standing above it'.

  
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Leviticus 20

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1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

2 "Moreover, you shall tell the children of Israel, 'Anyone of the children of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners in Israel, who gives any of his seed to Molech; he shall surely be put to death. The people of the land shall stone him with stones.

3 I also will set my face against that person, and will cut him off from among his people because he has given of his seed to Molech, to defile my sanctuary, and to profane my holy name.

4 If the people of the land all hide their eyes from that person, when he gives of his seed to Molech, and don't put him to death;

5 then I will set my face against that man, and against his family, and will cut him off, and all who play the prostitute after him, to play the prostitute with Molech, from among their people.

6 "'The person that turns to those who are mediums, and to the wizards, to play the prostitute after them, I will even set my face against that person, and will cut him off from among his people.

7 "'Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be holy; for I am Yahweh your God.

8 You shall keep my statutes, and do them. I am Yahweh who sanctifies you.

9 "'For everyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death: he has cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.

10 "'The man who commits adultery with another man's wife, even he who commits adultery with his neighbor's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.

11 "'The man who lies with his father's wife has uncovered his father's nakedness: both of them shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.

12 "'If a man lies with his daughter-in-law, both of them shall surely be put to death: they have committed a perversion; their blood shall be upon them.

13 "'If a man lies with a male, as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.

14 "'If a man takes a wife and her mother, it is wickedness: they shall be burned with fire, both he and they; that there may be no wickedness among you.

15 "'If a man lies with an animal, he shall surely be put to death; and you shall kill the animal.

16 "'If a woman approaches any animal, and lies down with it, you shall kill the woman, and the animal: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.

17 "'If a man takes his sister, his father's daughter, or his mother's daughter, and sees her nakedness, and she sees his nakedness; it is a shameful thing; and they shall be cut off in the sight of the children of their people: he has uncovered his sister's nakedness; he shall bear his iniquity.

18 "'If a man lies with a woman having her monthly period, and uncovers her nakedness; he has made naked her fountain, and she has uncovered the fountain of her blood: and both of them shall be cut off from among their people.

19 "'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother's sister, nor of your father's sister; for he has made naked his close relative: they shall bear their iniquity.

20 If a man lies with his uncle's wife, he has uncovered his uncle's nakedness: they shall bear their sin; they shall die childless.

21 "'If a man takes his brother's wife, it is an impurity: he has uncovered his brother's nakedness; they shall be childless.

22 "'You shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all my ordinances, and do them; that the land, where I am bringing you to dwell, may not vomit you out.

23 You shall not walk in the customs of the nation, which I am casting out before you: for they did all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.

24 But I have said to you, "You shall inherit their land, and I will give it to you to possess it, a land flowing with milk and honey." I am Yahweh your God, who has separated you from the peoples.

25 "'You shall therefore make a distinction between the clean animal and the unclean, and between the unclean fowl and the clean: and you shall not make yourselves abominable by animal, or by bird, or by anything with which the ground teems, which I have separated from you as unclean for you.

26 You shall be holy to me: for I, Yahweh, am holy, and have set you apart from the peoples, that you should be mine.

27 "'A man or a woman that is a medium, or is a wizard, shall surely be put to death: they shall stone them with stones; their blood shall be upon them.'"