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Deutéronome 27

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1 Moïse et les anciens d'Israël donnèrent cet ordre au peuple: Observez tous les commandements que je vous prescris aujourd'hui.

2 Lorsque vous aurez passé le Jourdain, pour entrer dans le pays que l'Eternel, ton Dieu, te donne, tu dresseras de grandes pierres, et tu les enduiras de chaux.

3 Tu écriras sur ces pierres toutes les paroles de cette loi, lorsque tu auras passé le Jourdain, pour entrer dans le pays que l'Eternel, ton Dieu, te donne, pays où coulent le lait et le miel, comme te l'a dit l'Eternel, le Dieu de tes pères.

4 Lorsque vous aurez passé le Jourdain, vous dresserez sur le mont Ebal ces pierres que je vous ordonne aujourd'hui de dresser, et tu les enduiras de chaux.

5 Là, tu bâtiras un autel à l'Eternel, ton Dieu, un autel de pierres, sur lesquelles tu ne porteras point le fer;

6 tu bâtiras en pierres brutes l'autel de l'Eternel, ton Dieu. Tu offriras sur cet autel des holocaustes à l'Eternel, ton Dieu;

7 tu offriras des sacrifices d'actions de grâces, et tu mangeras là et te réjouiras devant l'Eternel, ton Dieu.

8 Tu écriras sur ces pierres toutes les paroles de cette loi, en les gravant bien nettement.

9 Moïse et les sacrificateurs, les Lévites, parlèrent à tout Israël, et dirent: Israël, sois attentif et écoute! Aujourd'hui, tu es devenu le peuple de l'Eternel, ton Dieu.

10 Tu obéiras à la voix de l'Eternel, ton Dieu, et tu mettras en pratique ses commandements et ses lois que je te prescris aujourd'hui.

11 Le même jour, Moïse donna cet ordre au peuple:

12 Lorsque vous aurez passé le Jourdain, Siméon, Lévi, Juda, Issacar, Joseph et Benjamin, se tiendront sur le mont Garizim, pour bénir le peuple;

13 et Ruben, Gad, Aser, Zabulon, Dan et Nephthali, se tiendront sur le mont Ebal, pour prononcer la malédiction.

14 Et les Lévites prendront la parole, et diront d'une voix haute à tout Israël:

15 Maudit soit l'homme qui fait une image taillée ou une image en fonte, abomination de l'Eternel, oeuvre des mains d'un artisan, et qui la place dans un lieu secret! Et tout le peuple répondra, et dira: Amen!

16 Maudit soit celui qui méprise son père et sa mère! -Et tout le peuple dira: Amen!

17 Maudit soit celui qui déplace les bornes de son prochain! -Et tout le peuple dira: Amen!

18 Maudit soit celui qui fait égarer un aveugle dans le chemin! Et tout le peuple dira: Amen!

19 Maudit soit celui qui porte atteinte au droit de l'étranger, de l'orphelin et de la veuve! -Et tout le peuple dira: Amen!

20 Maudit soit celui qui couche avec la femme de son père, car il soulève la couverture de son père! -Et tout le peuple dira: Amen!

21 Maudit soit celui qui couche avec une bête quelconque! -Et tout le peuple dira: Amen!

22 Maudit soit celui qui couche avec sa soeur, fille de son père ou fille de sa mère! -Et tout le peuple dira: Amen!

23 Maudit soit celui qui couche avec sa belle-mère! -Et tout le peuple dira: Amen!

24 Maudit soit celui qui frappe son prochain en secret! -Et tout le peuple dira: Amen!

25 Maudit soit celui qui reçoit un présent pour répandre le sang de l'innocent! -Et tout le peuple dira: Amen!

26 Maudit soit celui qui n'accomplit point les paroles de cette loi, et qui ne les met point en pratique! -Et tout le peuple dira: Amen!

   

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Apocalypse Explained # 228

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228. These things saith the Amen, the faithful and the Witness, signifies from whom is every truth and everything of faith. This is evident from the signification of "amen," as being verity or truth (of which presently); also from the signification of "the faithful and true Witness," as being, in reference to the Lord, everything of faith from Him; "for witness," in reference to the Lord signifies Divine truth which is from Him, and therefore everything of faith, for faith is of truth and truth is of faith. Divine truth proceeding from the Lord is called "a witness," because it is His Divine in heaven and in the church in which He is, and which is Himself there; for this proceeds from His Divine Human and fills the whole heaven and forms and makes it; and from this it is that heaven in the whole complex resembles one man. Because Divine truth is from that source and is such, it is called "a witness;" for it bears witness respecting the Lord's Divine Human, and makes it clear with all who receive the Divine truth from Him. From this it is that the angels of the higher heavens do not and cannot perceive any other Divine than the Lord's Divine Human, and this from the influx of the whole heaven into their minds. From this it can be seen why, in reference to the Lord, "witness" signifies the Lord in respect to Divine truth in heaven and in the church; and why "to bear witness," in reference to those who receive Divine truth from the Lord, signifies to acknowledge in heart the Lord's Divine in His Human (See above, n. 27). That heaven as a whole and in every part resembles one man, and that this is from the Lord's Divine Human, see in the work on Heaven and Hell 59-86, seq., 101; and that the Divine that proceeds from the Lord, which forms heaven, and forms angels into the image of heaven, is Divine truth, n. 13, 133, 139-140).

[2] This Divine truth is called by the Lord "the Comforter, the Spirit of truth," about which it is said that it should "bear Witness of Him," and that it is "from Him;" that it bears witness of Him, in John :

When the Comforter is come, the Spirit of truth, He shall bear witness of Me (John 15:26).

And that it is from Him, in the same:

The Comforter, the Spirit of truth, shall guide you into all the truth; for He shall not speak from Himself, but whatsoever things He shall hear, He shall speak. He shall glorify Me; for He shall take of Mine, and shall declare it unto you. All things whatsoever the Father hath are Mine; therefore said I, He shall take of Mine and shall declare it unto you (John 16:13-15).

That Divine truth is from the Lord, is meant by "He shall not speak from Himself, but He shall take of Mine, and shall declare it unto you;" and that Divine truth is from the Lord's Divine Human is meant by "All things whatsoever the Father hath are Mine, therefore said I that He shall take of Mine, and shall declare it unto you;" and that Divine truth manifests the Lord's Divine Human is meant by "He shall glorify Me;" "to glorify" is to make known the Lord's Divine Human. (That "to glorify," in reference to the Lord means this, see The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem 294.)

[3] The like is signified by these words of the Lord:

I tell you the truth; it is expedient that I go away; if I go, I will send the Comforter, the Spirit of truth, unto you (John 16:7, 8).

From this it is clear that Divine truth is from the Lord's Divine Human. The Lord calls Himself the "Amen," because "amen" signifies verity, thus the Lord Himself, because when He was in the world He was Divine verity itself, or Divine truth itself. It was for this reason that He so often said "Amen," and "amen, amen [verily, verily]" (as in Matthew 5:18, 26; 6:16; 10:23, 42; 17:20; 18:3, 13, 18; 24:2, 28:20; John 1:51; 3:11; 5:19, 24, 25; 6:26, 32, 47, 53; 8:34, 51, 58; 10:1, 7; 12:24; 13:16, 20, 21; 21:18, 25).

[4] That the Lord was Divine truth itself when He was in the world, He teaches in John:

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

In the same:

For their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they also may be sanctified in truth (John 17:19).

That "holy" in the Word is predicated of Divine truth, and "to be sanctified [made holy]" is predicated of those who receive Divine truth, see above n. 204; therefore the Lord's sanctifying Himself [making Himself holy], is making His Human to be Divine. (But on these things more may be seen shown in the Arcana Coelestia, in the quotations therefrom inThe Doctrine of the New Jerusalem 303-306.) Moreover, that "Amen" signifies Divine confirmation, see above (n. 34); as also in the Old Testament (Deuteronomy 27:15-26; 1 Kings 1:36; Isaiah 65:16; Jeremiah 11:5; 28:6; Psalms 41:13; 72:19; 89:52; 106:48).

  
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