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Exode 23

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1 Tu ne lèveras point de faux bruit, [et] tu ne te joindras point au méchant pour être témoin, afin que violence soit faite.

2 Tu ne suivras point la multitude pour mal faire; et tu ne répondras point dans un procès en sorte que tu te détournes après plusieurs pour pervertir [le droit].

3 Tu n'honoreras point le pauvre en son procès.

4 Si tu rencontres le bœuf de ton ennemi, ou son âne égaré, tu ne manqueras point de le lui ramener.

5 Si tu vois l'âne de celui qui te hait, abattu sous sa charge, tu t'arrêteras pour le secourir, et tu ne manqueras pas de l'aider.

6 Tu ne pervertiras point le droit de l'indigent qui est au milieu de toi, dans son procès.

7 Tu t'éloigneras de [toute] parole fausse, et tu ne feras point mourir l'innocent et le juste; car je ne justifierai point le méchant.

8 Tu ne prendras point de présent; car le présent aveugle les [plus] éclairés, et pervertit les paroles des justes.

9 Tu n'opprimeras point l'étranger; car vous savez ce que c'est que d'être étrangers; parce que vous avez été étrangers au pays d'Egypte.

10 Pendant six ans tu sèmeras ta terre, et en recueilleras le revenu.

11 Mais en la septième année tu lui donneras du relâche, et la laisseras reposer, afin que les pauvres de ton peuple en mangent, et que les bêtes des champs mangent ce qui restera; tu en feras de même de ta vigne, et de tes oliviers.

12 Tu travailleras six jours; mais tu te reposeras au septième jour, afin que ton bœuf et ton âne se reposent, et que le fils de ta servante, et l'étranger reprennent courage.

13 Vous prendrez garde à toutes les choses, que je vous ai commandées. Vous ne ferez point mention du nom des Dieux étrangers; on ne l'entendra point de ta bouche.

14 Trois fois l'an tu me célébreras une fête solennelle.

15 Tu garderas la fête solennelle des pains sans levain; tu mangeras des pains sans levain pendant sept jours, comme je t'ai commandé, en la saison [et] au mois que les épis mûrissent; car en ce mois-là tu es sorti d'Egypte; et nul ne se présentera devant ma face à vide.

16 Et la fête solennelle de la moisson des premiers fruits de ton travail, de ce que tu auras semé au champ ; et la fête solennelle de la récolte, après la fin de l'année, quand tu auras recueilli du champ [les fruits de] ton travail.

17 Trois fois l'an tous les mâles d'entre vous se présenteront devant le Seigneur l'Eternel.

18 Tu ne sacrifieras point le sang de mon sacrifice avec du pain levé; et la graisse de ma fête solennelle ne passera point la nuit jusqu'au matin.

19 Tu apporteras en la maison de l'Eternel ton Dieu les prémices des premiers fruits de ta terre. Tu ne feras point cuire le chevreau dans le lait de sa mère.

20 Voici, j'envoie un Ange devant toi, afin qu'il te garde dans le chemin, et qu'il t'introduise au lieu que je t'ai préparé.

21 Donne-toi de garde de [provoquer] sa colère, et écoute sa voix, et ne l'irrite point; car il ne pardonnera point votre péché; parce que mon Nom est en lui.

22 Mais si tu écoutes attentivement sa voix, et si tu fais tout ce que je te dirai, je serai l'ennemi de tes ennemis, et j'affligerai ceux qui t'affligeront.

23 Car mon Ange mArchera devant toi, et t'introduira au pays des Amorrhéens, des Héthiens, des Phérésiens, des Chananéens, des Héviens, et des Jébusiens, et je les exterminerai.

24 Tu ne te prosterneras point devant leurs Dieux, et tu ne les serviras point, et tu ne feras point selon leurs œuvres, mais tu les détruiras entièrement, et tu briseras entièrement leurs statues.

25 Vous servirez l'Eternel votre Dieu; et il bénira ton pain et tes eaux; et j'ôterai les maladies du milieu de toi.

26 Il n'y aura point en ton pays de femelle qui avorte, ou qui soit stérile; j'accomplirai le nombre de tes jours.

27 J'enverrai la terreur de mon Nom devant toi, et j'effrayerai tout peuple vers lequel tu arriveras, et je ferai que tous tes ennemis tourneront le dos devant toi.

28 Et j'enverrai des frelons devant toi, qui chasseront les Héviens, les Chananéens, et les Héthiens, de devant ta face.

29 Je ne les chasserai point de devant ta face en une année, de peur que le pays ne devienne un désert, et que les bêtes des champs ne se multiplie contre toi.

30 Mais je les chasserai peu à peu de devant toi, jusqu'à ce que tu te sois accru, et que tu possèdes le pays.

31 Et je mettrai des bornes depuis la mer rouge, jusqu'à la mer des Philistins, et depuis le désert jusqu'au fleuve; car je livrerai entre tes mains les habitants du pays, et je les chasserai de devant toi.

32 Tu ne traiteras point d'alliance avec eux, ni avec leurs Dieux.

33 Ils n'habiteront point en ton pays, de peur qu'ils ne te fassent pécher contre moi; car tu servirais leurs Dieux; et [cela] te serait en piège.

   

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Apocalypse Explained # 865

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865. These were redeemed from among men, being the first-fruits unto God and unto the Lamb. That this signifies those in the New Church who are received by the Lord, is evident from the signification of those who are redeemed by the Lord, as denoting those who receive instruction from the Word, especially respecting the Lord, and who live according to it; respecting which see above (n. 860). These are also called the redeemed of the Lord; and these are the redeemed who are regenerated by the Lord; and these are they who follow the Lord, that is, are led by Him, of whom we have just treated above. And the same appears from the signification of the first-fruits of God and the Lamb, as denoting those who have given themselves to the Lord, and are adopted by Him. That these are those who belong to the New Church, is evident from this consideration, that they are called the first-fruits to God and to the Lamb. For those who are received therein, acknowledge the Lord's Divine Human, and live according to His precepts. No others, are received in the New Church, called the New Jerusalem, because those who do not believe it, and so live, are not in agreement with the life of heaven, neither with the light there, nor with the heat; for the light there is Divine truth, from which come all intelligence and wisdom; and the heat there is Divine good, from which come all love and charity. All man's affection and thought therefrom is not only within him, and constitutes his life, but is also external to him, and constitutes the sphere of his life. This is why heaven is divided into societies according to the varieties of affections and thoughts therefrom. Unless therefore the affections and the thoughts therefrom are spiritual, and are formed solely from the acknowledgment of the Lord, and from a life according to His precepts, they cannot be admitted into any society of heaven, for they are repugnant thereto. This is the reason that those who do not acknowledge the Lord's Divine Human, and do not live according to His precepts in the Word, cannot be in association with the angels of heaven. That this is the case, has been made plain to me from much experience. There were some who had thought of the Lord only as of another man, and had lived in the faith of the present day, which is a faith of the thought merely, without any good of life. But because they believed that nothing more was necessary to life eternal than to be admitted into heaven, therefore, according to their wish, they were admitted into some society; but as soon as the light of heaven struck their eyes with its lustre, their sight and also their understanding began to be entirely obscured and became stupefied. And when the heat of heaven came upon them, they began to be tormented in a direful manner, and as to the head and limbs to writhe like serpents. Therefore they cast themselves downwards, swearing that to enter heaven was hell to them, unless they were in the light and heat of heaven; and that they did not know that every one has heaven from love and thence faith, or from a life according to the Lord's precepts in the Word, and from faith in the Lord, and not in any way from faith without the life of faith, which is charity.

[2] It shall now be stated in a few words what first-fruits in the Word signify. They signify the same as the first-begotten; but the latter term is used of animals, and first-fruits of vegetables. Thus the first-begotten are what are born first, and first-fruits are from the first things produced; and both signify the spiritual good first formed, which is essentially truth from good from the Lord. The origin of this is as follows. There are two minds in man, natural and spiritual. From the natural mind alone nothing but evil is produced, and the falsity therefrom; but as soon as the spiritual mind is opened, then good is produced, and the truth therefrom; this which is first produced is meant by the first-begotten and by the first-fruits. Now because nothing born and produced from the spiritual mind is from man but from the Lord, therefore those things were sanctified to Jehovah, that is, to the Lord, because they were His, and consequently holy. And because that which is born or produced first, signifies all the things that follow in a series - as a leader the people, and a shepherd the flock - therefore by the first-begotten and the first-fruits being given to the Lord was signified that all other things were also His.

[3] But in order that this may be more clearly understood, it must be known, that the merely natural mind is formed according to the idea or image of the world, but the spiritual mind according to the idea or image of heaven; and that the spiritual mind is opened to no one, except by the acknowledgment of the Divine of the Lord, and by a life according to His precepts; and that previous to this, no good and truth are produced. But as soon as the spiritual mind is opened, then they are produced therefrom from the Lord. Therefore the first that is produced is called holy, and signifies that all things afterwards produced are also holy. From these things, it is evident that the opening of the womb or matrix signifies the opening of the spiritual mind. That this is the signification is seen also from correspondence; for the womb corresponds to the good of celestial love; concerning which correspondence see above (n. 710), and in the Arcana Coelestia 4918, 5050-5062).

[4] Since the things now mentioned were signified by the first-fruits; and since the things of harvest, as wheat, barley, and the rest, signified the goods and truths of heaven and the church; also wool, and the clean and useful beasts, therefore, of the latter the first-begotten were given to the Lord, and of the former the first-fruits. And because the high priest represented the Lord as to His priesthood, which is the good of love, therefore they were given to that priest. And consequently everything produced from corn, wine, and oil was sanctified.

But concerning those first-fruits, see the statutes for the sons of Israel in the law of Moses; as, for example, the first of the fruits of all the corn, oil, wine, and the fruit of the tree; also of the fleece, and the first-begotten of the flock and the herd; and that they were given as holy to Jehovah, and by Jehovah to Aaron, and after him to the high priest.

(Exodus 22:29; Numbers 13:20; 15:17-22; 18:8-20; Deuteronomy 18:4; 26:1, to the end).

And concerning the feast of the first-fruits of harvest, and of the first-fruits of bread

(Exodus 23:14, 15, 16, 19, 26; Leviticus 23:9-15, 20-25 Numbers 28:26, to the end; and elsewhere).

From these things it is now evident, that by first-fruits to God and to the Lamb are meant those who will belong to the New Church, called the New Jerusalem, who acknowledge the Lord's Divine Human, and live a life of love, that is, a life according to the Lord's precepts in the Word. For in the case of these and no others is the spiritual mind opened; no others, therefore, are led of the Lord, or follow Him whithersoever He goeth.

That by God and the Lamb in the Apocalypse, is meant the Lord as to the Divine itself, and at the same time as to the Divine Human, may be seen above (n. 297, 314, 343, 460, 482).

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