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5 Mose 11

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1 So sollst du denn Jehova, deinen Gott, lieben und seine Vorschriften beobachten und seine Satzungen und seine Rechte und seine Gebote alle Tage.

2 Und erkennet heute, denn nicht mit euren Kindern rede ich, die es nicht wissen und die es nicht gesehen haben, die Zucht Jehovas, eures Gottes, seine Größe, seine starke Hand und seinen ausgestreckten Arm,

3 und seine Zeichen und seine Taten, die er in Ägypten getan hat, an dem Pharao, dem Könige von Ägypten, und an seinem ganzen Lande;

4 und was er getan hat an der Heeresmacht Ägyptens, an seinen Rossen und seinen Wagen, über welche er die Wasser des Schilfmeeres hinströmen ließ, als sie euch nachjagten; und Jehova hat sie vernichtet bis auf diesen Tag;

5 und was er euch in der Wüste getan hat, bis ihr an diesen Ort kamet;

6 und was er an Dathan und Abiram getan hat, den Söhnen Eliabs, des Sohnes Rubens: Wie die Erde ihren Mund auftat und sie inmitten von ganz Israel verschlang samt ihren Familien und ihren Zelten und allem Bestehenden, das in ihrem Gefolge war.

7 Denn eure Augen haben all das große Werk Jehovas gesehen, das er getan hat.

8 Und so beobachtet das ganze Gebot, das ich dir heute gebiete, damit ihr stark seiet und hineinkommet und das Land besitzet, wohin ihr hinüberziehet, um es in Besitz zu nehmen;

9 und damit ihr eure Tage verlängert in dem Lande, das Jehova euren Vätern geschworen hat, ihnen und ihrem Samen zu geben, ein Land, das von Milch und Honig fließt.

10 Denn das Land, wohin du kommst, um es in Besitz zu nehmen, ist nicht wie das Land Ägypten, von wo ihr ausgezogen seid, wo du deine Saat sätest und mit deinem Fuße wässertest, wie einen Krautgarten;

11 sondern das Land, wohin ihr hinüberziehet, um es in Besitz zu nehmen, ist ein Land mit Bergen und Tälern; vom Regen des Himmels trinkt es Wasser;

12 ein Land, auf welches Jehova, dein Gott, acht hat: Beständig sind die Augen Jehovas, deines Gottes, darauf gerichtet, vom Anfang des Jahres bis zum Ende des Jahres.

13 Und es wird geschehen wenn ihr fleißig auf meine Gebote höret, die ich euch heute gebiete, Jehova, euren Gott, zu lieben und ihm zu dienen mit eurem ganzen Herzen und mit eurer ganzen Seele,

14 so werde ich den Regen eures Landes geben zu seiner Zeit, den Frühregen und den Spätregen, damit du dein Getreide und deinen Most und dein Öl einsammelst;

15 und ich werde deinem Vieh Kraut geben auf deinem Felde, und du wirst essen und satt werden.

16 Hütet euch, daß euer Herz nicht verführt werde, und ihr abweichet und anderen Göttern dienet und euch vor ihnen niederbeuget,

17 und der Zorn Jehovas wider euch entbrenne, und er den Himmel verschließe, daß kein Regen sei und der Erdboden seinen Ertrag nicht gebe und ihr bald aus dem guten Lande vertilgt werdet, das Jehova euch gibt.

18 Und ihr sollt diese meine Worte auf euer Herz und auf eure Seele legen, und sie zum Zeichen auf eure Hand binden, und sie sollen zu Stirnbändern zwischen euren Augen sein.

19 Und lehret sie eure Kinder, indem ihr davon redet, wenn du in deinem Hause sitzest, und wenn du auf dem Wege gehst, und wenn du dich niederlegst, und wenn du aufstehst;

20 und schreibe sie auf die Pfosten deines Hauses und an deine Tore,

21 auf daß eure Tage und die Tage eurer Kinder sich mehren in dem Lande, welches Jehova euren Vätern geschworen hat, ihnen zu geben, wie die Tage des Himmels über der Erde.

22 Denn wenn ihr dieses ganze Gebot, das ich euch zu tun gebiete, fleißig beobachtet, Jehova, euren Gott, zu lieben, auf allen seinen Wegen zu wandeln und ihm anzuhangen,

23 so wird Jehova alle diese Nationen vor euch austreiben; und ihr werdet Nationen in Besitz nehmen, größer und stärker als ihr.

24 Jeder Ort, auf welchen eure Fußsohle treten wird, wird euer sein: Von der Wüste und dem Libanon und vom Strome, dem Strome Phrat, bis an das hintere Meer wird eure Grenze sein.

25 Niemand wird vor euch bestehen; euren Schrecken und eure Furcht wird Jehova, euer Gott, auf das ganze Land legen, auf welches ihr treten werdet, so wie er zu euch geredet hat.

26 Siehe, ich lege euch heute Segen und Fluch vor:

27 Den Segen, wenn ihr den Geboten Jehovas, eures Gottes, gehorchet, die ich euch heute gebiete;

28 und den Fluch, wenn ihr den Geboten Jehovas, eures Gottes, nicht gehorchet und von dem Wege abweichet, den ich euch heute gebiete, um anderen Göttern nachzugehen, die ihr nicht kennet.

29 Und es soll geschehen, wenn Jehova, dein Gott, dich in das Land bringt, wohin du kommst, um es in Besitz zu nehmen, so sollst du den Segen erteilen auf dem Berge Gerisim und den Fluch auf dem Berge Ebal.

30 Sind sie nicht jenseit des Jordan, hinter dem Wege gegen Sonnenuntergang im Lande der Kanaaniter, die in der Ebene wohnen, Gilgal gegenüber, bei den Terebinthen Mores?

31 Denn ihr gehet über den Jordan, um hineinzukommen, das Land in Besitz zu nehmen, das Jehova, euer Gott, euch gibt; und ihr werdet es in Besitz nehmen und darin wohnen.

32 Und so achtet darauf, alle die Satzungen und die Rechte zu tun, die ich euch heute vorlege.

   

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3875. 'And she said, Now this time my husband will cling to me' means in the highest sense love and mercy, in the internal sense charity, in the external sense a joining together - spiritual love being meant here. This is clear from the meaning of 'clinging to'. As regards 'clinging' in the external sense, or inner sense nearest to the literal, meaning a joining together, this may be seen without explanation; and as regards 'clinging' in the internal sense meaning charity, this is evident from the consideration that charity, or what amounts to the same, mutual love, is a spiritual joining together. For mutual love is a joining together of affections belonging to the will and a consequent agreement of thoughts belonging to the understanding, and so is a joining of minds as to both parts. That 'clinging' in the highest sense means love and mercy is evident from this, for when the description 'infinite and eternal' is applied to charity or spiritual love the attribute of mercy is meant, mercy being Divine love directed towards the human race engulfed in such great miseries. For man of himself is nothing but evil, and what is within him, insofar as this has its origin in himself, is altogether from hell. Yet the Lord beholds him with Divine Love, and therefore the raising up of him from the hell in which of himself he dwells and his deliverance from it is called mercy. And because that mercy is an attribute of Divine Love, 'clinging' in the highest sense therefore means both love and mercy.

[2] As regards 'clinging' in the internal sense meaning spiritual love, or what amounts to the same, charity towards the neighbour, this may also be seen from other places in the Word, as in Isaiah,

Do not let the son of the foreigner who has clung to Jehovah say, Jehovah surely separates me from being with His people. The sons of the foreigner who cling to Jehovah, to minister to Him and to delight in the name of Jehovah, will be His servants. Isaiah 56:3, 6.

'Clinging to Jehovah' stands for keeping His commandments, which is an act of spiritual love, for no one at heart keeps God's commandments except him in whom good that flows from charity towards the neighbour is present. In Jeremiah,

In those days the children of Israel will come, they and the children of Judah weeping as they come; and they will seek Jehovah their God. They will ask Zion concerning the way, their faces towards it, [saying,] Come and let us cling to Jehovah in an everlasting covenant that is not forgotten. Jeremiah 50:4-5.

'Clinging to Jehovah' in like manner stands for keeping His commandments at heart, that is, doing so from good that flows from charity.

[3] In Zechariah,

Many nations will cling to Jehovah on that day and will be My people. Zechariah 2:11.

Here the meaning is similar. In Isaiah,

Jehovah will have compassion on Jacob, and will again choose Israel, and will set them on their own land. And the sojourner will cling to them, and they will join themselves to the house of Jacob. Isaiah 14:1.

'The sojourner clinging to them' stands for having a similar allegiance to the law. 'Joining themselves to the house of Jacob' stands for the good that flows from charity, which is present in those meant by 'the house of Jacob'. In Matthew,

No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other or he will cling to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon. Matthew 6:24.

Here the celestial form of love is meant by 'loving', the spiritual form by 'clinging to'. Both of these expressions are used because those two forms of love are distinct and separate. Otherwise one expression would have been sufficient.

[4] People who are stirred by spiritual love are therefore called 'the sons of Levi', as in Malachi,

Who can endure the day of His coming, and who will stand when He appears? He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and He will purify the sons of Levi and purge them like gold, and like silver. Malachi 3:2-3.

In the highest sense the Lord is meant by 'Levi' by virtue of Divine love and of mercy towards those in whom spiritual love is present. This may be seen in the same prophet,

That you may know that I have sent this command to you, to be My covenant with Levi, said Jehovah Zebaoth. My covenant with him will be [a covenant] of life and peace. You have turned back from the way; you have caused many to stumble at the law, you have corrupted the covenant of Levi; therefore I have made you despised. Malachi 2:4-5, 8-9.

And because in the highest sense the Lord's Divine Love or His Mercy was meant by 'Levi', and in the internal sense spiritual love, the tribe of Levi was therefore established as the priesthood; for in the internal sense of the Word 'the priesthood' is nothing other than the holiness of love and 'kingship' the holiness of faith, 1728, 2015 (end), 3670.

[5] Because the expression 'cringing to' from which Levi received his name means spiritual love, which is the same as mutual love, the same expression in the original language is used to mean lending and borrowing. 1 And these two - lending and borrowing - in the Jewish Church represented mutual love, a representation which will in the Lord's Divine mercy be dealt with elsewhere. Mutual love is different from friendship inasmuch as mutual love has a person's good in view, and in directing itself towards that good is directed towards the person in whom good is present. Friendship however has the person in view, which is also mutual love when it looks at that person from the point of view of, that is, on account of, that good. But when it does not look at him from the point of view of good or on account of that good but on account of self which it calls good, friendship is not in that case mutual love but something close to the love of self. And insofar as it is close to this it is opposed to mutual love. In itself mutual love is nothing else than charity towards the neighbour, for in the internal sense 'the neighbour' means nothing else than good, and in the highest sense the Lord because all good originates in Him and He is Good itself, see 2425, 3419. This mutual love or charity towards the neighbour is what is understood by spiritual love and meant by 'Levi'. What is more, in the Word celestial love, and also conjugial love, is expressed in the sense of the letter as 'clinging to', but this is derived from a different expression in the original language from that from which the name Levi is obtained.

[6] This other expression means an even closer joining together, as in the following places: In Moses,

You shall fear Jehovah your God: you shall serve Him and cling to Him. Deuteronomy 10:20.

You shall go after Jehovah your God, and fear Him, and keep His commandments, and hear His voice, and serve Him, and cling to Him. Deuteronomy 13:4.

To love Jehovah your God, to go in all His ways, and to cling to Him. Deuteronomy 11:22.

To love Jehovah your God, to obey His voice, and to cling to Him, for He is your life. Deuteronomy 30:20.

In Joshua,

Take good care to carry out the commandment and the law which Moses the servant of Jehovah commanded you, to love Jehovah your God, and to walk in all His ways, and to keep His commandments, and to cling to Him, and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul. Joshua 22:5.

In the second Book of Kings,

King Hezekiah trusted in Jehovah the God of Israel. He clung to Jehovah; he did not turn back from going after Him, and he kept His commandments which

Jehovah had commanded Moses. 2 Kings 18:5-6.

In Jeremiah,

As a waistcloth clings to the loins of a man, so I made the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah to cling to Me, to be for Me a people, a name, a praise, and a glory; but they were not obedient. Jeremiah 13:11.

[7] The fact that conjugial love as well is expressed by 'clinging to' is evident from the following,

Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother and will cling to his wife, and they will be one flesh. Genesis 2:24.

On account of your hardness of heart Moses wrote this commandment, but from the beginning of creation God made them male and female. For this reason a man (homo) will leave his father and mother and cling to his wife, and the two will be one flesh. What therefore God has joined together man (homo) must not put asunder. Mark 10:5-9; Matthew 19:5.

The soul of Shechem clung to Dinah, Jacob's daughter. He loved the girl, and spoke to the girl's heart. Genesis 34:3.

Solomon loved many foreign women. Solomon clung to these in love. 1 Kings 11:1-2.

These quotations show then that 'clinging to' is an expression descriptive of love which was adopted in ancient times by Churches in which meaningful signs were prominent, and that it means nothing else in the internal sense than a spiritual joining together, which is charity and love.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. literally, mutually giving and receiving

  
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