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5 Mose 24

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1 Wenn ein Mann ein Weib nimmt und sie ehelicht, und es geschieht, wenn sie keine Gnade in seinen Augen findet, weil er etwas Schamwürdiges an ihr gefunden hat, daß er ihr einen Scheidebrief schreibt und ihn in ihre Hand gibt und sie aus seinem Hause entläßt,

2 und sie geht aus seinem Hause und geht hin und wird das Weib eines anderen Mannes,

3 und der andere Mann haßt sie, und schreibt ihr einen Scheidebrief und gibt ihn in ihre Hand und entläßt sie aus seinem Hause; oder wenn der andere Mann stirbt, der sie sich zum Weibe genommen hat:

4 so kann ihr erster Mann, der sie entlassen hat, sie nicht wiederum nehmen, daß sie sein Weib sei, nachdem sie verunreinigt worden ist. Denn das ist ein Greuel vor Jehova; und du sollst nicht das Land sündigen machen, welches Jehova, dein Gott, dir als Erbteil gibt.

5 Wenn ein Mann kürzlich ein Weib genommen hat, so soll er nicht in den Krieg ziehen, und es soll ihm keinerlei Sache auferlegt werden; er soll ein Jahr lang frei sein für sein Haus und sein Weib erfreuen, das er genommen hat.

6 Man soll nicht Mühle noch Mühlstein pfänden; denn wer das tut, pfändet das Leben.

7 Wenn ein Mann gefunden wird, der einen von seinen Brüdern, von den Kindern Israel, stiehlt, und ihn als Sklaven behandelt oder ihn verkauft, so soll selbiger Dieb sterben. Und du sollst das Böse aus deiner Mitte hinwegschaffen.

8 Habe acht bei dem Übel des Aussatzes, daß du sehr behutsam seiest und nach allem tuest, was euch die Priester, die Leviten, lehren werden; so wie ich ihnen geboten habe, sollt ihr achthaben zu tun.

9 Gedenke dessen, was Jehova, dein Gott, an Mirjam getan hat auf dem Wege, als ihr aus Ägypten zoget.

10 Wenn du deinem Nächsten irgend ein Darlehn leihst, so sollst du nicht in sein Haus hineingehen, um ihm ein Pfand abzupfänden;

11 draußen sollst du stehen bleiben, und der Mann, dem du geliehen hast, soll das Pfand zu dir hinausbringen.

12 Und wenn er ein dürftiger Mann ist, so sollst du dich nicht mit seinem Pfande schlafen legen;

13 du sollst ihm das Pfand jedenfalls beim Untergang der Sonne zurückgeben, daß er sich in seinem Mantel schlafen lege und dich segne; und es wird dir Gerechtigkeit sein vor Jehova, deinem Gott.

14 Du sollst nicht bedrücken den dürftigen und armen Mietling von deinen Brüdern oder von deinen Fremdlingen, die in deinem Lande, in deinen Toren sind.

15 An seinem Tage sollst du ihm seinen Lohn geben, und die Sonne soll nicht darüber untergehen; denn er ist dürftig, und er sehnt sich danach: Damit er nicht über dich zu Jehova schreie, und Sünde an dir sei.

16 Nicht sollen Väter getötet werden um der Kinder willen, und Kinder sollen nicht getötet werden um der Väter willen; sie sollen ein jeder für seine Sünde getötet werden.

17 Du sollst das Recht eines Fremdlings und einer Waise nicht beugen; und das Kleid einer Witwe sollst du nicht pfänden.

18 Und du sollst gedenken, daß du ein Knecht in Ägypten gewesen bist, und daß Jehova, dein Gott, dich von dannen erlöst hat; darum gebiete ich dir, solches zu tun.

19 Wenn du deine Ernte auf deinem Felde hältst und eine Garbe auf dem Felde vergissest, so sollst du nicht umkehren, um sie zu holen: Für den Fremdling, für die Waise und für die Witwe soll sie sein, auf daß Jehova, dein Gott, dich segne in allem Werke deiner Hände.

20 Wenn du deine Oliven abschlägst, so sollst du nicht hinterdrein die Zweige absuchen: Für den Fremdling, für die Waise und für die Witwe soll es sein.

21 Wenn du deinen Weinberg liesest, so sollst du nicht hinterdrein Nachlese halten: Für den Fremdling, für die Waise und für die Witwe soll es sein.

22 Und du sollst gedenken, daß du ein Knecht im Lande Ägypten gewesen bist; darum gebiete ich dir, solches zu tun.

   

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Doctrine of the Sacred Scripture # 51

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51. 1. The Word is not understood apart from doctrine. That is because the Word in its literal sense consists of nothing but correspondent forms, in order for spiritual and celestial concepts to be present in it at the same time, and for each word to be a containing vessel and buttress of those concepts. In some places in the literal sense, therefore, we find not naked truths, but truths clothed, which we call appearances of truth. Many of these truths, too, are accommodated to the comprehension of simple folk, who do not elevate their thoughts above the kinds of things they see before their eyes. And some of them seem to involve contradictions, even though there is no contradiction in the Word when seen in its true light.

Moreover, in some places in the Prophets, we find also collections of place names and the names of people from which it is impossible to elicit any meaning, as from those passages presented in no. 15 above.

Since that is the nature of the Word in its literal sense, it can be seen therefore that it cannot be understood apart from doctrine.

[2] But let instances serve to illustrate this:

We are told that Jehovah repents (Exodus 32:12, 14, Jonah 3:9, 4:2). We are also told that Jehovah does not repent (Numbers 23:19, 1 Samuel 15:29). Without doctrine these declarations are not brought into accord.

We are told that Jehovah visits the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation (Numbers 14:18). And we are told that the father shall not die for the son, nor the son for the father, but everyone for his own sin (Deuteronomy 24:16). In the light of doctrine these declarations do not conflict, but are in harmony.

[3] Jesus says,

Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. Everyone...who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. (Matthew 7:7-8, cf. 21:21-22)

Without doctrine one might believe that everyone receives what he asks for. But doctrine teaches us to believe that a person is given whatever he asks for, not on his own, but in response to the Lord. For this, too, the Lord teaches:

If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you will, and it shall be done for you. (John 15:7)

[4] The Lord says,

Blessed are the poor, for (theirs) is the kingdom of God. (Luke 6:20)

Without doctrine one could think that heaven is for the poor and not for the rich. But doctrine teaches us that the poor in spirit are meant, for the Lord says,

Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. (Matthew 5:3)

[5] The Lord says,

Judge not, that you be not judged. ...with what judgment you judge, you will be judged. (Matthew 7:1-2, cf. Luke 6:37)

Without doctrine this injunction could be used to assert that one must not say of evil that it is evil, thus that one must not judge an evil person to be evil. But in the light of doctrine one is permitted to judge, only to do so justly. For the Lord says, “judge with righteous judgment” (John 7:24).

[6] Jesus says,

...do not be called teacher; for one is your teacher, the Christ.... Do not call anyone on earth your father; for one...in heaven is your Father. And do not be called masters; for one is your master, the Christ. (Matthew 23:8-10)

Without doctrine it would not be lawful to call anyone teacher, father, or master. But we know from doctrine that it is lawful in a natural sense, but not in a spiritual sense.

[7] Jesus said to His disciples,

...when the Son of man sits on the throne of His glory, you...will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. (Matthew 19:28)

One could conclude from these words that the Lord’s disciples will also sit in judgment, when in fact they can judge no one. Doctrine, therefore, must reveal this mystery by showing that the Lord alone, who is omniscient and knows the hearts of all, will judge, and that His twelve disciples mean the church in respect to all the truths and goods it has from the Lord through the Word. Doctrine concludes from this that those truths and goods will judge everyone, in accordance with the Lord’s words in John 3:17-18, 12:47-48.

[8] Someone who reads the Word apart from doctrine does not know how the declarations made in the Prophets regarding the Jewish nation and Jerusalem hang together, that the church in that nation and its seat in that city will remain to eternity, as in the following places:

...Jehovah...will visit His flock, the house of Judah, and will make them as His glorious horse in battle. From him comes the cornerstone, from him the tent peg, and from him the bow of war.... (Zechariah 10:3-4, 6-7)

...behold, I am coming to dwell in your midst.... And Jehovah will make Judah His inheritance..., and will again choose Jerusalem. (Zechariah 2:10-12)

It will come to pass in that day that the mountains shall drip with new wine, and the hills flow with milk.... But Judah shall abide forever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation. (Joel 3:18-20)

Behold, the days are coming..., that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man..., when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.... And this is the covenant that I will make...: I will put My law among them, and write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. (Jeremiah 31:27, 31, 33)

In that day ten men from every language of the nations shall grasp the sleeve of a Jewish man, saying, “Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.” (Zechariah 8:22-23)

And so on elsewhere, as in Isaiah 44:24, 26, 49:22-23, 65:9, 66:20, 22; Jeremiah 3:18, 23:5, 50:19-20; Nahum 1:15; Malachi 3:4. The subject in these places is the Lord’s advent, and the church’s then remaining to eternity.

[9] The opposite, however, is said in a number of other places, of which we will cite only the following: I will hide My face from them, I will see what their posterity will be, for they are a perverse generation, children in whom is no faith.... I would have said, “I will cast them into the farthest corners, I will make the memory of them to cease from among men.” ....For they are a nation void of counsel, nor is there any understanding in them.... ...their vine is of the vine of Sodom and of the fields of Gomorrah; their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter. Their wine is the venom of dragons, and the cruel poison of asps. Is this not laid up in store with Me, sealed up among My treasures? Vengeance is Mine, and retribution. (Deuteronomy 32:20-35)

This is said of that same nation. And the like elsewhere, as in Isaiah 3:1-2, 8, 5:3-6; Deuteronomy 9:5-6; Matthew 12:39, 23:27-28; John 8:44. And everywhere in Jeremiah and Ezekiel.

But these declarations that appear contradictory will be seen to be in harmony in the light of doctrine, which teaches that Israel and Judah in the Word do not mean Israel and Judah, but the church in both senses — in one sense that it has been destroyed, and in the other that the Lord is going to establish it.

Other passages like these occur in the Word, which make clearly apparent that the Word is not understood apart from doctrine.

  
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Thanks to the General Church of the New Jerusalem, and to Rev. N.B. Rogers, translator, for the permission to use this translation.