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Josua 3

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1 Da machte sich Josua des Morgens früh auf, und sie brachen auf von Sittim und kamen an den Jordan, er und alle Kinder Israel; und sie rasteten daselbst, ehe sie hinüberzogen.

2 Und es geschah am Ende von drei Tagen, da gingen die Vorsteher mitten durch das Lager,

3 und sie geboten dem Volke und sprachen: Sobald ihr die Lade des Bundes Jehovas, eures Gottes, sehet, und die Priester, die Leviten, sie tragen, dann sollt ihr von eurem Orte aufbrechen und ihr nachfolgen.

4 Doch soll zwischen euch und ihr eine Entfernung sein bei zweitausend Ellen an Maß. Ihr sollt ihr nicht nahen, auf daß ihr den Weg wisset, auf dem ihr gehen sollt; denn ihr seid des Weges früher nicht gezogen.

5 Und Josua sprach zu dem Volke: Heiliget euch; denn morgen wird Jehova in eurer Mitte Wunder tun.

6 Und Josua sprach zu den Priestern und sagte: Nehmet die Lade des Bundes auf und ziehet vor dem Volke hinüber. Und sie nahmen die Lade des Bundes auf und zogen vor dem Volke her.

7 Und Jehova sprach zu Josua: An diesem Tage will ich beginnen, dich in den Augen von ganz Israel groß zu machen, damit sie wissen, daß, so wie ich mit Mose gewesen bin, ich mit dir sein werde.

8 Und du sollst den Priestern, welche die Lade des Bundes tragen, gebieten und sprechen: Wenn ihr an den Rand des Wassers des Jordan kommet, so bleibet im Jordan stehen.

9 Und Josua sprach zu den Kindern Israel: Tretet herzu und höret die Worte Jehovas, eures Gottes!

10 Und Josua sprach: Hieran sollt ihr wissen, daß der lebendige Gott in eurer Mitte ist, und daß er die Kanaaniter und die Hethiter und die Hewiter und die Perisiter und die Girgasiter und die Amoriter und die Jebusiter gewißlich vor euch austreiben wird.

11 Siehe, die Lade des Bundes des Herrn der ganzen Erde zieht vor euch her in den Jordan.

12 Und nun nehmet euch zwölf Männer aus den Stämmen Israels, je einen Mann für den Stamm.

13 Und es wird geschehen, wenn die Fußsohlen der Priester, welche die Lade Jehovas, des Herrn der ganzen Erde, tragen, in den Wassern des Jordan ruhen, so werden die Wasser des Jordan, die von oben herabfließenden Wasser, abgeschnitten werden, und sie werden stehen bleiben wie ein Damm.

14 Und es geschah, als das Volk aus seinen Zelten aufbrach, um über den Jordan zu ziehen, indem die Priester die Lade des Bundes vor dem Volke hertrugen,

15 und sobald die Träger der Lade an den Jordan kamen, und die Füße der Priester, welche die Lade trugen, in den Rand des Wassers tauchten, der Jordan aber ist voll über alle seine Ufer die ganze Zeit der Ernte hindurch, -

16 da blieben die von oben herabfließenden Wasser stehen; sie richteten sich auf wie ein Damm, sehr fern, bei Adam, der Stadt, die seitwärts von Zarethan liegt; und die nach dem Meere der Ebene, dem Salzmeere, hinabfließenden wurden völlig abgeschnitten. Und das Volk zog hindurch, Jericho gegenüber.

17 Und die Priester, welche die Lade des Bundes Jehovas trugen, standen festen Fußes auf dem Trockenen in der Mitte des Jordan; und ganz Israel zog auf dem Trockenen hinüber, bis die ganze Nation vollends über den Jordan gegangen war.

   

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4255. 'For with just my staff I passed over this Jordan, and now I have become two camps' means that from having little He now had much. This is clear from the meaning of 'a staff' as power - a word used in reference to truth, and dealt with in 4013, 4015; from the meaning of 'Jordan' as introduction into cognitions of good and truth, dealt with below; and from the meaning of 'two camps' as goods and truths, as above in 4250 - the two camps referred to here consisting of the people, flocks, herds, and camels, which he split into two groups. From this one may see what these words mean in the proximate sense - that when being introduced into cognitions He had only a small amount of truth but subsequently He had many truths and goods; or what amounts to the same, from having little He now had much. From the explanations given up to now it is evident that the subject in the internal sense has been the way in which the Lord made the Human within Him Divine, doing so step by step in keeping with order. So the subject has been His advance into intelligence and wisdom, at length into Divine intelligence and wisdom. This shows what the phrase 'from having little He now had much' is used to mean.

[2] The reason 'the Jordan' means introduction into cognitions of good and truth is that it was a boundary to the land of Canaan. For all the boundaries of that land meant things that are first and last in the Lord's kingdom, and also those that are first and last in the Church, and so those that are first and last in the celestial and spiritual things which constitute the Lord's kingdom and His Church, see 1585, 1866, 4116, 4240. Therefore, being a boundary, 'the Jordan' meant introduction into cognitions of good and truth, for these come first; but when at length a person becomes in himself a Church or the Lord's kingdom they come to be last.

[3] That 'the Jordan' means things that are first and those that are last may be seen from other places in the Word, as in David,

O my God, my soul bows itself down within me; 1 therefore I remember You from the land of Jordan, and the Hermons from the little mountain. Psalms 42:6.

'Remembering from the land of Jordan' stands for doing so from what is last and so from a position of humbleness. In the same author,

Judah became His sanctuary, Israel His dominions. The sea saw and fled; the Jordan turned about backwards. Psalms 114:2-3, 5.

'Judah' stands for the good of celestial love, and 'Israel' for the good of spiritual love, 3654. 'The sea' stands for cognitions of truth, 28, 'the Jordan' stands for cognitions of good which are said 'to turn about backwards' when the good of love gains dominion, for in that case cognitions are viewed from that good, not the good from those cognitions - in accordance with the things that have often been shown already.

[4] In the Book of Judges,

Gilead dwelling at the crossing of the Jordan; and Dan, why will he fear ships? Judges 5:17.

'Gilead' stands for the sensory good or pleasure by means of which a person is first introduced into the path of his regeneration, 4117, 4124. 'Dwelling at the crossing of the Jordan' stands for the things effecting that introduction, and so things that are first and last in the Church and the Lord's kingdom. These introductory things were also represented by 'the Jordan' when the children of Israel entered the land of Canaan, Joshua 3:14-end; 4:1-end; for 'the land of Canaan' represented the Lord's kingdom, 1413, 1437, 1607, 3038, 3481, 3686, 3705.

And the dividing of the Jordan and their passing through on dry ground meant the removal of evils and falsities and the admission into the Lord's kingdom of those who are governed by goods and truths. Similar in meaning is the dividing of the waters of the Jordan by Elijah when he was carried up into heaven, 2 Kings 2:8, and by Elisha when he entered in place of Elijah into the prophetic role, 2 Kings 2:14.

[5] The cure of Naaman's leprosy, effected by his having washed himself seven times in the Jordan according to Elisha's command, 2 Kings 5:1-14, represented baptism, for baptism means introduction into the Church and into the things that belong to the Church, and so into regeneration and the things that belong to regeneration. Not that anyone is regenerated by baptism; rather it is the sign of it, which he should call to mind. And because the things which constitute the Church are meant by baptism, and baptism is meant by 'the Jordan', as mentioned above, it was the Jordan therefore in which people were baptized by John, Matthew 3:6; Mark 1:5. And the Lord too was willing to be baptized in it by John, Matthew 3:13-17; Mark 1:9.

[6] Because 'the Jordan' means things that are first and last in the Lord's kingdom and in the Church - such as the cognitions of good and truth, since these serve to introduce a person into His kingdom and Church - the Jordan is also for that reason referred to as a boundary of the new earth or holy land, in Ezekiel 47:18. The new earth or holy land means the Lord's kingdom and also the new Church which is the Lord's kingdom on earth, see 1733, 1850, 2117, 2118 (end), 3355 (end).

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