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5 Mose 29

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1 Dies sind die Worte des Bundes, den der HERR Mose geboten hat, zu machen mit den Kindern Israel in der Moabiter Lande, zum andernmal, nachdem er denselben mit ihnen gemacht hatte in Horeb.

2 Und Mose rief dem ganzen Israel und sprach zu ihnen: Ihr habt gesehen alles, was der HERR getan hat in Ägypten vor euren Augen dem Pharao mit allen seinen Knechten und seinem ganzen Lande,

3 die großen Versuchungen, die deine Augen gesehen haben, daß es große Zeichen und Wunder waren.

4 Und der HERR hat euch bis auf diesen heutigen Tag noch nicht gegeben ein Herz, das verständig wäre, Augen, die da sähen, und Ohren, die da höreten.

5 Er hat euch vierzig Jahre in der Wüste lassen wandeln; eure Kleider sind an euch nicht veraltet, und dein Schuh ist nicht veraltet an deinen Füßen.

6 Ihr habt kein Brot gegessen und keinen Wein getrunken noch stark Getränke, auf daß du wissest, daß ich der HERR, euer Gott, bin.

7 Und da ihr kamet an diesen Ort, zog aus der König Sihon zu Hesbon und der König Og zu Basan uns entgegen, mit uns zu streiten. Und wir haben sie geschlagen

8 und ihr Land eingenommen und zum Erbteil gegeben den Rubenitern und Gaditern und dem halben Stamm der Manassiter.

9 So haltet nun die Worte dieses Bundes und tut danach, auf daß ihr weislich handeln möget in all eurem Tun.

10 Ihr stehet heute alle vor dem HERRN, eurem Gott, die Obersten eurer Stämme, eure Ältesten, eure Amtleute, ein jedermann in Israel,

11 eure Kinder, eure Weiber, dein Fremdling, der in deinem Lager ist, beide dein Holzhauer und dein Wasserschöpfer,

12 daß du einhergehen sollst in dem Bunde des HERRN, deines Gottes, und in dem Eide, den der HERR, dein Gott, heute mit dir macht,

13 auf daß er dich heute ihm zum Volk aufrichte, und er dein Gott sei, wie er dir geredet hat und wie er deinen Vätern, Abraham, Isaak und Jakob, geschworen hat.

14 Denn ich mache diesen Bund und diesen Eid nicht mit euch alleine,

15 sondern beide mit euch, die ihr heute hie seid und mit uns stehet vor dem HERRN, unserm Gott, und mit denen, die heute nicht mit uns sind.

16 Denn ihr wisset, wie wir in Ägyptenland gewohnet haben und mitten durch die Heiden gezogen sind, durch welche ihr zoget,

17 und sahet ihre Greuel und ihre Götzen, Holz und Stein, Silber und Gold, die bei ihnen waren.

18 Daß nicht vielleicht ein Mann, oder ein Weib, oder ein Gesinde, oder ein Stamm unter euch sei, des Herz heute sich von dem HERRN, unserm Gott, gewandt habe, daß es hingehe und diene den Göttern dieser Völker, und werde vielleicht eine Wurzel unter euch, die da Galle und Wermut trage,

19 und ob er schon höre die Worte dieses Fluchs, dennoch sich segne in seinem Herzen und spreche: Es gehet mir wohl, weil ich wandele, wie es mein Herz dünket; auf daß die Trunkene mit der Durstigen dahinfahre.

20 Da wird der HERR dem nicht gnädig sein, sondern dann wird sein Zorn und Eifer rauchen über solchen Mann, und werden sich auf ihn legen alle Flüche, die in diesem Buch geschrieben sind. Und der HERR wird seinen Namen austilgen unter dem Himmel

21 und wird ihn absondern zum Unglück aus allen Stämmen Israels laut aller Flüche des Bundes, der in dem Buch dieses Gesetzes geschrieben ist.

22 So werden dann sagen die Nachkommen eurer Kinder, die nach euch aufkommen werden, und die Fremden, die aus fernen Landen kommen, so sie die Plagen dieses Landes sehen und die Krankheiten, damit sie der HERR beladen hat,

23 daß er all ihr Land mit Schwefel und Salz verbrannt hat, daß es nicht besäet werden mag, noch wächset, noch kein Kraut drinnen aufgehet, gleichwie Sodom und Gomorrha, Adama und Zeboim umgekehret sind, die der HERR in seinem Zorn und Grimm umgekehret hat.

24 So werden alle Völker sagen: Warum hat der HERR diesem Lande also getan? Was ist das für so großer, grimmiger Zorn?

25 So wird man sagen: Darum daß sie den Bund des HERRN, ihrer Väter Gott, verlassen haben, den er mit ihnen machte, da er sie aus Ägyptenland führete;

26 und sind hingegangen und haben andern Göttern gedienet und sie angebetet, solche Götter, die sie nicht kennen, und die ihnen nichts gegeben haben;

27 darum ist des HERRN Zorn ergrimmet über dies Land, daß er über sie hat kommen lassen alle Flüche, die in diesem Buch geschrieben stehen;

28 und der HERR hat sie aus ihrem Lande gestoßen mit großem Zorn, Grimm und Ungnade und hat sie in ein ander Land geworfen, wie es stehet heutigestages.

29 Das Geheimnis des HERRN, unsers Gottes, ist offenbaret uns und unsern Kindern ewiglich, daß wir tun sollen alle Worte dieses Gesetzes.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 4317

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4317. That in the internal historical sense, by “because he touched in the hollow of Jacob’s thigh the nerve of that which was displaced,” is signified because they had a heredity which could not be eradicated by regeneration, because they would not allow this, is evident from the signification of the “thigh,” as being conjugial love, and consequently every heavenly and spiritual love (see n. 4280); and because the “hollow of the thigh” is where there is the conjunction of conjugial love, and also of all heavenly and spiritual love, with natural good (n. 4277, 4280). Hence to “touch it,” or to injure it so as to occasion halting, is to destroy the good which is of these loves, and as this happened to Jacob, it is signified that this nature passed from him to his posterity, and thus was hereditary. That the “nerve of that which was displaced” signifies falsity, may be seen above (n. 4303), here falsity from hereditary evil. It follows from this and from the series, that this heredity could not be eradicated from them by regeneration, because they would not allow this.

[2] That they had such a heredity and that they could not be regenerated, is very evident from all that is related of them in the Word, and particularly from these passages in Moses:

Moses called all Israel, and said unto them, Ye have seen all things that Jehovah hath done in your eyes in the land of Egypt unto Pharaoh and unto all his servants, and unto all his land; and Jehovah hath not given you a heart to know, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, even unto this day (Deuteronomy 29:2, 4).

In the same:

I know the figment of the people which they do at this day, before I bring them into the land which I sware (Deuteronomy 31:21).

And again:

I will hide My faces from them, I will see what is the last of them; for they are a generation of perversities, sons in whom is no truth. I would exterminate them, I would cause their memory to cease from man, were it not that I feared the indignation of the enemy. For they are a nation that perisheth in counsels, and there is no intelligence in them; for their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and their grapes are of the fields of Gomorrah; their grapes are hemlock, the clusters are bitter to them. Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel head of asps. Is not this laid up in store with Me, sealed in My treasures? (Deuteronomy 32:20, 26-34);

and in many other places, especially in Jeremiah.

[3] That this was signified by the “touch upon the hollow of Jacob’s thigh,” and his consequent lameness, is manifest in Hosea:

The controversy of Jehovah with Judah, to visit upon Jacob, according to his ways, and according to his works He will render to him; he supplanted his brother in the womb; in his grief he contended with God, and contended toward the angel, and prevailed; he wept and entreated him (Hos. 12:3-5).

where “to contend with God,” in the internal historical sense, is to be urgent that the representative of a church should be with them (see n. 4290, 4293). From this it is evident that they had such a heredity from Jacob himself, and the same might be shown from many more passages which must be passed over for the present.

[4] As regards heredity specifically, it is believed in the church at this day that all hereditary evil is from the first parent, and that all are therefore condemned in regard thereto. But the case is not so. Hereditary evil derives its origin from everyone’s parents and parents’ parents, or from grandparents and ancestors successively. Every evil which they have acquired by actual life, even so that by frequent use or habit it has become like a nature, is derived into the children, and becomes hereditary to them, together with that which had been implanted in the parents from grandparents and ancestors. The hereditary evil from the father is more inward, and the hereditary evil from the mother is more outward. The former cannot be easily rooted out, but the latter can. When man is being regenerated, the hereditary evil inrooted from his nearest parents is plucked up by the roots; but with those who are not being regenerated, or who cannot be regenerated, it remains. This then is hereditary evil (see also n. 313, 494, 2122, 2910, 3518, 3701). This is also evident to everyone who reflects, and also from the fact that every family has some peculiar evil or good by which it is distinguished from other families; and that this is from parents and ancestors is known. It is similar with the Jewish nation remaining at this day, which is evidently distinct from other nations, and is known from them, not only by its peculiar genius, but also by manners, speech, and face.

[5] But what hereditary evil is, few know; it is believed to consist in doing evil; but it consists in willing and hence thinking evil; hereditary evil being in the will itself and in the thought thence derived; and being the very conatus or endeavor that is therein, and which adjoins itself even when the man is doing what is good. It is known by the delight that is felt when evil befalls another. This root lies deeply hidden, for the very inward form that receives from heaven (that is, through heaven from the Lord) what is good and true, is depraved, and so to speak, distorted; so that when good and truth flow in from the Lord, they are either reflected, or perverted, or suffocated. It is from this cause that no perception of good and truth exists at this day, but in place of it, with the regenerate, conscience, which acknowledges as good and true what is learned from parents and masters. It is from hereditary evil to love self more than others, to will evil to others if they do not honor us, to perceive delight in revenge, and also to love the world more than heaven; and from the same source come all the derivative cupidities or evil affections. Man is ignorant that such things are in hereditary evil, and still more that they are opposite to heavenly affections; and yet it is manifestly shown in the other life how much of evil from what is hereditary each one has drawn to himself by actual life, and also how far he has removed himself from heaven by evil affections from this source.

[6] That hereditary evil could not be eradicated from the posterity of Jacob by regeneration because they would not allow it, is likewise manifest from the historicals of the Word; for they gave way in all the temptations in the wilderness as recorded by Moses: and also afterwards in the land of Canaan, whenever they did not see miracles; and yet those temptations were outward but not inward or spiritual. In respect to spiritual things they could not be tempted, because as before shown they knew no internal truths, and had no internal good; and no one can be tempted except as to what he knows and what he has. Temptations are the veriest means of regeneration. These things are signified by their not allowing regeneration. As regards their state and lot in the other life, see above (n. 939-941, 3481).

  
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