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1 Τωρα λοιπον ακουε, Ισραηλ, τα διαταγματα και τας κρισεις, τας οποιας εγω σας διδασκω να καμνητε, δια να ζησητε και να εισελθητε και να κληρονομησητε την γην, την οποιαν Κυριος ο Θεος των πατερων σας διδει εις εσας.

2 Δεν θελετε προσθεσει εις τον λογον τον οποιον εγω σας προσταζω, ουδε θελετε αφαιρεσει απ' αυτου· δια να φυλαττητε τας εντολας Κυριου του Θεου σας, τας οποιας εγω σας προσταζω.

3 Οι οφθαλμοι σας ειδον τι εκαμεν ο Κυριος εξ αιτιας του Βεελ-φεγωρ· διοτι παντας τους ανθρωπους, οιτινες ηκολουθησαν τον Βεελ-φεγωρ, Κυριος ο Θεος σας εξωλοθρευσεν αυτους εκ μεσου υμων.

4 Σεις δε, οιτινες εισθε προσκεκολλημενοι εις Κυριον τον Θεον σας, παντες ζητε την σημερον.

5 Ιδου, εγω σας εδιδαξα διαταγματα και κρισεις, καθως προσεταξεν εις εμε Κυριος ο Θεος μου, δια να καμνητε ουτως εν τη γη, εις την οποιαν εισερχεσθε δια να κληρονομησητε αυτην.

6 Φυλαττετε λοιπον και καμνετε αυτα· διοτι αυτη ειναι η σοφια σας και η συνεσις σας ενωπιον των εθνων· τα οποια θελουσιν ακουσει παντα τα διαταγματα ταυτα και θελουσιν ειπει, Ιδου, λαος σοφος και συνετος ειναι το μεγα τουτο εθνος.

7 Διοτι ποιον εθνος ειναι τοσον μεγα, εις το οποιον ο Θεος ειναι ουτω πλησιον αυτου, καθως Κυριος ο Θεος ημων ειναι εις παντα οσα επικαλουμεθα αυτον;

8 Και ποιον εθνος ειναι τοσον μεγα, το οποιον να εχη διαταγματα και κρισεις ουτω δικαιας, καθως πας ο νομος ουτος, τον οποιον θετω ενωπιον σας σημερον;

9 Μονον προσεχε εις σεαυτον και φυλαττε καλως την ψυχην σου, μηποτε λησμονησης τα πραγματα τα οποια ειδον οι οφθαλμοι σου, και μηποτε χωρισθωσιν απο της καρδιας σου, κατα πασας τας ημερας της ζωης σου· αλλα διδασκε αυτα εις τους υιους σου και εις τους υιους των υιων σου.

10 Ενθυμου την ημεραν καθ' ην εσταθης ενωπιον Κυριου του Θεου σου εν Χωρηβ, οτε ειπε προς εμε Κυριος, Συναξον μοι τον λαον και θελω καμει αυτους να ακουσωσι τους λογους μου, δια να μαθωσι να με φοβωνται πασας τας ημερας οσας ζησωσιν επι της γης, και να διδασκωσι τους υιους αυτων.

11 Και επλησιασατε και εσταθητε υπο το ορος· και το ορος εκαιετο με πυρ εως μεσου του ουρανου, και ητο σκοτος, νεφη και γνοφος.

12 Και ελαλησε Κυριος προς εσας εκ μεσου του πυρος· σεις ηκουσατε μεν την φωνην των λογων, αλλα δεν ειδετε ουδεν ομοιωμα· μονον φωνην ηκουσατε.

13 Και εφανερωσεν εις εσας την διαθηκην αυτου, την οποιαν προσεταξεν εις εσας να εκτελητε, τας δεκα εντολας· και εγραψεν αυτας επι δυο λιθινας πλακας.

14 Και Κυριος προσεταξεν εις εμε κατ' εκεινον τον καιρον να σας διδαξω διαταγματα και κρισεις, δια να καμνητε αυτα εν τη γη, εις την οποιαν σεις εισερχεσθε να κληρονομησητε αυτην.

15 Φυλαττετε λοιπον καλως τας ψυχας σας, διοτι δεν ειδετε ουδεν ομοιωμα, εν τη ημερα καθ' ην ο Κυριος ελαλησε προς εσας εν Χωρηβ εκ μεσου του πυρος·

16 μηπως διαφθαρητε, και καμητε εις εαυτους ειδωλον, εικονα τινος μορφης, ομοιωμα αρσενικου η θηλυκου,

17 ομοιωμα τινος κτηνους το οποιον ειναι επι της γης, ομοιωμα τινος πτερωτου ορνεου το οποιον πετα εις τον ουρανον,

18 ομοιωμα τινος ερποντος επι της γης, ομοιωμα τινος ιχθυος οστις ειναι εις τα υδατα υποκατω της γης·

19 και μηπως υψωσης τους οφθαλμους σου εις τον ουρανον, και ιδων τον ηλιον και την σεληνην και τα αστρα, πασαν την στρατιαν του ουρανου, πλανηθης και προσκυνησης αυτα και λατρευσης αυτα, τα οποια Κυριος ο Θεος σου διεμοιρασεν εις παντα τα εθνη τα υποκατω παντος του ουρανου·

20 εσας ομως ελαβεν ο Κυριος και σας εξηγαγεν εκ της καμινου της σιδηρας, εκ της Αιγυπτου, δια να ησθε εις αυτον λαος κληρονομιας ως την ημεραν ταυτην.

21 Και εθυμωθη εναντιον μου ο Κυριος εξ αιτιας σας και ωμοσε να μη διαβω τον Ιορδανην και να μη εισελθω εις εκεινην την γην την αγαθην, την οποιαν Κυριος ο Θεος σου διδει εις σε κληρονομιαν·

22 αλλ' εγω αποθνησκω εν τη γη ταυτη· εγω δεν διαβαινω τον Ιορδανην· σεις δε θελετε διαβη και θελετε κληρονομησει εκεινην την γην την αγαθην.

23 Προσεχετε εις εαυτους, μηποτε λησμονησητε την διαθηκην Κυριου του Θεου σας, την οποιαν εκαμε προς εσας, και καμητε εις εαυτους ειδωλον, εικονα τινος, το οποιον απηγορευσε Κυριος ο Θεος σου.

24 Διοτι Κυριος ο Θεος σου ειναι πυρ καταναλισκον, Θεος ζηλοτυπος.

25 Εαν, αφου γεννησης υιους και υιους υιων, και πολυχρονισητε επι της γης, διαφθαρητε και καμητε ειδωλον, εικονα τινος, και πραξητε πονηρα ενωπιον Κυριου του Θεου σου, ωστε να παροργισητε αυτον·

26 διαμαρτυρομαι τον ουρανον και την γην εναντιον σας σημερον, οτι εξαπαντος θελετε απολεσθη απο της γης, προς την οποιαν διαβαινετε τον Ιορδανην δια να κυριευσητε αυτην· δεν θελετε πολυχρονισει εν αυτη αλλ' εξ ολοκληρου θελετε αφανισθη.

27 Και θελει σας διασκορπισει ο Κυριος μεταξυ των λαων, και θελετε εναπολειφθη ολιγοι τον αριθμον μεταξυ των εθνων, εις τα οποια σας φερει ο Κυριος.

28 Και θελετε λατρευσει εκει θεους, εργα χειρων ανθρωπων, ξυλον και λιθον, τα οποια ουτε βλεπουσιν ουτε ακουουσιν ουτε τρωγουσιν, ουτε οσφραινονται.

29 Και εκειθεν θελετε εκζητησει Κυριον τον Θεον σας και θελετε ευρει αυτον, οταν εκζητησητε αυτον εξ ολης της καρδιας σας και εξ ολης της ψυχης σας.

30 Οταν ευρεθης εν θλιψει και σε ευρωσι παντα ταυτα εν ταις εσχαταις ημεραις, τοτε θελεις επιστρεψει προς Κυριον τον Θεον σου και θελεις ακουσει την φωνην αυτου.

31 Διοτι Κυριος ο Θεος σου ειναι Θεος οικτιρμων· δεν θελει σε εγκαταλειψει ουδε θελει σε εξολοθρευσει ουδε θελει λησμονησει την διαθηκην των πατερων σου, την οποιαν ωμοσε προς αυτους.

32 Διοτι ερωτησον τωρα περι των προτερων ημερων, αιτινες υπηρξαν προτερον σου, αφ' ης ημερας εποιησεν ο Θεος τον ανθρωπον επι της γης, και ερωτησον απ' ακρου του ουρανου εως ακρου του ουρανου, αν εσταθη τι ως το μεγα τουτο πραγμα, αν ηκουσθη ομοιον αυτου.

33 Ηκουσε ποτε λαος την φωνην του Θεου λαλουντος εκ μεσου του πυρος, καθως συ ηκουσας, και εζησεν;

34 Η εδοκιμασεν ο Θεος να ελθη να λαβη εις εαυτον εθνος εκ μεσου αλλου εθνους με δοκιμασιας, με σημεια και με θαυματα και με πολεμον και με κραταιαν χειρα και με εξηπλωμενον βραχιονα και με μεγαλα τερατα, κατα παντα οσα Κυριος ο Θεος σας εκαμε δια σας εν Αιγυπτω ενωπιον των οφθαλμων σου;

35 εις σε εδειχθη τουτο, δια να γνωρισης οτι ο Κυριος, αυτος ειναι ο Θεος· δεν ειναι αλλος εκτος αυτου.

36 Εκ του ουρανου σε εκαμε να ακουσης την φωνην αυτου, δια να σε διδαξη· και επι της γης εδειξεν εις σε το πυρ αυτου το μεγα, και τους λογους αυτου ηκουσας εκ μεσου του πυρος.

37 Και επειδη ηγαπα τους πατερας σου, δια τουτο εξελεξε το σπερμα αυτων μετ' αυτους και σε εξηγαγεν εμπροσθεν αυτου εξ Αιγυπτου δια της κραταιας αυτου δυναμεως·

38 δια να καταδιωξη απ' εμπροσθεν σου εθνη μεγαλητερα και ισχυροτερα σου, δια να σε εισαγαγη, δια να σοι δωση την γην αυτων κληρονομιαν, καθως την σημερον.

39 Γνωρισον λοιπον την ημεραν ταυτην και θες εν τη καρδια σου, οτι ο Κυριος, αυτος ειναι Θεος, εν τω ουρανω ανω και επι της γης κατω· δεν ειναι αλλος.

40 Και φυλαττε τα διαταγματα αυτου και τας εντολας αυτου, τας οποιας εγω προσταζω εις σε σημερον· δια να ευημερης συ και οι υιοι σου μετα σε και δια να μακροημερευης επι της γης, την οποιαν Κυριος ο Θεος σου εδωκεν εις σε διαπαντος.

41 Τοτε ο Μωυσης εξεχωρισε τρεις πολεις εντευθεν του Ιορδανου προς ανατολας ηλιου·

42 δια να φευγη εκει ο φονευς, οστις φονευση τον πλησιον αυτου εξ αγνοιας, χωρις να μιση αυτον προτερον, και φευγων εις μιαν τουτων των πολεων να ζη·

43 την Βοσορ εν τη ερημω εν τη πεδινη γη των Ρουβηνιτων και την Ραμωθ εν Γαλααδ των Γαδιτων και την Γωλαν εν Βασαν των Μανασσιτων.

44 Και ουτος ειναι ο νομος, τον οποιον εθεσεν ο Μωυσης ενωπιον των υιων Ισραηλ·

45 αυται ειναι αι μαρτυριαι και τα διαταγματα και αι κρισεις, τας οποιας ελαλησεν ο Μωυσης προς τους υιους Ισραηλ, αφου εξηλθον εξ Αιγυπτου,

46 εντευθεν του Ιορδανου, εν τη κοιλαδι κατεναντι του Βαιθ-φεγωρ, εν τη γη του Σηων βασιλεως των Αμορραιων, οστις κατωκει εν Εσεβων, τον οποιον επαταξεν ο Μωυσης και οι υιοι Ισραηλ, αφου εξηλθον εξ Αιγυπτου·

47 και εκυριευσαν την γην αυτου και την γην του Ωγ βασιλεως της Βασαν, δυο βασιλεων των Αμορραιων, οιτινες ησαν εντευθεν του Ιορδανου προς ανατολας ηλιου·

48 απο της Αροηρ, της παρα το χειλος του ποταμου Αρνων, εως του ορους Σηων, το οποιον ειναι το Αερμων·

49 και πασαν την πεδινην εντευθεν του Ιορδανου προς ανατολας, εως της θαλασσης της πεδιαδος, υποκατω της Ασδωθ-φασγα.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 1861

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1861. 'And behold, a smoking furnace' means grossest falsity, and 'a flaming torch' the heat of evil desires. This is clear from the meaning of 'a smoking furnace' as gross falsity, and from the meaning of 'a flaming torch' as the heat of evil desires. The expression 'a smoking furnace' is used because anyone, especially a member of the Church, who has some knowledge of the truth, and yet does not acknowledge it but at heart denies it, and leads a life pursuing things that are contrary to the truth, is seen as nothing other than a smoking furnace, he himself as 'the furnace', and the falsity arising from his hatred as 'the smoke'. Evil desires out of which falsities arise are seen as nothing other than torches of fire from such a furnace, as is also clear from the representatives in the next life which have been described from experience in 814, 1528. It is desires belonging to hatred, revenge, cruelty, and adultery - especially when mingled with deceit - that are seen as such and become such things.

[2] That in the Word such are meant by a furnace, smoke, and fire, becomes clear from the following places: In Isaiah,

Everyone is a hypocrite and wicked, and every mouth speaks folly. For wickedness burns like a fire, it consumes brier and thorn, and kindles the entangled boughs of the wood, and they surge up in an uprising of smoke. Through the wrath of Jehovah Zebaoth the earth has been darkened, and the people has become as fuel for the fire; a man will not spare his brother. Isaiah 9:17-19.

Here 'fire' stands for hatred, 'the rising up of smoke from it' for falsities of that kind. Hatred is described by the statement that 'a man will not spare his brother'. Such people, when looked at by angels, appear exactly like the things described here.

[3] In Joel,

I will give portents in the heavens and on earth, blood and fire, and columns of smote. The sun will be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of Jehovah comes. Joel 2:30-31.

Here 'fire' stands for hatred, 'columns of smoke 'for falsities, 'sun' for charity, and 'moon' for faith.

[4] In Isaiah,

The land will become burning pitch. Night and day it will not be quenched; its smoke will go up eternally. Isaiah 34:9-10.

'Burning pitch' stands for dreadful evil desires, 'smoke' for falsities.

[5] In Malachi,

Behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, and all the arrogant and every evil-doer will be stubble; and the day that is coming will burn them up; it will leave them neither root nor branch. Malachi 4:1.

'A burning furnace' stands for the same things as before. 'A root' stands for charity, 'a branch' for truth, which will not be left.

[6] In Hosea,

Ephraim has become guilty through Baal. It will be like chaff that is driven by the whirlwind from the threshing-floor, and like smoke from a chimney. Hosea 13:1, 3.

'Ephraim' stands for one with understanding who has become such.

[7] In Isaiah,

The strong will be as tow, and his work as a spark, and both of them will burn together, with none to quench them. Isaiah 1:31.

This stands for the fact that people governed by self-love - or what amounts to the same, by hatred against the neighbour - will be burnt up by their own evil desires. In John,

Babylon has become the dwelling-place of demons. Those cried out who saw the smoke of her burning. The smoke goes up for ever and ever. Revelation 18:2, 18; 19:3.

[8] In the same book,

He opened the pit of the abyss, from which there went up smoke out of the pit, like the smoke of a great furnace. And the sun was darkened, and the air, with the smoke of the pit. Revelation 9:2.

In the same book,

Out of the mouths of the horses there went forth fire, and smoke, and brimstone. By these a third part of mankind was killed - by the fire and by the smoke and by the brimstone which went forth out of their mouths. Revelation 9:17-18.

In the same book,

He who worships the beast will drink 1 from the wine of God's anger, poured unmixed as it is in the cup of His anger; and he will be tormented with fire and brimstone. Revelation 14:9-10.

In the same book,

The fourth angel poured out his bowl into the sun, and it was allowed to scorch men with fire; therefore men were burned by the fierce heat, and they blasphemed the name of God. Revelation 16:8-9.

And it is in like manner said that

They were thrown into the lake of fire burning with brimstone. Revelation 19:20; 20:14-15; 21:8.

[9] In all of these places 'fire' stands for the evil desires, 'smoke' for the falsities, which will reign in the last times. These thing as they actually exist in the next life were seen by John following the opening of his interior sight. Similar things are also seen by spirits, and by souls after death. These references show what hell-fire is, that it is nothing other than hatred, revenge, and cruelty, or what amounts to the same, self-love, which passes into such a visible form. As long as a person is in his bodily life, no matter how different his outward appearance might seem to be, he cannot be seen by the angels, when they look at him closely, in any other way than this; that is, his hatred is not seen by them except as 'flaming torches' nor the falsities coming from it except as 'smoking furnaces'.

[10] Of this fire the Lord speaks in Matthew as follows,

Every tree not bearing good fruit is cut down and cast into the fire. Matthew 3:10; Luke 3:9.

'Good fruit' is used to mean charity, and anyone who deprives himself of this 'cuts himself down and casts himself into such a fire'. In the same gospel,

The Son of Man will send His angels, who will gather out of His kingdom all offences, and those who work iniquity, and will send them into the furnace of fire. Matthew 13:41-42, 50.

Here the meaning is similar. In the same gospel,

The king will say 2 to those on his left hand, Depart from me, O cursed ones, into eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. Matthew 25:41.

Here the meaning is similar.

[11] Where it is said that they were to be sent into eternal fire, the Gehenna of fire, and that their worm does not die, and their fire is not quenched in Matthew 18:8-9; Mark 9:43-49, the meaning is similar. In Luke,

Send Lazarus to dip the end of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am tormented in this flame. Luke 16:24.

Here the meaning is similar.

[12] People who have no knowledge of the arcana of the Lord's kingdom imagine that the Lord sends the wicked down into hell, that is, into the kind of fire which, as has been stated, is the manifestation of hatred. But the truth of the matter is altogether different, for it is the person himself, or the devil-spirit himself, who casts himself down. Yet because it appears as though the Lord casts down, it has been spoken of in the Word in that way - according to the appearance, indeed according to the illusions of the senses. This was especially necessary with the Jews, who were totally unwilling to accept anything if it did not coincide with their own sensory perceptions, no matter what illusions these might entail. This is why the sense of the letter, especially the prophetical sections, is full of such ideas, as in Jeremiah,

[13] Thus said Jehovah, Execute judgement in the morning, and deliver him who has been robbed from the hand of the oppressor, lest My wrath go forth like fire and burn with none to quench it because of the wickedness of their works. Jeremiah 21:12.

'Executing judgement' is declaring the truth. 'Delivering him who has been robbed from the hand of the oppressor' is doing a good work of charity. 'Fire' stands for the hellish punishment of those who do not do these things, that is, who pass their time clinging to falsity that is the product of hatred. In the sense of the letter such fire and anger are attributed to Jehovah, but in the internal sense it is quite the reverse.

[14] Similarly in Joel,

The day of Jehovah, fire devours before him, and behind him a flame burns. Joel 2:1, 3.

In David,

Smoke went up out of His nose, and fire out of His mouth devoured; glowing coals flamed forth from Him; and there was thick darkness under His feet. Psalms 18:8-9.

In Moses,

A fire has flared up in My anger, and will burn right down to the lowest hell, and will devour the land and its increase, and will set on fire the foundations of the mountains. Deuteronomy 32:22.

Here 'a fire' stands for the hatred, 'smoke' for the falsities, that reside with a person, which are attributed to Jehovah or the Lord for the reasons that have been stated. To the hells also it seems that Jehovah or the Lord does the things described, but quite the reverse is the case. It is they who do them because they dwell in the fires of hatred. From this it is evident how easily a person can sink into delusions if the internal sense of the Word is not known.

[15] It was similar with the smoke and fire which the people saw coming from Mount Sinai when the Law was given; for Jehovah or the Lord is seen by everyone according to his character and disposition. By celestial angels He is seen as the sun, by spiritual angels as the moon, by all who are good as light of varying delightfulness and loveliness; but by the evil as smoke and as devouring fire. And because the Jews had no charity at all when the Law was given, but self-love and love of the world reigned among them, and so nothing but evils and falsities, He was therefore seen by them as smoke and fire, while in the same instant He was seen by angels as the sun and heavenly light.

[16] The fact that He was seen thus by the Jews, because their character was such, is clear in Moses,

The glory of Jehovah dwelt over Mount Sinai. And the appearance of the glory of Jehovah was like a devouring fire on the top of the mountain, before the eyes of the children of Israel. Exodus 24:16-17.

In the same book,

Mount Sinai was smoking, the whole of it, because Jehovah came down upon it in fire and its smoke went up like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked greatly. Exodus 19:18.

And elsewhere in the same author,

You came near and stood at the foot of the mountain while the mountain was burning with fire even to the heart of heaven, with darkness and cloud and thick darkness. And Jehovah spoke to you out of the midst of the fire. Deuteronomy 4:11-12; 5:22.

Also in the same,

When you heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, and the mountain was burning with fire, you came near to Me and you said, Why should we die? For this great fire will devour us; if we hear the voice of Jehovah our God any more we shall die. Deuteronomy 5:23-25.

[17] The same would be the case if anyone else who spends his time hating and performing filthy deeds that are the product of hatred were to see the Lord. He would inevitably see Him from his own hatred and the filthy deeds that are the product of it. These things being the recipients of the rays of good and truth from Him, they would convert those rays into that type of fire, smoke, and thick darkness. The same places that have been quoted also show what' a smoking furnace' is, and what 'a burning torch' is, namely the grossest falsity and the filthiest evil which took possession of the Church in its last times.

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