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1 Halljad Izráel, te általmégy ma a Jordánon, hogy bemenvén, örökségül bírj náladnál nagyobb és erõsebb népeket, nagy és az égig megerõsített városokat;

2 Nagy és szálas népet, Anák-fiakat, a kikrõl magad is tudod és magad is hallottad: kicsoda állhat meg Anák fiai elõtt?

3 Tudd meg azért e mai napon, hogy az Úr, a te Istened az, a ki átmegy elõtted mint emésztõ tûz, õ törli el azokat, és õ alázza meg azokat te elõtted; és kiûzöd, és hamar elveszted õket, a miképen az Úr megmondotta néked.

4 Mikor azért kiûzi az Úr, a te Istened azokat te elõled, ne szólj a te szívedben, mondván: Az én igazságomért hozott be engem az Úr, hogy örökségül bírjam ezt a földet; holott e népeket az õ istentelenségökért ûzi ki te elõled az Úr;

5 Nem a te igazságodért, sem a te szívednek igaz voltáért mégy te be az õ földük bírására; hanem az Úr, a te Istened e népeknek istentelenségéért ûzi ki õket elõled, hogy megerõsítse az ígéretet, a mely felõl megesküdt az Úr a te atyáidnak: Ábrahámnak, Izsáknak és Jákóbnak.

6 Tudd meg azért, hogy az Úr, a te Istened nem a te igazságodért adja néked ezt a földet birtokul, mert kemény nyakú nép vagy te!

7 Emlékezzél meg róla, és el ne felejtsed azokat, a mikkel haragra indítottad az Urat, a te Istenedet a pusztában! A naptól fogva, a melyen kijöttél Égyiptom földébõl, mind addig, míglen e helyre jutottatok, az Úr ellen tusakodtatok vala.

8 Már a Hóreben haragra indítátok az Urat, és annyira megharaguvék reátok az Úr, hogy el akara veszteni titeket.

9 Mikor felmegyek vala a hegyre, hogy átvegyem a kõtáblákat, a szövetségnek tábláit, a melyet az Úr kötött vala veletek, és a hegyen maradtam vala negyven nap és negyven éjjel: kenyeret nem ettem, sem vizet nem ittam vala.

10 Akkor átadá nékem az Úr a két kõtáblát, a melyek az Isten ujjával valának beírva, és rajtok valának mind amaz ígék, a melyeket mondott vala az Úr néktek a hegyen a tûz közepébõl, a gyülekezésnek napján.

11 És mikor a negyven nap és negyven éj elmultával átadá az Úr nékem a két kõtáblát, a szövetségnek tábláit;

12 Akkor monda az Úr nékem: Kelj fel, hamar menj innen alá; mert elvetemedett a te néped, a kit kihoztál Égyiptomból; hamar eltértek az útról, a melyet parancsoltam vala nékik, öntött bálványt készítettek magoknak.

13 Ismét szóla nékem az Úr, mondván: Láttam e népet, és bizony kemény nyakú nép ez!

14 Hagyj békét nékem, hadd pusztítsam el õket, és töröljem el az õ nevöket az ég alól, és teszlek téged ennél nagyobb és erõsebb néppé!

15 Megfordulék azért, és alájövék a hegyrõl, a hegy pedig tûzzel ég vala, és a szövetségnek két táblája az én két kezemben vala.

16 És mikor látám, hogy ímé vétkeztetek vala az Úr ellen, a ti Istenetek ellen; öntött borjút csináltatok vala magatoknak; hamar letértetek vala az útról, a melyet az Úr parancsolt vala néktek:

17 Akkor megragadám a két táblát, és elhajítám a két kezembõl, és összetörém azokat a ti szemeitek láttára.

18 És leborulék az Úr elõtt, mint annakelõtte, negyven nap és negyven éjjel, kenyeret nem ettem és vizet sem ittam; minden ti bûnötökért, a melyeket elkövettetek vala, azt cselekedvén, a mi gonosz az Úr elõtt, hogy ingereljétek õt.

19 Mert félek vala a haragtól és búsulástól, a melylyel ti reátok úgy megharagudt vala az Úr, hogy el akart vala pusztítani titeket. És meghallgata az Úr engem akkor is.

20 Áronra is igen megharagudt vala az Úr, és el akará õt is pusztítani; de ugyanakkor imádkozám Áronért is.

21 A ti bûnötöket pedig, a borjút, a melyet készítettetek, megragadám, és megégetém azt tûzzel; és összetörém azt, jól megõrölvén, mígnem porrá morzsolódék, azután bevetém annak porát a patakba, a mely a hegyrõl foly vala alá.

22 És Thaberában, Massában, és Kibrot- Taavában is haragra indítátok az Urat.

23 És mikor az Úr elküldött vala titeket Kádes-Barneából, mondván: Menjetek fel, és bírjátok örökségül a földet, a melyet néktek adtam: akkor is tusakodtatok vala az Úrnak, a ti Isteneteknek beszéde ellen, nem hittetek néki, és nem hallgattatok az õ szavára.

24 Tusakodók voltatok az Úr ellen, a mióta ismerlek titeket.

25 És leborulék az Úr elõtt azon a negyven napon és negyven éjjel, a melyeken leborultam vala; mert azt mondotta vala az Úr, hogy elveszt titeket.

26 Akkor imádkozám az Úrhoz, és mondék: Uram, Isten! ne rontsd meg a te népedet, és a te örökségedet, a kit a te nagyságoddal szabadítottál meg, a kit erõs kézzel hoztál ki Égyiptomból.

27 Emlékezzél meg a te szolgáidról: Ábrahámról, Izsákról és Jákóbról; ne nézzed e népnek keménységét, istentelenségét és bûnét!

28 Hogy ne mondja a föld [népe], a honnét kihoztál minket: mivelhogy az Úr nem vihette be õket a földre, a melyet igért volt nékik, és mivelhogy gyûlölte õket, azért hozta ki õket, hogy megölje õket a pusztában.

29 Pedig õk a te néped és a te örökséged, a melyet kihoztál a te nagy erõddel, és a te kinyujtott karoddal!

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 9320

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9320. 'For you shall utterly destroy them' means that evils must be completely removed. This is clear from the meaning of 'destroying' - when it has reference to evils and falsities, meant by the nations of the land of Canaan and their gods - as removing. The reason why 'destroying' means removing is that those governed by goodness and truth never destroy those ruled by evil and falsity, but merely move them away. This they do because good, not evil, governs their actions, and good comes from the Lord, who never destroys anyone. Those ruled by evil however and consequently by falsity try to destroy, and so far as they can they do destroy those governed by good. This they do because evil rules their actions. But since, when they try to do so, they make their attack on good which comes from the Lord, thus on what is of God, they destroy themselves, that is, they hurl themselves into damnation and into hell. Such is the law of order. And why it is such, see 4299, 7643, 7679, 7710, 7926, 7989, 8137, 8146, 8265, 8945, 8946.

[2] The reason why the Israelites and Jews were to destroy the nations of the land of Canaan was that they themselves represented spiritual and heavenly realities, while the nations represented hellish and devilish things, which can never exist together with those realities since they are opposites. The reason why they were allowed to destroy the nations was that no Church existed among them, only a representative of the Church, so that the Lord was not present among them either except through things of a representative nature, 4307. For they were interested in outward forms but not their inner substances, that is, in the worship that represented goodness and truth but not goodness and truth themselves. People like this are allowed to destroy, kill, and consign to slaughter and complete destruction. But people who are interested in outward forms and at the same time in their inner substance are not allowed to do those things, since their actions must be governed by good, and good comes from the Lord.

[3] The fact that the Jews and Israelites were such is declared explicitly by Moses,

Do not say in your heart, when Jehovah your God has thrust out the nations before you, Because of my righteousness Jehovah has brought me in to possess this land. It is not because of your righteousness and because of the uprightness of your heart; for you are a stiff-necked people. Deuteronomy 9:4-6.

And elsewhere,

They are a nation from whom counsel has perished, nor is there intelligence in them. From the vine of Sodom comes their vine, and from the fields of Gomorrah; their grapes are grapes of poison, they have clusters of bitterness. The poison of snakes (draco) is their wine, and the cruel poison of asps. Is not this hidden away with Me, sealed up in My treasuries? Deuteronomy 32:28, 32-34.

'The vine' in the internal sense means the Church, 1069, 5113, 6375, 6376, 9277; 'grapes' and 'clusters' mean the internal forms and the external forms of that Church's good, 1071, 5117, 6378; and 'wine' means that Church's internal truth, 1071, 1798, 6377. From this one may see what is meant by the assertions that their vine comes from the vine of Sodom and from the fields of Gomorrah, that their grapes are grapes of poison and clusters of bitterness, and that their wine is the poison of snakes and the cruel poison of asps. The fact that all this was known to Jehovah, that is, to the Lord, is meant by the remarks about its being hidden away with Him and sealed up in His treasuries.

[4] In John,

Jesus said to the Jews, You are from your father the devil, and the desires of your father you will to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and has not stood in the truth. John 8:44.

This is why they are called a wicked and adulterous generation, Matthew 12:39, as well as a brood of vipers, Matthew 3:7; 12:34; 23:33; Luke 3:7. That they were like this is also described by the Lord in His parables in Matthew 21:33-45; Mark 12:1-9; Luke 14:16-24; 20:9ff.

Regarding that nation, that it was the worst nation; that in their worship they were interested in outward forms but not their inner substance; that no Church existed among them, only a representative of the Church; but that nevertheless they were able to represent the internal realities of the Church, see 3398, 3479, 3480, 3732 (end), 3881 (end), 4208, 4281, 4288-4290, 4293, 4307, 4314, 4316, 4317, 4429, 4433, 4444, 4500, 4503, 4680, 4815, 4818, 4820, 4825, 4832, 4837, 4844, 4847, 4865, 4868, 4874, 4899, 4903, 4911-4913, 5057, 5998, 6304, 6832, 6877, 7048, 7051, 7248, 7401, 7439, 8301, 8588, 8788, 8806, 8814, 8819, 8871, 8882, 9284.

  
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Arcana Coelestia # 4429

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4429. 'To see the daughters of the land' means to get to know the affections for truth, and the Churches which arise from these. This is clear from the meaning of 'seeing' as getting to know, dealt with frequently already; from the meaning of 'the daughters' as affections, and consequently Churches, dealt with in 2362, 3024, 3963; and from the meaning of 'the land', in this case the land of Canaan, as that area where the Church is, and therefore also the Church itself, dealt with in 662, 1066, 1067, 1262, 1733, 1850, 2117, 2118, 2928, 3355, 3686, 3705.

[2] The meaning of these things contained in this verse becomes clear from those that follow, for the subject is the representative of the Church which was to be established among the descendants of Jacob. This representative among them could not be established until they had undergone complete vastation so far as interior truths were concerned, that is, until they no longer had any knowledge of them; see 4289. Interior truths are all those which are represented and meant by the religious observances which they were commanded to keep; for every religious observance represented, and was a sign meaning, something in the Lord's kingdom in heaven, and consequently something in the Lord's kingdom on earth, that is, in the Church. The things which they meant and represented are in this instance interior truths. The fact that all the things, each one, which the descendants of Jacob were commanded to observe when a representative of the Church was established among them - which things are laid down in the books of Moses, especially in Exodus and Leviticus - were representatives and meaningful signs of the celestial and spiritual things of the Lord's kingdom has been shown throughout the explanatory sections. None of these spiritual and celestial things were known to the descendants of Jacob, for the character of those descendants was such that if they had known them they would have profaned them, 301-303, 2520, 3398, 3479, 3769, 4281, 4293. For that reason they did not enter into those representatives until they had undergone complete vastation so far as interior things were concerned. The subject in this chapter therefore is those truths and that people's annihilation of them.

[3] The representatives which the descendants of Jacob were commanded to observe were not new, the majority being like those that had been in use formerly among the Ancients. Unlike the descendants of Jacob however, that is, unlike the Jews and Israelites, the Ancients did not worship external things but internal ones. Through internal things they acknowledged the Lord Himself. Remnants of the Church from ancient times still existed in the land of Canaan, especially among those who were called Hittites and Hivites. This is why those nations represent the truths of the Church. From all this one may now have some idea of what is meant by Dinah, the daughter of Jacob by Leah, going out to see the daughters of the land. For 'Dinah' represents the external Church such as was established among the descendants of Jacob, while 'the daughters of the land' means Churches existing among the Ancients. Everywhere in the Word Churches are meant in its internal sense by 'daughters', see 2362, 3024, where this meaning has been shown; and 'land' means an area and a nation where the Church exists, and so means the Church, 662, 1066, 1067, 1733, 1850, 2117, 2118, 2928, 3355, 3686, 3705.

  
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