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Járulának pedig õ hozzá az õ testvérei is, és leborúlának elõtte és mondának: Ímé mi a te szolgáid [vagyunk].
1 Mózes 50:18
Arcana Coelestia # 6502
6502. 'And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians' means preservation from evils which would hinder it, that is to say, the joining together. This is clear from the meaning of 'commanding' as flowing into, dealt with in 5732; from the representation of 'Joseph' as the internal, dealt with just above in 6499; and from the meaning of 'the physicians' as preservation from evils (for it is apparent from the train of thought here that the preservation is from evils which would hinder the joining together referred to immediately above in 6501). From all this it is evident that 'Joseph commanded his servants the physicians' means an influx from the internal regarding preservation from evils which would hinder the joining together. The reason why 'the physicians' means preservation from evils is that in the spiritual world 'sicknesses' are evils and falsities. Spiritual diseases are nothing else, for evils and falsities rob the internal man of good health; they introduce mental disorders and at length states of depression. Nothing else is meant in the Word by 'sicknesses'.
[2] In the Word 'physicians', 'medicine', and 'medicaments' mean forms of preservation from evils and falsities. This is clear from places where they are mentioned, as in Moses,
If you obediently hear the voice of your God, and do what is good in His eyes, and give ear to His commandments, and keep all His statutes, I will not put on you any sickness that I put on the Egyptians; for I, Jehovah, am your Physician. Exodus 15:26.
'Jehovah the Physician' stands for the preserver from evils; for these evils are meant by 'sicknesses on the Egyptians'. The fact that 'sicknesses on the Egyptians' means evils and falsities that arise when people reason about the arcana of faith on the basis of factual knowledge and false notions will in the Lord's Divine mercy be shown where those sicknesses are dealt with. But spiritual ones are meant, as is evident from its being said that if they heard the voice of God, did what was good, gave ear to His precepts, and kept His statutes, none of those sicknesses would be put on them.
[3] In addition the Lord calls Himself 'a Physician' in the same sense in Luke,
Those who are healthy have no need of a physician but those who are ill. I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. Luke 5:31, 32
Here also 'a physician' stands for a preserver from evils; for 'those who are healthy' is used to mean the righteous, and 'those who are ill' sinners. In Jeremiah,
Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then is there no recovery for the health of the daughter of My people? 1 Jeremiah 8:22.
'A physician' stands for preservation from falsities in the Church, for 'the health of the daughter of My people' is the truth of doctrine there.
[4] In the Word healing, cures, remedies, and medicaments are spoken of not in a natural but in a spiritual sense, as is evident in Jeremiah,
Why have You stricken us so that there is no remedy for us? Await peace, but no good comes; a time of healing, but behold, terror. Jeremiah 14:19; 8:15.
In the same prophet,
I will bring health and curing to it, 2 and I will heal them, and reveal to them the crown of peace, and truth. Jeremiah 33:6.
In the same prophet,
There is none judging your judgement for healthiness; you have no restorative medicaments. Jeremiah 30:13.
In the same prophet,
Go up to Gilead, and take balm, O virgin daughter of Egypt! In vain you have multiplied medicaments; there is no healing for you. Jeremiah 46:11.
[5] In Ezekiel,
Beside the river there is rising up upon its bank, on this side and on that, every tree for food, whose leaf does not fall and whose fruit does not fail; it is reborn monthly, for its waters are flowing out from the sanctuary, wherefore its fruit is for food, and its leaf for a medicament. Ezekiel 47:12.
Here the prophet is describing a new house of God or a new temple, by which a new Church is meant, and in a more internal sense the Lord's spiritual kingdom. Therefore by 'the river upon whose bank there is rising up every tree for food' is meant things that belong to intelligence and wisdom, 108, 109, 2702, 3051 - 'trees' are perceptions and recognition of what is good and true, 103, 2163, 2682, 2722, 2972, 4552; 'food' is forms of good and truths themselves, 680, 4459, 5147, 5293, 5576, 5915; 'waters going out from the sanctuary' are truths that compose intelligence, 2702, 3058, 3424, 4976, 5668; 'the sanctuary' is celestial love, and in the highest sense the Lord's Divine Human, which is the source of that love; 'fruits which are for food' means forms of the good of love, 917, 983, 2846, 2847, 3146; and 'leaf which is for a medicament' means the truth of faith, 885. From this it is evident what 'a medicament' means, namely that which preserves from falsities and from evils; for the truth of faith, when it leads to goodness of life because it leads away from evil, acts as a preserver.
Poznámky pod čarou:
1. literally, Why then has there not gone up the health of the daughter of My people?
2. literally, I will cause health and curing to go up to it.
Luke 5
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Now it happened, while the multitude pressed on him and heard the word of God, that he was standing by the lake of Gennesaret.
2
He saw two boats standing by the lake, but the fishermen had gone out of them, and were washing their nets.
3
He entered into one of the boats, which was Simon's, and asked him to put out a little from the land. He sat down and taught the multitudes from the boat.
4
When he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, "Put out into the deep, and let down your nets for a catch."
5
Simon answered him, "Master, we worked all night, and took nothing; but at your word I will let down the net."
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When they had done this, they caught a great multitude of fish, and their net was breaking.
7
They beckoned to their partners in the other boat, that they should come and help them. They came, and filled both boats, so that they began to sink.
8
But Simon Peter, when he saw it, fell down at Jesus' knees, saying, "Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, Lord."
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For he was amazed, and all who were with him, at the catch of fish which they had caught;
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and so also were James and John, sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon. Jesus said to Simon, "Don't be afraid. From now on you will be catching people alive."
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When they had brought their boats to land, they left everything, and followed him.
12
It happened, while he was in one of the cities, behold, there was a man full of leprosy. When he saw Jesus, he fell on his face, and begged him, saying, "Lord, if you want to, you can make me clean."
13
He stretched out his hand, and touched him, saying, "I want to. Be made clean." Immediately the leprosy left him.
14
He commanded him to tell no one, "But go your way, and show yourself to the priest, and offer for your cleansing according to what Moses commanded, for a testimony to them."
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But the report concerning him spread much more, and great multitudes came together to hear, and to be healed by him of their infirmities.
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But he withdrew himself into the desert, and prayed.
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It happened on one of those days, that he was teaching; and there were Pharisees and teachers of the law sitting by, who had come out of every village of Galilee, Judea, and Jerusalem. The power of the Lord was with him to heal them.
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Behold, men brought a paralyzed man on a cot, and they sought to bring him in to lay before Jesus.
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Not finding a way to bring him in because of the multitude, they went up to the housetop, and let him down through the tiles with his cot into the midst before Jesus.
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Seeing their faith, he said to him, "Man, your sins are forgiven you."
21
The scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, "Who is this that speaks blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but God alone?"
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But Jesus, perceiving their thoughts, answered them, "Why are you reasoning so in your hearts?
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Which is easier to say, 'Your sins are forgiven you;' or to say, 'Arise and walk?'
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But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins" (he said to the paralyzed man), "I tell you, arise, and take up your cot, and go to your house."
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Immediately he rose up before them, and took up that which he was laying on, and departed to his house, glorifying God.
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Amazement took hold on all, and they glorified God. They were filled with fear, saying, "We have seen strange things today."
27
After these things he went out, and saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at the tax office, and said to him, "Follow me!"
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He left everything, and rose up and followed him.
29
Levi made a great feast for him in his house. There was a great crowd of tax collectors and others who were reclining with them.
30
Their scribes and the Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, "Why do you eat and drink with the tax collectors and sinners?"
31
Jesus answered them, "Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick do.
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I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."
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They said to him, "Why do John's disciples often fast and pray, likewise also the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours eat and drink?"
34
He said to them, "Can you make the friends of the bridegroom fast, while the bridegroom is with them?
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But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them. Then they will fast in those days."
36
He also told a parable to them. "No one puts a piece from a new garment on an old garment, or else he will tear the new, and also the piece from the new will not match the old.
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No one puts new wine into old wineskins, or else the new wine will burst the skins, and it will be spilled, and the skins will be destroyed.
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But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins, and both are preserved.
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No man having drunk old wine immediately desires new, for he says, 'The old is better.'"
