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Deuteronomio 16

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1 Osserva il mese di Abib e celebra la Pasqua in onore dell’Eterno, del tuo Dio; poiché, nel mese di Abib, l’Eterno, il tuo Dio, ti trasse dall’Egitto, durante la notte.

2 E immolerai la Pasqua all’Eterno, all’Iddio tuo, con vittime de’ tuoi greggi e de’ tuoi armenti, nel luogo che l’Eterno avrà scelto per dimora del suo nome.

3 Non mangerai con queste offerte pane lievitato; per sette giorni mangerai con esse pane azzimo, pane d’afflizione (poiché uscisti in fretta dal paese d’Egitto); affinché tu ti ricordi del giorno che uscisti dal paese d’Egitto, tutto il tempo della tua vita.

4 Non si vegga lievito presso di te, entro tutti i tuoi confini, per sette giorni; e della carne che avrai immolata la sera del primo giorno, nulla se ne serbi durante la notte fino al mattino.

5 Non potrai immolare la Pasqua in una qualunque delle città che l’Eterno, il tuo Dio, ti ;

6 anzi, immolerai la Pasqua soltanto nel luogo che l’Eterno, il tuo Dio, avrà scelto per dimora del suo nome; la immolerai la sera, al tramontar del sole, nell’ora in cui uscisti dall’Egitto.

7 Farai cuocere la vittima, e la mangerai nel luogo che l’Eterno, il tuo Dio, avrà scelto; e la mattina te ne potrai tornare e andartene alle tue tende.

8 Per sei giorni mangerai pane senza lievito; e il settimo giorno vi sarà una solenne raunanza, in onore dell’Eterno, ch’è l’Iddio tuo; non farai lavoro di sorta.

9 Conterai sette settimane; da quando si metterà la falce nella mèsse comincerai a contare sette settimane;

10 poi celebrerai la festa delle settimane in onore dell’Eterno, del tuo Dio, mediante offerte volontarie, che presenterai nella misura delle benedizioni che avrai ricevute dall’Eterno, ch’è il tuo Dio.

11 E ti rallegrerai in presenza dell’Eterno, del tuo Dio, tu, il tuo figliuolo e la tua figliuola, il tuo servo e la tua serva, il Levita che sarà entro le tue porte, e lo straniero, l’orfano e la vedova che saranno in mezzo a te, nel luogo che l’Eterno, il tuo Dio, avrà scelto per dimora del suo nome.

12 Ti ricorderai che fosti schiavo in Egitto, e osserverai e metterai in pratica queste leggi.

13 Celebrerai la festa delle Capanne per sette giorni, quando avrai raccolto il prodotto della tua aia e del tuo strettoio;

14 e ti rallegrerai in questa tua festa, tu, il tuo figliuolo e la tua figliuola, il tuo servo e la tua serva, e il Levita, lo straniero, l’orfano e la vedova che saranno entro le tue porte.

15 Celebrerai la festa per sette giorni in onore dell’Eterno, del tuo Dio, nel luogo che l’Eterno avrà scelto; poiché l’Eterno, il tuo Dio, ti benedirà in tutta la tua raccolta e in tutta l’opera delle tue mani, e tu ti darai interamente alla gioia.

16 Tre volte all’anno ogni tuo maschio si presenterà davanti all’Eterno, al tuo Dio, nel luogo che questi avrà scelto: nella festa de’ pani azzimi, nella festa delle settimane e nella festa delle Capanne; e nessuno si presenterà davanti all’Eterno a mani vuote.

17 Ognuno darà ciò che potrà, secondo le benedizioni che l’Eterno, l’Iddio tuo, t’avrà date.

18 Stabilisciti de’ giudici e dei magistrati in tutte le città che l’Eterno, il tuo Dio, ti , tribù per tribù; ed essi giudicheranno il popolo con giusti giudizi.

19 Non pervertirai il diritto, non avrai riguardi personali, e non accetterai donativi, perché il donativo acceca gli occhi de’ savi e corrompe le parole de’ giusti.

20 La giustizia, solo la giustizia seguirai, affinché tu viva e possegga il paese che l’Eterno, il tuo Dio, ti .

21 Non pianterai alcun idolo d’Astarte, di qualsivoglia specie di legno, allato all’altare che edificherai all’Eterno, ch’è il tuo Dio;

22 e non erigerai alcuna statua; cosa, che l’Eterno, il tuo Dio, odia.

   

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8487. 'And the sun grew hot, and it melted' means its disappearance gradually as craving increased. This is clear from the meaning of 'the sun growing hot' as craving that is increasing, dealt with below; and from the meaning of 'melting' as disappearing. The reason why 'the sun grew hot' means craving that was increasing is that 'the sun' in a good sense means heavenly love. It means this because the Lord is the Sun in the next life, the heat which comes from it being the good of love, and the light the truth of faith. (For more about that Sun - that it is the Lord and that heavenly love comes from it - see 1053, 1521, 1529-1531, 2120, 2441, 2495, 3636, 3643, 4060, 4321 (end), 4696, 5084, 5047, 5377, 7078, 7083, 7171, 7173, 7270.) Therefore 'the sun' in the contrary sense means self-love and love of the world, and the heat from the sun or its 'growing hot' in that sense means craving.

[2] The nature of the occurrence described here - that the good of truth, meant by 'the manna', disappeared gradually as craving increased, meant by its melting when the sun grew hot - must be explained briefly. The good of truth or spiritual good is indeed imparted to a member of the spiritual Church undergoing regeneration; but that good kills off every delight belonging to self-love and love of the world that has constituted his life previously, since they are contrary to each other. This being so, pure good of truth cannot remain for long with that person, but is modified by the Lord by means of the delights belonging to the two loves constituting his life previously. For if that good were not modified in this way it would hold no delight for him and so would be loathsome. This is what heavenly good is like initially with those undergoing regeneration. To the extent therefore that the delights of self-love and love of the world rise up, the good of heavenly love disappears, since, as has been stated, they are contrary to that good. So the reverse also occurs.

[3] This explains why in heaven there are changes of states, to which changes of times and seasons in the world correspond, 8426, and why such changes return those who are there to the delights that go with natural pleasures. For without such change of states the good of heavenly love would become so to speak dry and worthless. It is different when it is modified by natural delights, at once or in stages. This is why at first, when the children of Israel were given the man[na] every morning they were also given the selav in the evening; for 'the selav' means natural delight, and also the delight that goes with craving, 8452.

[4] But it should be recognized that the cravings to which those in heaven return when their evening comes are not cravings that are contrary to heavenly good, but ones that are to some extent in accord with it. For there are the delights of conferring benefits rather lavishly and getting some glory out of doing so, delights however which hold goodwill and the desire to serve others. Then there are the delights of opulence in home decor and personal dress, and very many other delights like these. Such delights are not ones that destroy the good of heavenly love, though they do nevertheless eclipse it. But eventually - depending on the degree the person's regeneration reaches - they become the lowest levels of heavenly good. At this point they are no longer spoken of as cravings but as delights. The fact that the good of heavenly love unless modified by such delights becomes so to speak dry, and after that is loathed as being so to speak worthless, is meant by the reaction of the children of Israel who, when they were no longer given the selav, called the manna dry food and worthless food. Their doing so is referred to in Moses as follows,

The rabble who were in the midst [of the people] had a strong craving, and so the children of Israel also wept repeatedly and said, Who will feed us with flesh? But now our soul is dry; there is nothing at all except the man[na] for our eyes [to look] at. Numbers 11:4, 6.

In the same author,

The people spoke against God and against Moses, Why have you caused us to come up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? There is no bread, nor water; now our soul loathes this most worthless bread. Numbers 21:5.

And elsewhere in the same author,

Jehovah afflicted you, and caused you to hunger, and fed you with manna which you did not know, nor your fathers knew, in order that He might teach you that man does not live by bread only, but that man lives by every utterance of the mouth of Jehovah. Deuteronomy 8:3.

[5] 'Manna' is similar in meaning to 'unleavened bread', which means good pure and free from falsities, 8058. That bread is for a similar reason called the bread of misery, 1 Deuteronomy 16:3.

From all this one may now see how to understand the disappearance of the good of truth gradually as craving increased, meant by the melting of the man[na] when the sun grew hot.

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1. Here Swedenborg follows Sebastian Schmidt; in other places Swedenborg has the bread of affliction.

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.