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Joshua 3

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1 E Giosuè si levò la mattina di buon’ora e con tutti i figliuoli d’Israele partì da Sittim. Essi arrivarono al Giordano, e quivi fecero alto prima di passarlo.

2 In capo a tre giorni, gli ufficiali percorsero il campo,

3 e dettero quest’ordine al popolo: "Quando vedrete l’arca del patto dell’Eterno, ch’è il vostro Dio, portata dai sacerdoti levitici, partirete dal luogo ove siete accampati, e andrete dietro ad essa.

4 Però, vi sarà tra voi e l’arca la distanza d’un tratto di circa duemila cubiti; non v’accostate ad essa, affinché possiate veder bene la via per la quale dovete andare; poiché non siete ancora mai passati per questa via".

5 E Giosuè disse al popolo: "Santificatevi, poiché domani l’Eterno farà delle maraviglie in mezzo a voi".

6 Poi Giosuè parlò ai sacerdoti, dicendo: "Prendete in ispalla l’arca del patto e passate davanti al popolo". Ed essi presero in ispalla l’arca del patto e camminarono davanti al popolo.

7 E l’Eterno disse a Giosuè: "Oggi comincerò a renderti grande agli occhi di tutto Israele, affinché riconoscano che, come fui con Mosè, così sarò con te.

8 E tu dà ai sacerdoti che portano l’arca del patto, quest’ordine: Quando sarete giunti alla riva delle acque del Giordano, vi fermerete nel Giordano".

9 E Giosuè disse ai figliuoli d’Israele: "Fatevi dappresso e ascoltate le parole dell’Eterno, del vostro Dio".

10 Poi Giosuè disse: "Da questo riconoscerete che l’Iddio vivente è in mezzo a voi, e ch’egli caccerà certamente d’innanzi a voi i Cananei, gli Hittei, gli Hivvei, i Ferezei, i Ghirgasei, gli Amorei e i Gebusei:

11 ecco, l’arca del patto del Signore di tutta la terra sta per passare davanti a voi per entrar nel Giordano.

12 Or dunque prendete dodici uomini fra le tribù d’Israele, uno per tribù.

13 E avverrà che, non appena i sacerdoti recanti l’arca dell’Eterno, del Signor di tutta la terra, avran posato le piante de’ piedi nelle acque del Giordano, le acque del Giordano, che scendono d’insù, saranno tagliate, e si fermeranno in un mucchio".

14 E avvenne che quando il popolo fu uscito dalle sue tende per passare il Giordano, avendo dinanzi a lui i sacerdoti che portavano l’arca del patto,

15 appena quelli che portavan l’arca giunsero al Giordano e i sacerdoti che portavan l’arca ebber tuffati i piedi nell’acqua della riva (il Giordano straripa da per tutto durante tutto il tempo della mèsse),

16 le acque che scendevano d’insù si fermarono e si elevarono in un mucchio, a una grandissima distanza, fin presso la città di Adam che è allato di Tsartan; e quelle che scendevano verso il mare della pianura, il mar Salato, furono interamente separate da esse; e il popolo passò dirimpetto a Gerico.

17 E i sacerdoti che portavano l’arca del patto dell’Eterno stettero a piè fermo sull’asciutto, in mezzo al Giordano, mentre tutto Israele passava per l’asciutto, finché tutta la nazione ebbe finito di passare il Giordano.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 2913

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2913. 'And spoke to the sons of Heth, saying' means those with whom a new spiritual Church was to exist. This becomes clear from the meaning of 'Heth' and of Hittite. Many were the nations inhabiting the land of Canaan who are mentioned one by one in various places in the Word, among them the Hittites, see Genesis 15:20; Exodus 3:8, 17; 13:5; 23:23; Deuteronomy 7:1; 20:17; Joshua 3:10; 11:1, 3; 12:8; 24:11; 1 Kings 9:20; and elsewhere. Most of them belonged to the Ancient Church which was spread through many lands, including the land of Canaan, see 1238, 2385. All who belonged to that Church acknowledged charity as the chief thing, and everything they taught was about charity or life. People who cultivated teachings about faith were called Canaanites and were separate from the rest of the inhabitants in the land of Canaan, Numbers 13:29 - see 1062, 1063, 1076.

[2] The Hittites belonged among those in the land of Canaan who were more acceptable. This is also made clear by the fact that Abraham, and subsequently Isaac and Jacob, dwelt among them and had a burial-place there, and also by the fact that they treated Abraham with greatest respect, as is quite clear from what is recorded about them in this chapter, especially verses 5-6, 10-11, 14-15. Since they were an upright nation they therefore represent and mean the spiritual Church, or the truth of the Church. But it happened that like all the others who belonged to the Ancient Church the Hittites fell away in the course of time from charity or good that goes with faith; and this explains why later on they mean the falsity of the Church, as in Ezekiel 16:3, 45, and elsewhere. Yet the Hittites did belong among those who were more honourable, as may be seen from the fact that David had Hittites with him, such as Ahimelech, 1 Samuel 26:6, and Uriah, who was a Hittite, 2 Samuel 11:3, 6, 17, 21 - by whose wife Bathsheba David begot Solomon, 2 Samuel 12:24. 'Heth' means exterior cognitions that have regard to life and which constitute the external truths of the spiritual Church, 1 see 1203.

[3] The subject in the present verse is a new Church which the Lord establishes when the previous one breathes its last, and in the verses which follow the subject is the reception of faith among those people. The subject is not some particular Church among the sons of Heth but in general the re-establishment by the Lord of a spiritual Church after its predecessor fades away and approaches its end. The sons of Heth are simply those who represent and carry a spiritual meaning. Please see what has been stated already about Churches in the following places:

In course of time a Church goes into decline and decay, 494, 501, 1327, 2422.

It departs from charity, and brings forth evils and falsities, 1834, 1835.

At that point the Church is said to be vastated and made desolate, 407-411, 2243.

The Church is established among gentiles; the reason why, 1366.

Within a Church undergoing vastation something of the Church is always preserved as a nucleus, 468, 637, 931, 2422.

If the Church did not exist in the world the human race would perish, ibid.

The Church is like the heart and lungs in that vast body, of which every member of the human race is a part, 637, 931, 2054, 2853.

The nature of the spiritual Church, 765, 2669.

Charity constitutes the Church, not faith separated from charity, 809, 916.

If all possessed charity the Church would be one even though they differ in matters of doctrine and in forms of worship, 1285, 1316, 1798, 1799, 1834, 1844, 2385.

All people on earth who belong to the Lord's Church, though they are scattered throughout the entire world, still so to speak make a single whole, as is the case in heaven, 2853.

Every Church is internal and external, and both together constitute a single Church, 409, 1083, 1098, 1100, 1242.

The external Church is valueless if there is no internal Church, 1795.

The Church is compared to the rise and the setting of the sun, to the seasons of the year, and also to the periods of the day, 1837.

The Last Judgement is the final period of the Church, 900, 931, 1850, 2117, 2118.

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1. Or, reading what Swedenborg has in his rough draft the truths of the external spiritual Church

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