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申命記 32

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1 「天よ、耳を傾けよ、わたしは語る、地よ、わたしの言葉を聞け。

2 わたしの教はのように降りそそぎ、わたしの言葉はのようにしたたるであろう。若の上に降る小のように、青の上にくだる夕立ちのように。

3 わたしは主の名をのべよう、われわれのに栄光を帰せよ。

4 主はであって、そのみわざは全く、その道はみな正しい。主は真実なる神であって、偽りなく、義であって、正である。

5 彼らは主にむかって悪を行い、そのきずのゆえに、もはや主のらではなく、よこしまで、曲ったやからである。

6 愚かな知恵のない民よ、あなたがたはこのようにしてに報いるのか。はあなたを生み、あなたを造り、あなたを堅く立てられたあなたの父ではないか。

7 いにしえのを覚え、代々の年を思え。あなたの父に問え、彼はあなたに告げるであろう。長老たちに問え、彼らはあなたに語るであろう。

8 いと高き者は人のらを分け、諸民にその嗣業を与えられたとき、イスラエルのらの数に照して、もろもろの民の境を定められた。

9 主の分はその民であって、ヤコブはその定められた嗣業である。

10 主はこれを荒野の地で見いだし、獣のほえる荒れ地で会い、これを巡り囲んでいたわり、のひとみのように守られた。

11 わしがその巣のひなを呼び起し、その子の上に舞いかけり、そのをひろげて彼らをのせ、そのつばさの上にこれを負うように、

12 はただひとりで彼を導かれて、ほかの神々はあずからなかった。

13 主は彼に地の高き所を乗り通らせ、田の産物を食わせ、の中から蜜を吸わせ、堅いからを吸わせ、

14 牛の凝乳、の乳、小と雄の脂肪、バシャンの牛と雄やぎ、小麦の良い物を食わせられた。またあなたはぶどうのしるのあわ立つ酒を飲んだ

15 しかるにエシュルンは肥え太って、足でけった。あなたは肥え太って、つややかになり、自分を造ったを捨て、救のを侮った。

16 彼らはほかの神々に仕えて、主のねたみを起し、憎むべきおこないをもって主の怒りをひき起した。

17 彼らはでもない悪霊に犠牲をささげた。それは彼らがかつて知らなかった神々、近ごろ出た新しい神々先祖たちの恐れることもしなかった者である。

18 あなたは自分を生んだを軽んじ、自分を造った神を忘れた

19 はこれを見、そのむすこ、を怒ってそれを捨てられた。

20 そして言われた、『わたしはわたしのを彼らに隠そう。わたしは彼らの終りがどうなるかを見よう。彼らはそむき、もとるやから、真実のないらである。

21 彼らは神でもない者をもって、わたしにねたみを起させ、偶像をもって、わたしを怒らせた。それゆえ、わたしは民ともいえない者をもって、彼らにねたみを起させ、愚かな民をもって、彼らを怒らせるであろう。

22 わたしの怒りによって、は燃えいで、陰府の深みにまで燃え行き、地とその産物とを焼きつくし、々の基を燃やすであろう。

23 わたしは彼らの上に災を積みかさね、わたしのを彼らにむかって射つくすであろう。

24 彼らは飢えて、やせ衰え、熱病と悪い疫病によって滅びるであろう。わたしは彼らをにかからせ、地に這うもののにあたらせるであろう。

25 外にはつるぎ、内には恐れがあって、若き男も若き女も、乳のみ子も、しらがの人も滅びるであろう。

26 わたしはまさに言おうとした、「彼らを遠く散らし、彼らの事を人々が記憶しないようにしよう」。

27 しかし、わたしはが誇るのを恐れる。あだびとはまちがえて言うであろう、「われわれのが勝ちをえたのだ。これはみながされたことではない」』。

28 彼らは思慮の欠けた民、そのうちには知識がない。

29 もし、彼らに知恵があれば、これをさとり、その身の終りをわきまえたであろうに。

30 彼らのが彼らを売らず、が彼らをわたされなかったならば、どうして、ひとりで人を追い、ふたりで万人を敗ることができたであろう。

31 彼らのはわれらのに及ばない。われらのもこれを認めている。

32 彼らのぶどうの木は、ソドムのぶどうの木から出たもの、またゴモラの野から出たもの、そのぶどうは毒ぶどう、そのふさは苦い。

33 そのぶどう酒はへびののよう、まむしの恐ろしいのようである。

34 これはわたしのもとにたくわえられ、わたしの倉に封じ込められているではないか。

35 彼らのがすべるとき、わたしはあだを返し、報いをするであろう。彼らの災のは近く、彼らの破滅は、すみやかに来るであろう。

36 はついにその民をさばき、そのしもべらにあわれみを加えられるであろう。これは彼らの力がうせ去り、つながれた者もつながれない者も、もはやいなくなったのを、が見られるからである。

37 そのとき主は言われるであろう、『彼らの神々はどこにいるか、彼らの頼みとしたはどこにあるか。

38 彼らの犠牲のあぶらを食い、灌祭の酒を飲んだ者はどこにいるか。立ちあがってあなたがたを助けさせよ、あなたがたを守らせよ。

39 今見よ、わたしこそは彼である。わたしのほかにはない。わたしは殺し、また生かし、傷つけ、またいやす。わたしのから救い出しうるものはない。

40 わたしは天にむかいをあげて誓う、「わたしは永遠に生きる。

41 わたしがきらめくつるぎをとぎ、にさばきを握るとき、わたしはにあだを返し、わたしを憎む者に報復するであろう。

42 わたしのに酔わせ、わたしのつるぎにを食わせるであろう。殺された者と捕えられた者のを飲ませ、の長髪のを食わせるであろう」』。

43 々の民よ、主の民のために喜び歌え。主はそのしもべののために報復し、そのにあだを返し、その民の地の汚れを清められるからである」。

44 モーセとヌンのヨシュアは共に行って、この言葉を、ことごとく民に読み聞かせた。

45 モーセはこの言葉を、ことごとくイスラエルのすべての人に告げ終って、

46 彼らに言った、「あなたがたはわたしが、きょう、あなたがたに命じるこのすべての言葉を心におさめ、供たちにもこの律法のすべての言葉を守り行うことを命じなければならない。

47 この言葉はあなたがたにとって、むなしい言葉ではない。これはあなたがたのいのちである。この言葉により、あなたがたはヨルダンを渡って行って取る地で、長く命を保つことができるであろう」。

48 このモーセに言われた、

49 「あなたはエリコに対するモアブの地にあるアバリムすなわちネボに登り、わたしがイスラエルの人々に与えて獲させるカナンの地を見渡たせ。

50 あなたは登って行くそので死に、あなたの民に連なるであろう。あなたの兄弟アロンがホルで死んでその民に連なったようになるであろう。

51 これはあなたがたがチンの荒野にあるメリバテ・カデシの水のほとりで、イスラエルの人々のうちでわたしにそむき、イスラエルの人々のうちでわたしを聖なるものとして敬わなかったからである。

52 それであなたはわたしがイスラエルの人々に与える地を、目の前に見るであろう。しかし、その地に、はいることはできない」。

   

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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 # 4433

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4433. 'And he took her, and lay with her, and ravished her' means that there was no other way in which it could be joined to the affection for truth meant by the sons of Jacob, her brothers. This is clear from the meaning of 'taking her, lying with her, and ravishing her' as being joined together, though not in the rightful way, which is through betrothal. But the meaning these words carry, that there was no other way in which they could be joined together, cannot be seen by anyone unless he knows the fuller implications of them. Interior truth received from the Ancients, which is meant by 'Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite', is the truth which among the Ancients had served the internal dimension of the Church, and so had been the internal dimension of their statutes, judgements, and laws, in short of their religious observances and the like. Those truths were their matters of doctrine on which they based their lives, which were in fact matters of doctrine concerning charity; for in ancient times those who belonged to the genuine Church had no other kind of doctrine. These same truths may be called, in relation to doctrine, the interior truths of faith, but in relation to life, goods. If a Church was to be established among the nation descended from Jacob it was necessary for them to be introduced into those truths and goods. For unless internal things are present within external ones, that is, unless people have internal things in mind when involved with external ones - and unless at the same time they feel an affection for internal things or at least unless they feel an affection for external things on account of internal ones, nothing of the Church is there. Internal things constitute the Church, for the Lord is present within these; that is to say, spiritual and celestial things originating in Him are present within them.

[2] But the nation descended from Jacob, that is, the Israelitish and Jewish nation, was unable to be introduced in the rightful way which is through betrothal, for the reason that their external worship did not correspond [to anything internal]. For they received from their fore-fathers - from Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob - the worship established by Eber, which was different externally from the worship of the Ancient Church, see 1238, 1241, 1343, 2180. And because that worship was different, interior truths which existed among the Ancients were not able to be joined to it in the rightful way through betrothal, only in the way described in this chapter. This enables one to understand what is involved in the assertion that there was no other way in which it could be joined to the affection for truth meant by 'the sons of Jacob, Dinah's brothers'.

[3] But although a joining together could have been effected in this way, in accordance with the law, also known to the Ancients, which is set out in Exodus 22:16; Deuteronomy 22:28-29, the character of that nation was nevertheless such that it would by no means allow any joining of interior truth received from the Ancients to the external forms of worship that existed among the descendants of Jacob, 4281, 4290, 4293, 4307, 4314, 4316, 4317. Among that nation therefore no Church could be established, but instead merely that which was a representative of the Church, see 4281, 4288, 4307. The character of that nation, which was such that it was not only unable to receive interior truths but also completely annihilated them among themselves, is represented in this chapter by the sons of Jacob answering Shechem and Hamor deceitfully, verse 13; and after that by Simeon and Levi's smiting the city with the edge of the sword and killing Shechem and Hamor, verses 25-26; and by the rest of the sons coming upon the slain and plundering the city, and taking away the flocks, the herds, and whatever there was in the city, in the field, and in the houses, verses 27-29. This shows what is meant by the prophetical utterances of Jacob, who by then was Israel,

Simeon and Levi are brothers; instruments of violence are their swords. Into their secret place let my soul not come; in their congregation let not my glory be united; for in their anger they killed a man, and in their pleasure they hamstrung an ox. Cursed be their anger, for it is fierce, and their fury, for it is severe. I will divide them in Jacob, and will scatter them in Israel. Genesis 49:5-7.

  
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