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Deuteronomy 23

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1 2 He who is wounded by crushing, or has his testes cut·​·off, shall not come into the assembly of Jehovah.

2 3 A bastard shall not come into the assembly of Jehovah; even to his tenth generation shall he not come into the assembly of Jehovah.

3 4 An Ammonite or Moabite shall not come into the assembly of Jehovah; even to their tenth generation shall they not come into the assembly of Jehovah even·​·to eternity;

4 5 on account of the matter that they came· not ·before you with bread and with water in the way, when you came·​·out from Egypt; and that they hired against thee Balaam the son of Beor of Pethor of Aram-naharaim, to curse thee.

5 6 But Jehovah thy God was· not ·willing to hearken to Balaam; and Jehovah thy God turned the curse to a blessing for thee, for Jehovah thy God loved thee.

6 7 Thou shalt not inquire after their peace nor their goodness all thy days to eternity.

7 8 Thou shalt not abominate an Edomite; for he is thy brother; thou shalt not abominate an Egyptian; because thou wast a sojourner in his land.

8 9 The sons that are begotten of them shall come into the assembly of Jehovah in their third generation.

9 10 When the camp goes forth against thine enemies, then keep thee from every evil thing.

10 11 When there be among thee a man, who is not clean from what befalls him at night, then shall he go·​·forth outside the camp, he shall not come to the midst of the camp;

11 12 but it shall be, when it turns evening, he shall bathe himself with water; and when the sun sets, he shall come to the midst of the camp.

12 13 And a space shall be for thee outside the camp, and thither thou shalt go·​·forth outside.

13 14 And thou shalt have a peg upon thyself; and it shall be, when thou sittest outside, thou shalt dig therewith, and shalt turn·​·back and cover what comes from thee.

14 15 For Jehovah thy God walks in the midst of thy camp, to rescue thee, and to give over thine enemies before thee; that thy camp may be holy, and that He not see in thee the nakedness of any thing, and turn·​·back from after thee.

15 16 Thou shalt not close·​·in for his lord a servant who has rescued himself to thee from being with his lord;

16 17 but he shall dwell with thee, in among thee, in a place which he shall choose in one of thy gates, in a good place to him; thou shalt not afflict him.

17 18 There shall not be a prostitute from the daughters of Israel, and there shall not be a sodomite of the sons of Israel.

18 19 Thou shalt not bring the hire of a harlot, and the price of a dog, into the house of Jehovah thy God for any vow; for even both of them are an abomination to Jehovah thy God.

19 20 Thou shalt not impose·​·usury of thy brother; usury of silver, usury of food, usury of any thing that is imposed·​·as·​·usury;

20 21 to a foreigner thou mayest impose·​·usury; but to thy brother thou shalt not impose·​·usury; so·​·that Jehovah thy God may bless thee in all that thou puttest·​·forth thy hand to do in the land whither thou goest·​·in to possess it.

21 22 When thou shalt vow a vow to Jehovah thy God, thou shalt not delay to pay it; for Jehovah thy God requiring will require it of thee; and it would be sin in thee.

22 23 But when thou shalt forbear to vow, it shall not be a sin in thee.

23 24 That which goes·​·out of thy lips thou shalt keep and do; as thou hast vowed to Jehovah thy God, it is a freewill offering which thou hast spoken with thy mouth.

24 25 For thou may come into the vineyard of thy companion, and eat grapes as thy soul is satisfied; but thou shalt not put any into thy vessel.

25 26 When thou comest into the standing·​·grain of thy companion, then thou mayest crop·​·off the ears with thy hand; but thou shalt not wave a scythe to the standing·​·grain of thy companion.

   


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Arcana Coelestia # 4236

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4236. 'And Jacob said [when he saw them], This is God's camp' means heaven. 'God's camp' means heaven, for the reason that 'an army' means truths and goods, 3448, and goods and truths are arranged by the Lord in conformity with heavenly order. Hence the arrangement of them like armies when arrayed is meant by 'an encampment', and the heavenly order itself, which is heaven, by 'a camp'. This camp or order is such that it cannot in any way be broken apart by hell, despite the constant effort from hell to break it apart. This also is why this order, which is heaven, is referred to as 'a camp', and why truths and goods, that is, angels, who are arranged in conformity with that order are called 'armies'. From all this it is now evident how 'God's camp' comes to mean heaven. It is that actual order, and so heaven itself, which was represented by the encampments of the children of Israel in the wilderness; and their actual dwelling together there according to their tribes was referred to as 'the camp'. The Tabernacle pitched in the middle and around which they encamped represented the Lord Himself. Regarding the children of Israel's encampment in this manner, see Numbers 1:1-end, and 33:2-56; and regarding their encampment around the Tabernacle according to their tribes - Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun to the east; Reuben, Simeon, and Gad to the south; Ephraim, Manasseh, and Benjamin to the west; Dan, Asher, and Naphtali to the north; and the Levites in the middle next to the Tabernacle - Numbers 2:2 and following verses.

[2] The tribes' means all goods and truths in their entirety, see 3858, 3862, 3926, 3939, 4060. Consequently when Balaam saw Israel dwelling according to tribes and the Spirit of God came upon him, he delivered the utterance,

How good your tabernacles are, O Jacob; your dwelling-places, O Israel! They are like valleys that are planted, like gardens beside a river. Numbers 24:2-3, 5-6.

It is quite plain that this prophecy did not mean the people named Jacob and Israel but that it was the Lord's heaven which was represented. This also is why in other places in the Word their ordered settlements in the wilderness, or encampments according to tribes, are called camps, and in those places 'a camp' in the internal sense means heavenly order and 'encampment' an arrangement in conformity with that order, that is to say, with the order in which goods and truths exist in heaven - as in Leviticus 4:12; 8:17; 13:46; 14:8; 16:26, 28; 24:14, 23; Numbers 3; 4:4 and following verses; 5:2-4; Numbers 9:17-end; 10:1-10, 28; 11:31-32; 12:14-15; 31:19-24; Deuteronomy 23:9-14.

[3] The meaning of 'God's camp' as heaven may also be seen in Joel,

The earth quaked before Him, the heavens trembled. The sun and the moon were darkened, and the stars gathered back their shining; and Jehovah gave voice before His army, for His camp is exceedingly many; for that which executes His word is uncountable. Joel 2:10-11.

In Zechariah,

I will encamp by My house with an army set against anyone passing through and against anyone leaving, so that the oppressor passes over them no more. Zechariah 9:8.

In John,

Gog and Magog went up over the breadth 1 of the earth, and surrounded the camp of the saints, and the beloved city; but fire came down 2 from God and consumed them. Revelation 20:9.

'Gog and Magog' stands for people whose worship is external separated from internal - worship that has become idolatrous, 1151. 'The breadth of the earth' stands for truth possessed by the Church - 'breadth', or a plain, meaning truth that constitutes doctrinal teaching, 2450, and 'earth' the Church, 556, 662, 1066, 1067, 1850, 2117, 2118, 3355. 'The camp of the saints' stands for heaven or the Lord's kingdom on earth, which is the Church.

[4] Since most things in the Word also have a contrary sense, so too does the word 'camp'. In this case it means evils and falsities, and consequently hell, as in David,

Though the evil pitch camp against me, my heart will not fear. Psalms 27:3.

In the same author,

God has scattered the bones of those encamping against you; 3 you have put them to shame, for God has rejected them. Psalms 53:5.

The camp of Asshur in which the angel of Jehovah smote a hundred and eighty-five thousand, Isaiah 37:36, does not have any other meaning, nor likewise does the camp of the Egyptians, Exodus 14:19-20.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. literally, the plain

2. The Latin means went up, but the Greek means came down, which Swedenborg has in another place where he quotes this verse.

3. The Latin means me, but the Hebrew means you.

  
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