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Matthew 8

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1 And when He had come·​·down from the mountain, many crowds followed Him.

2 And behold, there came a leper and worshiped Him, saying, Lord, if Thou willest, Thou canst make· me ·clean.

3 And stretching forth the hand, Jesus touched him, saying, I am willing; be thou cleansed. And straightway his leprosy was cleansed.

4 And Jesus says to him, See thou tell no one; but go·​·thy·​·way, show thyself to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses directed, for a testimony to them.

5 And when Jesus had entered into Capernaum, a centurion came·​·to Him, imploring Him,

6 and saying, Lord, my boy is cast·​·down in the house, sick·​·of·​·the·​·palsy, frightfully tormented.

7 And Jesus says to him, I will come and cure him.

8 And the centurion answering declared, Lord, I am not worthy that Thou shouldst come·​·in under my roof, but only say the word, and my boy shall be healed.

9 For I am a man under authority, having soldiers under myself; and I say to this man, Go, and he goes; and to another, Come, and he comes; and to my servant, Do this, and he does it.

10 And when Jesus heard, He marveled, and said to those who followed, Amen I say to you, I have not found so·​·great a faith, no, not in Israel.

11 And I say to you that many shall come from the east and west, and shall recline* with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of the heavens.

12 And the sons of the kingdom shall be cast out into the outer darkness, where there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

13 And Jesus said to the centurion, Go·​·thy·​·way; and as thou hast believed, be· it ·done to thee. And his boy was healed in the same hour.

14 And Jesus, coming into the house of Peter, saw his mother-in-law cast·​·down and with·​·a·​·fever.

15 And He touched her hand, and the fever left her; and she arose, and ministered to them.

16 And when the evening was come, they brought·​·to Him many who were demon-possessed; and He cast out the spirits with a word, and He cured all who had an illness,

17 that it might be fulfilled what was declared by Isaiah the prophet, saying, He took our weaknesses, and bore our diseases.*

18 And Jesus, seeing many crowds around Him, gave·​·orders to depart to the other·​·side.

19 And one of the scribes coming said to Him, Teacher, I will follow Thee wherever Thou goest.

20 And Jesus says unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the heaven have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to recline the head.

21 And another of His disciples said to Him, Lord, permit me first to go and bury my father.

22 But Jesus said to him, Follow Me, and leave the dead to bury their dead.

23 And when He had stepped into the ship, His disciples followed Him.

24 And behold, there came·​·to·​·pass a great quaking in the sea, so that the ship was covered by the waves; but He was sleeping.

25 And His disciples coming, caused Him to arise, saying, Lord, save us, we are perishing.

26 And He says unto them, Why are you frightened, O you of·​·little·​·faith? Then He arose and rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm.

27 And the men marveled, saying, What·​·manner of Man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey Him!

28 And when He had come to the other side of the country of the Gergesenes, two met Him who were demon-possessed, coming out of the sepulchers, exceedingly fierce, so·​·that no one was·​·able to pass·​·through that way.

29 And behold, they cried out, saying, What is there to us and to Thee*, Jesus, Son of God? Art Thou come hither before the time to torment us?

30 And there was, a·​·distance from them, a herd of many swine feeding.

31 And the demons implored Him, saying, If Thou cast· us ·out, permit us to go·​·away into the herd of swine.

32 And He said to them, Go. And when they came·​·out, they went·​·away into the herd of swine; and behold, all the herd of swine rushed down a cliff into the sea, and died in the waters.

33 And they who fed them fled, and went·​·away into the city, and reported all things, and the matter of the demon-possessed.

34 And behold, all the city came out to meet Jesus; and seeing Him, they implored Him that He would pass·​·on away·​·from their borders.

   


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Arcana Coelestia # 653

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653. The situation is that while a person is being reformed, which takes place by means of conflicts and temptations, the evil spirits associated with him at that time are such as activate nothing else but his factual knowledge and his rational concepts. At that time any spirits who activate evil desires are kept entirely at bay. For there are two kinds of evil spirits, namely those who work upon man's reasonings and those who work upon his desires. The evil spirits who activate man's reasonings draw out all his falsities and try to persuade him that the falsities are truths. Indeed they even convert truths into falsities. In times of temptation a person ought to fight against them, though it is the Lord who in fact fights by means of the angels who are allied to that person. After falsities have been separated by means of conflicts and so to speak dispersed, the individual is then ready and able to receive truths of faith. For as long as falsities rule, a person cannot possibly receive the truths of faith because false assumptions are blocking the way. Once he has been made ready and able to receive the truths of faith, heavenly seeds, which are the seeds of charity, can now for the first time be implanted. Seeds of charity cannot possibly be implanted in ground where falsities reign, only where truths do so. This is how the reformation or regeneration of a spiritual man takes place, and so how it took place with the member of that Church called Noah. This is why the subject now is 'the window and the door of the ark', and the lowest, second, and third storeys, all of which belong to the spiritual or understanding-type man.

  
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