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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 # 9416

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9416. 'And I will give you tablets of stone' means the book of the law, or the Word in its entirety. This is clear from the meaning of 'tablets' as objects on which matters of doctrine and life have been inscribed, in this instance matters of heavenly doctrine and of life in keeping with it. The reason why those tablets mean the book of the law or the Word in its entirety is that the things which had been inscribed on them contained in a general way all matters of life and of that heavenly doctrine. This also explains why the things inscribed on them are called the ten words, Exodus 34:28; Deuteronomy 10:4. For 'ten' in the internal sense means all, and 'words' means truths that are matters of doctrine and forms of good that are matters of life. For the meaning of 'ten' as all, see 3107, 4638, 8468, 8540, and for that of 'words' as truths and forms of good that are matters of life and doctrine, 1288, 4692, 5272. This is why those tablets mean the Word in its entirety, just as the Law does, which in a restricted sense means the things which had been inscribed on those tablets, in a less restricted sense the Word that was written through Moses, in a broad sense the historical section of the Word, and in the broadest sense the Word in its entirety, see what has been shown in 6752. Furthermore the things which had been inscribed on those tablets belonged to the first stage in the revelation of Divine Truth; they were also declared in actual words uttered by the Lord before all the Israelite people. What belongs to the first stage means all the rest in their proper order; and the fact that those things were declared in actual words uttered by the Lord means direct Divine inspiration in all other stages of revelation as well. The reason why those tablets were made of stone was that 'stone' means truth, 643, 1298, 3720, 6426, the lowest levels of truth, to be exact, 8609. The lowest levels of God's truth constitute the letter of the Word as it exists on this planet, 9360.

[2] There was not one tablet but two, to represent the joining of the Lord to the Church through the Word, and through the Church to the human race. This also is why they are called the tablets of the covenant, Deuteronomy 9:9, 11, 15, and why the words inscribed on them are called the words of the covenant, Exodus 34:27-28, also the covenant, Deuteronomy 4:13, 23. And the ark itself in which the tablets had been deposited was called the ark of the covenant, Numbers 10:33; 14:44; Deuteronomy 10:8; 31:9, 25-26; Joshua 3:3, 6, 8, 11, 14, 17; 4:7, 9, 18; 6:6, 8; 8:33; Judges 20:27; 1 Samuel 4:3-5; 2 Samuel 15:24; 1 Kings 3:15; 6:19; 8:1, 6; Jeremiah 3:16. For a covenant is a joining together, 665, 666, 1023, 1038, 1864, 1996, 2003, 2021, 6804, 8767, 8778, 9396. This explains why those tablets were divided from each other yet were joined together by being laid alongside each other. The writing on them ran across continuously from one tablet onto the other, like the writing on a single tablet. It was not, as people ordinarily think, that some commandments were written on one tablet and some on the other. For a single object divided in two, and the two parts then brought together or given each to the other, means the Lord and man joined together. The establishment of covenants was therefore accomplished in similar ways, that with Abraham for example by parting down the middle a heifer, she-goat, and ram, and laying each part opposite the other, Genesis 15:9-12; in verses 6 and 8 of the present chapter by putting blood in bowls and then sprinkling it half over the altar and half over the people; and generally in all sacrifices by burning one part on the altar and giving the other part to the people to eat. The like was also represented by the Lord when He broke bread, Matthew 14:19; 15:36; 26:26; Mark 6:41; 8:6; 14:22; Luke 9:16; 22:19; 24:30-31, 35. Here also is the reason why 'two' in the Word means things joined together, 5194, 8423, here the Lord and heaven, or the Lord and the Church, joined together, thus also goodness and truth joined together, which is called the heavenly marriage. From all this it becomes clear why it is that there were two tablets and that both sides of them were written on, from edge to edge, Exodus 32:15-16.

[3] Furthermore when the writing and engraving on tablets is mentioned in the Word it means those things that must be imprinted in people's memory and on their life, and so remain there, as in Isaiah,

Write it on a tablet among them, and express it in a book, 1 so that it may be for time to come forever, even to eternity. Isaiah 30:8.

In Jeremiah,

The sin of Judah has been written with a pen of iron; with a point of diamond it has been engraved on the tablet of their heart, and at the horns of your altars. Jeremiah 17:1.

In Habakkuk,

Jehovah said, Write the vision, and make it plain on tablets, that one running by may read it. For the vision is yet for an appointed time; if it tarries, wait for it, because it will surely come. Habakkuk 2:2-3.

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1. literally, on a book (i.e. on a scroll)

  
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