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ထွက်မြောက်ရာ 17

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1 ဣသရေလအမျိုးသားပရိသတ်အပေါင်းတို့သည်၊ ထာဝရဘုရား မိန့်တော်မူသည်အတိုင်း၊ သိန်တောထဲက ထွက်၍ ခရီးသွားသဖြင့်၊ ရေဖိဒိမ်အရပ်၌ စားခန်းချကြ၏။ ထိုအရပ်၌ လူများသောက်ဘို့ရာ ရေမရှိ။

2 ထိုကြောင့် လူများတို့က၊ သောက်ဘို့ရေပေးပါဟု ဆို၍ မောရှေကို ရန်တွေ့ကြ၏။ မောရှေကလည်း၊ ငါ့ကို အဘယ်ကြောင့် ရန်တွေ့ကြသနည်း။ ထာဝရဘုရားကို အဘယ်ကြောင့် စုံစမ်းကြသနည်းဟု ဆိုလေ၏။

3 လူများတို့သည် ရေငတ်၍ မောရှေကို အပြစ်တင် မြည်တမ်းလျက်၊ ငါတို့မှစ၍ သားသမီးတိရစ္ဆာန်တို့ကို အငတ်ထား၍ သတ်ခြင်းအလိုငှာ၊ အဲဂုတ္တုပြည်မှ အဘယ်ကြောင့် ဆောင်ခဲ့သနည်းဟု ဆိုကြ၏။

4 ထိုအခါ မောရှေသည် ထာဝရဘုရားအား အော်ဟစ်၍၊ ဤလူတို့အား အကျွန်ုပ်သည် အဘယ်သို့ ပြုရပါမည်နည်း။ အကျွန်ုပ်ကို ခဲနှင့် ပစ်လုကြပါပြီဟု လျှောက်လေ၏။

5 ထာဝရဘုရားကလည်း၊ လူများရှေ့သို့သွား၍ ဣသရေလအမျိုး အသက်ကြီးသူတို့ကို ခေါ်လော့။ မြစ်ကို ရိုက်သော သင်၏လှံတံကို ကိုင်လျက်၊ ဟောရပ်အရပ်သို့ သွားလော့။

6 ထိုအရပ်၌ရှိသော ကျောက်ပေါ်တွင် သင့်ရှေ့မှာ ငါရပ်နေမည်။ သင်သည် ထိုကျောက်ကို ရိုက်ရမည်။ လူများသောက်ဘို့ ထိုကျောက်ထဲက ရေထွက်လိမ့်မည်ဟု မောရှေအား မိန့်တော်မူ၏။ မောရှေသည်လည်း ဣသရေလအမျိုး အသက်ကြီးသူတို့ရှေ့မှာ ထိုသို့ပြုလေ၏။

7 ဣသရေလအမျိုးသားတို့က၊ ထာဝရဘုရားသည် ငါတို့တွင် ရှိသလော မရှိလောဟု ထာဝရဘုရားကို စုံစမ်း၍ ရန်တွေ့သောအကြောင်းကြောင့်၊ ထိုအရပ်ကို မဿာနှင့် မေရိဘဟု သမုတ်သတည်း။

8 ထိုအခါ အာမလက်လူတို့သည် လာ၍၊ ရေဖိဒိမ်အရပ်၌ ဣသရေလလူတို့ကို စစ်တိုက်ကြ၏။

9 မောရှေကလည်း၊ လူတို့ကို ရွေး၍ အာမလက်လူတို့ကို စစ်တိုက်ခြင်းငှာ ထွက်လော့။ နက်ဖြန်နေ့၌ ဘုရားသခင်၏လှံတံကို ကိုင်လျက်၊ တောင်ထိပ်ပေါ်မှာ ငါရပ်နေမည်ဟု ယောရှုအားဆို၏။

10 မောရှေမှာလိုက်သည်အတိုင်း ယောရှုပြု၍၊ အာမလက်လူတို့ကို စစ်တိုက်လေ၏။ မောရှေ၊ အာရုန်၊ ဟုရတို့သည် တောင်ထိပ်ပေါ်သို့ တက်ကြ၏။

11 မောရှေသည် လက်ကို ချီသောအခါ၊ ဣသရေလလူတို့သည် နိုင်ကြ၏။ လက်ကို ချသောအခါ၊ အာမလက်လူတို့သည် နိုင်ကြ၏။

12 သို့ရာတွင် မောရှေ၏လက်သည် ညောင်းသောကြောင့်၊ သူတို့သည် ကျောက်ကိုယူ၍ မောရှေကို ထိုင်စေပြီးလျှင်၊ အာရုန်နှင့် ဟုရတို့သည် တယောက်တဘက်နေ၍ သူ၏လက်ကို မကြ၏။ သို့ဖြစ်၍ နေဝင်သည်တိုင်အောင် သူ၏လက်တို့သည် အမြဲနေလေ၏။

13 ယောရှုသည်လည်း အာမလက်မင်းနှင့် လူများတို့ကို ထားလက်နက်ဖြင့် လုပ်ကြံလေ၏။

14 ထာဝရဘုရားကလည်း၊ ဤအမှုကို အောက်မေ့စရာဘို့ စာရေးထား၍ ယောရှုအား ဘတ်ရွတ်လော့။ အကြောင်းမူကား၊ ကောင်းကင်အောက်၌ အာမလက်၏ အမှတ်ရှိသမျှကို ငါပယ်ရှင်းမည်ဟု မောရှေအား မိန့်တော်မူ၏။

15 မောရှေသည်လည်း ယဇ်ပလ္လင်ကို တည်၍၊ ယေဟောဝါနိဿိဟု သမုတ်လေ၏။

16 အကြောင်းမူကား၊ အာမလက်လူမျိုး၏ လက်သည် ထာဝရဘုရား၏ ရာဇပလ္လင်တော်၏ ရန်ဘက်ဖြစ် သောကြောင့်၊ ထာဝရဘုရားသည် ကာလအစဉ်အဆက် အာမလက်အမျိုးကို စစ်တိုက်တော်မူလိမ့်မည်ဟု ဆိုသတည်း။

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 8593

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8593. 'And Amalek came' means falsity arising from interior evil. This is clear from the representation of 'Amalek' as falsity arising from interior evil, dealt with below. Who exactly are steeped in falsity arising from interior evil, and what they are like, must be stated first. Interior evil is that which resides with a person, hidden inwardly. It is concealed in his will and consequently in his thinking, not a trace of it being apparent outwardly, in his actions, speech, or face. People ruled by this kind of evil strive by every method and skill to hide it away, to conceal it under an outward show of being honourable and righteous, and an outward show of love of the neighbour. Nevertheless their only thought is how to inflict harm, and so far as possible to use others to inflict it, taking care to prevent anyone from seeing that they are the instigators. They also disguise actual evil so that it does not look like evil. The greatest delight of their life is to contemplate such things and secretly try to carry them out. This is called interior evil. Those ruled by this evil are called evil genii and in the next life they have been completely separated from those who are ruled by exterior evil and are called spirits. The former - the evil genii - have their hell behind a person, that is, behind his back, where they live in various caverns. But the evil spirits have their hell in front of a person, and also to the sides. The genii belong in the Grand Man to the province of the cerebellum, and also to that part of the spinal cord which sends out the fibres and nerves that control involuntary actions.

[2] One may say further of the falsity arising from this interior evil that it is not like the falsity arising from evil that the evil spirits possess, because it is in itself evil. Those ruled by this evil do not attack the truths of faith but forms of the good of faith. They act through corrupt affections; through these they pervert good thoughts, doing so in a way almost inconceivable. Because they are like this their hells are completely separated from the hells of evil spirits, so completely that they have scarcely any contact with them; and they are separated in order that they may also be separated from members of the spiritual Church. For if they were to flow in from their hells, the member of that Church would be destroyed because they would act very secretly on his conscience and would pervert it, which they would do by inflating his corrupt affections. Those hellish genii never attack a person openly, or when he can offer strong resistance, but when it is seen that the person is slipping and may therefore give in. At this point they are suddenly at hand, and give him a shove so that he falls completely. This is also represented by Amalek's coming up to attack Israel now, as well as at a later time when the children of Israel set themselves against Jehovah and were afraid of the nations in the land of Canaan,

Then also Amalek came down with the Canaanite from the mountain, and struck down the children of Israel as far as Hormah. Numbers 14:43, 45.

[3] From all this one may recognize what those people are like who are represented by Amalek, and the reason for the judgement pronounced over him by Jehovah that war will be waged against them forever and that the memory of them will be wiped out from under heaven, in accordance with the following words in the final verse of the present chapter,

Because the hand of the evil ones is against the throne of Jah, the war of Jehovah will be against Amalek from generation to generation.

And in Deuteronomy,

Remember what Amalek did to you on the way when you came out of Egypt, that he met you on the way, and cut off at your rear all the weak, when you were tired and weary; he did not fear God. When Jehovah your God has given you rest, you shall wipe out the memory of Amalek from under heaven; you shall not forget. Deuteronomy 25:17-19.

Also in the first book of Samuel,

Jehovah declared to Saul through Samuel, I have resolved to punish 1 what Amalek did to Israel, how he set [himself] against him on the way when he came up from Egypt. Therefore go and strike Amalek, and utterly destroy all that he has; do not spare him, but kill man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass. But Saul spared Agag the king, and the best of the flock and the oxen, and of the fatlings, 2 and the rams, and all that was good. Therefore it was declared to Saul that because of this he would no longer be king over Israel. 1 Samuel 15:2-3, 9, 23.

The declaration that the memory of Amalek should be wiped out and that everything there should be utterly destroyed meant that evil genii should have no contact whatever with those belonging to the spiritual Church; for they are in contact with those who are not governed by truths but from an evil affection uphold falsities.

[4] Who can fail to see that except for some more deeply hidden reason Jehovah would never have said that war was to be waged forever against Amalek, that the memory of him was to be wiped out from under heaven, and that everything there was to be utterly destroyed, though all this was not in fact carried out? That more deeply hidden reason why these things were said and done is embodied in Samuel's words to Agag the king of the Amalekites, whom Saul had spared,

Agag the king of Amalek went to Samuel delicately. 3 But Samuel said, As your sword has bereaved women, so shall your mother become the most bereaved of women. And Samuel cut him in pieces before Jehovah. 1 Samuel 15:32-33.

'Going delicately' means the outwardly charming ways that such people have in the presence of others. 'Your sword has bereaved women' means that their falsity does violence to good affections; 'your mother shall become the most bereaved of women' means that evil affection which originates in the will, not in the understanding, will hold sway among them; 'and Samuel cut him in pieces before Jehovah' means that they were separated from those ruled by falsity arising from evil that originated in the understanding, that is, genii were separated from spirits, as stated above. For the meaning of 'women' as affections, see 568, 6014, 8337; and for 'sword' as falsity engaged in conflict and laying waste, 2799, 4499, 7102.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. literally, visit

2. literally, of the second sort

3. literally, In delights

  
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