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1 De levittiske prester, hele Levi stamme, skal ikke ha nogen del eller arv med Israel; av Herrens ildoffer og av hans arv skal de leve,

2 men nogen arv skal de ikke ha blandt sine brødre; Herren er deres arv, således som han har sagt til dem.

3 Og dette skal være prestenes rettighet av folket - av dem som ofrer et slaktoffer, enten av storfeet eller av småfeet: De skal gi presten bogen og kjevene og vommen.

4 Førstegrøden av ditt korn, av din most og av din olje og den første ull av dine får skal du gi ham.

5 For ham har Herren din Gud utvalgt av alle dine stammer, forat han skal stå og tjene i Herrens navn, han og hans sønner, alle dager.

6 Når en levitt kommer fra en av dine byer rundt om i Israel, hvor han opholder sig, til det sted Herren utvelger - og komme kan han om han har lyst til det -

7 og han så gjør tjeneste i Herrens, sin Guds navn, likesom alle hans brødre, de andre levitter som står der for Herrens åsyn,

8 så skal de alle nyte like del av gavene, bortsett fra hvad han kan ha fått ved salg av sine fedrene eiendeler.

9 Når du kommer til det land Herren din Gud gir dig, da skal du ikke ta efter disse folks vederstyggelige skikker.

10 Det skal ikke finnes hos dig nogen som lar sin sønn eller datter gå gjennem ilden, eller som gir sig av med spådomskunster, eller som spår av skyene eller tyder varsler eller er en trollmann,

11 ingen heksemester, ingen som spør en dødningemaner, ingen sannsiger, ingen som gjør spørsmål til de døde.

12 For enhver som gjør slikt, er en vederstyggelighet for Herren, og for disse vederstyggelige tings skyld er det Herren din Gud driver dem bort for dig.

13 Ustraffelig skal du være for Herren din Gud.

14 For disse folk som du skal drive ut, de hører på dem som spår av skyene, og på sannsigere; men dig har Herren din Gud ikke tillatt slikt.

15 En profet av din midte, av dine brødre, likesom mig, skal Herren din Gud opreise dig; på ham skal I høre -

16 aldeles som du bad Herren din Gud om ved Horeb den dag I var samlet der og du sa: Jeg kan ikke lenger høre på Herrens, min Guds røst, og denne store ild kan jeg ikke lenger se på, for da må jeg .

17 Da sa Herren til mig: De har talt vel i det de har sagt.

18 En profet vil jeg opreise for dem av deres brødres midte, likesom dig, og jeg vil legge mine ord i hans munn, og han skal tale til dem alt det jeg byder ham.

19 Og enhver som ikke hører på mine ord, som han skal tale i mitt navn, ham vil jeg kreve til regnskap for det.

20 Men den profet som i overmot drister sig til å tale noget i mitt navn som jeg ikke har befalt ham å tale, eller som taler i andre guders navn, den profet skal .

21 Og om du sier ved dig selv: Hvad skal vi kjenne det ord på som Herren ikke har talt? -

22 (da skal du vite:) Når det ord profeten taler i Herrens navn, ikke skjer og ikke går i opfyllelse, da er det et ord som Herren ikke har talt; det er et ord som profeten i overmot har dristet sig til å tale, og du skal ikke være redd ham.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 933

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933. That “cold, and heat” signifies the state of man when he is being regenerated, which is like this in regard to the reception of faith and charity, and that “cold” signifies no faith and charity, and “heat” charity, is evident from the signification of “cold” and “heat” in the Word, where they are predicated of a man about to be regenerated, or being regenerated, or of the church. The same is also evident from the connection, that is, from what precedes and what follows; for the subject is the church (inthe preceding verse that man would not again be able so to destroy himself, in this verse that some church will always come into existence), which is first described as to the way it comes into existence, that is, when the man is being regenerated so as to become a church, and then the quality of the regenerated man is treated of; so that the treatment of the subject covers every state of the man of the church.

[2] That his state when regenerated is as described, namely, a state of cold, and heat, or of no faith and charity, and again of faith and charity, may not be so evident to anyone except from experience, and indeed from reflection in regard to the experience. And because there are few who are being regenerated, and among those who are being regenerated few if any who reflect, or who are able to reflect on the state of their regeneration, we may say a few words on the subject. When man is being regenerated, he receives life from the Lord; for before this he cannot be said to have lived, the life of the world and of the body not being life, but only that which is heavenly and spiritual. Through regeneration man receives real life from the Lord; and because he had no life before, there is an alternation of no life and of real life, that is, of no faith and charity, and of some faith and charity; no charity and faith being here signified by “cold” and some faith and charity by “heat.”

[3] As regards this subject the case is this: Whenever man is in his corporeal and worldly things, there is then no faith and charity, that is, there is “cold” for then corporeal and worldly things, consequently those which are his own, are at work, and so long as the man is in these, he is absent or remote from faith and charity, so that he does not even think about heavenly and spiritual things. The reason of this is that heavenly and corporeal things can never be together in a man, for man’s will has been utterly ruined. But when the things of man’s body and will are not at work, but are quiescent, then the Lord works through his internal man, and then he is in faith and charity, which is here called “heat.” When he again returns into the body he is again in cold; and when the body, or what is of the body, is quiescent, and as nothing, he is then in heat, and so on in alternation. For such is the condition of man that heavenly and spiritual things cannot be in him along with his corporeal and worldly things, but there are alternations. This is what takes place with everyone who is to be regenerated, and it goes on as long as he is in a state of regeneration; for in no other way is it possible for man to be regenerated, that is, from being dead to be made alive, for the reason, as already said, that his will has been utterly ruined, and is therefore completely separated from the new will, which he receives from the Lord and which is the Lord’s and not the man’s. Hence now it is evident what is here signified by “cold, and heat.”

[4] That such is the case every regenerated man may know from experience, that is to say, that when he is in corporeal and worldly things, he is absent and remote from internal things, so that he not only takes no thought about them, but feels in himself cold at the thought of them; but that when corporeal and worldly things are quiescent, he is in faith and charity. He may also know from experience that these states alternate, and that therefore when corporeal and worldly things begin to be in excess and to want to rule, he comes into straits and temptations, until he is reduced into such a state that the external man becomes compliant to the internal, a compliance it can never render until it is quiescent and as it were nothing. The last posterity of the Most Ancient Church could not be regenerated, because, as before said, with them the things of the understanding and of the will constituted one mind; and therefore the things of their understanding could not be separated from those of their will, so that they might in this manner be by turns in heavenly and spiritual things, and in corporeal and worldly things; but they had continual cold in regard to heavenly things and continual heat in regard to cupidities, so that they could have no alternation.

  
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