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1 Når Herren din Gud har ført dig inn i det land du nu drar inn i og skal ta i eie, og han driver ut mange folk for dig, hetittene og girgasittene og amorittene og kana'anittene og ferisittene og hevittene og jebusittene, syv folk, som er større og sterkere enn du,

2 og når Herren din Gud gir dem i din vold, så du vinner over dem, da skal du slå dem med bann; du skal ikke gjøre pakt med dem og ikke vise dem nåde.

3 Du skal ikke inngå svogerskap med dem; du skal ikke gi dine døtre til hans sønner og ikke ta hans døtre til hustruer for dine sønner;

4 for de vil få dine sønner til å vike av fra mig, så de dyrker andre guder, og da vil Herrens vrede optendes mot eder, og han vil hastig gjøre ende på dig.

5 Men således skal I gjøre med dem: Deres altere skal I bryte ned, og deres billedstøtter skal I slå sønder, og deres Astarte-billeder skal I hugge i stykker, og deres utskårne billeder skal I brenne op med ild.

6 For et hellig folk er du for Herren din Gud; dig har Herren din Gud utvalgt av alle de folk som er på jorden, til å være hans eiendomsfolk.

7 Ikke fordi I var større enn alle andre folk, fant Herren behag i eder, så han utvalgte eder, for I er det minste blandt alle folk;

8 men fordi Herren elsket eder, og fordi han vilde holde den ed han hadde svoret eders fedre, derfor førte Herren eder ut med sterk hånd og fridde dig ut av trælehuset, fra Faraos, egypterkongens hånd.

9 Så vit da at Herren din Gud han er Gud, den trofaste Gud, som holder sin pakt og bevarer sin miskunnhet mot tusen ledd, mot dem som elsker ham og holder hans bud,

10 men som gjengjelder dem som hater ham, like op i deres øine, så han lar dem omkomme. Han er ikke sen når det gjelder den som hater ham; like op i hans øine gjengjelder han ham.

11 Så ta da vare på det bud og de lover og de forskrifter som jeg idag byder dig å holde.

12 Når I nu hører disse bud og tar vare på dem og holder dem, da skal Herren din Gud holde fast ved den pakt og den miskunnhet han har tilsvoret dine fedre.

13 Han skal elske dig og velsigne dig og øke din ætt, og han skal velsigne ditt livs frukt og ditt lands frukt, ditt korn og din most og din olje, det som faller av ditt storfe, og det som fødes av ditt småfe, i det land han har tilsvoret dine fedre å ville gi dig.

14 Velsignet skal du være fremfor alle andre folk; der skal ingen ufruktbar være blandt dine menn eller dine kvinner, og heller ikke blandt ditt fe.

15 Herren skal holde all sykdom borte fra dig, og ingen av Egyptens onde syker, som du kjenner, skal han legge på dig, men han skal legge dem på alle dem som hater dig.

16 Alle de folk som Herren din Gud gir i din hånd, skal du fortære*; du skal ikke spare dem. Og du skal ikke dyrke deres guder; for det vil bli en snare for dig. / {* 4MO 14, 9.}

17 Men om du tenker som så: Disse folk er større enn jeg, hvorledes skal jeg makte å drive dem ut? -

18 da skal du ikke være redd for dem; du skal komme i hu hvad Herren din Gud gjorde med Farao og med alle egypterne,

19 de store plager som du så for dine øine, og de tegn og under og den sterke hånd og den utrakte arm hvormed Herren din Gud førte dig ut; det samme skal Herren din Gud gjøre med alle de folk du reddes for.

20 Endog hvepser skal Herren din Gud sende mot dem, til alle de er omkommet som er blitt tilbake og har skjult sig for dig.

21 Du skal ikke forferdes for dem; for Herren din Gud er i din midte, en stor og forferdelig Gud.

22 Herren din Gud vil litt efter litt drive disse folk ut for dig; du skal ikke makte å gjøre ende på dem i hast; for da kom villdyrene til å bli for mange for dig.

23 Herren din Gud skal gi dem i din vold og slå dem med stor forvirring, til de er ødelagt.

24 Og han skal gi deres konger i din hånd, og du skal tilintetgjøre deres navn under himmelen; der skal ingen kunne stå sig mot dig, til du har utryddet dem.

25 Deres guders utskårne billeder skal I brenne op med ild; du skal ikke attrå sølvet eller gullet som er på dem, eller ta det til dig, forat det ikke skal bli til en snare for dig; for det er en vederstyggelighet for Herren din Gud,

26 og du skal ikke la nogen vederstyggelighet komme inn i ditt hus, så du blir slått med bann likesom det; du skal avsky det og akte det for en vederstyggelighet, for det er slått med bann.

   

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8364. 'I will not put on you any sickness that I put on the Egyptians' means that they are to be withheld from the evils present among those who uphold separated faith and lead a life of evil. This is clear from the meaning of 'sickness' as evil, dealt with below; from the representation of 'the Egyptians' as those who uphold separated faith and lead a life of evil, dealt with in 7097, 7317, 7926, 8148; and from the meaning of 'not putting on you' - when used in association with 'sickness', which means evil - as withholding from evil. For Jehovah, that is, the Lord, does not take away evil but withholds a person from it and maintains him in good, 929, 1581, 2256, 2406, 4564, 8206. So it is that 'not putting a sickness on them' means that they are to be withheld from evils.

[2] The reason why 'sickness' means evil is that in the internal sense the kinds of things that attack spiritual life are meant. The sicknesses which attack it are evils, and they are called evil desires and cravings; and the components of spiritual life are faith and charity. That life is sick when falsity exists instead of the truth of faith and evil instead of the good of charity, because they lead to the death of that life, which is called spiritual death and is damnation, just as sicknesses lead to the death of natural life. This is why in the internal sense 'sickness' means evil, and 'the sicknesses of the Egyptians' means the evils which those upholding separated faith and leading a life of evil cast themselves into, and which they used to molest the upright. Those evils have been dealt with in what has gone before, where the plagues in Egypt were the subject.

[3] Evils are again meant by 'sicknesses' elsewhere in the Word, as in Moses,

If you keep the commandments and the statutes and the judgements which I am commanding you today, Jehovah will take away all sickness from you, and will not put on you any of the evil diseases of Egypt which you have known, but will lay them on [all] who hate you. Deuteronomy 7:11, 15.

In the same author,

If you will not obey the voice of Jehovah your God, taking care to do all His commandments and His statutes, Jehovah will send on you cursing, confusion, and rebuke in all that you set your hand to do, 1 until you are destroyed, because of the wickedness of your deeds by which you have forsaken Me. Jehovah will make the pestilence cling to you, until He has consumed you from upon the land. Jehovah will strike you with consumption, and hot fever, and burning fever, and raging fever, and drought, and blight, and mildew, which will pursue you until you perish. Jehovah will strike you with the sores of Egypt, and with hemorrhoids, and the scab, and the itch, so that you cannot be healed. Jehovah will strike you with madness, and blindness, and stupefaction. 2 You will be made mad by what your eyes will see 3 . Jehovah will strike you with evil sores on the knees and on the thighs, from which you cannot be healed, from the sole of your foot to the top of your head. He will throw back onto you every disease of Egypt, also every sickness and every plague that is not written in the book of this Law. Jehovah will give you a trembling heart, failing 4 of eyes, and distress of soul. Deuteronomy 28:15, 20-22, 27-28, 34-35, 60-61, 65.

All the sicknesses mentioned here mean spiritual sicknesses, which are evils destructive of the life of a will desiring what is good and falsities destructive of the life of an understanding seeing what is true, in short things destructive of spiritual life composed of faith and charity. Natural sicknesses also correspond to such things, for every sickness present among the human race has its origin in spiritual ones, because each exists as a result of sin, 5712, 5726. Each sickness furthermore corresponds to its own evil. The explanation for this is that everything composing a person's life originates in the spiritual world. If therefore his spiritual life is sick, evil spreads from it into his natural life and becomes a sickness there. See what has been stated from experience in 5711-5727 about the correspondence of sicknesses with evils.

[4] The same things are meant by 'sicknesses' elsewhere, as in Moses,

You shall worship Jehovah your God, in order that He may bless your bread and your water; and I will take sickness out of your midst. Exodus 23:25.

In the same author,

If you despise My statutes, and if your soul abhors My judgements, so that you do not do all My commandments, while you make void My covenant, I will appoint terror over you, along with consumption, and burning fever, which will consume the eyes and torment the soul. Leviticus 26:15-16.

'Consumption' stands for the decrease of truth and the increase of falsity, 'burning fever' for the desire for evil. Further still, in Isaiah,

Why will you also defect? 5 The whole head [departs] into sickness, and the whole heart is diseased. From the sole of the foot even to the head there is no soundness in it, but wounds, and scars, and recent blows. They are not pressed out, nor bound up, nor softened with oil. Isaiah 1:5-6.

Here nobody can fail to see that 'sickness', 'wounds', 'scars', and 'blows' are used to mean sins. Similarly in Ezekiel,

Woe to the shepherds of Israel! The weak sheep you have not strengthened, the sick you have not healed, and the broken you have not bound up. Ezekiel 34:2, 4.

In David,

My iniquities have gone over my head. My wounds have become putrid, they have rotted away because of my foolishness. For my intestines are full of burning, and there is no soundness in my flesh. Psalms 38:4-7.

[5] Since the disorders and evils of spiritual life are meant by 'sicknesses', the various kinds of disorders and evils of that life are meant by the various kinds of sicknesses. 'Pestilence' means the vastation or laying waste of goodness and truth, see 7102, 7505; and 'leprosy' means the profanation of truth, 6963. In general 'sicknesses' means sins, as may also be seen in Isaiah,

... a man of sorrows, and acquainted with sickness, on account of which as it were men hid their faces from Him. He was despised, so that we did not esteem Him. Nevertheless He has borne our sicknesses and carried our sorrows, and through His wounds healing has been given to us. Isaiah 53:3-5.

This refers to the Lord.

[6] Since sicknesses represented the unrighteous ways and the evils of spiritual life the sicknesses which the Lord healed have as their meaning deliverance from the different kinds of evil and falsity that were molesting the Church and human race and that would have brought spiritual death. Divine miracles are distinguishable from other miracles by the fact that they involve and have regard to states of the Church and the heavenly kingdom; and this is why the Lord's miracles were primarily healing of sicknesses. These miracles are meant by the Lord's words addressed to the disciples sent by John,

Tell John the things which you hear and see: the blind see and the lame walk; lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear; the dead rise again and the poor hear the gospel. Matthew 11:4-5.

This is why it says so many times that the Lord healed every sickness and every disease among the people, Matthew 4:23; 9:35; 14:14, 35-36; Luke 4:40; 5:15; 6:17; 7:21; Mark 1:32-34; 3:10.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. literally, in every sending of your hand which you shall do

2. literally, astonishment of heart

3. literally, by the sight of your eyes

4. literally, consumption

5. literally, Why will you add to a going back?

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.