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Deuteronômio 10

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1 Naquele mesmo tempo me disse o Senhor: Alisa duas tábuas de pedra, como as primeiras, e sobe a mim ao monte, e faze uma arca de madeira.

2 Nessas tábuas escreverei as palavras que estavam nas primeras tábuas, que quebras-te, e as porás na arca.

3 Assim, fiz ume arca de madeira de acácia, alisei duas tábuas de pedra, como as primeiras, e subi ao monte com as duas tábuas nas mãos.

4 Então o Senhor escreveu nas tábuas, conforme a primeira escritura, os dez mandamentos, que ele vos falara no monte, do meio do fogo, no dia da assembléia; e o Senhor mas deu a mim.

5 Virei-me, pois, desci do monte e pus as tábuas na arca que fizera; e ali estão, como o Senhor me ordenou.

6 (Ora, partiram os filhos de Israel de Beerote-Bene-Jaacã para Mosera. Ali faleceu Arão e foi sepultado; e Eleazar, seu filho, administrou o sacerdócio em seu lugar.

7 Dali partiram para Gudgoda, e de Gudgoda para Jotbatá, terra de ribeiros de águas.

8 Por esse tempo o Senhor separou a tribo de Levi, para levar a arca do pacto do Senhor, para estar diante do Senhor, servindo-o, e para abençoar em seu nome até o dia de hoje.

9 Pelo que Levi não tem parte nem herança com seus irmãos; o Senhor é a sua herança, como o Senhor teu Deus lhe disse.)

10 Também, como antes, eu estive no monte quarenta dias e quarenta noites; e o Senhor me ouviu ainda essa vez; o Senhor não te quis destruir;

11 antes disse-me o Senhor: Levanta-te, põe-te a caminho diante do povo; eles entrarão e possuirão a terra que com juramento prometi a seus pais lhes daria.

12 Agora, pois, ó Israel, que é que o Senhor teu Deus requer de ti, senão que temas o Senhor teu Deus, que andes em todos os seus caminhos, e o ames, e sirvas ao Senhor teu Deus de todo o teu coração e de toda a tua alma,

13 que guardes os mandamentos do Senhor, e os seus estatutos, que eu hoje te ordeno para o teu bem?

14 Eis que do Senhor teu Deus são o céu e o céu dos céus, a terra e tudo o que nela há.

15 Entretanto o Senhor se afeiçoou a teus pais para os amar; e escolheu a sua descendência depois deles, isto é, a vós, dentre todos os povos, como hoje se vê.

16 Circuncidai, pois, o prepúcio do vosso coração, e não mais endureçais a vossa cerviz.

17 Pois o Senhor vosso Deus, é o Deus dos deuses, e o Senhor dos senhores, o Deus grande, poderoso e terrível, que não faz acepção de pessoas, nem recebe peitas;

18 que faz justiça ao órfão e à viúva, e ama o estrangeiro, dando-lhe pão e roupa.

19 Pelo que amareis o estrangeiro, pois fostes estrangeiros na terra do Egito.

20 Ao Senhor teu Deus temerás; a ele servirás, e a ele te apegarás, e pelo seu nome; jurarás.

21 Ele é o teu louvor e o teu Deus, que te fez estas grandes e terríveis coisas que os teus olhos têm visto.

22 Com setenta almas teus pais desceram ao Egito; e agora o Senhor teu Deus te fez, em número, como as estrelas do céu.

   

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Apocalypse Explained # 1121

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1121. And a widow I am not, signifies that such are not without defense. This is evident from the signification of "a widow," as being one who is in the affection of good, and from that affection desires truth. Here a "widow" signifies 1 defense, thus "not a widow" means not without defense, because good with its affection does not defend itself, but is defended by truth and the understanding of it, "man" [vir], who defends it, signifying the understanding of truth, thus truth. For the marriage of man [vir] and woman is a complete likeness of the marriage of truth and good; since a man is born to be the understanding of truth, consequently that predominates in him, and woman is born to be the affection of good, consequently that predominates in her; and as good and truth mutually love each other and will to be conjoined, so do the understanding of truth and the affection or will of good. Moreover, the conjugial love of husband and wife derives its origin from the spiritual marriage of truth and good (See in the work on Heaven and Hell 366-386).

[2] "Widow" has the same signification here as in Isaiah:

Hear this, thou luxurious one, sitting securely, saying in thy heart, I and none like me besides. I shall not sit a widow, neither shall I know bereavement. But these two evils shall come to thee in a moment, bereavement and widowhood (Isaiah 47:8-9).

This, too, is said of Babylon, and it has the same signification as these words in Revelation, "A widow I am not, and mourning I shall not see, for this reason in one day shall her plagues come to thee, death, and mourning, and famine." Elsewhere in the Word "widows" signify those, both women and males, who are in good and not in truth and yet desire truth, thus those who are without defense against falsity and evil, but who are defended by the Lord. The term is used also in the contrary sense, as in Isaiah 9:17; 10:1, 2; Jeremiah 15:7-9; 22:3; 49:10-11; Lamentations 5:3; Ezekiel 22:6-7; David, Psalms 68:5; Psalms 146:9; Exodus 22:21-24; Deuteronomy 10:18; 27:19; Matthew 23:14; Luke 20:47.

(Continuation respecting the Athanasian Faith and respecting the Lord)

[3] Life regarded in itself, which is God, cannot create another that shall be the only life; for the life that is God is uncreate, continuous, and inseparable; and from this it is that God is one. But the life that is God can create forms out of substances that are not life, in which it can be, and give to them the appearance of living. Such forms are men; and since they are receptacles of life they could not when first created be anything else than images and likenesses of God; images from the reception of truth and likenesses from the reception of good; for life and its recipient are fitted to each other as the active and passive, but do not mingle. For this reason human forms, which are recipients of life, live, not from themselves, but from God who alone is life; consequently, as is well known, every good of love and every truth of faith is from God, and nothing of these is from man; for if man had the least portion of life as his own he would be able to will and do good from himself, and to understand and believe truth from himself, and thus to claim merit; and yet if he so believes, the form recipient of life closes itself above and becomes perverted, and intelligence perishes. Good and its love and truth and its faith are the life that is God, for God is good itself and truth itself; and therefore in these God dwells in man. And from all this it follows, that man of himself is nothing, and is something only so far as he receives from the Lord, and at the same time acknowledges that it is not his own but is the Lord's; then the Lord gives him to be something; yet not from himself but from the Lord.

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1. Absque (without) has been omitted in Latin text; "widow" signifies defense; but it is inserted in explanation at the end of the number, "widows" signify "without defense."

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Foundation for their permission to use this translation.