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Deuteronômio 12

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1 São estes os estatutos e os preceitos que tereis cuidado em observar na terra que o Senhor Deus de vossos pais vos deu para a possuirdes por todos os dias que viverdes sobre a terra.

2 Certamente destruireis todos os lugares em que as nações que haveis de subjugar serviram aos seus deuses, sobre as altas montanhas, sobre os outeiros, e debaixo de toda árvore frondosa;

3 e derrubareis os seus altares, quebrareis as suas colunas, queimareis a fogo os seus aserins, abatereis as imagens esculpidas dos seus deuses e apagareis o seu nome daquele lugar.

4 Não fareis assim para com o Senhor vosso Deus;

5 mas recorrereis ao lugar que o Senhor vosso Deus escolher de todas as vossas tribos para ali pôr o seu nome, para sua habitação, e ali vireis.

6 A esse lugar trareis os vossos holocaustos e sacrifícios, e os vossos dízimos e a oferta alçada da vossa mão, e os vossos votos e ofertas voluntárias, e os primogênitos das vossas vacas e ovelhas;

7 e ali comereis perante o Senhor vosso Deus, e vos alegrareis, vós e as vossas casas, em tudo em que puserdes a vossa mão, no que o Senhor vosso Deus vos tiver abençoado.

8 Não fareis conforme tudo o que hoje fazemos aqui, cada qual tudo o que bem lhe parece aos olhos.

9 Porque até agora não entrastes no descanso e na herança que o Senhor vosso Deus vos ;

10 mas quando passardes o Jordão, e habitardes na terra que o senhor vosso Deus vos faz herdar, ele vos dará repouso de todos os vossos inimigos em redor, e morareis seguros.

11 Então haverá um lugar que o Senhor vosso Deus escolherá para ali fazer habitar o seu nome; a esse lugar trareis tudo o que eu vos ordeno: os vossos holocaustos e sacrifícios, os vossos dízimos, a oferta alçada da vossa mão, e tudo o que de melhor oferecerdes ao Senhor em cumprimento dos votos que fizerdes.

12 E vos alegrareis perante o Senhor vosso Deus, vós, vossos filhos e vossas filhas, vossos servos e vossas servas, bem como o levita que está dentro das vossas portas, pois convosco não tem parte nem herança.

13 Guarda-te de ofereceres os teus holocaustos em qualquer lugar que vires;

14 mas no lugar que o Senhor escolher numa das tuas tribos, ali oferecerás os teus holocaustos, e ali farás tudo o que eu te ordeno.

15 Todavia, conforme todo o teu desejo, poderás degolar, e comer carne dentro das tuas portas, segundo a bênção do Senhor teu Deus que ele te houver dado; tanto o imundo como o limpo comerão dela, como da gazela e do veado;

16 tão-somente não comerás do sangue; sobre a terra o derramarás como água.

17 Dentro das tuas portas não poderás comer o dízimo do teu grão, do teu mosto e do teu azeite, nem os primogênitos das tuas vacas e das tuas ovelhas, nem qualquer das tuas ofertas votivas, nem as tuas ofertas voluntárias, nem a oferta alçada da tua mão;

18 mas os comerás perante o Senhor teu Deus, no lugar que ele escolher, tu, teu filho, tua filha, o teu servo, a tua serva, e bem assim e levita que está dentre das tuas portas; e perante o Senhor teu Deus te alegrarás em tudo em que puseres a mão.

19 Guarda-te, que não desampares o levita por todos os dias que viveres na tua terra.

20 Quando o Senhor teu Deus dilatar os teus termos, como te prometeu, e tu disseres: Comerei carne (porquanto tens desejo de comer carne); conforme todo o teu desejo poderás comê-la.

21 Se estiver longe de ti o lugar que o Senhor teu Deus escolher para ali pôr o seu nome, então degolarás do teu gado e do teu rebanho, que o Senhor te houver dado, como te ordenei; e poderás comer dentro das tuas portas, conforme todo o teu desejo.

22 Como se come a gazela e o veado, assim comerás dessas carnes; o imundo e o limpo igualmente comerão delas.

23 Tão-somente guarda-te de comeres o sangue; pois o sangue é a vida; pelo que não comerás a vida com a carne.

24 Não o comerás; sobre a terra o derramarás como água.

25 Não o comerás, para que te vá bem a ti, a teus filhos depois de ti, quando fizeres o que é reto aos olhos do Senhor.

26 Somente tomarás as coisas santas que tiveres, e as tuas ofertas votivas, e irás ao lugar que o Senhor escolher;

27 oferecerás os teus holocaustos, a carne e o sangue sobre o altar do Senhor teu Deus; e o sangue dos teus sacrifícios se derramará sobre o altar do Senhor teu Deus, porém a carne comerás.

28 Ouve e guarda todas estas palavras que eu te ordeno, para que te vá bem a ti, e a teus filhos depois de ti, para sempre, se fizeres o que é bom e reto aos olhos do Senhor teu Deus.

29 Quando o Senhor teu Deus exterminar de diante de ti as nações aonde estás entrando para as possuir, e as desapossares e habitares na sua terra,

30 guarda-te para que não te enlaces para as seguires, depois que elas forem destruídas diante de ti; e que não perguntes acerca dos seus deuses, dizendo: De que modo serviam estas nações os seus deuses? pois do mesmo modo também farei eu.

31 Não farás assim para com o Senhor teu Deus; porque tudo o que é abominável ao Senhor, e que ele detesta, fizeram elas para com os seus deuses; pois até seus filhos e suas filhas queimam no fogo aos seus deuses.

32 Tudo o que eu te ordeno, observarás; nada lhe acrescentarás nem diminuirás.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 1947

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1947. 'Because Jehovah has hearkened to your affliction' means since it was submitting itself. This is clear from what has been stated above in 1937 about 'humiliating oneself and flinging oneself down' as meaning submitting oneself beneath the controlling power of the internal man, which submission was discussed there and was shown to consist in self-compulsion. It was also shown that in self-compulsion there is freedom, that is, what is willing and spontaneous, and that this distinguishes self-compulsion from being compelled. It was also shown that without this freedom, or willingness and spontaneity, a person cannot possibly be reformed and receive any heavenly proprium; also that though the contrary seems to be the case, there is more freedom in times of temptation than there is outside of them. Indeed at such times freedom increases as assaults are made by evils and falsities and it is consolidated by the Lord in order that a heavenly proprium may be given to the person. For that reason also the Lord is closer in times of temptation. It was shown as well that the Lord in no way compels anybody. No one who is compelled to think that which is true and to do that which is good is reformed, but instead thinks all the more what is false and wills all the more what is evil. This is so with all compulsion, as may also become clear from all the experience and lessons of life, which when learned prove two things - first, that human consciences will not allow themselves to be coerced, and second, that we strive after the forbidden.

[2] Furthermore everyone who is not free desires to become so, for this is his life. From this it is evident that nothing is in any way pleasing to the Lord that is not done in freedom, that is, spontaneously or willingly. For when anyone worships the Lord under circumstances in which he is not free he worships Him with nothing of himself. In his case that which moves the external is the external, that is, it is moved under compulsion - the internal being non-existent, or else incompatible, and even contradictory. When a person is being regenerated he compels himself from the freedom the Lord imparts to him, and humbles, and indeed afflicts, his rational, so that it may submit itself, and in consequence he receives a heavenly proprium. This proprium is then gradually perfected by the Lord and it becomes more and more free, so that as a result it becomes the affection for good and for truth deriving from that good, and possesses delight. And in that affection and delight there is happiness such as the angels experience. This freedom is what the Lord Himself is referring to in John.

The truth makes you free. If the Son makes you free, you are truly free. John 8:32, 36. 1

[3] What this freedom is, is totally unknown to those who do not have conscience, for they identify freedom with feelings of being at liberty and without restraint to think and utter what is false, and to will and do what is evil, and not to control and humble, still less to afflict, those feelings. Yet this is the complete reverse of freedom, as the Lord again teaches in the same place,

Everyone who commits sin is a slave of sin. John 8:34.

People acquire this slave-like freedom from the hellish spirits who reside with them and who inject it into them. When the life of those hellish spirits takes possession of them so do the loves and desires of those same spirits; for an unclean and utterly disgusting delight blows upon them, and being carried away so to speak in a stream they imagine themselves to be in freedom; but it is hellish freedom. The difference between this hellish freedom and heavenly freedom is that the former spells death and drags them down into hell, while the latter, that is, heavenly freedom, promises life and lifts them up to heaven.

[4] That all true internal worship springs from freedom, not from compulsion, and that unless it springs from freedom it is not internal worship, is clear from the Word, from the sacrifices - free-will, votive, and peace or eucharistic - which were called offerings and oblations, mentioned in Numbers 15:3 and following verses; Deuteronomy 12:6; 16:10-11; 23:23; and elsewhere. In David,

With a free-will offering I will sacrifice to You; I will confess Your name, O Jehovah, for it is good. Psalms 54:6.

From the thruma, 2 or the collection which the people were to contribute towards the Tabernacle and sacred vestments, referred to in Moses,

Speak to the children of Israel and let them receive for Me a collection; from every man whose heart makes him willing you shall receive My collection. Exodus 25:2.

And elsewhere in Moses,

Everyone who is willing in heart shall bring it, Jehovah's collection. Exodus 35:5.

[5] The humbling of the rational man, or affliction of it - as stated, from freedom - was also represented by the affliction souls underwent during festivals, referred to in Moses,

It shall be a statute to you for ever: in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall afflict your souls. Leviticus 16:29.

And elsewhere in Moses,

On the tenth day of the seventh month is the day of atonement; it shall be a holy convocation for you, and you shall afflict your souls. Every soul who does not afflict himself on that very day shall be cut off from his peoples. Leviticus 23:27, 29.

It is for this reason that unleavened bread in which no fermentation has taken place is called the bread of affliction in Deuteronomy 16:2-3. Affliction is referred to in David in the following way,

O Jehovah, who will sojourn in Your tent? Who will dwell on Your holy mountain? He who walks blameless and performs righteousness, who swears to the affliction of himself and changes not. Psalms 15:1-2, 4.

[6] That 'affliction' is the taming and subduing of evils and falsities rising up from the external man into the rational man may become clear from what has been stated. Thus it is not any reduction of oneself to poverty and misery - not a renunciation of bodily enjoyments - that is meant by affliction. No taming and subduing of evil can result from doing that; indeed it may give rise to an additional evil, namely the desire to receive merit for such a renunciation; and what is more, man's freedom suffers, in which alone, as its ground, the good and truth of faith is able to be sown. Affliction also means temptation; see what has been said already in 1846.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. In 9096, where this verse is quoted, the verbs are future tense, as in the Greek.

2. A Hebrew word meaning an offering

  
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