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Deuteronômio 25

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1 Se houver contenda entre alguns, e vierem a juízo para serem julgados, justificar-se-á ao inocente, e ao culpado condenar-se-á.

2 E se o culpado merecer açoites, o juiz fará que ele se deite e seja açoitado na sua presença, de acordo com a gravidade da sua culpa.

3 Até quarenta açoites lhe poderá dar, não mais; para que, porventura, se lhe der mais açoites do que estes, teu irmão não fique envilecido aos teus olhos.

4 Não atarás a boca ao boi quando estiver debulhando.

5 Se irmãos morarem juntos, e um deles morrer sem deixar filho, a mulher do falecido não se casará com homem estranho, de fora; seu cunhado estará com ela, e a tomará por mulher, fazendo a obrigação de cunhado para com ela.

6 E o primogênito que ela lhe der sucederá ao nome do irmão falecido, para que o nome deste não se apague de Israel.

7 Mas, se o homem não quiser tomar sua cunhada, esta subirá à porta, aos anciãos, e dirá: Meu cunhado recusa suscitar a seu irmão nome em Israel; não quer cumprir para comigo o dever de cunhado.

8 Então os anciãos da sua cidade o chamarão, e falarão com ele. Se ele persistir, e disser: Não quero tomá-la;

9 sua cunhada se chegará a ele, na presença dos anciãos, e lhe descalçará o sapato do , e lhe cuspirá ao rosto, e dirá: Assim se fará ao homem que não edificar a casa de seu irmão.

10 E sua casa será chamada em Israel a casa do descalçado.

11 Quando pelejarem dois homens, um contra o outro, e a mulher de um chegar para livrar a seu marido da mão daquele que o fere, e ela, estendendo a mão, lhe pegar pelas suas vergonhas,

12 decepar-lhe-á a mão; o teu olho não terá piedade dela.

13 Não terás na tua bolsa pesos diferentes, um grande e um pequeno.

14 Não terás na tua casa duas efas, uma grande e uma pequena.

15 Terás peso inteiro e justo; terás efa inteira e justa; para que se prolonguem os teus dias na terra que o Senhor teu Deus te .

16 Porque é abominável ao Senhor teu Deus todo aquele que faz tais coisas, todo aquele que pratica a injustiça.

17 Lembra-te do que te fez Amaleque no caminho, quando saías do Egito;

18 como te saiu ao encontro no caminho e feriu na tua retaguarda todos os fracos que iam após ti, estando tu cansado e afadigado; e não temeu a Deus.

19 Quando, pois, o Senhor teu Deus te houver dado repouso de todos os teus inimigos em redor, na terra que o Senhor teu Deus te por herança para a possuíres, apagarás a memória de Amaleque de debaixo do céu; não te esquecerás.

   

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4335. In the Word 'those who are grinding' means those within the Church who are led to know the truth by an affection for good, and in the contrary sense those within the Church who are led to know it by an affection for evil, as may be seen from the following places: In Isaiah,

Come down and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babel; sit on the ground, without a throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans. Take a mill and grind flour; uncover your hair, bare your feet, uncover your thigh, pass through the rivers. Isaiah 47:1-2.

'The daughter of Babel' stands for those among whom externally things give the appearance of being holy and good but interiorly they are unholy and evil, 1182, 1326. 'The daughter of the Chaldeans' stands for those among whom externally things give the appearance of being holy and true, but interiorly they are unholy and false, 1368, 1816. 'Taking a mill and grinding flour' stands for producing teachings out of the truths which they pervert; for 'flour', being the product of wheat or of barley, means truths which are products of good, but in the contrary sense truths which they pervert so as to lead people astray. In Jeremiah,

I will banish from them the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the sound of mills, and the light of the lamp. And this whole land will be a waste and desolation. Jeremiah 25:10-11.

[2] In John,

No craftsman of any craft will be found in Babylon any more; no sound of a mill will be heard in it any more; and the light of a lamp will not shine in it any more, and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride will not be heard in it any more. Revelation 18:21-23.

'No sound of a mill will be heard in Babylon any more' means that there will not be any truth. 'The light of the lamp will not shine any more' means that neither will there be any understanding of truth. In Lamentations,

They have ravished women in Zion, virgins in the cities of Judah. Princes have been hung up by their hands, the faces of the old men have not been honoured. The young men have been led away to grind at the mill, and the boys collapse under the wood. Lamentations 5:11-14.

'The young men have been led away to grind at the mill' stands for being led away to produce falsities by the use of truths, and so by the power of persuasion.

[3] In Moses,

Ah the firstborn in the land of Egypt will die, from Pharaoh's firstborn seated upon his throne, even to the servant-girl's firstborn who is behind the mill. Exodus 11:5.

'The firstborn of Egypt' stands for truths of faith which have been separated from the good of charity and therefore become falsities, 3325.

'The servant-girl's firstborn who is behind the mill' stands for the affection for such truth from which falsities are obtained. These were the things represented by such historical events.

[4] In the same author,

He shall not take as a pledge the mill or the milling stone, for they are the livelihood 1 of him who pledges them. Deuteronomy 24:6.

This law was laid down because 'the mill' meant matters of doctrine and 'the milling stone' the truths that were an integral part of them and are called 'the livelihood of him who pledges them'. But for the spiritual meaning which 'mill' and 'milling stone' possess that law would obviously not have been given; nor would it have been said that they were 'his livelihood'.

[5] I have been shown that 'grinding' derives its spiritual meaning from the representatives which manifest themselves in the world of spirits. For I have seen people there who seemed to be grinding; these spirits, I have been told, mean those who gather large numbers of truths together not with any use in view, other than for the sake of their own pleasure. Because truths in that case are devoid of their own affection which originates in good, they do indeed look like truths to external appearance; but because there is no inner substance to them they are sheer fancies. But if evil is present within them truths are used to support that evil, and so are made falsities through that use of them.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. literally, the soul

  
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