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Deuteronômio 28

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1 Se ouvires atentamente a voz do Senhor teu Deus, tendo cuidado de guardar todos os seus mandamentos que eu hoje te ordeno, o Senhor teu Deus te exaltará sobre todas as nações da terra;

2 e todas estas bênçãos virão sobre ti e te alcançarão, se ouvires a voz do Senhor teu Deus:

3 Bendito serás na cidade, e bendito serás no campo.

4 Bendito o fruto do teu ventre, e o fruto do teu solo, e o fruto dos teus animais, e as crias das tuas vacas e das tuas ovelhas.

5 Bendito o teu cesto, e a tua amassadeira.

6 Bendito serás quando entrares, e bendito serás quando saíres.

7 O Senhor entregará, feridos diante de ti, os teus inimigos que se levantarem contra ti; por um caminho sairão contra ti, mas por sete caminhos fugirão da tua presença.

8 O Senhor mandará que a bênção esteja contigo nos teus celeiros e em tudo a que puseres a tua mão; e te abençoará na terra que o Senhor teu Deus te .

9 O Senhor te confirmará para si por povo santo, como te jurou, se guardares os mandamentos do Senhor teu Deus e andares nos seus caminhos.

10 Assim todos os povos da terra verão que és chamado pelo nome do Senhor, e terão temor de ti.

11 E o Senhor te fará prosperar grandemente no fruto do teu ventre, no fruto dos teus animais e no fruto do teu solo, na terra que o Senhor, com juramento, prometeu a teus pais te dar.

12 O Senhor te abrirá o seu bom tesouro, o céu, para dar à tua terra a chuva no seu tempo, e para abençoar todas as obras das tuas mãos; e emprestarás a muitas nações, porém tu não tomarás emprestado.

13 E o Senhor te porá por cabeça, e não por cauda; e só estarás por cima, e não por baixo; se obedeceres aos mandamentos do Senhor teu Deus, que eu hoje te ordeno, para os guardar e cumprir,

14 não te desviando de nenhuma das palavras que eu hoje te ordeno, nem para a direita nem para a esquerda, e não andando após outros deuses, para os servires.

15 Se, porém, não ouvires a voz do Senhor teu Deus, se não cuidares em cumprir todos os seus mandamentos e os seus estatutos, que eu hoje te ordeno, virão sobre ti todas estas maldições, e te alcançarão:

16 Maldito serás na cidade, e maldito serás no campo.

17 Maldito o teu cesto, e a tua amassadeira.

18 Maldito o fruto do teu ventre, e o fruto do teu solo, e as crias das tuas vacas e das tuas ovelhas.

19 Maldito serás ao entrares, e maldito serás ao saíres.

20 O Senhor mandará sobre ti a maldição, a derrota e o desapontamento, em tudo a que puseres a mão para fazer, até que sejas destruído, e até que repentinamente pereças, por causa da maldade das tuas obras, pelas quais me deixaste.

21 O Senhor fará pegar em ti a peste, até que te consuma da terra na qual estás entrando para a possuíres.

22 O Senhor te ferirá com a tísica e com a febre, com a inflamação, com o calor forte, com a seca, com crestamento e com ferrugem, que te perseguirão até que pereças

23 O céu que está sobre a tua cabeça será de bronze, e a terra que está debaixo de ti será de ferro.

24 O Senhor dará por chuva à tua terra pó; do céu descerá sobre ti a poeira, ate que sejas destruído.

25 O Senhor fará que sejas ferido diante dos teus inimigos; por um caminho sairás contra eles, e por sete caminhos fugirás deles; e serás espetáculo horrendo a todos os reinos da terra.

26 Os teus cadáveres servirão de pasto a todas as aves do céu, e aos animais da terra, e não haverá quem os enxote.

27 O Senhor te ferirá com as úlceras do Egito, com tumores, com sarna e com coceira, de que não possas curar-te;

28 o Senhor te ferirá com loucura, com cegueira, e com pasmo de coração.

29 Apalparás ao meio-dia como o cego apalpa nas trevas, e não prosperarás nos teus caminhos; serás oprimido e roubado todos os dias, e não haverá quem te salve.

30 Desposar-te-ás com uma mulher, porém outro homem dormirá com ela; edificarás uma casa, porém não morarás nela; plantarás uma vinha, porém não a desfrutarás.

31 O teu boi será morto na tua presença, porém dele não comerás; o teu jumento será roubado diante de ti, e não te será restituído a ti; as tuas ovelhas serão dadas aos teus inimigos, e não haverá quem te salve.

32 Teus filhos e tuas filhas serão dados a outro povo, os teus olhos o verão, e desfalecerão de saudades deles todo o dia; porém não haverá poder na tua mão.

33 O fruto da tua terra e todo o teu trabalho comê-los-á um povo que nunca conheceste; e serás oprimido e esmagado todos os dias.

34 E enlouquecerás pelo que hás de ver com os teus olhos.

35 Com úlceras malignas, de que não possas sarar, o Senhor te ferirá nos joelhos e nas pernas, sim, desde a planta do até o alto da cabeça.

36 O Senhor te levará a ti e a teu rei, que tiveres posto sobre ti, a uma nação que não conheceste, nem tu nem teus pais; e ali servirás a outros deuses, ao pau e à pedra.

37 E virás a ser por pasmo, provérbio e ludíbrio entre todos os povos a que o Senhor te levar.

38 Levarás muita semente para o teu campo, porem colherás pouco; porque o gafanhoto a consumirá.

39 Plantarás vinhas, e as cultivarás, porém não lhes beberás o vinho, nem colherás as uvas; porque o bicho as devorará.

40 Terás oliveiras em todos os teus termos, porém não te ungirás com azeite; porque a azeitona te cairá da oliveira.

41 Filhos e filhas gerarás, porém não te pertencerão; porque irão em cativeiro.

42 Todo o teu arvoredo e o fruto do teu solo consumi-los-á o gafanhoto.

43 O estrangeiro que está no meio de ti se elevará cada vez mais sobre ti, e tu cada vez mais descerás;

44 ele emprestará a ti, porém tu não emprestarás a ele; ele será a cabeça, e tu serás a cauda.

45 Todas estas maldições virão sobre ti, e te perseguirão, e te alcançarão, até que sejas destruído, por não haveres dado ouvidos à voz do Senhor teu Deus, para guardares os seus mandamentos, e os seus estatutos, que te ordenou.

46 Estarão sobre ti por sinal e por maravilha, como também sobre a tua descendencia para sempre.

47 Por não haveres servido ao Senhor teu Deus com gosto e alegria de coração, por causa da abundância de tudo,

48 servirás aos teus inimigos, que o Senhor enviará contra ti, em fome e sede, e em nudez, e em falta de tudo; e ele porá sobre o teu pescoço um jugo de ferro, até que te haja destruído.

49 O Senhor levantará contra ti de longe, da extremidade da terra, uma nação que voa como a águia, nação cuja língua não entenderás;

50 nação de rosto feroz, que não respeitará ao velho, nem se compadecerá do moço;

51 e comerá o fruto dos teus animais e o fruto do teu solo, até que sejas destruído; e não te deixará grão, nem mosto, nem azeite, nem as crias das tuas vacas e das tuas ovelhas, até que te faça perecer;

52 e te sitiará em todas as tuas portas, até que em toda a tua terra venham a cair os teus altos e fortes muros, em que confiavas; sim, te sitiará em todas as tuas portas, em toda a tua terra que o Senhor teu Deus te deu.

53 E, no cerco e no aperto com que os teus inimigos te apertarão, comerás o fruto do teu ventre, a carne de teus filhos e de tuas filhas, que o Senhor teu Deus te houver dado.

54 Quanto ao homem mais mimoso e delicado no meio de ti, o seu olho será mesquinho para com o seu irmão, para com a mulher de seu regaço, e para com os filhos que ainda lhe ficarem de resto;

55 de sorte que não dará a nenhum deles da carne de seus filhos que ele comer, porquanto nada lhe terá ficado de resto no cerco e no aperto com que o teu inimigo te apertará em todas as tuas portas.

56 Igualmente, quanto à mulher mais mimosa e delicada no meio de ti, que de mimo e delicadeza nunca tentou pôr a planta de seu sobre a terra, será mesquinho o seu olho para com o homem de seu regaço, para com seu filho, e para com sua filha;

57 também ela será mesquinha para com as suas páreas, que saírem dentre os seus pés, e para com os seus filhos que tiver; porque os comerá às escondidas pela falta de tudo, no cerco e no aperto com que o teu inimigo te apertará nas tuas portas.

58 Se não tiveres cuidado de guardar todas as palavras desta lei, que estão escritas neste livro, para temeres este nome glorioso e temível, o Senhor teu Deus;

59 então o Senhor fará espantosas as tuas pragas, e as pragas da tua descendência, grandes e duradouras pragas, e enfermidades malignas e duradouras;

60 e fará tornar sobre ti todos os males do Egito, de que tiveste temor; e eles se apegarão a ti.

61 Também o Senhor fará vir a ti toda enfermidade, e toda praga que não está escrita no livro desta lei, até que sejas destruído.

62 Assim ficareis poucos em número, depois de haverdes sido em multidão como as estrelas do céu; porquanto não deste ouvidos à voz do Senhor teu Deus.

63 E será que, assim como o Senhor se deleitava em vós, para fazer-vos o bem e multiplicar-vos, assim o Senhor se deleitará em destruir-vos e consumir-vos; e sereis desarraigados da terra na qual estais entrando para a possuirdes.

64 E o Senhor vos espalhará entre todos os povos desde uma extremidade da terra até a outra; e ali servireis a outros deuses que não conhecestes, nem vós nem vossos pais, deuses de pau e de pedra.

65 E nem ainda entre estas nações descansarás, nem a planta de teu terá repouso; mas o Senhor ali te dará coração tremente, e desfalecimento de olhos, e desmaio de alma.

66 E a tua vida estará como em suspenso diante de ti; e estremecerás de noite e de dia, e não terás segurança da tua própria vida.

67 Pela manhã dirás: Ah! quem me dera ver a tarde; E à tarde dirás: Ah! quem me dera ver a manhã! pelo pasmo que terás em teu coração, e pelo que verás com os teus olhos.

68 E o Senhor te fará voltar ao Egito em navios, pelo caminho de que te disse: Nunca mais o verás. Ali vos poreis a venda como escravos e escravas aos vossos inimigos, mas não haverá quem vos compre.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 3901

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3901. The reason why the final state of the Church is compared to eagles gathered together where there is a carcass or body is that 'eagles' means man's rational ideas. When used in reference to forms of good 'eagles' means true rational ideas, but when used in reference to forms of evil 'eagles' means false rational ideas, or reasonings. 'Birds' in general means a person's thoughts, and in both the genuine and the contrary senses, 40, 745, 776, 866, 991, 3219; and each species has some individual meaning, 'eagles' meaning rational ideas because they are high-flyers and sharp-sighted. This meaning may be seen from many places in the Word, from which let the following be brought forward to confirm it. First, places where true rational ideas are meant: in Moses,

Jehovah found His people [Jacob] in a wilderness land and in the emptiness, the howling, the lonely place He encompassed him, instructed him, and kept him as the pupil of His eye. As an eagle stirs up its nest, hovers over its young, spreads out its wings, takes one, carries it on its wings. Deuteronomy 32:10-11.

That which is described here and compared to the eagle is instruction in the truths and goods of faith. The actual process up to the point when a person becomes rational and spiritual is what this description and comparison contains. All comparisons in the Word are made by means of meaningful signs, in this case by 'the eagle', which means the rational.

[2] In the same author,

Jehovah said to Moses, You have seen the things which I did to the Egyptians, and I bore you on eagles' wings so that I might bring you to Myself. Exodus 19:3-4.

Here the meaning is similar. In Isaiah,

Those who await Jehovah will be renewed with strength; they will mount up with strong wings like eagles; they will run and not be weary, they will walk and not faint. Isaiah 40:31.

'Being renewed with strength' stands for growth in the willing of good, 'mounting up with strong wings like eagles' for growth in the understanding of truth, and so growth of the rational. Here, as elsewhere, dual expressions are used to present the subject, the first of a pair involving good which belongs to the will, the second truth which belongs to the understanding. 'Running and not being weary' and 'walking and not fainting' are similar dual expressions.

[3] In Ezekiel,

Speak a parable about the house of Israel, and say, Thus said the Lord Jehovih, A great eagle with long pinions, full of feathers, in its embroidery, came on Lebanon and took a twig of the cedar. He carried it into a land of trade, he placed it in a city of perfumers. It sprouted and became a spreading vine. There was another great eagle with great wings and full of feathers, towards which, behold, this vine directed its roots, and sent out its branches towards it to water it from the beds of its young plants in a good field, by many waters. But it will be laid waste. He sent his ambassadors to Egypt that they might give him horses and many people. Ezekiel 17:2-9, 15.

The eagle mentioned first stands for the rational enlightened by the Divine, the eagle mentioned second for the rational originating in the proprium, subsequently perverted by means of reasonings based on sensory evidence and factual knowledge - 'Egypt' standing for factual knowledge, 1164, 1165, 1186, 1462, and 'horses' for understanding resulting from all this, 2761, 2762, 3217.

[4] In Daniel,

A vision of Daniel. Four beasts came up out of the sea, different from one another. The first was like a lion, but had eagle's wings. I watched it until its wings were torn away and it was lifted up from the ground and made to stand on its feet like a human being; and the heart of a human being was given to it. Daniel 7:3-4.

That which is described by 'a lion which had eagle's wings' is the first state of the Church, 'eagle's wings' in this case meaning rational ideas originating in the proprium. And when these had been removed, rational ideas and desires in the will which had a Divine origin were given to it. These are meant by the lifting up of the eagle from the ground and the standing of it on its feet like a human being, and the gift to it of the heart of a human being.

[5] In Ezekiel,

As for the likeness of the faces of the four living creatures or cherubs, each of the four had the face of a human being, and the face of a lion on the right side; and each of the four the face of an ox on the left side; and each of the four had the face of an eagle. Ezekiel 1:10.

Their wheels were called Galgal; and each one had four faces - the first face was the face of a cherub, the second face the face of a human being, the third the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle. Ezekiel 10:13-14.

In John,

Around the throne were four living creatures full of eyes in front and behind. The first living creature was like a lion, the second living creature was like a calf, the third living creature had a face like a human being, the fourth living creature was like a flying eagle. Revelation 4:7.

Clearly, those living creatures that were seen mean Divine arcana, as consequently does the likeness of their faces. But exactly which arcana are meant cannot be known unless one knows what 'lion', 'calf', 'human being', and 'eagle' mean in the internal sense. It is evident that 'the face of an eagle' means vigilance and therefore providence, for the cherubs who were represented by the living creatures in Ezekiel mean the Lord's providence which guards against anyone entering the mysteries of faith from himself and his own rationality as the starting point, see 308. This also shows that when 'an eagle' is used in reference to a human being the rational is meant in the internal sense. It has this meaning because an eagle is a high-flyer and from its more exalted position has a wide view of things below.

[6] In Job,

Is it through your intelligence that the hawk flies up and spreads its wings towards the south? Is it at your command 1 that the eagle lifts itself up and makes its nest up high? Job 39:26-27.

In this verse it is evident that 'the eagle' means reason which is an attribute of intelligence. This was what 'eagle' meant in the Ancient Church, for the Book of Job is a book of the Ancient Church, 3540 (end). In fact the writing of almost all the books of that period involved the use of meaningful signs, but with the passage of time meaningful signs have been so eclipsed that it is not even known that 'birds' in general means thoughts, even though these are referred to many times in the Word and in those places quite clearly is meant something different from birds.

[7] As regards 'the eagle' in the contrary sense meaning rational ideas that are not true, and so are false, this is evident from the following places: In Moses,

Jehovah will raise up above you a nation from far away, from the end of the earth, as an eagle flies, a nation whose language you do not understand, a hard-faced nation. Deuteronomy 28:49-50.

In Jeremiah,

Behold, he comes up [like] clouds, and his chariots like a whirlwind; his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to us, for we have been laid waste! Jeremiah 4:13.

In the same prophet,

Your bragging has deceived you, and the pride of your heart, you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, who hold the height of the hill; because, like the eagle, you have made your nest up high, I will cast you down from there. Behold, he mounts up and flies like an eagle, and spreads his wings over Bozrah; and the heart of the powerful men of Edom has become on that day like the heart of a woman in distress. Jeremiah 49:16, 22.

In the same prophet,

Our pursuers were swifter than eagles; they pursued us over the mountains, they laid in wait for us in the wilderness. Lamentations 4:19.

In Micah,

Make yourself bald, and shave your head for the children of your delight; extend your baldness like an eagle, for they have departed from you. Micah 1:16.

In Obadiah,

If you raise yourself up like the eagle, and if you place your nest among the stars, I will bring you down from there. Obad. verse 4.

In Habakkuk,

I am rousing the Chaldeans, a bitter and headlong nation, marching into the breadths of the earth, to inherit habitations that are not its own. Its horses are swifter than leopards. 2 Its horsemen will come from afar. They will fly in like an eagle hastening to devour. Habakkuk 1:6, 8.

[8] In all these places 'eagles' means falsity that has been introduced through reasonings - the delusions of the senses and external appearances being the source of that falsity. 'The Chaldeans' referred to in the last of the Prophets quoted means people who outwardly are holy but inwardly are under the influence of falsity, see 1368, and these like Babel are those who lay waste the Church, 1367. 'The breadths of the earth' means truths (the vastation of which is meant by 'marching into the breadths of the earth') see 3433, 3434, and 'horses' their intellectual concepts, which are similar, 2761, 2762, 3217. What is meant by 'an eagle hastening to devour' is clear from all this, namely a hastening to make man desolate of truths, for the desolation of the Church is the subject in these verses. Comparisons are made with eagles, but as has been stated, comparisons in the Word are made by means of meaningful signs. From all this one may now see what is meant by the comparison with the eagles which will be gathered together where the carcass is.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. literally, mouth

2. The Latin means eagles, but the Hebrew means leopards, which Swedenborg has in other places where he quotes this verse.

  
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Arcana Coelestia # 308

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308. What 'the east' means and what 'the garden of Eden' means has been shown already and therefore there is no need to pause over them here. But the fact that 'cherubim' means the Lord's providing against a person's insanely entering into mysteries of faith from the proprium, sensory evidence, and factual knowledge as the starting point, and against his profaning those mysteries, and in so doing perishing, becomes clear from several places in the Word where mention is made of cherubim. Because the Jews were the kind of people who, if they had had any clear knowledge about the Lord's Coming, about the fact that the representatives, or types, in that Church meant the Lord, about life after death, about the inner man, and if they had had any clear knowledge of the internal sense of the Word, they would have committed profanation and would have perished for ever; the Lord's protection against this therefore was represented by the cherubim on the Mercy Seat over the Ark, and by those on the curtains of the Tabernacle, and on its veil, and similarly in the Temple. And the provision of the cherubim meant the Lord's care and protection of them, Exodus 25:18-21; 26:1, 31;1 Kings 6:23-29, 32, 35. For the Ark, which contained the covenant, had the same meaning as the tree of life 1 does here, that is, the Lord and heavenly things which are altogether His. Consequently the Lord is also many times called 'the God of Israel seated upon the cherubim'; and it was from between the cherubim that He spoke to Aaron and Moses, Exodus 25:22; Numbers 7:89.

[2] A plain description of this exists in Ezekiel where the following is stated,

The glory of the God of Israel was raised up from above the cherub over which it had been, towards the threshold of the house. He called out to the man clothed in linen. And He said to him, Pass through the middle of the city, through the middle of Jerusalem, and put a mark upon the foreheads of the men who groan and sigh over all the abominations committed in the middle of it. And to the others He said, Pass through the city after him and smite; let not your eye spare, and show no clemency; slay outright old men, young men, virgins, little children, and women. Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain. 2 Ezekiel 9:3-7.

And later on,

He said to the man clothed in linen, Go into the wheel underneath the cherub, and fill the palms of your hands with coals of fire from between the cherubim and spread them over the city. A cherub stretched out his hand from between the cherubim to the fire that was between the cherubim, and he took [some of it] and put it into the palms of the man clothed in linen; and he took it and went out. Ezekiel 10:1-7.

From these verses it is clear that the Lord's providence which guards against people's penetrating mysteries of faith is meant by 'the cherubim', and that people were therefore abandoned to their insane desires, which in this quotation are also meant by 'the fire which was spread over the city', and by 'nobody's being spared'.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. literally, of lives

2. literally, the pierced

  
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