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Deuteronômio 29

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1 Estas são as palavras do pacto que o Senhor ordenou a Moisés que fizesse com os filhos de Israel na terra de Moabe, além do pacto que fizera com eles em Horebe.

2 Chamou, pois, Moisés a todo o Israel, e disse-lhes: Vistes tudo quanto o Senhor fez perante vossos olhos, na terra do Egito, a Faraó, a todos os seus servos e a toda a sua terra;

3 as grandes provas que os teus olhos viram, os sinais e aquelas grandes maravilhas.

4 Mas até hoje o Senhor não vos tem dado um coração para entender, nem olhos para ver, nem ouvidos para ouvir.

5 Quarenta anos vos fiz andar pelo deserto; não se envelheceu sobre vós a vossa roupa, nem o sapato no vosso .

6 Pão não comestes, vinho e bebida forte não bebestes; para que soubésseis que eu sou o Senhor vosso Deus.

7 Quando, pois, viemos a este lugar, Siom, rei de Hesbom, e Ogue, rei de Basã, nos saíram ao encontro, à peleja, e nós os ferimos;

8 e lhes tomamos a terra, e a demos por herança aos rubenitas, aos gaditas e à meia tribo dos manassitas.

9 Guardai, pois, as palavras deste pacto e cumpri-as, para que prospereis em tudo quanto fizerdes.

10 Vós todos estais hoje perante o Senhor vosso Deus: os vossos cabeças, as vossas tribos, os vossos anciãos e os vossos oficiais, a saber, todos os homens de Israel,

11 os vossos pequeninos, as vossas mulheres, e o estrangeiro que está no meio do vosso arraial, tanto o rachador da vossa lenha como o tirador da vossa água;

12 para entrardes no pacto do Senhor vosso Deus, e no seu juramento que o Senhor vosso Deus hoje faz convosco;

13 para que hoje vos estabeleça por seu povo, e ele vos seja por Deus, como vos disse e como prometeu com juramento a vossos pais, a Abraão, a Isaque e a Jacó.

14 Ora, não é somente convosco que faço este pacto e este juramento,

15 mas é com aquele que hoje está aqui conosco perante o Senhor nosso Deus, e também com aquele que hoje não está aqui conosco

16 (porque vós sabeis como habitamos na terra do Egito, e como passamos pelo meio das nações, pelas quais passastes;

17 e vistes as suas abominações, os seus ídolos de pau e de pedra, de prata e de ouro, que havia entre elas);

18 para que entre vós não haja homem, nem mulher, nem família, nem tribo, cujo coração hoje se desvie do Senhor nosso Deus, e vá servir aos deuses dessas nações; para que entre vós não haja raiz que produza veneno e fel,

19 e aconteça que alguém, ouvindo as palavras deste juramento, se abençoe no seu coração, dizendo: Terei paz, ainda que ande na teimosia do meu coração para acrescentar à sede a bebedeira.

20 O Senhor não lhe quererá perdoar, pelo contrário fumegará contra esse homem a ira do Senhor, e o seu zelo, e toda maldição escrita neste livro pousará sobre ele, e o Senhor lhe apagará o nome de debaixo do céu.

21 Assim o Senhor o separará para mal, dentre todas as tribos de Israel, conforme todas as maldições do pacto escrito no livro desta lei.

22 Pelo que a geração vindoura - os vossos filhos que se levantarem depois de vós - e o estrangeiro que vier de terras remotas dirão, ao verem as pragas desta terra, e as suas doenças, com que o Senhor a terá afligido,

23 e que toda a sua terra é enxofre e sal e abrasamento, de sorte que não será semeada, e nada produzirá, nem nela crescerá erva alguma, assim como foi a destruição de Sodoma e de Gomorra, de Admá e de Zeboim, que o Senhor destruiu na sua ira e no seu furor;

24 sim, todas as nações dirão: Por que fez o Senhor assim com esta terra? Que significa o furor de tamanha ira?

25 Então se dirá: Porquanto deixaram o pacto do Senhor, o Deus de seus pais, que tinha feito com eles, quando os tirou da terra do Egito;

26 e se foram e serviram a outros deuses, e os adoraram; deuses que eles não tinham conhecido, e que lhes não foram dados;

27 por isso é que a ira do Senhor se acendeu contra esta terra, para trazer sobre ela toda maldição que está escrita neste livro;

28 e o Senhor os arrancou da sua terra com ira, com furor e com grande indignação, e os lançou em outra terra, como neste dia se vê.

29 As coisas encobertas pertencem ao Senhor nosso Deus, mas as reveladas nos pertencem a nós e a nossos filhos para sempre, para que observemos todas as palavras desta lei.

   

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776. '[Every] bird according to its kind' means all spiritual truth, 'flying things' means natural truth, and 'winged thing' sensory truth. This is clear from what has been stated and shown already about birds, as in 40. The most ancient people likened man's thoughts to birds, for in relation to things of the will, thoughts are like birds. Since bird, flying thing, and winged thing are mentioned here, and come consecutively in the way that intellectual concepts, rational concepts, and sensory impressions do in man, and to prevent anyone doubting that this is what they mean, let other places from the Word of a confirmatory nature be quoted, from which as well it will be evident that 'beasts' means such things as have been stated.

[2] In David,

You have given Him dominion over the works of Your hands; You have put all things under His feet, flocks and all cattle, and also the beasts of the fields, the flying things of the air, 1 and the fish of the sea. Psalms 8:6-8.

This refers to the Lord, whose dominion over man and over what belongs to man is described in this fashion. If this were not so, what would 'dominion over beasts and birds' really be? In the same author,

Fruit tree and all cedars, wild animal and every beast, creeping thing and flying thing - they shall glorify the name of Jehovah. Psalms 148:9-10, 13.

'Fruit tree' is the celestial man, 'cedar' the spiritual man, 'wild animal and beast and creeping thing' the goods of these kinds of man, as in the present context. 'Flying thing' is their truths from which they are able to glorify the name of Jehovah. This a wild animal, a beast, a creeping thing, or a flying thing can never do. In secular literature such statements can be used as hyperbole, but in the Word of the Lord they are never just hyperbole but meaningful signs and representatives.

[3] In Ezekiel,

They start to tremble before Me - the fish of the sea, and the birds of the air, 2 and the wild animals of the field, and every creeping thing creeping over the ground, and every man that is on the face 3 of the ground. Ezekiel 38:20.

The fact that 'beasts' and 'birds' here have such meanings is quite clear, for what would Jehovah's glory be if fish, birds, and beasts were to start to tremble? Could anyone think that such utterances are holy if they did not embody holy things within them? In Jeremiah,

I looked, and behold, there was no man; all the birds of the air 2 had fled. Jeremiah 4:15.

This stands for all good and truth. Here 'man' stands as well for good that stems from love. In the same prophet,

They have been laid waste so that no man passes through, neither do men hear the voice of the herd. From the birds of the air 2 down to beasts, they have scattered, they have gone away. Jeremiah 9:10.

This in a similar way stands for the departure of all truth and good.

[4] In the same prophet,

How long will the land mourn and the grass of every field wither? For the wickedness of those who dwell in it, the beasts and the birds have perished, for men said, He will not see our latter end. Jeremiah 11:4.

Here 'beasts' stands for goods, and 'birds' for truths, which perished. In Zephaniah,

I will consume man and beast, I will consume the birds of the air 2 and the fish of the sea, and the stumbling-blocks with the wicked; and I will cut off mankind from the face 4 of the ground. Zephaniah 1:3.

Here 'man and beast' stands for the things which belong to love and good deriving from love, 'the birds of the air 2 and the fish of the sea' for those which belong to the understanding and so to truth. These are called 'stumbling-blocks' because for wicked people it is goods and truths, not beasts and birds, that are stumbling-blocks. These are also plainly referred to as man's. In David,

The trees of Jehovah are watered abundantly, and the cedars of Lebanon which He planted. In them flying things build their nests. Psalms 104:16-17.

'The trees of Jehovah and the cedars of Lebanon' stands for spiritual man, 'flying things' for his rational or natural truths which are like 'nests'. What is more, 'the birds build nests in the branches' was a common saying by which people meant truths, as in Ezekiel,

[5] On the mountain height of Israel I will plant it, and it will bring forth a branch, and bear fruit, and it will become a noble cedar, and under it will dwell every flying thing of every sort, 5 in the shade of its branches they will dwell. Ezekiel 17:23.

This stands for the Church among gentiles which was spiritual and which is 'a noble cedar'. 'Birds of every sort' 5 stands for truths of every kind. In the same prophet,

In its branches all the birds of the air 2 made their nests, and under its branches every wild animal of the field gave birth, and in its shadow dwelt all great nations. Ezekiel 31:6.

This refers to Asshur, which is the spiritual Church and is called 'a cedar'. 'Birds of the air' 2 stands for its truths, 'beasts' for its goods.

[6] In Daniel,

Its branch was fair, and its fruit much, and food for all was on it. The beast of the field had shade under it, and in its branches dwelt the flying things of the air' 1 Daniel 4:12, 11.

Here 'beast' stands for goods, and 'flying thing of the air' 1 for truths. This may become clear to anyone, for what else would bird and beast dwelling there really be? The same applies to what the Lord said, The kingdom of God is like a grain of mustard seed, which someone took and sowed in his garden, and it grew and became a big tree so that the birds of the air 1 dwelt in its branches. Luke 13:19; Matthew 13:32; Mark 4:32.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. literally, flying thing of the heavens (or the skies)

2. literally, bird of the heavens (or the skies)

3. literally, over the faces

4. literally, the faces

5. literally, of every wing

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