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Deuteronômio 8

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1 Todos os mandamentos que hoje eu vos ordeno cuidareis de observar, para que vivais, e vos multipliqueis, e entreis, e possuais a terra que o Senhor, com juramento, prometeu a vossos pais.

2 E te lembrarás de todo o caminho pelo qual o Senhor teu Deus tem te conduzido durante estes quarenta anos no deserto, a fim de te humilhar e te provar, para saber o que estava no teu coração, se guardarias ou não os seus mandamentos.

3 Sim, ele te humilhou, e te deixou ter fome, e te sustentou com o maná, que nem tu nem teus pais conhecíeis; para te dar a entender que o homem não vive só de pão, mas de tudo o que sai da boca do Senhor, disso vive o homem.

4 Não se envelheceram as tuas vestes sobre ti, nem se inchou o teu , nestes quarenta anos.

5 Saberás, pois, no teu coração que, como um homem corrige a seu filho, assim te corrige o Senhor teu Deus.

6 E guardarás os mandamentos de Senhor teu Deus, para andares nos seus caminhos, e para o temeres.

7 Porque o Senhor teu Deus te está introduzindo numa boa terra, terra de ribeiros de águas, de fontes e de nascentes, que brotam nos vales e nos outeiros;

8 terra de trigo e cevada; de vides, figueiras e romeiras; terra de oliveiras, de azeite e de mel;

9 terra em que comerás o pão sem escassez, e onde não te faltará coisa alguma; terra cujas pedras são ferro, e de cujos montes poderás cavar o cobre.

10 Comerás, pois, e te fartarás, e louvarás ao Senhor teu Deus pela boa terra que te deu.

11 Guarda-te, que não te esqueças do Senhor teu Deus, deixando de observar os seus mandamentos, os seus preceitos e os seus estatutos, que eu hoje te ordeno;

12 para não suceder que, depois de teres comido e estares farto, depois de teres edificado boas casas e estares morando nelas,

13 depois de se multiplicarem as tuas manadas e es teus rebanhos, a tua prata e o teu ouro, sim, depois de se multiplicar tudo quanto tens,

14 se exalte e teu coração e te esqueças do Senhor teu Deus, que te tirou da terra o Egito, da casa da servidão;

15 que te conduziu por aquele grande e terrível deserto de serpentes abrasadoras e de escorpiões, e de terra árida em que não havia água, e onde te fez sair água da rocha pederneira;

16 que no deserto te alimentou com o maná, que teus pais não conheciam; a fim de te humilhar e te provar, para nos teus últimos dias te fazer bem;

17 e digas no teu coração: A minha força, e a fortaleza da minha mão me adquiriram estas riquezas.

18 Antes te lembrarás do Senhor teu Deus, porque ele é o que te força para adquirires riquezas; a fim de confirmar o seu pacto, que jurou a teus pais, como hoje se vê.

19 Sucederá, porém, que, se de qualquer maneira te esqueceres de Senhor teu Deus, e se seguires após outros deuses, e os servires, e te encurvares perante eles, testifico hoje contra ti que certamente perecerás.

20 Como as nações que o Senhor vem destruindo diante de vós, assim vós perecereis, por não quererdes ouvir a voz do Senhor vosso Deus. rovas, de sinais, de maravilhas, de peleja,

   

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2838. 'As it is said today' means that which is perpetual. This is clear from the meaning of 'today' in the Word, dealt with below. One frequently reads in the Word the phrase 'even to this day (or today)', as in what has gone before,

He is the father of Moab even to this day, and the father of Ammon even to this day. Genesis 19:37-38; and in what appears later on,

The name of the city is Beersheba even to this day. Genesis 26:33; also,

The children of Israel do not eat the sinew of that which was displaced, which is on the hollow of the thigh, even to this day. Genesis 32:32; as well as,

This is the pillar of Rachel's grave even to [this] day. Genesis 35:20.

Joseph made it a statute even to this day. Genesis 47:26.

In the historical sense 'to this day' and 'today' refer to the time when Moses was alive, but in the internal sense these expressions mean perpetuity and eternity of state. 'Day' means state, see 23, 487, 488, 493, 893, and so therefore does 'today', which is the present time. That which in the world is temporal is in heaven eternal. To give the meaning of that which is eternal, the expression today or else to this day has been added, though to those who are aware only of the historical sense it does not appear to embody anything further. Similar usages of these expressions occur elsewhere in the Word, such as Joshua 4:9; 6:25; 7:26; Judges 1:21, 26; and in other places.

[2] That 'today' means that which is perpetual and eternal may be seen in David,

I will tell of the statute: Jehovah has said to me, You are My Son; today I have begotten You. Psalms 2:7.

Here 'today' plainly stands for that which is eternal. In the same author,

For ever, O Jehovah, Your Word is fixed in the heavens, Your truth to generation after generation. You have established the earth and it stands. As for Your judgements they stand [even] today. Psalms 119:89-91.

Here also 'today' plainly stands for that which is eternal. In Jeremiah,

Before I formed you in the belly, I knew you, and before you came out of the womb I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations. I have set you this day (today) over nations and over kingdoms; and I have made you today into a fortified city, and into a pillar of iron, and into walls of bronze. Jeremiah 1:5, 10, 18.

This refers in the sense of the letter to Jeremiah, but in the internal sense the Lord is meant. 'I have set you this day (or today) over nations and over kingdoms, and I have made you today into a fortified city' means from eternity. In regard to the Lord one can only speak of that which is eternal.

[3] In Moses,

You are standing today, all of you, before Jehovah your God, so that you may enter into the covenant of Jehovah your God, and into His oath, which Jehovah your God is making with you today, that He may establish you today as a people for Himself, and that He will be God to you. Not indeed with you alone [do I make it], but with those who stand with us here today before Jehovah our God, and with those who are not with us today. Deuteronomy 29:10, 12-15.

Here in the sense of the letter 'today' means that present time when

Moses addressed the people. Yet it is clear that it nevertheless implies subsequent times and what is perpetual; for making a covenant with anyone, and with those who were there and with those who were not, implies that which is perpetual. Perpetuity itself is what is meant in the internal sense.

[4] That 'daily' and 'today' mean that which is perpetual is clear also from the sacrifice that was offered each day. This sacrifice, because of what is meant by day, daily, and today, was called the continual, or perpetual, sacrifice, Numbers 28:3, 23; Daniel 8:13; 11:31; 12:11. This may be even more plainly evident from the manna which rained from heaven, spoken of in Moses as follows,

Behold, I am causing bread to rain from heaven, and the people shall go out and gather a portion day by day. And they shall not leave any of it until the morning. That which they did leave until the morning bred worms and went rotten, except that gathered on the day before the Sabbath. Exodus 16:4, 19-20, 23.

This happened because 'the manna' meant the Lord's Divine Human, John 6:31-32, 49-50, 58, and because the Lord's Divine Human meant heavenly food, which is nothing other than love and charity, together with the goods and truths of faith. In heaven the Lord imparts this food to angels moment by moment, thus perpetually and eternally, see 2193. This is also what is meant in the Lord's Prayer by the petition, Give us today our daily bread, Matthew 6:11; Luke 11:3, that is, in every moment for evermore.

  
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