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Mateus 4

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1 Então foi conduzido Jesus pelo Espírito ao deserto, para ser tentado pelo Diabo.

2 E, tendo jejuado quarenta dias e quarenta noites, depois teve fome.

3 Chegando, então, o tentador, disse-lhe: Se tu és Filho de Deus manda que estas pedras se tornem em pães.

4 Mas Jesus lhe respondeu: Está escrito: Nem só de pão viverá o homem, mas de toda palavra que sai da boca de Deus.

5 Então o Diabo o levou à cidade santa, colocou-o sobre o pináculo do templo,

6 e disse-lhe: Se tu és Filho de Deus, lança-te daqui abaixo; porque está escrito: Aos seus anjos dará ordens a teu respeito; e: eles te susterão nas mãos, para que nunca tropeces em alguma pedra.

7 Replicou-lhe Jesus: Também está escrito: Não tentarás o Senhor teu Deus.

8 Novamente o Diabo o levou a um monte muito alto; e mostrou-lhe todos os reinos do mundo, e a glória deles;

9 e disse-lhe: Tudo isto te darei, se, prostrado, me adorares.

10 Então ordenou-lhe Jesus: Vai-te, Satanás; porque está escrito: Ao Senhor teu Deus adorarás, e só a ele servirás.

11 Então o Diabo o deixou; e eis que vieram os anjos e o serviram.

12 Ora, ouvindo Jesus que João fora entregue, retirou-se para a Galiléia;

13 e, deixando Nazaré, foi habitar em Cafarnaum, cidade marítima, nos confins de Zabulom e Naftali;

14 para que se cumprisse o que fora dito pelo profeta Isaías:

15 A terra de Zabulom e a terra de Naftali, o caminho do mar, além do Jordão, a Galiléia dos gentios,

16 o povo que estava sentado em trevas viu uma grande luz; sim, aos que estavam sentados na região da sombra da morte, a estes a luz raiou.

17 Desde então começou Jesus a pregar, e a dizer: Arrependei- vos, porque é chegado o reino dos céus.

18 E Jesus, andando ao longo do mar da Galiléia, viu dois irmãos - Simão, chamado Pedro, e seu irmão André, os quais lançavam a rede ao mar, porque eram pescadores.

19 Disse-lhes: Vinde após mim, e eu vos farei pescadores de homens.

20 Eles, pois, deixando imediatamente as redes, o seguiram.

21 E, passando mais adiante, viu outros dois irmãos - Tiago, filho de Zebedeu, e seu irmão João, no barco com seu pai Zebedeu, consertando as redes; e os chamou.

22 Estes, deixando imediatamente o barco e seu pai, seguiram- no.

23 E percorria Jesus toda a Galiléia, ensinando nas sinagogas, pregando o evangelho do reino, e curando todas as doenças e enfermidades entre o povo.

24 Assim a sua fama correu por toda a Síria; e trouxeram-lhe todos os que padeciam, acometidos de várias doenças e tormentos, os endemoninhados, os lunáticos, e os paralíticos; e ele os curou.

25 De sorte que o seguiam grandes multidões da Galiléia, de Decápolis, de Jerusalém, da Judéia, e dalém do Jordão.

   

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Apocalypse Explained # 120

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120. But are a synagogue of Satan, signifies the doctrine of all falsities with these. This is evident from the signification of "synagogue," as being doctrine (of which presently); and from the signification of "Satan," as being the hell from which are all falsities. There are two kinds of hells, one in which those are who are in evils, and the other in which those are who are in the falsities of evil. The hell in which those are who are in evils is called, in one word, Devil, and that in which those are who are in the falsities of evil is called, in one word, Satan. That the hells are thus named is totally unknown to those who know nothing about the hells, but have adopted the belief that the devil was created an angel of light, and because he rebelled was cast down with his crew, and thus hell was made. (That the hells are called Devil and Satan may be seen in the work on Heaven and Hell 311, 544, 553; and in the small work on The Last Judgment, in the chapter where it is shown that Heaven and Hell are from the Human Race, n. 14-22.)

[2] Let it be known, moreover, that as all goods and truths are from the Lord out of the heavens, so all evils and falsities are out of the hells. He is greatly deceived who believes that goods and truths have any other source than out of the heavens from the Lord, or that evils and falsities have any other source than out of the hells. Man is simply a receptacle of these, and to whichever he turns himself of that he is a recipient. If he turns himself towards heaven, which is effected by the goods of love and the truths of faith, he receives goods and truths from the Lord; but if he turns himself towards hell, which is effected by the evils of love and falsities of faith, he receives evils and falsities from the hells. Now as all evils and falsities are from the hells, and as the hells are called, in one word, either Devil or Satan, it follows that by Devil are also signified all evils, and by Satan all falsities. From this it is that by a "synagogue of Satan" the doctrine of all falsities is signified.

[3] By "synagogue" doctrine is signified, because in the synagogues there was instruction, and differences in matters of doctrine were also adjusted. That there was instruction in the synagogues is evident from Matthew 4:23; 9:35; 13:54; Mark 1:21, 22, 29, 39; 6:2; Luke 4:15, 16, 44; 13:10, 14; John 18:20. That differences in matters of doctrine were adjusted in the synagogues may be inferred from what is said in Matthew 10:17; Mark 13:9; Luke 12:11; 21:12; John 9:22; 12:42; 16:2, 3. That with the Jewish nation there was the doctrine of all falsities can be seen from many things known as to that nation; namely, that they denied the Lord; that they wish for a Messiah whose kingdom will be upon the earth, and who will exalt them above all other nations in the world; that they place all worship in externals, and reject the internals of worship, which are of faith in the Lord and of love to Him; that they apply all things in the Word to themselves; and falsify it by traditions of their own invention (See Matthew 15:6-9; Mark 7:1-13). Again, what the quality of that nation in respect to their interiors has been from the beginning can be seen from the song of Moses (Deuteronomy 32), and elsewhere in many passages (See also the quotations from the Arcana Coelestia, in The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem 248).

  
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