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Второзаконие 20

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1 Когда ты пойдешь на войну противъ врага твоего, и увидишь коней и колесницы и народа болје, нежели у тебя: то не бойся ихъ, ибо съ тобою Господь, Богъ твой, Который вывелъ тебя изъ земли Египетской.

2 Когда же надобно вступить вамъ въ сраженіе, тогда священникъ пусть подойдетъ и говоритъ народу,

3 и скажетъ ему: слушай, Израиль, вы сегодня вступаете въ сраженіе съ врагами вашими, да не ослабјетъ сердце ваше, не бойтесь, не смущайтесь и не ужасайтесь ихъ:

4 ибо Господь, Богъ вашъ, идетъ съ вами, чтобы сразиться за васъ съ врагами вашими, чтобы спасти васъ.

5 Надзиратели же пусть объявятъ народу, и скажутъ: кто построилъ новый домъ и не обновилъ его, тотъ пусть идетъ и возвратится въ домъ свой, дабы не умеръ на сраженіи, и другой не обновилъ его.

6 И кто насадилъ виноградникъ и не пользовался имъ, тотъ пусть идетъ и возвратится въ домъ свой, дабы не умеръ на сраженіи, и другой не восполъзовался имъ.

7 И кто обручился съ женою и не взялъ ея, тотъ пусть идетъ и возвратится въ домъ свой, дабы не умеръ на сраженіи, и другой не взялъ ея.

8 Потомъ надзиратели еще объявятъ народу, и скажутъ: кто боязливъ и малодушенъ, тотъ пусть идетъ и возвратится въ домъ свой, дабы онъ не сдјлалъ робкимъ сердца братьевъ его, какъ его сердце.

9 Когда надзиратели скажутъ все сіе народу, тогда должны они поставить военныхъ начальниковъ въ вожди народа.

10 Когда подойдешь къ городу, чтобъ завоевать его, предложи ему миръ.

11 Если онъ согласится на миръ съ тобою и отворитъ тебј ворота, то весь народъ, который найдется въ немъ, будетъ платить тебј дань и служить тебј.

12 Если же онъ не согласится на миръ съ тобою и будетъ вести съ тобою войну, то осади его.

13 И когда Господь, Богъ твой, предастъ его въ руки твои, порази въ немъ весь мужескій полъ остріемъ меча;

14 только женъ и дјтей, и скотъ, и все, что будетъ въ городј, всю добычу его возьми себј, и пользуйся добычею враговъ твоихъ, которыхъ предалъ тебј Господь, Богъ твой.

15 Такъ поступай со всјми городами, которые отъ тебя весьма далеко, которые не изъ числа городовъ народовъ сихъ.

16 А въ городахъ сихъ народовъ, которыхъ землю Господь, Богъ твой, даетъ тебј въ удјлъ, не оставляй въ живыхъ ни одной души.

17 Но предай ихъ заклятію: Хеттеевъ и Аморреевъ, Хананеевъ и Ферезеевъ, Евеевъ и Іевусеевъ, какъ повелјлъ тебј Господь, Богъ твой;

18 дабы они не научили васъ дјлать такія же мерзости, какія они дјлали для боговъ своихъ, и дабы вы не грјшили предъ Господомъ, Богомъ вашимъ.

19 Если долгое время будешь держать въ осадј городъ, чтобы завоевать его и взять его: то не порть деревъ его, и не поднимай на нихъ топора; но јшь плоды съ нихъ, а не руби ихъ: ибо дерево на полј развј человјкъ, чтобъ оно ушло отъ тебя въ крјпость?

20 Только тј дерева, о которыхъ ты знаешь, что они ничего не приносятъ въ пищу, можешь портить и рубить, и строить укрјпленія противъ города, который ведетъ съ тобою войну, доколј не покоришь его.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 1097

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1097. 'Canaan will be a slave to him' means that such people as make worship consist solely in external things are among those who are able to perform inferior services to members of the Church. This becomes clear especially from the representatives in the Jewish Church. In the Jewish Church the internal Church was represented by Judah and Israel - the celestial Church by Judah, the spiritual by Israel - and the external Church by Jacob. People however who made worship consist solely in external things were represented by 'the gentiles' whom they called foreigners. The latter were to be 'their slaves' and were to perform inferior services in the Church, as in Isaiah,

Aliens will stand and pasture your flock, and sons of the foreigner will be your field-workers and your vine-dressers; and you will be called the priests of Jehovah, you will be spoken of as the ministers of our God. You will eat the wealth of the gentiles, and in their glory will you glory. Isaiah 61:5-6.

Here celestial people are called 'the priests of Jehovah', spiritual people 'the ministers of God', while those who made worship consist solely in external things are called 'sons of the foreigner' who were to serve in their fields and vineyards.

[2] In the same prophet,

The sons of the foreigner will build up your walls, and their kings will minister to you. Isaiah 60:10.

Here similar reference is made to the service they were to render. In reference to the Gibeonites the following is said in Joshua,

You are cursed, and some of you will always be slaves, 1 both hewers of wood and drawers of water for the house of my God. Joshua made them on that day hewers of wood and drawers of water for the congregation, especially for the altar of Jehovah. Joshua 9:23, 27.

It may be seen elsewhere whom the Gibeonites represented because of the covenant made with them, even though they belonged among those who were to be servants in the Church. Regarding foreigners, the law was laid down that if they would accept peace and open their gates they would become tributary and serve, 2 Deuteronomy 20:11; 1 Kings 9:21-22. Every single detail written down in the Word concerning the Jewish Church was representative of the Lord's kingdom. The Lord's kingdom is such that everyone, no matter who or what kind of person, must perform a use. In His kingdom the Lord looks to nothing else than use. Even those in hell have to perform a use, though the uses they do perform are the lowest of all. Among those performing inferior uses are people in the next life whose worship has been wholly external, separated from internal.

[3] Furthermore representatives in the Jewish Church were such that no attention was paid to the person who represented, but to that which was represented by him. The Jews, for example, who were anything but celestial people, nevertheless represented these, while Israel, anything but a spiritual man, nevertheless represented that man; and it was similar with Jacob and the rest. The same applied to kings and priests; they nevertheless represented the Kingship and Holiness of the Lord. This matter becomes clearer still from the fact that even inanimate objects were representative, such as Aaron's garments, the altar itself, the tables with the leaves on them, the lamps, bread and wine; as well as oxen, calves, goats, sheep, kids, lambs, doves, and pigeons. And because the sons of Judah and Israel did no more than represent the internal and the external worship of the Lord's Church, and yet more than anybody else made all worship consist merely in external things, it is therefore they, more than all others, who may be called 'Canaan' according to his meaning here.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. literally, and there will not be cut off from you the slave

2. literally, they would become tribute [taking the form] of a serving one

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