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1 Когда придетъ на тебя все сіе, благословеніе и проклятіе, которыя изложилъ я тебј, и ты среди всјхъ народовъ, къ которымъ изгонитъ тебя Господь, Богъ твой, обратишься къ сердцу твоему,

2 и обратишься ко Господу, Богу твоему, и будешь слушать гласа Его во всемъ, что я завјщаваю тебј сегодня, ты и сыны твои отъ всего сердца твоего, и отъ всей души твоей:

3 тогда Господь, Богъ твой, возвратитъ плјнныхъ твоихъ, и умилосердится надъ тобою, и опять соберетъ тебя отъ всјхъ народовъ, между которыми разсјетъ тебя Господь, Богъ твой.

4 Хотя бы ты былъ разсјянъ до края неба, и оттуда соберетъ тебя Господь, Богъ твой, и оттуда возьметъ тебя,

5 и приведетъ тебя Господь, Богъ твой, въ землю, которою владјли отцы твои, и получишь ее въ наслјдіе, и облагодјтельствуетъ тебя, и размножитъ тебя болје отцевъ твоихъ;

6 и обрјжетъ Господь, Богъ твой, сердце твое, и сердце потомства твоего, чтобы ты любилъ Господа, Бога твоего, отъ всего сердца твоего, и отъ всей души твоей, дабы жить тебј.

7 Тогда Господь, Богъ твой, всј проклятія сіи обратитъ на враговъ твоихъ и ненавидящихъ тебя, которые гнали тебя.

8 А ты обратишься и будешь слушать гласа Господа, и исполнять всј заповјди Его, которыя заповјдую тебј сегодня.

9 Со избыткомъ дастъ тебј Господь, Богъ твой, счастіе во всякомъ дјлј рукъ твоихъ, въ плодј чрева твоего, въ плодј скота твоего, въ плодј земли твоей; ибо снова радоваться будетъ Господь о тебј, благодјтельствуя тебј, какъ Онъ радовался объ отцахъ твоихъ,

10 если будешь слушать гласа Господа, Бога твоего, соблюдая заповјди Его и постановленія Его, написанныя въ сей книгј закона, и если обратишься ко Господу, Богу твоему, всемъ сердцемъ твоимъ, и всею душею твоею.

11 Заповјдь сія, которую я заповјдаю тебј сегодня, не сокрыта отъ тебя и не удалена;

12 она не на небј, чтобы нужно было говорить: кто бы намъ взошелъ на небо, и взялъ ее намъ, и далъ намъ услышать ее, и мы исполнили бы ее?

13 И не за моремъ она, чтобы нужно было говорить: кто бы намъ сходилъ за море, и взялъ ее намъ, и далъ намъ услышать ее, и мы исполнили бы ее?

14 Но слово сіе весьма близко къ тебј; оно въ устахъ твоихъ и въ сердцј твоемъ, чтобы ты исполнялъ его.

15 Смотри! Я сегодня предложилъ тебј жизнь и добро, смерть и зло.

16 Ибо я заповјдаю тебј сегодня любить Господа, Бога твоего, ходить по путямъ Его, и исполнять заповјди Его, и постановленія Его, и законы Его: тогда ты будешь жить и размножишься, и благословитъ тебя Господь, Богъ твой, на землј, въ которую ты идешь, чтобы получить ее въ наслјдіе.

17 Если же отвратится сердце твое и не будешь слушать, и заблудишь, и станешь поклоняться другимъ богамъ и будешь служить имъ:

18 то я возвјщаю вамъ сегодня, что вы погибнете, и не долго пробудете на землј, въ которую ты переходишь за Іорданъ, чтобы пойдти взять ее въ наслјдіе.

19 Во свидјтельство на васъ призываю сегодня небо и землю; жизнь и смерть предложилъ Я тебј, благословеніе и проклятіе: избери жизнь, дабы жилъ ты и потомство твое,

20 любилъ Господа, Бога твоего, слушалъ гласа Его, и прилјплялся къ Нему; ибо сіе есть жизнь твоя и долговременное пребываніе твое на землј, которую Господь съ клятвою објщалъ отцамъ твоимъ, Аврааму, Исааку и Іакову, дать имъ.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 8593

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8593. 'And Amalek came' means falsity arising from interior evil. This is clear from the representation of 'Amalek' as falsity arising from interior evil, dealt with below. Who exactly are steeped in falsity arising from interior evil, and what they are like, must be stated first. Interior evil is that which resides with a person, hidden inwardly. It is concealed in his will and consequently in his thinking, not a trace of it being apparent outwardly, in his actions, speech, or face. People ruled by this kind of evil strive by every method and skill to hide it away, to conceal it under an outward show of being honourable and righteous, and an outward show of love of the neighbour. Nevertheless their only thought is how to inflict harm, and so far as possible to use others to inflict it, taking care to prevent anyone from seeing that they are the instigators. They also disguise actual evil so that it does not look like evil. The greatest delight of their life is to contemplate such things and secretly try to carry them out. This is called interior evil. Those ruled by this evil are called evil genii and in the next life they have been completely separated from those who are ruled by exterior evil and are called spirits. The former - the evil genii - have their hell behind a person, that is, behind his back, where they live in various caverns. But the evil spirits have their hell in front of a person, and also to the sides. The genii belong in the Grand Man to the province of the cerebellum, and also to that part of the spinal cord which sends out the fibres and nerves that control involuntary actions.

[2] One may say further of the falsity arising from this interior evil that it is not like the falsity arising from evil that the evil spirits possess, because it is in itself evil. Those ruled by this evil do not attack the truths of faith but forms of the good of faith. They act through corrupt affections; through these they pervert good thoughts, doing so in a way almost inconceivable. Because they are like this their hells are completely separated from the hells of evil spirits, so completely that they have scarcely any contact with them; and they are separated in order that they may also be separated from members of the spiritual Church. For if they were to flow in from their hells, the member of that Church would be destroyed because they would act very secretly on his conscience and would pervert it, which they would do by inflating his corrupt affections. Those hellish genii never attack a person openly, or when he can offer strong resistance, but when it is seen that the person is slipping and may therefore give in. At this point they are suddenly at hand, and give him a shove so that he falls completely. This is also represented by Amalek's coming up to attack Israel now, as well as at a later time when the children of Israel set themselves against Jehovah and were afraid of the nations in the land of Canaan,

Then also Amalek came down with the Canaanite from the mountain, and struck down the children of Israel as far as Hormah. Numbers 14:43, 45.

[3] From all this one may recognize what those people are like who are represented by Amalek, and the reason for the judgement pronounced over him by Jehovah that war will be waged against them forever and that the memory of them will be wiped out from under heaven, in accordance with the following words in the final verse of the present chapter,

Because the hand of the evil ones is against the throne of Jah, the war of Jehovah will be against Amalek from generation to generation.

And in Deuteronomy,

Remember what Amalek did to you on the way when you came out of Egypt, that he met you on the way, and cut off at your rear all the weak, when you were tired and weary; he did not fear God. When Jehovah your God has given you rest, you shall wipe out the memory of Amalek from under heaven; you shall not forget. Deuteronomy 25:17-19.

Also in the first book of Samuel,

Jehovah declared to Saul through Samuel, I have resolved to punish 1 what Amalek did to Israel, how he set [himself] against him on the way when he came up from Egypt. Therefore go and strike Amalek, and utterly destroy all that he has; do not spare him, but kill man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass. But Saul spared Agag the king, and the best of the flock and the oxen, and of the fatlings, 2 and the rams, and all that was good. Therefore it was declared to Saul that because of this he would no longer be king over Israel. 1 Samuel 15:2-3, 9, 23.

The declaration that the memory of Amalek should be wiped out and that everything there should be utterly destroyed meant that evil genii should have no contact whatever with those belonging to the spiritual Church; for they are in contact with those who are not governed by truths but from an evil affection uphold falsities.

[4] Who can fail to see that except for some more deeply hidden reason Jehovah would never have said that war was to be waged forever against Amalek, that the memory of him was to be wiped out from under heaven, and that everything there was to be utterly destroyed, though all this was not in fact carried out? That more deeply hidden reason why these things were said and done is embodied in Samuel's words to Agag the king of the Amalekites, whom Saul had spared,

Agag the king of Amalek went to Samuel delicately. 3 But Samuel said, As your sword has bereaved women, so shall your mother become the most bereaved of women. And Samuel cut him in pieces before Jehovah. 1 Samuel 15:32-33.

'Going delicately' means the outwardly charming ways that such people have in the presence of others. 'Your sword has bereaved women' means that their falsity does violence to good affections; 'your mother shall become the most bereaved of women' means that evil affection which originates in the will, not in the understanding, will hold sway among them; 'and Samuel cut him in pieces before Jehovah' means that they were separated from those ruled by falsity arising from evil that originated in the understanding, that is, genii were separated from spirits, as stated above. For the meaning of 'women' as affections, see 568, 6014, 8337; and for 'sword' as falsity engaged in conflict and laying waste, 2799, 4499, 7102.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. literally, visit

2. literally, of the second sort

3. literally, In delights

  
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