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Второзаконие 9

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1 Слушай, Израиль? ты теперь идешь за Іорданъ, чтобъ пойдти, взять въ наслјдіе народы, которые болје и сильнје тебя, города большіе съ укрјпленіями, возвышающимися до небесъ,

2 народъ многочисленный и великорослый, сыновъ Энаковыхъ, о которыхъ ты знаешь и слышалъ: "кто устоитъ противъ сыновъ Энаковыхъ?"

3 Знай нынј, что Господь, Богъ твой, пойдетъ предъ тобою, какъ огнь поядающій; Онъ будетъ истреблять ихъ, и Онъ низложитъ ихъ, и смиритъ ихъ предъ тобою, и изгонишь ихъ и погубишь ихъ скоро, какъ говорилъ тебј Господь.

4 Когда будетъ изгонять ихъ Господь, Богъ твой, отъ лица твоего, тогда не скажи въ сердцј своемъ: за праведность мою привелъ меня Господь, чтобъ наслјдовать землю сію, и за нечестіе народовъ сихъ Господь изгоняетъ ихъ отъ лица твоего.

5 Не за праведность твою и не за правоту сердца твоего ты идешь наслјдовать землю ихъ, но за нечестіе народовъ сихъ Господь, Богъ твой, изгоняетъ ихъ отъ лица твоего, и дабы исполнить слово, которое съ клятвою далъ Господь отцамъ твоимъ Аврааму, Исааку и Іакову.

6 Посему знай, что не за праведность твою Господь, Богъ твой, даетъ тебј наслјдовать сію добрую землю: ибо ты народъ жестоковыйный.

7 Вспомни, не забудь, сколько ты раздражалъ Господа, Бога твоего, въ пустынј: съ самаго того дня, какъ вышелъ ты изъ земли Египетской и до самаго пришествія вашего на мјсто сіе вы были упорны противъ Господа.

8 И при Хоривј вы раздражили Господа, и прогнјвался на васъ Господь, такъ что хотјлъ истребить васъ,

9 когда я взошелъ на гору, чтобы взять скрижали каменныя, скрижали завјта, который поставилъ Господь съ вами, и пробылъ на горј сорокъ дней и сорокъ ночей, хлјба не јлъ и воды не пилъ,

10 и далъ мнј Господь двј скрижали каменныя, написанныя перстомъ Божіимъ, а на нихъ всј слова, которыя изрекъ вамъ Господь на горј изъ среды огня въ день собранія.

11 По окончаніи же сорока дней и сорока ночей, далъ мнј Господь двј скрижали каменныя, скрижали завјта,

12 и сказалъ мнј Господь: встань, поди скорје отсюда, ибо развратился народъ твой, который ты вывелъ изъ Египта; скоро уклонились они отъ пути, который Я заповјдалъ имъ, они сдјлали себј литой истуканъ.

13 И сказалъ мнј Господь: вижу Я народъ сей, что это народъ жестоковыйный.

14 Не удерживай Меня, истреблю Я ихъ и изглажу имя ихъ изъ поднебесной; а отъ тебя произведу народъ, который будетъ сильнје и многочисленнје его.

15 Я обратился и пошелъ съ горы, гора же горјла огнемъ, двј скрижали завјта были въ објихъ рукахъ моихъ,

16 и вижу, и вотъ вы согрјшили противъ Господа, Бога вашего, сдјлали себј литаго тельца, скоро уклонились отъ пути, котораго держаться заповјдалъ вамъ Господь.

17 Тогда взялъ я обј скрижали, и бросилъ ихъ изъ објихъ рукъ своихъ и разбилъ ихъ предъ глазами вашими.

18 И повергшись предъ Господомъ, я умолялъ, какъ прежде, сорокъ дней и сорокъ ночей, хлјба не јлъ и воды не пилъ, за всј грјхи ваши, коими вы согрјшили, сдјлавъ зло въ очахъ Господа и раздраживъ Его.

19 Ибо я страшился гнјва и ярости, коими Господь прогнјвался на васъ, хотјвъ погубить васъ; и послушалъ меня Господь и на сей разъ.

20 И на Аарона весьма прогнјвался Господь, и хотјлъ погубить его; но я молился и за Аарона въ то время.

21 Грјхъ же вашъ, который вы сдјлали, тельца я взялъ, сожегъ его въ огнј, разбилъ его и всего истеръ до того, что онъ сталъ мелокъ, какъ пыль, и бросилъ пыль сію въ потокъ, текущій съ горы.

22 Кромј сего вы раздражили Господа въ Таверј, въ Массј и въ Киброт-таавј;

23 также, когда посылалъ васъ Господь изъ Кадесъ-Варни, говоря: подите, возьмите въ наслјдіе землю, которую Я даю вамъ; но вы воспротивились повелјнію Господа, Бога вашего, и не вјровали Ему и не послушали гласа Его.

24 Вы были непокорны Господу съ того самаго дня, какъ я сталъ знать васъ.

25 И повергшись предъ Господомъ, умолялъ я сорокъ дней и сорокъ ночей, въ которые я повергшись умолялъ: ибо Господь вознамјрился погубить васъ.

26 И молился я Господу, и сказалъ: Господи, Господи, не погубляй народа Твоего и наслјдія Твоего, который Ты избавилъ величіемъ Твоимъ, который вывелъ Ты изъ Египта рукою сильною.

27 Вспомни рабовъ Твоихъ Авраама, Исаака и Іакова; не обращай взоровъ на ожесточеніе народа сего, и на нечестіе его, и на грјхъ его,

28 дабы въ той землј, откуда Ты вывелъ насъ, не сказали: поелику Господь не могъ ввести ихъ въ землю, которую објщалъ имъ, и поелику ненавидитъ ихъ, то и вывелъ Онъ ихъ, чтобъ умертвить ихъ въ пустынј.

29 А они Твой народъ и Твое наслјдіе, который Ты вывелъ силою Твоею великою и мышцею Твоею высокою.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 9320

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9320. 'For you shall utterly destroy them' means that evils must be completely removed. This is clear from the meaning of 'destroying' - when it has reference to evils and falsities, meant by the nations of the land of Canaan and their gods - as removing. The reason why 'destroying' means removing is that those governed by goodness and truth never destroy those ruled by evil and falsity, but merely move them away. This they do because good, not evil, governs their actions, and good comes from the Lord, who never destroys anyone. Those ruled by evil however and consequently by falsity try to destroy, and so far as they can they do destroy those governed by good. This they do because evil rules their actions. But since, when they try to do so, they make their attack on good which comes from the Lord, thus on what is of God, they destroy themselves, that is, they hurl themselves into damnation and into hell. Such is the law of order. And why it is such, see 4299, 7643, 7679, 7710, 7926, 7989, 8137, 8146, 8265, 8945, 8946.

[2] The reason why the Israelites and Jews were to destroy the nations of the land of Canaan was that they themselves represented spiritual and heavenly realities, while the nations represented hellish and devilish things, which can never exist together with those realities since they are opposites. The reason why they were allowed to destroy the nations was that no Church existed among them, only a representative of the Church, so that the Lord was not present among them either except through things of a representative nature, 4307. For they were interested in outward forms but not their inner substances, that is, in the worship that represented goodness and truth but not goodness and truth themselves. People like this are allowed to destroy, kill, and consign to slaughter and complete destruction. But people who are interested in outward forms and at the same time in their inner substance are not allowed to do those things, since their actions must be governed by good, and good comes from the Lord.

[3] The fact that the Jews and Israelites were such is declared explicitly by Moses,

Do not say in your heart, when Jehovah your God has thrust out the nations before you, Because of my righteousness Jehovah has brought me in to possess this land. It is not because of your righteousness and because of the uprightness of your heart; for you are a stiff-necked people. Deuteronomy 9:4-6.

And elsewhere,

They are a nation from whom counsel has perished, nor is there intelligence in them. From the vine of Sodom comes their vine, and from the fields of Gomorrah; their grapes are grapes of poison, they have clusters of bitterness. The poison of snakes (draco) is their wine, and the cruel poison of asps. Is not this hidden away with Me, sealed up in My treasuries? Deuteronomy 32:28, 32-34.

'The vine' in the internal sense means the Church, 1069, 5113, 6375, 6376, 9277; 'grapes' and 'clusters' mean the internal forms and the external forms of that Church's good, 1071, 5117, 6378; and 'wine' means that Church's internal truth, 1071, 1798, 6377. From this one may see what is meant by the assertions that their vine comes from the vine of Sodom and from the fields of Gomorrah, that their grapes are grapes of poison and clusters of bitterness, and that their wine is the poison of snakes and the cruel poison of asps. The fact that all this was known to Jehovah, that is, to the Lord, is meant by the remarks about its being hidden away with Him and sealed up in His treasuries.

[4] In John,

Jesus said to the Jews, You are from your father the devil, and the desires of your father you will to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and has not stood in the truth. John 8:44.

This is why they are called a wicked and adulterous generation, Matthew 12:39, as well as a brood of vipers, Matthew 3:7; 12:34; 23:33; Luke 3:7. That they were like this is also described by the Lord in His parables in Matthew 21:33-45; Mark 12:1-9; Luke 14:16-24; 20:9ff.

Regarding that nation, that it was the worst nation; that in their worship they were interested in outward forms but not their inner substance; that no Church existed among them, only a representative of the Church; but that nevertheless they were able to represent the internal realities of the Church, see 3398, 3479, 3480, 3732 (end), 3881 (end), 4208, 4281, 4288-4290, 4293, 4307, 4314, 4316, 4317, 4429, 4433, 4444, 4500, 4503, 4680, 4815, 4818, 4820, 4825, 4832, 4837, 4844, 4847, 4865, 4868, 4874, 4899, 4903, 4911-4913, 5057, 5998, 6304, 6832, 6877, 7048, 7051, 7248, 7401, 7439, 8301, 8588, 8788, 8806, 8814, 8819, 8871, 8882, 9284.

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