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1 Не принимай пустаго слуха, не давай руки твоей беззаконнику, чтобы быть свидјтелемъ въ пользу преступленія.

2 Не слјдуй множеству, чтобы дјлать зло, и не суди тяжбы, увлекаясь вслјдъ за многими, чтобы рјшить превратно.

3 И нищему не благопріятствуй въ тяжбј его.

4 Если найдешь вола непріятеля твоего, или осла его, заблудившагося: приведи его къ нему.

5 Если увидишь, что оселъ врага твоего упалъ подъ ношею своею: то не оставляй его одного развьючивать; развьючь вмјстј съ нимъ.

6 Не суди превратно тяжбы нищаго твоего.

7 Удаляйся отъ всякой лжи, и не умерщвляй невиннаго и праваго; ибо я не извиню беззаконника.

8 Даровъ не принимай; ибо дары слјпыми дјлаютъ зрячихъ, и превращаютъ дјло правыхъ.

9 Пришельца не обижай: вы знаете, что на душј у пришельца; потому что сами были пришельцами въ землј Египетской.

10 Шесть лјтъ засјвай землю твою, и собирай произведенія ея.

11 А въ седьмой оставляй ее, давай ей свободу, чтобы питались убогіе изъ твоего народа, а остатками послј нихъ питались звјри полевые. Такъ же поступай съ виноградникомъ твоимъ, и съ маслиною твоею.

12 Шесть дней дјлай дјла свои, а въ седьмой день покойся, чтобы отдохнулъ волъ твой и оселъ твой, и успокоился сынъ рабы твоей и пришлецъ.

13 Соблюдайте все, что Я сказалъ вамъ; и имени другихъ боговъ не упоминайте, чтобъ не слышать его изъ устъ твоихъ.

14 Три раза въ году празднуй Мнј.

15 Наблюдай праздникъ опрјсноковъ; семь дней јшь прјсный хлјбъ, какъ Я повелјлъ тебј, въ извјстное время мјсяца Авива; ибо въ ономъ ты вышелъ изъ Египта, и пусть не являются предъ лице Мое съ пустыми руками.

16 Наблюдай также праздникъ жатвы, первыхъ плодовъ труда твоего, какіе ты сјялъ на полј; и праздникъ собиранія плодовъ въ концј года, когда уберешь съ поля работу твою.

17 Три раза въ году долженъ являться весь мужескій полъ твой предъ лице Господа Іеговы.

18 Не изливай крови жертвы Моей на квасное, и тукъ отъ праздника Моего не долженъ переночевать до утра.

19 Первые плоды земли твоей приноси въ домъ Іеговы, Бога твоего. Не вари козленка въ молокј матери его.

20 Вотъ, Я посылаю предъ тобою Ангела хранить тебя на пути, и ввести тебя въ то мјсто, которое Я приготовилъ.

21 Будь остороженъ въ присутствіи его, и слушай гласа его; не упорствуй противъ него; потому, что онъ не потерпитъ вашей непокорности; ибо имя Мое въ немъ.

22 Если ты будешь слушать гласа его, и исполнять все, что ни скажу; то врагомъ буду враговъ твоихъ, и противникомъ противниковъ твоихъ.

23 Ибо Ангелъ Мой пойдетъ предъ тобою, и поведетъ тебя къ Аморреямъ, и Хеттеямъ, и Ферезеямъ, и Хиввеямъ, и Іевусеямъ, и истреблю ихъ.

24 Не поклоняйся богамъ ихъ, и не служи имъ; не подражай дјламъ ихъ, но до конца истреби ихъ, и сокруши столпы ихъ.

25 Служите Іеговј Богу вашему; и Онъ благословитъ хлјбъ твой и воды твои, и отвращу отъ васъ болјзни.

26 Не будетъ преждевременно рождающихъ и безплодныхъ въ землј твоей: число дней твоихъ сдјлаю полное.

27 Ужасъ Мой пошлю предъ тобою, и устрашу всякой народъ, къ которому ты ни придешь, и буду обращать тебј тылъ всјхъ враговъ твоихъ.

28 Пошлю предъ тобою шершней, и они погонятъ отъ лица твоего Хиввеевъ, Хананеевъ и Хеттеевъ.

29 Не выгоню ихъ отъ лица твоего въ одинъ годъ, чтобы земля не сдјлалась пуста, и не усилились противъ тебя звјри полевые.

30 Мало-по-малу буду прогонять ихъ отъ тебя, пока ты размножишься, и наслјдуешь сію землю.

31 Проведу предјлы твои отъ моря Чермнаго до моря Филистимскаго, и отъ пустыни до великой рјки: ибо предамъ въ руки ваши жителей сей земли, и прогонишь ихъ отъ лица твоего.

32 Не заключай союза ни съ ними, ни съ ихъ богами.

33 Не должны они жить въ землј твоей, чтобы они не ввели тебя въ грјхъ противъ Меня; ибо если ты будешь служить богамъ ихъ: то сие будетъ тебј сјтію.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 1925

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1925. 'The angel of Jehovah found her' means thought in the interior man, that is to say, thought residing with the Lord. This becomes clear from the representation and meaning of 'the angel of Jehovah'. Mention is made several times in the Word of 'the angel of Jehovah', and in every case when used in the good sense it represents and means some essential quality with the Lord and from the Lord. Which one it represents and means however becomes clear from the train of thought. They were indeed angels who were sent to men and women, and who also spoke through the prophets. Yet what they spoke did not originate in those angels but was something imparted through them. In fact their state at the time was such that they knew no other than that they were Jehovah, that is, the Lord. But as soon as they had finished speaking they returned to their previous state and spoke as they normally did from themselves.

[2] This was the case with the angels who uttered the Word of the Lord, as I have been given to know from much similar experience in the next life, experience that will be presented in the Lord's Divine mercy further on. This is the reason why angels were sometimes called Jehovah, as is quite clear from the angel that appeared in the bramble-bush to Moses, concerning whom the following is recorded,

The angel of Jehovah appeared to Moses in a flame of fire from the middle of the bramble-bush. Jehovah saw that he turned aside to see, and God called to him from the middle of the bramble-bush God said to Moses, I am who I am. And God said again to Moses, Thus shall you say to the children of Israel, Jehovah the God of your fathers has sent me to you. Exodus 3:2, 4, 14-15.

From these verses it is evident that it was an angel who appeared to Moses as a flame in the bramble-bush and that he spoke as Jehovah, because the Lord or Jehovah was speaking through him.

[3] So that man may be spoken to by means of articulated sounds heard in the natural world, the Lord employs angels as His ministers by filling them with the Divine and by rendering unconscious all that is their own, so that for the time being they know no other than that they themselves are Jehovah. In this way the Divine of Jehovah which belongs in highest things comes down into the lowest constituting the natural world in which man sees and hears. It was similar in the case of the angel who spoke to Gideon, of whom the following is said in the Book of Judges,

The angel of Jehovah appeared to Gideon and said to him, Jehovah is with you, O mighty man of strength. And Gideon said to him, Forgive me for asking, 1 O my Lord; why has all this befallen us? And Jehovah looked on him and said, Go in this might of yours. And Jehovah said to him, Surely I will be with you. Judges 6:12-14, 16.

And further on,

Gideon saw that he was the angel of Jehovah, and Gideon said, Alas, Lord Jehovih! Inasmuch as I have seen the angel of Jehovah face to face. 2 And Jehovah said to him, Peace be to you; do not fear. Judges 6:22-23.

Here similarly it was an angel, but his state was such at that time that he knew no other than that he was Jehovah, or the Lord. Elsewhere in the Book of Judges,

The angel of Jehovah went up from Gilgal to Bochim, and he said, I brought you up out of Egypt and led you into the land which I swore to give to your fathers. I said, I will not break my covenant with you, even for ever. Judges 2:1.

Here similarly the angel speaks in the name of Jehovah, declaring that he brought them out of the land of Egypt, though in fact it was not the angel who led them out but Jehovah, as is stated many times elsewhere.

[4] From this it may become clear how angels spoke through the prophets - that it was the Lord Himself who spoke, yet through angels, and that the angels spoke nothing at all from themselves. That the Word comes from the Lord is clear from many places, as also in Matthew,

To fulfill what the Lord had spoken through the prophet, saying, Behold, a virgin will be with child and give birth to a son. Matthew 1:22-23.

And there are other places besides this. It is because the Lord speaks through angels when He speaks to man that the Lord is also called an angel in various places in the Word. In these instances 'angel' means, as stated, some essential quality residing with the Lord and deriving from Him, as is the case here where it is the Lord's interior thought. This also is the reason why in this chapter the angel is named Jehovah and also God, as in verse 13, 'And Hagar called the name of Jehovah who was speaking to her, You are a God who sees me'.

[5] In other places 'angels' is used in a similar way to mean some specific attribute that is the Lord's, as in John,

The seven stars are the angels of the seven Churches. Revelation 1:20.

There are no angels of Churches, but by 'angels' is meant that which constitutes the Church, and thus which is the Lord's in regard to the Churches. In the same book,

I saw the wall of the Holy Jerusalem, great and high, having twelve gates, and above the gates twelve angels, and names written which are those of the twelve tribes of the sons of Israel. Revelation 21:12.

Here 'twelve angels' has the same meaning as 'the twelve tribes', namely all things of faith, and so the Lord from whom faith and all that belongs to it is derived. In the same book,

I saw an angel flying in mid-heaven, having an eternal gospel. Revelation 14:6.

Here 'an angel' means the gospel that is the Lord's alone.

[6] In Isaiah,

The angel of His presence 3 saved them; 4 in His love and in His pity He redeemed them, and lifted them up and carried them all the days of eternity. Isaiah 63:9.

Here 'the angel of His presence" is used to mean the Lord's mercy towards the entire human race in redeeming it. Similarly in Jacob's blessing of the sons of Joseph,

May the angel who has redeemed me from every evil bless the boys. Genesis 48:16.

Here also the redemption, which is the Lord's, is meant by 'the angel'. In Malachi,

Suddenly there will come to His temple the Lord whom you are seeking, and the angel of the covenant in whom you delight. Malachi 3:1.

Here it is plainly evident that the Lord is meant by 'the angel'. The expression 'the angel of the covenant' is used here because of His Coming into the world. In Exodus it is plainer still that 'an angel' means the Lord,

Behold, I send an angel before you to guard you on the way, and to bring you to the place which I have prepared. He will not tolerate your transgression, for My name is within him. Exodus 23:20-21.

From this it is now clear that 'an angel' in the Word is used to mean the Lord; but just what aspect of the Lord is evident from the train of thought in the internal sense.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. literally, In me or On me

2. literally, faces to faces

3. literally, faces

4. The Latin means us but the Hebrew means them which Swedenborg has in other places where he quotes this verse.

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