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1 Если кто украдет вола или овцу и заколет или продаст, то пять волов заплатит за вола и четыре овцы за овцу.

2 Если кто застанет вора подкапывающего и ударит его, так что он умрет, то кровь не вменится ему;

3 но если взошло над ним солнце, то вменится ему кровь. Укравший должен заплатить; а если нечем, то пусть продадут его для уплаты за украденное им;

4 если украденное найдется у него в руках живым, вол ли то, или осел, или овца, пусть заплатит вдвое.

5 Если кто потравит поле, или виноградник, пустив скот свой травить чужое поле, пусть вознаградит лучшим из поля своего и лучшим извиноградника своего.

6 Если появится огонь и охватит терн и выжжет копны, или жатву, или поле, то должен заплатить, кто произвел сей пожар.

7 Если кто отдаст ближнему на сохранение серебро или вещи, и ониукрадены будут из дома его, то, если найдется вор, пусть он заплатит вдвое;

8 а если не найдется вор, пусть хозяин дома придет пред судей и поклянется , что не простер руки своей на собственность ближнего своего.

9 О всякой вещи спорной, о воле, об осле, об овце, об одежде, о всякой вещи потерянной, о которой кто-нибудь скажет, что она его, дело обоих должно бытьдоведено до судей: кого обвинят судьи, тот заплатит ближнему своему вдвое.

10 Если кто отдаст ближнему своему осла, или вола, или овцу, или какой другой скот на сбережение, а он умрет, или будет поврежден, или уведен, так что никто сего не увидит, –

11 клятва пред Господом да будет между обоими в том, что взявший не простер руки своей на собственность ближнего своего; и хозяин должен принять, а тот не будет платить;

12 а если украден будет у него, то должен заплатить хозяину его;

13 если же будет зверем растерзан, то пусть в доказательство представит растерзанное:за растерзанное он не платит.

14 Если кто займет у ближнего своего скот, и он будет поврежден, или умрет, а хозяина его не было при нем, то должен заплатить;

15 если же хозяин его был при нем, то не должен платить; если он взят был в наймы за деньги,то пусть и пойдет за ту цену.

16 Если обольстит кто девицу необрученную и переспит с нею, пусть даст ей вено и возьмет ее себе в жену;

17 а если отец не согласится выдать ее за него, пусть заплатит столько серебра, сколько полагается на вено девицам.

18 Ворожеи не оставляй в живых.

19 Всякий скотоложник да будет предан смерти.

20 Приносящий жертву богам, кроме одного Господа, дабудет истреблен.

21 Пришельца не притесняй и не угнетай его, ибо вы сами были пришельцами в земле Египетской.

22 Ни вдовы, ни сироты не притесняйте;

23 если же ты притеснишь их, то, когда они возопиют ко Мне, Я услышу вопль их,

24 и воспламенится гнев Мой, и убью вас мечом, и будут жены ваши вдовами и дети ваши сиротами.

25 Если дашь деньги взаймы бедному из народа Моего,то не притесняй его и не налагай на него роста.

26 Если возьмешь в залог одежду ближнего твоего, до захождения солнца возврати ее,

27 ибо она есть единственный покров у него, она – одеяние тела его: в чем будет он спать? итак, когда он возопиет ко Мне, Я услышу, ибо Я милосерд.

28 Судей не злословь и начальника в народе твоем не поноси.

29 Не медли приносить Мне начатки от гумна твоего и от точила твоего; отдавай Мне первенца из сынов твоих;

30 то же делай с волом твоим и с овцою твоею. семьдней пусть они будут при матери своей, а в восьмой день отдавай их Мне.

31 И будете у Меня людьми святыми; и мяса, растерзанного зверем в поле,не ешьте, псам бросайте его.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 9158

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9158. 'For clothing' means [any harm done to or else loss of] truth on the level of the senses. This is clear from the meaning of 'clothing' as truth, dealt with in 4545, 4763, 5319, 5954, 6914, 6917. In general 'clothing' means more external or lower truth that covers more internal or higher truths, 297, 2576, 5248, 6918; here therefore truth on the level of the senses is meant, this being the most external or lowest level, 5081, 5125, 5767, 6564, 6614. The meaning of 'clothes' as truths has its origin in representatives in the next life; for spirits and angels all appear dressed in clothes that are in keeping with the truths of faith they possess, 165, 5248, 5954.

  
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Arcana Coelestia # 4545

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4545. 'And be purified, and change your garments' means the holiness that was to be put on. This is clear from the meaning of 'being purified' or being cleansed as being made holy, dealt with below, and from the meaning of 'changing one's garments' as putting on, in this case putting on holy truths, for in the internal sense of the Word truths are meant by 'garments'. It is quite evident that 'changing one's garments' was an accepted representative within the Church, but what that custom represented no one can know unless he knows what 'garments' means in the internal sense - namely truths, see 2576. Because in the internal sense the casting aside of falsities and the arrangement by good of truths within the natural is the subject here, it is therefore recorded that Jacob commanded them to change their garments.

[2] 'Changing their garments' was representative of the need to put on holy truths, as may also be seen from other places in the Word, as in Isaiah,

Awake, awake, put on your strength, O Zion, put on your beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city, for there will no more come into you the uncircumcised and the unclean. Isaiah 52:1.

Since 'Zion' means the celestial Church and 'Jerusalem' the spiritual Church, and the celestial Church is that which dwells in good by virtue of its love to the Lord, and the spiritual Church in truth by virtue of its faith and charity, 'strength' is therefore used in reference to Zion, and 'garments' in reference to Jerusalem. And when clothed with these the two are 'clean'.

[3] In Zechariah,

Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and so stood before the angel. And [the angel] answered and said to those standing before him - he said - Remove the filthy garments from upon him. And he said to him, See, I have caused your iniquity to pass away from upon you, by putting on you a change of garments Zechariah 3:3-4.

From this place too it is evident that 'removing garments' and 'putting on a change of garments' represented purification from falsities, for the words 'I have caused your iniquity to pass away from upon you' are used. This also explains why people had changes of garments - which they called simply 'changes', an expression occurring in various places in the Word - because different representations were set forth by means of those changes.

[4] Because the kinds of things mentioned here were represented by changes of garments it is therefore said in Ezekiel, in the description of the new Temple, which in the internal sense means a new Church,

When the priests enter they shall not go out of the holy place to the outer court, but there shall lay aside their garments in which they have ministered, for these are holy, 1 and they shall put on other garments and go near the things which are for the people. Ezekiel 42:14.

And in the same prophet,

When they go out to the outer court, to the people, they shall put off their garments in which they have been ministering and lay them in the holy chambers, and they shall put on other garments, and they shall not sanctify the people in their own garments. 2 Ezekiel 44:19.

[5] Anyone may see that a new temple and the holy city and land which are referred to by the prophet in this chapter, and in the chapters before and after it, are not used to mean any new temple, new city, or new land. For reference is made to sacrifices and religious ceremonies being introduced anew, when in fact these had to be brought to an end; and mention is also made of how the tribes of Israel, referred to by name, were to divide the land among themselves into inheritances, when in fact they were dispersed and never returned to the land. From this it is evident that the religious ceremonies referred to in those chapters mean the spiritual and celestial things constituting the Church. Much the same is meant by Aaron's change of garments when he was going to minister, to offer a burnt offering; in Moses,

He shall put on his linen robe, and linen breeches. He shall place the ashes at the side of the altar. After he takes off his own garments and puts on other garments he shall carry away the ashes to a clean place outside the camp. Leviticus 6:9-12.

This was what he had to do when offering the burnt offering.

[6] As regards 'being cleansed' meaning being made holy, this may be seen from the cleansings that were commanded, such as the command to wash their flesh and their garments, and the command to be sprinkled with the waters of separation. Everyone who knows anything about the spiritual man may also recognize that nobody is made holy by carrying out commands such as these. For what does iniquity or sin have to do with the garments a person is wearing? Yet it is stated several times that after people had cleansed themselves they would be holy. From this it is also evident that such rituals which the Israelites were commanded to carry out were in no way holy except by virtue of their representation of holy things, and that as a consequence people who served as representers did not on that account become holy persons. It was the holiness they represented, quite apart from them as actual persons, that stirred the affections of the spirits present with them, and through these the affections of the angels in heaven, 4307.

[7] For in order that the human race may be kept in being, human beings must of necessity live in communication with heaven; and that communication is effected through the Church. Otherwise human beings would become like animals, lacking any restraints internally or externally, so that all would plunge unchecked into the destruction of others and would annihilate one another. And because in the time of the Israelites no communication through any Church was possible, the Lord therefore provided in an amazing way for a communication to be effected by means of representatives. It is evident from many places in the Word that being made holy was represented by the ritual observance of washing and cleansing, as when Jehovah came down on Mount Sinai and then said to Moses,

Make them holy today and tomorrow, and let them wash their garments and be ready on the third day. Exodus 19:10-11.

In Ezekiel,

I will sprinkle clean water over you, and you will be cleansed from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols I will cleanse you. And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit will I give in the midst of you. Ezekiel 36:25-26.

Here it is plain that 'sprinkling clean water' represented purification of the heart, so that 'being cleansed' means being made holy.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. literally, holiness

2. The Latin means they shall sanctify the people in other garments, but the Hebrew means they shall not sanctify the people in their own garments, which Swedenborg has in another place where he quotes this verse.

  
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