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ИисусНавин 4

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1 Когда весь народ перешел чрез Иордан, Господь сказал Иисусу:

2 возьмите себе из народа двенадцать человек, по одному человеку изколена,

3 и дайте им повеление и скажите: возьмите себе отсюда, из средины Иордана, где стояли ноги священников неподвижно, двенадцать камней, и перенесите их с собою, и положите их на ночлеге, где будете ночевать в эту ночь.

4 Иисус призвал двенадцать человек, которых назначил из Сынов израилевых, по одному человеку из колена,

5 и сказал им Иисус: пойдите пред ковчегом Господа Бога вашего в средину Иордана и возьмите оттуда и положите на плечо свое каждый по одному камню, по числу колен сынов Израилевых,

6 чтобы они были у вас знамением; когда спросят вас в последующее время сыны ваши и скажут: „к чему у вас эти камни?",

7 вы скажете им: „ в память того , что вода Иордана разделилась пред ковчегом завета Господа; когда он переходил чрез Иордан, тогда водаИордана разделилась"; таким образом камни сии будут для сынов Израилевых памятником на век.

8 И сделали сыны Израилевы так, как приказал Иисус: взяли двенадцать камней из Иордана, как говорил Господь Иисусу, по числу колен сынов Израилевых, и перенесли их с собою на ночлег, и положили их там.

9 И другие двенадцать камней поставил Иисус среди Иордана наместе, где стояли ноги священников, несших ковчег завета. Они там и до сего дня.

10 Священники, несшие ковчег, стояли среди Иордана, доколе не окончено было все, что Господь повелел Иисусу сказать народу, так, как завещал Моисей Иисусу; а народ между тем поспешно переходил.

11 Когда весь народ перешел Иордан, тогда перешел и ковчег завета Господня, и священники пред народом;

12 и сыны Рувима и сыны Гада и половина колена Манассиина перешли вооруженные впереди сынов Израилевых, как говорил им Моисей.

13 Около сорока тысяч вооруженных на брань перешло пред Господом на равнины Иерихонские, чтобы сразиться.

14 В тот день прославил Господь Иисуса пред очами всего Израиля и стали бояться его, как боялись Моисея, во все дни жизни его.

15 И сказал Господь Иисусу, говоря:

16 прикажи священникам, несущим ковчег откровения, выйти из Иордана.

17 Иисус приказал священникам и сказал: выйдите из Иордана.

18 И когда священники, несшие ковчег завета Господня, вышли из Иордана, то, лишь только стопы ног их ступили на сушу, вода Иордана устремилась по своему месту и пошла, как вчера и третьего дня, выше всех берегов своих.

19 И вышел народ из Иордана в десятый день первого месяца и поставил стан в Галгале, на восточной стороне Иерихона.

20 И двенадцать камней, которые взяли они из Иордана, Иисус поставил в Галгале

21 и сказал сынам Израилевым: когда спросят в последующее время сыны ваши отцов своих: „что значат эти камни?",

22 скажите сынам вашим: „Израиль перешел чрез Иордан сей по суше",

23 ибо Господь Бог ваш иссушил воды Иордана для вас, доколе вы не перешли его, так же, как Господь Бог ваш сделал с Чермным морем, которое иссушил пред нами, доколемы не перешли его,

24 дабы все народы земли познали, что рука Господня сильна, и дабы вы боялись Господа Бога вашего во все дни.

   

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Apocalypse Revealed # 505

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505. Then those from the peoples, tribes, tongues, and nations will see their bodies for three and a half days. (11:9) This symbolizes all those who were or who would be caught up in doctrinal falsities and the resulting evil practices at the end of the church still existing, when they have heard and later hear about these two essential elements at the beginning of the New Church, namely, an acknowledgment of the Lord and of works in accordance with the Ten Commandments.

Peoples, tribes, tongues, and nations mean all those of the Protestant Reformed who were or who would be caught up in doctrinal falsities and the resulting evil practices owing to their faith alone. Peoples symbolize people caught up in doctrinal falsities (no. 483), tribes the falsities and evils in the church (no. 349), tongues a confession and acceptance of these (no. 483), and nations people caught up in evil practices (no. 483). Therefore the four together symbolize all those individually and collectively who were or who would be of such a character, thus all those who were in that great city and all those like them who would later come from the world.

The bodies that they would see, those of the two witnesses, symbolize the two essential elements of the New Church, as said in no. 501 above. That they would see them means, symbolically, when they have heard and later hear about them, since it is bodies that are said to be seen, and the two essential elements that are heard.

Three and a half days mean, symbolically, at the end and then the beginning, namely, at the end of the church still existing and the beginning of a new one.

Putting all these things together now into a single meaning, it is apparent that "those from the peoples, tribes, tongues, and nations will see their bodies for three and a half days" has, in the spiritual sense, the symbolic meaning stated above.

Three and a half days mean, symbolically, at the end and then the beginning because a day symbolizes a state, the number three symbolizes something completed to the end, and a half symbolizes a new beginning. For three and half days have the same symbolic meaning as a week, six days of which symbolize something completed to the end, and the seventh day something holy. That is because the number three and a half is one half of seven, and seven days constitute a week; and a number doubled or divided has the same symbolic meaning.

[2] That the number three symbolizes something completed, thus something completed to the end, can be seen from the following accounts in the Word:

That Isaiah was to go naked and barefoot for three years (Isaiah 20:3).

That Jehovah called three times to Samuel, and Samuel ran three times to Eli, and that the third time Eli understood (1 Samuel 3:1-8).

That Elijah stretched himself out three times on the widow's son (1 Kings 17:21).

That Elijah ordered that water be poured on the burnt sacrifice three times (1 Kings 18:34).

That Jesus said that the kingdom of heaven is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal (Matthew 13:33).

That Jesus told Peter he would deny Him three times (Matthew 26:34).

That the Lord asked Peter three times, "Do you love Me?" (John 21:15-17).

That Jonah was in the belly of the whale three days and three nights (Jonah 1:17).

That Jesus said He would destroy the Temple and in three days build it (Matthew 26:61, John 2:19)

That Jesus prayed three times in Gethsemane (Matthew 26:39-44).

That Jesus rose on the third day (Matthew 28:1ff.).

And so on elsewhere, as in Isaiah 16:14; Hosea 6:2; Exodus 3:18; 10:22-23; 19:1, 11, 15-16, 18; Leviticus 19:23-25; Numbers 19:11-22; 31:19-24; Deuteronomy 19:2-4; 26:12; Joshua 1:11; 3:2; 1 Samuel 20:5, 12, 19-20, 35-36, 41; 2 Samuel 24:11-13; Daniel 10:1-3; Mark 12:2, 4-6; Luke 20:12; 13:32-33.

Seven, like three, symbolizes something full and complete, but seven is predicated of holy things, while three is predicated of things not holy.

  
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Many thanks to the General Church of the New Jerusalem, and to Rev. N.B. Rogers, translator, for the permission to use this translation.

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Deuteronomy 20

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1 When you go forth to battle against your enemies, and see horses, and chariots, [and] a people more than you, you shall not be afraid of them; for Yahweh your God is with you, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.

2 It shall be, when you draw near to the battle, that the priest shall approach and speak to the people,

3 and shall tell them, "Hear, Israel, you draw near this day to battle against your enemies: don't let your heart faint; don't be afraid, nor tremble, neither be scared of them;

4 for Yahweh your God is he who goes with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you."

5 The officers shall speak to the people, saying, "What man is there who has built a new house, and has not dedicated it? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man dedicate it.

6 What man is there who has planted a vineyard, and has not used its fruit? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man use its fruit.

7 What man is there who has pledged to be married a wife, and has not taken her? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her."

8 The officers shall speak further to the people, and they shall say, "What man is there who is fearful and fainthearted? Let him go and return to his house, lest his brother's heart melt as his heart."

9 It shall be, when the officers have made an end of speaking to the people, that they shall appoint captains of armies at the head of the people.

10 When you draw near to a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace to it.

11 It shall be, if it makes you answer of peace, and opens to you, then it shall be, that all the people who are found therein shall become tributary to you, and shall serve you.

12 If it will make no peace with you, but will make war against you, then you shall besiege it:

13 and when Yahweh your God delivers it into your hand, you shall strike every male of it with the edge of the sword:

14 but the women, and the little ones, and the livestock, and all that is in the city, even all its spoil, you shall take for a prey to yourself; and you shall eat the spoil of your enemies, which Yahweh your God has given you.

15 Thus you shall do to all the cities which are very far off from you, which are not of the cities of these nations.

16 But of the cities of these peoples, that Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes;

17 but you shall utterly destroy them: the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; as Yahweh your God has commanded you;

18 that they not teach you to do after all their abominations, which they have done to their gods; so would you sin against Yahweh your God.

19 When you shall besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, you shall not destroy its trees by wielding an axe against them; for you may eat of them, and you shall not cut them down; for is the tree of the field man, that it should be besieged of you?

20 Only the trees of which you know that they are not trees for food, you shall destroy and cut them down; and you shall build bulwarks against the city that makes war with you, until it fall.