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Ponovljeni Zakon 32

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1 Slušaj, nebo, govoriću; i zemlja neka čuje govor usta mojih.

2 Neka se spusti kao dažd nauka moja, i neka padne kao rosa govor moj, kao sitan dažd na mladu travu i kao krupan dažd na odraslu travu.

3 Jer ću javljati ime Gospodnje; veličajte Boga našeg.

4 Delo je te Stene savršeno, jer su svi putevi Njegovi pravda; Bog je veran, bez nepravde; pravedan je i istinit.

5 Oni se pokvariše prema Njemu; njihovo nevaljalstvo nije nevaljalstvo sinova Njegovih; to je rod zao i pokvaren.

6 Tako li vraćate Gospodu, narode ludi i bezumni? Nije li On Otac tvoj koji te je zadobio? On te je načinio i stvorio.

7 Opomeni se nekadašnjih dana, pogledajte godine svakog veka; pitaj oca svog i on će ti javiti, starije svoje i kazaće ti.

8 Kad Višnji razdade nasledstvo narodima, kad razdeli sinove Adamove, postavi međe narodima po broju sinova Izrailjevih.

9 Jer je deo Gospodnji narod Njegov, Jakov je uže nasledstva Njegovog.

10 Nađe ga u zemlji pustoj, na mestu strašnom gde buči pustoš; vodi ga unaokolo, uči ga i čuva kao zenicu oka svog.

11 Kao što orao izmamljuje orliće svoje, diže se nad ptićima svojim, širi krila svoja, uzima ih i nosi na krilima svojim,

12 Tako ga Gospod vođaše, i s njim ne beše tuđeg boga;

13 Vođaše ga na visine zemaljske da jede rod poljski, i davaše mu da sisa med iz stene i ulje iz tvrdog kamena,

14 Maslo od krava i mleko od ovaca s pretilinom od jaganjaca i ovnova vasanskih i jaraca, sa srcem zrna pšeničnih; i pio si vino, krv od grožđa.

15 Ali se Izrailj ugoji, pa se stade ritati; utio si, udebljao i zasalio; pa ostavi Boga koji ga je stvorio, i prezre stenu spasenja svog.

16 Na revnost razdražiše Ga tuđim bogovima, gadovima razgneviše Ga.

17 Prinosiše žrtve đavolima, ne Bogu, bogovima, kojih nisu znali, novim, koji iz bliza dođoše, kojih se nisu strašili oci vaši.

18 Stenu koja te je rodila zaboravio si; zaboravio si Boga Stvoritelja svog.

19 Kad to vide Gospod, razgnevi se na sinove svoje i na kćeri svoje,

20 I reče: Sakriću od njih lice svoje, videću kakav će im biti posledak, jer su rod pokvaren, sinovi u kojima nema vere.

21 Oni me razdražiše na revnost onim što nije Bog, razgneviše svojim taštinama; i ja ću njih razdražiti na revnost onim koji nije narod, narodom ludim razljutiću ih.

22 Jer se oganj razgoreo u gnevu mom, i goreće do najdubljeg pakla; spaliće zemlju i rod njen, i popaliće temelje brdima.

23 Zgrnuću na njih zla, strele svoje pobacaću na njih.

24 Glad će ih cediti, vrućice i ljuti pomori proždiraće ih; i zube zverske poslaću na njih i jed zmija zemaljskih.

25 Spolja će ih ubijati mač, a po kletima strah, i momka i devojku, dete na sisi i sedog čoveka.

26 Rekao bih: Rasejaću ih po svim uglovima zemaljskim, učiniću da nestane spomen njihov između ljudi,

27 Da mi nije do mržnje neprijateljeve, da se ne bi neprijatelji njihovi poneli i rekli: Ruka se naša uzvisila, a nije Gospod učinio sve ovo.

28 Jer su narod koji propada sa svojih namera, i nema u njih razuma.

29 Kamo da su pametni, da razumeju ovo, i gledaju na kraj svoj!

30 Kako bi jedan gonio hiljadu a dvojica terala deset hiljada, da ih nije stena njihova prodala i Gospod ih predao?

31 Jer stena njihova nije kao naša Stena; neprijatelji naši neka budu sudije.

32 Jer je čokot njihov od čokota sodomskog i iz polja gomorskog; grožđe je njihovo grožđe otrovno, puca su mu gorka.

33 Vino je njihovo otrov zmajevski, i ljuti jed aspidin.

34 Nije li to sakriveno kod mene, zapečaćeno u riznicama mojim?

35 Moja je osveta i plata, u svoje vreme popuznuće noga njihova, jer je blizu dan propasti njihove, i ide brzo šta će ih zadesiti.

36 Sudiće Gospod narodu svom, i žao će mu biti sluga Njegovih, kad vidi da je prošla snaga i da nema ništa ni od uhvaćenog ni od ostavljenog.

37 I reći će: Gde su bogovi njihovi? Stena u koju se uzdaše?

38 Koji salo od žrtava njegovih jedoše i piše vino od naliva njihovih. Neka ustanu i pomognu vam, i neka vam budu zaklon.

39 Vidite sada da sam ja, ja sam, i da nema Boga osim mene. Ja ubijam i oživljujem, ranim i isceljujem, i nema nikoga ko bi izbavio iz moje ruke.

40 Jer podižem k nebu ruku svoju i kažem: Ja sam živ doveka.

41 Ako naoštrim sjajni mač svoj i uzmem u ruku sud, učiniću osvetu na neprijateljima svojim i vratiću onima koji mrze na me.

42 Opojiću strele svoje krvlju, i mač će se moj najesti mesa, krvlju isečenih i zarobljenih, kad počnem osvetu na neprijateljima.

43 Veselite se narodi s narodom Njegovim, jer će pokajati krv sluga svojih, i osvetiće se neprijateljima svojim, i očistiće zemlju svoju i narod svoj.

44 I dođe Mojsije i izgovori sve reči pesme ove narodu, on i Isus, sin Navin.

45 A kad izgovori Mojsije sve reči ove svemu Izrailju,

46 Reče im: Privijte srce svoje k svim rečima koje vam ja danas zasvedočavam, i kazujte ih sinovima svojim da bi držali sve reči ovog zakona i tvorili ih.

47 Jer nije prazna reč da za nju ne marite, nego je život vaš; i tom ćete rečju produžiti dane svoje na zemlji, u koju idete preko Jordana da je nasledite.

48 U isti dan reče Gospod Mojsiju govoreći:

49 Iziđi na ovu goru avarimsku, na goru Navav, koja je u zemlji moavskoj prema Jerihonu, i vidi zemlju hanansku koju dajem sinovima Izrailjevim u državu.

50 I umri na gori na koju iziđeš, i priberi s k rodu svom, kao što je umro Aron, brat tvoj na gori Oru i pribrao se k rodu svom.

51 Jer mi zgrešiste među sinovima Izrailjevim na vodi od svađe u Kadisu u pustinji Sinu, što me ne proslaviste među sinovima Izrailjevim.

52 Pred sobom ćeš videti zemlju, ali nećeš u nju ući, u zemlju koju dajem sinovima Izrailjevim.

   

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7051. They who know nothing of the internal sense of the Word cannot believe otherwise than that the Israelitish and Jewish nation was chosen above every other nation, and hence was more excellent than all the rest, as also they themselves believed. And wonderful to say, this is believed not only by that nation itself, but also by Christians, in spite of the fact that the latter know that that nation is in filthy loves, in sordid avarice, in hatred, and in conceit; and that they also make light of, and even hold in aversion, the internal things which are of charity and faith, and which are of the Lord. The reason why Christians also believe that that nation was chosen above others, is that they believe that the election and salvation of man is from mercy, no matter how he lives, and thus that the wicked can be received into heaven equally with the pious and the upright; not considering that election is universal, namely, of all who live in good, and that the mercy of the Lord is toward every man who abstains from evil and is willing to live in good, and thus who suffers himself to be led of the Lord and to be regenerated, which is effected by the unbroken course of his life.

[2] Hence also it is that most persons in the Christian world also believe that that nation will again be chosen, and will then be brought back into the land of Canaan, and this also according to the sense of the letter, as in many passages (Isaiah 10:20-22; 11:11-12; 29:22-24; 43:5-6; 49:6-26; 56:8; 60:4; 61:3-10; 62; Jeremiah 3:14-19; 15:4, 14; 16:13, 15; 23:7-8; 24:9-10; 25:29; 29:14, 18; 30:3, 8-11; 31:8-10, 17; 33:16, 20, 26; Ezekiel 5:10, 12, 15; 16:60; 20:41; 22:15-16; 34:12-13; 37:21-22; 38:12; 39:23, 27-28; Daniel 7:27; 12:7; Hosea 3:4-5; Joel 2:32; 3:1-21 Amos 9:8-9; and in Micah 5:7-8). From these and also from other passages, even Christians believe that that nation will again be chosen and will be brought into the land of Canaan, although they know that that nation is waiting for a Messiah who will bring them in, and although they know that this expectation is vain, and that the kingdom of the Messiah or Christ is not of this world, and thus that the land of Canaan, into which the Messiah will bring men, is heaven.

[3] Neither do they consider that in the Word there is a spiritual sense, and that in this sense by “Israel” is not meant Israel, nor by “Jacob” Jacob, nor by “Judah” Judah; but that by these men are meant what they represent. Neither do they consider the history of that nation, showing what its quality was in the wilderness, and afterward in the land of Canaan, that at heart it was idolatrous; and what the prophets say of it, and of its spiritual whoredom and abominations. This quality is described in the song in Moses, in these words:

I will hide My faces from them, I will see what their posterity will be; for they are a generation of perversions, sons in whom is no faithfulness. I said, I will cast them out into the furthest corners; I will make the memory of men to cease from man; unless their foes should say, Our hand is high, and Jehovah hath not done all this. For they are a nation lost in counsels, and there is no intelligence in them. Their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah; their grapes are grapes of gall, clusters of bitterness are theirs. Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel gall of asps. Is not this hidden with Me, sealed up in My treasuries? Vengeance is Mine, and recompense, in time their foot shall slide; for the day of their destruction is near, and the things that are to come upon them make haste (Deuteronomy 32:20, 26-28, 32-35).

That Jehovah dictated this song to Moses may be seen (Deuteronomy 31:19) in (Deuteronomy 31:21) the previous chapter (Deuteronomy 31:19, 21). Of that nation the Lord also says in John:

Ye are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father ye will to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and stood not in the truth (John 8:44);

besides in many other passages.

[4] That although they know these things, Christians nevertheless believe that that nation will at last be converted to the Lord, and will then be brought into the land where they were before, is because, as already said, they do not know the internal sense of the Word; and because they suppose that the life of man effects nothing, and that evil, even when rooted in by repeated acts, is no hindrance to a man’s becoming spiritual, and being regenerated, and thus accepted by the Lord, through faith, even that of one short hour; also that admission into heaven is of mercy alone, and that this mercy is toward a single nation, and not so toward all in the universe who receive the mercy of the Lord. They who think thus do not know that it is quite contrary to the Divine that some should be born as the elect to salvation and heaven, and some as the nonelect to damnation and hell. To think so about the Divine would be horrible, because such conduct would be the height of unmercifulness, when yet the Divine is mercy itself. From all this it can now be seen that the Israelitish and Jewish nation was not chosen, and still less that it will be chosen; and also that there was not anything of the church with it, nor could be, but only the representative of a church; and that the reason why it has been preserved even to this day, has been for the sake of the Word of the Old Testament (n. 3479).

  
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