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Ponovljeni Zakon 8

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1 Držite i tvorite sve zapovesti koje vam ja zapovedam danas, da biste živi bili i umnožili se, i da biste ušli u zemlju za koju se Gospod zakleo ocima vašim, i da biste je nasledili.

2 I opominji se svega puta kojim te je vodio Gospod Bog tvoj četrdeset godina po pustinji, da bi te namučio i iskušao, da se zna šta ti je u srcu, hoćeš li držati zapovesti Njegove ili nećeš.

3 I mučio te je, glađu te morio; ali te je opet hranio manom za koju ti nisi znao ni oci tvoji, da bi ti pokazao da čovek ne živi o samom hlebu nego o svemu što izlazi iz usta Gospodnjih.

4 Odelo tvoje ne ovetša na tebi niti noga tvoja oteče za ovih četrdeset godina;

5 Zato poznaj u srcu svom da te Gospod Bog tvoj gaji kao što čovek gaji svoje dete.

6 I drži zapovesti Gospoda Boga svog hodeći putevima Njegovim i bojeći se Njega.

7 Jer Gospod Bog tvoj uvešće te sada u dobru zemlju, u zemlju u kojoj ima dosta potoka i izvora i jezera, što izviru po dolinama i po brdima;

8 U zemlju izobilnu pšenicom i ječmom i vinovom lozom i smokvama i šipcima, zemlju izobilnu maslinom, od koje biva ulje, i medom;

9 U zemlju gde nećeš sirotinjski jesti hleba, gde ti neće ništa nedostajati; u zemlju gde je kamenje gvožđe i gde ćeš iz brda njenih seći bronzu.

10 Ješćeš i bićeš sit, pa blagosiljaj Gospoda Boga svog za dobru zemlju koju ti da.

11 I čuvaj se da ne zaboraviš Gospoda Boga svog bacivši u nemar zapovesti Njegove i zakone Njegove i uredbe Njegove, koje ti ja zapovedam danas.

12 I kad uzjedeš i nasitiš se, i dobre kuće načiniš i u njima staneš živeti, i kad se goveda tvoja i ovce tvoje naplode,

13 I kad ti se namnoži srebro i zlato, i šta god imaš kad ti se namnoži,

14 Nemoj da se ponese srce tvoje i zaboraviš Gospoda Boga svog, koji te je izveo iz zemlje misirske, iz kuće ropske;

15 Koji te je vodio preko one pustinje velike i strašne gde žive zmije vatrene i skorpije, gde je suša, a nema vode; koji ti je izveo vodu iz tvrdog kamena;

16 Koji te je hranio u pustinji manom, za koju ne znaše oci tvoji, da bi te namučio i iskušao te, i najposle da bi ti dobro učinio.

17 Niti govori u srcu svom; moja snaga, i sila moje ruke dobavila mi je ovo blago.

18 Nego se opominji Gospoda Boga svog; jer ti On daje snagu da dobavljaš blago, da bi potvrdio zavet svoj, za koji se zakleo ocima tvojim, kao što se vidi danas.

19 Ako li zaboraviš Gospoda Boga svog, i pođeš za drugim bogovima i njima staneš služiti i klanjati se, svedočim vam danas da ćete zacelo propasti.

20 Propašćete kao narodi koje Gospod potire ispred vas, jer ne poslušaste glas Gospoda Boga svog.

   

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Apocalypse Revealed # 315

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315. "A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius." This symbolically means, because the value these people placed on goodness and truth was so little as to be scarcely anything.

This is the symbolic meaning because a quart, which is a measure and its contents, symbolizes the character of a thing, as shown in no. 313 above. Wheat and barley symbolize goodness and truth, and a denarius, being a very small coin, symbolizes a value so little as to be scarcely anything.

Three quarts of barley are specified because the number three symbolizes all and is predicated of truths (no. 400).

Wheat and barley symbolizes goodness and truth, here the goodness and truth of the church acquired from the Word, because everything connected with a field or vineyard symbolizes something having to do with the church - a field symbolizing the church in respect to its goodness and consequent truth, and a vineyard symbolizing the church in respect to its truth and consequent goodness. Therefore, where these are mentioned in the Word, angels, who perceive everything spiritually, have no other understanding of them - as for example in Joel:

The field is wasted, the land mourns, because the grain is wasted, the new wine is dried up, the oil fails. Ashamed are the farmers, the vinedressers wail, over the wheat and the barley, because the harvest of the field has perished. (Joel 1:10-12)

All of these things symbolize things having to do with the church.

[2] That wheat and barley symbolize the goodness and truth of the church can be seen from the following passages:

(John said of Jesus that He would) gather his wheat into the granary and burn the chaff with fire... (Matthew 3:11-12)

(Jesus said,) "Let (weed and wheat) grow together..., and at the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, 'First gather together the weeds... to burn them, but gather the wheat into my granary.'" (Matthew 23:24-30)

...I have heard from Jehovah God... a consummation and determination... Plant the measured wheat, and the appointed barley... (Thus) He instructs him for judgment; His God teaches him. (Isaiah 28:21-26)

...Jehovah... will bring you into... a land of wheat and barley... (Deuteronomy 8:7-8)

The land of wheat and barley here is the land of Canaan, which symbolizes the church.

They shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of Jehovah, for wheat and new wine... (Jeremiah 31:12)

(Jehovah) will fill you with the finest wheat. (Psalms 147:12-14, cf. Deuteronomy 32:13-14, Psalms 81:13, 16)

Jehovah told the prophet Ezekiel to make himself a cake of barleycorn mixed with dung and eat it (Ezekiel 4:12, 15). And He told the prophet Hosea to take to himself an adulterous woman, whom he bought for one and a half omers of barleycorn (Hosea 3:1-2). The prophets did these things to represent the falsifications of truth in the church, for barleycorns are truths, and barleycorns mixed with dung are truths falsified and profaned. An adulterous woman also symbolizes truth falsified (no. 134).

  
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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.