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Izlazak 21

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1 A ovo su zakoni koje ćeš im postaviti:

2 Ako kupiš roba Jevrejina, šest godina neka ti služi, a sedme nek otide slobodan bez otkupa.

3 Ako bude došao inokosan, neka i otide inokosan; ako li bude imao ženu, neka ide i žena s njim.

4 Ako ga gospodar njegov oženi, i žena mu rodi sinove ili kćeri, žena s decom svojom neka bude gospodaru njegovom, a on neka otide sam.

5 Ako li rob reče tvrdo: Ljubim gospodara svog, ženu svoju i decu svoju, neću da idem da budem slobodan,

6 Onda neka ga dovede gospodar njegov pred sudije i postavi na vratima ili kod dovratka, i onde neka mu gospodar probuši uho šilom, pa neka mu robuje doveka.

7 Ako ko proda kćer svoju da bude robinja, da ne odlazi kao robovi što odlaze.

8 Ako ne bude po volji gospodaru svom, i on je ne uzme za ženu, neka je pusti na otkupe; ali da nema vlasti prodati je u tuđ narod učinivši joj neveru.

9 Ako li je zaruči sinu svom, da joj učini po pravu koje imaju kćeri.

10 Ako li uzme drugu, da joj ne umali hrane ni odela ni zajednice.

11 Ako joj ovo troje ne učini, onda nek otide bez otkupa.

12 Ko udari čoveka, te umre, da se pogubi.

13 Ako li ne bude hteo, nego mu ga Bog dade u ruke, odrediću ti mesto kuda može pobeći.

14 Ako bi ko namerno ustao na bližnjeg svog da ga ubije iz prevare, odvuci ga i od oltara mog da se pogubi.

15 Ko udari oca svog ili mater svoju, da se pogubi.

16 Ko ukrade čoveka i proda ili se nađe u njegovim rukama, da se pogubi.

17 Ko opsuje oca svog ili mater svoju, da se pogubi.

18 Kad se svade ljudi, pa jedan udari drugog kamenom ili pesnicom, ali onaj ne umre nego padne u postelju,

19 Ako se pridigne i izađe o štapu, da ne bude kriv onaj koji je udario, samo dangubu da mu naknadi i svu vidarinu da plati.

20 Ko udari roba svog ili robinju štapom tako da mu umre pod rukom, da je kriv;

21 Ali ako preživi dan ili dva, da nije kriv, jer je njegov novac.

22 Kad se svade ljudi, pa koji od njih udari trudnu ženu tako da izađe iz nje dete, ali se ne dogodi smrt, da plati globu koliko muž ženin reče, a da plati preko sudija;

23 Ako li se dogodi smrt, tada ćeš uzeti život za život,

24 Oko za Oko, zub za zub, ruku za ruku, nogu za nogu,

25 Užeg za užeg, ranu za ranu, modricu za modricu.

26 Ako ko udari po oku roba svog ili robinju svoju, te mu pokvari oko, da ga otpusti slobodnog za oko njegovo.

27 I ako izbije zub robu svom ili robinji svojoj, da ga pusti slobodnog za zub njegov.

28 Ako vo ubode čoveka ili ženu, te umre, da se vo zaspe kamenjem i da se ne jede meso od njega, a gospodar od vola da nije kriv.

29 Ali ako je vo pre bio bodač i gospodar njegov znao za to pa ga nije čuvao, te ubije čoveka ili ženu, vo da se zaspe kamenjem, i gospodar njegov da se pogubi.

30 Ako mu se odredi da se otkupi, neka da otkup za život svoj, koliko mu se odredi.

31 Ako ubode sina ili kćer, da mu bude po istom zakonu.

32 Ako li roba ubode vo ili robinju, da da gospodaru njihovom trideset sikala srebra i vo da se zaspe kamenjem.

33 Ako ko otkrije jamu ili iskopa jamu a ne pokrije, pa upadne vo ili magarac,

34 Da naknadi gospodar od jame i plati novcem gospodaru njihovom, a što je uginulo da je njegovo.

35 Ako vo jednog ubode vola drugom, te pogine, onda da prodadu vola živog i novce da podele, tako i ubijenog vola da podele.

36 Ako li se znalo da je vo pre bio bodač pa ga nije čuvao gospodar njegov, da da vola za vola, a ubijeni neka bude njemu.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 3974

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3974. 'Give me my womenfolk' means that the affections for truth belonged to that natural, 'and my children' means as did the truths born from those affections. This is clear from the meaning of 'womenfolk' or 'wives' as affections for truth - his wife 'Leah' meaning the affection for external truth, and 'Rachel' the affection for internal truth, both dealt with often above; and from the meaning of 'children' as truths born from those affections. For 'sons' means truths, 489, 491, 533, 1147, 2623, 3373, and the children born of the womenfolk truths that spring from those affections.

It was a regulation among the Ancients that women given to slaves belonged to the master with whom they served, and so did the children born from them, as may be seen in Moses,

If you buy a Hebrew slave he shall serve for six years; and in the seventh he shall go out free, for nothing. If his master has given him a wife and she has borne him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall belong to her master, and he shall go out by himself. 1 Exodus 21:2, 4.

It was because this was also a regulation in the Ancient Church and was therefore well known to Laban that he laid claim to Jacob's wives and children, as is evident in the next chapter,

Laban said to Jacob, The daughters are my daughters, and the sons are my sons, and the flock is my flock, and all that you see belongs to me. Genesis 31:43.

And because Jacob knows this he says to Laban, 'Give me my womenfolk and my children'. But this regulation as stated in Moses in the verses quoted above represented the right of the internal or rational man to the goods and truths of the external or natural man which the latter has obtained for itself. For a slave represented the truth of the natural man as that truth exists at first before genuine truths are instilled. The truth which is present at first is not truth but the outward appearance of it. Nevertheless it serves as the means by which genuine truths and goods are introduced, as has been shown already. For this reason once goods and truths have been instilled through that truth present at first, that is, through the service it renders, it is dispensed with, but the genuine truths obtained in that way are retained. It was for the sake of this representation that this law about slaves was laid down.

[2] But as for Jacob, he was not a slave who had been purchased, but a man from a more distinguished family than Laban. He himself - that is to say, Jacob - purchased Laban's daughters, and so also the children by them, through the service he rendered; for they were his instead of wages. Consequently Laban's assumptions concerning them were not correct. Furthermore 'a Hebrew slave' means the truth which serves to introduce genuine goods and truths, and his wife the affection for natural good. But Jacob's position was different from that of a slave. He represented the good of natural truth, and his wives the affections for truth. Nor does Laban have the same representation as the master in the law that has been quoted relating to a Hebrew slave. That is to say, he does not represent the rational, but a parallel good, 3612, 3665, 3778, which is such that it is not genuine good but the outward appearance of the genuine, serving to introduce truths, 3665, 3690, which were accordingly 'Jacob's'.

[3] These details which have been presented are indeed such as fall within the mental grasp of none but a very few, for most people do not know what the truth and good of the natural are, and that these are different from the truth and good of the rational. Still less do they know that goods and truths which are not genuine but only so to external appearance serve to introduce genuine truths and goods, especially at the outset of regeneration. All the same, as these details are contained in the internal sense of these words, and also in the internal sense of those that follow concerning Laban's flock from which Jacob obtained a flock for himself, they ought not to be passed over in silence. There will perhaps be some who grasp them. Any who have a strong desire to know such things, that is, who are stirred by an affection for spiritual good and truth, receive enlightenment in such matters.

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1. literally, with his own body

  
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Arcana Coelestia # 3665

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3665. 'To the home of Bethuel your mother's father, and take for yourself from there a wife from the daughters of Laban your mother's brother' means a parallel external good, and the truth which sprang from this good and was to be joined [to the good of the natural]. This is clear from the representation of 'Bethuel' as good existing with those who make up a first group of gentiles, dealt with in 2865; from the representation of 'Laban' as the affection for good in the natural man, that is, the affection for external good, strictly speaking a parallel good that springs from a common stock, dealt with in 3129, 3130, 3160, 3612; and from the meaning of 'taking a wife from his daughters' as being brought into association with or joined to affections for truth from that source. For 'taking a wife', as is self-evident, means being joined to, and 'daughters' means affections, see 568, 2362, 3024. From this it is clear what those words mean, namely that the good of the natural represented here by 'Jacob' was to be joined to truths which came from a parallel external good.

[2] The implications of this are that when a person is being regenerated the Lord leads him first of all as an infant, then as a child, after that as a young person, and at length as an adult. The truths which he learns as a small child are totally external and bodily, for he is not yet capable of grasping more interior things. Those truths are no more than cognitions of such things as inmostly contain Divine things within them. For there are some cognitions of things which do not inmostly contain anything Divine and there are other cognitions which do. Cognitions that do contain the Divine inmostly are such that they can receive interior truths into themselves, increasingly so, one after another in their proper order, whereas cognitions that do not contain the Divine are such that they do not so receive them but spurn them. For the cognitions of external and bodily good and truth are like the soil which, depending on its own particular nature, receives into itself one kind of seed but not another, and is productive of one variety of seed but is destructive of another. Cognitions which inmostly contain the Divine receive spiritual and celestial truth and good into themselves, for it is by virtue of the Divine within, bringing order to them, that makes them what they are. But cognitions that do not contain the Divine receive only falsity and evil, such being their nature. Those cognitions of external and bodily truth which do receive spiritual and celestial truth and good are meant here by 'the daughters of Laban from the home of Bethuel', while those that do not receive them are meant by 'the daughters of Canaan'.

[3] The cognitions which people learn from infancy onwards into childhood are like very general vessels, which exist to be filled with goods. And as they are filled a person is enlightened. If the vessels are such that they can contain genuine goods within them, the person is in that case enlightened, step by step and increasingly so from the Divine that is within them. But if they are such that they cannot contain genuine goods within them he is not in that case enlightened. He may indeed give the appearance of being enlightened, but this comes about from the illusory light that goes with falsity and evil. Indeed those cognitions place him all the more in obscurity as regards good and truth.

[4] Such cognitions are manifold, so manifold that one can hardly count even the genera of them, let alone identify their species. For they derive in their multiplicity from the Divine and then pass by way of the rational into the natural. That is to say, certain of them flow in directly by way of the good of the rational, and from there into the good of the natural, and also into the truth that goes with that good, and again from there into the external or bodily natural, where also they depart into various channels; but others flow in indirectly by way of the truth of the rational into the truth of the natural, and also into the good that goes with this truth, and again from there into the external or bodily natural, see 3573, 3616. All this is like nations, families, and houses, in which there are blood relatives and relatives by marriage; that is to say, there are those in the direct line of descent from the chief ancestor and there are those belonging to an increasingly indirect or parallel line. In the heavens these things are quite distinct and separate, for all the communities there are distinguished according to genera and species of good and truth, and so according to how near they are in relation to one another, 685, 2508, 2524, 2556, 2739, 3612. The most ancient people, being celestial, also represented those communities by their dwelling as distinct and separate nations, families, and houses, 470, 471, 483, 1159, 1246. This was also the reason why members of the representative Church were commanded to contract marriages within the families which made up their own nation; for by so doing they could represent heaven and the interconnection of its communities as regards good and truth. That representation is exemplified here by Jacob's going to the home of Bethuel his mother's father and his taking a wife for himself from there from the daughters of Laban his mother's brother.

[5] As regards cognitions themselves of external or bodily truth which come from a parallel good and, as has been stated, contain the Divine and so are able to receive genuine truths within them, they are like cognitions present with small children who at a later time undergo regeneration. They are in general such as those that are found in the historical narratives of the Word, for example, in what is said there about Paradise, about the first human being in Paradise, about the tree of life in the middle of it, and about the tree of knowledge where the deceiving serpent was. These are cognitions which contain the Divine and which receive spiritual and celestial goods and truths into themselves because they represent and mean these. Such cognitions also constitute all the other descriptions in historical narratives of the Word, for example, those in the Word concerning the Tabernacle, concerning the Temple, and concerning the construction of these; likewise what is said about Aaron's vestments and those of his sons; also about the feasts of tabernacles, of first fruits, and of unleavened bread, and about other matters of a similar nature. When these and similar details are known and thought about by a small child, the thoughts of the angels residing with him at that time are concerned with the Divine things which they represent and mean. And because the angels are stirred by an affection for these things, that affection is communicated. This produces the joy and delight that the child gets out of them, and it prepares his mind for the reception of genuine truths and goods. These and very many others are the cognitions of external and bodily truth that come from a parallel good.

  
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