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Levitski Zakonik 26

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1 Nemojte graditi sebi idola ni likova rezanih, niti stupova podižite, ni kamena sa slikama mećite u svojoj zemlji da mu se klanjate; jer sam ja Gospod Bog vaš.

2 Držite subote moje, i svetinju moju poštujte; ja sam Gospod.

3 Ako uzživite po mojim uredbama, i zapovesti moje uzdržite i uščinite,

4 Davaću vam dažd na vreme, i zemlja će rađati rod svoj, i drveta će u polju rađati rod svoj;

5 I vršidba će vam stizati berbu vinogradsku, a berba će vinogradska stizati sejanje, i ješćete hleb svoj do sitosti, i živećete bez straha u zemlji svojoj.

6 Jer ću dati mir zemlji, te ćete spavati a neće biti nikoga da vas plaši; učiniću, te će nestati zle zveri iz zemlje, i mač neće prolaziti preko vaše zemlje.

7 Nego ćete terati neprijatelje svoje, i padaće pred vama od mača.

8 Vas će petorica terati stotinu, a vas stotina teraće deset hiljada, i padaće neprijatelji vaši pred vama od mača.

9 I obratiću se k vama, i učiniću vam da rastete, i umnožiću vas, i utvrdiću zavet svoj s vama.

10 I ješćete žito staro, od mnogo godina, i izasipaćete staro kad dođe novo.

11 I namestiću stan svoj među vama, i duša moja neće mrzeti na vas.

12 I hodiću među vama, i biću vam Bog, i vi ćete biti moj narod.

13 Ja sam Gospod Bog vaš, koji vas izvedoh iz zemlje misirske da im ne robujete, i polomih palice jarma vašeg, i ispravih vas da hodite pravo.

14 Ako li me ne uzaslušate, i ne učinite sve ove zapovesti,

15 Ako povrgnete uredbe moje i duši vašoj omrznu zakoni moji da ne tvorite sve zapovesti moje, i raskinete zavet moj,

16 I ja ću vama učiniti ovo: Pustiću na vas strah, suvu bolest i vrućicu, koje će vam oči iskvariti i dušu ucveliti; i zaludu ćete sejati seme svoje, jer će ga jesti neprijatelji vaši.

17 I okrenuću lice svoje nasuprot vama, i seći će vas neprijatelji vaši, i koji mrze na vas biće vam gospodari, i bežaćete kad vas niko ne tera.

18 Ako me ni tada ne stanete slušati, karaću vas još sedam puta više za grehe vaše.

19 Potrću ponos sile vaše, i učiniću da nebo nad vama bude kao gvožđe, a zemlja vaša kao bronza.

20 Snaga će se vaša trošiti uzalud, jer zemlja vaša neće rađati roda svog, i drveta po zemlji neće rađati roda svog.

21 Ako mi uzidete nasuprot i ne budete hteli slušati me, dodaću vam sedam puta više muka prema gresima vašim.

22 Pustiću na vas zveri poljske, koje će vam decu izjesti, i stoku potrti i vas umaliti, i opusteće putevi vaši.

23 Ako se ni od toga ne popravite, nego mi još uzidete nasuprot,

24 I ja ću vama ići nasuprot, i biću vas još sedam puta više za grehe vaše.

25 Pustiću na vas mač, koji će osvetiti moj zavet; a kad se sležete u gradove svoje, tada ću pustiti pomor među vas, i bićete predani u ruke neprijatelju.

26 I kad vam slomim potporu u hlebu, deset će žena peći hleb vaš u jednoj peći, i davaće vam hleb vaš na meru, i ješćete a nećete se nasititi.

27 Ako me ni tako ne stanete slušati, nego mi uzidete nasuprot,

28 I ja ću vama s gnevom ići nasuprot, i sedam puta većma karaću vas za grehe vaše.

29 I ješćete meso od sinova svojih, i meso od kćeri svojih ješćete.

30 Razvaliću visine vaše, i oboriću idole vaše, i metnuću trupove vaše na trupove gadnih bogova vaših, i mrziće duša moja na vas.

31 I obratiću gradove vaše u pustoš, i razoriću svetinje vaše, i neću više mirisati mirisa vašeg.

32 I opusteću zemlju da će joj se čuditi neprijatelji vaši, koji će živeti u njoj.

33 A vas ću rasejati po narodima, i učiniću da vas gone s golim mačem; i zemlja će vaša biti pusta i gradovi vaši raskopani.

34 Tada će zemlji biti mile subote njene za sve vreme dokle bude pusta; i kad budete u zemlji svojih neprijatelja, zemlja će počivati, i biće joj mile subote njene.

35 Za sve vreme dokle bude pusta počivaće, jer nije počivala u vaše subote, kad ste u njoj živeli.

36 A koji vas ostanu, metnuću strah u srca njihova u zemljama neprijatelja njihovih, te će ih goniti list kad šušne zaljuljavši se, i oni će bežati kao ispred mača, i padaće a niko ih neće terati.

37 I padaće jedan preko drugog kao od mača, a niko ih neće terati; i nećete se moći držati pred neprijateljima svojim.

38 Nego ćete izginuti među narodima, i proždreće vas zemlja neprijatelja vaših.

39 A koji vas ostanu, čileće za bezakonje svoje u zemlji neprijatelja svojih, i za bezakonje otaca svojih čileće.

40 Ali ako priznadu bezakonje svoje i bezakonje otaca svojih po gresima, kojima mi grešiše i kojima mi idoše nasuprot,

41 Te i ja njima idoh nasuprot i odvedoh ih u zemlju neprijatelja njihovih; ako se tada ponizi srce njihovo neobrezano, i bude im pravo što su pokarani za bezakonje svoje,

42 Tada ću se opomenuti zaveta svog s Jakovom, i zaveta svog sa Isakom, i zaveta svog sa Avramom opomenuću se, i zemlje ću se opomenuti.

43 Kada se zemlja oprosti njih i budu joj mile subote njene kad opusti s njih, i njima bude pravo što su pokarani za bezakonje svoje, jer sudove moje povrgoše i duši njihovoj omrzoše uredbe moje.

44 A zato ni onda kad budu u zemlji neprijatelja svojih neću ih povrći niti ću tako omrznuti na njih da ih potrem i raskinem zavet svoj sa njima; jer sam ja Gospod Bog njihov.

45 Nego ću se njih radi opomenuti zaveta sa starima njihovim, koje izvedoh iz zemlje misirske narodima na vidiku da im budem Bog, ja Gospod.

46 Ovo su uredbe i sudovi i zakoni, koje postavi Gospod između sebe i sinova Izrailjevih na gori Sinajskoj preko Mojsija.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 5536

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5536. Me have ye bereaved. That this signifies that thus the church was no more, is evident from the representation of Jacob, who says this of himself, as being the good of truth (see n. 3659, 3669, 3677, 3775, 4234, 4273, 4538); and because it is the good of truth, it is also the church, for good is the essential of the church; and therefore it is the same whether we say the good of truth, or the church, for with the man with whom is the good of truth, there is the church (that “Jacob” is the church may be seen above, n. 4286, 4520; and hence also that his sons represent the truths of the church, n. 5403, 5419, 5427, 5458, 5512); and from the signification of “bereaving,” as being to deprive the church of its truths and goods, as here of those which are represented by Joseph, Benjamin, and Simeon (of which in what follows).

[2] That “to bereave” denotes to deprive the church of its truths, is because the church is compared to a marriage, its good to the husband, and its truth to the wife, and the truths born of this marriage to sons, and the goods to daughters, and so on. When therefore “bereavement,” or “bereaving” is spoken of, it signifies that the church is deprived of its truths, and that thereby it becomes no church. In this sense the terms “bereavement,” or “bereaving,” are occasionally used elsewhere in the Word, as in Ezekiel:

I will send upon you famine and evil beast, and will make thee bereaved (Ezekiel 5:17).

And again:

When I make the evil beast to pass through the land, and it shall bereave it, so that it become a desolation, that no man may pass through because of the wild beast (Ezekiel 14:15).

In Leviticus:

I will send against you the wild beast of the field, which shall bereave you, and cut off your beast, and lessen you, that your ways shall be laid waste (Leviticus 26:22).

[3] In these passages “famine” denotes a lack of the knowledges of good and truth, and hence desolation; an “evil beast,” falsities from evils; the “land,” the church; “sending a famine and an evil beast to bereave the land” denotes to destroy the church by falsities from evils, thus to completely deprive it of truths.

In Jeremiah:

I will winnow them with a fan in the gates of the land, I will bereave, I will destroy My people (Jeremiah 15:7); where also “bereaving” denotes to deprive of truths. In the same:

Give their sons to the famine, and make them flow away by the hand of the sword; that their wives may become bereaved and widows (Jeremiah 18:21); where “their wives becoming bereaved and widows” denotes being without truths and good.

[4] In Hosea:

Of Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird, from the birth, and from the belly, and from conception; because if they have brought up their sons, then will I make them bereaved of man (Hos. 9:11-12);

with a similar meaning.

In Ezekiel:

I will make man, My people, walk over you, who shall possess thee by inheritance, and thou shalt be their inheritance, and thou shalt no more add to bereave them. Thus hath said the Lord Jehovih, Because they say to you, Thou art a consumer of man, and hast been a bereaver of thy peoples (Ezekiel 36:12-13); where also “bereaving” is to deprive of truths.

[5] In Isaiah:

Now hear this, O delicate one, sitting securely, saying in thine heart, I and none besides like me, I shall not sit a widow, neither shall I know bereavement; surely these two things shall come to thee in a moment in one day, bereavement and widowhood (Isaiah 47:8-9);

said of the daughter of Babylon and of Chaldea, that is, of those who are in a holy external and a profane internal, and by virtue of this holy external call themselves the church. “Bereavement and widowhood” denote the deprivation of good and truth. Again:

Lift up thine eyes round about, and see; all they gather themselves together, they come to thee. The sons of thy bereavement shall yet say in thine ears, The place is strait for me; go from me that I may dwell. But thou shalt say in thine heart, Who hath begotten me these, seeing I am bereaved and lonely, banished and far away? Who therefore hath brought up these? I was left alone; these, where were they? (Isaiah 49:18, 20-21);

said of Zion or the celestial church, and of its fruitfulness after vastation; the “sons of bereavement” denoting the truths of which she had been deprived in vastation, restored and vastly increased.

  
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4060. Therefore that by the words now before us there is signified the state of the church at that time in respect to good (that is, as to charity toward the neighbor and love to the Lord), is evident from their internal sense, which is as follows:

But immediately after the affliction of those days;

signifies the state of the church in respect to the truth of faith (concerning which just above). In the Word the desolation of truth in various places is called “affliction.” (That “days” are states may be seen above, n. 23, 487, 488, 493, 893, 2788, 3462, 3785.) From this it is manifest that by these words is signified that after there is no longer any faith, there will be no charity. For faith leads to charity, because it teaches what charity is, and charity receives its quality from the truths of faith; but the truths of faith receive their essence and their life from charity, as has been repeatedly shown in the preceding volumes.

[2] The sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light; signifies love to the Lord, which is the “sun;” and charity toward the neighbor, which is the “moon.” “To be darkened and not to give their light” signifies that they will not appear, and thus will vanish away. (That the “sun” is the celestial of love, and the “moon” the spiritual of love; that is, that the “sun” is love to the Lord, and the “moon” charity toward the neighbor, which comes forth through faith, may be seen above, n. 1053, 1529-1530, 2120, 2441, 2495.) The reason why this is the signification of the “sun and moon,” is that in the other life the Lord appears as a sun to those in heaven who are in love to Him, and who are called the celestial; and as a moon to those who are in charity toward the neighbor, and who are called the spiritual (see n. 1053, 1521, 1529-1531, 3636, 3643).

[3] The sun and moon in the heavens (that is, the Lord) is never darkened, nor does it lose its light, but it shines perpetually; and so neither is love to the Lord darkened with the celestial, nor does charity toward the neighbor lose its light with the spiritual, in the heavens; nor on earth with those with whom these angels are, that is, those who are in love and charity. Those however who are in no love and charity, but in the love of self and of the world, and consequently in hatred and revenge, bring that “darkening” upon themselves. The case herein is as it is with the sun of this world, which shines continuously; but when the clouds interpose, it does not appear (n. 2441).

[4] And the stars shall fall from heaven;

signifies that the knowledges of good and truth will perish. Nothing else is signified by “stars” when these are mentioned in the Word (n. 1808, 2849).

And the powers of the heavens shall be shaken; signifies the foundations of the church, which are said to be “shaken” and “made to quake” when they perish. For the church on earth is the foundation of heaven, because the influx of good and truth from the Lord through the heavens finally terminates in the goods and truths that are with the man of the church. When therefore the man of the church is in such a perverted state as no longer to admit the influx of good and truth, the powers of the heavens are said to be “shaken.” For this reason it is always provided by the Lord that something of the church shall remain; and that when an old church perishes, a new one shall be set up again.

[5] And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven;

signifies the appearing of Divine truth at that time; the “sign” signifies the appearing; the “Son of man,” the Lord as to Divine truth (see n. 2803, 2813, 3704). It was this appearing or this “sign,” concerning which the disciples asked when they said, “Tell us when shall these things be, and what shall be the sign of Thy coming, and of the consummation of the age” (verse 3). For they knew from the Word that when the age should be consummated, the Lord would come; and they learned from the Lord Himself that He would “come again,” by which they understood that the Lord would once more come into the world; not yet knowing that the Lord has come whenever the church has been vastated, not indeed in person, as when He assumed the human by birth and made it Divine; but by means of appearings-either manifest, as when He appeared to Abraham in Mamre, to Moses in the bush, to the people of Israel on Mount Sinai, and to Joshua when he entered the land of Canaan; or not so manifest, as by inspirations through which the Word was given, and afterwards through the Word; for the Lord is present in the Word, because all things in the Word are from Him and concerning Him, as may be seen from what has already been frequently shown. This latter is the appearing here signified by the “sign of the Son of man,” and which is described in this verse.

[6] And then shall all the tribes of the earth wail;

signifies that all who are in the good of love and the truth of faith shall be in grief. That “wailing” signifies this, may be seen in Zechariah 12:10-14; and that “tribes” signify all things of good and truth, or of love and faith, and consequently those who are in them, may be seen above (n. 3858, 3926). They are called the “tribes of the earth,” because those are meant who are within the church. (That the “earth” is the church may be seen above, n. 662, 1066, 1067, 1262, 1733, 1850, 2117, 2928, 3355)

[7] And they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of the heavens with power and great glory;

signifies that the Word will then be revealed as to its internal sense, in which the Lord is; the “Son of man” is the Divine truth therein (n. 2803, 2813, 3704); the “cloud” is the literal sense; “power” is predicated of the good, and “glory” of the truth, therein. (That these things are signified by “seeing the Son of man coming in the clouds of the heavens,” see the preface to the eighteenth chapter.) This is the “coming of the Lord” here meant, and not that He will literally appear in the clouds. Now follows the subject of the setting up of a New Church, which takes place when the old one is vastated and rejected.

[8] He shall send forth His angels with a trumpet and a great voice;

signifies election, not by visible angels, still less by trumpets, and by great voices; but by the influx of holy good and holy truth from the Lord through angels; and therefore by “angels” in the Word there is signified something of the the Lord, (n. 1925, 2821, 3039); here, there are signified things that are from the Lord and concerning the Lord. By the “trumpet” and the “great voice” there is signified evangelization, as elsewhere in the Word.

[9] And they shall gather together His elect from the four winds, from the end of the heavens even to the end thereof;

signifies the setting up of a New Church. The “elect” are those who are in the good of love and of faith (n. 3755-3900); the “four winds” from which they shall be gathered together, are all states of good and truth (n. 3708); “from the end of the heavens to the end of them” denotes the internals and the externals of the church. Such therefore are the things signified by these words of the Lord.

  
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