Bible

 

Jevanðelje po Mateju 15

Studie

   

1 Tada pristupiše k Isusu književnici i fariseji od Jerusalima govoreći:

2 Zašto učenici tvoji prestupaju običaje starih? Jer ne umivaju ruke svoje kad hleb jedu.

3 A On odgovarajući reče im: Zašto i vi prestupate zapovest Božju za običaje svoje?

4 Jer Bog zapoveda govoreći: Poštuj oca i mater; i koji opsuje oca ili mater smrću da umre.

5 A vi kažete: Ako koji reče ocu ili materi: Prilog je čim bih ti ja mogao pomoći;

6 Može i da ne poštuje oca svog ili matere. I ukidoste zapovest Božju za običaje svoje.

7 Licemeri! Dobro je za vas prorokovao Isaija govoreći:

8 Ovi ljudi približavaju se k meni ustima svojim, i usnama poštuju me; a srce njihovo daleko stoji od mene.

9 No zaludu me poštuju učeći naukama i zapovestima ljudskim.

10 I dozvavši ljude, reče im: Slušajte i razumite.

11 Ne pogani čoveka šta ulazi u usta; nego šta izlazi iz usta ono pogani čoveka.

12 Tada pristupiše učenici Njegovi i rekoše Mu: Znaš li da fariseji čuvši tu reč sablazniše se?

13 A On odgovarajući reče: Svako drvo koje nije usadio Otac moj nebeski, iskoreniće se.

14 Ostavite ih: oni su slepe vođe slepcima; a slepac slepca ako vodi, oba će u jamu pasti.

15 A Petar odgovarajući reče Mu: Kaži nam priču ovu.

16 A Isus reče: Eda li ste i vi još nerazumni?

17 Zar još ne znate da sve što ulazi u usta u trbuh ide, i izbacuje se napolje?

18 A šta izlazi iz usta iz srca izlazi, i ono pogani čoveka.

19 Jer od srca izlaze zle misli, ubistva, preljube, kurvarstva, krađe, lažna svedočanstva, hule na Boga.

20 I ovo je što pogani čoveka, a neumivenim rukama jesti ne pogani čoveka.

21 I izišavši odande Isus otide u krajeve tirske i sidonske.

22 I gle, žena Hananejka izađe iz onih krajeva, i povika k Njemu govoreći: Pomiluj me Gospode sine Davidov! Moju kćer vrlo muči đavo.

23 A On joj ne odgovori ni reči. I pristupivši učenici Njegovi moljahu Ga govoreći: Otpusti je, kako viče za nama.

24 A On odgovarajući reče: Ja sam poslan samo k izgubljenim ovcama doma Izrailjevog.

25 A ona pristupivši pokloni Mu se govoreći: Gospode pomozi mi!

26 A On odgovarajući reče: Nije dobro uzeti od dece hleb i baciti psima.

27 A ona reče: Da, Gospode, ali i psi jedu od mrva što padaju s trpeze njihovih gospodara.

28 Tada odgovori Isus, i reče joj: O ženo! Velika je vera tvoja; neka ti bude kako hoćeš. I ozdravi kći njena od onog časa.

29 I otišavši Isus odande, dođe k moru galilejskom, i popevši se na goru, sede onde.

30 I pristupiše k Njemu ljudi mnogi koji imahu sa sobom hromih, slepih, nemih, uzetih i drugih mnogih, i položiše ih k nogama Isusovim, i isceli ih,

31 Tako da se narod divljaše, videći neme gde govore, uzete zdrave, hrome gde idu, i slepe gde gledaju; i hvališe Boga Izrailjevog.

32 A Isus dozvavši učenike svoje reče: Žao mi je ovog naroda, jer većtri dana stoje kod mene i nemaju šta jesti; a nisam ih rad otpustiti gladne da ne oslabe na putu.

33 I rekoše Mu učenici Njegovi: Otkuda nam u pustinji toliki hleb da se nasiti toliki narod?

34 I reče im Isus: Koliko hlebova imate? A oni rekoše: Sedam, i malo ribice.

35 I zapovedi narodu da posedaju po zemlji.

36 I uzevši onih sedam hlebova i ribe, i davši hvalu, prelomi, i dade učenicima svojim, a učenici narodu.

37 I jedoše svi, i nasitiše se; i nakupiše komada što preteče sedam kotarica punih.

38 A onih što su jeli beše četiri hiljade ljudi, osim žena i dece.

39 I otpustivši narod uđe u lađu, i dođe u okoline magdalske.

   

Ze Swedenborgových děl

 

Apocalypse Revealed # 914

Prostudujte si tuto pasáž

  
/ 962  
  

914. 21:19 The foundations of the wall of the city were adorned with all kinds of precious stones. This symbolically means that all of the doctrines of the New Jerusalem taken from the Word's literal sense will, among the people in that church, be seen in a state of light, in accordance with their reception of it.

The twelve foundations symbolize all of the church's doctrines (no. 902). The wall symbolizes the Word in its literal sense (no. 898). The holy city Jerusalem symbolizes the Lord's New Church (nos. 879, 880). Precious stones symbolize the Word in its literal sense with its spiritual sense shining through (nos. 231, 540, 726, 911). And because this depends on its reception, therefore the symbolic meaning is that all of the doctrines from the Word among the people in that church will be seen in a state of light in accordance with their reception of it.

People who fail to think rationally cannot believe that everything connected with the New Church can be seen in a state of light. But I assure them that it is possible, for everyone has an outer thought and an inner one. The inner thought thinks in the light of heaven and is called perception, while the outer thought thinks in the light of the world. Moreover the intellect in everyone is so formed that it can be raised even into the light of heaven, and also is raised if it is moved by some delight to wish to see a truth. The reality of this is something I have been given to know through long experience, and marvelous things as a result of it may be seen in Angelic Wisdom Regarding Divine Providence, and still more in Angelic Wisdom Regarding Divine Love and Wisdom. For the delight of love and wisdom elevates the thought to see that something is so, as though in a state of light, even if it had not heard it before. This light that enlightens the mind flows in from no other source than the Lord and heaven. And because people who will be those of the New Jerusalem will turn directly to the Lord, this light will flow in in the orderly way, namely through the will's love into the intellect's perception.

[2] On the other hand, people who entrench in themselves this dogma, that the intellect in theological matters is not going to see anything, but that people must believe blindly whatever the church teaches - people like that cannot see any truth in a state of light, for they have blocked up the path of the light in themselves.

The Protestant Reformed church has retained this dogma from the Roman Catholic religion, which holds that no one but the church - by which they mean the Pope or Papal Consistory - is to interpret the Word, and that anyone who does not embrace with faith all of the doctrines handed down by the church is to be regarded as a heretic and as an anathema or one accursed. The fact of this is clear from the concluding session of the Council of Trent, which established all the dogmas of that religion, where it says toward the end:

Then... Morone, the... President, ...said, ."..go in peace."

There followed acclamations, and among them those of the Cardinal of Lorraine and the Fathers:

[The Cardinal:] We all thus believe; we all think the very same; we all, consenting and embracing [them], subscribe. This is the faith of blessed Peter, and of the Apostles: this is the faith of the Fathers: This is the faith of the Orthodox....

[The Fathers:] So be it... Amen, Amen.

[The Cardinal:] Anathema to all heretics.

[The Fathers:] Anathema, anathema.

The decrees of that Council are those we presented in summary previously at the outset of this work, and they contain, indeed, scarcely one truth.

[3] We have cited this to make known that the Protestant Reformed have retained this blind faith, that is, a faith without understanding, from the Roman Catholic religion, and those who continue to hold onto it cannot be enlightened by the Lord in Divine truths.

As long as the intellect is held captive in obedience to faith, or as long as the intellect is set aside so as not to see the church's truths, theology becomes nothing but a matter of the memory; and a matter of the memory alone fades away, like any matter disconnected from a judgment concerning it, and it perishes from its own lack of clarity. People like that are therefore "blind leaders of the blind," and when "the blind leads the blind, both fall into a ditch" (Matthew 15:14).

They are blind also because they do not enter by the door, but in some other way. 1 For Jesus said:

I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture. (John 10:9)

To find pasture means to be instructed, enlightened, and nourished in Divine truths.

All those who do not enter by the door, that is, by the Lord, are in that same chapter called "thieves and robbers." But those who enter by the door, that is, by the Lord, are called "shepherds of the sheep" (John 10:1-2).

Therefore turn to the Lord, my friend, refrain from evils as being sins, and reject faith alone. And then your intellect will be opened, and you will see marvels and be affected by them.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. Cf. John 10:1

  
/ 962  
  

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