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1 Pazite da pravdu svoju ne činite pred ljudima da vas oni vide; inače platu nemate od Oca svog koji je na nebesima.

2 Kad dakle daješ milostinju, ne trubi pred sobom, kao što čine licemeri po zbornicama i po ulicama da ih hvale ljudi. Zaista vam kažem: primili su platu svoju.

3 A ti kad činiš milostinju, da ne zna levica tvoja šta čini desnica tvoja.

4 Tako da bude milostinja tvoja tajna; i Otac tvoj koji vidi tajno, platiće tebi javno.

5 I kad se moliš Bogu, ne budi kao licemeri, koji rado po zbornicama i na raskršću po ulicama stoje i mole se da ih vide ljudi. Zaista vam kažem da su primili platu svoju.

6 A ti kad se moliš, uđi u klet svoju, i zatvorivši vrata svoja, pomoli se Ocu svom koji je u tajnosti; i Otac tvoj koji vidi tajno, platiće tebi javno.

7 A kad se molite, ne govorite mnogo ko neznabošci; jer oni misle da će za mnoge reči svoje biti uslišeni.

8 Vi dakle ne budite kao oni; jer zna Otac vaš šta vam treba pre molitve vaše;

9 Ovako dakle molite se vi: Oče naš koji si na nebesima, da se sveti ime Tvoje;

10 Da dođe carstvo Tvoje; da bude volja Tvoja i na zemlji kao na nebu;

11 Hleb naš potrebni daj nam danas;

12 I oprosti nam dugove naše kao i mi što opraštamo dužnicima svojim;

13 I ne navedi nas u napast; no izbavi nas oda zla. Jer je Tvoje carstvo, i sila, i slava va vek. Amin.

14 Jer ako opraštate ljudima grehe njihove, oprostiće i vama Otac vaš nebeski.

15 Ako li ne opraštate ljudima grehe njihove, ni Otac vaš neće oprostiti vama grehe vaše.

16 A kad postite, ne budite žalosni kao licemeri; jer oni načine bleda lica svoja da ih vide ljudi gde poste. Zaista vam kažem da su primili platu svoju.

17 A ti kad postiš, namaži glavu svoju, i lice svoje umij,

18 Da te ne vide ljudi gde postiš, nego Otac tvoj koji je u tajnosti; i Otac tvoj koji vidi tajno, platiće tebi javno.

19 Ne sabirajte sebi blago na zemlji, gde moljac i rđa kvari, i gde lupeži potkopavaju i kradu;

20 Nego sabirajte sebi blago na nebu, gde ni moljac ni rđa ne kvari, i gde lupeži ne potkopavaju i ne kradu.

21 Jer gde je vaše blago, onde će biti i srce vaše.

22 Sveća je telu oko. Ako dakle bude oko tvoje zdravo, sve će telo tvoje svetlo biti.

23 Ako li oko tvoje kvarno bude, sve će telo tvoje tamno biti. Ako je dakle videlo što je u tebi tama, a kamoli tama?

24 Niko ne može dva gospodara služiti: jer ili će na jednog mrzeti, a drugog ljubiti; ili jednom voleti, a za drugog ne mariti. Ne možete Bogu služiti i mamoni.

25 Zato vam kažem: ne brinite se za život svoj, šta ćete jesti, ili šta ćete piti; ni za telo svoje, u šta ćete se obući. Nije li život pretežniji od hrane, i telo od odela?

26 Pogledajte na ptice nebeske kako ne seju, niti žnju, ni sabiraju u žitnice; pa Otac vaš nebeski hrani ih. Niste li vi mnogo pretežniji od njih?

27 A ko od vas brinući se može primaknuti rastu svom lakat jedan?

28 I za odelo što se brinete? Pogledajte na ljiljane u polju kako rastu; ne trude se niti predu.

29 Ali ja vam kažem da ni Solomun u svoj svojoj slavi ne obuče se kao jedan od njih.

30 A kad travu u polju, koja danas jeste, a sutra se u pećbaca, Bog tako odeva, a kamoli vas, maloverni?

31 Ne brinite se dakle govoreći: Šta ćemo jesti, ili, šta ćemo piti, ili, čim ćemo se odenuti?

32 Jer sve ovo neznabošci ištu; a zna i Otac vaš nebeski da vama treba sve ovo.

33 Nego ištite najpre carstvo Božje, i pravdu Njegovu, i ovo će vam se sve dodati.

34 Ne brinite se dakle za sutra; jer sutra brinuće se za se. Dosta je svakom danu zla svog.

   

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Heaven and Hell # 281

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281. I have talked a lot with angels about innocence and have been told that innocence is the inner reality of everything good and that therefore anything good is good to the extent that there is innocence within it. Consequently wisdom is wisdom to the extent that it derives from innocence, and the same is true of love, thoughtfulness, and faith. 1 This is why no one can enter heaven unless he or she has innocence. This is what the Lord meant by saying,

Let the little ones come to me, do not forbid them, for of such is the kingdom of the heavens. I tell you in truth, whoever will not accept the kingdom of the heavens like a little child will not enter into it. (Mark 10:14-15; Luke 18:16-17)

Little ones in this passage, as elsewhere in the Word, mean the innocent. 2 The state of innocence is described by the Lord in Matthew 6, but in pure correspondences. The reason good is good to the extent that there is innocence in it is that all good comes from the Lord, and innocence is being willing to be led by the Lord.

I have also been told that truth cannot be united to good or good to truth except by means of innocence. This is also why angels are not angels of heaven unless there is innocence in them, since heaven is not within anyone until the truth has been united with the good within. So the union of the true and the good is called the heavenly marriage, and the heavenly marriage is heaven.

I have also been told that true marriage love derives its origin from innocence because it comes from the union of the good and the true that engages the two minds, the minds of husband and wife. When this union descends, it takes on the appearance of marriage love because the spouses, like their minds, love each other. This is the source of the childlike and innocent play in marriage love. 3

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. [Swedenborg's footnote] All the good of love and the truth of faith need to have innocence within them if they are to be good and true: 2526, 2780, 3111, 3994, 6013, 7840, 9262, 10134. Innocence is the essential element of what is good and true: 2780, 7840. No one is allowed into heaven unless she or he has some innocence: 4797.

2. [Swedenborg's footnote] [Swedenborg's note at this point refers the reader to the note in ?278 above.]

3. [Swedenborg's footnote] True marriage love is innocence: 2736. Marriage love is intending what the other intends, mutually and reciprocally: 2731. People who are in marriage love are living together in the inmost aspects of life: 2732. There is a union of two minds, so effective that they become one from love: 10168-10169. True marriage love derives its origin and essence from the marriage of the good and the true: 2728-2729. About some angelic spirits who could perceive whether a true inclination toward marriage existed from the image they perceived of the union of the good and the true: 10756. Marriage love works exactly like the union of the good and the true: 1094 [1904?], 2173, 2429 [2729?], 2503 [2508?], 3101-3102, 3155, 3179-3180, 4358, 5407 [5807?], 5835, 9206-9207, 9495, 9637. So in the Word, "marriage" means the union of the good and the true as it is in heaven and as it should be in the church: 3132, 4434, 4834.

  
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Arcana Coelestia # 1904

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1904. That 'Sarai, Abram's wife, took' means the affection for truth, which in the genuine sense is 'Sarai the wife', is clear from the meaning of 'Sarai' as truth allied to good, and from the meaning of 'wife' as affection, dealt with already in 915, 1468. There are two affections, distinct and separate - the affection for good and the affection for truth. While a person is being regenerated the affection for truth takes the lead, for it is an affection for truth for the sake of good that moves him; but once he has been regenerated the affection for good takes the lead, and it is now an affection for truth originating in good that moves him. The affection for good belongs to the will, the affection for truth to the understanding. The most ancient people established a marriage so to speak between these two affections. They used to refer to good (or the love of good) and truth (or the love of truth) as Man, calling the former 'the husband' and the latter 'the wife'. The comparison of good and truth to a marriage has its origins in the heavenly marriage.

[2] Regarded in themselves good and truth do not possess any life, but they derive their life from love or affection. They are merely the instruments that serve life. Consequently as is the love producing the affection for good and truth, so is the life; for the whole of life constitutes the whole of love or affection. This is why 'Sarai his wife' in the genuine sense means the affection for truth. And because the Intellectual desired the Rational as its offspring, and because what she says is an expression of that desire or affection, this verse contains the explicit wording, 'Sarai, Abram's wife, gave to Abram her husband' which would be an unnecessary repetition - for in themselves these words would be quite superfluous - if such matters were not embodied within the internal sense.

[3] Intellectual truth is distinct and separate from rational truth, and rational truth from factual truth, just as what is internal, what is intermediate, and what is external are. Intellectual truth is internal, rational truth is intermediate, while factual truth is external. These are quite distinct and separate because one is interior to another. With everyone intellectual truth, which is internal, or that present within the inmost part of him, is not his own but is the Lord's with him. From this the Lord flows into the rational, where truth first appears as if it were the person's own, and through the rational into his faculty of knowing. From these considerations it is clear that nobody can possibly think as of himself from intellectual truth, but from rational truth and factual truth because these do appear as if they were his.

[4] Only the Lord, when He lived in the world, thought from intellectual truth, for that truth was His own Divine truth joined to good, or the Divine spiritual joined to the Divine celestial. In this respect the Lord was different from all others. Man in no way possesses the ability to think from the Divine existing within himself as his essential self, nor can that ability possibly exist within man, only within Him who was conceived from Jehovah. Because He thought from intellectual truth, that is, from the love or affection for intellectual truth, from that truth also He desired the Rational. This is why it is stated here that 'Sarai, Abram's wife', by whom is meant the affection for intellectual truth, 'took Hagar the Egyptian and gave her to Abram her husband as his wife (mulier)'.

[5] No other arcana concealed here can be brought out and explained intelligibly because the human being dwells in very great obscurity regarding his own internals. Indeed he has no conception of these, for he identifies the rational and the intellectual degrees of the mind with the factual degree, not knowing that these degrees are distinct and separate, so distinct in fact that the intellectual is able to exist without the rational, as also can the rational, while subordinate to the intellectual, exist without the factual. This must inevitably seem absurd to those wholly immersed in factual knowledge, but it is nevertheless the truth. It is not possible however for anyone to have truth present in the factual degree of his mind, that is to say, to have an affection for it and a belief in it, if truth is not present in the rational, into which and through which the Lord flows in from the intellectual degree. These arcana do not lie open to man's view except in the next life.

  
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