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1 A kad ču Hananej, car aradski, koji življaše na jugu, da ide Izrailj putem kojim idoše uhode, on se pobi s njima i zarobi ih nekoliko.

2 Tada se Izrailj zavetova Gospodu i reče: Ako daš ovaj narod meni u ruke, do temelja ću raskopati gradove njihove.

3 I usliši Gospod glas Izrailjev i dade mu Hananeje, a on zatre njih i gradove njihove, i prozva ono mesto Orma.

4 Potom pođoše od gore Ora k Crvenom moru obilazeći zemlju edomsku, i oslabi duh narodu od puta.

5 I vikaše narod na Boga i na Mojsija: Zašto nas izvedoste iz Misira da izginemo u ovoj pustinji? Jer nema ni hleba ni vode, a ovaj se nikakvi hleb većogadio duši našoj.

6 A Gospod pusti na narod zmije vatrene, koje ih ujedahu, te pomre mnogo naroda u Izrailju.

7 Tada dođe narod k Mojsiju i rekoše: Zgrešismo što vikasmo na Gospoda i na tebe; moli Boga neka ukloni zmije od nas. I Mojsije se pomoli za narod.

8 I Gospod reče Mojsiju: Načini zmiju vatrenu, i metni je na motku, i koga ujede zmija, neka pogleda u nju, pa će ozdraviti.

9 I načini Mojsije zmiju od bronze, i metnu je na motku, i koga god ujede zmija on pogleda u zmiju od bronze, i ozdravi.

10 Potom pođoše sinovi Izrailjevi, i stadoše u logor u Ovotu.

11 I iz Ovota otišavši stadoše u logor na brdima avarimskim u pustinji koja je prema moavskoj s istoka.

12 Odande otišavši stadoše u logor u dolini Zaredu.

13 I odatle otišavši stadoše u logor na brdu na Arnonu, koji je u pustinji i izlazi od međe amorejske. Jer je Arnon međa moavska između Moavaca i Amorejaca.

14 Zato se kaže u knjizi o ratovima Gospodnjim: Na Vajeva u Sufi i na potoke arnonske.

15 Jer ti potoci, koji dopiru do mesta Ara, teku pokraj međe moavske.

16 A otuda dođoše k Viru; to je studenac za koji beše rekao Gospod Mojsiju: Skupi narod, i daću im vode.

17 Tada peva Izrailj pesmu ovu: Diži se, studenče; pripevajte ga;

18 Studenče, koji kopaše knezovi, koji iskopaše poglavari narodni s onim koji postavi zakon, palicama svojim. A iz pustinje otidoše u Mantanail,

19 A iz Mantanaila, u Nadil, a iz Nadila u Vamot,

20 A iz Vamota u dolinu koja je u polju moavskom kod gore Fazge i gleda u pustinju.

21 Tada posla Izrailj poslanike k Sionu, caru amorejskom govoreći:

22 Pusti da prođemo kroz tvoju zemlju, nećemo svrtati ni u polje ni u vinograd, niti ćemo piti vode iz studenaca; ići ćemo carskim putem dokle ne pređemo među tvoju.

23 Ali ne dade Sion Izrailju da prođe kroz zemlju njegovu, nego sabra Sion sav narod svoj, i izađe na Izrailja u pustinju, i dođe u Jasu, i pobi se s Izrailjem.

24 Ali ga iseče Izrailj oštrim mačem, i osvoji zemlju njegovu od Arona pa do Javoka, do sinova Amonovih, jer tvrda beše međa sinova Amonovih.

25 I uze Izrailj sva ona mesta i naseli se u svim gradovima amorejskim, u Esevonu i u svim selima njegovim.

26 Jer Esevon beše grad Siona, cara amorejskog, koji beše prvi zavojštio na cara moavskog i beše mu uzeo svu zemlju njegovu do Arnona.

27 Zato govore u priči: Hodite u Esevon, da se sagradi i podigne grad Sionov.

28 Jer oganj izađe iz Esevona, plamen iz grada Sionovog, i spali Ar moavski i stanovnike na visini arnonskoj.

29 Teško tebi, Moave; propao si; narode Hemosov; dao je sinove svoje koji utekoše i kćeri svoje u ropstvo Sionu, caru amorejskom.

30 Ali ih postreljasmo, propade Esevon do Devona, i potrsmo ih do Nofe, koja dopire do Medeve.

31 I tako živi Izrailj u zemlji amorejskoj.

32 Potom posla Mojsije da uhode Jazir, i uzeše sela oko njega, i izagnaše Amorejce koji behu onde.

33 Potom obrativši se pođoše u Vasan; i iziđe Og, car vasanski pred njih, on i sav narod njegov na boj u Edrajin.

34 A Gospod reče Mojsiju: Ne boj ga se; jer sam ga dao u tvoje ruke i sav narod njegov i zemlju njegovu; i učini mu kako si učinio Sionu, caru Amorejskom koji življaše u Esevonu.

35 I pobiše ga i sinove njegove i sav narod njegov, da ne osta nijedan, i osvojiše zemlju njegovu.

   

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Apocalypse Revealed # 49

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49. His feet were like fine brass, as though fired in a furnace. (1:15) This symbolizes natural Divine good.

The Lord's feet symbolize His natural Divinity. Fire or being fired symbolizes goodness. And fine brass symbolizes the natural goodness of truth. Consequently the feet of the Son of Man like fine brass, as though fired in a furnace, symbolize natural Divine good.

His feet have this symbolic meaning because of their correspondence.

Present in the Lord, and so emanating from the Lord, are a celestial Divinity, a spiritual Divinity, and a natural Divinity. His celestial Divinity is meant by the head of the Son of Man; His spiritual Divinity by His eyes and by His breast girded with a golden girdle; and His natural Divinity by His feet.

[2] Because these three elements are present in the Lord, therefore the same three are also present in the angelic heaven. The third or highest heaven exists on the celestial Divine level, the second or middle heaven on the spiritual Divine level, and the first or lowest heaven on the natural Divine level. The like is the case with the church on earth. For the whole of heaven is, in the Lord's sight, like a single person, in which those who are governed by the Lord's celestial Divinity form the head, and those who are governed by His spiritual Divinity form the trunk, while those who are governed by His natural Divinity form the feet.

For this reason, too, every person, having been created in the image of God, has in him the same three degrees, and as they are opened he becomes an angel either of the third heaven, or of the second, or of the last.

It is owing to this also that the Word contains three levels of meaning - a celestial one, a spiritual one, and a natural one.

The reality of this may be seen in Angelic Wisdom Regarding Divine Love and Wisdom, particularly in Part Three, in which we discussed these three degrees.

To be shown that feet, the soles of the feet, and heels correspond to natural attributes in people, and that in the Word, therefore, they symbolize natural attributes, see in Arcana Coelestia (The Secrets of Heaven), published in London, nos. 2162 and 4938-4952.

[3] Natural Divine good is also symbolically meant by feet in the following passages. In Daniel:

I lifted my eyes and looked; behold, a... man clothed in linen garments, whose loins were girded with the gold of Uphaz! And his body was like beryl, and... his eyes like torches of fire, his arms and his feet like the sheen of burnished bronze. (Daniel 10:5-6)

In the book of Revelation:

I saw... an angel coming down from heaven, ...his feet like pillars of fire. (Revelation 10:1)

And in Ezekiel:

(The feet of the cherubim) sparkled like the sheen of burnished bronze. (Ezekiel 1:7)

Angels and cherubim so appeared for the reason that the Lord's Divinity was represented in them.

[4] Since the Lord's church exists below the heavens, thus under the Lord's feet, it is therefore called His footstool in the following places:

The glory of Lebanon shall come to you..., to beautify the place of My sanctuary; ...I will make the place of My feet honorable. And... they shall bow themselves at the soles of your feet. (Isaiah 60:13-14)

Heaven is My throne and the earth is My footstool. (Isaiah 66:1)

(God) does not remember His footstool in the day of His anger. (Lamentations 2:1)

...worship (Jehovah) in the direction of His footstool. (Psalms 99:5)

Behold, we heard of it in Ephrathah (Bethlehem).... We will go into His dwelling places, we will bow ourselves at His footstool. (Psalms 132:6-7)

That is why worshipers fell at the Lord's feet (Matthew 28:9, Mark 5:22, Luke 8:41, John 11:32), and why they kissed His feet and wiped them with their hair (Luke 7:37-38, 44-46, John 11:2; 12:3).

[5] Because feet symbolize the natural self, therefore the Lord said to Peter, when He washed Peter's feet,

He who is washed needs only to have his feet washed, and he is completely clean. (John 13:10)

To wash the feet is to purify the natural self. When it has been purified, the whole self also is purified, as we showed many times in Arcana Coelestia (The Secrets of Heaven), and in The Doctrines of the New Jerusalem. 1 The natural self, which is also the outer self, is purified when it refrains from the evils which the spiritual or inner self sees to be evils and ones to be shunned.

[6] Now because the feet mean the natural component of a person, and this perverts everything if it is not washed or purified, therefore the Lord says,

If your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life lame, rather than to have two feet and be cast into hell, into the unquenchable fire... (Mark 9:45)

The foot here does not mean the foot, but the natural self.

The like is meant by treading down the good pasture with the feet and troubling waters with the feet (Ezekiel 32:2; 34:18-19, Daniel 7:7, 19, and elsewhere).

[7] Since the Son of Man means the Lord in relation to the Word, it is apparent that His feet mean the Word in its natural sense as well, which we dealt with at length in The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem Regarding the Sacred Scripture, and also that the Lord came into the world to fulfill everything in the Word and to become thereby an embodiment of the Word, even in its outmost expressions (The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem Regarding the Sacred Scripture, nos. 98-100). But this is a secret for people who will be in the New Jerusalem.

[8] The Lord's natural Divinity was also symbolized by the bronze serpent that Moses was commanded to set up in the wilderness, so that all who had been bitten by serpents were healed by looking at it (Numbers 21:6, 8-9). That this symbolized the Lord's natural Divinity, and that those people are saved who look to it, the Lord Himself teaches in John:

As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. (John 3:14-15)

The serpent was made of bronze because bronze, like fine brass, symbolizes the natural self in respect to good, as may be seen in no. 775 below.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. Perhaps The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem Regarding the Lord, The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem Regarding the Sacred Scripture, The Doctrine of Life for the New Jerusalem, and The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem Regarding Faith (Amsterdam, 1763). But perhaps The New Jerusalem and its Heavenly Doctrine (London, 1758).

  
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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.