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Deuteronomio 1

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1 Estas son las palabras que habló Moisés a todo Israel a este lado del Jordán en el desierto, en el llano delante del mar Bermejo, entre Parán, y Tofel, y Labán, y Hazerot, y Dizahab.

2 Once jornadas hay desde Horeb, camino del monte de Seir, hasta Cades-barnea.

3 Y fue, que a los cuarenta años, en el mes undécimo, al primero del mes, Moisés habló a los hijos de Israel conforme a todas las cosas que el SEÑOR le había mandado acerca de ellos;

4 después que hirió a Sehón rey de los amorreos, que habitaba en Hesbón, y a Og rey de Basán, que habitaba en Astarot en Edrei;

5 a este lado del Jordán, en tierra de Moab, resolvió Moisés declarar esta ley, diciendo:

6 El SEÑOR nuestro Dios nos habló en Horeb, diciendo: Habéis estado bastante tiempo en este monte;

7 volveos, partíos, e id al monte del amorreo, y a todas sus comarcas, en el llano, en el monte, y en los valles, y al mediodía, y a la costa del mar, a la tierra del cananeo, y al Líbano, hasta el gran río, el río Eufrates.

8 Mirad, yo he dado la tierra en vuestra presencia; entrad y poseed la tierra que el SEÑOR juró a vuestros padres Abraham, Isaac, y Jacob, que les daría a ellos y a su simiente después de ellos.

9 Y yo os hablé entonces, diciendo: Yo no puedo llevaros solo;

10 el SEÑOR vuestro Dios os ha multiplicado, y he aquí sois hoy vosotros como las estrellas del cielo en multitud.

11 ¡El SEÑOR Dios de vuestros padres añada sobre vosotros como sois mil veces, y os bendiga, como os ha prometido!

12 ¿Cómo llevaré yo solo vuestras molestias, vuestras cargas, y vuestros pleitos?

13 Dadme de entre vosotros, de vuestras tribus, varones sabios y entendidos y expertos, para que yo los ponga por vuestros jefes.

14 Y me respondisteis, y dijisteis: Bueno es hacer lo que has dicho.

15 Y tomé los principales de vuestras tribus, varones sabios y expertos, y los puse por príncipes sobre vosotros, príncipes de millares, y príncipes de cientos, y príncipes de cincuenta, y príncipes de diez, y gobernadores a vuestras tribus.

16 Y entonces mandé a vuestros jueces, diciendo: Oíd entre vuestros hermanos, y juzgad justamente entre el hombre y su hermano, y el que le es extranjero.

17 No tengáis respeto de personas en el juicio; así al pequeño como al grande oiréis; no tendréis temor de ninguno, porque el juicio es de Dios; y la causa que os fuere difícil, la traeréis a mí, y yo la oiré.

18 Os mandé, pues, en aquel tiempo, todo lo que habíais de hacer.

19 Y partidos de Horeb, anduvimos todo este desierto grande y temeroso que habéis visto, por el camino del monte del amorreo, como el SEÑOR nuestro Dios nos lo mandó; y llegamos hasta Cades-barnea.

20 Entonces os dije: Habéis llegado al monte del amorreo, el cual el SEÑOR nuestro Dios nos da.

21 Mira, el SEÑOR tu Dios ha dado delante de ti la tierra; sube y toma posesión de ella , como el SEÑOR el Dios de tus padres te ha dicho; no temas ni desmayes.

22 Y llegasteis a mí todos vosotros, y dijisteis: Enviemos varones delante de nosotros, que nos reconozcan la tierra y nos traigan de vuelta razón del camino por donde hemos de subir, y de las ciudades adonde hemos de llegar.

23 Y el dicho me pareció bien; y tomé doce varones de vosotros, un varón por tribu.

24 Y se encaminaron, y subieron al monte, y llegaron hasta el valle de Escol, y reconocieron la tierra .

25 Y tomaron en sus manos del fruto de la tierra, y nos lo trajeron, y nos dieron cuenta, y dijeron: Es buena la tierra que el SEÑOR nuestro Dios nos da.

26 Pero no quisisteis subir, antes fuisteis rebeldes al dicho del SEÑOR vuestro Dios;

27 y murmurasteis en vuestras tiendas, diciendo: Porque el SEÑOR nos aborrecía, nos ha sacado de tierra de Egipto, para entregarnos en mano del amorreo para destruirnos.

28 ¿A dónde subimos? Nuestros hermanos han hecho desfallecer nuestro corazón, diciendo: Este pueblo es mayor y más alto que nosotros, las ciudades grandes y amuralladas hasta el cielo; y también vimos allí hijos de gigantes.

29 Entonces os dije: No temáis, ni tengáis miedo de ellos.

30 El SEÑOR vuestro Dios, el cual va delante de vosotros, él peleará por vosotros, conforme a todas las cosas que hizo con vosotros en Egipto delante de vuestros ojos;

31 y en el desierto has visto que el SEÑOR tu Dios te ha traído, como trae el hombre a su hijo, por todo el camino que habéis andado, hasta que habéis venido a este lugar.

32 Y aun con esto no creisteis en el SEÑOR vuestro Dios,

33 el cual iba delante de vosotros por el camino, para reconoceros el lugar donde habíais de asentar el campamento, con fuego de noche para mostraros el camino por donde anduvieseis, y con nube de día.

34 Y oyó el SEÑOR la voz de vuestras palabras, y se enojó, y juró diciendo:

35 No verá hombre alguno de estos de esta mala generación, la buena tierra que juré que había de dar a vuestros padres,

36 excepto Caleb hijo de Jefone; él la verá, y a él le daré la tierra que pisó, y a sus hijos; porque fue perfecto con el SEÑOR.

37 Y también contra mí se airó el SEÑOR por vosotros, diciendo: Tampoco tú entrarás allá.

38 Josué hijo de Nun, que está delante de ti, él entrará allá; anímale; porque él la hará heredar a Israel.

39 Y vuestros chiquitos, de los cuales dijisteis: Serán por presa; y vuestros hijos que no saben hoy lo bueno ni lo malo, ellos entrarán allá, y a ellos la daré, y ellos la heredarán.

40 Y vosotros volveos, y partíos al desierto camino del mar Bermejo.

41 Entonces respondisteis y me dijisteis: Hemos pecado contra el SEÑOR; nosotros subiremos y pelearemos, conforme a todo lo que el SEÑOR nuestro Dios nos ha mandado. Y os armasteis cada uno de sus armas de guerra, y os preparasteis para subir al monte.

42 Y el SEÑOR me dijo: Diles: No subáis, ni peleéis, pues no estoy entre vosotros; para que no seáis heridos delante de vuestros enemigos.

43 Y os hablé, y no disteis oído; antes fuisteis rebeldes al dicho del SEÑOR, y porfiasteis con soberbia, y subisteis al monte.

44 Y salió el amorreo, que habitaba en aquel monte, a vuestro encuentro, y os persiguieron, como hacen las avispas, y os quebrantaron en Seir, persiguiéndoos hasta Horma.

45 Y volvisteis, y llorasteis delante del SEÑOR; pero el SEÑOR no escuchó vuestra voz, ni os prestó oído.

46 Y estuvisteis en Cades por muchos días, como parece en los días que habéis estado.

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Arcana Coelestia # 10076

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10076. 'For it is the ram of fillings [of the hand]' means a representative sign of the Lord's Divine power in the heavens which comes through Divine Truth emanating from His Divine Good, and the transmission and the reception of that Truth there. This is clear from the meaning of 'the ram' as a person internally in respect of the good of innocence and charity within him, dealt with above in 9991, for all beasts serve to mean some human affection or inclination, 9280, which is why people possessing charity and innocence are called sheep and lambs, and 'a ram' therefore, being a male sheep, means the good of charity and innocence in the internal man, or in the highest sense that same good present internally in the Lord's Human (for that which in the internal sense means something truly human, thus something constituting the Church or heaven with a person, in the highest sense means that same virtue present in a matchless degree within the Lord when He was in the world; indeed the subject everywhere in the Word in its inmost sense is the Lord, and this is what gives it its holiness); and from the meaning of 'fillings of the hand' as a representative sign of Divine Truth emanating from the Lord's Divine Good in the heavens, and as the transmission of that Truth to the angels there and their reception of it. For as has been shown previously, just as a person who is being regenerated experiences two states, the first being a time when the truths of faith are being implanted in and joined to the good of love, and the second a time when the good of charity is the source of his actions, so it was in a matchless degree within the Lord. The first state of the glorification of His Human consisted in His making it Divine Truth and joining it to the Divine Good which was within Him and was called the Father, and in His thereby becoming the Divine Good of Divine Love, which is Jehovah. The second state of His glorification was when the Divine Good of Divine Love was the source of what He did, and the Divine Truth emanating from that Good was the means by which He accomplished it.

[2] In the case of a person, in the first state he learns things that must compose his faith, and while he is learning them, under the influence of good, that is, through good from the Lord, so the power of understanding is taking shape in him. When the truths giving shape to the understanding have been implanted in and joined to good he passes into the second state, in which his actions spring from good through the use of truths. From this it is evident what the second state of a person who is being regenerated is like, namely a state in which thought and actions spring from good, or what amounts to the same thing, from love, or what also amounts to the same thing, from the will; for what a person wills he loves, and what he loves he calls good. But a person begins to be in the second state when his entire self from head to toe is the same as his love, and so is the same as his will and his understanding springing from it. Who can ever credit it that the entire person is an image of his will and of his understanding rooted in it, consequently an image of his good and so of his truth, or else an image of his evil and so of his falsity? For good or evil compose the will, and truth or falsity compose the understanding. All angels in heaven are acquainted with this arcanum; but the reason why people in the world are not acquainted with it is that they have no knowledge of their soul, nor consequently any knowledge that the body is shaped so as to be a likeness of it, and therefore that the nature of the entire person is determined by that of his soul. This fact is clearly demonstrated by spirits and angels as seen in the next life. All these are human forms, and the nature of those forms is determined by that of the affections belonging to their love and faith, so much so that anyone in whom the good of love and charity is present may be called an embodiment of love and charity, and on the other hand anyone in whom evils resulting from self-love and love of the world are present, thus in whom hatred and the like are present, may be called an embodiment of hatred.

[3] The same fact is also clearly demonstrated by the three entities present in the whole natural order which flow one from another, namely effect, cause, and end. An effect owes its whole existence to the cause, for an effect is nothing other than the outward manifestation of a cause, because when a cause becomes an effect it clothes itself in things such as exist on external levels, in order that it may manifest itself in a lower sphere, which is the sphere of effects. The situation is similar with the cause of a cause, which in a higher sphere is called the final cause or the end. The end constitutes the all within the cause, making it a cause set to achieve something. For a cause that is not set to achieve something cannot be called a cause, for what other reason is there for its existence? Setting out to achieve something is the end, which is the first thing within the cause and also its last. From this it is evident that the end is so to speak the soul of the cause and so to speak its life, and consequently is also the soul and life of the effect. For if a cause and an effect lack the ability to complete the end in view, none of these has any real existence, because it does not set out to achieve anything, and so is like some dead object devoid of soul and life; and such a thing expires, like a body when the soul departs from it.

[4] The situation is the same with the human being. His actual soul is his will; the attendant cause by means of which his will produces the effect is his understanding; and the effect which is produced resides in the body and so belongs to the body. The truth of this is plainly evident from the consideration that what a person wills, and therefore thinks, fittingly presents itself in an effect within the body, in this way when he speaks, in that way when he acts. From all this it is again evident that what a person's will is like determines what the entire person is like. Whether one speaks of the will, end, love, or good it amounts to the same thing; for everything that a person wills is seen by him to be the end, is loved by him, and is called good. Likewise whether one speaks of the understanding, the cause attending the end, faith, or truth, it again amounts to the same thing; for what a person under the influence of his will understands or thinks he takes to be the cause, believes, and calls the truth. When these things are understood by someone he may know what a person undergoing regeneration is like in his first state, and what he is like in the second.

[5] From all this people may have some idea of how to understand the teaching that when the Lord was in the world and glorified His Human He first made it Divine Truth, and step by step the Divine Good of Divine Love; and that ever after the Divine Good of Divine Love is the source of His acts in heaven and in the world, and of the life He imparts to them, which He accomplishes by means of Divine Truth emanating from the Divine Good of Divine Love of His Divine Human. For from this the heavens have come into being and are constantly coming into being, that is, being held in being; or what amounts to the same thing, from it the heavens have been created and are constantly being created, that is, preserved, for preservation is constant creation, even as being held in being is constant coming into being.

[6] Such considerations are also contained in the following words in John,

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. And the Word became flesh. John 1:1, 3, 14.

'The Word' is Divine Truth. The first state is described by the statement, 'In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God', and the second state by, 'All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made'. The situation was similar when the Lord came into the world, restored the heavens to order, and so to speak created them anew. The Lord is clearly meant by 'the Word' in the above words, for they say that 'the Word became flesh'. The transmission and the perception of Divine Truth emanating from the Divine Good of Divine Love of the Lord's Divine Human is what 'the filling of the hand' means and what the representative acts associated here with the second ram describe.

[7] Since the Lord in respect of Divine Good is represented by Aaron, 9806, the glorification of the Lord's Human is described in a representative manner by the process in which Aaron and his sons were consecrated. The first state of glorification is described by the things stated regarding the sacrifice of the young bull and the burnt offering of the first ram, and the second state of glorification by those stated regarding the second ram, called 'the ram of fillings [of the hand]'. The first state is called the anointing, while the second state is called the filling of the hand. So it was when Aaron and his sons were consecrated to the priesthood by anointing and filling of the hand that they were referred to as 'the anointed' and 'those whose hands he has filled', as in Moses,

The chief priest, on whose head the anointing oil has been poured, and who has filled his hand to wear the garments, shall not shave his head or rip apart the seams of his garments. Leviticus 21:10.

From these things also it is evident that 'the filling of the hand' is a representative sign of the transmission and the reception of Divine Truth emanating from the Lord's Divine Good in the heavens, for it says 'who has filled his hand', not who has had his hand filled. It also says that he has filled his hand 'to wear the garments', for by Aaron and the anointing of him the Lord in respect of Divine Good is represented, and by his garments the same as is represented by 'the filling of the hand', namely Divine Truth emanating from the Lord's Divine Good. For this representation of 'the garments', see 9814. The dispersion of that Truth is meant by 'ripping apart the seams of garments', and the dispersion of Divine Good in the heavens by 'shaving the head'.

[8] Since the inflowing and transmission of Divine Truth from the Lord, and the reception of it in the heavens, is meant by 'the filling of the hand', purification from evils and falsities is also meant by it. For to the extent that man or angel is purified from them he receives Divine Truth from the Lord. 'Filling the hand' is meant in this sense by the following words in Moses,

The sons of Levi struck down from the people three thousand men. And Moses said, Fill your hand today to Jehovah, so that He may bestow a blessing on you today. Exodus 32:28-29.

In the spiritual sense being blessed means being endowed with the good of love and faith, thus receiving what is Divine emanating from the Lord, 2846, 3017, 3406, 4981, 6091, 6099, 8939. The expression 'filling after Jehovah' 1 is also used in Moses, by which acting in accord with Divine Truth, and thus also the reception of it, is meant,

Another Spirit has been with Caleb, and he has filled after Jehovah. Numbers 14:24; Deuteronomy 1:36.

And in another place,

Jehovah has sworn, saying, Surely none of the men who are twenty years old and over 2 will see the land which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, because they have not filled after Me, except Caleb and Joshua, who have filled after Jehovah. Numbers 32:11-12.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. This Hebrew phrase is thought to suggest more than the words themselves actually express, i.e. it is a pregnant phrase for to go after with full commitment

2. literally, the men, from the son of twenty years and over,

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.