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Deuteronomio 22

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1 No verás el buey de tu hermano, o su cordero, perdidos, y te retirarás de ellos; los volverás sin falta a tu hermano.

2 Y aunque tu hermano no fuere tu pariente, o no le conocieres, lo recogerás en tu casa, y estará contigo hasta que tu hermano lo busque, y se lo devolverás.

3 Y así harás de su asno, así harás también de su vestido, y lo mismo harás con toda cosa perdida de tu hermano que se le perdiere, y tú la hallares; no podrás retraerte de ello.

4 No verás el asno de tu hermano, o su buey, caídos en el camino, y te esconderás de ellos; con él has de procurar levantarlos.

5 No vestirá la mujer hábito de hombre, ni el hombre vestirá vestido de mujer; porque abominación es al SEÑOR tu Dios cualquiera que esto hace.

6 Cuando topares en el camino algún nido de ave en cualquier árbol, o sobre la tierra, con pollos o huevos, y estuviere la madre echada sobre los pollos o sobre los huevos, no tomes la madre con los hijos.

7 Dejarás ir a la madre, y tomarás los pollos para ti; para que te vaya bien, y prolongues tus días.

8 Cuando edificares casa nueva, harás pretil a tu terrado, para que no pongas sangre en tu casa, si de él cayere alguno.

9 No sembrarás tu viña de mistura, para que no se contamine la plenitud de la simiente que sembraste, y el fruto de la viña.

10 No ararás con buey y con asno juntamente.

11 No te vestirás de mistura, de lana y lino juntamente.

12 Te harás flecos en los cuatro cabos de tu manto con que te cubrieres.

13 Cuando alguno tomare mujer, y después de haber entrado a ella la aborreciere,

14 y le pusiere algunas faltas, y esparciere sobre ella mala fama, y dijere: Esta tomé por mujer, y llegué a ella, y no la hallé virgen;

15 entonces el padre de la joven y su madre tomarán, y sacarán las señales de la virginidad de la doncella a los ancianos de la ciudad, en la puerta.

16 Y dirá el padre de la moza a los ancianos: Yo di mi hija a este hombre por mujer, y él la aborrece;

17 y, he aquí, él le pone tachas de algunas cosas, diciendo: No he hallado tu hija virgen; pero, he aquí las señales de la virginidad de mi hija. Y extenderán la sábana delante de los ancianos de la ciudad.

18 Entonces los ancianos de la ciudad tomarán al hombre y lo castigarán;

19 y le han de multar en cien ciclos de plata, los cuales darán al padre de la joven, por cuanto esparció mala fama sobre una virgen de Israel; y la ha de tener por mujer, y no podrá despedirla en todos sus días.

20 Mas si este negocio fue verdad, que no se hubiere hallado virginidad en la joven,

21 entonces la sacarán a la puerta de la casa de su padre, y la apedrearán con piedras los hombres de su ciudad, y morirá; por cuanto hizo vileza en Israel fornicando en casa de su padre; así quitarás el mal de en medio de ti.

22 Cuando se sorprendiere alguno echado con mujer casada con marido, ambos morirán, el varón que se acostó con la mujer, y la mujer; así quitarás el mal de Israel.

23 Cuando fuere joven virgen desposada con alguno, y alguno la hallare en la ciudad, y se echare con ella;

24 entonces los sacaréis a ambos a la puerta de aquella ciudad, y los apedrearéis con piedras, y morirán; la joven porque no dio voces en la ciudad, y el hombre porque forzó a la mujer de su prójimo; así quitarás el mal de en medio de ti.

25 Mas si el hombre halló la joven desposada en la campo, y él la tomare, y se echare con ella, morirá sólo el hombre que con ella se habrá echado;

26 y a la joven no harás nada; no tiene la joven culpa de muerte; porque como cuando alguno se levanta contra su prójimo, y le quita la vida, así es esto.

27 Porque él la halló en el campo; dio voces la moza desposada, y no hubo quien la valiese.

28 Cuando alguno hallare una joven virgen, que no fuere desposada, y la tomare, y se echare con ella, y fueren hallados;

29 entonces el hombre que se echó con ella dará al padre de la joven cincuenta ciclos de plata, y ella será su mujer, por cuanto la afligió; no la podrá despedir en todos sus días.

30 No tomará alguno la mujer de su padre, ni descubrirá el regazo de su padre.

   

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2280. That 'perhaps twenty will be found there' means even if there is no existence of conflict but good is nevertheless present is clear from the meaning of 'twenty'. As all the numbers mentioned in the Word mean real things and states, as stated and shown in various places already, see 2252, so also does 'twenty'; and what twenty means becomes clear from how it may be obtained, namely from twice ten. In the Word ten, as also tenths, means remnants, and by these are meant everything good and true which the Lord instills into a person from earliest childhood through to the final period of life. Such remnants are referred to in the verse that follows this. Twice ten, or two tens, that is, twenty, is similar in meaning to ten, but to a higher degree, namely that of good.

[2] Three kinds of goods are meant by 'remnants' - those instilled in earliest childhood, those instilled when want of knowledge is still present, and those instilled when intelligence is present. The goods of earliest childhood are those instilled into a person from birth up to the age when he starts to be taught and to know something. The goods received when want of knowledge is still present are instilled when he is being taught and starting to know something. The goods that come with intelligence are instilled when he is able to reflect on what good is and what truth is. Good instilled in earliest childhood is received up to his tenth year.

[3] Good instilled when want of knowledge is still present is instilled from then until his twentieth year; and from this year the person starts to become rational and to have the ability to reflect on good and truth, and to acquire the good received when intelligence is present. The good instilled when want of knowledge is still present is that which is meant by 'twenty', because those with whom merely that good exists do not enter into any temptation. For no one undergoes temptation until he is able to reflect on and to perceive in his own way what good and truth are. Those who have acquired goods by means of temptations were the subject in the two verses previous to this, while in the present verse the subject is those who do not undergo temptations but who nevertheless possess good.

[4] It is because these who possess the good called 'good instilled during want of knowledge' are meant by 'twenty' that all those who had come out of Egypt were included in the census - from 'a son of twenty years and over', and who, as it is stated, were every one 'going into the army'- by whom were meant those whose good was no longer merely that instilled during want of knowledge, referred to in Numbers 1:20, 24, 26, 28, 30, 32, 34, 38, 40, 42, 45; 26:4. It is also said that all who were over twenty years of age died in the wilderness, Numbers 14:29; 32:10-11, because evil could be attributed to them, and because they represented those who yield in temptations. Also the value set for a male who was between five years of age and twenty years was twenty sheckels, Leviticus 27:5, whereas a different value was set for one between twenty years old and sixty, namely fifty shekels, Leviticus 27:3.

[5] As regards the nature of these different kinds of goods - those instilled in earliest childhood, those when want of knowledge is still present, and those when intelligence is present - the last of these is the best, since it is an attribute of wisdom. The good which precedes it, namely that instilled during want of knowledge, is indeed good, but because it has only a small amount of intelligence within it, it cannot be called the good of wisdom. The good that belongs to earliest childhood is indeed in itself good, but it is nevertheless less good than the other two kinds, because it has not as yet had any truth of intelligence allied to it, and so has not become in any way the good of wisdom, but is merely a plane enabling it to become such. Cognitions of truth and good are what enable a person to be wise in the way possible to man. Earliest childhood itself, by which is meant innocence, does not belong to earliest childhood but to wisdom, as may become clearer from what will be stated at the end of this chapter about young children in the next life.

[6] In this verse 'twenty' means no other kind of good, as has been stated, than the good that belongs to not knowing. This good is a characteristic not only, as has been stated, of those under twenty years of age but also of all with whom the good of charity exists but who at the same time have no knowledge of truth. The latter consists of those inside the Church with whom the good of charity exists but who, for whatever reason, do not know what the truth of faith is - as is the case with the majority of those who think about God with reverence and think what is good about the neighbor - and also of all those outside the Church called gentiles who in a similar way lead lives abiding in the good of charity. Though the truths of faith do not exist with such persons outside the Church and inside it, nevertheless because good does so, they have the capacity, no less than young children do, to receive the truths of faith. For the understanding part of their mind has not yet been corrupted by false assumptions nor has the will part been so confirmed by a life of evil, for they do not know what falsity and evil are. Furthermore the life of charity is of such a nature that the falsity and evil that go with want of knowledge can be turned without difficulty towards what is true and good. This is not so in the case of those who have confirmed themselves in things contrary to the truth and who at the same time have led a life immersed in things contrary to good.

[7] In other places in the Word 'two-tenths' means good, both celestial and spiritual. Celestial good and spiritual good derived from this are meant by the two-tenths from which each loaf of the shewbread or of the Presence was made, Leviticus 24:5, while spiritual good was meant by the two-tenths constituting the minchah that accompanied the sacrifice of a ram, Numbers 15:6; 28:12, 20, 28; 29:3, 9, 14. These matters will in the Lord's Divine mercy be dealt with elsewhere.

  
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