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Deuteronomio 29

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1 Estas son las palabras del pacto que el SEÑOR mandó a Moisés, para que concertase con los hijos de Israel en la tierra de Moab, además del pacto que concertó con ellos en Horeb.

2 Moisés, pues, llamó a todo Israel, y les dijo: Vosotros habéis visto todo lo que el SEÑOR ha hecho delante de vuestros ojos en la tierra de Egipto a Faraón y a todos sus siervos, y a toda su tierra;

3 las pruebas grandes que vieron tus ojos, las señales, y las grandes maravillas.

4 Pero el SEÑOR no os dio corazón para entender, ni ojos para ver, ni oídos para oír, hasta el día de hoy.

5 Y yo os he traído cuarenta años por el desierto; vuestros vestidos no se han envejecido sobre vosotros, ni tu zapato se ha envejecido sobre tu pie.

6 Nunca comisteis pan, ni bebisteis vino ni sidra; para que supieseis que yo soy el SEÑOR vuestro Dios.

7 Y llegasteis a este lugar, y salió Sehón rey de Hesbón, y Og rey de Basán, delante de nosotros para pelear, y los herimos;

8 y tomamos su tierra, y la dimos por heredad a Rubén y a Gad, y a la media tribu de Manasés.

9 Guardaréis, pues, las palabras de este pacto, y las pondréis por obra, para que entendáis todo lo que hiciereis.

10 Vosotros todos estáis hoy delante del SEÑOR vuestro Dios; vuestros príncipes de vuestras tribus, vuestros ancianos, y vuestros alcaldes, todos los varones de Israel,

11 vuestros niños, vuestras mujeres, y tus extranjeros que habitan en medio de tu campamento, desde el que corta tu leña hasta el que saca tu agua;

12 para que entres en el pacto del SEÑOR tu Dios, y en su juramento, que el SEÑOR tu Dios concierta hoy contigo;

13 para confirmarte hoy por su pueblo, y que él te sea a ti por Dios, de la manera que él te ha dicho, y de la manera que él juró a tus padres Abraham, Isaac, y Jacob.

14 Y no con vosotros solos concierto yo este pacto y este juramento,

15 sino con los que están aquí presentes hoy con nosotros delante del SEÑOR nuestro Dios, y con los que no están aquí hoy con nosotros.

16 Porque vosotros sabéis cómo habitamos en la tierra de Egipto, y cómo hemos pasado por en medio de los gentiles que habéis pasado;

17 y habéis visto sus abominaciones y sus ídolos de madera y piedra, plata y oro, que tienen consigo.

18 Por ventura habrá entre vosotros varón, o mujer, o familia, o tribu, cuyo corazón se vuelva hoy de con el SEÑOR nuestro Dios, por andar a servir a los dioses de aquellos gentiles; por ventura habrá en vosotros raíz que eche veneno y ajenjo;

19 y sea que , cuando el tal oyere las palabras de esta maldición, él se bendiga en su corazón, diciendo: Tendré paz, aunque ande según el pensamiento de mi corazón, para añadir la embriaguez a la sed.

20 El SEÑOR no querrá perdonar al tal; antes humeará luego el furor del SEÑOR y su celo sobre el tal hombre, y se asentará sobre él toda maldición escrita en este libro, y el SEÑOR raerá su nombre de debajo del cielo.

21 Y lo apartará el SEÑOR de todas las tribus de Israel para mal, conforme a todas las maldiciones del pacto escrito en este libro de la ley.

22 Y dirá la generación venidera, vuestros hijos que vendrán después de vosotros, y el extranjero que vendrá de lejanas tierras, cuando vieren las plagas de esta tierra, y sus enfermedades de que el SEÑOR la hizo enfermar,

23 (azufre y sal, abrasada toda su tierra; no será sembrada, ni producirá, ni crecerá en ella hierba ninguna, como en la subversión de Sodoma y de Gomorra, de Adma y de Zeboim, que el SEÑOR subvirtió en su furor y en su ira);

24 dirán, pues, todos los gentiles: ¿Por qué hizo el SEÑOR así a esta tierra? ¿Qué ira es ésta de tan gran furor?

25 Y responderán: Por cuanto dejaron el pacto del SEÑOR el Dios de sus padres, que él concertó con ellos cuando los sacó de la tierra de Egipto,

26 y fueron y sirvieron a dioses ajenos, y se inclinaron a ellos, dioses que no conocían, y que ninguna cosa les habían dado.

27 Se encendió por tanto , el furor del SEÑOR contra esta tierra, para traer sobre ella todas las maldiciones escritas en este libro.

28 Y el SEÑOR los desarraigó de su tierra con enojo, y con saña, y con furor grande, y los echó a otra tierra, como parece hoy.

29 Lo encubierto del SEÑOR nuestro Dios es descubierto a nosotros y a nuestros hijos para siempre, para que hagamos todas las palabras de esta ley.

   

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10300. Salted. That this signifies the longing of truth for good, is evident from the signification of “salt,” as being that longing for good which is of the love of truth (of which below); hence “salted” denotes that in which is this longing. The reason why there must be a longing of truth for good is that this longing is conjunctive of the two; for insofar as truth longs for good, so far it is conjoined with it. The conjunction of truth and good is what is called the heavenly marriage, which is heaven itself with man; and therefore when in Divine worship, and in each and all things of it, there is a longing for this conjunction, heaven is in each and all things there. Thus the Lord is in them. This is signified by the requirement that the incense should be salted. Salt has this signification from its conjunctive nature; for it conjoins all things, and from this gives them relish; salt 1 even conjoins water and oil, which otherwise will not combine.

[2] When it is known that by “salt” is signified a longing for the conjunction of truth and good, it can be known what is signified by the Lord’s words in Mark:

Everyone shall be salted with fire, and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt; salt is good, but if the salt have lost its saltiness, wherewith will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves (Mark 9:49-50).

“Everyone shall be salted with fire” denotes that everyone will long from genuine love; “every sacrifice shall be salted with salt” denotes that there shall be in all worship a longing from genuine love; “salt without saltiness” signifies a longing from some other love than genuine love; “to have salt in themselves” denotes the longing of truth for good. (That “fire” denotes love, see n. 4906, 5071, 5215, 6314, 6832, 10055; and that “sacrifice” denotes worship in general, n. 922, 6905, 8680, 8936.) Who can know what it is to be salted with fire, and why the sacrifice should be salted, and what it is to have salt in themselves, unless it is known what is meant by fire, salt, and by being salted?

[3] In like manner in Luke:

Whosoever he be of you that renounceth not all his possessions, he cannot be My disciple. Salt is good; but if the salt have lost its savor, wherewith shall it be seasoned? It is fit neither for the land, nor for the dunghill: they shall cast it out (Luke 14:33, 35).

“To renounce all his possessions” denotes to love the Lord above all things; “his possessions” denote the things which are man’s own; “salt that has lost its savor” denotes a longing from what is one’s own, thus from the love of self and the world: such a longing is “salt without savor,” not fit for anything. So also in Matthew:

Ye are the salt of the earth; but if the salt have lost its savor, wherewith shall it be salted? It is no longer fit for anything but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot by men (Matthew 5:13-14).

[4] That in all worship there must be a longing of truth for good is also signified by the law that every offering of the meat offering should be salted; and that upon every offering there should be the salt of the covenant of Jehovah (Leviticus 2:13). By the “meat offering,” and the “offering,” which is sacrifice, is signified worship, as above; and salt is there called “the salt of the covenant of Jehovah,” because by a “covenant” is signified conjunction (n. 665, 666, 1023, 1038, 1864, 1996, 2003, 2021, 6804, 8767, 8778, 9396, 9416). Moreover, longing is the very ardor of love, thus its continuity; and love is spiritual conjunction.

[5] As the longing of truth for good conjoins, so the longing of falsity for evil disjoins, and that which disjoins also destroys; consequently by “salt” in the opposite sense is signified the destruction and devastation of truth and good, as in Jeremiah:

Cursed is the man that maketh flesh his arm; he shall not see when good cometh, but shall dwell in parched places, in a salt land which is not inhabited (Jeremiah 17:5-6).

“To make flesh his arm” denotes to trust in one’s self, thus in what is one’s own, and not in the Divine (n. 10283); and as one’s own consists in loving self more than God and the neighbor, it is the love of self which is thus described: hence it said that “he shall not see when good cometh,” and that “he shall dwell in parched places, and in a salt land,” that is, in filthy loves and their longings, which have destroyed the good and truth of the church.

[6] In Zephaniah:

It shall be as Gomorrah; a place left to the nettle, and a pit of salt, and a waste forever (Zeph. 2:9).

“A place left to the nettle” denotes the ardor and burning of the life of man from the love of self; “a pit of salt” denotes a longing for what is false, which, as it destroys truth and good, is called “a waste forever.” It is said that it shall be “as Gomorrah,” because by “Gomorrah and Sodom” is signified the love of self (n. 2220).

[7] That Lot’s wife was turned into a statue of salt, because she turned her face to these cities (Genesis 19:26), signified the vastation of truth and good; for in the internal sense to “turn the face to anything” denotes to love (n. 10189); hence it is that the Lord says:

Let him not turn back to what is behind him; remember Lot’s wife (Luke 17:31-32).

The whole land thereof shall be sulphur, and salt, and a burning, according to the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah (Deuteronomy 29:22).

By “land” here, as elsewhere in the Word, is meant the church (see at the places cited in n. 9325).

[8] From this then it was that the cities which were no longer to be inhabited were after their destruction sown with salt (Judges 9:45). From all this it is evident that by “salt” in the genuine sense is signified the longing of truth for good, thus what is conjunctive; and in the opposite sense, the longing of falsity for evil, thus what is destructive.

[9] He therefore who knows that “salt” denotes the longing of truth for good and their capability of conjunction, is able to know also what is signified by the waters of Jericho being healed by Elisha by casting in salt into their outlet (2 Kings 2:10-22); for by Elisha, as by Elijah, was represented the Lord in respect to the Word (n. 2762, 8029); and by “waters” are signified the truths of the Word; by the “waters of Jericho” the truths of the Word in the sense of the letter, and likewise by the “outlet of the waters;” and by “salt” is signified the longing of truth for good, and the conjunction of both; whence comes healing.

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1. Probably here used in an old sense to include alkalies. [Reviser.]

  
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