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Deuteronomio 32

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1 Escuchad, cielos, y hablaré; y oiga la tierra los dichos de mi boca.

2 Goteará como la lluvia mi doctrina; destilará como el rocío mi dicho; como la llovizna sobre la grama, y como las gotas sobre la hierba.

3 Porque el Nombre del SEÑOR invocaré; engrandeced a nuestro Dios.

4 Del Fuerte, cuya obra es perfecta, porque todos sus caminos son rectitud; Dios de verdad, y ninguna iniquidad en él ; es justo y recto.

5 La corrupción no es suya; de sus hijos es la mancha de ellos, generación torcida y perversa.

6 ¿Así pagáis al SEÑOR, pueblo loco e ignorante? ¿No es él tu padre que te poseyó? El te hizo y te compuso.

7 Acuérdate de los tiempos antiguos; considerad los años de generación y generación; pregunta a tu padre, que él te declarará; a tus viejos, y ellos te dirán;

8 cuando el Altísimo hizo heredar a los gentiles, cuando hizo dividir a los hijos de los hombres, cuando estableció los términos de los pueblos según el número de los hijos de Israel.

9 Porque la parte del SEÑOR es su pueblo; Jacob el cordel de su heredad.

10 Le halló en tierra de desierto, y en un desierto horrible y yermo; lo trajo alrededor, lo instruyó, lo guardó como la niña de su ojo.

11 Como el águila que despierta su nidada, revolotea sobre sus pollos, extiende sus alas, los toma, los lleva sobre sus espaldas;

12 el SEÑOR solo le guió, que no hubo con él dios ajeno.

13 Lo hizo subir sobre las alturas de la tierra, y comió los frutos del campo, e hizo que chupase miel de la peña, y aceite del pedernal fuerte;

14 manteca de vacas y leche de ovejas, con grosura de corderos, y carneros de Basán; también macho cabríos, con grosura de riñones de trigo; y sangre de la uva bebiste, vino puro .

15 Y engrosó Jesurún (el recto ), y tiró coces; te engordaste, te engrosaste, te cubriste; y dejó al Dios que le hizo, y menospreció al Fuerte de su salud.

16 Le despertaron a celos con los dioses ajenos; le ensañaron con abominaciones.

17 Sacrificaron a los diablos, no a Dios; a los dioses que no conocieron; nuevos dioses , venidos de cerca, que no habían temido vuestros padres.

18 Del Fuerte que te crió, te has olvidado; te has olvidado del Dios tu creador.

19 Y lo vio el SEÑOR, y se encendió con ira, a causa de sus hijos y de sus hijas.

20 Y dijo: Esconderé de ellos mi rostro, veré cuál será su postrimería; que son generación de perversidades, hijos sin fe.

21 Ellos me despertaron a celos con lo que no es Dios; me hicieron ensañar con sus vanidades; y yo también los despertaré a celos con un pueblo que no es pueblo, con gente loca los haré ensañar.

22 Porque fuego se encenderá en mi furor, y arderá hasta el infierno más profundo; y devorará la tierra y sus frutos, y abrasará los fundamentos de los montes.

23 Yo allegaré males sobre ellos; emplearé en ellos mis saetas.

24 Consumidos serán de hambre, y comidos de fiebre ardiente y de talamiento amargo; diente de bestias enviaré también sobre ellos, con veneno de serpientes de la tierra.

25 Por fuera desolará la espada, y dentro de las cámaras el espanto; así al joven como a la doncella, al que mama como al hombre cano.

26 Dije: Los echaría del mundo, haría cesar de entre los hombres la memoria de ellos,

27 si no temiese la ira del enemigo, no sea que se envanezcan sus adversarios, no sea que digan: Nuestra mano alta ha hecho todo esto, no el SEÑOR.

28 Porque son nación privada de consejos, y no hay en ellos entendimiento.

29 ¡Deseo que fueran sabios, que entendieran esto, entendieran su postrimería!

30 ¿Cómo podría perseguir uno a mil, y dos harían huir a diez mil, si su Fuerte no los hubiese vendido, y el SEÑOR no los hubiera entregado?

31 Que el fuerte de ellos no es como nuestro Fuerte; y aun nuestros enemigos son de ello jueces.

32 Por tanto de la cepa de Sodoma es la vid de ellos, y de los sarmientos de Gomorra; las uvas de ellos son uvas ponzoñosas, racimos muy amargos tienen.

33 Veneno de dragones es su vino, y ponzoña cruel de áspides.

34 ¿No tengo yo esto guardado, sellado en mis tesoros?

35 Mía es la venganza y el pago, al tiempo que su pie vacilará; porque el día de su aflicción está cercano, y lo que les está determinado se apresura.

36 Porque el SEÑOR juzgará a su pueblo, y se arrepentirá él mismo por sus siervos, cuando viere que su fuerza pereció sin quedar nadie guardado ni quedado.

37 Y dirá: ¿Dónde están sus dioses, el Fuerte de quien se ampararon;

38 que comían el sebo de sus sacrificios, bebían el vino de sus libaciones? Levántense, que os ayuden y os amparen.

39 Ved ahora que yo, yo soy, y no hay dioses conmigo; yo hago morir, y yo hago vivir; yo hiero, y yo curo; y no hay quien pueda librar de mi mano.

40 Cuando yo alzaré a los cielos mi mano, y diré: Vivo yo para siempre,

41 si amolare el resplandor de mi espada, y mi mano arrebatare el juicio, yo volveré la venganza a mis enemigos, y daré el pago a los que me aborrecen.

42 Embriagaré de sangre mis saetas, y mi cuchillo devorará carne; en la sangre de los muertos y de los cautivos, de los reyes y príncipes , con venganzas del enemigo.

43 Alabad, gentiles, a su pueblo, porque él vengará la sangre de sus siervos, y volverá la venganza a sus enemigos, y expiará su tierra, a su pueblo.

44 Y vino Moisés, y recitó todas las palabras de este cántico a oídos del pueblo, él, y Josué hijo de Nun.

45 Y acabó Moisés de recitar todas estas palabras a todo Israel;

46 y les dijo: Poned vuestro corazón a todas las palabras que yo protesto hoy contra vosotros, para que las mandéis a vuestros hijos, y guarden y cumplan todas las palabras de esta ley.

47 Porque no os es cosa vana, mas es vuestra vida; y por este negocio haréis prolongar los días sobre la tierra, para heredar la cual pasáis el Jordán.

48 Y habló el SEÑOR a Moisés aquel mismo día, diciendo:

49 Sube a este monte de Abarim, al monte Nebo, que está en la tierra de Moab, que está en derecho de Jericó, y mira la tierra de Canaán, que yo doy por heredad a los hijos de Israel;

50 y muere en el monte al cual subes, y sé reunido a tus pueblos; de la manera que murió Aarón tu hermano en el monte de Hor, y fue reunido a sus pueblos;

51 por cuanto prevaricasteis contra mí en medio de los hijos de Israel en las aguas de Meriba de Cades, en el desierto de Zin; porque no me santificasteis en medio de los hijos de Israel.

52 Verás, por tanto, delante de ti la tierra; mas no entrarás allá, a la tierra que doy a los hijos de Israel.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 9139

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9139. 'When a man devastates a field or a vineyard' means a stripping away of the Church's goodness and truth by evil desires. This is clear from the meaning of 'devastating' as a stripping away by evil desires, dealt with below in 9141; from the meaning of 'a field' as the Church in respect of good, dealt with in 2971, 3766, 4982, 7502, thus the Church's good; and from the meaning of 'a vineyard' as the Church in respect of truth, thus the Church's truth. The reason why 'a field' is the Church in respect of good is that the products of a field, such as wheat and barley, mean forms of good in the Church, internal and external ones, 3941, 7602, 7605; and the reason why 'a vineyard' is the Church in respect of truth is that 'wine', which is the product of a vineyard, means the truth of good, 1071, 6377.

[2] The origin of these meanings of 'a field' and 'a vineyard' lies in representatives in the spiritual world. For fields full of wheat and barley appear before the eyes of spirits when angels in a higher heaven are talking about an assembly of people governed by good; and vineyards full of grapes appear, together with winepresses in them, when angels are talking about an assembly of people governed by the truth of good. Those representatives are not due to the existence of such fields and vineyards on earth; rather, they are due to correspondences, in that wheat and barley, or bread made from them, nourish the body just as the good of love and charity nourishes the soul, and in that wine serving as drink nourishes the body just as the truth and good of faith nourish the soul. This is the reason why in the Word the good of love and the truth of faith are called food and drink; indeed in this sense they are heavenly food and drink, 56-58, 680, 681, 1973, 1974, 4459, 4792, 5147, 5293, 5576, 5579, 5915, 8562.

[3] The fact that 'a vineyard' means the Church in respect of the good and truth of faith, which is called a spiritual Church, is clear from places in the Word in which a vineyard is mentioned, as in Jeremiah,

Many shepherds have destroyed My vineyard, they have trampled down My field; they have rendered the field of [My] delight into a lonely wilderness. They have made it (the vineyard) into a solitary place. Jeremiah 12:10-11.

Here 'vineyard' and 'field' plainly stand for the Church; and since the Church is the Church by virtue of the truth and good of faith and charity, it is evident that in these verses 'vineyard' is the Church in respect of truth and 'the field' the Church in respect of good. In Isaiah,

Jehovah enters into judgement with the elders of His people and with its princes. You set alight the vineyard. Isaiah 3:14.

Here also 'vineyard' plainly stands for the Church in respect of the good and truth of faith; for 'the elders' with whom Jehovah will enter into judgement are the Church's forms of good, 6524, 6525, and 'the princes' are its truths, 5044.

[4] In the same prophet,

I will sing to my beloved a song of my friend regarding His vineyard: My beloved had a vineyard in a horn of a son of oil, 1 which he surrounded [with an enclosure], and planted with the choicest vine. Isaiah 5:1-2ff.

This refers to the Lord, who is the 'beloved' and 'friend'. 'The vineyard' is His spiritual Church, 'the choicest vine' is that Church's good of faith, and 'a horn of a son of oil' is that Church's good of faith growing out of the good of love. The person who knows nothing whatever about the internal sense of the Word cannot possibly know what 'a vineyard in a horn of a son of oil' means. Nevertheless this expression has a meaning lying hidden within it such as no words can express. They contain a full description of the Lord's spiritual kingdom linked to His celestial kingdom, that is, of the second heaven to the third, consequently a full description of the good of faith in the Lord, which is the spiritual kingdom's, linked to the good of love to the Lord, which is the celestial kingdom's. 'The vineyard' is the spiritual kingdom; 'in a horn' is in power, thus in that kingdom, 'a son of oil' being the external level of the good of love in the celestial kingdom. The celestial kingdom, which is the Lord's inmost heaven, is called the olive or an olive-grove, for 'oil' means the good of celestial love, 886, 4582, 4638. It should be recognized that the Lord's kingdom on earth is the Church. As regards the existence of two kingdoms, the celestial kingdom and the spiritual kingdom, and the fact that the spiritual kingdom constitutes the second heaven and the celestial kingdom the third, see 3887, 4138, 4279, 4286; and with regard to their being linked together, 6435.

[5] In the same prophet,

On that day, a vineyard of unmixed wine; 2 respond to it. I Jehovah am guarding it; every moment I will water it. Isaiah 27:2-3.

'A vineyard of unmixed wine' stands for the spiritual Church. In Amos,

In all vineyards there will be wailing; I will pass through you. Woe to you desiring the day of Jehovah! What will the day of Jehovah be for you? It will be one of darkness, and not of light. Amos 5:17-18.

This refers to the final period of the Church, when the good and truth of faith do not exist any longer, that final period being meant by 'the day of Jehovah, which will be one of darkness, and not of light'. This is why it says, 'In all vineyards there will be wailing'. In John, in Revelation,

The angel sent his sickle into the earth and harvested the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God. Revelation 14:18, 19.

'Harvesting the vine of the earth' means devouring the Church's truth and good, 'the earth' being the Church. From all this one may now see why it is that the Lord likened the kingdom of heaven so many times to a vineyard, as in Matthew 20:1ff; 21:28-29, 33-41; Mark 12:1-13; and why it is that the Lord called Himself 'the vine' in John,

As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself unless it abides in the vine, neither can you unless you abide in Me. I am the vine, you are the branches; apart from Me you cannot do anything. John 15:1ff.

'The vine' is faith in the Lord, and for that reason is the Lord in respect of faith. For the Lord is faith because faith originates in Him; no faith is faith except that which originates in Him. So it is also that 'the vine' means faith that is faith in Him.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. i.e. on a very fertile hill

2. i.e. a vineyard of grapes that produce strong wine. Some English versions follow a textual variation meaning a delightful vineyard.

  
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Arcana Coelestia # 3887

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3887. In heaven or the Grand Man there are two kingdoms, one called celestial, the other spiritual. The celestial kingdom consists of angels who are called celestial and are those who have been governed by love to the Lord and so by all wisdom. For they more than all others abide in the Lord and so more than all others experience the state of peace and innocence. To others they look like young children, for the state of peace and innocence gives them this appearance. Everything there is living so to speak in their eyes, for that which comes directly from the Lord is living. Such is the celestial kingdom. The second kingdom is called spiritual. This consists of angels who are called spiritual and are those who have been governed by the good that flows from charity towards the neighbour. The delight of life is considered by them to lie in being able to do good to others without reward. To them being allowed to do good to others is itself a reward. And the more this is their will and desire the greater the intelligence and happiness they experience, for in the next life the Lord confers intelligence and happiness on everyone according to the use which he performs from the affection that belongs to his will. Such is the spiritual kingdom.

[2] Inhabitants of the Lord's celestial kingdom all belong to the province of the heart, and those of His spiritual kingdom all belong to the province of the lungs. The influx from the celestial kingdom into the spiritual kingdom is similar to the influx of the heart into the lungs, and also to the influx of all things belonging to the heart into those belonging to the lungs. For the heart reigns in the whole of the body and in every individual part of it by means of the blood vessels, as do the lungs in every individual part by means of the breathing. Consequently throughout the body there is so to speak an influx of the heart into the lungs, but this is dependent on the forms there and on the states. This is how all sensation arises and also all activity which belongs properly to the body. This point can also be proved from embryos and new-born infants. These cannot have any bodily sensation or any act of individual will until the lungs have been opened for them and an influx consequently takes place of heart into lungs. It is similar in the spiritual world, the difference being that bodily and natural things do not exist in that world but celestial and spiritual, which are the good of love and the good of faith. With them therefore motions of the heart are determined by the states of love, and respiratory motions by the states of faith. The influx of one into the other causes them to have sensations of things in a spiritual manner and to act in a spiritual manner. These ideas are bound to seem paradoxical to man because he has no other idea of the good of love or of the truth of faith than that they are some abstract qualities which have no power to effect anything. In fact the contrary is the case; that is to say, they are the source of all perception and sensation, of all energy and activity, including those in man.

  
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