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Mateo 6

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1 Mirad que no hagáis vuestra limosna delante de los hombres, para ser vistos de ellos; de otra manera no tendréis salario acerca de vuestro Padre que está en los cielos.

2 Cuando, pues, des limosna, no hagas tocar trompeta delante de ti, como hacen los hipócritas en las sinagogas y en las plazas, para tener gloria de los hombres; de cierto os digo, que ya tienen su recompensa.

3 Mas cuando tú des limosna, no sepa tu izquierda lo que hace tu derecha;

4 para que sea tu limosna en secreto; y tu Padre que ve en secreto, él te pagará en público.

5 Y cuando ores, no seas como los hipócritas; porque ellos aman el orar en las sinagogas, y en las esquinas de las calles en pie, para ser vistos de los hombres; de cierto os digo, que ya tienen su salario.

6 Mas tú, cuando ores, entra en tu cámara, y cerrada tu puerta, ora a tu Padre que está en secreto; y tu Padre que ve en secreto, te pagará en público.

7 Y orando, no seáis prolijos, como los mundanos que piensan que por su palabrería serán oídos.

8 No os hagáis, pues, semejantes a ellos; porque vuestro Padre sabe de qué cosas tenéis necesidad, antes que vosotros le pidáis.

9 Vosotros pues, oraréis así: Padre nuestro que estás en los cielos, santificado sea tu Nombre.

10 Venga tu Reino. Sea hecha tu voluntad, como en el cielo, así también en la tierra.

11 Danos hoy nuestro pan cotidiano.

12 Y suéltanos nuestras deudas, como también nosotros soltamos a nuestros deudores.

13 Y no nos metas en tentación, mas líbranos del mal; porque tuyo es el Reino, y la potencia, y la gloria, por todos los siglos. Amén.

14 Porque si soltareis a los hombres sus ofensas, os soltará también a vosotros vuestro Padre celestial.

15 Mas si no soltareis a los hombres sus ofensas, tampoco vuestro Padre os soltará vuestras ofensas.

16 Y cuando ayunéis, no seáis como los hipócritas, austeros; porque ellos demudan sus rostros para parecer a los hombres que ayunan; de cierto os digo, que ya tienen su pago.

17 Mas tú, cuando ayunes, unge tu cabeza y lava tu rostro;

18 para no mostrar a los hombres que ayunas, sino a tu Padre que está en secreto; y tu Padre que ve en secreto, te pagará en público.

19 No os hagáis tesoros en la tierra, donde la polilla y el orín corrompen, y donde ladrones minan y hurtan;

20 sino haceos tesoros en el cielo, donde ni polilla ni orín corrompen, y donde ladrones no minan ni hurtan:

21 Porque donde estuviere vuestro tesoro, allí estará vuestro corazón.

22 La lámpara del cuerpo es el ojo; así que, si tu ojo fuere sincero, todo tu cuerpo será luminoso;

23 mas si tu ojo fuere malo, todo tu cuerpo será tenebroso. Así que, si la lumbre que hay en ti son tinieblas, ¡cuántas serán las mismas tinieblas!

24 Ninguno puede servir a dos señores; porque o aborrecerá al uno y amará al otro, o se llegará al uno y menospreciará al otro; no podéis servir a Dios y a las riquezas.

25 Por tanto os digo: No os acongojéis por vuestra vida, qué habéis de comer, o qué habéis de beber; ni por vuestro cuerpo, qué habéis de vestir: ¿no es la vida más que el alimento, y el cuerpo que el vestido?

26 Mirad las aves del cielo, que no siembran, ni siegan, ni allegan en alfolíes; y vuestro Padre celestial las alimenta. ¿No sois vosotros mucho mejores que ellas?

27 Mas ¿quién de vosotros podrá, acongojándose, añadir a su estatura un codo?

28 Y por el vestido ¿por qué os acongojáis? Aprended de los lirios del campo, cómo crecen; no trabajan ni hilan;

29 mas os digo, que ni aun Salomón con toda su gloria fue vestido así como uno de ellos.

30 Y si la hierba del campo que hoy es, y mañana es echada en el horno, Dios la viste así, ¿no hará mucho más a vosotros, hombres de poca fe?

31 No os acongojéis pues, diciendo: ¿Qué comeremos, o qué beberemos, o con qué nos cubriremos?

32 Porque los gentiles buscan todas estas cosas; que vuestro Padre celestial sabe que de todas estas cosas tenéis necesidad.

33 Mas buscad primeramente el Reino de Dios y su justicia, y todas estas cosas os serán añadidas.

34 Así que, no os acongojéis por lo de mañana; que el mañana traerá su congoja: basta al día su aflicción.

   

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Apocalypse Explained # 694

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694. And Thy anger is come, and the time of the dead to be judged, signifies the Last Judgment upon those who inwardly possess with themselves nothing of good and truth. This is evident from the signification of "anger" as being, in reference to the Lord, the Last Judgment (of which above, n. 413. This is evidently the signification of "anger" here, for it is added, "and the time of the dead to be judged." Also from the signification of "the dead," as being those who inwardly possess with themselves nothing of good and truth. Such are called "dead" because the essential life of man is his spiritual life, for it is through this that he is a man and is distinguished from beasts, which have only natural life. In man the natural life without the spiritual life is dead, since it has not in itself heaven, which is called "life" and "eternal life," but has hell, which is spiritually called "death." In the Word, the "dead" mean those who live a natural life only, and not at the same time a spiritual life (as may be seen above, n. 78; also "death," in reference to man, means a lack of the faculty of understanding truth and perceiving good (See above, n. 550); and this lack exists when the internal spiritual man has not been formed, for this is formed by means of truths from good. In that internal man the ability to understand truth and perceive good has its seat, for that man is in heaven and in its light, and he who is in the light of heaven is a living man. But when the natural man only has been formed, and not at the same time the spiritual, there is no faculty of understanding and perceiving the truths and goods of heaven and the church, because that man has no light from heaven. For this reason such a man is called "dead." That those who inwardly possess with themselves nothing of good and truth are here meant by "the dead who are to be judged," can be seen from what has been said before about the separation of the evil from the good before the Last Judgment, and that the evil, when they have been separated, come into their interiors, which swarm with mere evils and falsities; from which it is clear that inwardly they were dead, although in external form they appeared to be living.

  
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The Last Judgement # 73

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73. XI. THE FUTURE STATE OF THE WORLD AND THE CHURCH.

The future state of the world will be exactly the same as it has been up to now; for the mighty change which has taken place in the spiritual world does not cause any change in the external appearance of the natural world. So just as before there will be politics, peace-treaties, alliances and wars, and all the other general and particular features of society. When the Lord said:

There will be wars, and then nation will rise up against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and there will be famines, plagues and earthquakes in various places. Matthew 24:6-7.

He did not mean such events in the natural world, but corresponding ones in the spiritual world. For the Word in its prophecies is not concerned with kingdoms on earth or the peoples on it, so not with their wars either; nor is it concerned with famine, plague and earthquakes on earth, but with the events in the spiritual world which correspond to them. The nature of these has been explained in ARCANA CAELESTIA, a collection of references to which may by seen at the end of the chapter. 1

[2] The future state of the church, however, will not be the same. It may seem much the same in outward appearance, but inwardly it will be different. In outward appearance the churches will be divided from one another as before, their teachings will differ as before, and so will the religious systems of the heathen. But people in the church will henceforward have more freedom in thinking about matters of faith, and so about the spiritual matters which have to do with heaven, because of the restoration of spiritual freedom. For now everything in the heavens and the hells has been restored to order, and it is from there that all thought is influenced about Divine matters or against them; from the heavens when thought favours what is Divine, from the hells when it opposes it. But people will be unaware of this change of state, since they do not reflect on it, nor indeed do they know anything about spiritual freedom or influence from the spiritual world. However, in heaven this is perceived, and people after their deaths can do so too. It is because people have had their spiritual freedom restored that the spiritual sense of the Word has now been disclosed, and by this means Divine truths of a more inward kind have been revealed. For in their previous state people would not have understood them, and if anyone did so, he would have profaned them. It may be seen in HEAVEN AND HELL 597-603) that people's freedom depends upon an equilibrium between heaven and hell; and that people can only be reformed, if they enjoy freedom.

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1. Wars in the Word mean spiritual battles (1659, 1664, 8295, 10455). Thus all the weapons of war, such as bow, sword and shield, have some meaning relating to spiritual battles (1788, 2686). Kingdoms mean churches as regards truths and falsities (1672, 2547). Nations mean those who have different kinds of good and of evil (1059, 1159, 1205, 1258, 1260, 1416, 1849, 4574, 6005, 6306, 7830, 8054, 8317, 9320, 9327). 2 Famine means the failure of knowledge of truth and good (1460, 3364, 5277, 5279, 5281, 5300, 5360, 5376, 5893); also the desolation of the church (5279, 5415, 5576, 6110, 6144, 7102). Plague means the laying waste and ending of good and truth (7102, 7505, 7507, 7511). Earthquakes mean changes in a church's state (3355).

2. [Reference apparently incorrect.]

  
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