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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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Arcana Coelestia # 9051

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9051. 'Eye for eye' means if anything is injured by them in the inner part of the understanding. This is clear from the meaning of 'the eye' as the understanding, in this instance the inner part of it, the life of which is the life of faith. A person's understanding has an outer part and an inner part The outer part of his understanding is where thought that enters his awareness is, whereas the inner part is where thought that does not enter his awareness is, though it enters that of the angels. This part of the understanding is what the Lord enlightens when a person receives faith, for it exists in the light of heaven and holds within it a person's spiritual life. This is not made plainly evident to the person while in the world, but it is made so to that person in the next life when he becomes an angel among angels in heaven. In the meanwhile that life lies hidden within the thought belonging to the outer part of the understanding, producing there the holiness and reverence for the Lord, for love and faith in Him, for the Word, and for everything else that is the Church's. The reason why 'the eye' means the understanding is that the eye corresponds to the understanding; for the understanding sees in the light of heaven, but the eye sees in the light of the world. The things that the former eye, that is, the understanding, sees are spiritual, and its field of vision is the factual knowledge contained in the person's memory. But the things which the physical eye sees are earthly, and its field of vision consists in every object that appears in the world. Regarding 'the eye', that in the spiritual sense it means the understanding, and also faith since faith composes the life of the inner part of the understanding, see 2701, 4403-4421, 4523-4534.

[2] Anyone who does not know that 'the eye' is used in the Word to mean the understanding cannot know what the meaning is of the things which the Lord spoke concerning the eye in the Gospels, first of all these,

If your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out. It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye, than having two eyes, to be cast into the Gehenna of fire. Matthew 5:29; Mark 9:47.

Everyone recognizes that the eye should not be plucked out even if it does cause a person to stumble, and that no one enters the kingdom of God with only one eye. But 'the right eye' means falsity in a person's belief about the Lord; this is what must be plucked out. Then there are these things spoken by the Lord,

The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is sound, your whole body will be full of light. If your eye is evil your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness! Matthew 6:22-23; Luke 11:34.

Nor is 'the eye' used here to mean the eye, but an understanding composed of the truth of faith. This is why the eye is called 'the lamp of the body' and why the Lord says, 'If the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!' For 'darkness' in the spiritual sense is falsities constituting faith, 1839, 1860, 4418, 4531, 7688, 7711.

[3] There are these words too spoken by Him,

Why do you notice the speck which is in your brother's eye, but do not consider the plank that is in your own eye? Matthew 7:3-5.

'Noticing a speck in a brother's eye' means seeing something erroneous in a person's understanding of truth; 'the plank in one's own eye' is huge evil of falsity, since 'wood' in the internal sense means good and in the contrary sense evil, 643, 2784, 2812, 3720, 8354. Good is also represented in the next life by a plank, which is why those who pretend to have good within themselves are seen carrying a plank, walking in safety as they do so. If 'eye' and 'plank' did not have these meanings, would 'seeing a plank in an eye' have any meaning at all? If it is not known that 'eye' in the Word means the understanding of truth, which is faith, neither can it be known what is implied by the Lord's action when He healed the blind man,

He spat on the ground and made clay with His saliva, and said to him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam. John 9:6-7.

Since all the Lord's miracles, like all Divine miracles, had to do with those things that belong to the Lord's kingdom and the Church, 7337, 8364, so did this miracle too.

  
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Arcana Coelestia # 3720

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3720. 'This is nothing other than the house of God' means the Lord's kingdom as it exists in the ultimate degree of order. This is clear from the meaning of 'the house of God'. In the Word 'the house of God' is referred to in many places, and in the external sense, that is, literally, it means a building where holy worship takes place. But in the internal sense it means the Church, in the more universal sense it means heaven, and in the most universal the Lord's kingdom. In the highest sense however it means the Lord Himself as regards the Divine Human. But in the Word sometimes the expression 'House of God' is used and sometimes 'Temple'. The two are similar in meaning, the difference being that the expression 'House of God' is used when the subject is good but 'temple' when the subject is truth. From this it is evident that 'the House of God' means the Lord's celestial Church, and in the more universal sense the heaven of celestial angels, in the most universal the Lord's celestial kingdom, and in the highest sense the Lord as regards Divine Good; whereas 'the Temple' means the Lord's spiritual Church, and in the more universal sense the heaven of spiritual angels, in the most universal the Lord's spiritual kingdom, and in the highest the Lord as regards Divine Truth, see 2048. The reason why 'the House of God' means that which is celestial and the dwelling-place of good, while 'the Temple' means that which is spiritual and the dwelling-place of truth, is that 'a house' in the Word means good, see 710, 2233, 2559, 3128, 3652, and among the most ancient people used to be built of pieces of wood for the reason that 'wood' meant good, 643, 1110, 2784, 2812, whereas 'the Temple' means truth because it was built of stones - 'stones' meaning truths, see 643, 1296, 1298.

[2] These meanings that 'pieces of wood' and 'stones' possess are clear not only from the Word where they are mentioned but also from representatives in the next life. For people who assume that merit lies in good works seem to themselves to be cutting wood, and those who assume that it lies in truths, that is to say, people who have believed that they knew more truths than anybody else and yet have lived wickedly, seem to themselves to be breaking up stones. I have often seen such people wood-cutting or stone-breaking, from which the meaning of 'wood' and of 'stone' was made clear to me - that good is meant by 'wood' and truth by 'stone'. It has in like manner been made clear to me from the fact that when I have seen a wooden house the concept of good has instantly presented itself, and when I have seen a stone house the concept of truth has done so. And I have also learned from angels about this matter. This is why, when in the Word 'the House of God' is mentioned, the concept of good presents itself to angels, the kind of good depending on the nature of the subject that is being dealt with. And when 'the Temple' is mentioned, the concept of truth presents itself, the kind of truth depending on the subject that is being dealt with. From this one may also deduce how deeply and inwardly concealed the heavenly arcana lie in the Word.

[3] The reason 'the House of God' here means the Lord's kingdom as it exists in the ultimate degree of order is that the subject is Jacob who, as often shown already, represents the Lord's Divine Natural. The natural exists in the ultimate degree of order, for the natural encompasses all interior degrees and includes them all together within itself. And since they are included all together within the natural, and so countless things are beheld as a single whole, obscurity exists there compared with other degrees. This obscurity too has been dealt with frequently.

  
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