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Deuteronomio 4

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1 At ngayon, Oh Israel, dinggin mo ang mga palatuntunan at ang mga kahatulan, na aking itinuturo sa inyo, upang sundin ninyo; upang kayo'y mabuhay, at pumasok, at inyong ariin ang lupain na ibinibigay sa inyo ng Panginoon, ng Dios ng inyong mga magulang.

2 Huwag ninyong daragdagan ni babawasan ang salita na aking iniuutos sa inyo, upang inyong maingatan ang mga utos ng Panginoon ninyong Dios na aking iniuutos sa inyo.

3 Nakita ng inyong mga mata ang ginawa ng Panginoon tungkol kay Baal-peor, sapagka't lahat ng mga tao na sumunod kay Baal-peor, ay nilipol ng Panginoon mong Dios sa gitna mo.

4 Nguni't kayong umayon sa Panginoon ninyong Dios ay nangabubuhay pa ang bawa't isa sa inyo sa araw na ito.

5 Narito, aking tinuruan kayo ng mga palatuntunan at ng mga kahatulan, na gaya ng iniutos sa akin ng Panginoon kong Dios upang inyong gawing gayon sa gitna ng lupain na inyong paroroonan upang ariin.

6 Ingatan nga ninyo at inyong isagawa; sapagka't ito ang inyong karunungan at ang inyong kaalaman sa paningin ng mga tao, na makakarinig ng mga palatuntunang ito, at magsasabi, Tunay na ang dakilang bansang ito ay isang pantas at maalam na bayan.

7 Sapagka't anong dakilang bansa nga ang may dios na napakalapit sa kanila, na gaya ng Panginoon nating Dios kailan man tayo'y tumawag sa kaniya?

8 At anong dakilang bansa nga, ang may mga palatuntunan at mga kahatulang napaka-tuwid na gaya ng buong kautusang ito, na aking inilalagda sa harap ninyo sa araw na ito?

9 Magingat ka lamang sa iyong sarili, at ingatan mo ang iyong kaluluwa ng buong sikap, baka iyong malimutan ang mga bagay na nakita ng iyong mga mata, at baka mangahiwalay sa iyong puso ang lahat ng araw ng iyong buhay; kundi iyong ipakilala sa iyong mga anak at sa mga anak ng iyong mga anak;

10 Yaong araw na ikaw ay tumayo sa harap ng Panginoon mong Dios sa Horeb, nang sabihin sa akin ng Panginoon, Papagpisanin mo sa akin ang bayan, at aking iparirinig sa kanila ang aking mga salita, upang sila'y magaral na matakot sa akin sa lahat ng araw na kanilang ikabubuhay sa ibabaw ng lupa, at upang kanilang maituro sa kanilang mga anak.

11 At kayo'y lumapit at tumayo sa ibaba ng bundok; at ang bundok ay nagningas sa apoy hanggang sa kaibuturan ng langit, sangpu ng kadiliman, ulap, at salisalimuot na kadiliman.

12 At ang Panginoo'y nagsalita sa inyo mula sa gitna ng apoy; inyong narinig ang tinig ng mga salita, nguni't wala kayong anyong nakita; ang inyo lamang narinig ay isang tinig.

13 At kaniyang ipinahayag sa inyo ang kaniyang tipan, na kaniyang iniutos sa inyong ganapin, sa makatuwid baga'y ang sangpung utos; at kaniyang isinulat sa dalawang tapyas na bato.

14 At iniutos sa akin ng Panginoon nang panahong yaon, na turuan ko kayo ng mga palatuntunan at mga kahatulan, upang inyong mangagawa sa lupaing inyong paroroonan upang ariin.

15 Ingatan nga ninyong mabuti ang inyong sarili; sapagka't wala kayong nakitang anomang anyo nang araw na magsalita ang Panginoon sa inyo sa Horeb mula sa gitna ng apoy:

16 Baka kayo'y mangagpakasama, at kayo'y gumawa sa inyo ng isang larawang inanyuan na kawangis ng alin mang larawan, na kahawig ng lalake o babae,

17 Na kahawig ng anomang hayop na nasa lupa, na kahawig ng anomang ibong may pakpak na lumilipad sa himpapawid,

18 Na kahawig ng anomang bagay na umuusad sa lupa, na kahawig ng anomang isda na nasa tubig sa ilalim ng lupa:

19 At baka iyong itingin ang iyong mga mata sa langit, at kung iyong makita ang araw at ang buwan, at ang mga bituin, sangpu ng buong natatanaw sa langit, ay mabuyo ka at iyong sambahin, at paglingkuran, na binahagi ng Panginoon ninyong Dios sa lahat ng mga bayan na nasa silong ng buong langit.

20 Nguni't kinuha kayo ng Panginoon, at hinango kayo sa hurnong bakal, sa Egipto, upang kayo'y maging sa kaniya'y isang bayang mana, gaya sa araw na ito.

21 Bukod dito'y nagalit sa akin ang Panginoon dahil sa inyo, at sumumpa na ako'y hindi tatawid sa Jordan, at hindi ako papasok sa mabuting lupaing yaon, na ibinigay ng Panginoon mong Dios sa iyo na pinakamana:

22 Kundi ako'y nararapat mamatay sa lupaing ito, ako'y hindi nararapat tumawid sa Jordan: nguni't kayo'y tatawid, at inyong aariin ang mabuting lupaing yaon.

23 Mangagingat nga kayo, baka inyong malimutan ang tipan ng Panginoon ninyong Dios, na kaniyang pinagtibay sa inyo, at kayo'y gumawa ng larawang inanyuan na kahawig ng anomang bagay na ipinagbawal sa iyo ng Panginoon mong Dios.

24 Sapagka't ang Panginoon mong Dios ay isang apoy na mamumugnaw, mapanibughuing Dios nga.

25 Pagka ikaw ay nagkaanak at nagkaanak ang inyong mga anak, at nagluwat kayo ng malaon sa lupaing yaon, at nagpakasama kayo, at gumawa kayo ng larawang inanyuan na kahawig ng anomang bagay, at gumawa kayo ng masama sa paningin ng Panginoon mong Dios, upang mungkahiin ninyo siya sa kagalitan:

26 Ay aking tinatawag ang langit at ang lupa upang sumaksi laban sa inyo sa araw na ito, na kayo'y malilipol na madali na walang pagsala sa lupain na inyong tinutungo ng pagdadaan sa Jordan, upang ariin: hindi ninyo mapatatagal doon ang inyong mga araw, kundi kayo'y lubos na malilipol.

27 At pangangalatin kayo ng Panginoon sa mga bayan, at kayo'y malalabing kaunti sa bilang sa gitna ng mga bansa, na pagdadalhan sa inyo ng Panginoon.

28 At doo'y maglilingkod kayo sa mga dios, na yari ng mga kamay ng mga tao, kahoy at bato na hindi nangakakakita, ni nangakakarinig, ni nangakakakain, ni nangakakaamoy.

29 Nguni't mula roon ay iyong hahanapin ang Panginoon mong Dios, at iyong masusumpungan, kung iyong hahanapin siya ng buo mong puso at ng buo mong kaluluwa.

30 Pagka ikaw ay nasa kapighatian, at ang lahat ng mga bagay na ito ay dumating sa iyo sa mga huling araw, ay magbabalik loob ka sa Panginoon mong Dios, at iyong didinggin ang kaniyang tinig.

31 Sapagka't ang Panginoon mong Dios ay maawaing Dios; hindi ka niya pababayaan, ni lilipulin ka niya ni kalilimutan ang tipan sa iyong mga magulang na kaniyang isinumpa sa kanila.

32 Sapagka't ipagtanong mo nga sa mga araw na nagdaan, na nangauna sa iyo, mula nang araw na lalangin ng Dios ang tao sa ibabaw ng lupa, at mula sa isang hangganan ng langit hanggang sa kabila, kung nagkaroon ng gaya ng dakilang bagay na ito, o may narinig na gaya nito?

33 Narinig ba kaya kailan man ng mga tao ang tinig ng Dios na nagsalita sa gitna ng apoy, gaya ng narinig mo, at nabuhay?

34 O may Dios kaya na nagsikap na yumaon at sumakop ng isang bansa sa gitna ng ibang bansa, sa pamamagitan ng mga tukso, ng mga tanda, at ng mga kababalaghan, at ng pagbabaka, at ng makapangyarihang kamay, at ng unat na bisig, at ng mga malaking kakilabutan ayon sa lahat na ginawa ng Panginoon mong Dios sa iyo sa Egipto, sa harap ng iyong mga mata?

35 Sa iyo ipinakita ito, upang iyong makilala na ang Panginoon ay siyang Dios; wala nang iba liban sa kaniya.

36 Mula sa langit ay ipinarinig niya sa iyo ang kaniyang tinig, upang kaniyang turuan ka; at sa ibabaw ng lupa ay kaniyang ipinakita sa iyo ang kaniyang dakilang apoy, at iyong narinig ang kaniyang mga salita sa gitna ng apoy.

37 At sapagka't kaniyang inibig ang iyong mga magulang, kaya kaniyang pinili ang kaniyang binhi pagkatapos nila, at inilabas ka niya sa Egipto ng kaniyang pagharap, ng kaniyang dakilang kapangyarihan;

38 Upang palayasin sa harap mo ang mga bansang lalong malalaki at lalong makapangyarihan kay sa iyo, upang ikaw ay kaniyang papasukin, na ibigay sa iyo na pinakamana ang kanilang lupain, gaya sa araw na ito.

39 Talastasin mo nga sa araw na ito at isapuso mo, na ang Panginoon ay siyang Dios sa itaas sa langit at sa ibaba sa lupa; wala nang iba pa.

40 At iyong iingatan ang kaniyang mga palatuntunan at ang kaniyang mga utos, na aking iniuutos sa iyo sa araw na ito, upang ikabuti mo, at ng iyong mga anak pagkamatay mo, at upang iyong mapalaon ang iyong mga araw sa ibabaw ng lupaing yaon, na ibinigay sa iyo magpakailan man ng Panginoon mong Dios.

41 Nang magkagayo'y inihiwalay ni Moises ang tatlong bayan sa dako roon ng Jordan sa dakong sinisikatan ng araw;

42 Upang ang nakamatay ng tao ay tumakas doon, na nakamatay sa kaniyang kapuwa na hindi sinasadya, at hindi niya kinapopootan nang panahong nakaraan; at sa pagtakas sa isa sa mga bayang ito ay mabuhay siya:

43 Sa makatuwid baga'y sa Beser, sa ilang, sa kapatagang lupa, na ukol sa mga Rubenita; at sa Ramoth sa Galaad, na ukol sa mga Gadita; at sa Golan sa Basan, na ukol sa mga Manasita.

44 At ito ang kautusang sinalaysay ni Moises sa harap ng mga anak ni Israel:

45 Ito ang mga patotoo, at ang mga palatuntunan, at ang mga kahatulan, na sinalita ni Moises sa mga anak ni Israel, nang sila'y lumabas sa Egipto;

46 Sa dako pa roon ng Jordan, sa libis na nasa tapat ng Beth-peor, sa lupain ni Sehon na hari ng mga Amorrheo na tumatahan sa Hesbon, na siyang sinaktan ni Moises at ng mga anak ni Israel, nang sila'y umalis sa Egipto;

47 At kanilang sinakop ang kaniyang lupain na pinakaari, at ang lupain ni Og na hari sa Basan, ang dalawang hari ng mga Amorrheo, na nangasa dako pa roon ng Jordan sa dakong sinisikatan ng araw;

48 Mula sa Aroer na nasa hangganan ng libis ng Arnon, hanggang sa bundok ng Sion (na siya ring Hermon),

49 At ang buong Araba sa dako roon ng Jordan sa dakong silanganan, hanggang sa dagat ng Araba sa ibaba ng gulod ng Pisga.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 6804

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6804. 'And God remembered His covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob' means on account of being joined to the Church through the Lord's Divine Human. This is clear from the meaning of 'the covenant' as a joining together, dealt with below; and from the representation of 'Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob', with whom a covenant had been made, as the Lord's Divine Human. 'Abraham' represents the Lord in respect of the Divine itself, 'Isaac' in respect of the Divine Rational, and 'Jacob' in respect of the Divine Natural, see 1893, 2011, 2066, 2072, 2083, 2630, 3194, 3210, 3245, 3251, 3305 (end), 3439, 4538, 4570, 4615, 6098, 6185, 6276, 6425. When Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob are mentioned in the Word those patriarchs are not meant in the spiritual sense, as may be recognized from the consideration that names never pass through into heaven. Only what is really meant by the people who are referred to - real things, the essential nature of real things, and the states of real things, that is to say, aspects of the Church, of the Lord's kingdom, and of the Lord Himself - passes through.

[2] But in addition to this the angels in heaven never fix their thoughts on specific persons; that would restrict their thoughts and remove them from that all-inclusive perception of real things that lies behind angelic speech. This explains why the things that the angels in heaven say are indescribable, far surpassing human thought, whose range does not extend to seeing things in their totality but is restricted to particular aspects. When one reads therefore in Matthew 8:11 that many will come from the east and the west and recline with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven, the angels perceive the Lord's presence and the way people make the truth and goodness emanating from His Divine Human their own. Also when one reads in Luke 16:22 that Lazarus was carried into Abraham's bosom, the angels perceive that he was carried into heaven, where the Lord is present. This too goes to show that 'a covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob' means in the internal sense being joined through the Lord's Divine Human.

[3] The fact that the Divine Human is 'a covenant', that is, the actual joining together, may be seen from many places in the Word, as in Isaiah,

I will give You as a covenant of the people', a light of the nations. Isaiah 42:6.

In the same prophet,

I have given You as a covenant of the people, 1 to restore the land, to share out the devastated inheritances. Isaiah 49:8.

In the same prophet,

Incline your ear and come to Me; hear, and let your soul live. So will I make with you an eternal covenant, even the sure mercies of David. Lo, I have given Him as a witness to the peoples, a prince and lawgiver to the peoples. 2 Isaiah 55:3-4.

In Malachi,

Suddenly there comes to His temple the Lord whom you seek, and the angel of the covenant in whom you delight. Behold, He is coming. Malachi 3:1

In the second Book of Samuel,

He has established an eternal covenant for Me, to be set in order for all and to be kept safe. 2 Samuel 23:5.

[4] These places plainly refer to the Lord and to the joining of the human race to the Lord's Divine Being itself through His Divine Human. In respect of His Divine Human the Lord is the Mediator, and no one can come to the Divine Being itself within the Lord, called the Father, except through the Son, that is, the Divine Human, as is well known in the Church. Thus the Lord in respect of His Divine Human is the actual joining together. Can anyone in his thought begin to comprehend the Divine Being itself? And if he cannot do this in thought how can he be joined to the Divine itself in love? But the Divine Human anyone can comprehend in thought and be joined to in love.

[5] The meaning of 'a covenant' as a joining together may be seen in the fact that covenants between countries join them together. They are bargains made by both parties which must be kept if their alliance is to remain intact. These bargains or agreements are also called a covenant. On man's side the bargains or agreements that are called 'a covenant' in the Word are in a restricted sense the ten commandments or the Decalogue. In a wider sense they are all the statutes, orders, laws, testimonies, and commandments that the Lord decreed from Mount Sinai through Moses; and in an even wider sense they are the Books of Moses. The contents of these books were what the children of Israel were required on their side to carry out. On the Lord's side it is mercy and election.

[6] The ten commandments or the Decalogue are a covenant.

This is clear from the following places: In Moses,

Jehovah declared to you His covenant which He commanded you to perform, the ten words which He wrote on two tablets of stone. Deuteronomy 4:13, 23.

And since the two tablets of stone on which the ten commandments had been written were placed in the ark, Exodus 25:16, 21, 22, 31:18; 32:15, 16, 19; 40:20, the ark was called the ark of the covenant, Deuteronomy 31:9, 24-26; Joshua 3:3, 6, 14; 4:7; Judges 20:27; 2 Samuel 15:24; 1 Kings 8:21. In the last of these references Solomon says,

I have made a place there for the ark, where there is the covenant of Jehovah which He made with our fathers.

And in John,

The temple of God was opened in heaven, and the ark of His covenant was seen in His temple. Revelation 11:19.

[7] All the judgements and statutes which the Lord commanded the people of Israel through Moses are called a covenant; so too are the actual Books of Moses. In Moses,

According to the tenor 3 of these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel. Exodus 34:27.

What are called a covenant here were many regulations regarding sacrifices, feasts, and unleavened bread. In the same author,

Moses took the book of the covenant, and read it in the ears of the people, who said, All that Jehovah has spoken we will do and hear. Exodus 24:7-8.

In the second Book of Kings,

Josiah the king of Judah read before them all in the house of Jehovah the words of the book of the covenant which had been found in the house of Jehovah. And he made a covenant before Jehovah, to establish the words of the covenant that were written in that book. And all the people took a stand on the covenant. The king commanded all the people to keep the Passover to Jehovah their God, in accordance with what was written in the book of the covenant. 2 Kings 23:2-3, 21.

In David,

If your sons keep My covenant and My testimony which I have taught them, their sons also will sit even forever on your throne. Psalms 132:12.

[8] A covenant is a joining together through love and faith.

In Jeremiah,

Behold, the days are coming, said Jehovah, in which I will make with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah a new covenant, not like the covenant which I made with their fathers, for they made My covenant invalid. But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days: I will put My law in the midst of them, and will write it on their heart, and I will be their God, and they will be My people. Jeremiah 31:31-33.

'Putting the law in their midst, and writing it on their heart' is endowing with faith and charity, faith and charity being the means by which the joining together described by 'I will be their God, and they will be My people' is effected. In the same prophet,

I will make with them an everlasting covenant, that I will not any more turn away from them, and I will do good to them. But I will put My fear into their heart so that they do not depart from Me. Jeremiah 32:40.

A joining together through love, which is a covenant, is meant by 'I will put My fear into their heart so that they do not depart from Me'.

[9] In Ezekiel,

I will make with them a covenant of peace; it will be an eternal covenant with them. And I will bless 4 them and will multiply them, and I will set a sanctuary in their midst, and it will be My dwelling-place among them; and I will be their God, and they will be My people. Ezekiel 37:26-27.

Here a joining together through love and faith, which are a covenant, is described by 'a sanctuary in their midst' and 'dwelling-place among them', and by 'I will be their God, and they will be My people'. In the same prophet,

When I passed by you and saw you, behold, it was your time, the time of love; 5 and I entered into a covenant with you, so that you would be Mine. Ezekiel 16:8.

This refers to Jerusalem, by which the Ancient Church is meant, 'entering into a covenant, so that you would be Mine' plainly being a marriage or spiritual joining together. Since 'a covenant' means a joining together a wife is also called in Malachi 2:14 the wife of a covenant, while a joining together that exists among brothers is called in Amos 1:9 a covenant of brothers. 'A covenant' is also used in David to mean a joining together,

I have made a covenant with My chosen one, I have sworn to David My servant. Psalms 89:3.

[10] The agreement in a covenant on the Lord's side is mercy and election. This is clear in David,

All the ways of Jehovah are mercy and truth to those keeping His covenant and His testimonies. Psalms 25:10.

In Isaiah,

The mountains will depart and the hills be removed, but My mercy will not depart from you, nor the covenant of My peace be removed, said Jehovah, who has mercy on you. Isaiah 54:10.

In Moses,

Jehovah your God, He is God, the faithful God keeping covenant and mercy with those who love Him and keep His commandments, to the thousandth generation. Deuteronomy 7:9, 11.

In the same author,

If you keep My covenant, you will be to Me a peculiar treasure from among all peoples. Exodus 19:5.

In the same author,

I will have regard for you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and confirm My covenant with you. Leviticus 26:9.

'Having regard for them' is viewing with mercy. 'Making them fruitful and multiplying them' is endowing with charity and faith, and those endowed with them are called 'the elect'. Thus the words used here have to do with election and so do those which say that they will be 'a peculiar treasure'.

[11] In the representative Church they also had signs of the covenant. These served to remind people of the joining together. Circumcision was one such sign, Genesis 17:11; for circumcision was a sign meaning purification from filthy loves. After these loves are removed, heavenly love is introduced, through which a joining together is effected. The sabbath too is called an eternal covenant, Exodus 31:16; and of the loaves of the presence it is said that to the children of Israel they should be for an eternal covenant, Leviticus 24:8-9. Blood in particular was a sign, as is clear in Moses,

Moses took the book of the covenant, and read it in the ears of the people, who said, All that Jehovah has spoken we will do and hear. Then Moses took the blood of the sacrifice of a peace-offering and sprinkled it over the people, and said, Behold, the blood of the covenant which Jehovah has made with you, upon all these words. Exodus 24:7-8.

In Zechariah,

Through the blood of your covenant I will let out the bound ones from the pit in which there is no water. Zechariah 9:11.

'The blood' was the covenant or sign of the covenant because it meant a joining together through spiritual love, that is, through charity towards the neighbour. This was why, when the Lord instituted the Holy Supper, He called His blood 'the blood of the new covenant', Matthew 26:28. From all this one may now see what 'the covenant' is used to mean in the internal sense of the Word.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. The Latin means for the people but the Hebrew means of the people, which Swedenborg has in some other places where he quotes this verse.

2. The Latin means nations but the Hebrew means peoples, which Swedenborg has in other places where he quotes this verse.

3. literally, Upon the mouth

4. literally, give

5. literally, loves

  
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