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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 # 9396

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9396. 'And he took the book of the covenant' means the Word in the letter to which the Word in heaven was joined. This is clear from the meaning of 'the book' as the Word in its entirety, dealt with below; and from the meaning of 'the covenant' as a joining together, dealt with in 665, 666, 1023, 1038, 1864, 1996, 2003, 2021, 6804, 8767, 8778. 'The book of the covenant' is used here to mean everything the Lord spoke from Mount Sinai, for verse 4 just above says, And Moses wrote all Jehovah's words. In a restricted sense therefore 'the book of the covenant' is used to mean the Word revealed to Moses on Mount Sinai, and in a broad sense to mean the Word in its entirety since this is the Divine Truth revealed by the Lord. And since it is through this Truth that the Lord joins Himself to a member of the Church, that Truth too is meant by 'the book of the covenant'; for 'a covenant' is a joining together.

[2] But the nature of the Lord's being joined to a member of the Church through the Word is unknown at the present day because heaven at the present day is closed. Scarcely anyone today talks to angels or spirits and therefore knows the way in which they understand the Word. But this was well known to the ancients, and especially to the most ancients; for talking to spirits and angels was common among them. The reason for this was that people in ancient and especially in most ancient times were more internal, for they thought in the spirit virtually separated from the body, whereas people today are more external and think in the body virtually separated from the spirit. So it is that heaven has seemingly forsaken mankind, for heaven's contact is with the internal man when this can be unshackled from the body, but not directly with the external man. This explains why the nature of the Lord's being joined to a person through the Word is unknown at the present day.

[3] Those whose thought is based on what the body perceives with the senses and not on what the spirit perceives with the senses cannot possibly do other than think that the meaning the Word has in heaven is like the meaning it has in the world, that is, in the letter. If it were said that the meaning the Word has in heaven is like the thought of the internal man, which is free from material ideas, that is, from worldly, bodily, and earthly ideas, this would be considered an absurdity at the present day, especially if it were said that the meaning the Word has in heaven is as different from the meaning it has in the world or in the letter as a heavenly paradise is from an earthly paradise, or as heavenly food and drink are from earthly food and drink. How great that difference is may be seen from the consideration that the heavenly paradise consists in intelligence and wisdom, heavenly food in every good of love and charity, and heavenly drink in every truth of faith rooted in that good. Is there anyone at the present day who would not be astounded to hear that when a paradise, garden, or vineyard is mentioned in the Word those in heaven do not perceive a paradise, garden, or vineyard but instead such things as are attributes of intelligence and wisdom coming from the Lord? Or that when food and drink are mentioned, for instance bread, flesh, wine, or water, those in heaven perceive instead such things as are aspects of the good of love and the truth of faith received from the Lord? Or that this perception of the Word comes about not as a result of interpretations of its statements nor by seeing them as comparisons, but that it is due to correspondences and is their actual and real perception of it? For the heavenly virtues of wisdom, intelligence, the good of love, and the truth of faith correspond in actual reality to those worldly objects. In the same way the internal man has been created to correspond to the external man, and so therefore has heaven, which resides in the internal man, to correspond to the world, which resides in the external man. The same is so with everything generally. The truth that the Word is understood and perceived in heaven according to correspondences, and that this level of meaning is the internal sense, has been shown everywhere in the explanations prior to this.

[4] Anyone who grasps what has just been stated is capable of knowing and in some manner perceiving that a person is joined by means of the Word to heaven and through heaven to the Lord, and that without the Word no such joining together would be possible. See what has been shown many times about these matters, in 2143, 7153, 7381, 8920, 9094 (end), 9212 (end), 9216 (end), 9357, and elsewhere. From all this it is now clear why Moses took the book of the covenant and read it in front of the people, and then sprinkled the blood over the people and said, Behold, the blood of the covenant. And the reason why all this was done was that in heaven 'the blood of a sacrifice' is Divine Truth emanating from the Lord, which on our planet is the Word, see 9393. Since 'the covenant' means a joining together, and since Divine Truth emanating from the Lord, that is, the Word, is the means by which the joining together is accomplished, everything that belongs to Divine Truth from the Lord or belongs to the Word is called 'the covenant', such as the tablets on which the Ten Commandments were written, also the judgements, statutes, and all else that is contained in the Books of Moses, and in general that is contained both in the Old Testament Word and in the New.

[5] The Tablets on which the Ten Commandments were written [were called the Covenant].

This may be seen in Moses,

Jehovah wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten words. Exodus 34:28.

In the same author,

I went up into the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant which Jehovah made with you. Jehovah gave me the two tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant. I came down from the mountain, when the mountain was burning with fire; the two tablets of the covenant however were on my two hands. Deuteronomy 9:9, 11, 15.

And in the same author,

Jehovah declared to you His covenant which He commanded you to perform, the ten words which He wrote on tablets of stone. Take care, lest you forget the covenant of Jehovah your God, which He made with you. Deuteronomy 4:13, 23.

Because the two tablets had been laid up in the ark, which was in the middle or inmost part of the tabernacle, the ark was called the ark of the covenant, Numbers 10:33; 14:44; Deuteronomy 10:8, 31:9, 25-26; Joshua 3:3, 6, 8, 11, 14, 17; 4:7, 9, 18; 6:6, 8; 8:33; Judges 20:27; 1 Samuel 4:3-5; 2 Samuel 15:24; 1 Kings 3:15; 6:19; 8:1, 6; Jeremiah 3:16.

[6] The Books of Moses were called the Book of the Covenant

This is clear from the ones found in the temple by Hilkiah the [high] priest, about which the following things are said in the second Book of Kings,

Hilkiah the high priest found the book of the law in the house of Jehovah.

And they read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant found in the house of Jehovah. 2 Kings 22:8; 23:2.

[7] The Old Testament Word was called the Covenant

This may be seen in Isaiah,

To those holding fast to My covenant I will give in My house and within My walls a place and a name better than sons and daughters. Isaiah 56:4-5.

In Jeremiah,

Hear the words of this covenant. Cursed is the man who will not hear the words of this covenant which I commanded your fathers. Obey My voice, and do those things, according to all that I command you. Jeremiah 11:2-4.

In David,

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

In the same author,

The mercy of Jehovah is from eternity to eternity on those who fear Him, and His righteousness to children's children, to those keeping His covenant, and to those remembering His commandments. Psalms 103:17-18.

And in the same author,

They did not keep God's covenant and refused to walk in His law. Psalms 78:10.

Here 'God's covenant' is called God's law. 'The law' is used in a broad sense to mean the whole Word, in a narrower sense to mean the historical section of the Word, in a restricted sense the Word that was written through Moses, and in a very restricted sense the Ten Commandments, see 6752.

[8] The New Testament Word too is the Covenant

This may be seen in Jeremiah,

Behold, the days are coming in which I will make with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah a new covenant. 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. Jeremiah 31:31-33.

'The house of Israel' stands for the spiritual Church, and 'the house of Judah' for the celestial Church. And in David,

I will also make Him the Firstborn, supreme over the kings of the earth; and My covenant will stand fast with Him. I will not profane 1 My covenant, and the utterance of My lips I will not alter. Psalms 89:27-28, 34.

This refers to the Lord. 'My covenant will stand fast with Him' stands for the union of the Divine Himself and the Divine Human, thus also for the Word since the Lord's Divine Human was the Word made flesh, that is, made man (homo), John 1:1-3, 14.

[9] The reason why Divine Truth or the Word is a covenant or joining together is that the Word is the Divine from the Lord, thus is the Lord Himself; and this being so, when the Word is received by a person the Lord Himself is received. From this it is evident that it is through the Word that the Lord is joined to a person; and since the Lord is joined to the person, so too is heaven joined to that person. For heaven is called heaven by virtue of the Divine Truth emanating from the Lord and therefore from the Divine. This explains why those in heaven are said to be 'in the Lord'. Regarding the truth that the Divine joins Himself to those who love the Lord and keep His Word, see John 14:23.

[10] From all this it becomes clear that 'the blood of the covenant' means the Lord joined through heaven to a person by means of the Word, as also in Zechariah,

I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem, and the battle bow will be cut off; on the other hand He will speak peace to the nations; His dominion will be from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth. As for you also, through the blood of your covenant I will let out your bound ones from the pit in which there is no water. Zechariah 9:10-11.

[11] A person with no knowledge at all of the internal sense cannot see in these verses anything other than such things as are implied in their literal meaning, that is to say, that the chariot from Ephraim, horse from Jerusalem, and battle bow were going to be cut off, and in the final words that through 'the blood of the covenant' - meaning the Lord's blood - those buried in sins were going to be delivered, various ways being used to explain who exactly are meant by 'bound ones in the pit in which there is no water'. But a person who knows the internal sense of the Word sees that these verses refer to Divine Truth, and that after it has been laid waste, that is, is no longer received in belief and heart by anyone, it will be restored through God's truth emanating from the Lord's Divine Human, and that those who believe and do it will be joined by means of it to the Lord Himself. All this becomes clearer still from the inner meaning of individual words in these verses, for example from the meaning of 'chariot' as doctrine taught by the Church, 2760, 5321, 5945, 8215, and of 'Ephraim' as the Church's enlightened understanding, 5354, 6222, 6238; from the meaning of 'horse' as an understanding of the Word, 2760-2762, 3217, 5321, 6125, 6534, 8029, 8146, 8148, 2 and of 'Jerusalem' as the spiritual Church, 2117, 3654, 9166; from the meaning of 'bow' as the doctrine of truth, 2686, 2709, and of 'battle' or 'war' as conflict involving truths, 1664, 2686, 8295.

[12] From these meanings it is evident that 'cutting off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem, and the battle bow' means God's truth laid waste so far as any understanding of it in the Church is concerned, and that 'through the blood of the covenant those bound in the pit in which there is no water were going to be let out' means a restoration effected through Divine Truth emanating from the Lord's Divine Human. The meaning of 'blood' as Divine Truth and of 'the covenant' as a joining together has been shown above; and for the meaning of 'those bound in the pit' as members of the spiritual Church who were saved by the Lord's Coming into the world, see 6854. The description 'pit where there is no water' is used because 'water' means truth, 2702, 3058, 3424, 4976, 5668, 7307, 8137, 8138, 8568, 9323.

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1. literally, make vile

28146, 8148 refer mainly to the meaning of chariot.

  
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