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Deuteronomio 7

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1 Pagka ipapasok ka ng Panginoon mong Dios sa lupain na iyong pinaroroonan upang ariin, at palalayasin ang maraming bansa sa harap mo, ang Hetheo, at ang Gergeseo at ang Amorrheo, at ang Cananeo, at ang Pherezeo, at ang Heveo, at ang Jebuseo, na pitong bansang lalong malalaki at mga lalong makapangyarihan kay sa iyo;

2 At pagka sila'y ibibigay sa harap mo ng Panginoon mong Dios, at iyong sasaktan sila; ay lubos mo ngang lilipulin sila; huwag kang makikipagtipan sa kanila, ni huwag mong pagpakitaan ng kaawaan sila:

3 Ni magaasawa sa kanila; ang iyong anak na babae ay huwag mong papag-aasawahin sa kaniyang anak na lalake, ni ang kaniyang anak na babae, ay huwag mong papag-aasawahin sa iyong anak na lalake.

4 Sapagka't kaniyang ihihiwalay ang iyong anak na lalake sa pagsunod sa akin, upang sila'y maglingkod sa ibang mga dios: sa gayo'y magaalab ang galit ng Panginoon laban sa iyo, at kaniyang lilipulin kang madali.

5 Kundi ganito ang inyong gagawin sa kanila; inyong igigiba ang kanilang mga dambana, at inyong pagpuputolputulin ang kanilang mga haligi na pinakaalaala at inyong ibubuwal ang kanilang mga Asera, at inyong susunugin sa apoy ang kanilang mga larawang inanyuan.

6 Sapagka't ikaw ay isang banal na bayan sa Panginoon mong Dios; pinili ka ng Panginoon mong Dios upang maging bayan sa kaniyang sariling pag-aari, na higit sa lahat ng mga bayan na nasa ibabaw ng balat ng lupa.

7 Hindi kayo inibig ng Panginoon, ni pinili kayo ng dahil sa kayo'y marami sa bilang kay sa alin mang bayan; sapagka't kayo ang pinakamaliit sa lahat ng mga bayan:

8 Kundi dahil sa inibig kayo ng Panginoon, at dahil sa kaniyang tinupad ang sumpa na kaniyang isinumpa sa inyong mga magulang, ay inilabas kayo ng Panginoon sa pamamagitan ng makapangyarihang kamay at tinubos kayo sa bahay ng pagkaalipin, mula sa kamay ni Faraon na hari sa Egipto.

9 Talastasin mo nga, na ang Panginoon ninyong Dios, ay siyang Dios: ang tapat na Dios, na nag-iingat ng tipan at naggagawad ng kagandahang-loob sa mga umiibig sa kaniya, at tumutupad ng kaniyang mga utos, hanggang sa isang libong salin ng lahi;

10 At pinanghihigantihan sa kanilang mukha, ang mga napopoot sa kaniya, upang lipulin: siya'y hindi magpapaliban doon sa napopoot sa kaniya, kaniyang panghihigantihan sa kaniya ring mukha.

11 Iyo ngang iingatan ang utos, at ang mga palatuntunan, at ang mga kahatulan, na aking iniutos sa iyo sa araw na ito, na iyong ganapin.

12 At mangyayari, na sapagka't iyong dininig ang mga kahatulang ito, at iyong tinutupad at iyong ginaganap, ay tutuparin sa iyo ng Panginoon mong Dios ang tipan, at igagawad ang kagandahang-loob, na kaniyang isinumpa sa iyong mga magulang:

13 At kaniyang iibigin ka, at pagpapalain ka, at padadamihin ka: kaniya rin namang pagpapalain ang bunga ng iyong katawan, at ang bunga ng iyong lupa, ang iyong trigo, at ang iyong alak, at ang iyong langis, ang karagdagan ng iyong mga bakahan, at ang mga guya ng iyong kawan sa lupain na kaniyang isinumpa sa iyong mga magulang, upang ibigay sa iyo.

14 Magiging mapalad ka kay sa lahat ng mga bayan: walang magiging baog na babae o lalake sa inyo o sa inyong mga hayop.

15 At ilalayo sa iyo ng Panginoon ang lahat ng sakit: at wala siyang ihuhulog sa inyo sa masamang sakit sa Egipto, na iyong nalalaman, kundi ihuhulog niya sa lahat ng nangapopoot sa iyo.

16 At iyong lilipulin ang lahat ng mga bayan na ibibigay sa iyo ng Panginoon mong Dios; ang iyong mata ay huwag mahahabag sa kanila; ni huwag kang maglilingkod sa kanilang mga dios; sapagka't magiging isang silo sa iyo.

17 Kung iyong sasabihin sa iyong puso, Ang mga bansang ito ay higit kay sa akin; paanong aking makakamtan sila?

18 Huwag kang matatakot sa kanila; iyong aalalahaning mabuti ang ginawa ng Panginoon mong Dios kay Faraon, at sa buong Egipto.

19 Ang mga dakilang tukso na nakita ng iyong mga mata, at ang mga tanda, at ang mga kababalaghan, at ang makapangyarihang kamay, at ang unat na bisig, na ipinaglabas sa iyo ng Panginoon mong Dios: ay gayon ang gagawin ng Panginoon mong Dios sa lahat ng mga bayan na iyong kinatatakutan.

20 Bukod dito'y susuguin sa kanila ng Panginoon mong Dios ang malaking putakti hanggang sa ang nangaiiwan, at nangagtatago ay mamatay sa harap mo.

21 Huwag kang masisindak sa kanila; sapagka't ang Panginoon mong Dios ay nasa gitna mo, dakilang Dios at kakilakilabot.

22 At itataboy na untiunti ng Panginoon mong Dios ang mga bansang yaon sa harap mo: hindi mo malilipol silang paminsan, baka ang mga hayop sa parang ay kumapal sa iyo.

23 Kundi ibibigay sila ng Panginoon mong Dios sa harap mo, at pagtataglayin sila ng isang malaking kalituhan hanggang sa sila'y mangalipol.

24 At kaniyang ibibigay ang kanilang mga hari sa iyong kamay, at iyong papawiin ang kanilang pangalan sa silong ng langit: walang lalaking makatatayo doon sa harap mo, hanggang sa iyong malipol sila.

25 Ang mga larawang inanyuan na kanilang mga dios ay iyong susunugin sa apoy: huwag mong iimbutin ang pilak o ang ginto na nasa mga yaon, ni huwag mong kukunin para sa iyo, baka sa iyo'y maging silo: sapagka't ito'y isang karumaldumal sa Panginoon mong Dios.

26 At huwag kang magpapasok ng karumaldumal sa iyong bahay, at baka ikaw ay maging itinalaga na gaya niyaon: iyong lubos na kapopootan at iyong lubos na kasusuklaman, sapagka't itinalagang bagay.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 9348

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9348. 'For it will be a snare to you' means owing to evils that are enticing and deceptive. This is clear from the meaning of 'a snare', when it has reference to evils, as enticement and deception. The reason why evils are enticing and deceptive is that all evils spring from self-love and love of the world, 9335, and self-love and love of the world are born together within a person. These are the source of what the person feels as the delight of his life right from when he is first born; indeed the life that is his comes from them. Those loves therefore, like the hidden currents in a river, are constantly drawing the person's thought and will away from the Lord to self, and away from heaven to the world, thus away from the truths and forms of the good of faith to falsities and evils. At this time reasonings based on the illusions of the senses are especially predominant, and also the literal sense of the Word wrongly explained and used.

[2] These two things are what 'snares', 'traps', 'pits', 'nets', 'ropes', 'fetters', and also 'pretences' and 'deceits' are used to mean in the spiritual sense of the Word, as in Isaiah,

Terror and the pit and the snare are upon you, O inhabitant of the earth. Consequently it will happen, that he who is fleeing from the sound of terror will fall into the pit, and he who is climbing out of the pit will be caught in the snare, for the floodgates from on high have been opened, and the foundations of the earth have been shaken. Isaiah 24:17-19.

And in Jeremiah,

Fear, the pit, and the snare are upon you, O inhabitant of Moab. He who flees from the fear will fall into the pit, and he who climbs out of the pit will be caught in the snare. Jeremiah 48:43-44.

'Terror' and 'fear' are the disturbance and commotion in the mind when it is held fast between evils and forms of good, and consequently between falsities and truths. 'The pit' is falsity created by reasonings based on the illusions of the senses to lend support to delights that are attributable to self-love and love of the world; 'the snare' is the enticement and deception of evil that results from it.

[3] In Isaiah,

They will go and stumble 1 backwards, and be broken, and snared, and caught. Isaiah 28:13.

'Falling backwards' stands for turning oneself away from goodness and truth; 'being broken' stands for dispensing with truths and forms of good; 'being snared' stands for being enticed by the evils of self-love and love of the world; and 'being caught' stands for being carried away by them.

[4] In Ezekiel,

The mother of the princes of Israel is a lioness. One of her cubs learned to seize prey; he devoured men (homo). The nations heard about him; he was caught in their pit, and they led him away with hooks to the land of Egypt. Later on he ravished widows 2 and devastated cities; the land and its fullness was desolated by the sound of his roaring. Therefore the nations from the provinces round about lay in ambush against him, and spread their net over him; he was caught in their pit. They put him in a cage with hooks, and led him to the king of Babel; [they led him away] in nets, that his voice should no longer be heard on the mountains of Israel. Ezekiel 19:2-4, 7-9.

This describes the profanation of truth in successive stages by the enticements of falsities arising from evils. 'The mother of the princes of Israel' is the Church where primary truths are, 'the mother' being the Church, see 289, 2691, 2717, 4257, 5581, 8897, and 'the princes of Israel' primary truths, 1482, 2089, 5044. 'A lioness' is falsity that arises from evil and that perverts the Church's truths; 'a lion's cub' is evil in its power, 6367. 'Seizing prey' and 'devouring men' mean destroying truths and forms of good, for 'man' is the Church's good, 4287, 7424, 7523. 'The nations' are evils, 1259, 1260, 1849, 2588 (end), 4444, 6306. 'A pit', in which the nations caught him, is falsity arising from evil, 4728, 4744, 5038, 9086. 'The land of Egypt', to which he was led away with hooks, is factual knowledge through which falsity comes, 9340. 'Ravishing widows' means perverting forms of good which have the desire for truth, for 'ravishing' means perverting, 2466, 2729, 4865, 8904, and 'widows' forms of good that have the desire for truth, 9198, 9200. 'Devastating cities' means destroying the Church's teachings that present the truth, 402, 2268, 2449, 2943, 3216, 4478, 4492, 4493. 'Desolating the land and its fullness' means destroying all things of the Church, 9325. 'The sound of the lion's roaring' is falsity. 'Spreading a net over him' means enticing by means of delights belonging to earthly kinds of love and by means of reasonings attributable to them. 'Leading away to the king of Babel' is the profaning of truth, 1182, 1283, 1295, 1304, 1307, 1308, 1321, 1322, 1326.

[5] The fact that such things do not happen when a person does not love self and the world above all things is described in the following manner in Amos,

Will a lion roar in the forest when he has no prey? Will a bird fall into a snare on the earth if there is no trap for it? Will a snare spring up from the earth if it has certainly not caught [anything]? Amos 3:4-5.

[6] It is evident to anyone that 'a snare' in the spiritual sense means enticement and deception effected by means of the delights of self-love and love of the world, thus the enticement and deception of evils, which operate through reasonings that are based on the illusions of the senses and lend support to those delights. For the ensnarement and capturing of people is brought about by nothing else. When the devil's crew makes its attack on a person it concentrates on his loves, which they charm in every way until they have captivated him; and when he has been captivated that person reasons from falsities against truths, and from evils against forms of good. Yet he does not remain content to do that; he also takes delight in snaring others and enticing them towards falsities and evils. The reason why he also takes delight in doing this is that he too is now one of the devil's crew.

[7] Since 'a snare', 'a trap', and 'a net' mean such things they also mean the destruction and so annihilation of spiritual life; for the delights belonging to those loves are what destroy it and annihilate it, since those loves, as stated above, are the source from which all evils spring. From self-love springs disdain for others in comparison with self, then mockery and denigration of them, followed by enmity if they disagree with oneself, and finally by the delight that goes with hatred, vengeance, and so with inhumanity, indeed barbarity. This love in the next life rises to such a height that unless the Lord shows such people favour and grants them dominion over others, they are not only disdainful of Him but also mock the Word which speaks of Him. At length they are stirred by hatred and vengeance to act against Him; and insofar as they are unable to do so they carry out their hatred and vengeance with inhumanity and barbarity against everyone who confesses Him. All this shows where the essential nature of the devil's crew springs from, namely from self-love. Therefore since 'a snare' means the delight of selfish and worldly love, it means the destruction and annihilation of spiritual life; for the whole of love and faith to the Lord, and the whole of love towards the neighbour are destroyed by the delight of selfish and worldly love where it reigns supreme; see the places referred to in 9335.

[8] The fact that those loves are the origins of all evils, that hell arises from them and lies within them, and that those loves are the fires of hell is not known in the world at the present day. Yet people could have known this from the consideration that those loves are the opposites of love towards the neighbour and love to God, and the opposites of humility of heart, and from the consideration that from those loves alone spring all disdain, all hatred, all vengeance, and all inhumanity and barbarity, as anyone may realize who gives any thought to the matter.

[9] The fact that 'a snare' therefore means the destruction and annihilation of spiritual life is evident from the following places: In David,

Jehovah will rain on the wicked, snares, fire and brimstone. Psalms 11:6.

'Fire and brimstone' are the evils of selfish and worldly love. For this meaning of 'fire', see 1297, 1861, 5071, 5215, 6314, 6832, 7324, 7575, 9144, and for 'brimstone', 2446, from which it is evident what 'snares' mean. In Luke,

... lest that day comes on you suddenly, 3 for it will come as a snare on all those who dwell on the face of the whole earth. Luke 21:34-35.

This refers to the last phase of the Church, when there is no faith because there is no charity, since self-love and love of the world will reign. This is followed by annihilation, which is meant by 'a snare'. In Jeremiah,

Among My people are found wicked ones. They keep watch, like fowlers laying [snares]; they set a gin to catch human beings. Jeremiah 5:26.

In David,

Those seeking my life 4 lay snares, and those seeking my hurt speak of ways to annihilate, and contemplate deceits all the day. Psalms 38:12.

In the same author,

Keep me from the hands of the trap they have set for me, and from the snares of the workers of iniquity. Let them fall into their own nets, 5 the wicked together, until I pass by. Psalms 141:9-10.

In Isaiah,

He will be as a sanctuary, though He will be as a stone to strike against and as a rock to stumble over, 6 for both houses of Israel; He will be as a snare and as a trap for the inhabitants of Jerusalem. Many among them will trip, and fall, and be broken to pieces, and be snared and caught. Isaiah 8:14-15.

This refers to the Lord. 'A stone to strike against' and 'a rock to stumble over' stand for stumbling blocks that are laid; and 'a snare' and 'a trap' for the annihilation accomplished by those who attack and try to destroy truths and forms of the good of faith in the Lord by means of falsities that lend support to self-love and love of the world. For to all proud people the very fact that the Divine appeared in a human form, and that He did so not in royal majesty but in a guise that was despised, is not only a stumbling block but also a snare.

From all this it is now evident that 'it will be a snare' means the enticement and deception of evils, and consequent annihilation, as in other places in Moses,

... lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land onto which you will come, lest it becomes a snare in your midst. Exodus 34:12.

In the same author,

You shall not serve their gods, for that will be a snare to you. Deuteronomy 7:16.

In the same author,

Beware lest perhaps you are ensnared to follow 7 the nations, and lest perhaps you inquire after their gods. Deuteronomy 12:30.

'The nations' are evils and the falsities arising from them.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. literally, trip

2. The Hebrew text here, which means literally And he knows his widows, is thought to be corrupt. As a consequence English versions of the Scriptures are based on textual emendations and therefore read somewhat differently.

3. literally, lest that sudden day stands upon you

4. literally, soul

5. literally, into his nets. The singular is used possibly to imply each one of the wicked. Sebastian Schmidt, in his Latin version of the Bible which Swedenborg draws on here, regarded them as God's nets.

6. literally, as a stone of striking and as a rock of stumbling

7. literally, ensnared after

  
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