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1 At ang Israel ay tumahan sa Sittim, at ang bayan ay nagpasimulang magkasala ng pakikiapid sa mga anak na babae ng Moab:

2 Sapagka't kanilang tinawag ang bayan sa mga hain sa kanilang mga dios; at ang bayan ay kumain at yumukod sa kanilang mga dios.

3 At ang Israel ay nakilakip sa diosdiosang Baal-peor; at ang galit ng Panginoon ay nagningas laban sa Israel.

4 At sinabi ng Panginoon kay Moises, Ipagsama mo ang lahat ng pangulo sa bayan at bitayin mo sila sa Panginoon sa harap ng araw, upang ang maningas na galit ng Panginoon ay mapawi sa Israel.

5 At sinabi ni Moises sa mga hukom sa Israel, Patayin ng bawa't isa sa inyo yaong mga nakilakip sa diosdiosang Baal-peor.

6 At, narito, isa sa mga anak ni Israel ay naparoon at nagdala sa kaniyang mga kapatid ng isang babaing Madianita sa paningin ni Moises, at sa paningin ng buong kapisanan ng mga anak ni Israel, samantalang sila'y umiiyak sa pintuan ng tabernakulo ng kapisanan.

7 At nang makita ni Phinees, na anak ni Eleazar, na anak ni Aaron na saserdote, ay tumindig siya sa gitna ng kapisanan, at humawak ng isang sibat sa kaniyang kamay;

8 At siya'y naparoon sa likod ng lalaking Israelita sa loob ng tolda, at kapuwa niya sinaksak, ang lalaking Israelita at ang babae sa kaniyang tiyan. Sa gayon ang salot ay natigil sa mga anak ni Israel.

9 At yaong nangamatay sa salot ay dalawang pu't apat na libo.

10 At sinalita ng Panginoon kay Moises, na sinasabi,

11 Pinawi ni Phinees na anak ni Eleazar, na anak ni Aaron na saserdote, ang aking galit sa mga anak ni Israel, sa paraang siya'y nagsikap dahil sa aking pagsisikap sa kanila, na anopa't hindi ko nilipol ang mga anak ni Israel sa aking sikap.

12 Kaya't sabihin mo, Narito, ako'y nakikipagtipan sa kaniya tungkol sa kapayapaan:

13 At magiging kaniya, at sa kaniyang binhi pagkamatay niya, ang tipan ng pagkasaserdoteng walang hanggan; sapagka't siya'y nagsikap sa kaniyang Dios, at tumubos sa mga anak ni Israel.

14 Ang pangalan nga ng lalaking Israelita na napatay, na pinatay na kalakip ng babaing Madianita ay Zimri na anak ni Salu, na prinsipe sa isang sangbahayan ng mga magulang sa mga Simeonita.

15 At ang pangalan ng babaing Madianita na napatay ay Cozbi, na anak ni Zur; siya'y prinsipe sa bayan ng isang sangbahayan ng mga magulang sa Madian.

16 At sinalita ng Panginoon kay Moises, na sinasabi,

17 Bagabagin ninyo ang mga Madianita, at inyong saktan sila:

18 Sapagka't kanilang binagabag kayo ng kanilang mga lalang na kanilang ipinangdaya sa inyo sa bagay ng Peor, at sa bagay ni Cozbi, na anak na babae ng prinsipe sa Madian, na kanilang kapatid na namatay nang kaarawan ng salot dahil sa Peor.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 10652

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10652. And his daughters commit whoredom after their gods, and make thy sons commit whoredom after their gods. That this signifies in this manner the profanation of good and of truth, is evident from the signification of “committing whoredom,” as being unlawful conjunction (of which above, n. 10648); from the signification of “his daughters,” or the daughters of the inhabitant of the land, as being the affections of evil; from the signification of “their gods,” as being the falsities of the affections of evil conjoined with truths, for by “their gods” are meant the gods of the daughters of the inhabitant of the land conjoined with sons of the Israelitish nation (see just above at n. 10651), which conjunction is the profanation of good; and from the signification of “making thy sons commit whoredom after their gods,” as being the conjunction of truth with falsities, which is the profanation of truth. (That “gods” denote falsities, see n. 4402, 4544, 7873, 8867; and that “sons” denote truths, n. 489, 491, 533, 1147, 3373, 4257, 9807, 10490.)

[2] These things are so said because the first conjunction of the affections of evil with truths, which is signified by “taking the daughters of the inhabitant of the land for thy sons,” is not as yet profanation; but the second conjunction is profanation, because this takes place when evil is applied to truth, and truth to evil, which is done by means of a wrong interpretation of truth, and the application of it to evil, and thus by the insertion of the one into the other. From this, truth no longer remains truth; but is killed and profaned.

[3] This profanation is also signified by “the whoredom of the people with the daughters of Moab,” of which we read in Moses:

Israel settled in Shittim, where the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab, and they called the people to the sacrifices of their gods, and the people did eat, and bowed themselves down to their gods. Therefore Jehovah said unto Moses, Take all the heads of the people, and hang them up to Jehovah before the sun. And the people were smitten; and there died from this plague twenty-four thousand (Numbers 25:1-2, 4-5, 9).

By “Moab” are signified those who adulterate goods (n. 2468, 8315); and by his “daughters,” the affections of this evil; and by “whoredom with them,” profanation; consequently the penalty was the hanging of the heads of the people before the sun, and the death of twenty-four thousand. For the sun of the world denotes the love of self (n. 10584); “hanging before it” denotes the total extinction of heavenly good; and “twenty-four thousand” denotes all the truths and goods of truth in the complex, in like manner as “twelve thousand” (n. 2089, 3913, 7973); their death denotes the extinction of all truths. This takes place with those who profane.

  
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Arcana Coelestia # 3373

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3373. And unto thy seed. That this signifies truth, is evident from the signification of “seed,” as being truth (see n. 29, 255, 1025, 1447, 1610, 1940, 2848, 3310); thus it signifies the truth which is from the Lord’s Divine, which is “thy seed.” They who apprehend the Word only according to the sense of the letter cannot know but that “seed” denotes posterity, consequently here the posterity of Isaac from Esau and Jacob, and chiefly from Jacob, because the Word was in that nation and it contains so many historical facts concerning them. But in the internal sense by “seed” there is not meant any posterity from Isaac, but all those who are sons of the Lord, thus the sons of His kingdom, or what is the same, who are in good and truth from the Lord; and because these are “seed,” it follows that the very good and truth from the Lord are “seed,” for hence come the sons; wherefore also the very truths from the Lord are called the “sons of the kingdom,” in Matthew:

He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man; the field is the world; the good seed are the sons of the kingdom (Matthew 13:37-38);

hence also by “sons” in general are signified truths (n. 489, 491, 533, 1147, 2623).

[2] Everyone who thinks somewhat more deeply or interiorly may know that in the Divine Word by the “seed of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob,” so often mentioned, and concerning which it is so frequently said that it should be blessed, and this above all nations and people in the world, cannot be signified their posterity; for above all nations they were least of all in the good of love to the Lord and of charity toward the neighbor, and were not even in any truth of faith; for they were utterly ignorant of what the Lord is, what His kingdom, thus what heaven is, and what the life after death, both because they did not want to know, and because if they had learned about these things, they would at heart have totally denied them, and would thus have profaned interior goods and truths, just as they so frequently profaned exterior ones by becoming open idolaters; which is the reason why in the sense of the letter of the Word of the Old Testament any interior things so rarely stand forth to view. Being of this nature, the Lord has said concerning them, quoting Isaiah:

He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart, lest they should see with their eyes and understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them (John 12:40);

and again when they said:

We are Abraham’s seed; Abraham is our father; Jesus said unto them, If ye were Abraham’s sons, ye would do the works of Abraham; ye are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father ye will to do (John 8:33, 39, 44);

by “Abraham” here is meant the Lord, as everywhere in the Word; and that the Jews were not his seed, or sons, but the seed of the devil, is plainly stated. All this shows very plainly that by the “seed of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob” as mentioned in the historical and prophetical Word, are by no means meant their posterity-for the Word throughout is Divine-but all those who are the Lord’s “seed,” that is, who are in the good and truth of faith in Him. (That from the Lord alone comes heavenly seed, that is, all good and truth, may be seen above n. 1438, 1614, 2016, 2803, 2882-2883, 2891, 2892, 2904, 3195)

  
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