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1 At sinalita ng Panginoon kay Moises, na sinasabi,

2 Ipanghiganti mo ang mga anak ni Israel sa mga Madianita; pagkatapos nito'y malalakip ka sa iyong bayan.

3 At sinalita ni Moises sa bayan, na sinasabi, Magsipagsakbat kayong mga lalake na humanda sa pakikibaka, upang magsiyaon sila laban sa Madian, upang isagawa ang panghihiganti ng Panginoon sa Madian.

4 Sa bawa't lipi ay isang libo, sa lahat ng mga lipi ng Israel, ang susuguin ninyo sa pakikibaka.

5 Sa gayo'y sinugo sa libolibong Israelita, ang isang libo sa bawa't lipi, na labing dalawang libo ngang nasasakbatan sa pakikibaka.

6 At sinugo sila ni Moises, sa pakikibaka, isang libo sa bawa't lipi, sila at si Phinees na anak ni Eleazar na saserdote, sa pakikibaka, na may mga kasangkapan ng santuario, at may mga pakakak na panghudyat sa kaniyang kamay.

7 At binaka nila ang Madian, gaya ng iniutos ng Panginoon kay Moises; at kanilang pinatay ang bawa't lalake.

8 At pinatay nila ang mga hari sa Madian na kasama ng mga napatay: si Evi at si Recem, at si Zur, at si Hur, at si Reba, limang hari sa Madian: si Balaam man na anak ni Beor ay kanilang pinatay ng tabak.

9 At binihag ng mga anak ng Israel ang mga babae sa Madian at ang kanilang mga bata; at ang lahat nilang mga hayop at ang lahat nilang mga kawan, at ang lahat nilang pag-aari ay kanilang sinamsam.

10 At ang lahat nilang mga bayan sa mga dakong kanilang tinatahanan at ang lahat nilang mga tolda ay kanilang sinunog sa apoy.

11 At kanilang dinala ang lahat ng kanilang nakuha, at ang lahat ng kanilang nasamsam, maging sa tao at maging sa hayop.

12 At kanilang dinala ang mga bihag, ang nasamsam at ang nahuli, kay Moises, at kay Eleazar na saserdote, at sa kapisanan ng mga anak ni Israel, na nasa kampamento sa mga kapatagan ng Moab, na nasa tabi ng Jordan sa Jerico.

13 At si Moises at si Eleazar na saserdote, at ang lahat ng mga prinsipe sa kapisanan, ay nagsilabas na sinalubong sila sa labas ng kampamento.

14 At si Moises ay nag-init sa mga pinuno ng hukbo, sa mga kapitan ng libolibo at sa mga kapitan ng daandaan, na nagsipanggaling sa pakikipagbaka.

15 At sinabi ni Moises sa kanila, Iniligtas ba ninyo na buhay ang lahat ng mga babae?

16 Narito, sila'y naging sanhi, sa payo ni Balaam, upang ang mga anak ni Israel ay sumalangsang laban sa Panginoon sa bagay ng Peor, at kaya't nagkasalot sa kapisanan ng Panginoon.

17 Ngayon nga ay patayin ninyo ang lahat ng mga batang lalake at patayin ninyo ang bawa't babae na nasipingan ng lalake.

18 Nguni't ang lahat ng batang babae na hindi pa nasisipingan ng lalake ay buhayin ninyo upang mapasa inyo.

19 At matira kayo sa labas ng kampamento na pitong araw: sinoman sa inyo na nakamatay ng sinomang tao, at sinoman sa inyo na nakahipo ng anomang pinatay, ay maglilinis kayo sa ikatlong araw at sa ikapitong araw, kayo at ang inyong mga bihag.

20 At tungkol sa bawa't kasuutan, at sa lahat ng yari sa balat, at sa lahat ng yari sa balahibo ng kambing, at sa lahat ng bagay na yari sa kahoy, ay pakalinisin ninyo.

21 At sinabi ni Eleazar na saserdote sa mga lalake ng hukbo na nagsiparoon sa pakikipagbaka, Ito ang palatuntunan ng kautusan na iniutos ng Panginoon kay Moises:

22 Gayon ma'y ang ginto at ang pilak, ang tanso, ang bakal, ang lata, at ang tingga,

23 Bawa't bagay na hindi naaano sa apoy, ay inyong pararaanin sa apoy, at magiging malinis; gayon ma'y inyong lilinisin ng tubig para sa karumihan: at ang lahat na hindi nakatatagal sa apoy, ay inyong pararaanin sa tubig.

24 At inyong lalabhan ang inyong mga damit sa ikapitong araw, at kayo'y magiging malinis, at pagkatapos nito'y makapapasok kayo sa kampamento.

25 At sinalita ng Panginoon kay Moises, na sinasabi,

26 Bilangin mo ang samsam na nakuha sa tao at gayon din sa hayop, ninyo at ni Eleazar na saserdote, at ng mga pangulo ng mga sangbahayan ng mga magulang ng kapisanan:

27 At hatiin mo ang samsam ng dalawa; sa mga lalaking mangbabaka na nagsilabas sa pakikipagbaka, at sa buong kapisanan:

28 Bigyan mo ng buwis ang Panginoon sa mga lalaking mangdidigma na nagsilabas sa pakikipagbaka: isang tao sa bawa't limang daan, sa mga tao at gayon din sa mga hayop, at sa mga asno at sa mga kawan:

29 Sa kalahating nauukol sa kanila, ay kukunin mo at ibibigay mo kay Eleazar na saserdote na pinakahandog na itinaas sa Panginoon.

30 At sa kalahati na nauukol sa mga anak ni Israel, ay kunin mo ang isang nakuha sa bawa't limang pu, sa mga tao, sa mga bata, sa mga asno, at sa mga kawan, sa lahat ng hayop at ibigay mo sa mga Levita, na namamahala sa tabernakulo ng Panginoon.

31 At ginawa ni Moises at ni Eleazar na saserdote, gaya ng iniutos ng Panginoon kay Moises.

32 Ang nabihag nga bukod pa sa nasamsam ng mga taong nakipagbaka, ay anim na raan at pitong pu't limang libong tupa,

33 At pitong pu't dalawang libong baka,

34 Anim na pu't isang libong asno,

35 At tatlong pu't dalawang libong tao sa lahat, sa mga babae na hindi pa nasisipingan ng lalake.

36 At ang kalahati, na siyang bahagi niyaong mga nagsilabas sa pakikipagbaka ay umaabot sa bilang na tatlong daan at tatlong pu't pitong libo at limang daang tupa:

37 At ang buwis na tupa sa Panginoon, ay anim na raan at pitong pu't lima.

38 At ang mga baka ay tatlong pu't anim na libo; na ang buwis sa Panginoon ay pitong pu't dalawa.

39 At ang mga asno ay tatlong pung libo at limang daan; na ang buwis sa Panginoon ay anim na pu't isa.

40 At ang mga asno ay labing anim na libo; na ang buwis sa Panginoon ay tatlong pu't dalawang tao.

41 At ibinigay ni Moises ang buwis, na ukol sa handog na itinaas sa Panginoon, kay Eleazar na saserdote, gaya ng iniutos ng Panginoon kay Moises.

42 At ang kalahati ay sa mga anak ni Israel, na inihiwalay ni Moises sa mga taong nakipagbaka

43 (Siya ngang kalahati na nauukol sa kapisanan ay tatlong daan at tatlong pu't pitong libo at limang daang tupa,

44 At tatlong pu't anim na libong baka,

45 At tatlong pung libo't limang daang asno,

46 At labing anim na libong tao),

47 At sa kalahati nga na nauukol sa mga anak ni Israel, ay kinuha ni Moises ang isa sa bawa't limang pu, sa tao at gayon din sa hayop, at ibinigay sa mga Levita, na namamahala sa tabernakulo ng Panginoon; gaya ng iniutos ng Panginoon kay Moises.

48 At ang mga pinuno na namamahala sa libolibo ng hukbo, ang mga kapitan ng libolibo, at ang mga kapitan ng daandaan ay nangagsilapit kay Moises:

49 At sinabi nila kay Moises, Binilang ng iyong mga lingkod ang mga lalaking mangdidigma na nasa aming kapangyarihan, at walang kulang kahit isa man sa amin.

50 At aming dinala na pinakaalay sa Panginoon, ang nakuha ng bawa't lalake, na mga hiyas na ginto, mga tanikala sa bukongbukong, at mga pulsera, mga singsing na pinaka tanda, mga hikaw, at mga kuwintas sa leeg upang itubos sa aming mga kaluluwa sa harap ng Panginoon.

51 At kinuha ni Moises at ni Eleazar na saserdote ang ginto nila, lahat ng hiyas na dalisay.

52 At ang buong gintong handog na itinaas, na kanilang inihandog sa Panginoon, ng mga kapitan ng libolibo, at ng mga kapitan ng daandaan, ay labing anim na libo at pitong daan at limang pung siklo.

53 (Sapagka't ang mga lalake na nakipagbaka ay naguwi ng samsam, na bawa't isa ay may sariling dala.)

54 At kinuha ni Moises at ni Eleazar na saserdote ang ginto ng mga kapitan ng libolibo at ng daandaan, at isinilid sa tabernakulo ng kapisanan, pinakaalaala sa mga anak ni Israel sa harap ng Panginoon.

   

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Apocalypse Explained # 243

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243. And white garments, that thou mayest be clothed, signifies genuine truths and intelligence therefrom. This is evident from the signification of "white garments," as being genuine truths, for garments signify truths (See above, n. 195), and "white" signifies what is genuine, and is predicated of truths (See above, n. 196); also from the signification of "to clothe," as being to acquire intelligence for oneself therefrom, for by means of genuine truths all intelligence is acquired; for the human understanding is formed to receive truths, therefore it becomes such as the truths are out of which it is formed. It is supposed that understanding is also the ability to reason from thought and to speak from falsities, and to confirm falsities by many arguments; but this is not understanding, it is only a faculty granted to man with the memory to which it is adjoined, and of which it is an activity. Yet by means of this faculty the understanding is born and formed, so far as man receives truths from affection; but genuine truths it is not possible for any man to receive from affection except only from the Lord, since they are from Him; consequently, to receive understanding, or to become intelligent, is not given to any man, except only from the Lord, but it is given to everyone who applies himself to receive (according to what was said above, n. 239. This, therefore, is signified by "I counsel thee to buy of Me white garments, that thou mayest be clothed."

  
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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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