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Λευιτικόν 26

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1 Δεν θελετε καμει εις εαυτους ειδωλα ουδε γλυπτα, ουδε θελετε ανεγειρει αγαλμα εις εαυτους, ουδε θελετε στησει λιθον εικονογλυπτον εν τη γη υμων, δια να προσκυνητε αυτον· διοτι εγω ειμαι Κυριος ο Θεος σας.

2 Τα σαββατα μου θελετε φυλαττει και το αγιαστηριον μου θελετε σεβεσθαι. Εγω ειμαι ο Κυριος.

3 Εαν περιπατητε εις τα προσταγματα μου και φυλαττητε τας εντολας μου και εκτελητε αυτας,

4 τοτε θελω δωσει τας βροχας σας εις τους καιρους αυτων, και η γη θελει δωσει τα γεννηματα αυτης, και τα δενδρα του αγρου θελουσι δωσει τον καρπον αυτων.

5 Και το αλωνισμα σας θελει σας φθασει μεχρι του τρυγητου, και ο τρυγητος θελει φθασει μεχρι του σπορητου· και θελετε τρωγει τον αρτον σας εις χορτασμον· και θελετε κατοικει ασφαλως εν τη γη υμων.

6 Και θελω δωσει ειρηνην εις την γην, και θελετε πλαγιαζει και ουδεις θελει σας φοβιζει και θελω εξολοθρευσει τα πονηρα θηρια απο της γης και μαχαιρα δεν θελει περασει δια μεσου της γης σας.

7 Και θελετε διωξει τους εχθρους σας και θελουσι πεσει εμπροσθεν σας εν μαχαιρα·

8 και πεντε απο σας θελουσι διωξει εκατον, και εκατον απο σας θελουσι διωξει μυριους· και οι εχθροι σας θελουσι πεσει εμπροσθεν σας εν μαχαιρα.

9 Και θελω επιβλεψει εις εσας και θελω σας αυξησει και θελω σας πληθυνει και θελω στερεωσει την διαθηκην μου με σας.

10 Και θελετε φαγει παλαια παλαιων, και θελετε εκβαλει τα παλαια απ' εμπροσθεν των νεων.

11 Και θελω στησει την σκηνην μου μεταξυ σας· και η ψυχη μου δεν θελει σας βδελυχθη·

12 και θελω περιπατει μεταξυ σας και θελω εισθαι Θεος σας και σεις θελετε εισθαι λαος μου.

13 Εγω ειμαι Κυριος ο Θεος σας, οστις σας εξηγαγον εκ της γης των Αιγυπτιων, εκ της δουλειας αυτων· και συνετριψα τους δεσμους του ζυγου σας και σας εκαμα να περιπατητε ορθιοι.

14 Αλλ' εαν δεν μου υπακουσητε και δεν εκτελητε πασας ταυτας τας εντολας μου,

15 και εαν καταφρονησητε τα προσταγματα μου η εαν η ψυχη σας αποστραφη τας κρισεις μου, ωστε να μη εκτελητε πασας τας εντολας μου, ωστε να εξουδενωσητε την διαθηκην μου,

16 και εγω θελω καμει τουτο εις εσας· θελω βαλει εφ' υμας τρομον, μαρασμον, και καυσωνα, τα οποια θελουσι φθειρει τους οφθαλμους σας και θελουσι κατατηκει την ψυχην· και θελετε σπειρει τον σπορον σας εις ματην, διοτι οι εχθροι σας θελουσι τρωγει αυτον.

17 Και θελω στησει το προσωπον μου εναντιον σας, και θελετε φονευθη εμπροσθεν των εχθρων σας· και εκεινοι, οιτινες σας μισουσι, θελουσι σας εξουσιασει και θελετε φευγει, ουδενος διωκοντος υμας.

18 Και εαν μεχρι τουτου δεν μου υπακουσητε, θελω επιβαλει εις εσας επταπλασιον τιμωριαν δια τας αμαρτιας σας.

19 Και θελω συντριψει την υπερηφανιαν της δυναμεως σας· και θελω καμει τον ουρανον σας ως σιδηρον και την γην σας ως χαλκον·

20 και η δυναμις σας θελει αναλωθη εις ματην· διοτι η γη σας δεν θελει διδει τα γεννηματα αυτης και τα δενδρα της γης δεν θελουσι διδει τον καρπον αυτων.

21 Και εαν πορευησθε εναντιοι εις εμε και δεν θελητε να μου υπακουσητε, θελω προσθεσει εις εσας επταπλασιους πληγας κατα τας αμαρτιας σας.

22 Και θελω αποστειλει εναντιον σας τα θηρια τα αγρια, τα οποια θελουσι καταφαγει τα τεκνα σας και εξολοθρευσει τα κτηνη σας και θελουσι σας καμει ολιγοστους· και θελουσιν ερημωθη αι οδοι σας.

23 Και εαν εκ τουτων δεν διορθωθητε επιστρεφοντες εις εμε, αλλα πορευησθε εναντιοι εις εμε,

24 τοτε θελω πορευθη και εγω εναντιος εις εσας, και θελω σας παιδευσει και εγω επταπλασιως δια τας αμαρτιας σας.

25 Και θελω φερει εφ' υμας μαχαιραν, ητις θελει καμει την εκδικησιν της διαθηκης μου· και οταν καταφυγητε εις τας πολεις σας, θελω στειλει θανατικον εν μεσω υμων· και θελετε παραδοθη εις τας χειρας του εχθρου.

26 Και οταν κατασυντριψω το στηριγμα του αρτου σας, δεκα γυναικες θελουσι ψηνει τους αρτους σας εν ενι κλιβανω, και οι αρτοι σας θελουσιν αποδοθη εις εσας με ζυγιον· και θελετε τρωγει και δεν θελετε χορταινει.

27 Εαν δε και δια τουτων δεν μου υπακουσητε, αλλα πορευησθε εναντιοι εις εμε,

28 τοτε εγω θελω πορευθη εναντιος εις εσας μετα θυμου και θελω σας παιδευσει και εγω επταπλασιως δια τας αμαρτιας σας.

29 Και θελετε φαγει τας σαρκας των υιων σας και τας σαρκας των θυγατερων σας θελετε φαγει.

30 Και θελω κατεδαφισει τους υψηλους τοπους σας και θελω καταστρεψει τα ειδωλα σας και θελω ριψει τα πτωματα σας επι τα πτωματα των βδελυρων ειδωλων σας· και θελει σας βδελυχθη η ψυχη μου.

31 Και θελω καταστησει τας πολεις σας ερημους και θελω εξερημωσει τα αγιαστηρια σας και δεν θελω οσφρανθη την οσμην των ευωδιων σας·

32 και θελω εξερημωσει εγω την γην σας· και θελουσι θαυμασει εις τουτο οι εχθροι σας, οι κατοικουντες εν αυτη.

33 Και θελω σας διασπειρει μεταξυ των εθνων· και θελω συρει οπισω σας μαχαιραν· και η γη σας θελει μενει ερημος και αι πολεις σας θελουσιν εισθαι ερημοι.

34 Τοτε η γη θελει απολαυσει τα σαββατα αυτης καθ' ολον τον καιρον οσον αυτη μεινη ερημος και σεις εν τη γη των εχθρων σας· τοτε θελει αναπαυθη η γη και θελει απολαυσει τα σαββατα αυτης.

35 Καθ' ολον τον καιρον της ερημωσεως αυτης θελει αναπαυεσθαι διοτι δεν ανεπαυετο εις τα σαββατα σας, οτε κατωκειτε επ' αυτης.

36 Επι δε τους εναπολειφθεντας απο σας θελω επιφερει δειλιαν εις την καρδιαν αυτων εν τοις τοποις των εχθρων αυτων· και ηχος φυλλου σειομενου θελει διωκει αυτους· και θελουσι φευγει, ως φευγοντες απο μαχαιρας και θελουσι πιπτει, ουδενος διωκοντος.

37 Και θελουσι πιπτει ο εις επι τον αλλον ως εμπροσθεν μαχαιρας, ουδενος διωκοντος· και δεν θελετε δυνηθη να σταθητε εμπροσθεν των εχθρων σας.

38 Και θελετε απολεσθη μεταξυ των εθνων, και η γη των εχθρων σας θελει σας καταφαγει.

39 Και οι εναπολειφθεντες απο σας θελουσι φθειρεσθαι δια τας ανομιας αυτων εν τοις τοποις των εχθρων σας· και οτι δια τας ανομιας των πατερων αυτων θελουσι φθειρεσθαι μετ' αυτων.

40 Εαν δε ομολογησωσι την ανομιαν αυτων και την ανομιαν των πατερων αυτων δια την παραβασιν αυτων, την οποιαν παρεβησαν εναντιον μου, και διοτι επορευθησαν ετι εναντιοι εις εμε,

41 και εγω επορευθην εναντιος εις αυτους, και εφερα αυτους εις την γην των εχθρων αυτων· εαν τοτε ταπεινωθη η καρδια αυτων η απεριτμητος και δεχθωσι τοτε την τιμωριαν της ανομιας αυτων,

42 τοτε θελω ενθυμηθη την διαθηκην μου την προς τον Ιακωβ, και την διαθηκην μου την προς τον Ισαακ, και την διαθηκην μου την προς τον Αβρααμ θελω ενθυμηθη· και την γην θελω ενθυμηθη.

43 Και η γη θελει μεινει παρητημενη απ' αυτων και θελει απολαυσει τα σαββατα αυτης, μενουσα ερημος αυτων· και αυτοι θελουσι δεχθη την τιμωριαν της ανομιας αυτων· διοτι κατεφρονησαν τας κρισεις μου και διοτι η ψυχη αυτων απεστραφη τα προσταγματα μου.

44 Αλλα και ουτως ενω ευρισκονται εν τη γη των εχθρων αυτων, δεν θελω απορριψει αυτους, ουδε θελω βδελυχθη αυτους, ωστε να εξολοθρευσω αυτους, και να ματαιωσω την διαθηκην μου την προς αυτους· διοτι εγω ειμαι Κυριος ο Θεος αυτων·

45 αλλα θελω ενθυμηθη υπερ αυτων την διαθηκην των πατερων αυτων, τους οποιους εξηγαγον εκ γης Αιγυπτου, ενωπιον των εθνων, δια να ημαι Θεος αυτων. Εγω ειμαι ο Κυριος.

46 Ταυτα ειναι τα προσταγματα και αι κρισεις και οι νομοι, τους οποιους εκαμεν ο Κυριος μεταξυ εαυτου και των υιων Ισραηλ επι του ορους Σινα δια χειρος του Μωυσεως.

   

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Arcana Coelestia #5536

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5536. 'You have bereaved me [of my children]' means that thus no Church existed any longer. This is clear from the representation of Jacob, the one who says this about himself, as the good of truth, dealt with in 3659, 3669, 3677, 3775, 4234, 4273, 4538 (and as the good of truth is represented, so also is the Church because good is the essential element of the Church. It therefore amounts to the same whether you say the good of truth or the Church, for the person who has the good of truth present with him has the Church present with him. 'Jacob' represents the Church, see 4286, 4520, and that being so his sons represent the truths known to the Church, 5403, 5419, 5427, 5458, 5512); and from the meaning of 'bereaving' as depriving the Church of its truths and forms of good, such as those here which are represented by Joseph, Benjamin, and Simeon, to whom reference is made directly after the words 'you have bereaved me'.

[2] 'Bereaving' is depriving the Church of its truths for the reason that the Church is likened to a marriage. Good is likened to the husband and truth to the wife, while the truths born from that marriage are likened to 'the sons' and the forms of good to 'the daughters', and so on. When therefore a state of bereavement or an action causing this is mentioned, the meaning is that the Church has been deprived of its truths and as a consequence ceases to be a Church. The expressions 'bereft' and 'bereavement' are also used in various other places in the Word, as in

Ezekiel,

I will send famine and evil wild animals upon you, and I will make you bereft. Ezekiel 5:17.

In the same prophet,

When I cause evil wild animals to pass through the land and they leave it bereft so that it becomes a desolation, with the result that no one passes through on account of the wild animals. Ezekiel 14:15.

In Leviticus,

I will send into you the wild animals of the field, which will leave you bereft and will cut off your beasts, 1 and make you few in number, so that your roads are laid waste. Leviticus 26:22.

[3] In these quotations 'famine' stands for an absence of cognitions of good and truth and the consequent desolation, 'evil wild animals' for falsities derived from evils, and 'the land' for the Church. 'Sending famine and evil wild animals, and leaving the land bereft' stands for destroying the Church by means of falsities derived from evils and so depriving it completely of truths. In Jeremiah,

I will winnow them with a winnowing-fork in the gates of the land; I will bereave, I will destroy My people. Jeremiah 15:7.

Here also 'bereaving' stands for depriving of truths. In the same prophet,

Give their children over to the famine, and cause them to be wiped out by the power of the sword, 2 so that their wives become bereaved [of children] and widows. Jeremiah 18:11.

'So that their wives become bereaved and widows' stands for their being left without truths or good.

[4] In Hosea,

As for the Ephraimites, their glory will fly away like a bird, away from birth, and from the belly, and from conception. Even if they bring up their sons, I will make them bereft of human beings. Hosea 9:11-12.

Here the meaning is similar. In Ezekiel,

I will cause human beings to walk upon you, even My people; and those human beings will by inheritance take possession of you and you will be an inheritance to them; no more will you bereave them [of their children]. Thus said the Lord Jehovih, Because they say to you, You have been one devouring human beings and one bereaving your peoples [of children]. Ezekiel 36:12-13.

Here also 'bereaving' stands for depriving of truths.

[5] In Isaiah,

Now hear this, you lover of pleasures, sitting securely, saying in her 3 heart, I am, and there is no one else like me; a widow I shall not sit, nor shall I know bereavement [of children]. But these two things will come to you in a moment in one day-bereavement and widowhood. Isaiah 47:8-9.

This refers to the daughter of Babel and to Chaldea, that is, to those who are outwardly holy but inwardly unholy and who call themselves the Church by virtue of that outward holiness. 'Bereavement and widowhood' stands for a deprivation of truth and good. In the same prophet,

Lift up your eyes round about, and see; they all gather together, they come to you. The children of your bereavements will say again in your ears, The place is too narrow for me; yield me a place to dwell in. But you will say in your heart, Who has begotten these for me, when yet I am bereft [of children] and alone, an exile and one who has been displaced? Who therefore has brought these up? I was left, alone. These, where were they? Isaiah 49:18, 20-21.

This refers to Zion, which is the celestial Church, and to its fruitfulness after it had been laid waste. 'The sons of bereavements' stands for the truths of which it was deprived when laid waste, but which were restored and underwent enormous increase.

Fußnoten:

1. i.e. cattle

2. literally, cause them to flow down by means of the hand of the sword

3. The Latin means your but the Hebrew means her, which Swedenborg has in another place where he quotes this verse.

  
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Leviticus 26

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1 "'You shall make for yourselves no idols, neither shall you raise up an engraved image or a pillar, neither shall you place any figured stone in your land, to bow down to it: for I am Yahweh your God.

2 "'You shall keep my Sabbaths, and have reverence for my sanctuary. I am Yahweh.

3 "'If you walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them;

4 then I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.

5 Your threshing shall reach to the vintage, and the vintage shall reach to the sowing time; and you shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely.

6 "'I will give peace in the land, and you shall lie down, and no one will make you afraid; and I will remove evil animals out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land.

7 You shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword.

8 Five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall chase ten thousand; and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.

9 "'I will have respect for you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and will establish my covenant with you.

10 You shall eat old store long kept, and you shall move out the old because of the new.

11 I will set my tent among you: and my soul won't abhor you.

12 I will walk among you, and will be your God, and you will be my people.

13 I am Yahweh your God, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that you should not be their slaves; and I have broken the bars of your yoke, and made you go upright.

14 "'But if you will not listen to me, and will not do all these commandments;

15 and if you shall reject my statutes, and if your soul abhors my ordinances, so that you will not do all my commandments, but break my covenant;

16 I also will do this to you: I will appoint terror over you, even consumption and fever, that shall consume the eyes, and make the soul to pine away; and you will sow your seed in vain, for your enemies will eat it.

17 I will set my face against you, and you will be struck before your enemies. Those who hate you will rule over you; and you will flee when no one pursues you.

18 "'If you in spite of these things will not listen to me, then I will chastise you seven times more for your sins.

19 I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your sky like iron, and your soil like brass;

20 and your strength will be spent in vain; for your land won't yield its increase, neither will the trees of the land yield their fruit.

21 "'If you walk contrary to me, and won't listen to me, then I will bring seven times more plagues on you according to your sins.

22 I will send the wild animals among you, which will rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, and make you few in number; and your roads will become desolate.

23 "'If by these things you won't be reformed to me, but will walk contrary to me;

24 then I will also walk contrary to you; and I will strike you, even I, seven times for your sins.

25 I will bring a sword upon you, that will execute the vengeance of the covenant; and you will be gathered together within your cities: and I will send the pestilence among you; and you will be delivered into the hand of the enemy.

26 When I break your staff of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver your bread again by weight: and you shall eat, and not be satisfied.

27 "'If you in spite of this won't listen to me, but walk contrary to me;

28 then I will walk contrary to you in wrath; and I also will chastise you seven times for your sins.

29 You will eat the flesh of your sons, and you will eat the flesh of your daughters.

30 I will destroy your high places, and cut down your incense altars, and cast your dead bodies upon the bodies of your idols; and my soul will abhor you.

31 I will lay your cities waste, and will bring your sanctuaries to desolation, and I will not take delight in the sweet fragrance of your offerings.

32 I will bring the land into desolation; and your enemies that dwell therein will be astonished at it.

33 I will scatter you among the nations, and I will draw out the sword after you: and your land will be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste.

34 Then the land will enjoy its sabbaths as long as it lies desolate and you are in your enemies' land. Even then the land will rest and enjoy its sabbaths.

35 As long as it lies desolate it shall have rest, even the rest which it didn't have in your sabbaths, when you lived on it.

36 "'As for those of you who are left, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies: and the sound of a driven leaf will put them to flight; and they shall flee, as one flees from the sword; and they will fall when no one pursues.

37 They will stumble over one another, as it were before the sword, when no one pursues: and you will have no power to stand before your enemies.

38 You will perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies will eat you up.

39 Those of you who are left will pine away in their iniquity in your enemies' lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them.

40 "'If they confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, in their trespass which they trespassed against me, and also that, because they walked contrary to me,

41 I also walked contrary to them, and brought them into the land of their enemies: if then their uncircumcised heart is humbled, and they then accept the punishment of their iniquity;

42 then I will remember my covenant with Jacob; and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham; and I will remember the land.

43 The land also will be left by them, and will enjoy its sabbaths while it lies desolate without them: and they will accept the punishment of their iniquity; because, even because they rejected my ordinances, and their soul abhorred my statutes.

44 Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them; for I am Yahweh their God;

45 but I will for their sake remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God. I am Yahweh.'"

46 These are the statutes, ordinances and laws, which Yahweh made between him and the children of Israel in Mount Sinai by Moses.