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Второзаконие 17

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1 Не приноси в жертву Господу, Богу твоему, вола, илиовцы, на которой будет порок, или что-нибудь худое, ибо это мерзость для Господа, Бога твоего.

2 Если найдется среди тебя в каком-либо из жилищ твоих, которые Господь, Бог твой, дает тебе, мужчина или женщина, кто сделает зло пред очами Господа, Бога твоего, преступив завет Его,

3 и пойдет и станет служить иным богам, и поклонится им, или солнцу, или луне, или всему воинству небесному, чего я не повелел,

4 и тебе возвещено будет, и ты услышишь, то ты хорошо разыщи; и если это точная правда, если сделана мерзость сия в Израиле,

5 то выведи мужчину того, или женщину ту, которые сделали зло сие, кворотам твоим и побей их камнями до смерти.

6 По словам двух свидетелей, или трех свидетелей, должен умереть осуждаемый на смерть: не должно предавать смерти по словам одного свидетеля;

7 рука свидетелей должна быть на нем прежде всех , чтоб убить его, потом рукавсего народа; и так истреби зло из среды себя.

8 Если по какому делу затруднительным будет для тебя рассудить между кровью и кровью, между судом и судом, между побоями и побоями, и будут несогласные мнения в воротах твоих, то встань и пойди на место, которое изберет Господь, Бог твой,

9 и приди к священникам левитам и к судье, который будет в те дни, и спроси их, и они скажут тебе, как рассудить;

10 и поступи по слову, какое они скажут тебе, на том месте, которое изберет Господь, и постарайся исполнить все, чему они научат тебя;

11 по закону, которому научат они тебя, и по определению, какое они скажут тебе, поступи, и не уклоняйся ни направо, ни налево от того, что они скажут тебе.

12 А кто поступит так дерзко, что не послушает священника, стоящего там на служении пред Господом, Богом твоим, или судьи, тот должен умереть, – и так истреби зло от Израиля;

13 и весь народ услышит и убоится, и не будут впредь поступать дерзко.

14 Когда ты придешь в землю, которую Господь, Бог твой, дает тебе, и овладеешь ею, и поселишься на ней, и скажешь: „поставлю я над собою царя, подобно прочимнародам, которые вокруг меня",

15 то поставь над собою царя, которого изберет Господь, Бог твой; из среды братьев твоих поставь над собою царя; не можешь поставить над собою царем иноземца, который не брат тебе.

16 Только чтоб он не умножал себе коней и не возвращал народа в Египет для умножения себе коней, ибо Господь сказал вам: „не возвращайтесь более путем сим";

17 и чтобы не умножал себе жен, дабы не развратилось сердце его, и чтобы серебра и золота не умножал себе чрезмерно.

18 Но когда он сядет на престоле царства своего, должен списать для себя список закона сего с книги, находящейся у священников левитов,

19 и пусть он будет у него, и пусть он читает его во все дни жизни своей, дабы научался бояться Господа, Бога своего, и старался исполнять все слова закона сего и постановления сии;

20 чтобы не надмевалось сердце его пред братьями его, и чтобы не уклонялся он от законани направо, ни налево, дабы долгие дни пребыл на царствесвоем он и сыновья его посреди Израиля.

   

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Apocalypse Revealed #502

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502. Which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt. This symbolizes the two hellish loves, namely, a love of ruling springing from a love of self, and a love of holding sway from a conceit in one's own intelligence, loves which are present in the church where there is not one God and where the Lord is not worshiped, and where people do not live in accordance with the Ten Commandments.

Sodom symbolizes, in the spiritual sense, a love of ruling springing from a love of self, as we shall presently see; and Egypt symbolizes, in the spiritual sense, a love of holding sway from a conceit in one's own intelligence, as we shall also presently see. So, because these two loves are symbolized, therefore the city is called, spiritually speaking, Sodom and Egypt.

These two loves are present in the church where there is not one God and where the Lord is not worshiped, and where people do not live in accordance with the Ten Commandments, because people are born with these two loves, and they come into them as they grow up. Nor can these loves be removed except by God the Savior and by a life in accordance with His commandments, and God cannot remove them unless people turn to Him, and neither is a life in accordance with His commandments possible unless a person is led by Him. Actually it is possible, but not a life that contains anything of heaven and so of the church.

A life like that is possible only from Him who is life. That the Lord is that life may be seen in John 1:1, 4; 5:26; 6:33-35ff., 11:25-26; 14:6, 19, and in many other places.

[2] A love of ruling springing from a love of self, and a love of holding sway from a conceit in one's own intelligence, are the principal loves of all the loves in hell, and so are the origin of all the evils and thus of all the falsities in the church. This is something unknown at the present day. The delights of these loves, which surpass the delights of all the heart's pleasures, cause it to be unknown, even though they are, spiritually, Sodom and Egypt.

That Sodom is a love of ruling springing from a love of self can be seen from the description of Sodom in Genesis, where we are told that when angels arrived there, the inhabitants tried to forcibly assault them at the house of Lot, and that fire and brimstone rained down on them from heaven (Genesis 19:1ff.). Fire and brimstone symbolize that love, together with its appetites.

I saw similar sights when cities and societies of people like that were overthrown at the time of the Last Judgment and their inhabitants cast into hell.

These loves and their accompanying evils are symbolized by Sodom and Gomorrah in the following passages: Isaiah 1:10; 3:8-9; 13:19.

[3] That this love is symbolically meant by Sodom is unknown in the world, but remember it and recall it when you come after death into the world of spirits and you will be completely convinced.

It should be known, however, that a love of ruling springing from a love of self and a love of ruling springing from a love of performing useful services are two different things. The latter love is a heavenly love, while the first is a hellish one. Consequently, when one is in first place, the other is in last place; which is to say, when a love of ruling springing from a love of self forms the head, then a love of ruling springing from a love of performing useful services - which is a love of serving the neighbor originating from the Lord - forms first the feet, then the soles of the feet, and finally is trampled underfoot.

On the other hand, when a love of ruling springing from a love of performing useful services - which, as we said, is a heavenly love - forms the head, then a love of ruling springing from a love of self - which, as we said, is a hellish love - forms first the feet, then the soles of the feet, and finally is trampled underfoot.

Still, these two loves can hardly be distinguished by a person in the world. That is because in outward appearance they are similar. But they can be told apart by this, that a heavenly love is present in people who turn to the Lord and live in accordance with the Ten Commandments, while a hellish love is present in people who do not turn to the Lord, and who do not live in accordance with the Ten Commandments.

  
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Many thanks to the General Church of the New Jerusalem, and to Rev. N.B. Rogers, translator, for the permission to use this translation.

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Isaiah 31

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1 Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, and rely on horses, and trust in chariots because they are many, and in horsemen because they are very strong, but they don't look to the Holy One of Israel, and they don't seek Yahweh!

2 Yet he also is wise, and will bring disaster, and will not call back his words, but will arise against the house of the evildoers, and against the help of those who work iniquity.

3 Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit. When Yahweh stretches out his hand, both he who helps shall stumble, and he who is helped shall fall, and they all shall be consumed together.

4 For thus says Yahweh to me, "As the lion and the young lion growling over his prey, if a multitude of shepherds is called together against him, will not be dismayed at their voice, nor abase himself for the noise of them, so Yahweh of Armies will come down to fight on Mount Zion and on its heights.

5 As birds hovering, so Yahweh of Armies will protect Jerusalem. He will protect and deliver it. He will pass over and preserve it."

6 Return to him from whom you have deeply revolted, children of Israel.

7 For in that day everyone shall cast away his idols of silver and his idols of gold--sin which your own hands have made for you.

8 "The Assyrian will fall by the sword, not of man; and the sword, not of mankind, shall devour him. He will flee from the sword, and his young men will become subject to forced labor.

9 His rock will pass away by reason of terror, and his princes will be afraid of the banner," says Yahweh, whose fire is in Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem.