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民数记 24

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1 巴兰耶和华喜欢赐福与以色列,就不像前两次去求法术,却面向旷野

2 巴兰举目,以色列人照着支派居住。的灵就临到他身上,

3 他便题起诗歌:比珥的儿子巴兰,眼目闭住的人,(闭住或作:睁开)

4 神的言语,得见全能者的异象,眼目睁开而仆倒的人

5 雅各阿,你的帐棚何等华美!以色列阿,你的帐幕何其华丽!

6 如接连的山谷,如旁的园子,如耶和华所栽的沉香树,如边的香柏木。

7 要从他的桶里流出;种子要撒在多之处。他的王必超过亚甲;他的国必要振兴。

8 神领他出埃及;他似乎有野牛之力。他要吞敌国,折断他们的骨头,用射透他们。

9 他蹲如公狮,卧如母狮,谁敢惹他?凡给你祝福的,愿他蒙福;凡咒诅你的,愿他受咒诅。

10 巴勒向巴兰生气,就拍起手来,对巴兰:我召你来为我咒诅仇敌,不料,你这三次竟为他们祝福

11 如今你快回本地去罢!我想使你得大尊荣,耶和华却阻止你不得尊荣。

12 巴兰对巴勒:我岂不是对你所差遣到我那里的使者

13 巴勒就是将他满我,我也不得越过耶和华的命,凭自己的意行行歹。耶和华甚麽,我就要甚麽?

14 现在我要回本族去。你来,我告诉你这民日後要怎样待你的民。

15 他就题起诗歌:比珥的儿子巴兰:眼目闭住的人,(闭住或作:睁开)

16 神的言语,明白至者的意旨,看见全能者的异象,眼目睁开而仆倒的人

17 他却不在现时;我望他却不在近日。有要出於雅各,有杖要兴於以色列,必打破摩押的四角,毁坏扰乱.之子。

18 他必得以东为基业,又得仇敌之地西珥为产业;以色列必行事勇敢。

19 有一位出於雅各的,必掌大权;他要除灭城中的馀民。

20 巴兰观亚玛力,就题起诗歌:亚玛力原为诸国之首,但他终必沉沦。

21 巴兰观基尼人,就题起诗歌:你的处本是坚固;你的窝做在岩穴中。

22 然而基尼必至衰微,直到亚述把你掳去。

23 巴兰又题起诗歌:哀哉!神行这事,谁能得活?

24 必有人乘船从基提界而来,苦害亚述,苦害希伯;他也必至沉沦。

25 於是巴兰起来,回他本地去;巴勒也回去了。

   

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Arcana Coelestia #10039

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10039. 'It is a sin [offering]' means that which has been purified in this manner from evils and falsities. This is clear from the meaning of 'sin', when this word is used to mean a sacrifice, as purification from evils and falsities. For in the original language, when sacrifices are the subject, sin is used to mean a sacrifice for sin; and by sacrifice purification from evils and falsities is meant, 9990, 9991. The fact that in the Word a sacrifice for sin is called a sin [offering], see Leviticus 4:3, 8, 14, 20-21, 24-25, 29, 33-34; 5:6, 8-9; 6:17, 25-26, 30, and elsewhere.

  
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Arcana Coelestia #5071

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5071. The reason why the expression 'cursed' is used of those on the left and why their punishment is called 'eternal fire' in the following statements -'Then He will also say to those on the left, Depart from Me, O cursed ones, into eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels' and 'these will go away into eternal punishment' - is that they have turned away from good and truth and have turned towards evil and falsity. 'Cursing' in the internal sense of the Word means a turning away, 245, 379, 1427, 3570, 3584. The eternal fire into which they were to depart is not material fire, nor is it a tormented conscience, but a craving for evil. For cravings like this in a person are spiritual fires which consume him during the life of the body and torment him in the next life. Because of these fires burning within them, the inhabitants of hell use dreadful methods to torture one another.

[2] Eternal fire is clearly not material fire; and the reason it is not a tormented conscience is that none who are governed by evil have any conscience; and those who have had no conscience during their lifetime cannot have any in the next life. But the reason eternal fire is a craving is that the entire fire of life in a person is fuelled by his loves, a heavenly fire by the love of what is good and true, a hellish fire by the love of what is evil and false. Or what amounts to the same, a heavenly fire is fuelled by love to the Lord and love towards the neighbour, and a hellish fire by self-love and love of the world. Anyone can see, if he stops to think, that all the fire or heat burning within a person is fuelled by his loves. This also explains why love is called spiritual heat and why in the Word fire and heat have no other meaning, 934 (end), 1297, 1527, 1528, 1861, 2446, 4906. The fire of life in the evil is also such that when they feel very strong cravings, a kind of fire is also burning in them, which inflames them with an intense and furious desire to torment others. But the fire of life in the good is such that when a higher level of affection exists with them, a kind of fire is alight in them too. But this fire inflames them with a loving and zealous desire to do good to others.

  
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