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1 I dođe anđeo Gospodnji od Galgala u Vokim i reče: Izveo sam vas iz Misira i doveo vas u zemlju za koju sam se zakleo ocima vašim; i rekoh: Neću pokvariti zavet svoj s vama doveka.

2 A vi ne hvatajte veru sa stanovnicima te zemlje, oltare njihove raskopajte. Ali ne poslušaste glas moj. Šta ste to učinili?

3 Zato i ja rekoh: Neću ih odagnati ispred vas, nego će vam biti kao trnje, i bogovi njihovi biće vam zamka.

4 A kad izgovori anđeo Gospodnji ove reči svim sinovima Izrailjevim, narod podiže glas svoj i plaka.

5 Zato prozvaše ono mesto Vokim; i onde prinesoše žrtve Gospodu.

6 A Isus raspusti narod, i raziđoše se sinovi Izrailjevi svaki na svoje nasledstvo, da naslede zemlju.

7 I služi narod Gospodu svega veka Isusovog i svega veka starešina koji živeše dugo iza Isusa koje behu videle sva velika dela Gospodnja što učini Izrailju.

8 Ali umre Isus sin Navin sluga Gospodnji, kad mu beše sto i deset godina.

9 I pogreboše ga u međama nasledstva njegovog u Tamnat-Aresu u gori Jefremovoj sa severa gori Gasu.

10 I sav onaj naraštaj pribra se k ocima svojim, i nasta drugi naraštaj iza njih, koji ne poznavaše Gospoda ni dela koja je učinio Izrailju.

11 I sinovi Izrailjevi, činiše što je zlo pred Gospodom, i služiše Valima.

12 I ostaviše Gospoda Boga otaca svojih, koji ih je izveo iz zemlje misirske, i pođoše za drugim bogovima između bogova onih naroda koji behu oko njih, i klanjaše im se, i razgneviše Gospoda.

13 I ostaviše Gospoda, i služiše Valu i Astarotama.

14 I razgnevi se Gospod na Izrailja, i dade ih u ruke ljudima koji ih plenjahu, i prodade ih u ruke neprijateljima njihovim unaokolo, i ne mogaše se više držati pred neprijateljima svojim.

15 Kud god polažahu, ruka Gospodnja beše protiv njih na zlo, kao što beše rekao Gospod i kao što im se beše zakleo Gospod; i behu u velikoj nevolji.

16 Tada im Gospod podizaše sudije, koji ih izbavljahu iz ruku onih što ih plenjahu.

17 Ali ni sudija svojih ne slušaše, nego činiše preljubu za drugim bogovima, i klanjaše im se; brzo zađoše s puta kojim idoše oci njihovi slušajući zapovesti Gospodnje; oni ne činiše tako.

18 I kad im Gospod podizaše sudije, beše Gospod sa svakim sudijom, i izbavljaše ih iz ruku neprijatelja njihovih svega veka sudijinog; jer se sažali Gospod radi njihovog uzdisanja na one koji im krivo činjahu i koji ih cveljahu.

19 A kad sudija umre, oni se vraćahu opet i bivahu gori od otaca svojih idući za bogovima drugim i služeći im i klanjajući im se; ne ostavljahu se dela svojih niti puteva svojih opakih.

20 Zato se raspali gnev Gospodnji na Izrailja, i reče: Kad je taj narod prestupio moj zavet koji sam zapovedi ocima njihovim, i ne poslušaše glas moj,

21 Ni ja neću više nijednoga goniti ispred njih između naroda koje ostavi Isus kad umre,

22 Da njima kušam Izrailja hoće li se držati puta Gospodnjeg hodeći po njemu, kao što su se držali oci njihovi, ili neće.

23 I Gospod ostavi te narode i ne izagna ih odmah ne predavši ih u ruke Isusu.

   

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Jacob or Israel (the man)

  

Jacob is told twice that his name will now be Israel. The first time is when he wrestles with an angel on his journey to meet Esau, and the angel tells him that his name will be changed. After he is reconciled with Esau, they go their separate ways. Jacob moves to Shechem and then on to Bethel, where he builds an altar to the Lord. The Lord appears to him there, renews the covenant He first made with Abraham and again tells him that his name will be Israel (Genesis 35). The story goes on to tell of Benjamin's birth and Rachel's death in bearing him, and then of Jacob's return to Isaac and Isaac's death and burial. But at that point the main thread of the story leaves Israel and turns to Joseph, and Israel is hardly mentioned until after Joseph has risen to power in Egypt, has revealed himself to his brothers and tells them to bring all of their father's household down to Egypt. There, before Israel dies, he blesses Joseph's sons, plus all his own sons. After his death he is returned to the land of Canaan for burial in Abraham's tomb. In the story of Jacob and Esau, Jacob represents truth, and Esau good. Jacob's stay in Padan-Aram, and the wealth he acquired there, represent learning the truths of scripture, just as we learn when we read the Ten Commandments or the Sermon on the Mount. The change of name from Jacob to Israel represents the realization that what we learn should not simply be knowledge, but should be the rules of our life, to be followed by action. This action is the good that Esau has represented in the story up to that time, but after the reconciliation between Jacob and Esau, Jacob as Israel now represents the truth and the good, together. It is interesting that even after his name change Jacob is rarely called Israel. Sometimes he is called one and sometimes the other, and sometimes he is called both Jacob and Israel in the same verse (Genesis 46:2, 5, & 8 also Psalm 14:7). This is because Jacob represents the external person and Israel the internal person, and even after the internal person comes into being, we spend much of our lives living on the external level.

(Referencias: Arcana Coelestia 4274, 4292, 4570, 5595, 6225, 6256, Genesis 2:5, 46:8)

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Arcana Coelestia #4571

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4571. 'And God said to him' means perception from the Divine. This is clear from the meaning of 'saying' in the historical narratives of the Word as perceiving, dealt with in 1791, 1815, 1819, 1822, 1898, 1919, 2080, 2619, 2862, 3395, 3509. The Divine as the source of that perception is meant by the words 'God said', for the Divine was present within the Lord from conception; the Divine was His actual Being (Esse) since He had been conceived from Jehovah. His perception therefore was from the Divine, but the degree of perception depended on the state of reception by the Human; for He made the Human within Himself Divine in successive stages. From this it is evident that because the Divine or God was within Him, 'God said to him' means perception from the Divine.

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.