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Deuteronomio 7

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1 Pagka ipapasok ka ng Panginoon mong Dios sa lupain na iyong pinaroroonan upang ariin, at palalayasin ang maraming bansa sa harap mo, ang Hetheo, at ang Gergeseo at ang Amorrheo, at ang Cananeo, at ang Pherezeo, at ang Heveo, at ang Jebuseo, na pitong bansang lalong malalaki at mga lalong makapangyarihan kay sa iyo;

2 At pagka sila'y ibibigay sa harap mo ng Panginoon mong Dios, at iyong sasaktan sila; ay lubos mo ngang lilipulin sila; huwag kang makikipagtipan sa kanila, ni huwag mong pagpakitaan ng kaawaan sila:

3 Ni magaasawa sa kanila; ang iyong anak na babae ay huwag mong papag-aasawahin sa kaniyang anak na lalake, ni ang kaniyang anak na babae, ay huwag mong papag-aasawahin sa iyong anak na lalake.

4 Sapagka't kaniyang ihihiwalay ang iyong anak na lalake sa pagsunod sa akin, upang sila'y maglingkod sa ibang mga dios: sa gayo'y magaalab ang galit ng Panginoon laban sa iyo, at kaniyang lilipulin kang madali.

5 Kundi ganito ang inyong gagawin sa kanila; inyong igigiba ang kanilang mga dambana, at inyong pagpuputolputulin ang kanilang mga haligi na pinakaalaala at inyong ibubuwal ang kanilang mga Asera, at inyong susunugin sa apoy ang kanilang mga larawang inanyuan.

6 Sapagka't ikaw ay isang banal na bayan sa Panginoon mong Dios; pinili ka ng Panginoon mong Dios upang maging bayan sa kaniyang sariling pag-aari, na higit sa lahat ng mga bayan na nasa ibabaw ng balat ng lupa.

7 Hindi kayo inibig ng Panginoon, ni pinili kayo ng dahil sa kayo'y marami sa bilang kay sa alin mang bayan; sapagka't kayo ang pinakamaliit sa lahat ng mga bayan:

8 Kundi dahil sa inibig kayo ng Panginoon, at dahil sa kaniyang tinupad ang sumpa na kaniyang isinumpa sa inyong mga magulang, ay inilabas kayo ng Panginoon sa pamamagitan ng makapangyarihang kamay at tinubos kayo sa bahay ng pagkaalipin, mula sa kamay ni Faraon na hari sa Egipto.

9 Talastasin mo nga, na ang Panginoon ninyong Dios, ay siyang Dios: ang tapat na Dios, na nag-iingat ng tipan at naggagawad ng kagandahang-loob sa mga umiibig sa kaniya, at tumutupad ng kaniyang mga utos, hanggang sa isang libong salin ng lahi;

10 At pinanghihigantihan sa kanilang mukha, ang mga napopoot sa kaniya, upang lipulin: siya'y hindi magpapaliban doon sa napopoot sa kaniya, kaniyang panghihigantihan sa kaniya ring mukha.

11 Iyo ngang iingatan ang utos, at ang mga palatuntunan, at ang mga kahatulan, na aking iniutos sa iyo sa araw na ito, na iyong ganapin.

12 At mangyayari, na sapagka't iyong dininig ang mga kahatulang ito, at iyong tinutupad at iyong ginaganap, ay tutuparin sa iyo ng Panginoon mong Dios ang tipan, at igagawad ang kagandahang-loob, na kaniyang isinumpa sa iyong mga magulang:

13 At kaniyang iibigin ka, at pagpapalain ka, at padadamihin ka: kaniya rin namang pagpapalain ang bunga ng iyong katawan, at ang bunga ng iyong lupa, ang iyong trigo, at ang iyong alak, at ang iyong langis, ang karagdagan ng iyong mga bakahan, at ang mga guya ng iyong kawan sa lupain na kaniyang isinumpa sa iyong mga magulang, upang ibigay sa iyo.

14 Magiging mapalad ka kay sa lahat ng mga bayan: walang magiging baog na babae o lalake sa inyo o sa inyong mga hayop.

15 At ilalayo sa iyo ng Panginoon ang lahat ng sakit: at wala siyang ihuhulog sa inyo sa masamang sakit sa Egipto, na iyong nalalaman, kundi ihuhulog niya sa lahat ng nangapopoot sa iyo.

16 At iyong lilipulin ang lahat ng mga bayan na ibibigay sa iyo ng Panginoon mong Dios; ang iyong mata ay huwag mahahabag sa kanila; ni huwag kang maglilingkod sa kanilang mga dios; sapagka't magiging isang silo sa iyo.

17 Kung iyong sasabihin sa iyong puso, Ang mga bansang ito ay higit kay sa akin; paanong aking makakamtan sila?

18 Huwag kang matatakot sa kanila; iyong aalalahaning mabuti ang ginawa ng Panginoon mong Dios kay Faraon, at sa buong Egipto.

19 Ang mga dakilang tukso na nakita ng iyong mga mata, at ang mga tanda, at ang mga kababalaghan, at ang makapangyarihang kamay, at ang unat na bisig, na ipinaglabas sa iyo ng Panginoon mong Dios: ay gayon ang gagawin ng Panginoon mong Dios sa lahat ng mga bayan na iyong kinatatakutan.

20 Bukod dito'y susuguin sa kanila ng Panginoon mong Dios ang malaking putakti hanggang sa ang nangaiiwan, at nangagtatago ay mamatay sa harap mo.

21 Huwag kang masisindak sa kanila; sapagka't ang Panginoon mong Dios ay nasa gitna mo, dakilang Dios at kakilakilabot.

22 At itataboy na untiunti ng Panginoon mong Dios ang mga bansang yaon sa harap mo: hindi mo malilipol silang paminsan, baka ang mga hayop sa parang ay kumapal sa iyo.

23 Kundi ibibigay sila ng Panginoon mong Dios sa harap mo, at pagtataglayin sila ng isang malaking kalituhan hanggang sa sila'y mangalipol.

24 At kaniyang ibibigay ang kanilang mga hari sa iyong kamay, at iyong papawiin ang kanilang pangalan sa silong ng langit: walang lalaking makatatayo doon sa harap mo, hanggang sa iyong malipol sila.

25 Ang mga larawang inanyuan na kanilang mga dios ay iyong susunugin sa apoy: huwag mong iimbutin ang pilak o ang ginto na nasa mga yaon, ni huwag mong kukunin para sa iyo, baka sa iyo'y maging silo: sapagka't ito'y isang karumaldumal sa Panginoon mong Dios.

26 At huwag kang magpapasok ng karumaldumal sa iyong bahay, at baka ikaw ay maging itinalaga na gaya niyaon: iyong lubos na kapopootan at iyong lubos na kasusuklaman, sapagka't itinalagang bagay.

   

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Arcana Coelestia #8932

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8932. 'You shall not make [to be] with Me gods of silver and gods of gold' means that they are to avoid completely things which to outward appearances look like truths and forms of good but inwardly are falsities and evils. This is clear from the meaning of 'making gods' as worshipping, since someone who makes gods for himself does so in order to worship them; from the meaning of 'silver' as truth, and therefore in the contrary sense as falsity, and from the meaning of 'gold' as good, and therefore in the contrary sense as evil, both dealt with in 113, 1551, 1552, 2954, 5658, 6914, 6917, 7999. The reason why these are things which to outward appearances look like truths and forms of good, but inwardly are falsities and evils, is that the words 'making them with Me', that is, with Jehovah God, are used. Actual Divine Truth and Goodness reside on an inner level; they reside on an outer level as well, but then they are embodied in types or representative images. For the outward things composing a type or image stand for and represent inner realities. Outward things are falsities and evils when, separated from inner realities, they are held to be holy and are worshipped; and yet they still look like truths and forms of good because they represent those realities. These things are meant by 'making [to be] with Jehovah God gods of silver and gods of gold'.

[2] This commandment follows immediately after the Ten Commandments because the Israelite and Jewish people were the sort that held outward things separated from inward realities to be holy and worshipped them as being altogether Divine, 3479, 3769, 4281, 4293, 4307, 4314, 4316, 4433, 4680, 4825, 4832, 4844, 4847, 4865, 4903, 6304, 6832, 8814, 8819. To gain more definite knowledge of what those things are which look to outward appearances like truths and forms of good but inwardly are falsities and evils, and what those things are like, take as examples all the ritual practices of the Jewish Church, such as sacrifices, burning incense, washings, and many other practices. Outwardly they were truths and forms of good, not in themselves but because they were types or images that stood for and represented inward truths and forms of good, which are aspects of love to the Lord and faith in Him. When the outward objects belonging to such practices were held to be holy, and especially when they were worshipped, as they were by the Jews and Israelites when they became idolaters and used them in the worship of strange gods, they no longer had any connection with the truths and forms of good which they stood for and represented, because inwardly they were falsities and evils.

[3] The situation was the same with all other things that were types or representative images of heavenly and Divine realities among that people. For as soon as outward things which represented inner realities were used in the worship of other gods they became idols worshipped by them or 'gods of silver and gold which they made [to be] with Jehovah God'. For then those things looked to outward appearances like truths and forms of good, but inwardly they were falsities and evils.

[4] In general 'gods of silver and gold' are all the falsities and derivative evils in worship which are made to look like truth and good through wrong usages and misinterpretations of the Word, and at the same time through reasonings that are the product of self-intelligence. Such things are meant by 'gods of silver and gold' in the following places: In Isaiah,

On that day a person will cast away his idols of silver and his idols of gold which they made for themselves to bow down to, to the moles and bats, to go into the clefts 1 of the rocks and into the fissures of the crags. Isaiah 2:20-21.

'Moles and bats' stands for those who are in darkness, that is, are steeped in falsities and derivative evils.

[5] In the same prophet,

On that day a man will cast aside his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which your hands have made for you - a sin. Isaiah 31:7.

'Which your hands have made' stands for things which are the product of self-intelligence. In the same prophet,

The craftsman casts a graven image, and a goldsmith overlays it with gold and casts silver chains for it. Isaiah 40:19.

'Graven images' are things which are products of the proprium or self, 8869. 'Overlaying with gold' stands for making things look to outward appearances like forms of good, 'casting silver chains' stands for making them seem to hang together as if linked to one another with truths, good being meant by 'gold' and truth by 'silver', see the paragraphs referred to above.

[6] Similarly in Jeremiah,

The customs 2 of the nations are vanity. Since indeed one cuts out wood from the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, he decorates it with silver and gold; they make it firm with pegs and hammers, so that it is not unsteady. Jeremiah 10:3-4.

In Hosea,

The Ephraimites sin more and more, and make for themselves a molten image from silver, idols by their own intelligence, completely the work of craftsmen. Hosea 13:2.

'Ephraim' stands for the Church's understanding, 5354, 6222, 6234, 6238, 6267; 'a molten image made from silver' stands for falsity that looks like truth, which is why it says 'by their own intelligence'; and 'completely the work of craftsmen' stands for the fact that it is all brought about through reasonings which are a product of the proprium or self.

[7] In Habakkuk,

Woe to him who says to a piece of wood, Awake! or to a dumb stone, Wake up, this will teach! Behold, this is bound in gold and silver, but there is no spirit in the midst of it. Habakkuk 2:19.

'A piece of wood' stands for evil, 'a stone' for falsity. 'Bound in gold and silver' stands for applications used to give the appearance of what is good and true. In Daniel,

Belshazzar said, when he had properly tasted the wine, that they were to bring the vessels of gold and silver which his father Nebuchadnezzar had brought from the temple that [had been] in Jerusalem, in order that the king and his nobles, his wives and his concubines might drink from them. And they would drink wine, and praise the gods of gold and silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone. Daniel 5:2-4, 23.

'The vessels of gold and silver from the temple of Jerusalem' represented the forms of good and the truths which belonged to the Church and to the Lord's kingdom; 'drinking wine from them' meant desecrating them by means of evils and falsities, which are 'the gods of gold and silver'.

[8] In David,

Their idols are silver and gold, the work of human hands They have a mouth, but they do not speak; they have eyes but do not see. Psalms 115:4-5; 135:15-16.

'Silver and gold, which are idols' stands for falsities and evils; 'the work of human hands' stands for the fact that they are the product of self-intelligence. In Moses,

You shall burn the graven images of the gods of the nations with fire; you shall not covet the silver and the gold that are on them, so that you take them to yourself; for it is an abomination to Jehovah your God. Therefore you shall not bring an abomination into your house, lest you become 3 an accursed thing like it; you shall utterly abhor it. Deuteronomy 7:25-26.

'Silver and gold on graven images' stands for falsities and evils which are worshipped as truths and forms of good because they have been made to look like these.

Notas a pie de página:

1. Reading scissuras (clefts) for fissuras (fissures)

2. literally, statutes

3. Reading fias (you become) for fiat (it becomes)

  
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Arcana Coelestia #1460

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1460. That 'there was a famine in the land' means a lack of cognitions which still existed with the Lord when He was a boy is clear from what has been stated already. In childhood the cognitions that reside with man never come from that which is interior but from the objects of the senses, most of all from hearing; for, as has been stated, with the external man there are recipient vessels which are called those of the memory. Those vessels, as anyone may know, are formed by means of cognitions, the internal man flowing in and assisting that formation. Consequently the learning of cognitions and their implantation in the memory take place in the measure that the internal man is flowing in. So also with the Lord when a boy, for He was born as any other and received instruction as any other. But in His case the interiors were celestial, which fashioned the vessels to receive cognitions, and after that these cognitions to become vessels for receiving the Divine. The interiors with Him were Divine, being from Jehovah His Father, but the exteriors were human, being from Mary His mother. From this it becomes clear that in childhood a lack of cognitions within His external man existed with the Lord as much as with all others.

[2] That 'famine' means a lack of cognitions is clear from elsewhere in the Word, as in Isaiah,

They do not look closely at the work of Jehovah, and they do not regard what His hands have done. Therefore My people will go into exile because they have no knowledge, and their honourable men will be famished,' and their multitude parched with thirst. Isaiah 5:12-13.

'Honourable men famished 1 stands for a lack of celestial cognitions, 'multitude parched with thirst' for a lack of spiritual cognitions. In Jeremiah,

They have lied against Jehovah and said, It is not He; and no evil will come upon us; neither shall we see sword and famine. And the prophets will become wind, and the word is not in them. Jeremiah 5:12-13.

'Sword and famine' stands for becoming robbed of cognitions of truth and good. 'Prophets' stands for those who teach, in whom 'the word is not'. That 'being consumed by sword and famine' means becoming robbed of cognitions of truth and good, and that these have to do with vastation, 'sword' as to spiritual things, 'famine' as to celestial things, is clear from many parts of the Word, such as Jeremiah 14:13-16, 18; Lamentations 4:9; and elsewhere.

[3] So also in Ezekiel,

I will bring more famine upon you, and will break for you the staff of bread; and I will send famine and evil beasts upon you, and they will rob you of your children. And I will bring the sword upon you. Ezekiel 5:16-17.

'Famine' stands for when one has been robbed of celestial cognitions, or cognitions of good, and therefore falsities and evils occur. In David,

And He summoned a famine over the land, He broke every staff of bread. Psalms 105:16.

'Breaking the staff of bread' stands for being deprived of celestial nourishment, for the life of good spirits and of angels is sustained by no other food than cognitions of good and truth, and by goods and truths themselves. This is the origin of the meaning in the internal sense of famine and bread. In the same author,

He has satisfied the longing soul, and the hungry soul He has filled with good. Psalms 107:9.

This stands for those desiring cognitions. In Jeremiah,

Lift up your hands for the soul of your little children who faint from famine at the head of every street. Lamentations 2:19.

'Famine' stands for an absence of cognitions, 'streets' for truths. In Ezekiel,

They will dwell securely and not be made afraid; and I shall raise up for them a plant for renown, and they will no more be consumed with famine in the land. Ezekiel 34:28-29.

This stands for their being deprived no longer of the cognitions of good and truth.

[4] In John,

They will not hunger any more, nor thirst any more. Revelation 7:16.

This refers to the Lord's kingdom where they have an abundance of all celestial cognitions and goods, meant by 'not hungering', and of spiritual cognitions and truths, meant by 'not thirsting'. The Lord said something similar, in John,

I am the Bread of life; he who comes to Me will not hunger, and he who believes in Me will never thirst. John 6:35.

In Luke,

Blessed are you that hunger now, for you will be satisfied. Luke 6:21.

In the same gospel,

He has filled the hungry with good things. Luke 1:53.

This refers to celestial goods and the cognitions of these. In Amos there is a plain statement that 'famine' means the lack of cognitions,

Behold, the days are coming, when I will send a famine on the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of Jehovah. Amos 8:11-12.

Notas a pie de página:

1. literally, their glory will be mortals of famine

  
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