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Matthaeus 6

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1 Habet acht, daß ihr euer Almosen nicht gebet vor den Menschen, um von ihnen gesehen zu werden; wenn aber nicht, so habt ihr keinen Lohn bei eurem Vater, der in den Himmeln ist.

2 Wenn du nun Almosen gibst, sollst du nicht vor dir her posaunen lassen, wie die Heuchler tun in den Synagogen und auf den Straßen, damit sie von den Menschen geehrt werden. Wahrlich, ich sage euch, sie haben ihren Lohn dahin.

3 Du aber, wenn du Almosen gibst, so laß deine Linke nicht wissen, was deine Rechte tut;

4 damit dein Almosen im Verborgenen sei, und dein Vater, der im Verborgenen sieht, wird dir vergelten.

5 Und wenn du betest, sollst du nicht sein wie die Heuchler; denn die lieben es, in den Synagogen und an den Ecken der Straßen stehend zu beten, damit sie von den Menschen gesehen werden. Wahrlich, ich sage euch, sie haben ihren Lohn dahin.

6 Du aber, wenn du betest, so geh in deine Kammer und, nachdem du deine Tür geschlossen hast, bete zu deinem Vater, der im Verborgenen ist, und dein Vater, der im Verborgenen sieht, wird dir vergelten.

7 Wenn ihr aber betet, sollt ihr nicht plappern wie die von den Nationen; denn sie meinen, daß sie um ihres vielen Redens willen werden erhört werden.

8 Seid ihnen nun nicht gleich; denn euer Vater weiß, was ihr bedürfet, ehe ihr ihn bittet.

9 Betet ihr nun also: Unser Vater, der du bist in den Himmeln, geheiligt werde dein Name; dein Reich komme;

10 dein Wille geschehe, wie im Himmel also auch auf Erden.

11 Unser nötiges Brot gib uns heute;

12 und vergib uns unsere Schulden, wie auch wir unseren Schuldnern vergeben;

13 und führe uns nicht in Versuchung, sondern errette uns von dem Bösen. -

14 Denn wenn ihr den Menschen ihre Vergehungen vergebet, so wird euer himmlischer Vater auch euch vergeben;

15 wenn ihr aber den Menschen ihre Vergehungen nicht vergebet, so wird euer Vater auch eure Vergehungen nicht vergeben.

16 Wenn ihr aber fastet, so sehet nicht düster aus wie die Heuchler; denn sie verstellen ihre Angesichter, damit sie den Menschen als Fastende erscheinen. Wahrlich, ich sage euch, sie haben ihren Lohn dahin.

17 Du aber, wenn du fastest, so salbe dein Haupt und wasche dein Angesicht,

18 damit du nicht den Menschen als ein Fastender erscheinest, sondern deinem Vater, der im Verborgenen ist; und dein Vater, der im Verborgenen sieht, wird dir vergelten.

19 Sammelt euch nicht Schätze auf der Erde, wo Motte und Rost zerstört, und wo Diebe durchgraben und stehlen;

20 sammelt euch aber Schätze im Himmel, wo weder Motte noch Rost zerstört, und wo Diebe nicht durchgraben noch stehlen;

21 denn wo dein Schatz ist, da wird auch dein Herz sein.

22 Die Lampe des Leibes ist das Auge; wenn nun dein Auge einfältig ist, so wird dein ganzer Leib licht sein;

23 wenn aber dein Auge böse ist, so wird dein ganzer Leib finster sein. Wenn nun das Licht, das in dir ist, Finsternis ist, wie groß die Finsternis!

24 Niemand kann zwei Herren dienen; denn entweder wird er den einen hassen und den anderen lieben, oder er wird einem anhangen und den anderen verachten. Ihr könnet nicht Gott dienen und dem Mammon.

25 Deshalb sage ich euch: Seid nicht besorgt für euer Leben, was ihr essen und was ihr trinken sollt, noch für euren Leib, was ihr anziehen sollt. Ist nicht das Leben mehr als die Speise, und der Leib mehr als die Kleidung?

26 Sehet hin auf die Vögel des Himmels, daß sie nicht säen noch ernten, noch in Scheunen sammeln, und euer himmlischer Vater ernährt sie. Seid ihr nicht viel vorzüglicher als sie?

27 Wer aber unter euch vermag mit Sorgen seiner Größe eine Elle zuzusetzen?

28 Und warum seid ihr um Kleidung besorgt? Betrachtet die Lilien des Feldes, wie sie wachsen: sie mühen sich nicht, auch spinnen sie nicht.

29 Ich sage euch aber, daß selbst nicht Salomon in all seiner Herrlichkeit bekleidet war wie eine von diesen.

30 Wenn aber Gott das Gras des Feldes, das heute ist und morgen in den Ofen geworfen wird, also kleidet, nicht vielmehr euch, Kleingläubige?

31 So seid nun nicht besorgt, indem ihr saget: Was sollen wir essen? oder: Was sollen wir trinken? oder: Was sollen wir anziehen?

32 denn nach allem diesem trachten die Nationen; denn euer himmlischer Vater weiß, daß ihr dies alles bedürfet.

33 Trachtet aber zuerst nach dem Reiche Gottes und nach seiner Gerechtigkeit, und dies alles wird euch hinzugefügt werden.

34 So seid nun nicht besorgt auf den morgenden Tag, denn der morgende Tag wird für sich selbst sorgen. Jeder Tag hat an seinem Übel genug.

   

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The New Jerusalem and its Heavenly Doctrine #200

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200. The Lord combats for man in temptations.

The Lord alone combats for man in temptations, and man does not combat at all from himself (n. 1692, 8172, 8175, 8176, 8273). Man cannot by any means combat against evils and falsities from himself, because that would be to fight against all the hells, which the Lord alone can subdue and conquer (n. 1692). The hells fight against man, and the Lord for him (n. 8159). Man combats from truths and goods, thus from the knowledges and affections thereof which are with him; but it is not man who combats, but the Lord by them (n. 1661). Man thinks that the Lord is absent in temptations, because his prayers are not heard as they are when out of them, but nevertheless the Lord is then more present with him (n. 840). In temptations man ought to combat as from himself, and not to hang down his hands and expect immediate help; but nevertheless he ought to believe that it is from the Lord (n. 1712, 8179, 8969). Man cannot otherwise receive a heavenly proprium (n. 1937, 1947, 2882-2883, 2891). The quality of that proprium, that it is not man's, but the Lord's with him (n. 1937, 1917, 2882-2883, 2891, 8497).

Temptation is of no avail, and productive of no good, unless a man believes, at least after the temptations, that the Lord has fought and conquered for him (n. 8969). They who place merit in works, cannot combat against evils, because they combat from their own proprium, and do not permit the Lord to combat for them (n. 9978). They who believe they have merited heaven by their temptations, are with much difficulty saved (n. 2273).

The Lord does not tempt, but liberates, and leads to good (n. 2768). Temptations appear to be from the Divine, when yet they are not (n. 4299). In what sense the petition in the Lord's prayer, "Lead us not into temptations," is to be understood, from experience (n. 1875). The Lord does not concur in temptations by permitting them, according to the idea which man has of permission (n. 2768).

In every temptation there is freedom, although it does not appear so, but the freedom is interiorly with man from the Lord, and he therefore combats and is willing to conquer, and not to be conquered, which he would not do without freedom (n. 1937, 1947, 1 2881). The Lord effects this by means of the affection of truth and good impressed on the internal man, although the man does not know it (n. 5044). For all freedom is of affection or love, and according to its quality (n. 2870, 3158, 8987, 8990, 9585, 9591).

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1. The printed text has 1917, a misreading of the Latin.

  
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Arcana Coelestia #4299

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4299. 'For I have seen God face to face, and my soul is delivered' means that He suffered the severest temptations, seemingly attributable to the Divine. This is clear from the meaning of 'seeing God' as going closer to Him by means of interior things, that is to say, by means of goods and truths, and consequently as presence, dealt with in 4198; and from the meaning of 'the face' as interior things, dealt with in 1999, 2434, 3527, 3573, 4066, and so as thoughts and affections, for affections and thoughts are interior things because they belong to the disposition and mind (animus et mens) and reveal themselves in the face; and from the meaning of 'my soul is delivered' as suffering God's presence. The fact that all these words mean that He suffered the severest temptations seemingly attributable to the Divine, cannot be seen from anything else than the immediate causes and the remote causes of temptations. The evils and falsities present with a person which lead him into temptations, and therefore the evil spirits and genii who instill them are the immediate causes, 4249. Nevertheless, no one can be tempted, that is, undergo any spiritual temptation, except him who has a conscience. Indeed spiritual temptation is nothing else than the torture of a person's conscience, and consequently none can be tempted but those who are governed by celestial and spiritual good. For the latter have conscience, but all others do not; indeed they do not even know what conscience is.

[2] Conscience is a new will and a new understanding received from the Lord, and so is the Lord's presence with a person, a presence which becomes all the closer the more the person is stirred by the affection for good or for truth. If the closeness of the Lord's presence exceeds the amount of affection for good or for truth in him, he enters into temptation. The reason why is that the evils and falsities which reside with him, and which are moderated by the goods and truths residing with him, cannot suffer that closer presence. This becomes clear from the following things that happen in the next life: Evil spirits cannot by any means move towards any heavenly community without starting to feel distress and torment; also, evil spirits cannot stand angels looking at them because they are instantly tormented and collapse unconscious. And in addition there is the fact that hell is remote from heaven, for the reason that it cannot suffer heaven, that is, the Lord's presence in heaven. This explains why in the Word it is said in reference to evil spirits,

Then they will begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us; and to the hills, Cover us. Luke 23:30.

And elsewhere,

They will say to the mountains and rocks, Rush down on us and hide us from the face of Him who is seated on the throne. Revelation 6:16.

Also the sphere of cloud and thick darkness which emanates from the evils and falsities of those in hell looks like a mountain or rock beneath which they are hidden, see 1265, 1267, 1270.

[3] From these considerations it can now be recognized that 'I have seen God face to face and my soul is delivered' means the severest temptations, seemingly attributable to the Divine. Temptations and torments do seem to be attributable to the Divine because they arise, as has been stated, through the Lord's Divine presence. Yet they do not originate in the Divine or the Lord but in the evils and falsities residing with the person who is being tempted or tormented. From the Lord nothing else proceeds but a holiness which is good and true and merciful, and it is this holiness - which is good, true, and merciful - that those subject to evils and falsities cannot suffer; for such evils and falsities are opposite or contrary to it. Evils, falsities, and lack of mercy are bent all the time on doing violence to those qualities belonging to holiness; and in the measure they assail these, they themselves suffer torment. And when they assail them and consequently suffer torment they imagine that it is the Divine who torments them. These are the considerations meant by 'seemingly attributable to the Divine'.

[4] It was well known to the ancients that no one can see Jehovah face to face and live, and from them knowledge of the same came down to the descendants of Jacob. This explains why they were so glad when they saw any angel and remained alive, as in the Book of Judges,

Gideon saw that he was the angel of Jehovah, therefore Gideon said, O Lord Jehovih! Inasmuch as I have seen the angel of Jehovah face to face. And Jehovah said to him, Peace be to you; do not fear, for you will not die. Judges 6:22-23.

In the same book, Manoah said to his wife, We shall surely die, for we have seen God. Judges 13:22.

And in Moses, Jehovah said to Moses, You cannot see My face, for no man will see Me and live. Exodus 33:20.

[5] The reason why it is said of Moses that he spoke to Jehovah face to face, Exodus 33:11, and that Jehovah knew him face to face, Deuteronomy 34:10, is that He showed Himself to him in a human form suited to his reception, which was an external form - as a bearded old man sitting with him, as I have learned from angels. For the same reason the Jews had no other idea of Jehovah than of one who was very old with a long white beard, who was better able to perform miracles than other gods. They did not have the idea of His being the most holy because they did not know what holiness was, let alone that they could not in any way see the holiness proceeding from Him because they were governed by bodily and earthly love devoid of internal holiness, 4289, 4293.

  
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