Puerta
En un sentido general, las puertas en la Biblia representan los deseos iniciales del bien y los conceptos de la verdad que introducen a las personas a nuevos niveles de amor y comprensión e incluso al propio Señor. Las referencias a los postes y dinteles de las puertas también hacen una distinción entre los bienes introductorios y las verdades introductorias. Sin embargo, hay muchas especificidades basadas en el contexto. Dado que una "casa" representa los deseos, afectos y pasiones de una persona, la puerta sirve para introducir ideas verdaderas que puedan poner en marcha esos deseos. En casos más amplios, la puerta conduce al propio cielo. Y en algunos casos el significado se lleva a un nivel muy específico. Por ejemplo, las casas de los tiempos bíblicos solían tener puertas interiores y exteriores para protegerse. Cuando Lot trató de convencer a los hombres de Sodoma de que no molestaran a los ángeles que le visitaban en Gn. 19, en realidad salió por la puerta interior pero se quedó dentro de la puerta exterior. La puerta exterior representa un deseo de bien que se resiste a la falsedad representada por los hombres de Sodoma; la interior representa las ideas verdaderas que surgen de ese deseo de bien. Alguien que alimenta un deseo de bien podría ser admitido por la primera puerta, pero tendría que aprender la verdad sobre cómo expresar ese deseo antes de ser admitido por la segunda.
(सन्दर्भ: Apocalipsis Explicado 260 [2]; Arcana Coelestia 2356 [2], Génesis 19, Génesis 19:6; Juan 10:7; Apocalipsis 3:8, 4:1)
Matthew 13:1-15
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On that day Jesus went out of the house, and sat by the seaside.
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Great multitudes gathered to him, so that he entered into a boat, and sat, and all the multitude stood on the beach.
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He spoke to them many things in parables, saying, "Behold, a farmer went out to sow.
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As he sowed, some seeds fell by the roadside, and the birds came and devoured them.
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Others fell on rocky ground, where they didn't have much soil, and immediately they sprang up, because they had no depth of earth.
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When the sun had risen, they were scorched. Because they had no root, they withered away.
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Others fell among thorns. The thorns grew up and choked them.
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Others fell on good soil, and yielded fruit: some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty.
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He who has ears to hear, let him hear."
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The disciples came, and said to him, "Why do you speak to them in parables?"
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He answered them, "To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, but it is not given to them.
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For whoever has, to him will be given, and he will have abundance, but whoever doesn't have, from him will be taken away even that which he has.
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Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they don't see, and hearing, they don't hear, neither do they understand.
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In them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says, 'By hearing you will hear, and will in no way understand; Seeing you will see, and will in no way perceive:
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for this people's heart has grown callous, their ears are dull of hearing, they have closed their eyes; or else perhaps they might perceive with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and should turn again; and I would heal them.'
