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1 Hvert syvende År skal du holde Friår.

2 Og Friåret skal holdes således: Enhver, der har en Fordring på sin Næste, skal give Afkald derpå; han må ikke kræve sin Næste og sin Broder, når et Friår er udråbt for HE EN.

3 Udlændinge må du kræve; men det, du har til gode hos din Broder, skal du give Afkald på.

4 Dog, der bliver ingen fattige hos dig; thi HE EN din Gud vil rigeligt velsigne dig i det Land, HE EN din Gud vil give dig i Arv og Eje,

5 hvis du blot vil adlyde HE EN din Guds øst, så du omhyggeligt handler efter alle disse Bud, som jeg i Dag pålægger dig.

6 Thi HE EN din Gud vil velsigne dig, som han lovede dig, og du skal låne ud til mange Folk, men selv skal du ikke låne; og du skal få Magt over mange Folk, men de skal ikke få Magt over dig.

7 Når der findes en fattig hos dig, en af dine Brødre inden dine Porte et steds i dit Land, som HE en din Gud vil give dig, må du ikke være hårdhjertet og lukke din Hånd for din fattige Broder;

8 men du skal lukke din Hånd op for ham og låne ham, hvad han savner og trænger til.

9 Vogt dig for, at ikke sådan nedrig Tanke kommer op i dig: "Der er ikke længe til det syvende År, Friåret!" så du ser med onde Øjne på din fattige Broder og ikke giver ham noget; thi da vil han råbe til HE EN over dig, og du vil pådrage dig Synd.

10 Men du skal give ham villigt uden at være fortrydelig i dit Hjerte over at skulle give ham; thi for den Sags Skyld vil HE EN din Gud velsigne dig i alt dit Virke, i alt, hvad du tager dig for.

11 Thi der vil aldrig mangle fattige i Landet; derfor byder jeg dig Du skal villigt lukke din Hånd op for din nødlidende og fattige Broder i dit Land.

12 Når en af dine Brødre, en hebraisk Mand eller Kvinde, sælger sig til dig, skal han trælle for dig i seks År, men i det syvende skal du give ham fri.

13 Og når du giver ham fri, må du ikke lade ham gå med tomme Hænder;

14 men du skal give ham rigeligt med af dit Småkvæg og fra din Lo og din Perse; efter som HE EN din Gud velsigner dig, skal du give ham.

15 Du skal komme i Hu, at du selv var Træl i Ægypten, og at HE EN din Gud udløste dig; derfor byder jeg dig dette i dag.

16 Men hvis han siger til dig: "Jeg vil ikke forlade dig, thi jeg har fået Kærlighed til dig og dit Hus og har det godt hos dig",

17 så skal du tage en Syl og stikke den igennem hans Øre ind i Døren, og så skal han være din Træl for Livstid. Og på samme Måde skal du bære dig ad med din Trælkvinde.

18 Du må ikke være fortrydelig over at skulle give ham fri; thi han har ved sit Arbejde i de seks År ydet dig det dobbelte af en Daglejers Løn; og HE EN vil velsigne dig i alt, hvad du tager dig for.

19 Alle førstefødte Handyr, der fødes dig mellem dit Hornkvæg og Småkvæg, skal du hellige HE EN din Gud; du må hverken bruge det førstefødte af dine Okser til Arbejde eller klippe Ulden af det førstefødte af dine Får.

20 For HE EN din Guds Åsyn skal du sammen med din Husstand fortære det År efter År på det Sted, HE EN udvælger.

21 Men hvis de har en Lyde, hvis de er lamme eller blinde eller har en anden slem Lyde, må du ikke ofre dem til HE EN din Gud.

22 Inden dine Port kan du, både de rene og urene iblandt eder, fortære dem som Gazeller eller Hjorte.

23 Kun Blodet må du ikke nyde; det skal du lade løbe ud på Jorden som Vand.

   


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Arcana Coelestia #6854

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6854. 'And I have come down to deliver them from the hand of the Egyptians' means that He would stoop down to them to release them from the power of false factual knowledge, which tries to destroy the truths of the Church. This is clear from the meaning of 'coming down' as stooping down, dealt with below; from the meaning of 'to deliver' as to release, for one who releases people from falsities delivers or sets them free; from the meaning of 'the hand' as the power, dealt with in 878, 3387, 3563, 4931-4937, 5544; and from the meaning of 'the Egyptians' as false factual knowledge, which is opposed to the Church's truths, dealt with in 6651, 6679, 6683, and so which tries to destroy them. As regards the Lord's coming down, the situation is that the Lord is said to come or stoop down when He comes to judgement, 1311, and also when He comes down to lower things, in this instance to those belonging to the spiritual Church, who are meant by 'the children of Israel'. For the subject in the internal sense is the way in which those people are molested by falsities, at which time they undergo temptations, and the way in which after that they are set free in order that they may be led into heaven.

[2] But the contents of the internal sense of this verse and of those that follow hold an even deeper mystery which the Church does not yet know about and which must therefore be disclosed. Those who are termed spiritual are people for whom only the understanding part of their mind, not the will part, can be regenerated. In the understanding part of their mind the Lord therefore implants a new will, a will which conforms to the teachings that compose the faith of their Church. These people, that is to say, spiritual ones such as these, were saved solely by the Lord's Coming into the world. The reason why is that the Divine passing through heaven, which was the Divine Human before the Lord's Coming, could not reach them; for to be sure the teachings of their Church were for the most part not truths, and consequently the good in their will was not good either, 6427. Since those people could be saved solely by the Lord's Coming, they could not be raised into heaven before then. They were therefore kept in the meantime on the lower earth, in places there which in the Word are called 'pits'. This lower earth was besieged on every side by the hells where there were falsities, by which they were molested greatly during that time. In spite of this however the Lord protected them. But after the Lord came into the world and made the Human within Himself Divine, He set free those who were in the pits there and raised them to heaven. From these He also formed the spiritual heaven which is the second heaven. This is what is meant by the Lord's descent into the lower parts 1 and by His deliverance of those who had been bound.

[3] This is the even deeper mystery that is described in the internal sense of this verse and of those that follow. See what has been shown already regarding those who are spiritual,

The spiritual are in obscurity so far as the truth and good of faith are concerned, 2708, 2715, 2718, 2831, 2849, 2935, 2937, 3241, 3833, 6289.

Their obscurity is lightened by the Lord's Divine Human, 2716, 4402.

Because they are in obscurity so far as the truth and good of faith are concerned they are under strong attack from the hells; but the Lord is constantly protecting them, 6419.

Those who are spiritual cannot have the will part of their mind regenerated, only the understanding part; and there the Lord forms a new will, 863, 875, 895, 927, 918, 1023, 1043, 1044, 2156, 4328, 4493, 5113.

The spiritual were saved by the Lord's Coming into the world, 2833, 2834, 3969.

[4] Various places in the prophetical part of the Word mention 'the bound' or 'the bound in the pit' and the fact that the Lord delivered them. The bound' should be taken to mean specifically those spoken of just above, as in Isaiah,

I Jehovah have called you in righteousness, and will hold your hand, because I will guard you, and give you to be a covenant of the people, 2 a light of the nations, to open the blind eyes, to bring the bound out of prison, out of the dungeon-house those who sit in darkness. Isaiah 42:6-7.

In the same prophet,

I have guarded you, and I have given you as covenant of the people - to restore the land; to share out the devastated inheritances; to say to the bound, Go out; to those who are in darkness, Reveal yourselves. They will feed along the ways, and on all slopes will their pasture be. Isaiah 49:8-9.

This plainly refers to the Lord. 'The bound' stands in particular for those who were held back on the lower earth until the Lord's Coming, when they were raised up to heaven, and in general for all who are governed by good, yet are held back as though bound by falsities, from which however they wish to break away.

[5] In Zechariah,

Through the blood of your covenant I will let out your bound ones from the pit. Zechariah 9:11.

In Isaiah,

They will surely be gathered together, the bound ones in the pit, and they will be shut up in the dungeon; after a multitude of days they will be visited. Isaiah 24:21.

'The bound ones in the pit' stands for the same people. And in addition to these places the same meaning can be seen from the following words in Isaiah,

Jehovah has anointed Me to bring good tidings to the poor. He has sent Me to bind up the broken in heart; to preach liberty to captives, to those who are bound, to him who is blind; to proclaim the year of Jehovah's good pleasure. Isaiah 61:1-2.

And elsewhere,

The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; those dwelling in the land of the shadow of death, upon them has the light shone out. Isaiah 9:2.

Bilješke:

1. i.e. hell

2. 'The Latin means for the people but the Hebrew means of the people, which Swedenborg has in some other places where he quotes this verse.

  
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Arcana Coelestia #6851

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6851. 'And Jehovah said, I have indeed seen the affliction of My people means the mercy shown towards those who belonged to the spiritual Church after molestations by falsities. This is clear from the meaning of 'saying' in the historical narratives of the Word as perception, dealt with often, though when used in reference to Jehovah or the Lord 'saying' does not mean perception but omniscience, since the Lord has from eternity a perception and knowledge of every single thing; from the meaning of 'indeed seeing', when used in reference to Jehovah or the Lord, as mercy, for when the Lord sees someone in distress or suffering affliction He has compassion on him (the Lord, it is true, sees everyone and so has compassion on everyone; yet it cannot really be said of any apart from those who accept His mercy, namely those governed by good, that He has compassion on them); from the meaning of 'affliction' as molestation, 6663, here by falsities since the affliction came from the Egyptians, by whom false factual knowledge is meant, 6651, 6679, 6683; and from the meaning of 'people' as those who belong to the spiritual Church, dealt with in 2928 (those who belong to the celestial Church are referred to in the Word as 'a nation').

  
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