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Δευτερονόμιο 23

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1 Ο εχων τα κρυφια αυτου τεθλασμενα η αποκεκομμενα δεν θελει εισελθει εις την συναγωγην του Κυριου.

2 Ο νοθος δεν θελει εισελθει εις την συναγωγην του Κυριου· εως δεκατης γενεας αυτου δεν θελει εισελθει εις την συναγωγην του Κυριου.

3 Αμμωνιτης και Μωαβιτης δεν θελει εισελθει εις την συναγωγην του Κυριου· εως δεκατης γενεας αυτων ουδεποτε θελουσιν εισελθει εις την συναγωγην του Κυριου.

4 Διοτι δεν σας προυπηντησαν με αρτον και υδωρ εν τη οδω, οτε εξηρχεσθε εξ Αιγυπτου· και διοτι εμισθωσαν κατα σου τον Βαλααμ τον υιον του Βεωρ εκ Φεθορα της Μεσοποταμιας, δια να σε καταρασθη.

5 Αλλα Κυριος ο Θεος σου δεν ηθελησε να εισακουση του Βαλααμ· αλλα Κυριος ο Θεος σου μετεβαλε την καταραν εις ευλογιαν προς σε, διοτι Κυριος ο Θεος σου σε ηγαπησε.

6 Δεν θελεις ζητησει την ειρηνην αυτων ουδε την ευτυχιαν αυτων πασας τας ημερας σου εις τον αιωνα.

7 Δεν θελεις βδελυττεσθαι τον Ιδουμαιον, διοτι ειναι αδελφος σου· δεν θελεις βδελυττεσθαι τον Αιγυπτιον, διοτι εσταθης ξενος εν τη γη αυτου.

8 Τα παιδια, οσα γεννηθωσιν εξ αυτων, θελουσιν εισελθει εις την συναγωγην του Κυριου εν τη τριτη γενεα αυτων.

9 Οταν εκστρατευης επι τους εχθρους σου, φυλαττου απο παντος κακου πραγματος.

10 Εαν ηναι εν μεσω σου ανθρωπος, οστις δεν ειναι καθαρος, εκ τινος συμβαντος εις αυτον την νυκτα, θελει εξελθει εξω του στρατοπεδου, δεν θελει εισελθει εντος του στρατοπεδου·

11 και προς την εσπεραν θελει λουσθη εν υδατι και δυνοντος του ηλιου θελει εισελθει εντος του στρατοπεδου.

12 Και θελεις εχει τοπον εξω του στρατοπεδου και θελεις εξελθει εκει εξω·

13 και θελεις εχει πτυαριον μικρον μεταξυ των οπλων σου· και οταν καθησαι εξω, θελεις σκαπτει δι' αυτου, και θελεις στρεψει και σκεπασει το εξερχομενον απο σου.

14 Διοτι Κυριος ο Θεος σου περιπατει εν μεσω του στρατοπεδου σου, δια να σε ελευθερωση και δια να παραδωση τους εχθρους σου εμπροσθεν σου· δια τουτο θελει εισθαι αγιον το στρατοπεδον σου· δια να μη βλεπη ακαθαρσιαν τινα εν σοι, και αποστρεψη απο σου.

15 Δεν θελεις παραδωσει δουλον εις τον κυριον αυτου, οστις κατεφυγεν απο του κυριου αυτου προς σε·

16 μετα σου θελει κατοικει, εν μεσω σου, εις οντινα τοπον εκλεξη, εν μια των πυλων σου οπου αρεσκη εις αυτον· δεν θελεις καταδυναστευσει αυτον.

17 Πορνη δεν θελει υπαρχει εκ των θυγατερων Ισραηλ, ουδε θελει εισθαι κιναιδος εκ των υιων Ισραηλ.

18 Δεν θελεις φερει πληρωμην πορνης ουδε μισθωμα κυνος, εις τον οικον Κυριου του Θεου σου, δι' ουδεμιαν ευχην· διοτι αμφοτερα ταυτα ειναι βδελυγμα εις Κυριον τον Θεον σου.

19 Δεν θελεις δανειζει εις τον αδελφον σου χρηματα επι τοκω, τροφας επι τοκω, ουδεν πραγμα δανειζομενον επι τοκω.

20 Εις τον ξενον δυνασαι να τοκιζης· εις τον αδελφον σου ομως δεν θελεις τοκισει δια να σε ευλογη Κυριος ο Θεος σου εις πασας τας επιχειρησεις σου, επι της γης, εις την οποιαν υπαγεις δια να κληρονομησης αυτην.

21 Οταν ευχηθης ευχην προς Κυριον τον Θεον σου, δεν θελεις βραδυνει να αποδωσης αυτην· διοτι Κυριος ο Θεος σου θελει εξαπαντος εκζητησει αυτην παρα σου, και θελει εισθαι αμαρτια εις σε.

22 Εαν ομως δεν θελης να ευχηθης, δεν θελει εισθαι αμαρτια εις σε.

23 Ο, τι εξελθη εκ των χειλεων σου θελεις φυλαξει, και θελεις εκτελεσει καθ' ον τροπον ευχηθης εις Κυριον τον Θεον σου την αυτοπροαιρετον προσφοραν, την οποιαν υπεσχεθης δια στοματος σου.

24 Οταν εισερχησαι εις τον αμπελωνα του πλησιον σου, δυνασαι να τρωγης σταφυλια κατα την ορεξιν σου, εωσου χορτασθης· εις το αγγειον σου ομως δεν θελεις βαλει.

25 Οταν εισερχησαι εις τα σπαρτα του πλησιον σου, δυνασαι να αποσπας δια της χειρος σου ασταχυα· δρεπανον ομως δεν δυνασαι να βαλης εις τα σπαρτα του πλησιον σου.

   

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Arcana Coelestia #1947

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1947. 'Because Jehovah has hearkened to your affliction' means since it was submitting itself. This is clear from what has been stated above in 1937 about 'humiliating oneself and flinging oneself down' as meaning submitting oneself beneath the controlling power of the internal man, which submission was discussed there and was shown to consist in self-compulsion. It was also shown that in self-compulsion there is freedom, that is, what is willing and spontaneous, and that this distinguishes self-compulsion from being compelled. It was also shown that without this freedom, or willingness and spontaneity, a person cannot possibly be reformed and receive any heavenly proprium; also that though the contrary seems to be the case, there is more freedom in times of temptation than there is outside of them. Indeed at such times freedom increases as assaults are made by evils and falsities and it is consolidated by the Lord in order that a heavenly proprium may be given to the person. For that reason also the Lord is closer in times of temptation. It was shown as well that the Lord in no way compels anybody. No one who is compelled to think that which is true and to do that which is good is reformed, but instead thinks all the more what is false and wills all the more what is evil. This is so with all compulsion, as may also become clear from all the experience and lessons of life, which when learned prove two things - first, that human consciences will not allow themselves to be coerced, and second, that we strive after the forbidden.

[2] Furthermore everyone who is not free desires to become so, for this is his life. From this it is evident that nothing is in any way pleasing to the Lord that is not done in freedom, that is, spontaneously or willingly. For when anyone worships the Lord under circumstances in which he is not free he worships Him with nothing of himself. In his case that which moves the external is the external, that is, it is moved under compulsion - the internal being non-existent, or else incompatible, and even contradictory. When a person is being regenerated he compels himself from the freedom the Lord imparts to him, and humbles, and indeed afflicts, his rational, so that it may submit itself, and in consequence he receives a heavenly proprium. This proprium is then gradually perfected by the Lord and it becomes more and more free, so that as a result it becomes the affection for good and for truth deriving from that good, and possesses delight. And in that affection and delight there is happiness such as the angels experience. This freedom is what the Lord Himself is referring to in John.

The truth makes you free. If the Son makes you free, you are truly free. John 8:32, 36. 1

[3] What this freedom is, is totally unknown to those who do not have conscience, for they identify freedom with feelings of being at liberty and without restraint to think and utter what is false, and to will and do what is evil, and not to control and humble, still less to afflict, those feelings. Yet this is the complete reverse of freedom, as the Lord again teaches in the same place,

Everyone who commits sin is a slave of sin. John 8:34.

People acquire this slave-like freedom from the hellish spirits who reside with them and who inject it into them. When the life of those hellish spirits takes possession of them so do the loves and desires of those same spirits; for an unclean and utterly disgusting delight blows upon them, and being carried away so to speak in a stream they imagine themselves to be in freedom; but it is hellish freedom. The difference between this hellish freedom and heavenly freedom is that the former spells death and drags them down into hell, while the latter, that is, heavenly freedom, promises life and lifts them up to heaven.

[4] That all true internal worship springs from freedom, not from compulsion, and that unless it springs from freedom it is not internal worship, is clear from the Word, from the sacrifices - free-will, votive, and peace or eucharistic - which were called offerings and oblations, mentioned in Numbers 15:3 and following verses; Deuteronomy 12:6; 16:10-11; 23:23; and elsewhere. In David,

With a free-will offering I will sacrifice to You; I will confess Your name, O Jehovah, for it is good. Psalms 54:6.

From the thruma, 2 or the collection which the people were to contribute towards the Tabernacle and sacred vestments, referred to in Moses,

Speak to the children of Israel and let them receive for Me a collection; from every man whose heart makes him willing you shall receive My collection. Exodus 25:2.

And elsewhere in Moses,

Everyone who is willing in heart shall bring it, Jehovah's collection. Exodus 35:5.

[5] The humbling of the rational man, or affliction of it - as stated, from freedom - was also represented by the affliction souls underwent during festivals, referred to in Moses,

It shall be a statute to you for ever: in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall afflict your souls. Leviticus 16:29.

And elsewhere in Moses,

On the tenth day of the seventh month is the day of atonement; it shall be a holy convocation for you, and you shall afflict your souls. Every soul who does not afflict himself on that very day shall be cut off from his peoples. Leviticus 23:27, 29.

It is for this reason that unleavened bread in which no fermentation has taken place is called the bread of affliction in Deuteronomy 16:2-3. Affliction is referred to in David in the following way,

O Jehovah, who will sojourn in Your tent? Who will dwell on Your holy mountain? He who walks blameless and performs righteousness, who swears to the affliction of himself and changes not. Psalms 15:1-2, 4.

[6] That 'affliction' is the taming and subduing of evils and falsities rising up from the external man into the rational man may become clear from what has been stated. Thus it is not any reduction of oneself to poverty and misery - not a renunciation of bodily enjoyments - that is meant by affliction. No taming and subduing of evil can result from doing that; indeed it may give rise to an additional evil, namely the desire to receive merit for such a renunciation; and what is more, man's freedom suffers, in which alone, as its ground, the good and truth of faith is able to be sown. Affliction also means temptation; see what has been said already in 1846.

Bilješke:

1. In 9096, where this verse is quoted, the verbs are future tense, as in the Greek.

2. A Hebrew word meaning an offering

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

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Deuteronomy 12

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1 These are the statutes and the ordinances which you shall observe to do in the land which Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess it, all the days that you live on the earth.

2 You shall surely destroy all the places in which the nations that you shall dispossess served their gods, on the high mountains, and on the hills, and under every green tree:

3 and you shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and burn their Asherim with fire; and you shall cut down the engraved images of their gods; and you shall destroy their name out of that place.

4 You shall not do so to Yahweh your God.

5 But to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose out of all your tribes, to put his name there, even to his habitation you shall seek, and there you shall come;

6 and there you shall bring your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and the wave offering of your hand, and your vows, and your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock:

7 and there you shall eat before Yahweh your God, and you shall rejoice in all that you put your hand to, you and your households, in which Yahweh your God has blessed you.

8 You shall not do after all the things that we do here this day, every man whatever is right in his own eyes;

9 for you haven't yet come to the rest and to the inheritance, which Yahweh your God gives you.

10 But when you go over the Jordan, and dwell in the land which Yahweh your God causes you to inherit, and he gives you rest from all your enemies around you, so that you dwell in safety;

11 then it shall happen that to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there, there you shall bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the wave offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which you vow to Yahweh.

12 You shall rejoice before Yahweh your God, you, and your sons, and your daughters, and your male servants, and your female servants, and the Levite who is within your gates, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you.

13 Take heed to yourself that you don't offer your burnt offerings in every place that you see;

14 but in the place which Yahweh shall choose in one of your tribes, there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all that I command you.

15 Notwithstanding, you may kill and eat flesh within all your gates, after all the desire of your soul, according to the blessing of Yahweh your God which he has given you: the unclean and the clean may eat of it, as of the gazelle, and as of the hart.

16 Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it out on the earth as water.

17 You may not eat within your gates the tithe of your grain, or of your new wine, or of your oil, or the firstborn of your herd or of your flock, nor any of your vows which you vow, nor your freewill offerings, nor the wave offering of your hand;

18 but you shall eat them before Yahweh your God in the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your male servant, and your female servant, and the Levite who is within your gates: and you shall rejoice before Yahweh your God in all that you put your hand to.

19 Take heed to yourself that you don't forsake the Levite as long as you live in your land.

20 When Yahweh your God shall enlarge your border, as he has promised you, and you shall say, "I want to eat meat," because your soul desires to eat meat; you may eat meat, after all the desire of your soul.

21 If the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to put his name there, is too far from you, then you shall kill of your herd and of your flock, which Yahweh has given you, as I have commanded you; and you may eat within your gates, after all the desire of your soul.

22 Even as the gazelle and as the hart is eaten, so you shall eat of it: the unclean and the clean may eat of it alike.

23 Only be sure that you don't eat the blood: for the blood is the life; and you shall not eat the life with the flesh.

24 You shall not eat it; you shall pour it out on the earth as water.

25 You shall not eat it; that it may go well with you, and with your children after you, when you shall do that which is right in the eyes of Yahweh.

26 Only your holy things which you have, and your vows, you shall take, and go to the place which Yahweh shall choose:

27 and you shall offer your burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, on the altar of Yahweh your God; and the blood of your sacrifices shall be poured out on the altar of Yahweh your God; and you shall eat the flesh.

28 Observe and hear all these words which I command you, that it may go well with you, and with your children after you forever, when you do that which is good and right in the eyes of Yahweh your God.

29 When Yahweh your God shall cut off the nations from before you, where you go in to dispossess them, and you dispossess them, and dwell in their land;

30 take heed to yourself that you not be ensnared to follow them, after that they are destroyed from before you; and that you not inquire after their gods, saying, "How do these nations serve their gods? I will do likewise."

31 You shall not do so to Yahweh your God: for every abomination to Yahweh, which he hates, have they done to their gods; for even their sons and their daughters do they burn in the fire to their gods.

32 Whatever thing I command you, that you shall observe to do: you shall not add thereto, nor diminish from it.

   

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