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또 여부스 족속과, 아모리 족속과, 기르가스 족속과
Arcana Coelestia＃1200
1200. That “Canaan” signifies external worship in which there is nothing internal, was shown before where Canaan was treated of. The external worship which is called “Canaan” is such as was that of the Jews, both before and after the coming of the Lord. They had an external worship which they strictly observed, but yet were so ignorant of what is internal that they supposed that they lived only with the body. Of the nature of the soul, of faith, of the Lord, of spiritual and celestial life, of the life after death, they were entirely ignorant. And therefore in the time of the Lord very many of them denied the resurrection-as is evident in Matthew 22:22-33; Mark 12:18-28; Luke 20:27-41. When a man is such that he does not believe that he will live after death, he also disbelieves that there is anything internal which is spiritual and celestial; and such are they who live in mere cupidities, because they live a mere life of the body and of the world; especially those who are immersed in loathsome avarice. They nevertheless have worship, attend their synagogues, or their churches, and observe the ceremonies, some very strictly; but as they do not believe that there is a life after death, their worship cannot be other than external worship wherein is nothing internal-like a shell without a kernel, or a tree whereon is no fruit, and not even leaves. It is such external worship that is signified by “Canaan.” The other kinds of external worship, 1 treated of above, were worships that had internal things within.
脚注:
1. The Latin here, by a manifest slip, says “internal worship.” [Reviser.]
Mark 12:18-28
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There came to him Sadducees, who say that there is no resurrection. They asked him, saying,
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"Teacher, Moses wrote to us, 'If a man's brother dies, and leaves a wife behind him, and leaves no children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up offspring for his brother.'
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There were seven brothers. The first took a wife, and dying left no offspring.
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The second took her, and died, leaving no children behind him. The third likewise;
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and the seven took her and left no children. Last of all the woman also died.
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In the resurrection, when they rise, whose wife will she be of them? For the seven had her as a wife."
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Jesus answered them, "Isn't this because you are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God?
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For when they will rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.
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But about the dead, that they are raised; haven't you read in the book of Moses, about the Bush, how God spoke to him, saying, 'I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'?
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He is not the God of the dead, but of the living. You are therefore badly mistaken."
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One of the scribes came, and heard them questioning together. Knowing that he had answered them well, asked him, "Which commandment is the greatest of all?"
