Mooseksen kirja 18
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Papilla, Leviläisillä ja kaikella Levin sukukunnalla ei pidä osaa eli perintöä Israelissa oleman. Herran uhria ja hänen perintöänsä pitää heidän syömän.
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Sentähden ei pidä hänellä perimistä oleman veljeinsä keskellä; sillä Herra on hänen perimisensä, niinkuin hän on hänelle sanonut.
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Ja tämä on pappein oikeus kansalta ja niiltä, jotka uhraavat härjän tahi lampaan: Papille annettakaan lapa, leukaluut ja sisällykset,
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Ja uutisen jyvistäs, viinastas, öljystäs, ja liemenet lampaistas pitää sinun antaman hänelle.
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Sillä Herra sinun Jumalas on hänen valinnut kaikista sinun sukukunnistas, seisomaan ja palvelemaan Herran nimeen, hän ja hänen poikansa jokapäivä.
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Koska Leviläinen tulee jostakusta sinun portistas, koko Israelista, kussa hän vieras on, ja hän tulee kaikesta sielunsa himosta siihen paikkaan, jonka Herra valinnut on;
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Niin palvelkaan hän Herran Jumalansa nimeen, niinkuin kaikki muutkin Leviläiset hänen veljensä, jotka siellä seisovat Herran edessä.
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Ja heidän pitää yhden verran osaa saaman syödäksensä, paitsi sitä mitä hänellä on vanhempainsa myydestä hyvyydestä.
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Koskas tulet siihen maahan, jonka Herra sinun Jumalas sinulle antaa, niin älä opi tekemään sen kansan kauhistusten jälkeen.
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Ei yksikään pidä sinun seassas löyttämän, joka poikansa eli tyttärensä käyttää tulessa, eli joka on ennustaja, päivän valitsija, tietäjä, tahi velho,
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Tahi lumooja, tahi noita, tahi merkkein tulkitsija, tahi joka kuolleita kysyy.
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Sillä joka senkaltaisia tekee, on Herralle kauhistus, ja senkaltaisten kauhistusten tähden ajaa Herra sinun Jumalas heidät ulos sinun edestäs.
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Sinun pitää oleman vakaa Herran sinun Jumalas edessä.
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Sillä nämät kansat, joiden maan sinä omistat, kuulevat päivän valitsioita ja ennustajia: mutta sinulle ei ole niin Herra sinun Jumalas sallinut.
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Vaan Prophetan sinun seastas, sinun veljistäs, minun kaltaiseni, herättää sinulle Herra sinun Jumalas: häntä kuulkaat.
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Kaiken se jälkeen kuin sinä anoit Herralta sinun Jumalaltas Horebissa kokouksen päivänä, sanoen: en minä voi enää kuulla Herran minun Jumalani ääntä, enkä silleen voi suurta tulta nähdä, etten minä kuolisi,
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Ja Herra sanoi minulle: he ovat oikein puhuneet,
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Minä herätän heille Prophetan heidän veljistänsä niinkuin sinä olet, ja minä panen minun sanani hänen suuhunsa: hän puhuu heille kaikkia mitä minä hänelle käsken.
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Ja tapahtuu, että joka ei minun sanaani kuule, jonka hän minun nimeeni puhuu, häneltä minä sen vaadin.
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Mutta jos joku propheta ylpeydestä puhuu minun nimeeni sitä mitä en minä hänen käskenyt puhua, ja se joka puhuu muiden jumalain nimeen, sen prophetan pitä kuoleman.
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Jos sanot sydämessäs: kuinka me tiedämme, mitä sanoja ei Herra ole puhunut?
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Kuin propheta puhuu Herran nimeen, ja ei siitä mitään ole, eikä niin tapahdu, niin ne ovat ne sanat, joita ei Herra ole puhunut: se propheta on sen puhunut ylpeydestänsä, älä pelkää häntä.
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Apocalypse Explained # 625
625. Upon peoples, and nations, and tongues, and many kings, signifies with all who are in truths and goods in respect to life, and at the same time in goods and truths in respect to doctrine according to each one's religion, consequently to teach the Word in respect to the goods of life and the truths of doctrine. This is evident from the signification of "peoples and nations," as being those who are of the spiritual church and those who are of the celestial church; those who are of the spiritual church are called in the Word "peoples," but those who are of the celestial church are called "nations." Those who are of the spiritual church, who are called "peoples," are they who are in truths in respect to doctrine and life; and they who are of the celestial church, who are called "nations," are they who are in the good of love to the Lord, and thus in good in respect to life. (But on this signification of "peoples and nations" in the Word, see above, n. 175, 331.) Also from the signification of "tongues and many kings," as being those who are in goods and truths in respect to life and doctrine, but according to each one's religion; for "tongues" signify the goods of truth and confession of these according to each one's religion (See above, n. 330, 455); and "kings" signify truths that are from good, and "many kings" various truths from good, but according to each one's religion. (That "kings" signify truths from good, see above, n. 31, 553)
[2] "Many kings" signify various truths that are from good, because the peoples and nations outside of the church were for the most part in falsities as to doctrine, and yet because they lived a life of love to God and of charity towards the neighbor the falsities of their religion were accepted by the Lord as truths, for the reason that there was inwardly in their falsities the good of love, and the good of love gives its quality to every truth, and in this case it gives its quality to the falsity that such accept as truth; and moreover, the good that lies concealed within causes such when they come into the other life to perceive genuine truths and accept them. Again there are truths that are only appearances of truth, like those truths that are in the sense of the letter of the Word; these appearances of truth are accepted by the Lord as genuine truths when there is in them the good of love to the Lord and the good of charity towards the neighbor; and with such in the other life the good that lies hidden within dissipates the appearances, and makes bare the spiritual truths which are genuine truths. From this it can be seen what is here meant by "many kings." (But respecting the falsities in which there is good that exist among the Gentiles, see in The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem 21.)
[3] From what has been said and shown in this and the preceding article, it can be seen that "he must again prophesy upon peoples, and nations, and tongues, and many kings" signifies that the Word must still be taught to those who are in goods and truths in respect to doctrine, and thence are in life; but as it is said "upon peoples, nations, tongues, and kings," these words signify also that the Word must be taught in respect to the goods of life and the truths of doctrine, for these two are what the Word in its whole complex contains.
[4] This is the sense of these words abstracted from persons, which is the truly spiritual sense. The sense of the letter in most places has regard to persons, and mentions persons, but the truly spiritual sense is without any regard whatever to persons. For angels who are in the spiritual sense of the Word have no idea of person or of place in any particular of what they think or speak, for the idea of person or of place limits and confines the thoughts, and thereby renders them natural; it is otherwise when the idea is abstracted from persons and places. It is from this that angels have intelligence and wisdom, and that thence angelic intelligence and wisdom are ineffable. While man lives in the world he is in natural thought, and natural thought derives its ideas from persons, places, times, and material things, and if these should be taken away from man, his thought which comes to perception would perish, for without these he comprehends nothing; but angelic thought is apart from ideas drawn from persons, places, times, and material things; and this is why angelic thought and speech are ineffable, and to man also incomprehensible.
[5] And yet a man who has lived in the world a life of love to the Lord and of charity towards the neighbor comes, after his departure from the world, into that ineffable intelligence and wisdom; for his interior mind, which is the very mind of his spirit, is then opened, and then the man, when he becomes an angel, thinks and speaks from that mind, and consequently thinks and speaks such things as he could not utter or comprehend in the world. Such a spiritual mind, which is like the angelic mind, every man has; but because man while in the world speaks, sees, hears, and feels, by means of a material body, that mind lies hidden within the natural mind, or lives above it; and what man thinks in that mind he is wholly ignorant of; for the thought of that mind then flows into the natural mind, and there limits, bounds, and so presents itself as to be seen and perceived. So long as man is in the body in the world, he does not know that he has within him this mind, and in it possesses angelic intelligence and wisdom, because, as has been said, all things that abide there flow into the natural mind, and thus become natural according to correspondences. This has been said to make known what the Word is in the spiritual sense, which sense is wholly abstracted from persons and places, that is, from such things as derive their quality from the material things of the body and the world.
