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5 Mosebog 11

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1 Så elsk da HE EN din Gud og hold hans Forskrifter, hans Anordninger, Lovbud og Bud alle Dage:

2 jeg taler ikke til eders Børn, der ikke har oplevet det og set det; betænk derfor i Dag HE EN eders Guds Optugtelse, hans Storhed, hans stærke Hånd og udstrakte Arm,

3 hans Tegn og Gerninger, som han gjorde midt i Ægypten mod Farao, Ægypterkongen, og hele hans Land,

4 og hvad han gjorde ved Ægypternes Hærmagt, deres Heste og Vogne, som han, da de forfulgte eder, lod det røde Havs Vande skylle hen over og tilintetgjorde for stedse,

5 og hvad han gjorde for eder i Ørkenen, lige til I kom til Stedet her,

6 og hvad han gjorde ved Datan og Abiram, ubens Søn Eliabs Sønner, hvorledes Jorden åbnede sin Mund og slugte dem tillige med deres Huse og Telte og alt, hvad der var i ledtog med dem, midt iblandt hele Israel!

7 Thi med egne Øjne har I set al den Stordåd, HE EN har øvet!

8 Så hold da alle de Bud, jeg i Dag pålægger dig, for at I kan vinde Styrke og komme og tage det Land i Besiddelse, som I skal over og tage i Besiddelse,

9 og for at I kan få et langt Liv på den Jord, HE EN tilsvor eders Fædre at ville give dem og deres Afkom, et Land, der flyder med Mælk og Honning.

10 Thi det Land, du skal ind og tage i Besiddelse, er ikke som Ægypten, hvorfra I drog ud! Når du der havde sået din Sæd, måtte du vande Landet med din Fod, som en Urtehave;

11 nej, det Land, I skal over og tage i Besiddelse, er et Land med Bjerge og Dale, der drikker Vand, når egnen falder fra Himmelen,

12 et Land, som HE EN din Gud har Omhu for, og som HE EN din Guds Øjne stadig hviler på, fra Årets Begyndelse og til dets Slutning.

13 Og hvis I nu lyder mine Bud, som jeg i Dag pålægger eder, så I elsker HE EN eders Gud og tjener ham af hele eders Hjerte og hele eders Sjæl,

14 så vil jeg give eders Land dets egn i rette Tid, både Tidligregn og Sildigregn, så du kan høste dit Korn, din Most og din Olie;

15 og jeg vil give Græs på din Mark til dit Kvæg; og du skal spise dig mæt.

16 Men vogt eder, at ikke eders Hjerte dåres, så I falder fra og dyrker andre Guder og tilbeder dem;

17 thi da vil HE ENs Vredeblusse op imod eder, og han vil lukke Himmelen, så der ikke falder egn, og Jorden ikke giver Grøde, og I skal hurtigt udryddes af det herlige Land, HE EN vil give eder.

18 I skal lægge eder disse mine Ord på Hjerte og Sinde, binde dem som et Tegn om eders Hånd og lade dem være et Erindringsmærke på eders Pande,

19 og I skal lære eders Børn dem, idet I taler om dem, både når du sidder i dit Hus, og når du vandrer på Vejen, både når du lægger dig, og når du står op.

20 Og du skal skrive dem på Dørstolperne af dit Hus og på dine Porte,

21 for at I og eders Børn må leve i det Land, HE EN tilsvor eders Fædre at ville give dem, så længe Himmelen er over Jorden.

22 Thi hvis I vogter vel på alle disse Bud, som jeg i Dag pålægger eder at holde, så I elsker HE EN eders Gud og vandrer på alle hans Veje og hænger fast ved ham,

23 så skal HE EN drive alle disse Folk bort foran eder, og I skal underlægge eder Folk, der er større og mægtigere end I.

24 Hver Plet, eders Fodsål betræder, skal tilhøre eder; fra Ørkenen til Libanon og fra den store Flod, Eufratfloden, til Havet i Vest skal eders Landemærker strække sig.

25 Ingen skal kunne holde Stand for eder; Skræk og ædsel for eder skal HE EN eders Gud lade komme over hele det Land, I betræder, således som han lovede eder.

26 Se, jeg forelægger eder i Dag Velsignelse og Forbandelse,

27 Velsignelsen, hvis I lyder HE EN eders Guds Bud, som jeg i Dag pålægger eder,

28 og Forbandelsen, hvis ikke lyder HE EN eders Guds Bud, men viger bort fra den Vej, jeg i Dag foreskriver eder, for at holde eder til andre Guder, I ikke før kendte til.

29 Og når HE EN din Gud fører dig ind i det Land, du skal ind og tage i Besiddelse, så skal du lægge Velsignelsen på Garizims Bjerg og Forbandelsen på Ebals Bjerg.

30 De ligger jo hinsides Jordan, bag ved den, mod Vest, i de Kanånæeres Land, der bor i Arabalavningen, lige over for Gilgal ved Sandsigerens Træ.

31 Thi I står jo nu i Begreb med at overskride Jordan for at gå ind og tage det Land i Besiddelse, som HE EN eders Gud vil give eder. Når I da har taget det i Besiddelse og bosat eder der,

32 skal I omhyggeligt handle efter alle de Anordninger og Lovbud, jeg i Dag forelægger eder!

   


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Arcana Coelestia #7673

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7673. 'Stretch out your hand' means an exercising of power. This is clear from the meaning of 'stretching out' as that which is connected with the exercising of control, dealt with below; and from the meaning of 'hand' as power, dealt with in 878, 3387, 4931-4937, 5327, 5328, 5544, 6292, 6947, 7011, 7188, 7189, 7518. The reason why 'stretching out the hand' means the exercising of power is that there is power in the hand or arm when it is stretched out. When therefore Jehovah is said to stretch out His hand or arm, boundless or infinite power in action is meant. This explains why Jehovah told Moses on so many occasions, when miracles were to be performed, to stretch out his hand or his rod; for example,

Stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt, and they will be blood. Exodus 7:19.

Stretch out your hand over the rivers, and cause frogs to rise up. Exodus 8:1-2. 1

Stretch out your rod and strike the dust of the land, and it will then be lice. Exodus 8:11, 12. 2

Stretch out your hand towards heaven, and there will be hail. Exodus 9:22-23.

Such words would never have been used but for the meaning of 'stretching out the hand' in the highest sense as Jehovah's almighty power.

[2] The same thing is meant by Joshua's being told to stretch out his javelin, described in his book as follows,

Jehovah said to Joshua, Stretch out the javelin that is in your hand towards Ai. When therefore Joshua stretched out the javelin that was in his hand towards Ai, the ambush rose up quickly out of their place and ran, as soon as he stretched out his hand, and came to the city and took it. Joshua did not withdraw his hand which he had stretched out together with the javelin until all the inhabitants of Ai had been utterly destroyed. Joshua 8:18-19, 26.

Being representative of God's almighty power, this too, like all other representative actions when they were commanded in those times, had force.

[3] There are a number of other places in which almighty power is described when it says that Jehovah 'stretches out His hand', or else His 'outstretched hand' or His 'outstretched arm' is spoken of. It is described by Jehovah stretching out His hand in Isaiah,

The anger [of Jehovah] has been roused against His people, and He has stretched out His hand over them and struck them, and the mountains were shaken. Isaiah 5:25.

In Ezekiel,

I will stretch out My hand against him and destroy him. Ezekiel 14:9, 13.

In the same prophet,

I will stretch out My hand against you, and give you as plunder to the nations. Ezekiel 25:7.

I will stretch out My hand over Edom, and cut off from it man and beast. I will stretch out My hand over the philistines, and cut off . . . Ezekiel 25:13, 16.

Other places like these are Ezekiel 35:3; Isaiah 31:3; Zephaniah 1:4; 2:13. The use of 'outstretched hand' to describe almighty power occurs in Isaiah,

Jehovah's outstretched hand is over all the nations; who will turn it back? Isaiah 14:26, 27.

In Jeremiah,

I will fight with you with an outstretched hand and a strong arm, and in anger and in fury. Jeremiah 21:5.

In Isaiah,

Still His hand is outstretched. Isaiah 9:12, 17; 10:4.

The use of 'outstretched arm' occurs in Jeremiah,

I have made the earth, man, and beast by My great strength and by My outstretched arm. Jeremiah 27:5.

In the same prophet,

You have made heaven and earth by Your great power and Your outstretched arm; there is no matter 3 that is too impossible for You. Jeremiah 32:17.

Here it is self-evident that 'outstretched arm' means almighty power. The same applies to many other places in which the expression 'by a strong hand and an outstretched arm' is used, such as Deuteronomy 4:34; 5:15; 7:19; 9:29; 11:2; 26:8; 1 Kings 8:42; 2 Kings 17:36; Jeremiah 32:21; Ezekiel 20:33, 34.

[4] There are places too in which Jehovah is said to 'stretch out the heavens', and in these places also 'stretching out' means almighty power; that is to say, He expands the limits of heaven and fills those who are there with life and wisdom, as in Isaiah,

Jehovah is He who stretches out the heavens like a thin veil, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in. Isaiah 40:22.

In the same prophet,

Jehovah is He who stretches out the heavens, spreads out the earth, gives breath 4 to His people upon it, and spirit to those who walk on it. Isaiah 42:5.

In Jeremiah,

. . . He who makes the earth by His power, prepares the world by His wisdom, and stretches out the heavens by His intelligence. Jeremiah 51:15.

In Zechariah,

Jehovah is He who stretches out the heavens, and founds the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him. Zechariah 12:1.

There are still more places besides these, such as Isaiah 44:24; 45:12; Psalms 104:2.

From all this one may now see why Moses was commanded to stretch out his hand and rod, that miracles were performed when he did so, and that 'stretching out the hand' for that reason means the exercising of power, and in the highest sense almighty power.

Фусноти:

1Exodus 8:5-6 in English Bibles

2Exodus 8:16-17 in English Bibles

3. or word

4. literally, soul

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

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Ezekiel 14

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1 Then came certain of the elders of Israel to me, and sat before me.

2 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

3 Son of man, these men have taken their idols into their heart, and put the stumbling block of their iniquity before their face: should I be inquired of at all by them?

4 Therefore speak to them, and tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Every man of the house of Israel who takes his idols into his heart, and puts the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and comes to the prophet; I Yahweh will answer him therein according to the multitude of his idols;

5 that I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols.

6 Therefore tell the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Return, and turn yourselves from your idols; and turn away your faces from all your abominations.

7 For everyone of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who live in Israel, who separates himself from me, and takes his idols into his heart, and puts the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and comes to the prophet to inquire for himself of me; I Yahweh will answer him by myself:

8 and I will set my face against that man, and will make him an astonishment, for a sign and a proverb, and I will cut him off from the midst of my people; and you shall know that I am Yahweh.

9 If the prophet is deceived and speak a word, I, Yahweh, have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand on him, and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel.

10 They shall bear their iniquity: the iniquity of the prophet shall be even as the iniquity of him who seeks [to him];

11 that the house of Israel may go no more astray from me, neither defile themselves any more with all their transgressions; but that they may be my people, and I may be their God, says the Lord Yahweh.

12 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

13 Son of man, when a land sins against me by committing a trespass, and I stretch out my hand on it, and break the staff of its bread, and send famine on it, and cut off from it man and animal;

14 though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, says the Lord Yahweh.

15 If I cause evil animals to pass through the land, and they ravage it, and it be made desolate, so that no man may pass through because of the animals;

16 though these three men were in it, as I live, says the Lord Yahweh, they should deliver neither sons nor daughters; they only should be delivered, but the land should be desolate.

17 Or if I bring a sword on that land, and say, sword, go through the land; so that I cut off from it man and animal;

18 though these three men were in it, as I live, says the Lord Yahweh, they should deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they only should be delivered themselves.

19 Or if I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my wrath on it in blood, to cut off from it man and animal;

20 though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live, says the Lord Yahweh, they should deliver neither son nor daughter; they should but deliver their own souls by their righteousness.

21 For thus says the Lord Yahweh: How much more when I send my four severe judgments on Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the evil animals, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and animal!

22 Yet, behold, therein shall be left a remnant that shall be carried forth, both sons and daughters: behold, they shall come forth to you, and you shall see their way and their doings; and you shall be comforted concerning the evil that I have brought on Jerusalem, even concerning all that I have brought on it.

23 They shall comfort you, when you see their way and their doings; and you shall know that I have not done without cause all that I have done in it, says the Lord Yahweh.