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Mooseksen kirja 14

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1 Te olette Herran teidän Jumalanne lapset: älkäät piirustelko itsiänne, ja älkäät keritkö itsiänne paljaaksi otsaltanne, jonkun kuolleen tähden.

2 Sillä sinä olet pyhä kansa Herralle sinun Jumalalles, ja Herra on sinun valinnut erinomaiseksi kansaksi, kaikista kansoista, jotka maan päällä ovat.

3 Ei sinun pidä mitäkään kauhistavaista syömän.

4 Mutta nämät ovat ne eläimet, joita saatte syödä: härkä, lammas, ja vuohi,

5 Peura, metsävuohi, ruskia peura, akko, dison, teo, mäkikauris.

6 Ja kaikkinainen eläin, jolla on kaksihaarainen sorkka, hajoitettu kahtia, ja märehtii, niitä te saatte syödä.

7 Ette kuitenkaan saa näitä syödä niistä, jotka märehtivät, ja halaistun sorkkansa jakavat, kuin on: kameli, jänis, kanini; sillä he märehtivät, mutta ei ole kuitenkaan kokonansa kaksisorkkaiset: ne pitää oleman teille saastaiset.

8 Sika, vaikka hänellä on kaksihaaraiset sorkat, ei hän kuitenkaan märehdi, se pitää teille oleman saastainen: hänen lihaansa ei teidän pidä syömän, eikä sen raatoon sattuman.

9 Nämät ovat ne, joita te saatte syödä kaikista niistä jotka vedessä ovat: kaikkinainen, jolla uimus ja suomus on, sitä te saatte syödä.

10 Mutta se, jolla ei ole uimuksia eikä suomuksia, sitä ei teidän pidä syömän: se on teille saastainen.

11 Kaikkia puhtaita lintuja syökäät:

12 Nämät heistä ovat ne, joita ei teidän syömän pidä: kotka, luukotka ja kalakotka,

13 Varis, harakka ja kokkolintu lainensa,

14 Ja kaikki kaarneet lainensa,

15 Strutsi, pääskyinen, louve ja haukka lainensa,

16 Huhkaja, hyypiö, ja yökkö,

17 Ruovon päristäjä, storkki, merimetsäs,

18 Haikara, mäkihaukka lainensa, puputtaja ja nahkasiipi.

19 Ja kaikki, jotka matelevat ja lentävät, pitää oleman teille saastaiset: ei pidä niitä syötämän.

20 Kaikkia puhtaita lintuja saatte te syödä.

21 Ei teidän pidä syömän yhtään raatoa: muukalaiselle, joka sinun porteissas on, anna sa syödä, eli myy muukalaiselle: sillä sinä olet pyhä kansa Herralle sinun Jumalalles. Ei sinun pidä keittämän vohlaa emänsä rieskassa.

22 Sinun pitää vilpittömästi eroittaman kymmenykset kaikesta sinun jyvätulostas, joka pellostas tulee, vuosi vuodelta.

23 Ja sinun pitää syömän Herran sinun Jumalas edessä, siinä paikassa, jonka hän valitsee, että hänen nimensä siinä asuis, sinun jyväis, viinas ja öljys kymmenykset, esikoiset karjastas ja lampaistas, että sinä oppisit pelkäämään Herraa sinun Jumalaas kaikkena elinaikanas.

24 Mutta jos tie on sinulle ylen pitkä, niin ettet sinä taida sitä viedä sinne, että se paikka on kaukana sinusta, jonka Herra sinun Jumalas on valinnut, että hänen nimensä siellä asuis; koska Herra sinun Jumalas on siunannut sinun,

25 Niin myy se rahaan, ja ota raha kätees, ja mene siihen paikkaan, jonka Herra sinun Jumalas on valinnut.

26 Ja osta sillä rahalla kaikkia, mitä sinun sielus himoitsee, joko se on nauta eli lammas, viina, väkevä juoma, taikka mitä ikänä sinun sielus himoitsee, ja syö se Herran sinun Jumalas edessä, ja ole iloinen, sinä ja sinun huonees.

27 Ja Leviläistä , joka sinun porteissas on, ei sinun pidä hylkäämän, sillä ei hänellä ole osaa eli perimystä sinun kanssas.

28 Joka kolmannen vuoden lopulla pitää sinun eroittaman kaikki kymmenykset sinun vuotes tulosta sinä vuonna, ja viemän sinun portteihis.

29 Niin pitää Leviläisen tuleman, jolla ei yhtään osaa eli perimystä ole sinun kanssas, ja muukalainen, ja orpo, ja leski, jotka sinun porteissas ovat, ja heidän pitää syömän ja ravittaman, että Herra sinun Jumalas sinua siunais kaikissa sinun kättes töissä, jotka sinä teet.

   


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Arcana Coelestia #3702

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3702. 'And behold, Jehovah was standing above it' means the Lord at the highest point. This becomes clear from the fact that the Lord is called Jehovah so many times in the Old Testament Word, see 1736, 3023, 3035, and that in the New Testament Word He is not referred to anywhere as Jehovah but as the Lord instead, 2921. As regards the meaning of 'standing above it' as being at the highest point, this is clear without explanation. The arcanum concealed in the internal sense of these words is that every good and truth come down from the Lord and go up to Him, that is, He is the First and the Last. For the human being has been so created that Divine things that are the Lord's may come down through him even to the lowest things of the natural order, and from the lowest things of the natural order may go up to Him. Thus the human being was created to be the means through which the Divine was linked to the natural world, and the natural world was linked to the Divine, and in this way through the human being as the means linking the two together, the lowest degree of the natural order might receive life from the Divine - which would be a reality if mankind had lived in accordance with Divine order.

[2] The creation of the human being in this particular form is evident from the fact that his body is a world in miniature, because every arcanum that is part of the natural world is also stowed in the body. Each arcanum present in the ever-changing sky is also stowed in the eye; and each one in the air is also stowed in the ear. Anything floating unseen and active in the air is stowed - where it is detected - in the organ of smell, anything unseen that is present in water or any other fluid is stowed in the organ of taste. And actual changes of state likewise occur in the sense of touch throughout the body. Besides these even further arcana are stored away in the body which could be detected by a person within his interior organs if his life accorded with order. From this it is evident that a descent of the Divine through the human being into the lowest degree of the natural order would take place, and from the lowest degree of the natural order an ascent to the Divine, if only the human being with heartfelt faith, that is, with love, acknowledged the Lord as his Final and Primary end.

[3] A state such as this existed with the most ancient people, who were celestial, for whatever they discerned with any of their senses was to them a means to thought about things which are the Lord's, and so about the Lord and His kingdom. This was the source of the delight they gained from worldly and earthly things, see 1409, 2896, 2897, 2995. Furthermore whenever these people contemplated in this fashion the lower and the lowest things of the natural order, such things appeared to them to have life in them; for the life from which these came down existed in those people's internal sight and perception. The objects which they saw with their eyes were so to speak images of that life, and although those images were inanimate they were nevertheless animate to those people. This is the kind of perception that celestial angels have of every thing in the world, as I have often been allowed to perceive, and it is also the source of the kind of perception which young children have, see 2297, 2298. This shows what those people are like through whom Divine things that are the Lord's come right down to the lowest things of the natural order, and from the lowest things of the natural order rise up to Him - people that represent Divine communication and the consequent joining together, meant in the highest sense by 'the angels going up and coming down the stairway set up on the earth, and its top reaching to heaven, with Jehovah standing above it'.

  
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Arcana Coelestia #2762

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2762. The origin of 'a horse' meaning the understanding part of the mind lies nowhere else than in representatives in the next life. Frequently there, in the world of spirits, horses which display great variety are seen, and also people seated on horses. And whenever they are seen the understanding is meant by them. Such representatives are of constant occurrence among spirits. It is because the horse is a representative of the understanding that when horses are mentioned in the Word the spirits and angels present with man know instantaneously that it is the understanding which is being spoken of. It is also why, when spirits from some other planet who have been endowed with intelligence and wisdom are raised up from the world of spirits into heaven, horses shining as though they consisted of fire appear, which I also have seen when those people were carried up.

[2] This experience has made clear to me what is meant by the fiery chariot and the fiery horses which Elisha saw when Elijah went up with the whirlwind into heaven, and what also by Elisha's shout at that time,

My father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and its riders. 2 Kings 2:11-12, and by the same spoken by Joash king of Israel to Elisha when the latter was dying,

My father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and its riders. 2 Kings 13:14.

In the Lord's Divine mercy it will be shown elsewhere that Elijah and Elisha represented the Lord as to the Word. That is to say, it will there be shown that the doctrine of love and charity drawn from the Word is meant by 'the fiery chariot', and the doctrine of faith deriving from these by 'the fiery horses'. The doctrine of faith is the same as an understanding of the Word as to its inner content, which is the internal sense.

[3] As regards chariots and horses being seen in heaven among spirits and angels, this is evident not only from the fact that they were seen by the prophets, such as by Zechariah (1:8-10; 6:1-7) and by others, but also by Elisha's servant, of whom the following is said in the Book of Kings,

Jehovah opened the eyes of Elisha's servant, and he saw; and behold the mountain was full of horses, and there were fiery chariots surrounding Elisha. 2 Kings 6:17.

Furthermore, where the intelligent and wise dwell in the world of spirits, chariots and horses are constantly making their appearance, the reason being, as has been stated, that chariots and horses represent the things that belong to wisdom and intelligence. People who have been awakened after death and are entering the next life see represented to them a young man seated on a horse, who then dismounts. The meaning of this is that before they can enter heaven they have to be furnished with cognitions of good and truth - see Volume One, in 187, 188. The fact that chariots and horses meant those things was fully known in the Ancient Church, as becomes clear also from the Book of Job, a book of the Ancient Church, where these words occur,

God has made him forget wisdom and given him no share in intelligence. After raising himself on high he laughs at the horse and its rider. Job 39:17-19.

[4] The meaning of 'a horse' as the understanding spread from the Ancient Church to the wise in surrounding regions, and even into Greece. As a consequence of this, when describing the sun, which meant love, 2441, 2495, they placed the god of their wisdom and intelligence there in the sun, and gave him a chariot and four fiery horses. And when they described the god of the sea - the sea meaning knowledge in general, 28, 2120 - they gave horses to him also. And when they described the upsurge of knowledge from the understanding they portrayed it as a flying horse which with its hoof broke open a fountain where the virgins who were the branches of knowledge dwelt. And by the Trojan horse nothing else was meant than a device of their understanding for destroying city walls. Even today, when the understanding is being described, it is quite usual, drawing on the custom received from those people of old, to portray the understanding as a flying horse or Pegasus, and to portray learning as a fountain. Yet scarcely anyone knows that 'a horse' in the mystical sense means the understanding, and 'a fountain' truth, let alone that those images with a spiritual meaning spread to the gentiles from the Ancient Church.

  
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