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1 Y AQUEL día cantó Débora, con Barac, hijo de Abinoam, diciendo:

2 Porque ha vengado las injurias de Israel, Porque el pueblo se ha ofrecido de su voluntad, Load á Jehová.

3 Oid, reyes; estad, oh príncipes, atentos: Yo cantaré á Jehová, Cantaré salmos á Jehová Dios de Israel.

4 Cuando saliste de Seir, oh Jehová, Cuando te apartaste del campo de Edom, La tierra tembló, y los cielos destilaron, Y las nubes gotearon aguas.

5 Los montes se derritieron delante de Jehová, Aqueste Sinaí, delante de Jehová Dios de Israel.

6 En los días de Samgar hijo de Anath, En los días de Jael, cesaron los caminos, Y los que andaban por las sendas apartábanse por torcidos senderos.

7 Las aldeas habían cesado en Israel, habían decaído; Hasta que yo Débora me levanté, Me levanté madre en Israel.

8 En escogiendo nuevos dioses, La guerra estaba á las puertas: ¿Se veía escudo ó lanza Entre cuarenta mil en Israel?

9 Mi corazón está por los príncipes de Israel, Los que con buena voluntad se ofrecieron entre el pueblo: Load á Jehová.

10 Vosotros los que cabalgáis en asnas blancas, Los que presidís en juicio, Y vosotros los que viajáis, hablad.

11 Lejos del ruido de los archeros, en los abrevaderos, Allí repetirán las justicias de Jehová, Las justicias de sus villas en Israel; Entonces bajará el pueblo de Jehová á las puertas.

12 Despierta, Despierta, Débora; Despierta, Despierta, profiere un cántico. Levántate, Barac, y lleva tus cautivos, hijo de Abinoam.

13 Entonces ha hecho que el que quedó del pueblo, señoree á los magníficos: Jehová me hizo enseñorear sobre los fuertes.

14 De Ephraim salió su raíz contra Amalec, Tras ti, Benjamín, contra tus pueblos; De Machîr descendieron príncipes, Y de Zabulón los que solían manejar punzón de escribiente.

15 Príncipes también de Issachâr fueron con Débora; Y como Issachâr, también Barac Se puso á pie en el valle. De las divisiones de Rubén Hubo grandes impresiones del corazón.

16 ¿Por qué te quedaste entre las majadas, Para oir los balidos de los rebaños? De las divisiones de Rubén Grandes fueron las disquisiciones del corazón.

17 Galaad se quedó de la otra parte del Jordán: Y Dan ¿por qué se estuvo junto á los navíos? Mantúvose Aser á la ribera de la mar, Y quedóse en sus puertos.

18 El pueblo de Zabulón expuso su vida á la muerte, Y Nephtalí en las alturas del campo.

19 Vinieron reyes y pelearon: Entonces pelearon los reyes de Canaán En Taanac, junto á las aguas de Megiddo, Mas no llevaron ganancia alguna de dinero.

20 De los cielos pelearon: Las estrellas desde sus órbitas pelearon contra Sísara.

21 Barriólos el torrente de Cisón, El antiguo torrente, el torrente de Cisón. Hollaste, oh alma mía, con fortaleza.

22 Despalmáronse entonces las uñas de los caballos Por las arremetidas, por los brincos de sus valientes.

23 Maldecid á Meroz, dijo el ángel de Jehová: Maldecid severamente á sus moradores, Porque no vinieron en socorro a Jehová, En socorro á Jehová contra los fuertes.

24 Bendita sea entre las mujeres Jael, Mujer de Heber Cineo; Sobre las mujeres bendita sea en la tienda.

25 El pidió agua, y dióle ella leche; En tazón de nobles le presentó manteca.

26 Su mano tendió á la estaca, Y su diestra al mazo de trabajadores; Y majó á Sísara, hirió su cabeza, Llagó y atravesó sus sienes.

27 Cayó encorvado entre sus pies, quedó tendido: Entre sus pies Cayó encorvado; Donde se encorvó, allí Cayó muerto.

28 La madre de Sísara se asoma á la ventana, Y por entre las celosías á voces dice: ¿Por qué se detiene su carro, que no viene? ¿Por qué las ruedas de sus carros se tardan?

29 Las más avisadas de sus damas le respondían; Y aun ella se respondía á sí misma.

30 ¿No han hallado despojos, y los están repartiendo? A cada uno una moza, ó dos: Los despojos de colores para Sísara, Los despojos bordados de colores: La ropa de color bordada de ambos lados, para los cuellos de los que han tomado los despojos.

31 Así perezcan todos tus enemigos, oh Jehová: Mas los que le aman, sean como el sol cuando nace en su fuerza. Y la tierra reposó cuarenta años.

   

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Arcana Coelestia #9437

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9437. 'And Moses was in the mountain forty days and forty nights' means the instructions given and influx in their completeness. This is clear from the meaning of 'forty' as completeness. 'Forty' means completeness because 'four' means that which is complete, 9103, as similarly does 'ten', 3107, 4638, and forty is the product of four multiplied by ten. For compound numbers have a meaning similar to the simple numbers of which they are the product, 5291, 5335, 5708, 7973; and all numbers in the Word mean spiritual realities, see 575, 3252, 4264, 4495, 4670, 5265, 6175. All this goes to explain why Moses was in the mountain forty days and forty nights. The fact that 'forty' here means the instructions given and the influx in their completeness is evident from Chapters 25-32 which come next, recording the instructions Moses received, that is, instructions regarding the ark, Aaron, the urim and thummim, and sacrifices. The reason why influx in its completeness is also meant is that at that time Moses began to represent the outward holiness of the Word, which acted as the intermediary between the Lord and the people, and mediation is accomplished by means of influx through that holiness into the representative existing among that people, 9419.

[2] It was because 'forty' represented completeness that Moses remained on Mount Sinai forty days and forty nights not only this time but also on another occasion, Exodus 34:28; Deuteronomy 9:18, 25; 10:10. For the same reason the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness forty years until, as it says in Numbers 14:33-34; 32:13, all that generation had been consumed; Jonah told the Ninevites that their city would be overturned after forty days, Jonah 3:4; the prophet was commanded to lie on his right side and bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days, Ezekiel 4:6; it says regarding Egypt that it would be made completely desolate for forty years, after which they would be gathered from the peoples, Ezekiel 29:11-13; and the earth was rained on forty days and forty nights, so that it was inundated with the flood, Genesis 7:4, 12, 17. From all this it is evident why the wicked person was to receive forty blows, Deuteronomy 25:3, for 'forty blows' meant the punishment in its completeness. It is also evident what should be understood in the prophecy of Deborah and Barak when it says that no shield or spear was seen among the forty thousand of Israel, Judges 5:8, 'among the forty thousand of Israel' meaning among them all. It is in addition evident why the temple built by Solomon was forty cubits long, 1 Kings 6:17, as was the new temple, according to Ezekiel 41:2; for in the highest sense 'the temple' means the Lord, and in the internal sense heaven and the Church, so that 'forty' means completeness in respect of representation. And it has a like meaning in other places.

  
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Arcana Coelestia #9103

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9103. 'And four of the flock for the member of the flock' also means the corresponding punishment carried out in full. This is clear from the meaning of 'four' as joined together, for 'four' is similar in meaning to 'two' because four is the product of two times two (for the meaning of 'two' as joined together, see 5194, 8423, and therefore also 'four', 1686, 8877), from which it follows that those numbers also mean to the complete amount, since what has been joined together is complete; and from the meaning of 'a member of the flock' as interior good, dealt with just above in 9099. The corresponding punishment is meant by 'repaying', at this point 'four of the flock for one member of the flock', 9102. Interior good is what charity in the interior man is called, exterior good being charity in the exterior man. The latter good must receive life from the former, for the good of charity in the interior man is the good of spiritual life, and the good of charity in the exterior man is the good of natural life from the spiritual. This exterior good enters a person's feelings as delight, but not so interior good. Instead this enters his awareness that it ought to be so, and enables his mind to feel contented. In the next life however interior good too enters into a person's feelings.

[2] No one can know the reason why five oxen were to be used in repayment for an ox, and four of the flock for the member of the flock, unless he knows what 'theft' is in the spiritual sense, and also what 'an ox' and 'a member of the flock' are. What these things mean has been explained, namely taking away and alienating exterior and interior good, the taking away being done by evil and the alienation by falsity. Consequently punishment and the restoration of them are meant by 'five' end 'four'; for all numbers in the Word serve to mean spiritual things, see 575, 647, 648, 755, 813, 1963, 1988, 2075, 2252, 3252, 4264, 4495, 4670, 5265, 6175, at this point things having to do with restoration. That is to say, the number 'five' refers to restoration of exterior good to a great degree, and the number 'four' to restoration of interior good in full. The reason why interior good must be restored completely is that this good constitutes a person's spiritual life; and unless his spiritual life is restored completely the exterior good constituting his natural life cannot be restored; for the latter life is restored by means of the former, as may be recognized from a person's regeneration. The external man is regenerated by means of the internal, see 9043, 9046, 9061; but good in the external or natural man cannot be restored completely because the blow it has been struck remains there as a scar that becomes hardened. These are the things implied by those numbers.

[3] Something further must be said briefly about the restoration of the exterior good constituting a person's natural life by means of the interior good constituting his spiritual life. The natural level of a person's mind sees things in the light of the world, the light that is called natural illumination. A person acquires this illumination through objects entering his awareness by means of sight and hearing, that is, by impressions of objects received from the world. Thus the person sees those objects with his mind's eye almost exactly as his physical eye sees them. Initially the objects that he is made aware of through those senses are all a pleasure and delight to him. Later on, when still a young child, he makes distinctions among the objects that are a delight to him, and thereby learns to discriminate, gradually doing so more and more accurately. When the light from heaven flows into these things the person begins to see them spiritually, discriminating initially between the ones that are useful and those that are not useful. As a consequence he starts to see the truth clearly; for that which he sees to be useful he sees to be true, and that which he does not see to be useful he sees to be not true. This ability to see truth increases as the inflowing light from heaven grows brighter, until eventually he discriminates not only between truths, but even between truths within these truths. And this he does ever more clearly, as the communication between the internal man and the external man is improved and opened up; for the light of heaven flows in from the Lord through the internal man into the external. From this the person now has perception; nevertheless this is still not spiritual perception.

[4] Spiritual perception does not grow out of natural truths but out of spiritual truths, spiritual truths being what are called the truths of faith. The reason why spiritual perception grows out of these truths is that the light of heaven is Divine Truth emanating from the Lord. It is the light that shines for the angels' eyes; it also shines in their understanding and imparts intelligence and wisdom to them, in varying amounts, depending on its reception within good. Therefore, if spiritual perception is to grow a person must have cognitions or knowledge of spiritual things in his natural, and such knowledge of spiritual things must come from revelation. When the light of heaven flows into them it flows into what are its own; for as has been stated, that light is Divine Truth emanating from the Lord, see 1053, 1521-1533, 1619-1632, 2776, 3138, 3167, 3195, 3222, 3223, 3341, 3636, 3643, 4180, 4302, 4408, 4415, 4527, 5400, 6032, 6313, 6608. This is how a person acquires intelligence and wisdom in such matters as belong to eternal life; and they increase in the measure that such light - that is, in the measure that the truths of faith - are received within good, the good being charity.

[5] The fact that the natural or external man is regenerated, and also undergoes amendment and is restored by means of the internal, may be recognized from what has now been stated. Things in the external or natural man receive life from the light of heaven; for this light is living, because it emanates from the Lord, who is Life itself. They do not receive their life from natural light, since this light is in itself dead. If therefore things in natural light are to have life there must be an inflow of the living light, coming from the Lord through the internal man. This inflow adjusts itself to cognitions of truth present in the natural that are analogous and correspond, and to other things there that can serve. From this it is evident that a person's external or natural must be regenerated by means of his internal; and the good in the natural that has been taken away or alienated has to be amended and restored by the same means.

  
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