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Matteus 5

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1 Nähes rahvahulki, läks Ta üles mäele. Ja kui Ta oli maha istunud, tulid Ta jüngrid Tema juure.

2 Ja Ta avas Oma suu, õpetas neid ning ütles:

3 „Õndsad on vaimust vaesed, sest nende päralt on Taevariik.

4 Õndsad on kurvad, sest nemad trööstitakse.

5 Õndsad on tasased, sest nemad pärivad maa.

6 Õndsad on need, kelledel nälg ja janu on õiguse järele, sest nemad rahuldatakse.

7 Õndsad on armulised, sest nemad saavad armu.

8 Õndsad on puhtad südamelt, sest nemad saavad näha Jumalat.

9 Õndsad on rahunõudjad, sest neid hüütakse Jumala lapsiks.

10 Õndsad on need, keda taga kiusatakse õiguse pärast, sest nende päralt on Taevariik.

11 Õndsad olete teie, kui inimesed teid Minu pärast laimavad ja taga kiusavad ja valetades räägivad teist kõiksugust kurja.

12 Olge rõõmsad ja ilutsege, sest teie palk on suur taevas; samuti on nad taga kiusanud prohveteid enne teid.

14 Teie olete maailma valgus. Ei saa jääda varjule linn, mis asetseb mäe otsas.

15 Ei süüdata ka küünalt ega panda seda vaka alla, vaid küünlajalale, ja see paistab kõikidele, kes majas on.

16 Nõnda paistku teie valgus inimeste ees, et nad näeksid teie häid tegusid ja annaksid au teie Isale, kes on taevas.

18 Sest tõesti Ma ütlen teile, kuni kaob taevas ja maa, ei kao käsuõpetusest mitte ühtki tähekest või ühtki märgikest, enne kui kõik on sündinud.

19 Kes nüüd iganes tühistab ühe neist vähimaist käskudest ja nõnda õpetab inimesi, teda hüütakse vähimaks Taevariigis; aga kes seda mööda teeb ja nõnda õpetab, teda hüütakse suureks Taevariigis.

20 Sest Ma ütlen teile: Kui teie õigus pole palju parem kirjatundjate ja variseride omast, siis te ei saa Taevariiki.

22 Kuid Mina ütlen teile, et igaüks, kes on oma vennale vihane, kuulub kohtu alla; aga kes iganes oma vennale ütleb „raka!” kuulub Suurkohtu alla; aga kes ütleb „Sa jõle!” kuulub põrgutulle.

23 Sellepärast kui sa oma andi tood altarile ja seal meenub sulle, et su vennal on midagi sinu vastu,

24 siis jäta oma and sinna altari ette ja mine lepi enne oma vennaga, ja siis tule ja too oma and.

25 Ole varsti järeleandlik oma vastasele, niikaua kui sa temaga teel oled, et vastane sind ei annaks kohtuniku kätte, ja kohtunik sind ei annaks sulase kätte, ja sind ei pandaks vangi.

26 Tõesti Ma ütlen sulle, sa ei pääse sealt, enne kui oled maksnud ära viimse veeringu!

28 Aga Mina ütlen teile, et igaüks, kes naise peale vaatab teda himustades, on juba abielu rikkunud temaga oma südames.

29 Ent kui su parem silm sind pahandab, siis kisu ta välja ja heida enesest ära, sest sulle on parem, et üks sinu liikmeist hukkub kui et kogu su ihu heidetakse põrgusse.

30 Ja kui sinu parem käsi sind pahandab, siis raiu ta maha ja heida enesest ära, sest sulle on parem, et üks sinu liikmeist hukkub kiti et kogu su ihu läheb põrgusse.

31 Ka on üteldud, et kes iganes oma naise enesest lahutab, see andku temale lahutuskiri.

32 Aga Mina ütlen teile, et igaüks, kes oma naise enesest lahutab muidu kui hooruse pärast, see teeb, et naisega abielu rikutaks, ja kes iganes lahutatud naisega abiellub, rikub abielu.

33 Taas te olete kuulnud, et muistsele põlvele on üteldud: Sa ei tohi valet vanduda! ja: Pea Issandale oma vanded!

34 Aga Mina ütlen teile: Ärge üldse vanduge, ei taeva juures, sest see on Jumala aujärg;

35 ega maa juures, sest see on Tema jalgealune järg; ega Jeruusalema juures, sest see on suure Kuninga linn.

36 Ara vannu ka oma pea juures, sest sina ei või ühtki juuksekarva teha valgeks ega mustaks;

37 vaid teie kõne olgu: Jah, jah, või: Ei, ei; aga mis üle selle on, see on kurjast.

39 Aga Mina ütlen teile: Ärge pange vastu kurjale, vaid kui keegi sind lööb vastu su paremat kõrva, siis kääna temale ka teine;

40 ja sellele, kes tahab sinuga kohut käia ja võtta su vammuse, jäta ka kuub;

41 ja kes sind sunnib kaasas käima ühe penikoorma, sellega mine kaks.

42 Anna sellele, kes sult palub, ja ära käändu kõrvale sellest, kes sult tahab laenata.

44 Aga Mina ütlen teile: Armastage oma vaenlasi ja palvetage nende eest, kes teid taga kiusavad,

45 et te saaksite oma Isa lapsiks, Kes on taevas, sest Tema laseb Oma päikest tõusta kurjade ja heade üle ja laseb vihma sadada õigete ja ülekohtuste peale.

46 Sest kui te armastate neid, kes teid armastavad, mis palka te saate? Eks tölneridki tee sedasama?

47 Ja kui te lahkesti tervitate ainult oma vendi, mida iseäralikku te siis teete? Eks paganadki tee sedasama?

48 Teie olge siis täiuslikud, nõnda nagu teie taevane Isa on täiuslik.

   

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Conjugial Love # 340

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340. 7. The Israelite nation was permitted to take more than one wife because in it the Christian Church did not exist, and so neither was truly conjugial love possible. There are people today who waver in thought regarding the institution of monogamous marriages, or marriages of one man with one wife, and who debate with themselves over the reason, thinking that because polygamous marriages were openly permitted to the Israelite nation and to its kings, such as David and Solomon, polygamy might in itself be permissible for Christians, too. But they know nothing of the differences between the Israelite nation and Christianity, and between external and internal elements of the church, nor of the transformation of the church by the Lord from an external one into an internal one. Consequently they know nothing from any interior judgment concerning marriages.

It must be understood in general that a person is born natural and becomes spiritual, and that as long as he remains natural, he is, so to speak, in the dark of night and as though in a state of sleep with respect to spiritual things. In that state he is not aware even that there is a difference between the external, natural person and the internal, spiritual one.

[2] We say that the Christian Church did not exist in the Israelite nation, and this we know from the Word. For then, as they continue to do still, they awaited a Messiah who would raise them up over all other nations and peoples in the world. Consequently if they had been told, and if they were told now, that the Messiah's kingdom is over the heavens and therefore includes all nations, they would have regarded it as nonsense. So it was that, when the Christ or Messiah - our Lord - made His advent into the world, they not only did not acknowledge Him, but even removed Him from the world in a horrifying way. It is plain from this that the Christian Church did not exist in that nation, as it still does not to this day. And people in whom the Christian Church does not exist are outwardly and inwardly natural. Thus polygamy is not held against them, inasmuch as it is engraved on the natural man; for the natural man in thinking of love in marriage perceives only such things as have to do with lust. This is the meaning of the Lord's statement, that Moses, because of the hardness of their hearts, permitted them to divorce their wives, but that from the beginning it was not so (Matthew 19:8). He says Moses permitted it, to make known that it was not the Lord.

[3] The Lord directed His teaching to the internal, spiritual self, as we know from His precepts and from His abrogation of rituals which served a useful purpose only in the case of natural men. Thus His precepts concerning washing, that it is a purification of the inner self (Matthew 15:1-2,17-20; 23:25-26; Mark 7:14-23); concerning adultery, that it is a lust of the will (Matthew 5:28); concerning the divorcing of wives, that it is not lawful, and concerning polygamy, that it is not in accord with Divine law (Matthew 19:3-9).

The Lord taught these and many other precepts having to do with the internal and spiritual self, because He alone opens the inner elements of human minds and makes them spiritual, and implants them then in the natural elements so that they, too, take on a spiritual essence. This also is what happens if people go to the Lord and live according to His commandments. His commandments in sum are to believe in Him and refrain from evils because they are of the devil and from the devil; also to do good things because they are of the Lord and from the Lord; and to do both the one and the other as though on one's own and at the same believe they are done through one by the Lord.

[4] As to why the Lord alone opens the internal, spiritual self and implants this in the external, natural self, the essential reason is that every person thinks and acts on the natural plane, and it is impossible for him therefore to grasp anything spiritual and receive it into his natural self except in consequence of God's having assumed a natural humanity and made it also Divine.

From this now the truth appears, that the Israelite nation was permitted to take more than one wife because in it the Christian Church did not exist.

  
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Many thanks to the General Church of the New Jerusalem, and to Rev. N.B. Rogers, translator, for the permission to use this translation.

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