A Bíblia

 

Исход 21

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1 И вотъ законы, которые ты предложишь имъ:

2 Если купишь раба Еврея: пусть онъ работаетъ шесть лјтъ; а въ седьмой годъ пусть выйдетъ на волю даромъ.

3 Если онъ придетъ однимъ своимъ тјломъ, пустъ и выйдетъ однимъ своимъ тјломъ. А если онъ есть мужъ жены, пусть выйдетъ съ нимъ и жена его.

4 Если же господинъ его дастъ ему жену, и она родитъ ему сыновъ или дочерей: то жена и дјти ея пусть останутся у господина ея, а онъ выйдетъ одинъ своимъ тјломъ.

5 Но если рабъ скажетъ: люблю господина моего, жену мою и дјтей моихъ; не пойду на волю:

6 То господинъ его пусть приведетъ его предъ Бога, и поставятъ его къ двери, или къ косяку, и проколетъ ему господинъ его ухо шиломъ, и онъ останется рабомъ его вјчно.

7 Если кто продастъ дочь свою въ рабство: то она не выйдетъ на волю, какъ выходятъ рабы.

8 Если она не угодна покажется господину своему, и онъ не обручитъ ее: пусть позволитъ выкупить ее; а чужому народу продать ее онъ не властенъ, когда она противна ему.

9 Если обручитъ ее сыну своему: пусть поступитъ съ нею по правамъ дочери.

10 Если же другую возьметъ за него: не долженъ лишитъ ее пищи, одежды и супружескаго сожитія.

11 если онъ сихъ трехъ вещей не сдјлаетъ для нея: пусть она отойдетъ даромъ, безъ выкупа.

12 Кто ударитъ человјка, такъ что онъ умретъ; да будетъ преданъ смерти.

13 Впрочемъ, кто не злоумышлялъ, но Богъ подвергъ его рукј его; то Я назначу у тебя мјсто, куда убјжать убившему.

14 А если кто съ намјренія умертвитъ ближняго коварно; то и отъ жертвенника Моего бери его на смерть.

15 Кто ударитъ отца своего, или свою мать: да будетъ преданъ смерти.

16 Кто украдетъ человјка, и продастъ его, или найдется онъ въ рукахъ у него, да будетъ преданъ смерти.

17 Кто злословитъ отца своего, или свою мать, да будетъ преданъ смерти.

18 Когда ссорятся двое, и одинъ человјкъ ударитъ другаго камнемъ, или кулакомъ, и тотъ не умретъ, но сляжетъ въ постелю:

19 то если онъ встанетъ, и будетъ выходить изъ дома съ помощію палки, ударившій не будетъ повиненъ смерти; только пусть заплатитъ за остановку въ его работј и вылјчитъ его.

20 А если кто ударитъ раба своего, или служанку свою палкою, и они умрутъ отъ рукъ его: то должно наказать его.

21 Но если день или два дня переживутъ: то не наказывать; ибо это его деньги.

22 Когда двое дерутся, и ударятъ беременную женщину, и она выкинетъ, но не будетъ другаго вреда: то взять съ виновнаго пеню, какую наложитъ на него мужъ той женщины, и онъ долженъ заплатить оную при посредникахъ.

23 А если будетъ вредъ: то отдай душу за душу.

24 Глазъ за глазъ, зубъ за зубъ, руку за руку, ногу за ногу.

25 Обожженіе за обожженіе, рану за рану, ушибъ за ушибъ.

26 Если кто раба своего ударитъ въ глазъ, или служанку свою въ глазъ, и повредитъ его; пусть отпуститъ его на волю за глазъ его.

27 Также если выбьетъ зубъ рабу своему, или рабј своей: пусть отпуститъ его на волю за зубъ его.

28 Если волъ забодетъ мущину, или женщину до смерти: то вола побить камнями, и мяса его не јсть; а хозяинъ вола не виноватъ.

29 Но если волъ бодливъ былъ и вчера, и третьяго дня, и хозяинъ его, бывъ извјщенъ о семъ, не стерегъ его, а онъ убилъ мущину, или женщину: то вола побить камнями; да и хозяива его предать смерти.

30 Если на него наложенъ будетъ выкупъ: пусть дастъ выкупъ за душу свою, какой наложенъ будетъ ва него.

31 Сына ли забодетъ, дочь ли забодетъ: по сему же закону поступать съ нимъ.

32 Если волъ забодетъ раба или рабу: то заплатить господину ихъ тридцать сиклей серебра, а вола побить камнями.

33 Если кто раскроетъ яму, или если выкопаетъ яму, и не покроетъ ее, и упадетъ въ нее волъ или оселъ:

34 то хозяинъ ямы долженъ заплатить, отдать серебро хозяину ихъ, а трупъ будетъ его.

35 Если чей-нибудь волъ убьетъ до смерти вола у сосјда его: пусть продадутъ живаго вола, и раздјлятъ пополамъ цјну его; также и убитаго пусть раздјлятъ пополамъ.

36 А если извјстно было, что волъ бодливъ былъ и вчера и третьяго дня, но хозаинъ его не стерегъ его; то долженъ онъ заплатить вола за вола; а убитый будетъ его.

   

Das Obras de Swedenborg

 

Arcana Coelestia # 5828

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5828. 'And I said, He has surely been torn to pieces' means a perception that it was destroyed by evils and falsities. This is clear from the meaning of 'saying' as perception, dealt with often; and from the meaning of 'being torn to pieces as being destroyed by evils and internal good represented by 'Joseph' was destroyed, 5805. 'Being torn to pieces' has this meaning because no other kind of tearing to pieces takes place in the spiritual world than that of good by evils and falsities. It is the same with death and anything having to do with death, by which is meant in the spiritual sense not natural death but spiritual death, which is damnation. No other kind of death occurs in the spiritual world. So too with 'a tearing to pieces'. This does not mean in the spiritual sense the kind of tearing to pieces that wild animals engage in, but the tearing to pieces of good by evils and falsities. Also, in the spiritual sense, 'wild animals that tear to pieces' means evil desires and derivative false ideas; and such ideas are also represented in the next life by wild animals.

[2] The good which constantly comes from the Lord to a person is destroyed by nothing other than evils and derivative falsities, and by falsities and consequent evils. For as soon as that constantly inflowing good, coming by way of the internal man, reaches the external or natural man it encounters evil and falsity, which - acting like wild animals - employ various methods to tear apart and annihilate that good. For that reason the inflow of good by way of the internal man is blocked and halted, and the interior mind through which the inflow comes is consequently closed. Only as much of what is spiritual is allowed through as will enable the natural man to reason and speak, though he does so in terms that are solely earthly, bodily, and worldly, either in opposition to what is good and true, or else in keeping with such but in a false or deceitful way.

[3] It is a universal law that an inflow adjusts itself to the outflow, and if the outflow is blocked, so is the inflow. Through the internal man there is an inflow of good and truth from the Lord, and through the external there should be an outflow, an outflow into life, that is, in the exercise of charity. As long as that outflow is taking place the inflow from heaven, that is, from the Lord by way of heaven, is continuous. If however no outflow takes place but something stands in the way in the external or natural man, namely evil and falsity which tear the inflowing good to pieces and annihilate it, it follows from the universal law mentioned above that the inflow adjusts itself to the outflow. All this being so, the inflow of good holds itself back and accordingly closes the internal through which the inflow comes; and that closing of it leads to stupidity in spiritual matters, which is so great that the person who is like this neither knows nor wishes to know anything at all about eternal life. At length he becomes so senseless that he raises falsity as an obstacle to truth, calling falsities truths and truths falsities, and raises evil as an obstacle to good, regarding evils as forms of good and forms of good as evils. In this way he tears good completely to pieces.

[4] The word 'torn' occurs in various places in the Word, the proper meaning of which is falsities that arise from evils, while that which is destroyed by evils is called 'a carcass'. When however the expression 'torn' is used by itself, both ideas are meant since the one includes the meaning carried by the other. It is different when the one is referred to together with the other, because in that case a distinction is being made. Since what had been torn meant in the spiritual sense what had been destroyed by falsities arising from evils, people were forbidden in the representative Church to eat anything torn. They would never have been forbidden to eat it if that spiritual evil had not been meant in heaven. Apart from this, what evil could have lain in eating flesh torn by a wild animal?

[5] Regarding their not eating anything torn the following is stated in Moses,

The fat of a carcass and the fat of that which has been torn may be put to any use, provided that you do not eat it at all. Leviticus 7:24.

In the same author,

He shall not eat a carcass or that which has been torn, to be defiled by it. I am Jehovah. Leviticus 12:8.

In the same author,

You shall be men who are sanctified to Me; therefore you shall not eat flesh torn in the field, you shall throw it to the dogs. Exodus 21:31.

In Ezekiel,

Ah Lord Jehovih! The prophet says, Behold, my soul has not been polluted, and from my youth even till now I have not eaten any carcass or that which has been torn, so that abominable flesh has not come into my mouth. Ezekiel 4:14.

From these quotations it is evident that it was an abomination to eat what had been torn, not because it had been torn but because a tearing to pieces of good by falsities arising from evils was meant, 'a carcass' on the other hand being the death of good caused by evils.

[6] A tearing to pieces of good by falsities and evils is also meant in the internal sense of the following places in David,

The wicked is like a lion, he desires to tear, and like a young lion who sits in hiding-places. Psalms 17:12.

Elsewhere,

They opened their mouth against me - a lion tearing and roaring. Psalms 22:13.

And in yet another place,

Lest like a lion they seize my soul, tearing it to pieces and there is none to deliver. Psalms 7:1.

'A lion' stands for those who lay waste the Church. Above, where Joseph was the subject - at the point where he was sold by his brothers, and his tunic, which had been dipped in blood, was sent to his father - his father too said at that time,

My son's tunic! An evil wild animal has devoured him; Joseph has been torn to pieces. Genesis 37:33.

'His having been torn to pieces' means being scattered by falsities arising from evils, see 4777.

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