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Matteus 8

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1 Kun hän astui alas vuorelta, seurasi häntä suuri kansan paljous.

2 Ja katso, tuli pitalinen mies ja kumartui maahan hänen eteensä ja sanoi: "Herra, jos tahdot, niin sinä voit minut puhdistaa".

3 Niin hän ojensi kätensä, kosketti häntä ja sanoi: "Minä tahdon; puhdistu". Ja kohta hän puhdistui pitalistaan.

4 Ja Jeesus sanoi hänelle: "Katso, ettet puhu tästä kenellekään; vaan mene ja näytä itsesi papille, ja uhraa lahja, jonka Mooses on säätänyt, todistukseksi heille".

5 Ja kun hän saapui Kapernaumiin, tuli hänen tykönsä sadanpäämies ja rukoili häntä

6 ja sanoi: "Herra, minun palvelijani makaa kotona halvattuna ja on kovissa vaivoissa".

7 Hän sanoi hänelle: "Minä tulen ja parannan hänet".

8 Mutta sadanpäämies vastasi ja sanoi: "Herra, en minä ole sen arvoinen, että tulisit minun kattoni alle; vaan sano ainoastaan sana, niin minun palvelijani paranee.

9 Sillä minä itsekin olen toisen vallan alainen, ja minulla on sotamiehiä käskyni alaisina, ja minä sanon tälle: 'Mene', ja hän menee, ja toiselle: 'Tule', ja hän tulee, ja palvelijalleni: 'Tee tämä', ja hän tekee."

10 Tämän kuultuaan Jeesus ihmetteli ja sanoi niille, jotka häntä seurasivat: "Totisesti minä sanon teille: en ole kenelläkään Israelissa löytänyt näin suurta uskoa.

11 Ja minä sanon teille: monet tulevat idästä ja lännestä ja aterioitsevat Aabrahamin ja Iisakin ja Jaakobin kanssa taivasten valtakunnassa;

12 mutta valtakunnan lapset heitetään ulos pimeyteen; siellä on oleva itku ja hammasten kiristys."

13 Ja Jeesus sanoi sadanpäämiehelle: "Mene. Niinkuin sinä uskot, niin sinulle tapahtukoon." Ja palvelija parani sillä hetkellä.

14 Kun Jeesus tuli Pietarin kotiin, näki hän hänen anoppinsa makaavan sairaana kuumeessa.

15 Niin hän koski tämän käteen, ja kuume lähti hänestä; ja hän nousi ja palveli häntä.

16 Mutta illan tultua tuotiin hänen tykönsä monta riivattua. Ja hän ajoi henget ulos sanalla, ja kaikki sairaat hän paransi;

17 että kävisi toteen, mikä on puhuttu profeetta Esaiaan kautta, joka sanoo: "Hän otti päällensä meidän sairautemme ja kantoi meidän tautimme".

18 Mutta kun Jeesus näki paljon kansaa ympärillään, käski hän lähteä toiselle rannalle.

19 Ja eräs kirjanoppinut tuli ja sanoi hänelle: "Opettaja, minä seuraan sinua, mihin ikinä menet".

20 Niin Jeesus sanoi hänelle: "Ketuilla on luolat ja taivaan linnuilla pesät, mutta Ihmisen Pojalla ei ole, mihin hän päänsä kallistaisi".

21 Ja eräs toinen hänen opetuslapsistaan sanoi hänelle: "Herra, salli minun ensin käydä hautaamassa isäni".

22 Mutta Jeesus sanoi hänelle: "Seuraa sinä minua, ja anna kuolleitten haudata kuolleensa".

23 Ja hän astui venheeseen, ja hänen opetuslapsensa seurasivat häntä.

24 Ja katso, järvellä nousi kova myrsky, niin että venhe peittyi aaltoihin; mutta hän nukkui.

25 Niin he menivät ja herättivät hänet sanoen: "Herra, auta, me hukumme".

26 Hän sanoi heille: "Te vähäuskoiset, miksi olette pelkureita?" Silloin hän nousi ja nuhteli tuulia ja järveä, ja tuli aivan tyven.

27 Ja ihmiset ihmettelivät ja sanoivat: "Millainen tämä on, kun sekä tuulet että meri häntä tottelevat?"

28 Kun hän tuli toiselle rannalle, gadaralaisten alueelle, tuli häntä vastaan kaksi riivattua, jotka olivat haudoista lähteneet ja olivat kovin raivoisia, niin ettei kukaan voinut sitä tietä kulkea.

29 Ja katso, he huusivat sanoen: "Mitä sinulla on meidän kanssamme tekemistä, sinä Jumalan Poika? Oletko tullut tänne vaivaamaan meitä ennen aikaa?"

30 Ja etäällä heistä kävi suuri sikalauma laitumella.

31 Niin riivaajahenget pyysivät häntä sanoen: "Jos ajat meidät pois, niin lähetä meidät sikalaumaan".

32 Ja hän sanoi niille: "Menkää". Silloin ne lähtivät heistä ja menivät sikoihin. Ja katso, koko lauma syöksyi jyrkännettä alas järveen ja hukkui veteen.

33 Mutta paimentajat pakenivat; ja he menivät kaupunkiin ja ilmoittivat kaikki, myöskin sen, miten riivattujen oli käynyt.

34 Ja katso, koko kaupunki lähti Jeesusta vastaan; ja kun he hänet näkivät, pyysivät he häntä menemään pois heidän alueeltaan.

   

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Arcana Coelestia #7688

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7688. 'And the land was darkened' means that falsity was introduced where there had been truth. This is clear from the meaning of 'darkness' as falsities, dealt with in 1839, 1860, 4418, 4531, so that 'being darkened' is being subject to falsity. And since the vastation of those who belonged to the Church, had a knowledge of truths, but led an evil life, are the subject 'the land was darkened' means falsity where there has been truth. Truth is meant in the internal sense by 'light', and therefore falsity is meant by 'darkness'; for truth and falsity are opposites like light and darkness. And those guided by truth dwell in actual light, whereas those under the influence of falsity dwell in actual darkness. The inferior light which those under the influence of falsity in the next life dwell in turns into thick darkness at the presence of the superior light of heaven, and into even thicker darkness with those who have belonged to the Church, because their falsity has stood in opposition to the truth of faith, as accords with the Lord's words in Matthew,

If the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness! Matthew 6:23.

And in the same gospel,

The sons of the kingdom will be thrown into outer darkness. Matthew 8:12.

'The sons of the kingdom' are members of the Church, and 'outer darkness' is more serious falsities, the term 'outer' being used because falsities in the outermost parts are more serious ones.

[2] The fact that falsities are called 'darkness' is clear from a number of places in the Word, for example in John,

Light has come into the world, but men preferred darkness rather than light, for their works were evil. John 3:19.

In the same gospel,

Walk, as long as you have the light, lest darkness overtakes you. I have come as light into the world in order that all who believe in Me may not remain in darkness. John 12:35, 46.

In Isaiah,

Woe to those who speak of evil as good, and of good as evil, who put darkness for light, and light for darkness! Isaiah 5:20.

In Jeremiah,

Give glory to Jehovah your God before He brings darkness and before your feet stumble on the twilight mountains; then you will look for light but He will turn it into the shadow of death, He will place it in thick darkness. Jeremiah 13:16.

In Ezekiel,

When I have blotted you out, I will cover the heavens and darken their stars. I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon will not give its light. All the bright lights in the heavens I will make dark over you, and I will put darkness over your land. Ezekiel 32:7-8.

In Joel,

The day of Jehovah is coming, it is near, a day of darkness and thick darkness, a day of cloud and gloom. Joel 2:1-2; Amos 5:18, 20.

In Zephaniah,

A day of wrath is that day, a day of ruin and devastation, a day of darkness and thick darkness. Zephaniah 1:15.

In these places 'darkness' means falsities. In addition 'darkness' in the Word means lack of knowledge of the truth, such as exists with gentiles who do not have the Word and know nothing about the Lord.

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

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Exodus 10

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1 Yahweh said to Moses, "Go in to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart, and the heart of his servants, that I may show these my signs in the midst of them,

2 and that you may tell in the hearing of your son, and of your son's son, what things I have done to Egypt, and my signs which I have done among them; that you may know that I am Yahweh."

3 Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and said to him, "This is what Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, says: 'How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, that they may serve me.

4 Or else, if you refuse to let my people go, behold, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your country,

5 and they shall cover the surface of the earth, so that one won't be able to see the earth. They shall eat the residue of that which has escaped, which remains to you from the hail, and shall eat every tree which grows for you out of the field.

6 Your houses shall be filled, and the houses of all your servants, and the houses of all the Egyptians; as neither your fathers nor your fathers' fathers have seen, since the day that they were on the earth to this day.'" He turned, and went out from Pharaoh.

7 Pharaoh's servants said to him, "How long will this man be a snare to us? Let the men go, that they may serve Yahweh, their God. Don't you yet know that Egypt is destroyed?"

8 Moses and Aaron were brought again to Pharaoh, and he said to them, "Go, serve Yahweh your God; but who are those who will Go?"

9 Moses said, "We will go with our young and with our old; with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds will we go; for we must hold a feast to Yahweh."

10 He said to them, "Yahweh be with you if I will let you go with your little ones! See, evil is clearly before your faces.

11 Not so! Go now you who are men, and serve Yahweh; for that is what you desire!" They were driven out from Pharaoh's presence.

12 Yahweh said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up on the land of Egypt, and eat every herb of the land, even all that the hail has left."

13 Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and Yahweh brought an east wind on the land all that day, and all the night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts.

14 The locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the borders of Egypt. They were very grievous. Before them there were no such locusts as they, neither after them shall be such.

15 For they covered the surface of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened, and they ate every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left. There remained nothing green, either tree or herb of the field, through all the land of Egypt.

16 Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste, and he said, "I have sinned against Yahweh your God, and against you.

17 Now therefore please forgive my sin again, and pray to Yahweh your God, that he may also take away from me this death."

18 He went out from Pharaoh, and prayed to Yahweh.

19 Yahweh turned an exceeding strong west wind, which took up the locusts, and drove them into the Red Sea. There remained not one locust in all the borders of Egypt.

20 But Yahweh hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he didn't let the children of Israel go.

21 Yahweh said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand toward the sky, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt."

22 Moses stretched forth his hand toward the sky, and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days.

23 They didn't see one another, neither did anyone rise from his place for three days; but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.

24 Pharaoh called to Moses, and said, "Go, serve Yahweh. Only let your flocks and your herds stay behind. Let your little ones also Go with you."

25 Moses said, "You must also give into our hand sacrifices and burnt offerings, that we may sacrifice to Yahweh our God.

26 Our livestock also shall go with us. Not a hoof shall be left behind, for of it we must take to serve Yahweh our God; and we don't know with what we must serve Yahweh, until we come there."

27 But Yahweh hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he wouldn't let them go.

28 Pharaoh said to him, "Get away from me! Be careful to see my face no more; for in the day you see my face you shall die!"

29 Moses said, "You have spoken well. I will see your face again no more."