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1 もし人が牛またはを盗んで、これを殺し、あるいはこれを売るならば、彼は一頭の牛のために五頭の牛をもって、一頭ののために頭のをもって償わなければならない。

12 けれども、それがまさしく自分の所から盗まれた時は、その持ち主に償わなければならない。

43 a. しかし日がのぼって後ならば、その人に血を流した罪がある。b. 彼は必ず償わなければならない。もし彼に何もない時は、彼はその盗んだ物のために身を売られるであろう。

4 もしその盗んだ物がなお生きて、彼のもとにあれば、それは牛、ろば、羊のいずれにせよ、これを倍にして償わなければならない。

5 もし人がまたはぶどう畑のものを食わせ、その家畜を放って他人ののものを食わせた時は、自分のの最も良い物と、ぶどう畑の最も良い物をもって、これを償わなければならない。

6 もしが出て、いばらに移り、積みあげた麦束、または立穂、またはを焼いたならば、そのを燃やした者は、必ずこれを償わなければならない。

7 もし人が金銭または物品の保管を隣人に託し、それが隣人のから盗まれた時、その盗びとが見つけられたならば、これを倍にして償わせなければならない。

8 もし盗びとが見つけられなければ、の主人を神の前に連れてきて、彼が隣人の持ち物にをかけたかどうかを、確かめなければならない。

9 牛であれ、ろばであれ、羊であれ、衣服であれ、あるいはどんな失った物であれ、それについて言い争いが起り『これがそれです』と言う者があれば、その双方の言い分を、神の前に持ち出さなければならない。そしてが有罪と定められる者は、それを倍にしてその相手に償わなければならない。

10 もし人が、ろば、または牛、または羊、またはどんな家畜でも、それを隣人に預けて、それが死ぬか、傷つくか、あるいは奪い去られても、それを見た者がなければ、

11 双方の間に、隣人の持ち物にをかけなかったという誓いが、主の前になされなければならない。そうすれば、持ちはこれを受け入れ、隣人は償うに及ばない。

13 もしそれが裂き殺された時は、それを証拠として持って来るならば、その裂き殺されたものは償うに及ばない。

14 もし人が隣人から家畜を借りて、それが傷つき、または死ぬ場合、その持ち主がそれと共にいない時は、必ずこれを償わなければならない。

15 もしその持ち主がそれと共におれば、それを償うに及ばない。もしそれが賃借りしたものならば、その借賃をそれに当てなければならない。

16 もし人がまだ婚約しない処女を誘って、これと寝たならば、彼は必ずこれに花嫁料を払って、としなければならない。

17 もしその父がこれをその人に与えることをかたく拒むならば、彼は処女の花嫁料に当るほどの金を払わなければならない。

18 魔法使の女は、これを生かしておいてはならない。

19 すべてを犯す者は、必ず殺されなければならない。

20 主のほか、他の神々に犠牲をささげる者は、断ち滅ぼされなければならない。

21 あなたは寄留の他人を苦しめてはならない。また、これをしえたげてはならない。あなたがたも、かつてエジプトで、寄留の他人であったからである。

22 あなたがたはすべて寡婦、または孤児を悩ましてはならない。

23 もしあなたが彼らを悩まして、彼らがわたしにむかって叫ぶならば、わたしは必ずその叫びを聞くであろう。

24 そしてわたしの怒りは燃えたち、つるぎをもってあなたがたを殺すであろう。あなたがたのは寡婦となり、あなたがたの供たちは孤児となるであろう。

25 あなたが、共におるわたしの民の貧しい者に金を貸す時は、これに対して金貸しのようになってはならない。これから利子を取ってはならない。

26 もし隣人の上着を質に取るならば、日の入るまでにそれを返さなければならない。

27 これは彼の身をおおう、ただ一つの物、彼の膚のための着物だからである。彼は何を着て寝ることができよう。彼がわたしにむかって叫ぶならば、わたしはこれに聞くであろう。わたしはあわれみ深いからである。

28 あなたはをののしってはならない。また民の司をのろってはならない。

29 あなたの豊かな穀物と、あふれる酒とをささげるに、ためらってはならない。

30 あなたはまた、あなたの牛とをも同様にしなければならない。七の間そのと共に置いて、八目にそれをわたしに、ささげなければならない。

31 あなたがたは、わたしに対して聖なる民とならなければならない。あなたがたは、野で裂き殺されたもののを食べてはならない。それはに投げ与えなければならない。

   

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Arcana Coelestia #9094

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9094. 'And they shall also divide the dead one' means that the injuring affection as well will be dispersed. This is clear from the meaning of 'that which is dead' as evil and falsity, dealt with above in 9008, so that 'a dead ox' means an affection for evil and falsity in the natural, thus an injuring affection since evil causes injury by means of falsity; and from the meaning of 'dividing' as dispersing, as above in 9093. It is not easy to explain in a way that can be understood the nature of the matters contained in the internal sense of this verse. They are such as can be comprehended by angels, but only to some extent by men. For angels see the arcana of the Word in light that flows from the Lord; and in that light countless things are made visible which cannot be put into words, or even into mental pictures that a person could assimilate while living in the body. The reason for this is that with people in the world the light of heaven flows into the light of the world and so into such things there as either eliminate, reject, or darken and thereby weaken the light of heaven, such things being worldly and bodily cares, especially those that flow from self-love and love of the world. This is the reason why the perceptions belonging to angelic wisdom are for the most part beyond description and also beyond comprehension.

[2] However, a person enters into such wisdom after the body has been cast aside, that is, after death, but only the person who, when in the world, received the life of faith and charity from the Lord. The ability to receive that wisdom is held within the good of faith and charity. Much experience too has allowed me to know that the things which angels see and think about in the light of heaven are beyond description. When I have been raised into that light I have seemed to myself to understand everything the angels spoke there. But when I was brought down from there to the light of the external or natural man and in that light wished to recall the things I had heard there, I could not put them into words or even find ideas in my mind to embrace them, except for a few, and even these few in a dim manner. From all this it is evident that the things seen and heard in heaven are such as eye has never seen or ear heard.

[3] This is what the things that lie concealed inmostly in the internal sense of the Word are like. The situation is similar with the contents of the internal sense in this verse and the next. The things there which are capable of being explained and understood are these: All the truths present with a person possess life from affections belonging to some love or other. Truth without life from that source is like a sound emitted by the mouth without an idea behind it, or like a sound made by a mechanical man. From this it is evident that the life of a person's understanding comes from the life of his will, consequently the life of truth from the life of good, since truth occupies the understanding and good the will. If therefore two truths exist which do not receive their life from the same general affection but from dissimilar affections, they are inevitably dispersed since they clash with each other. And when truths are dispersed, the affections they belong to are dispersed as well. For there is a general affection, which brings all the truths present with a person together under it; and that general affection is good. These are the things that are capable of being stated regarding what is meant in the internal sense by two men's oxen, one of which inflicts a blow on the other ox, which as a result dies, and now by the stipulation that the living ox shall be sold, the silver shall be divided, and the dead ox too.

[4] Is there anyone belonging to the Church who does not know that every detail of the Word is Divine? But can anyone see anything Divine in these laws regarding oxen and asses falling into a pit, and regarding oxen striking with their horn, if they are considered and explained only on the level of the sense of the letter? Yet those laws are Divine, even on this level, if at the same time they are considered and explained on the level of the internal sense, because on this level every detail of the Word refers to the Lord, His kingdom and Church, thus to things that are Divine. For if anything is to be Divine and holy it must refer to Divine and holy subjects; the subject to which it refers makes it such. The worldly and civil regulations, such as the judgements, statutes, and laws declared by the Lord from Mount Sinai and contained in this chapter of Exodus and those that follow, are Divine and holy through inspiration. But inspiration is not dictation; rather it is influx from the Divine. What flows in from the Divine passes through heaven, where it is celestial and spiritual. But when it enters the world it becomes worldly, yet holds within itself what is celestial and spiritual. From this it is evident where the Divinity of the Word springs from and where it resides in the Word, and what inspiration is.

  
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Arcana Coelestia #9008

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9008. 'Shall surely die' means damnation. This is clear from the meaning of 'surely dying' as damnation, dealt with in 5407, 6119, 7494. The reason why 'death' means damnation is that with those who have been damned the truths of faith and forms of the good of charity have been wiped out. These are what constitute the most real kind of life a person has, for they are received from the Lord, who is the one and only source of life. When they have been wiped out their place is then taken by falsities and evils; and these, being the opposites of truths and forms of good which are the constituents of life, are therefore the constituents of death - spiritual death, which is damnation, hell, and eternal unhappiness. The reason why those immersed in evils and falsities, that is, those who are in hell, continue to be alive is that they were born human beings and consequently have the ability to receive life from the Lord. And they do receive life from the Lord, as much life as will enable them to think, reason, and speak, to make their evil look like good and their falsity like truth, and so to give the appearance of life.

  
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