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5 Mosebok 11

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1 Så skall du nu älska HERREN, din Gud, och hålla vad han bjuder dig hålla, hans stadgar och rätter och bud, alltid.

2 Och besinnen i dag -- jag talar nu icke om edra barn, som icke hava förnummit och sett det -- huru HERREN, eder Gud, har fostrat eder, besinnen hans storhet, hans starka hand och hans uträckta arm,

3 de tecken och gärningar som han gjorde i Egypten, med Farao, konungen i Egypten, och med hela hans land,

4 och vad han gjorde med egyptiernas här, med deras hästar och vagnar, huru han lät Röda havets vatten strömma över dem, när de förföljde eder, och huru HERREN då förgjorde dem, så att de nu icke mer äro till;

5 och vad han gjorde med eder i öknen, ända till dess I kommen hit,

6 och vad han gjorde med Datan och Abiram, Eliabs, Rubens sons, söner, huru jorden öppnade sin mun och uppslukade dem med deras hus och deras tält och allt levande som följde dem, och detta mitt i hela Israel.

7 Ty I haven ju med egna ögon sett alla de stora gärningar som HERREN har gjort.

8 Så hållen då alla de bud som jag i dag giver dig, på det att I med frimodighet mån kunna gå in i och intaga det land dit I nu dragen, för att taga det i besittning,

9 och på det att I mån länge leva i det land som HERREN med ed har lovat edra fäder att giva åt dem och deras efterkommande, ett land som flyter av mjölk och honung.

10 Ty det land dit du nu kommer, för att taga det i besittning, är icke såsom Egyptens land, varifrån I haven dragit ut, där du måste trampa upp vatten till den säd du sådde, såsom man gör i en köksträdgård;

11 nej, det land dit I nu dragen, för att taga det i besittning, är ett land med berg och dalar, som får vatten att dricka genom himmelens regn,

12 ett land som HERREN, din Gud, låter sig vårda om, och på vilket HERRENS, din Guds, ögon beständigt vila, från årets begynnelse till årets slut.

13 Om i nu hören de bud som jag i dag giver eder, så att I älsken HERREN, eder Gud, och tjänen honom av allt edert hjärta och av all eder själ,

14 så skall jag giva åt edert land regn i rätt tid, höstregn och vårregn, och du skall få inbärga din säd och ditt vin och din olja.

15 Och jag skall giva din boskap gräs på din mark; och du skall äta och bliva mätt.

16 Men tagen eder till vara, låten icke edra hjärtan bliva förförda, så att I viken av och tjänen andra gudar och tillbedjen dem;

17 ty då skall HERRENS vrede upptändas mot eder, och han skall tillsluta himmelen, så att regn icke faller och marken icke giver sin gröda; och I skolen med hast bliva utrotade ur det goda land som HERREN vill giva eder.

18 Så skolen I nu lägga dessa mina ord på edert hjärta och edert sinne, och I skolen binda dem såsom ett tecken på eder hand, och de skola vara såsom ett märke på eder panna;

19 och I skolen lära edra barn dem, i det att du talar om dem, när du sitter i ditt hus och när du står upp.

20 och du skall skriva dem på dörrposterna i ditt hus och på dina portar;

21 på det att I och edra barn mån länge få bo i det land som HERREN med ed har lovat edra fäder att giva dem, lika länge som himmelen välver sig över jorden.

22 Ty om I hållen alla dessa bud som jag giver eder och gören efter dem, så att I älsken HERREN, eder Gud, och alltid vandren på hans vägar och hållen eder till honom,

23 då skall HERREN fördriva alla dessa folk för eder, och I skolen underlägga eder folk som äro större och mäktigare än I.

24 Var ort eder fot beträder skall bliva eder. Från öknen till Libanon, ifrån floden -- floden Frat -- ända till Västra havet skall edert område sträcka sig.

25 Ingen skall kunna stå eder emot. Fruktan och förskräckelse för eder skall HERREN, eder Gud, låta komma över hela det land I beträden, såsom han har lovat eder.

26 Se, jag förelägger eder i dag välsignelse och förbannelse:

27 välsignelse, om I hören HERRENS eder Guds, bud, som jag i dag giver eder,

28 och förbannelse, om I icke hören HERRENS, eder Guds, bud, utan viken av ifrån den väg jag i dag bjuder eder gå och följen efter andra gudar, som I icke kännen.

29 Och när HERREN, din Gud, har låtit dig komma in i det land dit du nu går, för att taga det i besittning, skall du låta berget Gerissim bliva platsen för välsignelsen och berget Ebal platsen för förbannelsen.

30 (Dessa berg ligga, såsom känt är, på andra sidan Jordan, bortom Västra vägen, i hedmarkskananéernas land, mitt emot Gilgal, bredvid Mores terebintlund.)

31 Ty I gån nu över Jordan, för att komma in i och taga i besittning det land som HERREN, eder Gud, vill giva eder; I skolen taga det i besittning och bo där.

32 Hållen då alla de stadgar och rätter som jag i dag förelägger eder, och gören efter dem.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 2701

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2701. 'God opened her eyes' means intelligence. This is clear from the meaning of 'opening' - and that it is God who did so - and also from [the meaning] of 'the eyes', as conferring intelligence; for 'the eyes' means the understanding, see 212, as also does 'sight' or 'seeing', 2150, 2325. The expression 'God opens the eyes' is used when He opens interior sight or the understanding, which opening is accomplished by means of an influx into the rational part of the person's mind, or rather into the spiritual part of his rational. The route taken by this influx is the soul, that is, the internal route, of which the person himself is not aware. This influx is his state of enlightenment in which the truths he hears or reads about are confirmed for him by a kind of perception existing within, in the understanding part of his mind. The person himself believes that this enlightenment is innate within himself and that it springs from his own power of understanding; but in this he is very much mistaken. This enlightenment consists in an influx from the Lord by way of heaven into that person's dim, mistaken, and specious sight of things, and by means of the good there causes the things which he believes to become imitations of truth. Only those who are spiritual however are blessed with enlightenment in spiritual matters of faith; and this is the meaning of the expression 'God opens the eyes'.

[2] The reason why 'the eye' means the understanding is that the sight belonging to the body corresponds to that belonging to its spirit, which is the understanding. And because it has this correspondence 'the eye' in the Word, in almost every place where it is mentioned, means the understanding, even where people believe something other is meant, as where the Lord says in Matthew,

The lamp of the body is the eye. If the eye is sound, the whole body is full of light. If the eye has been evil the whole body has been made full of darkness. If therefore the light is darkness, how great is the darkness! Matthew 6:22-23; Luke 11:34.

Here 'the eye' is the understanding, the spiritual constituent of which is faith, as also is shown by the explanation added here - 'if therefore the light is darkness, how great is the darkness!' Similarly in the same gospel,

If your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it away from you. Matthew 5:29; 18:9.

'The left eye' is the understanding part of the mind, whereas 'the right eye' is its affection. The command to pluck out the right eye means that if it causes one to stumble one's affection must be disciplined.

[3] In the same gospel,

Blessed are your eyes, for they see, and your ears, for they hear. Matthew 13:16.

And in Luke, Jesus said to the disciples, Blessed are the eyes which see what you see. Luke 10:23.

Here 'the eyes which see' means intelligence and faith, for it was not the mere fact that they saw the Lord and also His miracles and works that caused any one of the disciples to be blessed but the fact that they could grasp things with their understandings and had faith, meant by 'seeing with the eyes', and that they were obedient, meant by 'hearing with the ears'. As regards 'seeing with the eyes' meaning to see with the understanding and also to have faith, see 897, 2325. For the understanding is the spiritual complement of sight, and faith the spiritual complement of the understanding. The sight of the eye is received from the light of the world, the sight of the understanding from the light of heaven flowing into things which belong to the light of the world; but the sight of faith is received from the light of heaven. This is the origin of such phrases as seeing with the understanding and seeing with faith. 'Hearing with the ear' means being obedient, see 2542.

[4] In Mark,

Jesus said to the disciples, Do you not yet know nor understand? Do you still have your heart hardened? Having eyes do you not see, and having ears do you not hear? Mark 8:17-18.

Here it is evident that 'having eyes but not seeing' means not wishing to understand and not believing. In Luke,

Jesus said of the city, Would that you knew the things that make for your peace! But such is hidden from your eyes. Luke 19:41-42.

And in Mark,

By the Lord has this been done, and it is marvellous in our eyes. Mark 12:11.

Here 'hidden from the eyes' and 'marvellous in the eyes' mean to be so to the understanding, as is well known to everyone from the meaning of 'the eyes' even in everyday speech.

  
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Arcana Coelestia # 2454

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2454. That 'his wife looked back behind him' means that truth turned away from good and looked towards matters of doctrine is clear from the meaning of 'looking back behind him' and from the meaning of 'a wife'. Looking back behind him means looking towards matters of doctrine, which have a relationship with truth, and not towards life in accordance with them, which has a relationship with good, as stated above in 2417. That which is secondary is referred to as 'behind him' and that which is primary as 'before him'. The fact that truth is secondary and good primary has been shown quite often. For truth belongs to good, since the essence and life of truth is good. 'Looking behind him' therefore means looking towards truth which constitutes doctrinal teaching, and not towards good which constitutes life in accordance with doctrinal teaching. That these points are what is meant becomes quite clear from the Lord's words, where also, referring to the final period of the Church or close of the age, He says in Luke,

On that day, whoever will be on the housetop with his vessels in the house, let him not come down to take them away; and whoever is in the field, let him likewise not turn back to behind him. Remember Lot's wife. Luke 17:31-32.

[2] These words of the Lord are by no means intelligible without the internal sense, and so are unintelligible unless one knows what is meant by 'being on the housetop', by 'vessels in the house', by 'coming down to take them away', by 'the field', and lastly by 'turning back to behind him'. According to the internal sense 'being on the housetop' means resting on good; for 'a house' means good, see 710, 2231, 2233. 'Vessels in the house' means truths which belong to good; for truths are the vessels for good, see 1496, 1832, 1900, 2063, 2269. 'Going down to take them away' means, as is evident, turning away from good towards truth, for since good is primary it is also higher, while truth, being secondary, is also lower. That 'the field' is the Church, so called from the seed which it receives, and consequently that those people are 'fields' in whom there is the good taught by doctrine, is clear from many places in the Word. These considerations show what 'turning back to behind him' means, namely turning away from good and looking towards matters of doctrine. And it is because these things are meant by the expression 'Lot's wife', that 'remember Lot's wife' is added. The reason it is not said that she looked 'behind herself' but 'behind him' is that 'Lot' means good, see 2324, 2351, 2371, 2399. This explains why, when Lot was told what to do, verse 17, the words used were, 'Do not look back behind you'.

[3] The reason why in Luke it is said 'let him not turn back to behind him' and not 'to the things behind him' is that celestial people are unwilling even to mention anything that is a matter of doctrine, see 202, 337. This is why no such thing is mentioned in Luke, only the words 'to behind him'.

[4] These same matters are described in Matthew as follows,

When you see the abomination of desolation, foretold by the prophet Daniel, then let those who are in Judea flee into the mountains. Let him who is on the housetop not go down to take anything away out of his house; and let him who is in the field not return back to take his clothes. Matthew 24:15-17.

Here 'the abomination of desolation' is the state of the Church when there is no love and no charity. When these have been destroyed abominable things predominate. 'Judea' means the Church, and in particular the celestial Church, as is evident from both the historical and prophetical sections throughout the Old Testament Word, while 'the mountains into which they were to flee' means love to the Lord and consequent charity towards the neighbour, see 795, 1430, 1691. 'He who is on the housetop' means good flowing from love, as stated just above. 'Going down to take anything away out of his house' means turning away from good towards truth, as has also been stated above, while 'he who is in the field' means members of the spiritual Church, as is evident from the meaning of 'field' in the Word. 'Let him not return back to take his clothes' means not turning away from good towards truth that constitutes doctrinal teaching - 'clothes' meaning truths, for truths clothe good like garments, see 1073. Anyone may see that all those things which the Lord has said in that section about the close of the age mean things altogether different and embody arcana, such as that those in Judea were to flee into the mountains, that the one on the housetop was not to go down and bring anything out of the house, and that the one in the field was not to return back to take his clothes. Similar to this is the statement in verse 17 that Lot was not to look back behind him, and that made here that his wife did look back behind him and became a pillar of salt. In addition this matter is clear from the meaning of 'a wife' as truth, dealt with in 915, 1468, and from the meaning of 'Lot' as good, dealt with in 2324, 2351, 2371, 2399; hence the words 'after him'.

[5] Truth is said to turn away from good and look towards matters of doctrine when the member of the Church no longer takes to heart what kind of life he leads, only what kind of doctrine he possesses. Yet it is life according to doctrine, not doctrine separate from life, that makes anyone a member of the Church; for when doctrine is separated from life, then because good, in which life consists, has been vastated, truth as well, in which doctrine consists, is vastated, that is, it becomes 'a pillar of salt'. This is something anyone who looks to doctrine alone and not to life may know, by considering whether, even though doctrine teaches such things, he in fact believes in the resurrection, heaven, hell, and indeed the Lord, and so in everything else which doctrine teaches.

  
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