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5 Mose 32

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1 Horchet, ihr Himmel, und ich will reden; und die Erde höre die Worte meines Mundes!

2 Es träufle wie Regen meine Lehre, es fließe wie Tau meine Rede, wie Regenschauer auf das Gras und wie Regengüsse auf das Kraut!

3 Denn den Namen Jehovas will ich ausrufen: Gebet Majestät unserem Gott!

4 Der Fels: Vollkommen ist sein Tun; denn alle seine Wege sind recht. Ein Gott der Treue und ohne Trug, gerecht und gerade ist er!

5 Es hat sich gegen ihn verderbt, nicht seiner Kinder ist ihr Schandfleck ein verkehrtes und verdrehtes Geschlecht.

6 Vergeltet ihr also Jehova, du törichtes und unweises Volk? Ist er nicht dein Vater, der dich erkauft hat? Er hat dich gemacht und dich bereitet.

7 Gedenke der Tage der Vorzeit, merket auf die Jahre von Geschlecht zu Geschlecht; frage deinen Vater, und er wird es dir kundtun, deine Ältesten, und sie werden es dir sagen.

8 Als der Höchste den Nationen das Erbe austeilte, als er voneinander schied die Menschenkinder, da stellte er fest die Grenzen der Völker nach der Zahl der Kinder Israel.

9 Denn Jehovas Teil ist sein Volk, Jakob die Schnur seines Erbteils.

10 Er fand ihn im Lande der Wüste und in der Öde, dem Geheul der Wildnis; er umgab ihn, gab acht auf ihn, er behütete ihn wie seinen Augapfel.

11 Wie der Adler sein Nest aufstört, über seinen Jungen schwebt, seine Flügel ausbreitet, sie aufnimmt, sie trägt auf seinen Schwingen;

12 so leitete ihn Jehova allein, und kein fremder Gott war mit ihm.

13 Er ließ ihn einherfahren auf den Höhen der Erde, und er den Ertrag des Feldes; und er ließ ihn Honig saugen aus dem Felsen und Öl aus dem Kieselfelsen;

14 geronnene Milch der Kühe und Milch der Schafe, samt dem Fette der Mastschafe und Widder, der Söhne Basans, und der Böcke, samt dem Nierenfett des Weizens; und der Traube Blut trankest du, feurigen Wein.

15 Da ward Jeschurun fett und schlug aus; du wurdest fett, dick, feist! Und er verließ Gott, der ihn gemacht hatte, und verachtete den Fels seiner Rettung.

16 Sie reizten ihn zur Eifersucht durch fremde Götter, durch Greuel erbitterten sie ihn.

17 Sie opferten den Dämonen, die Nicht-Gott sind, Göttern, die sie nicht kannten, neuen, die vor kurzem aufgekommen waren, die eure Väter nicht verehrten.

18 Den Felsen, der dich gezeugt, vernachlässigtest du, und vergaßest den Gott, der dich geboren.

19 Und Jehova sah es und verwarf sie, vor Unwillen über seine Söhne und seine Töchter.

20 Und er sprach: Ich will mein Angesicht vor ihnen verbergen, will sehen, was ihr Ende sein wird; denn ein Geschlecht voll Verkehrtheit sind sie, Kinder, in denen keine Treue ist.

21 Sie haben mich zur Eifersucht gereizt durch Nicht-Götter, haben mich erbittert durch ihre Nichtigkeiten; so will auch ich sie zur Eifersucht reizen durch ein Nicht-Volk, durch eine törichte Nation will ich sie erbittern.

22 Denn ein Feuer ist entbrannt in meinem Zorn und wird brennen bis in den untersten Scheol, und es wird verzehren die Erde und ihren Ertrag und entzünden die Grundfesten der Berge.

23 Ich werde Unglück über sie häufen, meine Pfeile wider sie verbrauchen.

24 Vergehen sie vor Hunger, und sind sie aufgezehrt von Fieberglut und giftiger Pest, so werde ich den Zahn wilder Tiere gegen sie senden, samt dem Gifte der im Staube Schleichenden.

25 Draußen wird das Schwert rauben, und in den Gemächern der Schrecken: den Jüngling wie die Jungfrau, den Säugling mit dem greisen Manne.

26 Ich hätte gesagt: Ich will sie zerstreuen, ihrem Gedächtnis unter den Menschen ein Ende machen!

27 Wenn ich die Kränkung von seiten des Feindes nicht fürchtete, daß ihre Widersacher es verkännten, daß sie sprächen: Unsere Hand war erhaben, und nicht Jehova hat dies alles getan!

28 Denn sie sind eine Nation, die allen Rat verloren hat; und kein Verständnis ist in ihnen.

29 Wenn sie weise wären, so würden sie dieses verstehen, ihr Ende bedenken.

30 Wie könnte einer Tausend jagen, und zwei Zehntausend in die Flucht treiben, wäre es nicht, daß ihr Fels sie verkauft und Jehova sie preisgegeben hätte?

31 Denn nicht wie unser Fels ist ihr Fels: Dessen sind unsere Feinde selbst Richter!

32 Denn von dem Weinstock Sodoms ist ihr Weinstock und von den Fluren Gomorras; ihre Beeren sind Giftbeeren, bitter sind ihre Trauben.

33 Gift der Drachen ist ihr Wein und grausames Gift der Nattern.

34 Ist dieses nicht bei mir verborgen, versiegelt in meinen Schatzkammern?

35 Mein ist die Rache und die Vergeltung für die Zeit, da ihr Fuß wanken wird; denn nahe ist der Tag ihres Verderbens, und was ihnen bevorsteht, eilt herbei.

36 Denn Jehova wird sein Volk richten, und er wird sich's gereuen lassen über seine Knechte, wenn er sehen wird, daß geschwunden die Kraft, und der Gebundene und der Freie dahin ist.

37 Und er wird sagen: Wo sind ihre Götter, der Fels, auf den sie vertrauten,

38 welche das Fett ihrer Schlachtopfer aßen, den Wein ihrer Trankopfer tranken? Sie mögen aufstehen und euch helfen, mögen ein Schirm über euch sein!

39 Sehet nun, daß ich, ich bin, der da ist, und kein Gott neben mir! Ich töte, und ich mache lebendig, ich zerschlage, und ich heile; und niemand ist, der aus meiner Hand errettet!

40 Denn ich erhebe zum Himmel meine Hand und spreche: Ich lebe ewiglich!

41 Wenn ich mein blitzendes Schwert geschärft habe und meine Hand zum Gericht greift, so werde ich Rache erstatten meinen Feinden und Vergeltung geben meinen Hassern.

42 Meine Pfeile werde ich berauschen mit Blut, und mein Schwert wird Fleisch fressen mit dem Blute der Erschlagenen und Gefangenen, von dem Haupte der Fürsten des Feindes.

43 Jubelt, ihr Nationen, mit seinem Volke! Denn er wird rächen das Blut seiner Knechte und wird Rache erstatten seinen Feinden, und seinem Lande, seinem Volke, vergeben. -

44 Und Mose kam und redete alle Worte dieses Liedes vor den Ohren des Volkes, er und Hosea, der Sohn Nuns.

45 Und als Mose alle diese Worte zu dem ganzen Israel ausgeredet hatte, da sprach er zu ihnen:

46 Richtet euer Herz auf alle die Worte, die ich euch heute bezeuge, damit ihr sie euren Kindern befehlet, daß sie darauf achten, alle Worte dieses Gesetzes zu tun.

47 Denn es ist nicht ein leeres Wort für euch, sondern es ist euer Leben; und durch dieses Wort werdet ihr eure Tage verlängern in dem Lande, wohin ihr über den Jordan ziehet, um es in Besitz zu nehmen.

48 Und Jehova redete zu Mose an diesem selbigen Tage und sprach:

49 Steige auf dieses Gebirge Abarim, den Berg Nebo, der im Lande Moab liegt, der Jericho gegenüber ist, und sieh das Land Kanaan, das ich den Kindern Israel zum Eigentum gebe;

50 und du wirst sterben auf dem Berge, auf welchen du steigen wirst, und zu deinen Völkern versammelt werden; gleichwie dein Bruder Aaron auf dem Berge Hor gestorben ist und zu seinen Völkern versammelt wurde;

51 darum daß ihr treulos gegen mich gehandelt habt inmitten der Kinder Israel an dem Wasser von Meriba-Kades in der Wüste Zin, darum daß ihr mich nicht geheiligt habt inmitten der Kinder Israel.

52 Denn vor dir sollst du das Land sehen, aber du sollst nicht in das Land hineinkommen, das ich den Kindern Israel gebe.

   

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Arcana Coelestia #8875

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8875. 'A jealous God' means that as a result there is falsity and evil. This is clear from the consideration that in the genuine sense 'a jealous God' means the Divine Truth of Divine Good, since 'God' has reference to truth, 2586, 2769, 2807, 2822, 3921 (end), 4287, 4402, 7010, 7268, 8301, and 'jealous' to good, as will be seen below. But so far as those who do not receive the Divine Truth of the Lord's Divine Good are concerned, 'a jealous God' is falsity and evil. For those who are opposed to Him perceive Divine Truth as falsity, and Divine Good as evil; for the way in which everyone sees that Truth and Good is determined by what he really is in himself. So it is that the Lord's zeal, 1 which in itself is love and compassion, is seen by them as anger; for when the Lord in love and mercy protects His own in heaven those ruled by evil are indignant and angry with the good. They plunge into the sphere where Divine Good and Divine Truth are, endeavouring to destroy those who are there. But then the Divine Truth of Divine Good acts on them and causes them to experience torments like those suffered in hell. As a consequence of this they attribute wrath and anger, and also all evil, to the Divine, when in fact there is no anger whatever in the Divine, nor any evil whatever, only pure forbearance and mercy.

[2] From all this it is evident why 'jealous' means falsity and evil, and why 'zeal' means anger. See what has been shown already about them, that is to say, in the following places,

Wrath and anger are attributed to the Lord, when in fact they exist with those who are ruled by evil or who are full of anger against the Divine, 5798, 6997, 8284, 8483.

Evil things, punishments, and times of vastation are in a similar way attributed to the Lord, when in fact nothing except love and mercy reside with the Lord, 2447, 6071, 6559, 6991, 6997, 7533, 7632, 7643, 7679, 7710, 7877, 7926, 8214, 8223, 8226-8228, 8282, 8632.

Through their endeavour to destroy goodness and truth the evil bring about their own devastation and cast themselves into damnation and hell, 7643, 7679, 7710, 7926, 7989.

The way in which everyone sees the Lord is determined by what he is within himself, 1861 (end), 6832, 8197.

[3] The places in the Word which are quoted below will show that 'the zeal of the Lord' is love and mercy, and that when the Lord protects the good against the evil it seems like hostility, and also like anger.

The zeal of the Lord is love and mercy.

In Isaiah,

Look out from heaven, and see from the dwelling-place of Your holiness and of Your glory. And where are Your zeal and Your might? The yearning of Your loins, 2 and Your compassion, 3 towards me have held themselves back. Isaiah 63:15.

'Zeal' here stands for mercy, which is 'a yearning of the loins' and has reference to good. For where it says 'Your zeal and Your might' the word 'zeal' has reference to good, and the word 'might' to truth; and 'the yearning of the loins' likewise has reference to good, and 'compassion' to truth. In a like manner 'the dwelling-place of holiness' stands for the heaven where members of the celestial kingdom live, and 'the dwelling-place of glory' for the heaven where members of the spiritual kingdom live. From this too it is evident that where good is referred to in the Word, truth is referred to as well, on account of the heavenly marriage, which is the marriage of good and truth, in every individual part of the Word. This is so in the case of the Lord's two names Jesus and Christ; they are a sign of the Divine marriage within the Lord. Regarding these matters, see 683, 793, 801, 2516, 4138 (end), 5138, 5502, 6343, 7945, 8339 (end).

[4] In the same prophet,

To us a Boy is born, to us a Son is given, and the government will be upon His shoulder; and His name is called' 4 Wonderful, Counsellor, God, Hero, Father of Eternity, Prince of Peace. Of the increase of His government and of peace there will be no end. The zeal of Jehovah will do this. Isaiah 9:6-7.

This refers to the Lord and His Coming. 'The zeal of Jehovah will do this' stands for His acting from a love that burns to save the human race. In the same prophet,

Out of Jerusalem will go a remnant, and those who escape from Mount Zion. The zeal of Jehovah will do this. Isaiah 37:32.

'The zeal of Jehovah will do this' stands for His acting out of love and mercy.

[5] In Ezekiel,

Thus said the Lord Jehovih, Now I will bring back the captives of Jacob, and have mercy on the whole house of Israel; and I will be jealous for My holy name. 5 Ezekiel 39:25.

'Being jealous' stands for having mercy. In David, The zeal of Your house has devoured me. Psalms 69:9.

This refers to the Lord. 'The zeal of Jehovah's house' stands for love towards those who receive goodness and truth; for they are Jehovah's house.

[6] The Lord's zeal or mercy when He protects the good seems like hostility.

In Isaiah,

Jehovah will go forth as a mighty man, as a man of war He will arouse zeal; He will shout aloud and cry out, He will prevail over His enemies. Isaiah 42:13.

And in Joel,

Jehovah will be jealous for His land, and spare His people. Joel 2:18.

[7] The Lord's zeal is called anger and wrath because mercy is seen as such by the evil.

In Moses,

You shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the peoples who are round about you (for Jehovah your God in the midst of you is a jealous God), lest perhaps the anger of Jehovah your God flare up against you and destroy you from the face of the earth. Deuteronomy 6:14-15.

In the same author,

They provoked Him to jealousy through foreign [gods]; through abominations they made Him angry. They sacrifice to demons. They have moved Me to jealousy, 6 by what is not god, they have provoked Me to anger with their idols. 7 Deuteronomy 32:16-17, 21.

In Ezekiel,

When My anger is accomplished and I make My wrath rest on them, I will repent, so that they may know that I Jehovah have spoken in My zeal, when I have accomplished My wrath on them. Ezekiel 5:13.

In Zechariah,

The angel of Jehovah [speaking] in me said to me, Cry out, saying, Thus said Jehovah Zebaoth, I have been jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with great zeal. For I have become extremely indignant against the nations that feel secure. Zechariah 1:14-15; 8:2.

In Zephaniah,

I will pour out onto them My indignation, all My fierce anger, 8 for in the fire of My zeal the whole earth will be devoured. Zephaniah 3:8.

In Moses,

Jehovah will not be pleased to pardon him; but then the anger of Jehovah, and His zeal, will smoke against that man, and every curse will rest on him Deuteronomy 29:20.

In David,

How long, O Jehovah; will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn line fire? Pour out Your anger on the nations that do not know You. Psalms 79:5-6.

Jehovah's zeal is in like manner referred to as 'anger' in Psalms 38:1; Ezekiel 16:42; 23:25; 38:19.

All this shows what is meant by 'Jehovah's zeal' or 'a jealous God' - in the genuine sense love and mercy, but in the non-genuine sense, such as that understood by those immersed in evils and falsities, anger and ruination.

[8] It should be recognized that Jehovah, that is, the Lord, is called 'jealous' or 'an avenger' especially when what ought to reign universally with a member of the Church - that is to say, what is Divine and must be either loved, held in mind, or feared above all things - is being corrupted. When it has been corrupted or destroyed complete and utter darkness ensues in place of heavenly light; for that light no longer flows in from the Divine because there is no acceptance of it. This is why the commandment says, 'I am Jehovah your God, a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the sons, on the third and on the fourth [generations] of those who hate Me', which He would do if they worshipped other gods or made either a graven image or likenesses for themselves. For these corrupt what is Divine and ought to reign universally.

[9] Therefore similar declarations occur elsewhere in Moses,

Take care, lest you make for yourselves a graven image of any figure; for Jehovah your God is a devouring fire, a jealous God. Deuteronomy 4:23-24

And in the same author,

You shall not worship any other god; for Jehovah, whose name is Jealous, He is a jealous [God]. Exodus 34:14.

The reason why the Israelite nation was forbidden so strictly to do these things was that any adoration of other gods, graven images, and other images destroyed everything representative of the Church among them. For in heaven Jehovah, that is, the Lord, reigns universally; His Divine [Life] fills all things there and composes the life of all. If anything else had been worshipped instead of the Divine, everything representative, and so contact with heaven, would have perished.

Примітки:

1. or jealousy. In Latin, as in Hebrew, the same noun may be rendered zeal or jealousy, and the same adjective may be rendered zealous or jealous.

2. literally, The commotion of Your viscera

3. literally, compassions

4. literally, He has called His name

5. literally, the name of My holiness

6. literally, they have moved My jealousy (or zeal)

7. literally, vanities

8. lit all the wrath of My anger

  
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Arcana Coelestia #2447

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2447. 'From Jehovah out of heaven' means from the laws of order in regard to truth, because they separate themselves from good. This does not become clear except from the internal sense, by means of which the truth of the matter regarding forms of punishment and condemnation is disclosed, namely that the author of these is in no sense Jehovah or the Lord, but man, evil spirit, or devil himself; and this is so from the laws of order in regard to truth because they separate themselves from good.

[2] All order begins in Jehovah, that is, in the Lord, and it is in accordance with that order that He rules over every single thing. But there is much variation to His rule; that is to say, it may be His Will, or His Good Pleasure, or His Consent, or His Permission from which He rules. Things that have their origin in His will or in His good pleasure are products of laws of order which have regard to what is good, as also do many things that exist by His consent, and even some that do so by His permission. But when a person separates himself from good he subjects himself to the laws of order which are those of truth separated from good and which are such as condemn. For all truth condemns a person and casts him down into hell; but out of good, that is, out of mercy, the Lord rescues him and raises him up into heaven. From this it is clear that it is a person himself who condemns himself.

[3] Things that are the result of permission are for the most part of this nature - for example, besides countless others, the fact that one devil punishes and torments another. These things are from the laws of order in regard to truth separated from good, for there is no other way in which such devils could be kept under control and prevented from rushing on all the good and upright and destroying them eternally. The prevention of their doing this is the good which the Lord has in view. This is similar to what happens on earth where a benign and compassionate ruler exists who intends and does nothing but good. If he did not allow his laws to punish evil and criminal persons - though he himself punishes nobody but instead grieves that those people are such that their evils must punish them - he would leave his kingdom itself open to plunder by such people; and this would be a manifestation of a complete lack of benignity and compassion.

[4] From these considerations it is evident that Jehovah in no way rained down brimstone and fire, that is, condemned to hell, but that those subject to evil and to falsity which arises out of this did so, the reason being that they separated themselves from good and in so doing put themselves under the laws of order deriving from truth alone. From all this it follows that such is the internal sense of these words.

[5] In the Word, evil, punishment, cursing, condemnation, and many other things are attributed to Jehovah or the Lord, similar to the attribution here that He rained brimstone and fire: in Ezekiel,

I will dispute with him with pestilence and blood; fire and brimstone will I rain on him. Ezekiel 38:22.

In Isaiah,

The breath of Jehovah is like a stream of burning brimstone. Isaiah 30:33.

In David,

Jehovah will rain on the wicked snares, fire and brimstone. Psalms 11:6.

In the same author,

Smoke went up out of His nose, and fire out of His mouth devoured; glowing coals flamed forth from Him. Psalms 18:8-9.

In Jeremiah,

Lest My wrath go forth like fire, and burn with none to quench it. Jeremiah 21:12.

In Moses,

Fire has flared up in My anger, and will burn right down to the lowest hell. Deuteronomy 32:22.

Similar attributions occur in many other places besides these. Why in the Word such things are attributed, as has been stated, to Jehovah or the Lord has been explained in Volume One, in 223, 245, 589, 592, 696, 735, 1093, 1683, 1874. The idea that such things come from the Lord is as remote from the truth as good is from evil, or heaven from hell, or what is Divine from what is of the devil. Evil, hell, and the devil do those things, and in no way the Lord who is mercy itself and good itself. But because those things do seem to come from Him, for reasons presented in the paragraphs just quoted, they are attributed to Him.

[6] From the wording of this verse, 'Jehovah rained from Jehovah out of heaven', it seems in the sense of the letter as though there were two of Them - one on earth, and one in heaven. But the internal sense teaches how this matter is to be understood, namely as follows: The Jehovah mentioned first means the Lord's Divine Human and His Holy proceeding, which in this chapter are meant by 'the two men', while the Jehovah mentioned second means the Divine itself, called the Father, who is referred to in the previous chapter. The internal sense also teaches that this Trinity exists within the Lord, as He Himself says in John,

He who has seen Me has seen the Father. Believe Me that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me. John 14:9-11.

And referring to the Holy proceeding He says in the same gospel,

The Paraclete will not speak from Himself. He will receive it from what is Mine and declare it to you. John 16:13-15.

Thus there is but one Jehovah even though two are mentioned here. Two are mentioned because all laws of order spring from the Lord's Divine itself, Divine Human, and Holy proceeding.

  
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