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Genesis 4

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1 Ir Adomas pažino savo žmoną Ievą, ir ji tapo nėščia. Ji pagimdė Kainą ir tarė: “Įsigijau sūnų Viešpaties pagalba”.

2 Ji dar pagimdė jo brolį Abelį. Abelis buvo avių piemuo, o Kainas­žemdirbys.

3 Kuriam laikui praėjus, Kainas aukojo Viešpačiui iš žemės vaisių.

4 Taip pat ir Abelis aukojo iš savo bandos riebiausių pirmagimių. Viešpats pažvelgė į Abelį ir jo auką,

5 tačiau į Kainą ir jo auką Jis nepažvelgė. Todėl Kainas labai supyko, ir jo veidas paniuro.

6 Viešpats tarė Kainui: “Kodėl tu supykai ir tavo veidas paniuro?

7 Darydamas gera, argi nebūsi priimtas? O jei gera nedarai, nuodėmė tyko prie durų. Ji traukia tave, tačiau tu turi viešpatauti jai”.

8 Kainas kalbėjo savo broliui Abeliui. Jiems esant laukuose, Kainas užpuolė savo brolį Abelį ir jį užmušė.

9 Tada Viešpats paklausė Kaino: “Kur yra tavo brolis Abelis?” O jis atsakė: “Nežinau. Argi aš esu savo brolio sargas?”

10 Tada Viešpats tarė: “Ką padarei? Tavo brolio kraujas šaukiasi manęs nuo žemės.

11 Taigi dabar esi prakeiktas ant žemės, kuri atsivėrė ir priėmė iš tavo rankos tavo brolio kraują.

12 Kai tu ją dirbsi, ji nebeduos tau derliaus. Tu būsi klajūnas ir benamis žemėje”.

13 Tada Kainas tarė Viešpačiui: “Mano bausmė yra per didelė, kad galėčiau ją pakelti.

14 Tu šiandien mane išvarai iš žemės. Aš turėsiu slėptis nuo Tavęs ir būsiu klajūnas ir benamis žemėje. Kas mane sutiks, užmuš”.

15 Viešpats jam atsakė: “Kas užmuš Kainą, tam septyneriopai bus atkeršyta!” Viešpats paženklino Kainą žyme, kad nė vienas, sutikęs jį, jo nenužudytų.

16 Kainas pasitraukė iš Viešpaties akivaizdos ir apsigyveno Nodo šalyje, į rytus nuo Edeno.

17 Kainas pažino savo žmoną, ji pastojo ir pagimdė Henochą. Kainas pastatė miestą ir tą miestą pavadino savo sūnaus vardu­Henochas.

18 Henocho sūnus buvo Iradas, Irado sūnus­Mehujaelis, Mehujaelio­Metušaelis, Metušaelio­ Lamechas.

19 Lamechas vedė dvi žmonas. Pirmosios vardas buvo Ada, antrosios­Cila.

20 Ada pagimdė Jabalą; jis buvo tėvas tų, kurie gyvena palapinėse ir laiko gyvulius.

21 Jo brolis, vardu Jubalas, buvo arfininkų ir vamzdininkų tėvas.

22 Cila pagimdė Tubal Kainą, kuris gamino visokius įrankius iš vario ir geležies. Tubal Kaino sesuo buvo Naama.

23 Lamechas tarė savo žmonoms: “Ada ir Cila, klausykite! Jūs, Lamecho žmonos, įsidėmėkite, ką sakau: aš užmušiau vyrą už man padarytą žaizdą, jaunuolį už randą!

24 Jei už Kainą bus atkeršyta septyneriopai, tai už Lamechą­septyniasdešimt septynis kartus!”

25 Adomas vėl pažino savo žmoną, ir ji pagimdė sūnų, vardu Setas, sakydama: “Dievas man davė kitą sūnų vietoje Abelio, kurį Kainas užmušė”.

26 Taip pat ir Setas turėjo sūnų, vardu Enas. Tuomet žmonės pradėjo šauktis Viešpaties vardo.

   

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Doctrine

За Joe David

In this photo, entitled Reaching Out, two bean plants are climbing adjacent poles, and they have each reached out a tendril to bridge the gap.

Doctrine may be defined as organized truth that informs the way we act and think about the world.

In common usage, "doctrine" is not something that has to be grand or solemn. We all have doctrines about many little things like lawn care, car maintenance, or fixing chili; this kind of doctrine is just the way we do something because we think it is the right way. Often the reasoning behind these doctrines is that it is the way our parents did it, that we read it somewhere, or that it just seems right.

Everyone has a doctrine about how they live their lives in general as well, such as a charitable doctrine of looking out for others, or a selfish doctrine of "me first." Whether or not we have given it much thought, we live in accordance with our doctrine - our way of thinking.

Swedenborg used "doctrine" quite specifically to mean the organized arrangement of spiritual teachings about various aspects of reality. All religions have sacred beliefs, some of them written, like the Bible or the Quran, and some of them oral. From these beliefs they establish doctrine. In many cases organizations of the same religion will emphasize or reject different sets of truths and develop different forms of doctrine. Moreover, different religions will disagree about the validity of the original beliefs. But most would agree that the Truth, with a capital T, comes from some version of God.

The Writings for the New Church tell us that, in the Bible, cities represent doctrine. This was because cities were organized habitations, home ground to many people, places where there was much interchange of ideas and goods between people. They were places that could accommodate differing neighborhoods, and that could be fortified. On a spiritual plane all these things can be said about doctrine. It’s interesting to notice just how often cities are mentioned in the Word, either to be conquered, lived in, or built. Mention of a city comes as early as Genesis 4:17, just after the expulsion from the garden of Eden, where we are told that Cain built a city in the land of Nod and named it after his son, Enoch. Then in Genesis 11, men are not only building the well-known tower of Babel, but also a city of which the tower was a part. There are hundreds of other cities mentioned, and they signify different structures of doctrine.

Finally, in the next to last chapter of the Word (Revelation 20) we are told of the descent from God of the City New Jerusalem, coming down to earth. We in the New Church believe that this City represents a new doctrine, given by the Lord, written down and published by Emanuel Swedenborg in the 1700s, that resolves the false ideas that came into Christianity with the ideas of three persons in God, and with the later belief in salvation by faith alone.

New Christian doctrine holds that there is one God - one Divine Person who is the Lord God Jesus Christ, and that salvation requires a joining of faith and charity (a belief in true ideas, and a love for God and the neighbor).

(Посилання: Apocalypse Revealed 320, 902; Arcana Coelestia 399, 402, 3364 [2]; Teachings about the Sacred Scripture 54; The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem Regarding the Lord 63; The New Jerusalem and its Heavenly Doctrine 7; True Christian Religion 508 [5])

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Ezekiel 48

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1 Now these are the names of the tribes: From the north end, beside the way of Hethlon to the entrance of Hamath, Hazar Enan at the border of Damascus, northward beside Hamath, (and they shall have their sides east [and] west), Dan, one [portion].

2 By the border of Dan, from the east side to the west side, Asher, one [portion].

3 By the border of Asher, from the east side even to the west side, Naphtali, one [portion].

4 By the border of Naphtali, from the east side to the west side, Manasseh, one [portion].

5 By the border of Manasseh, from the east side to the west side, Ephraim, one [portion].

6 By the border of Ephraim, from the east side even to the west side, Reuben, one [portion].

7 By the border of Reuben, from the east side to the west side, Judah, one [portion].

8 By the border of Judah, from the east side to the west side, shall be the offering which you shall offer, twenty-five thousand [reeds] in breadth, and in length as one of the portions, from the east side to the west side: and the sanctuary shall be in its midst.

9 The offering that you shall offer to Yahweh shall be twenty-five thousand [reeds] in length, and ten thousand in breadth.

10 For these, even for the priests, shall be the holy offering: toward the north twenty-five thousand [in length], and toward the west ten thousand in breadth, and toward the east ten thousand in breadth, and toward the south twenty-five thousand in length: and the sanctuary of Yahweh shall be in its midst.

11 [It shall be] for the priests who are sanctified of the sons of Zadok, who have kept my instruction, who didn't go astray when the children of Israel went astray, as the Levites went astray.

12 It shall be to them an offering from the offering of the land, a thing most holy, by the border of the Levites.

13 Answerable to the border of the priests, the Levites shall have twenty-five thousand in length, and ten thousand in breadth: all the length shall be twenty-five thousand, and the breadth ten thousand.

14 They shall sell none of it, nor exchange it, nor shall the first fruits of the land be alienated; for it is holy to Yahweh.

15 The five thousand that are left in the breadth, in front of the twenty-five thousand, shall be for common use, for the city, for dwelling and for suburbs; and the city shall be in its midst.

16 These shall be its measures: the north side four thousand and five hundred, and the south side four thousand and five hundred, and on the east side four thousand and five hundred, and the west side four thousand and five hundred.

17 The city shall have suburbs: toward the north two hundred fifty, and toward the south two hundred fifty, and toward the east two hundred fifty, and toward the west two hundred fifty.

18 The remainder in the length, answerable to the holy offering, shall be ten thousand eastward, and ten thousand westward; and it shall be answerable to the holy offering; and its increase shall be for food to those who labor in the city.

19 Those who labor in the city, out of all the tribes of Israel, shall cultivate it.

20 All the offering shall be twenty-five thousand by twenty-five thousand: you shall offer the holy offering foursquare, with the possession of the city.

21 The residue shall be for the prince, on the one side and on the other of the holy offering and of the possession of the city; in front of the twenty-five thousand of the offering toward the east border, and westward in front of the twenty-five thousand toward the west border, answerable to the portions, it shall be for the prince: and the holy offering and the sanctuary of the house shall be in its midst.

22 Moreover from the possession of the Levites, and from the possession of the city, being in the midst of that which is the prince's, between the border of Judah and the border of Benjamin, it shall be for the prince.

23 As for the rest of the tribes: from the east side to the west side, Benjamin, one [portion].

24 By the border of Benjamin, from the east side to the west side, Simeon, one [portion].

25 By the border of Simeon, from the east side to the west side, Issachar, one [portion].

26 By the border of Issachar, from the east side to the west side, Zebulun, one [portion].

27 By the border of Zebulun, from the east side to the west side, Gad, one [portion].

28 By the border of Gad, at the south side southward, the border shall be even from Tamar to the waters of Meribath Kadesh, to the brook [of Egypt], to the great sea.

29 This is the land which you shall divide by lot to the tribes of Israel for inheritance, and these are their several portions, says the Lord Yahweh.

30 These are the exits of the city: On the north side four thousand and five hundred [reeds] by measure;

31 and the gates of the city shall be after the names of the tribes of Israel, three gates northward: the gate of Reuben, one; the gate of Judah, one; the gate of Levi, one.

32 At the east side four thousand and five hundred [reeds], and three gates: even the gate of Joseph, one; the gate of Benjamin, one; the gate of Dan, one.

33 At the south side four thousand and five hundred [reeds] by measure, and three gates: the gate of Simeon, one; the gate of Issachar, one; the gate of Zebulun, one.

34 At the west side four thousand and five hundred [reeds], with their three gates: the gate of Gad, one; the gate of Asher, one; the gate of Naphtali, one.

35 It shall be eighteen thousand [reeds] around: and the name of the city from that day shall be, Yahweh is there.