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Josvas 8

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1 Og Herren sa til Josva: Frykt ikke og vær ikke redd, ta med dig alt krigsfolket, gjør dig rede og dra op mot Ai! Se, jeg har gitt kongen i Ai og hans folk og hans by og hans land i din hånd.

2 Og du skal gjøre med Ai og dets konge som du gjorde med Jeriko og dets konge; bare hærfanget og feet der kan I ta for eder selv. Legg nu et bakhold mot byen, på vestsiden!

3 Da gjorde Josva og alt krigsfolket sig rede til å dra op mot Ai, og Josva utvalgte tretti tusen mann, djerve stridsmenn, og sendte dem avsted om natten.

4 Og han bød dem og sa: Nu skal I legge eder i bakhold mot byen, på vestsiden, ikke meget langt fra byen, og hold eder rede alle sammen!

5 Men jeg og alt det folk som er med mig, vil dra nær innimot byen, og når de da drar ut mot oss likesom første gang, vil vi flykte for dem.

6 Og de vil dra ut efter oss til vi får lokket dem bort fra byen; for de vil tenke: De flykter for oss likesom første gang. Men mens vi flykter for dem,

7 skal I reise eder fra bakholdet og innta byen, og Herren eders Gud skal gi den i eders hånd.

8 Og når I har inntatt byen, skal I sette ild på den; I skal gjøre efter Herrens ord. Se, jeg har nu sagt eder hvad I skal gjøre.

9 Så sendte Josva dem avsted, og de gikk og la sig i bakhold mellem Betel og Ai, vestenfor Ai; men Josva selv blev den natt midt iblandt folket.

10 Morgenen efter stod Josva tidlig op og mønstret folket; og han og Israels eldste drog foran folket op til Ai.

11 Og alt krigsfolket som var med ham, drog op og rykket frem til de kom midt foran byen, og de slo leir nordenfor Ai med dalen mellem sig og Ai.

12 Så tok han omkring fem tusen mann og la dem i bakhold mellem Betel og Ai, vestenfor byen,

13 og de fylket krigsfolket, både hele leiren som var nordenfor byen, og den del som lå i bakhold vestenfor byen, og Josva gikk samme natt midt ned i dalen.

14 Da kongen i Ai så dette, skyndte byens menn sig, han selv og hele hans folk, og drog tidlig om morgenen ut til strid mot Israel, til det fastsatte sted foran ødemarken; men han visste ikke at det lå et bakhold mot ham vestenfor byen.

15 Og Josva og hele Israel lot sig slå av dem og flyktet bortimot ørkenen.

16 Da blev alt folket som var i byen, ropt sammen til å forfølge dem, og de forfulgte Josva og kom således lenger og lenger bort fra byen.

17 Det blev ikke en mann tilbake i Ai og Betel; for de drog alle ut efter Israel; de lot byen ligge åpen efter sig og forfulgte Israel.

18 Da sa Herren til Josva: ekk spydet som du har i din hånd, ut mot Ai! For jeg vil gi byen i din hånd! Så rakte Josva spydet som han hadde i sin hånd, ut imot byen.

19 Og med det samme han rakte sin hånd ut, reiste bakholdet sig fra sin plass og sprang avsted, og de kom inn i byen og inntok den, og de skyndte sig og satte ild på byen.

20 Da nu Ai-mennene vendte sig om, blev de var røken fra byen, som steg op imot himmelen, og de var ikke i stand til å flykte hverken hit eller dit, fordi de krigsfolk som var flyktet til ørkenen, nu vendte sig mot forfølgerne.

21 For da Josva og hele Israel så at bakholdet hadde inntatt byen, og at røken steg op fra byen, vendte de om og slo Ai-mennene.

22 Og de andre drog ut av byen imot dem, så de kom midt imellem israelittene og fikk dem omkring sig på begge sider. Så slo de* dem og levnet dem ikke nogen som slapp unda eller blev frelst. / {* israelittene.}

23 Men kongen i Ai blev tatt levende og ført til Josva.

24 Og da Israel hadde slått ihjel alle Ais innbyggere på slagmarken, ute i ørkenen, dit de hadde forfulgt dem, og de alle sammen var falt for sverdets egg til siste mann, da vendte hele Israel tilbake til Ai og slo alle som var der, med sverdets egg.

25 Og de som falt på den dag, menn og kvinner, var tolv tusen, alle Ais innbyggere.

26 Josva tok ikke til sig igjen hånden som han hadde rakt ut med spydet, før han hadde slått alle Ais innbyggere med bann.

27 Bare feet og hærfanget i denne by tok Israel for sig selv efter Herrens ord, som han hadde talt til Josva.

28 Og Josva brente op Ai og gjorde den til en grushaug for alle tider, til et øde sted, som den har vært til denne dag.

29 Og kongen i Ai lot han henge op på et tre, og der blev han hengende til om aftenen; men da solen gikk ned, bød Josva dem ta hans døde legeme ned av treet og kaste det ved inngangen til byens port, og de kastet en stor stenrøs sammen over ham; den er der den dag idag.

30 Ved denne tid bygget Josva et alter for Herren, Israels Gud, på Ebal-fjellet,

31 således som Moses, Herrens tjener, hadde befalt Israels barn, efter det som står skrevet i Mose lovbok, et alter av hele stener, som det ikke hadde vært brukt jern på; og på det ofret de brennoffer for Herren og slaktet takkoffer.

32 Og han skrev der på stenene en avskrift av Mose lov, den lov som Moses hadde skrevet for Israels barns åsyn.

33 Og hele Israel med sine eldste og tilsynsmenn og sine dommere stod på begge sider av arken midt imot de levittiske prester, som bar Herrens pakts-ark, hele Israel, både de fremmede og de innfødte, den ene halvdel av dem mot Garisim-fjellet, og den andre halvdel mot Ebal-fjellet, således som Moses, Herrens tjener, før hadde befalt å velsigne Israels folk.

34 Derefter leste han op alle lovens ord, velsignelsen og forbannelsen, i ett og alt således som skrevet er i lovens bok.

35 Det var ikke et ord av alt det Moses hadde befalt, som Josva ikke leste op for hele Israels menighet med kvinner og barn og for de fremmede som fulgte med dem.

   

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Arcana Coelestia #8941

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8941. 'You shall not build it with hewn ones' means that it must not be a product of self-intelligence. This is clear from the meaning of 'hewn stones' as the kinds of things which are products of self-intelligence, for 'stones' are truths, 8940, and chiselling or shaping them means producing or fashioning truths, or rather notions made to look like truths, out of the self, that is, out of self-intelligence. For the life in anything produced or fashioned by the self or self-intelligence is derived from the person; and such life is not life at all since the human self or proprium is nothing but evil, 210, 215, 694, 874-876, 987, 1047, 5660, 5786, 8480, whereas what is not derived from the self but from God does have life within it, since God is the source of all life. The subject here is worship of the Lord that springs from truth, for that kind of worship is meant by 'an altar of stones', 8940. .

[2] Truths that inspire worship of the Lord should be derived from nowhere other than the Word; for in every single part the Word has life from God. When truths are derived from the self they have as their end in view rank and prominence over everyone in the world, and also earthly possessions and wealth above everyone. Consequently they hold within them self-love and love of the world, thus all evils in their entirety, 7488, 8318. But truths derived from the Word have eternal life as their end in view; they hold within them love to the Lord and love towards the neighbour, thus all forms of good in their entirety. When truths are produced out of the self or self-intelligence they are the masters over the truths which come from God; for they employ the latter to add strength to themselves. But it ought to be the other way round, that is to say, the truths from God ought to be the masters, and those that are products of self-intelligence to be the servants. Products of the self or self-intelligence are called truths, but they are not really truths; they look like truths solely to outward appearances. For the literal sense of the Word is employed, and reasonings are brought in, to make them look like truths; but inwardly they are falsities. What these things are exactly, and what they are like, see above in 8932.

[3] In the world there are two semblances of religion that exist as a result of self-intelligence. One is that in which self-love and love of the world is everything; in the Word this semblance of religion is called Babel. Inwardly it is profane on account of self-love and love of the world, while outwardly it is holy on account of the Word, which people have employed to add strength to their own ideas. The other semblance of religion is that in which the inferior light of the natural order is everything. Those with this kind of religion acknowledge nothing to be true which they do not apprehend. Some belonging to this seeming religion acknowledge the Word, yet they employ it to add strength to their own ideas; thus they treat it as their servant. Others however do not acknowledge the Word; instead they identify the Divine with the natural order. For the light in which they see, being the inferior light of the natural order, shines only within the natural order and cannot be made brighter by the superior light of heaven, because they cast aside the Word, the source of all enlightenment. Those belonging to both the latter and the former semblances of religion are in hell, because they are devoid of heavenly life, which they cannot receive because they have cast the Word aside. And those of them who have employed the Word to add strength to their own ideas have set no value at all on it in their hearts; yet because it has had power and authority among the common people they have used it to serve them in this way, in order that false notions fashioned by their own intelligence might thereby be validated. From all this one may see what is meant in the spiritual sense by the command that no altar of hewn stones was to be built.

[4] 'Hewn stone' means that which is a product of self-intelligence in the following places as well: In Isaiah,

In order that [all] the people may know, Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria, on account of pride and arrogance of heart, saying, The bricks have fallen and we will build from hewn stone. Isaiah 9:9-10.

In Jeremiah,

Even if I cry and shout, He has shut out my prayers. He has fenced round my ways with hewn stone, He has overturned my paths. Lamentations 3:8-9.

In Amos,

Because you tread down the crushed, and seize from him the burden of grain, you will build houses of hewn stone, yet you will not dwell in them. Amos 5:11.

'Hewn stone' here stands for the kinds of things that self-intelligence produces in matters of faith.

[5] Since those things were meant by 'hewn stone', the altar first built in the land of Canaan by the children of Israel after they crossed the Jordan was built of unhewn stones; for crossing over Jordan represented introduction into the Lord's kingdom, which is accomplished by means of the truths of faith. That altar is spoken of as follows in Joshua,

Joshua built an altar to Jehovah God of Israel on Mount Ebal, as Moses the servant of Jehovah had commanded the children of Israel, An altar of whole stones over which no one has wielded any iron tool. 1 Joshua 8:30-31; Deuteronomy 27:1-8.

[6] The temple in Jerusalem likewise was built of whole, not hewn, stones. This is referred to in the first Book of Kings as follows,

As regards the house itself, when it was being built it was built of whole stone, as it had been brought [there]; for not a hammer or axe, [nor] any tool of iron, was heard in the house while it was being built. 1 Kings 6:7.

For by 'the temple of the Lord' was represented the Lord in respect of Divine Truth. The Lord Himself teaches that He was represented by the temple, in John 2:19, 21-22; and the reason why He was represented in respect of Divine Truth was that Divine Truth was taught there. This also was why it was built of stones; for 'stones' meant Divine Truth, 8940. And it also explains why the Lord was called 'the Stone of Israel', 6426.

[7] From all this one may now see what was meant by the stone of the altar, and also what was meant by the stone of the temple, as well as what was meant by the requirement that they were to be whole stones, and not hewn, namely this: Religion should be composed of truths derived from the Lord, thus from the Word, and not from self-intelligence. Products of self-intelligence are also described in the following way in Isaiah,

The craftsman casts a graven image, and a goldsmith overlays it with gold and casts silver chains for it. He seeks a skilled 2 craftsman to make ready a graven image. Isaiah 40:19-20.

'A graven image' stands for some religious fabrication that is a product of the proprium or self, put forward to be venerated as what is Divine, 8869. 'The craftsman' stands for those who from self produce and fashion things. Their attempt to make these things look like truths is described by '[a goldsmith! overlays it with gold, and casts chains made of silver' and 'he seeks a skilled craftsman'.

[8] In the same prophet,

Makers of the graven image, all are vanity. All his companions will be ashamed; and the workmen themselves ... He fashions the iron with tongs, and works it with the coals, and forms it with sharp hammers; so he makes it with his strong arm. 3 He fashions pieces of wood, stretches out a cord, and marks it off with a ruler. He makes it into its angles, and marks it out with a ring, so that he may make it in the form of a man (vir), according to the beauty of a human being, to dwell in the house. Isaiah 44:9, 11-13.

This too describes a religious fabrication that is a product of self-intelligence. Something similar occurs in Jeremiah,

The customs 4 of the nations are vanity. Since indeed one cuts out wood from the forest, the work of the hands of the workman using an axe, he decorates it with silver and gold; and they make it firm 5 with pegs and hammers. Jeremiah 10:3-4.

And also in Hosea,

Nonetheless they now sin more and more, and make for themselves a molten image from silver, idols by their own intelligence, completely the work of craftsmen. Hosea 13:2

A religious fabrication, produced out of self-intelligence and not derived from the Word, is meant in the internal sense by 'idols' and 'strange gods', by 'molten images' and 'graven images'. Products of the self are nothing else; for in themselves they are dead, even though venerated as living.

Примітки:

1. literally, upon which he has not moved iron

2. literally, intelligent

3. lit the arm of his strength

4. lit statutes

5. The Latin means he makes firm but the Hebrew means they make firm, which Swedenborg has in other places where he quotes this verse.

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

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Jeremiah 9

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1 Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a spring of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!

2 Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.

3 They bend their tongue, [as it were] their bow, for falsehood; and they are grown strong in the land, but not for truth: for they proceed from evil to evil, and they don't know me, says Yahweh.

4 Take heed everyone of his neighbor, and don't trust in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go about with slanders.

5 They will deceive everyone his neighbor, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies; they weary themselves to commit iniquity.

6 Your habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, says Yahweh.

7 Therefore thus says Yahweh of Armies, Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how [else] should I do, because of the daughter of my people?

8 Their tongue is a deadly arrow; it speaks deceit: one speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart he lays wait for him.

9 Shall I not visit them for these things? says Yahweh; shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

10 For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the pastures of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none passes through; neither can men hear the voice of the livestock; both the birds of the sky and the animals are fled, they are gone.

11 I will make Jerusalem heaps, a dwelling place of jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.

12 Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and [who is] he to whom the mouth of Yahweh has spoken, that he may declare it? why is the land perished and burned up like a wilderness, so that none passes through?

13 Yahweh says, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein,

14 but have walked after the stubbornness of their own heart, and after the Baals, which their fathers taught them;

15 therefore thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.

16 I will scatter them also among the nations, whom neither they nor their fathers have known; and I will send the sword after them, until I have consumed them.

17 Thus says Yahweh of Armies, Consider, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for the skillful women, that they may come:

18 and let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.

19 For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we ruined! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because they have cast down our dwellings.

20 Yet hear the word of Yahweh, you women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth; and teach your daughters wailing, and everyone her neighbor lamentation.

21 For death is come up into our windows, it is entered into our palaces; to cut off the children from outside, [and] the young men from the streets.

22 Speak, Thus says Yahweh, The dead bodies of men shall fall as dung on the open field, and as the handful after the harvester; and none shall gather [them].

23 Thus says Yahweh, Don't let the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, don't let the rich man glory in his riches;

24 but let him who glories glory in this, that he has understanding, and knows me, that I am Yahweh who exercises loving kindness, justice, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, says Yahweh.

25 Behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will punish all those who are circumcised in [their] uncircumcision:

26 Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that have the corners [of their hair] cut off, who dwell in the wilderness; for all the nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in heart.