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1 Tada reče Bog sve ove reči govoreći:

2 Ja sam Gospod Bog tvoj, koji sam te izveo iz zemlje misirske, iz doma ropskog.

3 Nemoj imati drugih bogova uza me.

4 Ne gradi sebi lik rezani niti kakvu sliku od onog što je gore na nebu, ili dole na zemlji, ili u vodi, ispod zemlje.

5 Nemoj im se klanjati niti im služiti, jer sam ja Gospod Bog tvoj, Bog revnitelj, koji pohodim grehe otačke na sinovima do trećeg i do četvrtog koljena, onih koji mrze na mene;

6 A činim milost na hiljadama onih koji me ljube i čuvaju zapovesti moje.

7 Ne uzimaj uzalud ime Gospoda Boga svog; jer neće pred Gospodom biti prav ko uzme ime Njegovo uzalud.

8 Sećaj se dana od odmora da ga svetkuješ.

9 Šest dana radi, i svršuj sve poslove svoje.

10 A sedmi je dan odmor Gospodu Bogu tvom; tada nemoj raditi nijedan posao, ni ti, ni sin tvoj, ni kći tvoja, ni sluga tvoj, ni sluškinja tvoja, ni živinče tvoje, ni stranac koji je među vratima tvojim.

11 Jer je za šest dana stvorio Gospod nebo i zemlju, more i šta je god u njima; a u sedmi dan počinu; zato je blagoslovio Gospod dan od odmora i posvetio ga.

12 Poštuj oca svog i mater svoju, da ti se produže dani na zemlji, koju ti da Gospod Bog tvoj.

13 Ne ubij.

14 Ne čini preljube.

15 Ne kradi.

16 Ne svedoči lažno na bližnjeg svog.

17 Ne poželi kuću bližnjeg svog, ne poželi ženu bližnjeg svog, ni slugu njegovog, ni sluškinju njegovu, ni vola njegovog, ni magarca njegovog, niti išta što je bližnjeg tvog.

18 I sav narod vide grom i munju i trubu gde trubi i goru gde se dimi; i narod videvši to uzmače se i stade izdaleka,

19 I rekoše Mojsiju: Govori nam ti, i slušaćemo; a neka nam ne Govori Bog, da ne pomremo.

20 A Mojsije reče narodu: Ne bojte se, jer Bog dođe da vas iskuša i da vam pred očima bude strah Njegov da ne biste grešili.

21 I narod stajaše izdaleka, a Mojsije pristupi k mraku u kome beše Bog.

22 I Gospod reče Mojsiju: Ovako kaži sinovima Izrailjevim: videli ste gde vam s neba govorih.

23 Ne gradite uza me bogove srebrne, ni bogove zlatne ne gradite sebi.

24 Oltar od zemlje načini mi, na kome ćeš mi prinositi žrtve svoje paljenice i žrtve svoje zahvalne, sitnu i krupnu stoku svoju. Na kome god mestu zapovedim da se spominje ime moje, doći ću k tebi i blagosloviću te.

25 Ako li mi načiniš oltar od kamena, nemoj načiniti od tesanog kamena; jer ako povučeš po njemu gvožđem, oskvrnićeš ga.

26 Nemoj uz basamake ići k oltaru mom, da se ne bi otkrila golotinja tvoja kod njega.

   

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Ancient of Days, by William Blake

When the Bible speaks of "Jehovah," it is representing love itself, the inmost love that is the essence of the Lord. That divine love is one, whole and complete in itself, and Jehovah also is one, a name applied only to the Lord. The divine love expresses itself in the form of wisdom. Love, then, is the essence of God -- His inmost. Wisdom -- the loving understanding of how to put love into action -- is slightly more external, giving love a way to express itself. Wisdom, however, is expressed in a great variety of thoughts and ideas, what the Writings collectively call divine truth. There are also many imaginary gods, and sometimes angels and people can be called gods (the Lord said Moses would be as a god to Aaron). So when the Bible calls the Lord "God," it is in most cases referring to divine truth. In other cases, "God" has reference to what is called the divine human. The case there is this: As human beings, we cannot engage the Lord directly as divine love. It is too powerful and too pure. Instead, we have to approach Him by understanding Him through divine truth. Divine truth, then, is the Lord in human form, a form we can approach and understand. Thus "God" is also used in reference to this human aspect, because it is an expression of truth.

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Arcana Coelestia #8788

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8788. 'And sanctify them today and tomorrow' means covering over their interiors in order that those people may appear now and subsequently in the holiness of faith. This is clear from the meaning of 'sanctifying' as arranging them so that outwardly they may appear in holiness; and since this is accomplished by covering over their interiors, 'sanctifying' has this meaning also. The fact that 'today and tomorrow' means now and subsequently is self-evident. What all this implies will be stated briefly. The Church established among the Jews was not, as regards the Jews themselves, the Church, only a representative of the Church. For the Church to exist there must reside with those belonging to the Church faith in the Lord, and also love to Him, as well as love towards the neighbour. These virtues make the Church. But they did not reside with the people who were called Jacob; for they did not acknowledge the Lord, and so did not wish to hear about faith in Him, let alone about love to Him or indeed about love towards the neighbour. They were ruled by self-love and love of the world, the kinds of love that are the complete opposites of love to the Lord and love towards the neighbour. Such a disposition has been rooted in that people from their earliest forebears. This is why no Church could be established among that people; all they could do was represent things that constitute the Church. Mere representation of the Church comes about when people's worship centres on external things, but only on such things as correspond to heavenly ones. External things then serve to represent internal, and the internal things are made evident in heaven, to which those people are consequently joined. Therefore to make representation possible among the Israelite people, when interiorly they were devoid of the faith and love of heaven, indeed were full of self-love and love of the world, their interiors were covered over. Then their externals alone, without their internals, could be conveyed to spirits, and through these to angels. Consequently unless their internals had been covered over, internals too would have been made evident, in which case the representation would have been destroyed because foul [thoughts and affections] would have burst out and defiled it. Such a covering over was possible with that people more than with all the rest because they venerated external things more than others did; they thought that those things themselves were intrinsically holy, indeed Divine.

All this makes clear what one should understand by 'sanctifying', namely covering over their interiors in order that those people may appear in the holiness of faith, though not to themselves, only to the angels present with them. See what has been shown already about this people and the establishment of the Church among them, in 4208, 4281, 4288, 4289, 4293, 4307, 4314, 4316, 4317, 4429, 4433, 4444, 4459, 4844, 4847, 4865, 4899, 4911, 4912, 4500, 7048, 7051, 8588. The fact that sanctification among them amounted to no more than an appearance of holiness in externals, since they themselves had no holiness within them, becomes clear from the ceremonies by which they were sanctified, that is to say, by sacrifices, washings, sprinklings of blood, and anointings, which do not in any way whatever touch internal things.

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