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出埃及記第22章

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1 牛或,無論是宰了,是了,他就要以五牛賠一牛,賠一

2 人若遇見挖窟窿,把打了,以至於,就不能為他有流血的罪。

3 太陽已經出來,就為他有流血的罪。賊若被拿,總要賠還。若他一無所有,就要被,頂他所偷的物。

4 若他所偷的,或牛,或,或羊,仍在他下存活,他就要加倍賠還。

5 若在田間或在葡萄園裡放牲畜,任憑牲畜上別的田裡去吃,就必拿自己田間上好的和葡萄園上好的賠還。

6 若點焚燒荊棘,以致將別人堆積的禾捆,站著的禾稼,或是田園,都燒盡了,那點的必要賠還。

7 若將或家具交付鄰舍看守,這物從那的家被去,若把到了,要加倍賠還;

8 不到,那家主必就近審判官,要看看他拿了原主的物件沒有。

9 兩個人的案件,無論是為甚麼過犯,或是為牛,為,為羊,為衣裳,或是為甚麼失掉之物,有一人:這是我的,兩造就要將案件稟告審判官,審判官定誰有罪,誰就要加倍賠還。

10 若將,或牛,或羊,或別的牲畜,交付鄰舍守,牲畜,或受傷,或被趕去,無見,

11 那看守的人要憑著耶和華起誓,裡未曾拿鄰舍的物,本就要罷休,看守的人不必賠還。

12 牲畜若從看守的那裡被去,他就要賠還本主;

13 若被野獸撕碎,看守的要帶來當作證據,所撕的不必賠還。

14 若向鄰舍甚麼,所的或受傷,或,本主沒有同在一處,總要賠還;

15 若本主同在一處,他就不必賠還;若是雇的,也不必賠還,本是為雇價的。

16 若引誘沒有受聘的處女,與他行淫,他總要交出聘禮,娶他為妻。

17 若女子的父親決不肯將女子他,他就要按處女的聘禮,交出來。

18 行邪術的女人,不可容他存活。

19 凡與淫合的,總要把他治

20 祭祀別,不單單祭祀耶和華的,那人必要滅絕。

21 不可虧負寄居的,也不可欺壓他,因為你們在埃及也作過寄居的。

22 不可苦待寡婦和孤兒

23 若是苦待他們一點,他們向我一哀求,我總要他們的哀聲,

24 並要發烈怒,用刀殺你們,使你們的妻子為寡婦,兒女為孤兒

25 我民中有貧窮人與你同住,你若給他,不可如放債的向他取利。

26 你即或拿鄰舍的衣服作當頭,必在日落以先歸還他;

27 因他只有這一件當蓋頭,是他蓋身的衣服,若是沒有,他拿甚麼睡覺呢?他哀求我,我就應允,因為我是有恩惠的。

28 不可毀謗;也不可毀謗你百姓的官長。

29 你要從你莊稼中的穀和酒醡中滴出來的酒拿來獻上,不可遲延。你要將頭生的兒子歸我。

30 你牛頭生的,也要這樣;當跟著母,第八要歸我。

31 你要在我面前為聖潔的人。因此,田間被野獸撕裂牲畜的,你們不可,要丟給

   

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Arcana Coelestia#9154

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9154. 'The master of the house shall be brought to God' means enquiring of good. This is clear from the meaning of 'being brought to God' as being brought forward for enquiry to be made, dealt with below in 9160; and from the meaning of 'the master of the house' as good which is enquired of. The reason why 'the master of the house' means good is that the subject is truths and factual knowledge that have been taken away from the memory, meant by 'the silver and the vessels which were delivered to someone for safe keeping but were taken away by theft', 9149, 9150. Since those truths and factual knowledge belong to good and exist in good 'the master of the house', to whom the objects belong and with whom they reside, means good. Good is called 'the master' because truths and factual knowledge belong to good as their master, and good is also called 'the house' because truths and factual knowledge exist within good as their house. For the meaning of 'the house' as good, and the fact that truths reside in that house, see 3652, where the Lord's words in Matthew are explained,

Let him who is on the roof of the house not go down to take anything out of the house. Matthew 24:17.

[2] The implications of this - that good should be enquired of regarding truths and factual knowledge that have been taken away from the memory - are that the good present with a person is that which receives all truths into itself. For good receives its specific quality from truths; and in the measure that truths have good within them and also around them they have life. This is like a fibre or like a vessel in a living creature. In the measure that the fibre has spirit 1 in it and in the measure that the vessel has blood in it they have life; and a blood vessel likewise has life in the measure that it has around itself fibres with spirit in them. A similar situation exists with truth and good. Truth without good is like a fibre without spirit, and like a vein or an artery without blood, the nature of which anyone can see, namely something devoid of life and so devoid of any use within a living creature. The situation is similar when faith is devoid of charity. Since good receives its specific quality from truths, as has been stated, good also receives its form from them; for where there is form, specific quality is present, and where there is no form no specific quality is present. Again it is like the situation with spirit and blood in a living creature. Spirit is circumscribed by its fibres and so receives form through them, while blood receives form through its vessels. From all this it is evident that truth without good has no life in it, and that good without truth possesses no specific quality, consequently that faith without charity is not faith that is alive. By faith here faith composed of truth is meant, and by charity life consisting of good.

[3] All this shows how to understand the explanation that if truths and factual knowledge have been taken away, enquiry should be made of good. That is to say, it shows that when a person is governed by good, that is, by an affection for doing good, he recollects all the truths that have entered into good, but when he turns away from good the truths disappear, for falsity arising from evil is that which takes them away as if by theft. But truths that have disappeared are recollected once again when a person comes back to an affection for good or for truth through the life he leads. Anyone who stops to reflect can recognize the truth of this from his own experience and from what takes place with others. All this makes plain what is meant by enquiring of good regarding truths and factual knowledge that have been taken away from a person's memory or mind.

脚注:

1. See 4227:3.

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