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出埃及記第23章

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1 不可隨夥佈散謠言;不可與惡人連妄作見證。

2 不可隨眾行惡;不可在爭訟的事上隨眾偏行,作見證屈枉正直;

3 也不可在爭訟的事上偏護窮人。

4 遇見你仇敵的牛或失迷了,總要牽回來交給他。

5 見恨你人的壓臥在重馱之,不可走開,務要和主一同抬開重馱。

6 不可在窮人爭訟的事上屈枉正直。

7 當遠離虛假的事。不可殺無辜和有的人,因我必不以惡人為

8 不可受賄賂;因為賄賂能叫明眼人變瞎了,又能顛倒人的

9 不可欺壓寄居的;因為你們在埃及作過寄居的,知道寄居的心。

10 年你要耕種田,收藏土產,

11 只是第七年要叫地歇息,不耕不種,使你民中的窮人有的;他們所剩下的,野獸可以。你的葡萄園橄欖園也要照樣辦理。

12 日你要做工,第七日要安息,使牛、可以歇息,並使你婢女的兒子和寄居的都可以舒暢。

13 凡我對你們的話,你們要謹守。別的名,你不可題,也不可從你中傳

14 一年三次,你要向我守節。

15 你要守除酵節,照我所吩咐你的,在亞筆內所定的日期,無酵。誰也不可空手朝見我,因為你是這出了埃及

16 又要守收割節,所收的是你田間所種、勞碌得來初熟之物。並在年底收藏,要守收藏節。

17 一切的男丁要一年三次朝見耶和華

18 不可將我祭牲的血和有的餅一同獻上;也不可將我節上祭牲的脂油留到早晨

19 地裡首先初熟之物要送到耶和華─你的殿。不可用山羊羔母的奶山羊羔。

20 看哪,我差遣使者在你前面,在上保護你,領你到我所預備的地方去。

21 他是奉我名來的;你們要在他面前謹慎,從他的話,不可惹(惹或作:違背)他,因為他必不赦免你們的過犯。

22 你若實在從他的話,照著我一切所的去行,我就向你的仇敵作仇敵,向你的敵人敵人

23 我的使者要在你前面行,領你到亞摩利人、赫人、比利洗人、迦南人、希未人、耶布斯人那裡去,我必將他們剪除。

24 你不可跪拜他們的,不可事奉他,也不可效法他們的行為,卻要把像盡行拆毀,打碎他們的柱像。

25 你們要事奉耶和華─你們的,他必賜福與你的糧與你的,也必從你們中間除去疾病

26 你境內必沒有墜胎的,不生產的。我要使你滿了你年日的數目。

27 凡你所到的地方,我要使那裡的眾民在你面前驚駭,擾亂,又要使你一切仇敵背逃跑。

28 我要打發黃蜂飛在你前面,把希未人、迦南人、赫人攆出去。

29 我不在年之內將他們從你面前攆出去,恐怕成為荒涼,野的獸多起來害你。

30 我要漸漸將他們從你面前攆出去,等到你的人數加多,承受那為業。

31 我要定你的境界,從紅直到非利士,又從曠野直到大。我要將那居民交在你中,你要將他們從你面前攆出去。

32 不可和他們並他們的立約。

33 他們不可在你的上,恐怕他們使你得罪我。你若事奉他們的,這必成為你的網羅

   

来自斯威登堡的著作

 

Arcana Coelestia#9335

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9335. 'And the wild animal of the field multiplies against you' means an inrush of falsities arising from the delights of self-love and love of the world. This is clear from the meaning of 'multiplying', when it has reference to a hurried removal of evils and falsities, as an inrush; and from the meaning of 'the wild animal of the field' as falsities arising from the delights of self-love and love of the world. For affections, good and bad, are meant in the Word by different kinds of beasts, 9280, and therefore affections for falsity that arise from the delights of self-love and love of the world are meant by 'wild animals'. These affections are also represented in the next life by wild animals, such as panthers, tigers, boars, wolves, or bears. Such affections furthermore resemble wild animals, for people ruled by those loves are steeped in evils of every kind and in the falsities arising from them. They are like wild animals in the way they see and treat companions. The fact that those loves are the source of all evils and falsities, see 2041, 2045, 2057, 2363, 2364, 2444, 4750, 4776, 6667, 7178, 7255, 7364, 7366-7377, 7488, 7490-7494, 7643, 8318, 8487, 8678.

[2] The reason why a hurried removal of evils and falsities leads to an inrush of falsities arising from those loves is that forms of good and truths, implanted in successive stages, must remove them; for falsities are not removed except by truths, nor evils except by forms of good. If this removal is not done in successive stages and in keeping with proper order, falsities that lend support to those selfish loves enter in, since those loves reign with every person before he has been regenerated; and when the falsities enter in truths cease to be acknowledged any longer. Also a person who is being regenerated is maintained in an affection for truth; and when maintained in this he searches for truths in all directions among factual knowledge in the natural. But at this time illusions of the outward senses, which exist in great abundance in the natural, present themselves there. From those illusions, when the delights of self-love and love of the world hold sway, the person deduces nothing except falsities, which come in and fill his mind if falsities arising from evil are removed suddenly. These are the considerations that are meant in the internal sense by I will not drive them out from before you in one year, lest perhaps the land becomes desolate and the wild animal of the field multiplies against you. Little by little I will drive them out from before you, until you become fruitful and inherit the land.

[3] The fact that 'wild animal' means falsity and evil arising from self-love and love of the world is evident from places in the Word which mention it, as in Isaiah,

There will be a path there and a way, which will be called the way of holiness. The unclean will not pass through it; the savage of the wild animals will not go up it. Isaiah 35:8-9.

In Ezekiel,

I will send famine and evil wild animals upon you, that they may make you bereft. Ezekiel 5:17.

In the same prophet,

When I cause evil wild animals to pass through the land and they leave it bereft so that 1 it becomes a desolation, with the result that no one passes through on account of the wild animals ... Ezekiel 14:15.

In the same prophet,

You will fall on the open field; 2 to the wild animals of the earth, and to the birds of the air I will give you for food. Ezekiel 29:5.

In the same prophet,

At that time I will make with them a covenant of peace, and I will banish 3 the evil wild animal from the land, in order that they may dwell securely in the wilderness. They will no longer be a prey for the nations, and the wild animals of the field will no longer devour them. Ezekiel 34:25, 28.

[4] In Hosea,

I will lay waste her vine and her fig tree; and I will make them into a forest, and the wild animals of the field will eat them. Hosea 2:12.

In the same prophet,

The land will mourn and every inhabitant will waste away because of the wild animals of the field and the birds of the air. Hosea 4:3.

In David,

The boar of the forest tramples on it, and the wild animal of the fields feeds on it. Return, O God Zebaoth, and visit Your vine. Psalms 80:13-14.

In the same author,

You dispose the darkness to become night, in which every wild animal of the forest comes forth. Psalms 104:20.

In Moses,

If you walk in My statutes and keep My commandments and do them, I will banish 3 the evil wild animals from the land. But if you despise My statutes, I will send into you the wild animals of the field, which will lay you waste. Leviticus 26:3, 6, 15, 22.

In the same author,

Jehovah your God will cast out the nations before you little by little, lest perhaps the wild animals of the field multiply against you. Deuteronomy 7:22.

In these places 'the wild animals of the field', 'the wild animals of the earth', and 'the wild animals of the forest' stand for the falsities and evils that belong to self-love and love of the world.

[5] Since 'wild animal' means falsity, and falsity can spring from two different origins, that is to say, it may stem from evil or it may stem from good, 9258, 'wild animal' in the Word also means upright nations or gentiles who, though they are subject to falsity, nevertheless lead upright lives. The term 'wild animal' is used in this sense in David,

Every wild animal of the forest is Mine, and beasts on mountains of thousands; I know every bird of the mountains, and the wild animal of My fields is with Me. Psalms 50:10-11.

In the same author,

Praise Jehovah, wild animals and all beasts! Psalms 148:7, 10.

In Isaiah,

All wild animals of My fields - come to eat, all wild animals in the forest. Isaiah 56:9.

In Ezekiel,

In the branches of the cedar, which was Asshur, all the birds of the air made their nests, and under its branches every wild animal of the field brought forth, and in its shadow dwelt all great nations. Ezekiel 31:6.

脚注:

1. Reading ut (so that) for et (and)

2. literally, the face of the field

3. literally, cause to cease

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