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Genesis第19章:10

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10 Doch die mannen staken hun hand uit, en deden Lot tot zich inkomen in het huis, en sloten de deur toe.

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创世纪19:10的解释

原作者: Brian David (机器翻译成: 中文)

{{en|1=The Sodomites are smitten with blindness, as in Genesis 19:11; illustration from the 1728 "Figures de la Bible"; illustrated by Gerard Hoet (1648-1733) and others, and published by P. de Hondt in The Hague; image courtesy Bizzell Bible Collection, University of Oklahoma Libraries}}

最终,主会照顾那些在诱惑面前坚持不懈的人。他通过把我们从邪恶的攻击中带出来,并把我们带入一种状态,使我们能够充分体验我们一直在寻求的对善的渴望。这种状态在这里以罗得的房子为代表,是一种爱他人、关心他人和服务他人的状态。当那扇门--它代表着通向内部状态的欲望和想法--被关闭时,它意味着所多玛人所代表的邪恶不再是一种威胁;它不能伤害里面的人。

在一个层面上,这个故事代表了古代教会的最后阶段,由于仍处于对邻居的爱的状态,有一个残余的人被拯救。在另一个层面上,它是关于我们每一个人的,如果我们能与诱惑斗争,追求成为更好的人,主就能给我们带来安全和安宁。

(参考: 属天的奥秘2378)

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Arcana Coelestia#302

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302. This was the reason why mysteries of faith were never revealed to the Jews. Being what they were they were not even explicitly told that they would live after death, nor explicitly told that the Lord would come into the world to save them. Indeed they were kept in such ignorance and stupidity, and are so still, that as a result they did not know and still do not know of the existence of the internal man, or of anything internal at all. For if they had known it then, or were to know it now, so as to acknowledge it, they would profane it and in so doing would have no hope at all of salvation in the next life. This is what the Lord meant in John,

He has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, lest they see with their eyes and understand with their heart, and are converted and I heal them. John 12:40.

Also, the Lord spoke to them in parables, and without explaining any to them, 'lest seeing they might see, and hearing they might hear, and understand', as He declares in Matthew 13:13. For the same reason all mysteries of faith were concealed from them and hidden beneath the representatives of their Church, and it was for the same reason that the prophetical style took the form it did. It is one thing however to know and another to acknowledge. Anyone who knows but does not acknowledge is in the same position as one who does not know, whereas anyone who does acknowledge and after that speaks blasphemy and practises profanation is what the Lord was referring to.

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