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1 Kaj Dio diris cxiujn sekvantajn vortojn:

2 Mi estas la Eternulo, via Dio, kiu elkondukis vin el la lando Egipta, el la domo de sklaveco.

3 Ne ekzistu cxe vi aliaj dioj antaux Mi.

4 Ne faru al vi idolon, nek bildon de io, kio estas en la cxielo supre aux sur la tero malsupre aux en la akvo sub la tero;

5 ne klinigxu antaux ili kaj ne servu ilin; cxar Mi, la Eternulo, via Dio, estas Dio severa, kiu la malbonagon de la patroj punas sur la idoj en la tria kaj kvara generacioj cxe Miaj malamantoj,

6 kaj kiu faras favorkorajxon por miloj al Miaj amantoj kaj al la plenumantoj de Miaj ordonoj.

7 Ne malbonuzu la nomon de la Eternulo, via Dio; cxar la Eternulo ne lasos senpuna tiun, kiu malbonuzas Lian nomon.

8 Memoru pri la tago sabata, ke vi tenu gxin sankta.

9 Dum ses tagoj laboru kaj faru cxiujn viajn aferojn;

10 sed la sepa tago estas sabato de la Eternulo, via Dio; faru nenian laboron, nek vi, nek via filo, nek via filino, nek via sklavo, nek via sklavino, nek via bruto, nek via fremdulo, kiu estas inter viaj pordegoj;

11 cxar dum ses tagoj la Eternulo kreis la cxielon kaj la teron, la maron, kaj cxion, kio estas en ili, sed en la sepa tago Li ripozis. Tial la Eternulo benis la tagon sabatan kaj sanktigis gxin.

12 Respektu vian patron kaj vian patrinon, por ke longe dauxru via vivo sur la tero, kiun la Eternulo, via Dio, donas al vi.

13 Ne mortigu.

14 Ne adultu.

15 Ne sxtelu.

16 Ne parolu kontraux via proksimulo malveran ateston.

17 Ne deziru la domon de via proksimulo; ne deziru la edzinon de via proksimulo, nek lian sklavon, nek lian sklavinon, nek lian bovon, nek lian azenon, nek ion, kio apartenas al via proksimulo.

18 Kaj la tuta popolo vidis la tondrojn kaj la fulmojn kaj la sonadon de la korno kaj la fumigxadon de la monto; kaj la popolo vidis, kaj retirigxis kun teruro kaj starigxis malproksime.

19 Kaj ili diris al Moseo:Parolu vi kun ni, kaj ni auxskultos, sed Dio ne parolu kun ni, por ke ni ne mortu.

20 Kaj Moseo diris al la popolo:Ne timu; cxar por vin elprovi venis Dio, kaj por ke la timo antaux Li estu antaux via vizagxo, por ke vi ne peku.

21 Kaj la popolo staris malproksime; sed Moseo alproksimigxis al la mallumo, kie estis Dio.

22 Kaj la Eternulo diris al Moseo:Tiel diru al la Izraelidoj:Vi vidis, kiel Mi parolis kun vi el la cxielo.

23 Ne faru antaux Mi diojn argxentajn, kaj diojn orajn ne faru al vi.

24 Altaron el tero faru al Mi, kaj oferu sur gxi viajn bruloferojn kaj pacoferojn, viajn sxafojn kaj viajn bovojn; sur cxiu loko, kie Mi memorigos Mian nomon, Mi venos al vi kaj benos vin.

25 Kaj se vi faros al Mi altaron el sxtonoj, ne konstruu gxin el sxtonoj hakitaj; cxar se vi levos sur gxin vian hakilon, vi gxin malsanktigos.

26 Kaj ne supreniru per sxtupoj al Mia altaro, por ke ne malkovrigxu via nudeco antaux gxi.

   

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Arcana Coelestia#6239

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6239. 'And your offspring that you beget after them' means interior truths and forms of good which are begotten later on. This is clear from the meaning of 'offspring' or 'generation' as matters of faith and charity, dealt with in 613, 2020, 2584, thus truths and forms of good; and from the meaning of 'after them' as interior ones which are begotten later on. The reason interior ones are meant is that what is begotten from the internal at a later time is more interior. For in every consecutive stage all that has already been begotten serves the internal as the means by which what is begotten subsequently can be introduced into a more interior position, for the internal raises the natural by degrees up to itself. This is evident from the birth of all that constitutes the understanding in a person. At first he is on the level of his senses; later on he rises to more and more internal levels until he arrives at full use of his understanding. Similar to this is the new generation or birth which is effected by means of faith and charity. Thus it is that a person is perfected by degrees; see what has been stated in 6183 about the gradual raising up to more interior levels when a person is being regenerated.

[2] In the Word 'generation' means things which have to do with faith and charity, for the reason that no generation other than that of a spiritual kind is meant in the internal sense. That kind of generation is also meant in David,

They will fear greatly, for God is in the generation of the righteous. Psalms 14:5.

'The generation of the righteous' stands for truths that flow from good, for righteousness is an attribute of good. In Isaiah, 41:4.

They will not labour in vain, and they will not produce offspring 1 in terror; they will be the seed of the blessed of Jehovah. Isaiah 65:23.

In the same prophet,

Who has performed and done this, calling the generations from the beginning? I, Jehovah, am the first, and with the last I am the same. Isaiah 41:4.

In Ezekiel,

Your tradings and your births' are of the land of the Canaanite. Your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite. As for your births, 2 on the day you were born your navel cord was not cut, and you were not washed with water for Me to see. Ezekiel 16:3-4.

In these verses, which refer to the abominations of Jerusalem, it is quite evident that 'generations' or 'births' means generations in a spiritual sense.

[3] In Isaiah,

Awake as in the days of eternity, in the generations of eternity. 3 Isaiah 51:9.

'The days of eternity' stands for the state and time of the Most Ancient Church. The expression 'eternity' is used in reference to that Church because the good of love to the Lord reigned in it, and that good, since it flows directly from the Lord, is called eternal. 'The generations of eternity' stands for the forms of good that spring from that good.

[4] Something similar to this appears in Moses,

Remember the days of eternity, understand the years of generation after generation. Deuteronomy 32:7.

'The days of eternity' stands for the state and time of the Most Ancient Church which existed before the Flood and was a celestial Church. 'The years of generation after generation' stands for the state and time of the Ancient Church which existed after the Flood and was a spiritual Church. Those Churches are the subject at that point in Moses.

[5] In Joel,

Judah will abide into eternity, and Jerusalem into generation after generation. Joel 3:20.

'Eternity' is used in reference to Judah because 'Judah' represents the celestial Church, 3881, and 'generation after generation' is used in reference to Jerusalem because by 'Jerusalem' is meant the spiritual Church, 402.

[6] In Isaiah,

My righteousness will exist into eternity, and My salvation into each generation. 4 Isaiah 51:8.

Here 'eternity' has reference to the good of love, for the word 'righteousness' is used in connection with that good, 612, 2235, and 'generation' has reference to the good of faith.

[7] In David,

Your kingdom is a kingdom to all eternity, 5 and Your dominion to every generation after generation. Psalms 145:13.

Here the meaning is similar, for unless 'eternity' had had reference to what was celestial, and 'generation' to what was spiritual, one expression alone would have been used. The use of two would be pointless repetition.

[8] Things that have to do with a state of faith are also meant in the laws which forbade one who was illegitimate, down to the tenth generation of his descendants, to come into the assembly of Jehovah, Deuteronomy 23:2, or an Ammonite or Moabite, down to the tenth generation of his descendants, Deuteronomy 23:3; and in the law which allowed the third generation of an Edomite or Egyptian to come into the assembly of Jehovah, Deuteronomy 23:8. Things that have to do with a state of faith are meant similarly in the Ten Commandments, where it says that Jehovah God will visit the iniquity of the fathers on the sons, on the third and the fourth generation, inasmuch as they hate Him, Exodus 20:5.

[9] The reason why forms of faith and charity are meant by 'generations' is that in the spiritual sense no other kinds of offspring are meant than those associated with regeneration or one who has been regenerated. Similarly with references in the Word to birth, bearing. and conception; forms of faith and charity are meant, see 1145, 1255, 3860, 3863, 4668, 5160, 5598.

脚注:

1. literally, generate

2. literally, generations

3. literally, eternities

4. literally, generation of generations

5. literally, of all eternities

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