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Eliro第21章

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1 Kaj jen estas la jugxoj, kiujn vi proponos al ili:

2 Se vi acxetos sklavon Hebreon, li servu dum ses jaroj; sed en la sepa li eliru libera senpage.

3 Se li venis sola, li eliru sola; se li estas edzigita, tiam lia edzino eliru kune kun li.

4 Se lia sinjoro donis al li edzinon kaj sxi naskis al li filojn aux filinojn, tiam la edzino kaj sxiaj infanoj restu cxe sia sinjoro, kaj li eliru sola.

5 Sed se la sklavo diros:Mi amas mian sinjoron, mian edzinon, kaj miajn infanojn, mi ne volas liberigxi;

6 tiam lia sinjoro alkonduku lin antaux la potenculojn kaj starigu lin apud la pordo aux apud la fosto, kaj lia sinjoro trapiku lian orelon per aleno, kaj li estu lia sklavo por cxiam.

7 Kaj se iu vendos sian filinon kiel sklavinon, sxi ne eliru kiel eliras la sklavoj.

8 Se sxi ne placxas al sia sinjoro, al kiu sxi estis fordonita, tiam li donu al sxi la eblon elacxetigxi; al fremda popolo sxin vendi li ne havas la rajton, cxar li kondutis ne honeste kontraux sxi.

9 Se iu transdonos sxin al sia filo, li agu kun sxi laux la rajto de filinoj.

10 Se li prenos por li alian edzinon, tiam nutrajxo, vestoj, kaj edzina vivo ne devas esti rifuzataj al sxi.

11 Kaj se tiujn tri aferojn li ne faros por sxi, tiam sxi eliru senpage, sen elacxeto.

12 Se iu batos homon kaj tiu mortos, li estu mortigita.

13 Sed se li ne agis malbonintence, nur Dio pusxis tiun sub lian manon, Mi difinas al vi lokon, kien li povas forkuri.

14 Sed se iu intence mortigis sian proksimulon per ruzo, tiam ecx de Mia altaro forprenu lin, ke li mortu.

15 Kiu batas sian patron aux sian patrinon, tiu devas esti mortigita.

16 Kaj se iu sxtelas homon por vendi lin, aux oni trovas tiun en lia mano, li devas esti mortigita.

17 Kiu malbenas sian patron aux sian patrinon, tiu devas esti mortigita.

18 Se homoj kverelos, kaj unu batos la alian per sxtono aux per pugno kaj tiu ne mortos, sed devos kusxi en lito:

19 se li levigxos kaj irados ekstere per apogilo, tiam la batinto estu senkulpa; li nur kompensu al li lian malliberigitecon kaj zorgu pri lia kuracado.

20 Se iu batos sian sklavon aux sian sklavinon per bastono, kaj tiu mortos sub lia mano, tiam oni devas lin puni;

21 sed se tiu restos viva dum unu aux du tagoj, tiam oni ne devas lin puni; cxar tio estas lia mono.

22 Se viroj kverelos kaj frapos gravedan virinon, kaj sxi abortos, sed ne farigxos malfelicxo, tiam oni punu lin per monpuno, kian metos sur lin la edzo de la virino, kaj li pagu gxin laux decido de jugxantoj.

23 Sed se farigxos malfelicxo, tiam donu animon pro animo,

24 okulon pro okulo, denton pro dento, manon pro mano, piedon pro piedo,

25 bruldifekton pro bruldifekto, vundon pro vundo, kontuzon pro kontuzo.

26 Kaj se iu batos okulon de sia sklavo aux de sia sklavino kaj difektos gxin, tiam li forliberigu tiun kompense pro la okulo.

27 Kaj se li elbatos denton de sia sklavo aux denton de sia sklavino, li forliberigu tiun kompense pro la dento.

28 Se bovo kornobatos viron aux virinon kaj tiu mortos, tiam oni sxtonmortigu la bovon kaj gxia viando ne estu mangxata, sed la mastro de la bovo restu senkulpa.

29 Sed se la bovo estis kornobatema antauxe kaj oni tion sciigis al gxia mastro kaj li gxin ne gardis kaj gxi mortigis viron aux virinon, tiam la bovon oni sxtonmortigu kaj gxian mastron oni mortigu.

30 Se oni metos sur lin elacxeton, tiam li donu pro sia animo tian elacxetan sumon, kia estos metita sur lin.

31 Se filo aux filino estos kornobatita, oni agu kun li en la sama maniero.

32 Se iun sklavon aux sklavinon kornobatos la bovo, tiam tridek sikloj da mono devas esti pagitaj al ties mastro kaj la bovo devas esti sxtonmortigita.

33 Se iu malfermos kavon, aux elfosos kavon, kaj ne kovros gxin, kaj falos tien bovo aux azeno,

34 tiam la mastro de la kavo devas kompensi per mono al gxia mastro, kaj la kadavro apartenu al li.

35 Se la bovo de iu homo kornobatos bovon de lia proksimulo tiel, ke gxi mortos, tiam ili vendu la vivan bovon kaj dividu inter si egalparte la monon pro gxi, kaj ankaux la kadavron ili dividu.

36 Sed se oni sciis, ke la bovo estis kornobatema antauxe, kaj gxia mastro gxin ne gardis, tiam ili pagu bovon pro la bovo, kaj la kadavro apartenu al li.

   

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Arcana Coelestia#9031

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9031. 'And thoroughly cure him' means restoration, that is to say, through explanation; for if statements in the literal sense of the Word are looked at on a more internal level, all are in agreement. The situation here is as it is with statements in the Word which speak of the sun's rising or setting, though in reality it neither rises nor sets. However, it presents the appearance of doing so to inhabitants on earth, because of the earth's daily rotation on its axis. This natural truth lies hidden within the former, which accords with the appearance presented to the eyes. If the truth had been stated in the Word contrary to that appearance, the common people would not have understood it; and what the common people do not understand they do not believe either. It is similar with the Sun of heaven, which is the Lord; this too is said to rise. But it is said to rise in the heart when a person is being regenerated, and also when he is governed by the good of love and faith; and it is said to set when a person is immersed in evil and in falsity arising from it. But in reality the Lord is always where the sun is rising, for which reason also He is called the Sunrise or the East, and never where it is setting. Nor does He turn away from anyone; rather a person turns away from Him, which is the reason for the appearance that the Lord turns His face away, and even brings about what is ill. Therefore also such a thing is said of Him in the Word; and that too is a truth, though it is an apparent truth, and so does not conflict with the former. From all this one may now see what 'thoroughly curing' means in the internal sense, namely the restoration of spiritual truth, which is brought about by correct explanation of factual truth, or truth belonging to the literal sense of the Word.

[2] The situation is just the same with every truth that belongs to the literal sense. In natural light, which a person who perceives things on a sensory level possesses, that truth is seen as it is actually stated in the Word. For the literal sense is natural and is for those who perceive things on a sensory level. But when the same truth is presented in the light of heaven it is seen according to the internal sense; for this sense is spiritual and is for those whose perception lies on a heavenly level, because the things that belong to natural light vanish in the light of heaven. Natural light is like gloom or like a cloud, but heavenly light is like the glory and brightness after the cloud has been removed. Therefore also the literal sense of the Word is called 'a cloud' and the internal sense 'the glory', see Preface to Genesis 18, and 4391, 5922, 6343, 8106, 8443, 8781.

[3] The reason why 'thoroughly curing' means restoring in the spiritual sense is that 'sickness' and 'illness' mean poor health of the internal man. The internal man is in poor health when its life, which is spiritual life, is sick, that is, when the person turns aside from truth to falsity and from good to evil. When this happens that life is sick; and when the person turns away completely from truth and good that life dies. But its death is called spiritual death, which is damnation. This being the situation with the life of the internal man, such things as constitute sicknesses and death in the natural world refer, when spoken of in the Word, to sicknesses of spiritual life and to the death of that life. So too with curings or healings from sickness, as in Isaiah,

Jehovah strikes Egypt striking and curing, as a consequence of which they turn themselves towards Jehovah; and He will be entreated by them, and He will cure them. Isaiah 19:22.

In the same prophet,

But He was pierced because of our transgressions, bruised because of our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was upon Him, and by His wounds we are cured. 1 Isaiah 53:5.

These words refer to the Lord.

[4] In Jeremiah,

Return, O perverse children, I will cure you of backsliding. 2 Jeremiah 3:22.

In the same prophet,

Behold, I will bring curing and remedy to it; 3 and I will cure them and reveal to them the abundance of peace, and truth. Jeremiah 33:6.

In the same prophet,

Go up to Gilead, and take balm, O virgin daughter of Egypt! In vain you have multiplied medicaments; there is no curing for you. Jeremiah 46:11.

And in Ezekiel,

Beside the river there is rising up upon its bank, on this side and on that, [every] tree for food, whose leaf does not fall, and whose fruit does not fail it is reborn monthly, for its waters flow out from the sanctuary, wherefore its fruit is for food, and its leaf for medicaments. Ezekiel 47:12.

'Fruit for food' stands for the good of love and charity, which serves to nourish spiritual life, and 'leaf for medicaments' for the truths of faith which serve to refresh and restore that life. For the meaning of 'fruit' as the good of love and charity, see 3146, 7690; and for the meaning of 'leaf' as the truth of faith, 885.

[5] Since sicknesses and illnesses, also curings and medicaments, mentioned in the Word do not refer to natural life but to another kind of life distinct and separate from natural life, it is evident to anyone who ponders on the matter for a while that a person possesses another kind of life, which belongs to his internal man. Those who think materialistically of the life a person has do not believe that he has any life other than that of the body which is the life of the external or natural man. They wonder what the life of the internal man may be, indeed what the internal man may be. If they are told that this life is the life of faith and charity, and that the internal man is the person's spirit which lives after death, and which in essence is the real person, they wonder all the more. And those of them who live solely for the body and not for the soul, thus who are altogether natural people, understand nothing of what they are told about the life of faith and charity or about the internal man. For when they think, they see things altogether in natural light and not at all in spiritual light, on account of which also after death their thought remains materialistic. They live then 'in the shadow of death', that is, steeped in falsities arising from evil; they are in utter darkness and are blind to the light of heaven.

脚注:

1. literally, and in His wound curing has been given to us

2. literally, cure your turnings away

3. literally, I will cause curing and remedy to go up to it

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