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Genesis第19章

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1 Ja need kaks inglit jõudsid õhtul Soodomasse. Lott istus parajasti Soodoma väravas. Kui Lott neid nägi, siis ta tõusis neile vastu, kummardas silmili maha

2 ja ütles: 'Ennäe mu isandaid! Astuge ometi oma sulase kotta, jääge öömajale ja peske oma jalad! Hommikul võite vara üles tõusta ja oma teekonda jätkata!' Kuid nad vastasid: 'Ei, me jääme ööseks välja.'

3 Aga ta käis neile väga peale. Siis nad põikasid tema juurde ning tulid ta kotta. Ja ta valmistas neile pidusöögi, küpsetas hapnemata leibu ja nad sõid.

4 Nad ei olnud veel magama heitnud, kui linna mehed, Soodoma mehed, niihästi noored kui vanad, kogu rahvas viimseni, ümbritsesid koja

5 ja hüüdsid Lotti ning ütlesid temale: 'Kus on mehed, kes öösel tulid sinu juurde? Too nad välja meie kätte, et saaksime neid katsuda!'

6 Siis Lott läks välja nende juurde ukse ette, sulges ukse enese järel

7 ja ütles: 'Mu vennad, ärge ometi tehke kurja!

8 Vaadake, mul on kaks tütart, kes mehest veel midagi ei tea. Ma toon need välja teie kätte ja talitage nendega, nagu teie silmis hea on. Neile meestele ärge tehke midagi, sest nad on tulnud varjule minu katuse alla!'

9 Kuid nad vastasid: 'Käi minema!' Ja nad ütlesid: 'Ise on tulnud võõrana elama, aga tahab olla kohtumõistjaks! Nüüd me kohtleme sind halvemini kui neid!' Ja nad kippusid väga mehe, Loti kallale ning asusid ust maha murdma.

10 Siis mehed sirutasid käed välja, tõmbasid Loti enese juurde kotta ja sulgesid ukse.

11 Aga mehi, kes koja ukse taga olid, lõid nad pimestusega, niihästi väikesi kui suuri, nõnda et need väsisid ust otsimast.

12 Ja mehed ütlesid Lotile: 'Kes sul veel siin on, väimees ja pojad ja tütred ja kõik, kes sul linnas on, vii siit paigast ära,

13 sest me hävitame selle paiga, kuna hädakisa nende pärast on Issanda ees suur; ja Issand on meid läkitanud seda hävitama!'

14 Siis Lott läks välja ja kõneles oma väimeestega, kes pidid võtma ta tütred, ning ütles: 'Tõuske, minge siit paigast ära, sest Issand hävitab selle linna!' Aga oma väimeeste meelest heitis ta nalja.

15 Ja kui hakkas koitma, kiirustasid inglid Lotti, öeldes: 'Tõuse, võta oma naine ja kaks tütart, kes siin on, et sa ei hukkuks linna süü pärast!'

16 Ja kui ta veel kõhkles, siis haarasid mehed kinni ta käest, ja ta naise käest ja ta mõlema tütre käest, sest Issand tahtis teda säästa; ja nad viisid ta ära ning jätsid väljapoole linna.

17 Ja neid välja viies nad ütlesid: 'Päästa oma hing! Ära vaata selja taha ja ära peatu mitte kuskil ümbruskonnas! Põgene mäestikku, et sa ei hukkuks!'

18 Ja Lott vastas neile: 'Muidugi mitte, mu isand!

19 Vaata, su sulane on küll sinu silmis armu leidnud ja suur on su heldus, mida sa oled mulle osutanud, jättes mu hinge elama. Aga ma ei suuda põgeneda mäestikku, et õnnetus mind ei tabaks ja ma ei sureks.

20 Vaata, see linn taamal on nii ligidal, et sinna võiks põgeneda, ja on pisitilluke. Kui ma ometi sinna pääseksin - eks ole, see on ju pisitilluke? -, siis võiks mu hing jääda elama!'

21 Ja ta vastas temale: 'Vaata, ma võtan sind kuulda ka selles asjas ega paiska segi linna, millest sa räägid.

22 Tõtta, põgene sinna, sest ma ei või midagi teha enne, kui sa sinna oled jõudnud!' Seepärast pandi sellele linnale nimeks Soar.

23 Päike oli just tõusnud maa kohale, kui Lott jõudis Soari.

24 Ja Issand laskis sadada Soodoma ja Gomorra peale väävlit ja tuld Issanda juurest taevast

25 ning hävitas need linnad ja kogu ümbruskonna, kõik linnade elanikud ja maa taimestiku.

26 Aga Loti naine, kes ta järel käis, vaatas tagasi ja muutus soolasambaks.

27 Ja Aabraham läks hommikul vara paika, kus ta Issanda ees oli seisnud,

28 heitis pilgu alla Soodoma ja Gomorra poole ja kogu ümbruskonna maapinnale, vaatas, ja ennäe, maast tõusis suits otsekui sulatusahju suits.

29 Kui Jumal oli segi paisanud ümbruskonna linnad, mõtles Jumal Aabrahamile ja saatis Loti ära selle hävituse keskelt, millega ta segi paiskas need linnad, kus Lott oli elanud.

30 Ja Lott läks Soarist üles ning elas mäestikus koos oma kahe tütrega, sest ta kartis elada Soaris; ta elas ühes koopas, tema ise ja ta mõlemad tütred.

31 Kord ütles vanem nooremale: 'Meie isa on vana ja maal pole ühtegi meest, kes tuleks Meie juurde kogu maailma kombe järgi.

32 Tule, joodame oma isa veiniga ja magame temaga, et saaksime oma isalt järeltulija!'

33 Ja nad jootsid oma isa sel ööl veiniga ja vanem läks ning magas oma isaga; see ei märganudki, millal too maha heitis või üles tõusis.

34 Ja järgmisel päeval ütles vanem nooremale: 'Vaata, ma magasin eile oma isaga. Joodame ka sel ööl teda veiniga, siis mine maga sina temaga, et saaksime oma isalt järeltulija!'

35 Ja nad jootsid ka sel ööl oma isa veiniga ja noorem läks ning magas temaga; see ei märganudki, millal too maha heitis või üles tõusis.

36 Ja Loti mõlemad tütred jäid oma isast lapseootele.

37 Ja vanem sünnitas poja ning pani temale nimeks Moab; see on moabide isa tänapäevani.

38 Ja noorem sünnitas ka poja ning pani temale nimeks Ben-Ammi; see on ammonlaste isa tänapäevani.

   

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Arcana Coelestia#2454

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2454. That 'his wife looked back behind him' means that truth turned away from good and looked towards matters of doctrine is clear from the meaning of 'looking back behind him' and from the meaning of 'a wife'. Looking back behind him means looking towards matters of doctrine, which have a relationship with truth, and not towards life in accordance with them, which has a relationship with good, as stated above in 2417. That which is secondary is referred to as 'behind him' and that which is primary as 'before him'. The fact that truth is secondary and good primary has been shown quite often. For truth belongs to good, since the essence and life of truth is good. 'Looking behind him' therefore means looking towards truth which constitutes doctrinal teaching, and not towards good which constitutes life in accordance with doctrinal teaching. That these points are what is meant becomes quite clear from the Lord's words, where also, referring to the final period of the Church or close of the age, He says in Luke,

On that day, whoever will be on the housetop with his vessels in the house, let him not come down to take them away; and whoever is in the field, let him likewise not turn back to behind him. Remember Lot's wife. Luke 17:31-32.

[2] These words of the Lord are by no means intelligible without the internal sense, and so are unintelligible unless one knows what is meant by 'being on the housetop', by 'vessels in the house', by 'coming down to take them away', by 'the field', and lastly by 'turning back to behind him'. According to the internal sense 'being on the housetop' means resting on good; for 'a house' means good, see 710, 2231, 2233. 'Vessels in the house' means truths which belong to good; for truths are the vessels for good, see 1496, 1832, 1900, 2063, 2269. 'Going down to take them away' means, as is evident, turning away from good towards truth, for since good is primary it is also higher, while truth, being secondary, is also lower. That 'the field' is the Church, so called from the seed which it receives, and consequently that those people are 'fields' in whom there is the good taught by doctrine, is clear from many places in the Word. These considerations show what 'turning back to behind him' means, namely turning away from good and looking towards matters of doctrine. And it is because these things are meant by the expression 'Lot's wife', that 'remember Lot's wife' is added. The reason it is not said that she looked 'behind herself' but 'behind him' is that 'Lot' means good, see 2324, 2351, 2371, 2399. This explains why, when Lot was told what to do, verse 17, the words used were, 'Do not look back behind you'.

[3] The reason why in Luke it is said 'let him not turn back to behind him' and not 'to the things behind him' is that celestial people are unwilling even to mention anything that is a matter of doctrine, see 202, 337. This is why no such thing is mentioned in Luke, only the words 'to behind him'.

[4] These same matters are described in Matthew as follows,

When you see the abomination of desolation, foretold by the prophet Daniel, then let those who are in Judea flee into the mountains. Let him who is on the housetop not go down to take anything away out of his house; and let him who is in the field not return back to take his clothes. Matthew 24:15-17.

Here 'the abomination of desolation' is the state of the Church when there is no love and no charity. When these have been destroyed abominable things predominate. 'Judea' means the Church, and in particular the celestial Church, as is evident from both the historical and prophetical sections throughout the Old Testament Word, while 'the mountains into which they were to flee' means love to the Lord and consequent charity towards the neighbour, see 795, 1430, 1691. 'He who is on the housetop' means good flowing from love, as stated just above. 'Going down to take anything away out of his house' means turning away from good towards truth, as has also been stated above, while 'he who is in the field' means members of the spiritual Church, as is evident from the meaning of 'field' in the Word. 'Let him not return back to take his clothes' means not turning away from good towards truth that constitutes doctrinal teaching - 'clothes' meaning truths, for truths clothe good like garments, see 1073. Anyone may see that all those things which the Lord has said in that section about the close of the age mean things altogether different and embody arcana, such as that those in Judea were to flee into the mountains, that the one on the housetop was not to go down and bring anything out of the house, and that the one in the field was not to return back to take his clothes. Similar to this is the statement in verse 17 that Lot was not to look back behind him, and that made here that his wife did look back behind him and became a pillar of salt. In addition this matter is clear from the meaning of 'a wife' as truth, dealt with in 915, 1468, and from the meaning of 'Lot' as good, dealt with in 2324, 2351, 2371, 2399; hence the words 'after him'.

[5] Truth is said to turn away from good and look towards matters of doctrine when the member of the Church no longer takes to heart what kind of life he leads, only what kind of doctrine he possesses. Yet it is life according to doctrine, not doctrine separate from life, that makes anyone a member of the Church; for when doctrine is separated from life, then because good, in which life consists, has been vastated, truth as well, in which doctrine consists, is vastated, that is, it becomes 'a pillar of salt'. This is something anyone who looks to doctrine alone and not to life may know, by considering whether, even though doctrine teaches such things, he in fact believes in the resurrection, heaven, hell, and indeed the Lord, and so in everything else which doctrine teaches.

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