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Exode第20章

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1 Alors Dieu prononça toutes ces paroles, en disant:

2 Je suis l'Eternel, ton Dieu, qui t'ai fait sortir du pays d'Egypte, de la maison de servitude.

3 Tu n'auras pas d'autres dieux devant ma face.

4 Tu ne te feras point d'image taillée, ni de représentation quelconque des choses qui sont en haut dans les cieux, qui sont en bas sur la terre, et qui sont dans les eaux plus bas que la terre.

5 Tu ne te prosterneras point devant elles, et tu ne les serviras point; car moi, l'Eternel, ton Dieu, je suis un Dieu jaloux, qui punis l'iniquité des pères sur les enfants jusqu'à la troisième et la quatrième génération de ceux qui me haïssent,

6 et qui fais miséricorde jusqu'en mille générations à ceux qui m'aiment et qui gardent mes commandements.

7 Tu ne prendras point le nom de l'Eternel, ton Dieu, en vain; car l'Eternel ne laissera point impuni celui qui prendra son nom en vain.

8 Souviens-toi du jour du repos, pour le sanctifier.

9 Tu travailleras six jours, et tu feras tout ton ouvrage.

10 Mais le septième jour est le jour du repos de l'Eternel, ton Dieu: tu ne feras aucun ouvrage, ni toi, ni ton fils, ni ta fille, ni ton serviteur, ni ta servante, ni ton bétail, ni l'étranger qui est dans tes portes.

11 Car en six jours l'Eternel a fait les cieux, la terre et la mer, et tout ce qui y est contenu, et il s'est reposé le septième jour: c'est pourquoi l'Eternel a béni le jour du repos et l'a sanctifié.

12 Honore ton père et ta mère, afin que tes jours se prolongent dans le pays que l'Eternel, ton Dieu, te donne.

13 Tu ne tueras point.

14 Tu ne commettras point d'adultère.

15 Tu ne déroberas point.

16 Tu ne porteras point de faux témoignage contre ton prochain.

17 Tu ne convoiteras point la maison de ton prochain; tu ne convoiteras point la femme de ton prochain, ni son serviteur, ni sa servante, ni son boeuf, ni son âne, ni aucune chose qui appartienne à ton prochain.

18 Tout le peuple entendait les tonnerres et le son de la trompette; il voyait les flammes de la montagne fumante. A ce spectacle, le peuple tremblait, et se tenait dans l'éloignement.

19 Ils dirent à Moïse: Parle-nous toi-même, et nous écouterons; mais que Dieu ne nous Parle point, de peur que nous ne mourions.

20 Moïse dit au peuple: Ne vous effrayez pas; car c'est pour vous mettre à l'épreuve que Dieu est venu, et c'est pour que vous ayez sa crainte devant les yeux, afin que vous ne péchiez point.

21 Le peuple restait dans l'éloignement; mais Moïse s'approcha de la nuée où était Dieu.

22 L'Eternel dit à Moïse: Tu parleras ainsi aux enfants d'Israël: Vous avez vu que je vous ai parlé depuis les cieux.

23 Vous ne ferez point des dieux d'argent et des dieux d'or, pour me les associer; vous ne vous en ferez point.

24 Tu m'élèveras un autel de terre, sur lequel tu offriras tes holocaustes et tes sacrifices d'actions de grâces, tes brebis et tes boeufs. Partout où je rappellerai mon nom, je viendrai à toi, et je te bénirai.

25 Si tu m'élèves un autel de pierre, tu ne le bâtiras point en pierres taillées; car en passant ton ciseau sur la pierre, tu la profanerais.

26 Tu ne monteras point à mon autel par des degrés, afin que ta nudité ne soit pas découverte.

   

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Apocalypse Explained#967

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967. And every living soul in the sea died. That this signifies that there was no longer anything from the Word in the natural man from the spiritual, is evident from the signification of the living soul in the sea, as denoting what has in itself spiritual life, of which we shall speak presently; and from the signification of the sea, as denoting the generals of truth in the natural man; and thence also the knowledges of truth from the Word; of which we have treated just above (n. 965). These knowledges, when they have not any life from the spiritual world or from heaven, are called dead.

By the living soul in the sea are meant fishes of various kinds, by which are signified the scientifics of the natural man, as may be seen above (n. 531); and the knowledges of truth from the Word with natural men are also meant. For with such these knowledges of truth from the Word are like scientifics of the world. The reason is, that with such they have no life in themselves from the spiritual; and yet knowledges from the Word, unless the spiritual from heaven flows into them, are not alive but dead.

[2] The knowledges of truth from the Word do not live with a man before the internal spiritual man is opened; and this is opened by the Lord when a man is being regenerated; and then by means of the spiritual man opened, the spiritual from heaven flows into the knowledges of truth and good from the Word in the natural man, and vivifies them. It vivifies them in such a way, that the knowledges of truth and good in the natural man become correspondences of the spiritual things in the internal spiritual man. And when they are correspondences, they are alive; for then, in the particular knowledges or truths, the spiritual is included, just as the soul in its body. Hence it is, that man after death comes into these spiritual things, and that the knowledges to which they corresponded serve them for a basis. But it is otherwise with those with whom the knowledges from the Word are not vivified.

The spiritual which flows from heaven into knowledges is the affection of truth, the affection of good, and the affection of bearing fruit. For it is spiritual heat, which is the love or affection of good; and spiritual light, which is the affection of truth. These are the spiritual things that flow into and vivify the knowledges of truth from the Word with those who are in a life of charity, and in faith therefrom. But these very knowledges with those who are in faith separated from a life of charity are dead. This, therefore, is the signification of every living soul in the sea dying.

Concerning the Fifth Precept, "Thou shalt not steal."

[3] By thefts are not only meant manifest thefts, but also thefts not manifest; as unlawful usury and gains effected by fraud and craft under various pretences, so as either to appear lawful, or else done clandestinely, so as not to appear at all. Such gains are generally made by higher and lower administrators, of the goods of others, by merchants, also by judges who sell judgments, and thus make justice a purchaseable thing. These and many others are thefts, to be abstained from and to be shunned, and at length to be held in aversion, as sins against God, because contrary to the Divine laws contained in the Word; and contrary to this law, which is one amongst the fundamental laws of all the religions in the whole world. For these Ten Precepts are universals. They were given for the end, that while a man lives from them, he may live from religion. For by a life from religion man is conjoined with heaven, whereas by a life according to these precepts from obedience to civil and moral law, he is conjoined with the world, and not with heaven. And to be conjoined with the world and not with heaven is to be conjoined with hell.

  
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Translation by Isaiah Tansley. Many thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.