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Exodus第17章:16
Arcana Coelestia#8351
8351. 'And the people grumbled against Moses' means grief caused by the bitterness of the temptation. This is clear from the meaning of 'grumbling' as complaint, the kind made in temptations, thus grief caused by the bitterness of the temptation. The temptations which those belonging to the Lord's spiritual Church underwent after they had been delivered from molestations, in addition to the temptations which members of that Church are destined to undergo, are described by the grumblings of the children of Israel in the wilderness. And since spiritual temptations are as a general rule protracted till a person is in despair, 1787, 2694, 5279, 5280, 7147, 7166, 8165, 'grumbling' means complaint because of grief felt in temptations, as in Exodus 16:2-3; 17:3; Numbers 14:27, 29, 36; 16:11. The words 'against Moses' are used because it was a grumbling against what was Divine; for 'Moses' represents Divine Truth, 6723, 6752, 6771, 6827, 7010, 7014, 7089, 7382.
[2] As regards the temptations which those belonging to the spiritual Church underwent, and the temptations which members of that Church are destined to undergo, it should be recognized that no faith, nor thus any charity, can ever be instilled into those who belong to the spiritual Church except by means of temptations. In temptations a person is involved in conflict against falsity and evil. These - falsity and evil - flow into the external man from the hells, while goodness and truth flow in from the Lord by way of the internal man; and so there arises from a conflict of the internal man with the external that which is called temptation. And in the measure that the external man is brought into a state of obedience to the internal, faith and charity are instilled; for the external or natural level of a person is a receptacle of truth and good from the internal. If the receptacle is not properly adjusted it does not receive anything flowing in from the more internal level but either repels, destroys, or stifles it, as a consequence of which there is no regeneration. So it is that temptation is necessary, in order that a person may undergo regeneration, which is effected through the instillation of faith and charity, and thereby through the formation of a new will and new understanding. This also explains why the term 'militant' is applied to the Lord's Church. See what has been stated and shown already about these matters in 3928, 4249, 4341, 4572, 5356, 6574, 6611, 6657, 7090 (end), 7122, 8159, 8168, 8179, 8273.
Luke第16章
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He also said to his disciples, "There was a certain rich man who had a manager. An accusation was made to him that this man was wasting his possessions.
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He called him, and said to him, 'What is this that I hear about you? Give an accounting of your management, for you can no longer be manager.'
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"The manager said within himself, 'What will I do, seeing that my lord is taking away the management position from me? I don't have strength to dig. I am ashamed to beg.
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I know what I will do, so that when I am removed from management, they may receive me into their houses.'
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Calling each one of his lord's debtors to him, he said to the first, 'How much do you owe to my lord?'
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He said, 'A hundred batos of oil.' He said to him, 'Take your bill, and sit down quickly and write fifty.'
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Then he said to another, 'How much do you owe?' He said, 'A hundred cors of wheat.' He said to him, 'Take your bill, and write eighty.'
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"His lord commended the dishonest manager because he had done wisely, for the children of this world are, in their own generation, wiser than the children of the light.
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I tell you, make for yourselves friends by means of unrighteous mammon, so that when you fail, they may receive you into the eternal tents.
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He who is faithful in a very little is faithful also in much. He who is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much.
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If therefore you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?
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If you have not been faithful in that which is another's, who will give you that which is your own?
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No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to one, and despise the other. You aren't able to serve God and mammon."
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The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, also heard all these things, and they scoffed at him.
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He said to them, "You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.
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The law and the prophets were until John. From that time the Good News of the Kingdom of God is preached, and everyone is forcing his way into it.
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But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away, than for one tiny stroke of a pen in the law to fall.
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Everyone who divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery. He who marries one who is divorced from a husband commits adultery.
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"Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, living in luxury every day.
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A certain beggar, named Lazarus, was laid at his gate, full of sores,
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and desiring to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich man's table. Yes, even the dogs came and licked his sores.
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It happened that the beggar died, and that he was carried away by the angels to Abraham's bosom. The rich man also died, and was buried.
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In Hades, he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and saw Abraham far off, and Lazarus at his bosom.
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He cried and said, 'Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue! For I am in anguish in this flame.'
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"But Abraham said, 'Son, remember that you, in your lifetime, received your good things, and Lazarus, in the same way, bad things. But now here he is comforted and you are in anguish.
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Besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, that those who want to pass from here to you are not able, and that none may cross over from there to us.'
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"He said, 'I ask you therefore, father, that you would send him to my father's house;
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for I have five brothers, that he may testify to them, so they won't also come into this place of torment.'
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"But Abraham said to him, 'They have Moses and the prophets. Let them listen to them.'
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"He said, 'No, father Abraham, but if one goes to them from the dead, they will repent.'
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"He said to him, 'If they don't listen to Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded if one rises from the dead.'"
