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2 Mosebok第21章

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1 Dessa äro de rätter som du skall förelägga dem:

2 Om du köper en hebreisk träl, skall han tjäna i sex år, men på det sjunde skall han givas fri, utan lösen.

3 Har han kommit allena, så skall han givas fri allena; var han gift, så skall hans hustru givas fri med honom.

4 Har hans herre givit honom en hustru, och har denna fött honom söner eller döttrar, så skola hustrun och hennes barn tillhöra hennes herre, och allenast mannen skall givas fri.

5 Men om trälen säger: »Jag har min herre, min hustru och mina barn så kära, att jag icke vill givas fri»,

6 då skall hans herre föra honom fram för Gud och ställa honom vid dörren eller dörrposten, och hans herre skall genomborra hans öra med en syl; därefter vare han hans träl evärdligen.

7 Om någon säljer sin dotter till trälinna, så skall hon icke givas fri såsom trälarna givas fria.

8 Misshagar hon sin herre, sedan denne förut har ingått förbindelse med henne, så låte han henne köpas fri. Till främmande folk have han icke makt att sälja henne, när han så har handlat trolöst mot henne.

9 Men om han låter sin son ingå förbindelse med henne, så förunne han henne döttrars rätt.

10 Tager han sig ännu en hustru, så göre han icke någon minskning i den förras kost, beklädnad eller äktenskapsrätt.

11 Om han icke låter henne njuta sin rätt i dessa tre stycken, så skall hon givas fri, utan lösen och betalning.

12 Den som slår någon, så att han dör, han skall straffas med döden.

13 Men om han icke traktade efter den andres liv, utan Gud lät denne oförvarandes träffas av hans hand, så skall jag anvisa dig en ort dit han kan fly.

14 Men om någon begår det dådet att han dräper sin nästa med list, så skall du gripa honom, vore han ock invid mitt altare, och han måste .

15 Den som slår sin fader eller sin moder, han skall straffas med döden.

16 Den som stjäl en människa, vare sig han sedan säljer den stulne, eller denne finnes kvar hos honom, han skall straffas med döden.

17 Den som uttalar förbannelser över sin fader eller sin moder, han skall straffas med döden.

18 Om män tvista med varandra, och den ene slår den andre med en sten eller med knuten hand, så att denne väl icke dör, men bliver sängliggande,

19 dock att han sedan kommer sig och kan gå ute, stödd vid sin stav, så skall den som slog honom vara fri ifrån straff; allenast ersätte han honom för den tid han har förlorat och besörje sjukvård åt honom.

20 Om någon slår sin träl eller sin trälinna med en käpp, så att den slagne dör under hans hand, så skall han straffas därför.

21 Men om den slagne lever en eller två dagar, skall han icke straffas, ty det var hans egna penningar.

22 Om män träta med varandra, och någon av dem stöter till en havande kvinna, så att hon föder fram sitt foster, men eljest ingen olycka sker, så böte han vad kvinnans man ålägger honom och betale efter skiljedomares prövning.

23 Men om olycka sker, skall liv givas för liv,

24 öga för öga, tand för tand, hand för hand, fot för fot,

25 brännskada för brännskada, sår för sår, blånad för blånad.

26 Om någon slår sin träl eller sin trälinna i ögat och fördärvar det, så släppe han den skadade fri, till ersättning för ögat.

27 Sammalunda, om någon slår ut en tand på sin träl eller sin trälinna, så släppe han den skadade fri, till ersättning för tanden.

28 Om en oxe stångar någon till döds, man eller kvinna, så skall oxen stenas, och köttet må icke ätas; men oxens ägare vara fri ifrån straff.

29 Men om oxen förut har haft vanan att stångas, och hans ägare har blivit varnad, men denne ändå icke tager vara på honom, och oxen så dödar någon, man eller kvinna, då skall oxen stenas, och hans ägare skall ock dödas.

30 Men skulle lösepenning bliva denne ålagd, så give han till lösen för sitt liv så mycket som ålägges honom.

31 Är det en gosse eller en flicka som har blivit stångad av oxen, så skall med denne förfaras efter samma lag.

32 Men om oxen stångar en träl eller en trälinna, så skall ägaren giva åt den stångades herre trettio siklar silver, och oxen skall stenas.

33 Om någon öppnar en brunn, eller om någon gräver en ny brunn och icke täcker över den, och sedan en oxe eller en åsna faller däri,

34 så skall brunnens ägare giva ersättning i penningar åt djurets ägare, men den döda kroppen skall vara hans.

35 Om någons oxe stångar en annans oxe, så att denne dör, så skola de sälja den levande oxen och dela betalningen för honom och därjämte dela den döda kroppen.

36 Var det däremot känt att oxen förut hade vanan att stångas, men tog hans ägare ändå icke vara på honom, så skall han ersätta oxe med oxe, men den döda kroppen skall vara hans.

   

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Arcana Coelestia#8995

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8995. 'If she is bad in the eyes of her master' means if the affection for truth springing from natural delight is not in agreement with spiritual truth. This is clear from the meaning of 'female slave', to whom the word 'bad' refers, as an affection springing from natural delight, dealt with in 8993, 8994, and from the meaning of 'bad', when it refers to that affection and its relationship with spiritual truth, as being not in agreement with, dealt with below; from the meaning of 'in the eyes of' as in the perception of, dealt with in 2789, 2829, 4083, 4339; and from the meaning of 'master' as spiritual truth, dealt with in 8981.

[2] The implications of all this must be stated. 'A female slave' is an affection for truth springing from the delights that belong to self-love and love of the world, as stated above in 8993, 8994; and this affection is able to be joined to spiritual truth. This may be recognized from the consideration that an affection for spiritual truth is an internal affection or one that resides in the internal man, whereas an affection for truth springing from natural delight resides in the external man. The internal affection that belongs to the spiritual man is joined unceasingly to the external affection that belongs to the natural man, yet in such a way that the internal affection for truth acts as master and the external affection as slave. For it is in keeping with Divine order that the spiritual man should be master over the natural man, 8961, 8967. When the spiritual man is master the person is looking upwards; this is represented by having the head in heaven. But when the natural man is master the person is looking downwards, which is represented by having the head in hell.

[3] To make this transparently clear something more must be stated. By the truths they learn and the good deeds they perform most people hope to acquire some gain from their country, or some important position. If these are regarded as the end in view, the natural man is the master and the spiritual man the slave. But if they are regarded not as the end, only as the means to the end, the spiritual man is the master and the natural man the slave, as accords exactly with the things stated in 7819, 7820. For when people consider gain or positron as the means to an end and not the end itself, they are not considering gain or position but the end, which is useful service. A person for example who desires wealth, and acquires it for the sake of useful service which he loves above all things, does not delight in wealth for its own sake; he delights in it for the sake of useful service. The spirit of useful service itself constitutes spiritual life in a person, and the wealth merely serves him as means, see 6933-6938. From this one may also see what the natural man must be like if it is to be joined to the spiritual - it must regard gain and important positions, that is, wealth and eminence, as the means and not the end. What a person regards as the end constitutes the actual life within him, since he loves it more than all things. For what a person loves, that is his end in view.

[4] Anyone who does not know that a person's end in view, or what amounts to the same thing, his love, constitutes the person's spiritual life, consequently that a person is where his love is - in heaven if that love is heavenly, in hell if it is hellish - cannot grasp the situation in these matters. He may suppose that the delight belonging to natural kinds of love - self-love and love of the world - cannot be in agreement with spiritual truth and good. He may suppose this because he does not know that when a person is being regenerated he must be turned upside down, and that when he has been turned upside down he is positioned with his head in heaven, whereas before being turned upside down he was positioned with his head in hell. He was positioned with it in hell when he had the delights of self-love or love of the world as his end in view; but he is positioned with his head in heaven when he has those delights as the means to his end. For the person's end or love, and this alone, has life. The means to the end however have no life of their own but receive life from the end; therefore the means in relation to the final end are called intermediate ends, which have life in the measure that they look to the final end, which is the chief one. So it is that, when a person has been regenerated, consequently when he has loving the neighbour and loving the Lord as his end, he has loving self and the world as the means. When a person is like this, when he looks to the Lord, he rates himself and also the world as nothing. If he does rate himself as something, it is in order that he may be able to serve the Lord. Before this however his attitude had been the opposite. Then he had been full of self-regard and had rated the Lord as nothing; or if had rated Him as something, it had been in order that gain or position might consequently come his way.

[5] All this makes clear the nature of the arcanum concealed in these regulations regarding female slaves from among the daughters of Israel, that is to say, the regulations that although they were slaves they were, if 'good', betrothed to their master who had bought them, or to his son; but if they were 'bad' they were not betrothed but either redeemed or sold, according to the contents of these verses. Betrothing even female slaves, or having them as concubines, was permitted in the representative Church, particularly in the Jewish and Israelite, because a wife represented the affection for spiritual truth, whereas a female slave represented the affection for natural truth, so that a wife represented the internal aspect of the Church with a person, but a female slave the external aspect. The latter was represented by Hagar who was betrothed to Abraham, and also by the two female slaves betrothed to Jacob.

[6] All this now shows what is meant in the internal representative sense by the regulation that 'if she is bad' a female slave cannot be betrothed. That is to say, 'if she is bad' means if the affection springing from natural delight - 'a female slave' - is not in agreement with the spiritual man. This lack of agreement is brought about primarily because that affection wishes to be the master and is of a disposition and mind that cannot be bent towards a love of the Lord. Furthermore the agreement or disagreement of the affection springing from natural delight with the spiritual is determined by the essential nature of them both; but a division of them into their numerous categories would be too long and tedious. A female slave or servant-girl may also mean an affirmative means that serves to join together the external man and the internal man, see 3913, 3917, 3931.

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