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Jeremiah 52

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1 Sidkia oli kahdenkymmenen yhden vuoden vanha tullessaan kuninkaaksi, ja hän hallitsi Jerusalemissa yksitoista vuotta. Hänen äitinsä oli nimeltään Hamutal, Jeremian tytär, Libnasta.

2 Hän teki sitä, mikä on pahaa Herran silmissä, aivan samoin kuin Joojakim oli tehnyt.

3 Sillä Herran vihan tähden kävi näin Jerusalemille ja Juudalle, kunnes hän vihdoin heitti heidät pois kasvojensa edestä.

4 Sidkia kapinoi Baabelin kuningasta vastaan. Hänen yhdeksäntenä hallitusvuotenaan, sen kymmenennessä kuussa, kuukauden kymmenentenä päivänä, hyökkäsi Nebukadressar, Baabelin kuningas, koko sotajoukollaan Jerusalemin kimppuun; ja he asettuivat leiriin sitä vastaan ja rakensivat saartovarusteet sitä vastaan yltympäri.

5 Näin kaupunkia piiritettiin kuningas Sidkian yhdenteentoista hallitusvuoteen asti.

6 Mutta neljännessä kuussa, kuukauden yhdeksäntenä päivänä, kun nälänhätä ahdisti kaupunkia eikä maakansallakaan ollut leipää,

7 valloitettiin kaupunki, ja kaikki sotilaat pakenivat ja lähtivät ulos kaupungista yöllä molempien muurien välitse vievää porttitietä, joka on kuninkaan puutarhan puolella, kaldealaisten ollessa kaupungin ympärillä, ja he kulkivat Aromaahan päin.

8 Mutta kaldealaisten sotajoukko ajoi kuningasta takaa, ja he saavuttivat Sidkian Jerikon aroilla; ja kaikki hänen sotaväkensä oli jättänyt hänet ja hajaantunut.

9 Ja he ottivat kuninkaan kiinni ja veivät hänet Baabelin kuninkaan eteen Riblaan, joka on Hamatin maassa, ja tämä julisti hänelle tuomion.

10 Ja Baabelin kuningas teurastutti Sidkian pojat hänen silmiensä edessä, ja myöskin kaikki Juudan ruhtinaat hän teurastutti Riblassa.

11 Ja Sidkialta Baabelin kuningas sokaisutti silmät, kytketti hänet vaskikahleisiin ja vei hänet Baabeliin, ja hän pani hänet vankihuoneeseen, jossa hän oli kuolinpäiväänsä asti.

12 Viidennessä kuussa, kuukauden kymmenentenä päivänä, Baabelin kuninkaan Nebukadressarin yhdeksäntenätoista hallitusvuotena, tuli Nebusaradan, henkivartijain päällikkö, joka palveli Baabelin kuningasta, Jerusalemiin.

13 Hän poltti Herran temppelin ja kuninkaan linnan ja kaikki Jerusalemin talot; kaikki ylhäisten talot hän poltti tulella.

14 Ja koko kaldealaisten sotajoukko, joka henkivartijain päälliköllä oli mukanaan, repi maahan kaikki Jerusalemin muurit, yltympäri.

15 Ja Nebusaradan, henkivartijain päällikkö, siirsi maasta pois osan kansan köyhiä ja kansan tähteitä, mitä oli jäljellä kaupungissa, sekä ne, jotka olivat menneet Baabelin kuninkaan puolelle, ja loput käsityöläisistä.

16 Mutta osan maan köyhiä Nebusaradan, henkivartijain päällikkö, jätti jäljelle viinitarhureiksi ja peltomiehiksi.

17 Vaskipylväät, jotka olivat Herran temppelissä, altaiden telineet ja vaskimeren, jotka olivat Herran temppelissä, kaldealaiset särkivät ja veivät kaiken niiden vasken Baabeliin.

18 Ja kattilat, lapiot, veitset, maljat, kupit ja kaikki vaskikalut, joita oli käytetty jumalanpalveluksessa, he ottivat pois.

19 Samoin otti henkivartijain päällikkö vadit, hiilipannut, maljat, kattilat, lampunjalat, kupit ja kulhot, jotka olivat läpeensä kultaa tai hopeata.

20 Molempien pylväiden, meren ja niiden kahdentoista vaskiraavaan, jotka olivat telineiden alla-kaikkien niiden esineiden, jotka Salomo oli teettänyt Herran temppeliin-niiden vaski ei ollut punnittavissa.

21 Pylväistä oli toisen pylvään korkeus kahdeksantoista kyynärää, ja kahdentoista kyynärän pituinen nauha ulottui sen ympäri. Sen vahvuus oli neljä sormenleveyttä; se oli ontto.

22 Ja sen päässä oli pylväänpää vaskesta; toisen pylväänpään korkeus oli viisi kyynärää, ja pylväänpään päällä oli ristikkokoriste ja granaattiomenia yltympäri, kaikki vaskea; ja samanlaiset oli toisessa pylväässä ynnä granaattiomenat.

23 Granaattiomenia oli yhdeksänkymmentä kuusi ulospäin; kaikkiaan oli granaattiomenia sata ristikkokoristeen päällä yltympäri.

24 Ja henkivartijain päällikkö otti ylimmäisen papin Serajan ja häntä lähimmän papin Sefanjan sekä kolme ovenvartijaa,

25 ja kaupungista hän otti yhden hoviherran, joka oli sotaväen tarkastaja, ja seitsemän kuninkaan lähintä miestä, jotka tavattiin kaupungista, sekä sotapäällikön kirjurin, jonka tehtävänä oli ottaa maan kansaa sotapalvelukseen, ja kuusikymmentä miestä maakansasta, jotka tavattiin kaupungista.

26 Nämä otti Nebusaradan, henkivartijain päällikkö, ja vei heidät Baabelin kuninkaan eteen Riblaan.

27 Ja Baabelin kuningas antoi lyödä heidät kuoliaaksi Riblassa Hamatin maassa. Ja niin Juuda siirrettiin pois maastansa.

28 Tämä on se kansa, jonka Nebukadressar vei pakkosiirtolaisuuteen: seitsemäntenä vuotena kolmetuhatta kaksikymmentä kolme juutalaista,

29 Nebukadressarin kahdeksantenatoista hallitusvuotena kahdeksansataa kolmekymmentä kaksi henkeä Jerusalemista,

30 Nebukadressarin kahdentenakymmenentenä kolmantena hallitusvuotena vei Nebusaradan, henkivartijain päällikkö, seitsemänsataa neljäkymmentä viisi juutalaista pakkosiirtolaisuuteen-yhteensä neljätuhatta kuusisataa henkeä.

31 Mutta kolmantenakymmenentenä seitsemäntenä vuotena siitä, kun Joojakim, Juudan kuningas, oli viety pakkosiirtolaisuuteen, kahdennessatoista kuussa, kuukauden kahdentenakymmenentenä viidentenä päivänä, korotti Evil-Merodak, Baabelin kuningas, samana vuonna, jona hän tuli kuninkaaksi, Juudan kuninkaan Joojakinin pään ja päästi hänet pois vankilasta.

32 Ja hän puhutteli häntä ystävällisesti ja asetti hänen istuimensa ylemmäksi muitten kuningasten istuimia, jotka olivat hänen tykönänsä Baabelissa.

33 Hän sai panna pois vanginpuvun ja aina aterioida hänen luonaan, niin kauan kuin eli.

34 Ja hän sai Baabelin kuninkaalta elatuksensa, vakinaisen elatuksen, mitä kunakin päivänä tarvitsi, kuolinpäiväänsä asti, niin kauan kuin eli.

   

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Heaven and Hell #365

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365. We may gather from this that rich people arrive in heaven just as much as poor people do, one as easily as the other. The reason people believe that it is easy for the poor and hard for the rich is that the Word is misunderstood when it talks about the rich and the poor. In the spiritual meaning of the Word, "the rich" means people who are amply supplied with understandings of what is true and good, that is, people in the church where the Word is. "The poor" means people who lack these understandings but who long for them, or people outside the church, where the Word is not found.

[2] The rich person dressed in purple and fine linen who was cast into hell means the Jewish nation. Because they had the Word and were therefore amply supplied with understandings of what is good and true, they are called "rich." The garments of purple actually mean understandings of what is good, and the fine linen means understandings of what is true. 1 The poor person who was lying in the gateway and who longed to feast on the crumbs that were falling from the rich person's table, who was carried up into heaven by angels, means the non-Jews who did not have understandings of what is good and true but who still longed for them (Luke 16:19, 31).

The rich who were invited to the great feast but who excused themselves also mean the Jewish nation, and the poor who were brought in to replace them mean the non-Jews who were outside the church (Luke 12:16-24, 14:16-24).

[3] We need also to explain who are meant by the rich of whom the Lord said, "It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God" (Matthew 19:24). "The rich person" here means the rich in both senses, natural and spiritual. Rich people in the natural sense are people who have abundant wealth and set their hearts on it, while in a spiritual sense they are people who are amply supplied with insights and knowledge (for these are spiritual wealth) and who want to use them to get themselves into heavenly and ecclesiastical circles by their own intellect. Since this is contrary to the divine design, it says that it is easier for a camel to get through the eye of a needle. On this level of meaning, a camel means our cognitive and informational level in general, and the eye of a needle means spiritual truth. 2

Nowadays people do not know that this is the meaning of the camel and the eye of a needle because there has not yet been any access to the knowledge that teaches what is meant spiritually by the things that the Word says literally. There is spiritual meaning in the details of the Word, and natural meaning as well; because the Word was written in pure correspondences of natural realities with spiritual ones in order to effect a union of heaven and the world, or of angels with us, once the direct union had ceased. We can see from this exactly who are meant by the rich in the Word.

[4] We may gather from a number of passages that on the spiritual level "the rich" in the Word refers to people who enjoy insights into what is good and true and that wealth means those insights themselves, which are spiritual riches: see Isaiah 10:12-14; 30:6-7; 45:3, Jeremiah 17:3; 47:7 [Jeremiah 48:7?], Jeremiah 50:36-37; 51:13, Daniel 5:2-4, Ezekiel 26:7, 12; 27:1-36; Zechariah 9:3-4; Psalms 45:12; Hosea 12:9; Revelation 3:17-18, Luke 14:33, and elsewhere. On the poor in the spiritual sense as people who do not have insights into what is good and true but who long for them, see Matthew 11:5; Luke 6:20-21; 14:21; Isaiah 14:30; 29:19; 41:17-18; Zephaniah 3:12, 18 [13]. An explanation of the spiritual meaning of all these passages may be found in 10227 of Secrets of Heaven.

Бележки под линия:

1. [Swedenborg's footnote] Garments mean things that are true, and therefore insights: 1033 [1073?], 2576, 5319, 5954, 9212, 9216, 9952, 10536. Purple means heavenly good: 9467. Linen means truth of a heavenly origin: 5319, 9469, 9744.

2. [Swedenborg's footnote] A camel in the Word means our cognitive and informational level in general: 3048, 3071, 3143, 3145. What embroidery, embroidering, and therefore needles Arcana Coelestia 9688. To start from outward facts in order to gain access to truths of faith is contrary to the divine design: 10236. People who do this become insane in matters of heaven and the church: 128-130, 232-233, 6047; and in the other life, when they think about spiritual things, they become virtually drunk: 1072. More about their nature: 196. Examples to illustrate the fact that spiritual things cannot be grasped if they are approached on this basis: 233, 2094, 2196, 2203, 2209. It is all right to go from spiritual truth into the knowledge appropriate to our natural level, but not the other way around, because there is an inflow of the spiritual into the natural but not an inflow of the natural into the spiritual: 3219, 5119, 5259, 5427-5428, 5478, 6322, 9110-9111 [10199?]. We need first to acknowledge the truths of the Word and the church, and then it is all right to take our secular learning into account; but not the other way around: 6047.

  
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6367. 'A lion's cub is Judah' means innocence with innate strength. This is clear from the meaning of 'a lion' as the good of love and the truth from that good in their power, dealt with below, so that 'a lion's cub' is innocence with strength. The reason why with innate strength is meant is that here 'Judah' represents the celestial element of love, and the celestial element of love resides in the will part of the mind, 895, 917, 4493, 5117, and thus possesses innate strength. For a person is born into things that belong to the will part. That being so, members of the Most Ancient Church, which was celestial, were born into the good of love, in the measure that good was present in their will. This then is why the strength is said to be innate. The reason 'a lion's cub' means innocence is that 'a lion' is the good of celestial love, and 'a cub', being so to speak its young child, accordingly means innocence.

[2] 'A lion' means the good of celestial love and the truth from that love in their power, and also in the contrary sense the evil of self-love in its power, as is clear from places in the Word where 'a lion' is mentioned. The good of celestial love is meant in John,

Behold, the Lion which is from the Tribe of Judah, the root of David, has prevailed to open the book and to loose its seven seals. Revelation 5:5.

Here the Lord is called 'the Lion' by virtue of the almighty power which His Divine Love and Divine Truth from that Love possess. There are also other places in the Word where Jehovah or the Lord is compared to a lion, as in Hosea,

They will go after Jehovah; He will roar like a lion, for He will roar, and respectfully [His] sons from the west 1 will draw near. Hosea 11:10.

[3] Also in Isaiah,

Thus said Jehovah to me, As a lion roars, and a young lion over its prey, when there come up against him a full number of shepherds, by whose voice he is not dismayed, and by whose tumult he is not distressed, so Jehovah Zebaoth will come down to fight on Mount Zion and on its hill. Isaiah 31:4.

Here the almighty power of Divine Good is compared to 'a lion', and the almighty power of Divine Truth from that Good is compared to 'a young lion'. For it says that 'Jehovah Zebaoth will come down to fight on Mount Zion and on its hill', and 'Mount Zion' means the Good of Divine Love and 'its hill' the Divine Truth from that Good, 795, 796, 1430, 4210.

[4] For the same reason the four living creatures in Ezekiel and in John, meaning cherubs, had the faces of a human being, lion, ox, and eagle: In Ezekiel,

The likeness of the faces of the four living creatures - [each of] the four had the face of a human being, and the face of a lion on the right side, and [each of] the four had the face of an ox on the left side, and [each of] the four had the face of an eagle. Ezekiel 1:10; 10:14.

And in John,

Around 2 the throne were four living creatures full of eyes in front and behind. And the first living creature was like a lion; the second living creature was like a calf; the third living creature had a face like a human being; the fourth living creature was like a flying eagle. Revelation 4:6-7.

The fact that the living creatures were cherubs is stated in Ezekiel to, which fact is also evident from the description of them in John, in which he says that they had 'eyes in front and behind'. The Lord's foresight and providence are meant by 'the cherubs', 308; and they had the face of a lion by virtue of the almighty power belonging to providence that Divine Truth from Divine Good possesses. So also with the cherubs around the new temple in Ezekiel 41:19.

[5] Celestial people in possession of the power supplied by the good and the truth from good which come from the Lord are meant by 'lions', as is evident in David,

There is no want to those fearing Jehovah. The young lions will lack and suffer hunger, but those seeking Jehovah will not lack any good thing. Psalms 34:9-10.

In the same author,

The [young] lions are roaring for plunder, and to seek from God their food. The sun rises, they are gathered together, and lie down in their dwelling-places. Psalms 104:21-22.

In Balaam's prophetic utterance,

At that time it will be said to Jacob and to Israel, What has God been doing? See, a people will rise up like an old lion, and like a young lion will lift itself up. He will not rest until he has devoured the prey. Numbers 23:23-24.

[6] And further on,

When Balaam saw Israel dwelling according to their tribes, he said, He crouches, he lies down like a lion, and like an old lion; who will rouse him? Numbers 24:2, 9.

The celestial is what is described here because celestial order is what the tribes represented by their encampments and was what Balaam saw in the spirit when he saw Israel dwelling according to their tribes, 6335. That order originates in Divine Good coming through Divine Truth from the Lord; and within that order resides all power, meant here by a crouching and recumbent lion.

[7] In Micah,

The remnant of Jacob will be with the nations, in the midst of many peoples, like a lion among the beasts of the forest, like a young lion among flocks of sheep, who, if he passes through, will tread down and tear in pieces, 3 and there is no deliverer. Your hand will be lifted up over your enemies, and all your adversaries will be cut off. Micah 5:8-9.

Here 'a lion' and a young lion stand for celestial good and celestial truth, which are 'the remnant of Jacob'. They also stand for that good and truth in Isaiah 21:8; Jeremiah 25:38; Ezekiel 38:13; Zechariah 11:3. And that same good and truth were also represented by the lions at Solomon's ivory throne, two next to the armrests 4 and twelve on the six steps, 1 Kings 10:18-20, and by the lions on the panels of the ten pedestals made of bronze, 1 Kings 7:29, 36.

[8] In the contrary sense 'a lion' means the evil of self-love in its power, as is evident from the following places: In Isaiah,

There will not be any lion there, and the savage of the wild animals will not go up on it; it will not be found there. But they will go free; thus the redeemed of Jehovah will return, and will come to Zion with song. Isaiah 35:9-10.

In Jeremiah,

Why has Israel become plunder? The young lions roar at him, they sound their voice; they turn his land into a waste. Jeremiah 2:14-15.

In the same prophet,

A lion has risen up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations has set out; he has come from his place to turn the land into a waste. Jeremiah 4:7.

In the same prophet,

They did not know the way of Jehovah, the judgement of their God, therefore a lion from the forest has struck them down, and a wolf of the plains will devastate them. Jeremiah 5:4, 6.

In Nahum,

Where is the dwelling-place of lions, and the feeding-place 5 of the young lions, where the lion walked, the old lion, the lion's cub, and there is no one making them afraid? The lion tears in pieces enough for the cubs, and strangles for his old lionesses, and fills his caves with plunder, and his dwelling places with what he has pounced on. Behold, I am against you, said Jehovah Zebaoth, and I will burn her chariot in the smoke; but the sword will devour your young lions, and I will cut off your plunder from the earth. Nahum 2:11-13.

This refers to Nineveh.

In all these places 'a lion' stands for the power that the evil of self-love possesses, when it destroys and lays waste. 'A lion' has a like meaning in Jeremiah 12:8; 49:19; 50:17, 44; 51:38; Ezekiel 19:2-9; 32:2; Joel 1:6; Zephaniah 3:3; Psalms 57:4; 58:6; 91:13; Revelation 13:2.

Бележки под линия:

1. literally, sons from the sea

2. The Latin means Before but the Greek means Around, which Swedenborg has in other places where he quotes this verse.

3. Reading discerpet (will tear to pieces), which Swedenborg has in his rough draft, for disperget (will scatter)

4. literally, the hands of the throne

5. literally, pasture or grazing ground

  
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