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1 Ed egli mi disse: "Figliuol d’uomo, mangia ciò che tu trovi; mangia questo rotolo, e va’ e parla alla casa d’Israele".

2 Io aprii la bocca, ed egli mi fece mangiare quel rotolo.

3 E mi disse: "Figliuol d’uomo, nutriti il ventre e riempiti le viscere di questo rotolo che ti do". E io lo mangiai, e mi fu dolce in bocca, come del miele.

4 Ed egli mi disse: "Figliuol d’uomo, va’, récati alla casa d’Israele, e riferisci loro le mie parole;

5 poiché tu sei mandato, non a un popolo dal parlare oscuro e dalla lingua non intelligibile, ma alla casa d’Israele:

6 non a molti popoli dal parlare oscuro e dalla lingua non intelligibile, di cui tu non intenda le parole. Certo, s’io ti mandassi a loro, essi ti darebbero ascolto;

7 ma la casa d’Israele non ti vorrà ascoltare, perché non vogliono ascoltar me; giacché tutta la casa d’Israele ha la fronte dura e il cuore ostinato.

8 Ecco, io t’induro la faccia, perché tu l’opponga alla faccia loro; induro la tua fronte, perché l’opponga alla fronte loro;

9 io rendo la tua fronte come un diamante, più dura della selce; non li temere, non ti sgomentare davanti a loro, perché sono una casa ribelle".

10 Poi mi disse: "Figliuol d’uomo, ricevi nel cuor tuo tutte le parole che io ti dirò, e ascoltale con le tue orecchie.

11 E va’ dai figliuoli del tuo popolo che sono in cattività, parla loro, e di’ loro: Così parla il Signore, l’Eterno; sia che t’ascoltino o non ti ascoltino".

12 E lo spirito mi levò in alto, e io udii dietro a me il suono d’un gran fragore che diceva: "Benedetta sia la gloria dell’Eterno dalla sua dimora!"

13 e udii pure il rumore delle ali degli esseri viventi che battevano l’una contro l’altra, il rumore delle ruote allato ad esse, e il suono d’un gran fragore.

14 E lo spirito mi levò in alto, e mi portò via; e io andai, pieno d’amarezza nello sdegno del mio spirito; e la mano dell’Eterno era forte su di me.

15 E giunsi da quelli ch’erano in cattività a Tel-abib presso al fiume Kebar, e mi fermai dov’essi dimoravano; e dimorai quivi sette giorni, mesto e silenzioso, in mezzo a loro.

16 E in capo a sette giorni, la parola dell’Eterno mi fu rivolta in questi termini:

17 "Figliuol d’uomo, io t’ho stabilito come sentinella per la casa d’Israele; e quando tu udrai dalla mia bocca una parola, tu l’avvertirai da parte mia.

18 Quando io dirò all’empio: Certo morrai, se tu non l’avverti, e non parli per avvertire quell’empio di abbandonar la sua via malvagia, e salvargli così la vita, quell’empio morrà per la sua iniquità; ma io domanderò conto del suo sangue alla tua mano.

19 Ma, se tu avverti l’empio, ed egli non si ritrae dalla sua empietà e dalla sua via malvagia, egli morrà per la sua iniquità, ma tu avrai salvata l’anima tua.

20 E quando un giusto si ritrae dalla sua giustizia e commette l’iniquità, se io gli pongo davanti una qualche occasione di caduta, egli morrà, perché tu non l’avrai avvertito; morrà per il suo peccato, e le cose giuste che avrà fatte non saranno più ricordate; ma io domanderò conto del suo sangue alla tua mano.

21 Però, se tu avverti quel giusto perché non pecchi, e non pecca, egli certamente vivrà, perch’è stato avvertito, e tu avrai salvata l’anima tua".

22 E la mano dell’Eterno fu quivi sopra me, ed egli mi disse: "Lèvati, va’ nella pianura, e quivi io parlerò teco".

23 Io dunque mi levai, uscii nella pianura, ed ecco che quivi stava la gloria dell’Eterno, gloria simile a quella che avevo veduta presso al fiume Kebar; e caddi sulla mia faccia.

24 Ma lo spirito entrò in me; mi fece rizzare in piedi, e l’Eterno mi parlò e mi disse: "Va’, chiuditi in casa tua!

25 E a te, figliuol d’uomo, ecco, ti si metteranno addosso delle corde, con esse ti si legherà, e tu non andrai in mezzo a loro.

26 E io farò che la lingua ti s’attacchi al palato, perché tu rimanga muto e tu non possa esser per essi un censore; perché sono una casa ribelle.

27 Ma quando io ti parlerò, t’aprirò la bocca, e tu dirai loro: Così parla il Signore, l’Eterno; chi ascolta, ascolti; chi non vuole ascoltare non ascolti; poiché sono una casa ribelle.

   

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945. 22:8 Now I, John, saw and heard these things. And when I heard and saw, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel who showed me these things. This means that John supposed that the angel sent to him by the Lord to keep him in a state of the spirit was the God who revealed these things, when in fact that was not the case, as the angel only showed him what the Lord presented.

Clearly John supposed that the angel sent to him was the Lord Himself, for we are told that he fell down to worship before the angel's feet. But that it was not as he supposed is apparent from the next verse, in which the angel tells him that he is his fellow servant: "Worship God." That the angel was sent to John by the Lord is apparent from verse 16, which says, "I, Jesus, have sent My angel to testify to you these things in the churches."

But behind this lies the following secret: The Lord sent the angel to John in order to keep him in a state of the spirit and to show him in that state the visions he saw. For whatever John saw, he saw not with the eyes of his body, but with the eyes of his spirit, as can be seen from the passages in which he says that he was in the spirit and seeing a vision (Revelation 1:10; 9:17; 17:3; 21:10), thus everywhere that he says "he saw." And a person can enter that state and be kept in it only by angels who are closely attached to the person, who induce their own spiritual state on the interiors of his mind. For this raises the person into the light of heaven, and in that light he sees sights in heaven and not in the world.

[2] Ezekiel, Zechariah, Daniel, and other prophets were at times in the same state, but not when they spoke the Word. When they spoke the Word they were not in the spirit, but conscious in the body, and the words they wrote they heard from Jehovah Himself, that is, from the Lord.

These two states experienced by the prophets must be properly distinguished. The prophets themselves also properly distinguished them, for they everywhere say when they wrote the Word from Jehovah that Jehovah spoke with them and to them, and most often, "Thus says Jehovah," or "the word of Jehovah." However, when they were in the other state, they say that they were in the spirit or seeing in a vision, as can be seen from the following: (Ezekiel said,) "The spirit lifted me up and brought me in a vision... of God into Chaldea, to those in captivity. So the vision that I saw went up upon me." (Ezekiel 11:1, 24)

Ezekiel says that the spirit lifted him up and that he heard behind him an earthquake, among other things (Ezekiel 3:12, 14). Also that the spirit lifted him up between earth and heaven, and brought him in visions of God to Jerusalem, where he saw abominations (Ezekiel 8:3ff.). Therefore he was also seeing in a vision of God or in the spirit when he saw four living creatures, which were cherubim (Ezekiel 1 and 10). And when he saw a new temple and a new land, and an angel measuring them (Ezekiel 40; 41; 42; 43; 44; 45; 46; 47; 48). He says that he was then seeing in the visions of God (Ezekiel 40:2), and that the spirit lifted him up (Ezekiel 43:5).

[3] It was the same with Zechariah, who had an angel with him at the time when he saw a man riding among the myrtle trees (Zechariah 1:8ff.). When he saw the four horns, and then the man with a measuring line in his hand (Zechariah 1:18; 2:1ff.). When he saw Joshua, the high priest (Zechariah 3:1ff.). When he saw the lampstand and two olive trees (Zechariah 4:1ff.). When he saw the flying scroll and the ephah (Zechariah 5:1, 6). And when he saw the four chariots and their horses coming from between two mountains (Zechariah 6:1ff.).

Daniel was in the same state when he saw four beasts coming up from the sea (Daniel 7:1ff.), and when he saw the combat of the ram and the male goat (Daniel 8:1ff.). That he saw these sights in visions is said in Daniel 7:1-2, 7, 13; 8:2; 10:1, 7-8. Moreover, that he saw the angel Gabriel and spoke with him in a vision (Daniel 9:21).

It was the same with John when he saw the sights he described, as when he saw the Son of Man in the midst of the seven lampstands; when he saw the tabernacle, 1 the temple, 2 the ark, 3 and the altar 4 in heaven; the dragon and its combat with Michael; 5 the beasts; 6 the woman sitting on the scarlet beast; 7 the new heaven and new earth, and the holy Jerusalem with its wall, gates, and foundations; 8 and more.

These sights were revealed by the Lord, but shown by an angel.

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Many thanks to the General Church of the New Jerusalem, and to Rev. N.B. Rogers, translator, for the permission to use this translation.

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Ezekiel 44

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1 Then he brought me back by the way of the outer gate of the sanctuary, which looks toward the east; and it was shut.

2 Yahweh said to me, This gate shall be shut; it shall not be opened, neither shall any man enter in by it; for Yahweh, the God of Israel, has entered in by it; therefore it shall be shut.

3 As for the prince, he shall sit therein as prince to eat bread before Yahweh; he shall enter by the way of the porch of the gate, and shall go out by the way of the same.

4 Then he brought me by the way of the north gate before the house; and I looked, and behold, the glory of Yahweh filled the house of Yahweh: and I fell on my face.

5 Yahweh said to me, Son of man, mark well, and see with your eyes, and hear with your ears all that I tell you concerning all the ordinances of the house of Yahweh, and all its laws; and mark well the entrance of the house, with every exit of the sanctuary.

6 You shall tell the rebellious, even to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: you house of Israel, let it suffice you of all your abominations,

7 in that you have brought in foreigners, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to profane it, even my house, when you offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant, [to add] to all your abominations.

8 You have not performed the duty of my holy things; but you have set performers of my duty in my sanctuary for yourselves.

9 Thus says the Lord Yahweh, No foreigner, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary, of any foreigners who are among the children of Israel.

10 But the Levites who went far from me, when Israel went astray, who went astray from me after their idols, they shall bear their iniquity.

11 Yet they shall be ministers in my sanctuary, having oversight at the gates of the house, and ministering in the house: they shall kill the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they shall stand before them to minister to them.

12 Because they ministered to them before their idols, and became a stumbling block of iniquity to the house of Israel; therefore have I lifted up my hand against them, says the Lord Yahweh, and they shall bear their iniquity.

13 They shall not come near to me, to execute the office of priest to me, nor to come near to any of my holy things, to the things that are most holy; but they shall bear their shame, and their abominations which they have committed.

14 Yet will I make them performers of the duty of the house, for all its service, and for all that shall be done therein.

15 But the priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok, who performed the duty of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from me, they shall come near to me to minister to me; and they shall stand before me to offer to me the fat and the blood, says the Lord Yahweh:

16 they shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall come near to my table, to minister to me, and they shall keep my instruction.

17 It shall be that, when they enter in at the gates of the inner court, they shall be clothed with linen garments; and no wool shall come on them, while they minister in the gates of the inner court, and within.

18 They shall have linen tires on their heads, and shall have linen breeches on their waists; they shall not clothe themselves with [anything that causes] sweat.

19 When they go forth into the outer court, even into the outer court to the people, they shall put off their garments in which they minister, and lay them in the holy rooms; and they shall put on other garments, that they not sanctify the people with their garments.

20 Neither shall they shave their heads, nor allow their locks to grow long; they shall only cut off the hair of their heads.

21 Neither shall any of the priests drink wine, when they enter into the inner court.

22 Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor her who is put away; but they shall take virgins of the seed of the house of Israel, or a widow who is the widow of a priest.

23 They shall teach my people the difference between the holy and the common, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.

24 In a controversy they shall stand to judge; according to my ordinances shall they judge it: and they shall keep my laws and my statutes in all my appointed feasts; and they shall make my Sabbaths holy.

25 They shall go in to no dead person to defile themselves; but for father, or for mother, or for son, or for daughter, for brother, or for sister who has had no husband, they may defile themselves.

26 After he is cleansed, they shall reckon to him seven days.

27 In the day that he goes into the sanctuary, into the inner court, to minister in the sanctuary, he shall offer his sin offering, says the Lord Yahweh.

28 They shall have an inheritance: I am their inheritance; and you shall give them no possession in Israel; I am their possession.

29 They shall eat the meal offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering; and every devoted thing in Israel shall be theirs.

30 The first of all the first fruits of every thing, and every offering of everything, of all your offerings, shall be for the priest: you shall also give to the priests the first of your dough, to cause a blessing to rest on your house.

31 The priests shall not eat of anything that dies of itself, or is torn, whether it be bird or animal.