シナブ
'Shinab, king of Admah' is a kind of evil lust and false persuasion which the Lord fought against.
塩
'Salt' is the desire of conjunction of truth with good, which is why only salt will conjoin water, which corresponds to truth, and oil, which...
海
Water generally represents what Swedenborg calls “natural truth,” or true concepts about day-to-day matters and physical things. Since all water ultimately flows into the seas,...
二
The number "two" has two different meanings in the Bible. In most cases "two" indicates a joining together or unification. This is easy to see...
十四
Fourteen, as in Genesis 31:40, signifies a first period of time. The fourteenth year, as in Genesis 14:5, signifies the first temptation of the Lord...
セイル
'Seir,' as in Genesis 33:14, signifies the conjunction of spiritual and celestial things in the natural level, that is, the truth of faith with the...
荒野
'Wilderness' signifies something with little life in it, as described in the internal sense in Luke 1:80 'Wilderness' signifies somewhere there is no good because...
住む
Inhabitants,' in Isaiah 26:9, signify the men of the church who are in good of doctrine, and thence in the good of life.
ゾア
Zoar, a city mentioned in Genesis 8:10, signifies the affection of goodness. Zoar was located not far from Sodom; Lot fled to Zoar after he...
戦い
御言葉の中の戦争は、善であるものが悪や偽りのものに襲われるときの誘惑の戦いを表しています。襲ってくる悪は、地獄の多くの社会の一つから来ていて、私たちの心の中で、私たちが正しいと知っていることに反した利己的な愛を呼び覚ますことによって作用します。そして、私たちの利己的な愛が、善人でありたいという願いを育む愛を攻撃し、私たちの心の中に戦争が起こります。これは、イスラエルの子供たちがカナンの地で戦った戦争に代表されるもので、旧約聖書には長い歴史があります。利己的な愛は遺伝的に私たちの心の中にあふれていますが、善良な愛は良心が発達するにつれて長く続いていきます。もし私たちに良心がなければ誘惑されることができず、私たちはすぐに利己的な願いに従って屈服してしまいます。しかし、そうすると最終的には地獄の奴隷状態になり、彼らの望むことを何でもすることになるのです。
エラム
Elam, mentioned in Isaiah 21:1, signifies faith originating in charity, consequently, the internal church. Elam, in Jeremiah 49:34, (Jer. 49:34), signifies the falsification of doctrine....
四
The number "four" in the Bible represents things being linked together or joined. This is partly because four is two times two, and two represents...
五
Five also signifies all things of one part.
落ちた
Like other common verbs, the meaning of "fall" is highly dependent on context in regular language, and is highly dependent on context in a spiritual...
山
'Hills' signify the good of charity.
住んでいた
Many people were nomadic in Biblical times, especially the times of the Old Testament, and lived in tents that could be struck, moved and re-raised...
子
A child is a young boy or girl in the care of parents, older than a suckling or an infant, but not yet an adolescent....
兄弟
Brethren (Gen. 27:29) signify the affections of good.
兄
There are two ways "brother" is used in the Bible, ways that are still reflected in modern language. One denotes an actual blood relationship; the...
家
A "house" is essentially a container - for a person, for a family, for several families or even for a large group with shared interests...
三
The Writings talk about many aspects of life using the philosophical terms "end," "cause" and "effect." The "end" is someone’s goal or purpose, the ultimate...
百
It's a landmark for a young child to count to 100; it sort of covers all the "ordinary" numbers. One hundred is obviously significant for...
ダン
The tribe of Dan (Jer. 8:16) signifies truth in its own ultimate degree of order, here truth in the church, which is contained in the...
夜
The sun in the Bible represents the Lord, with its heat representing His love and its light representing His wisdom. “Daytime,” then, represents a state...
谷
Mountains in the Bible represent people's highest points, where we are closest to the Lord - our love of the Lord and the state of...
メルキゼデク
'Melchizedek' signifies the celestial parts of the interior self with the Lord. 'Melchizedek, a priest and king in one person,' represents the divine humanity of...
パン
Just as natural food feeds the natural body, so spiritual food feeds the spiritual body. And since our spiritual body is the expression of what...
ぶどう
Wine played a key role in the ancient world, where safe, reliable water sources were scarce. It could be stored for long periods of time;...
祝福
The Lord is perfect love expressed as perfect wisdom. He created us so that He could love us, could give us love and wisdom of...
敵
Foes, or adversaries, denote the falsities of evil. Foes, or adversaries, when predicate of the Lord, signifies to avert falsities derived from evil.
十
'Tithes,' as in tenths, signifies goods and truths stored up from the Lord in a person’s interior self. These goods are called remains. When these...
十分の一
'Tithes,' as in tenths, signifies goods and truths stored up from the Lord in a person’s interior self. These goods are called remains. When these...
ソドム
"Sodom" in the Bible represents the love of self and the love of ruling or dominating others springing from the love of self. This is...
主
The Lord, in the simplest terms, is love itself expressed as wisdom itself. In philosophic terms, love is the Lord's substance and wisdom is His...
手
Scientists believe that one of the most crucial developments in the evolution of humans was bipedalism – walking on two legs. That left our hands...
アブラム
Abram and Nahor taking to themselves wives, Sarah and Milcah (Gen 11:29), signifies marriages of evil with falsity in idolatrous worship. Abram, Nahor, and Haran,...
富
'Wealth' signifies scientific knowledge, as seen in several passages in the Word.
若者
"Youths" or "Young men" generally represent intelligence or the understanding of truth. This is fitting, since adolescent boys tend to be more advanced intellectually than...
食べた
When we eat, our bodies break down the food and get from it both energy and materials for building and repairing the body. The process...
