アンモン
The children of Ammon ('Jeremiah 49:1'), signify those who falsify the truths of the Word, and of the church.
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...
イスラエル
'Israel,' in Jeremiah 23:8, signifies the spiritual natural church. The children of Israel dispersed all the literal sense of the Word by falsities. 'The children...
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....
ガド
Gad, in a supreme sense, signifies omnipotence; in a spiritual sense, the good of life, or use; and in a natural sense, works. Gad, in...
町
In the ancient world cities were very nearly nations unto themselves – they existed within walls, with their own laws and customs, generally centered on...
ラバ
Rabbath
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。
日
"Day" describes a state in which we are turned toward the Lord, and are receiving light (which is truth) and heat (which is a desire...
来る
As with common verbs in general, the meaning of “come” in the Bible is highly dependent on context – its meaning is determined largely by...
火
Just as natural fire can be both comforting in keeping you warm or scary in burning down your house, so fire in the spiritual sense...
娘たち
Marriages among people – both in the Bible and in life – represent spiritual marriage. Women represent the desire to be good and to do...
娘
Marriages among people – both in the Bible and in life – represent spiritual marriage. Women represent the desire to be good and to do...
荒布
'A sack' in Genesis 42:25, means a receptacle, and here 'a receptacle' on the natural level, because it is a story about the truths and...
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...
富
'Wealth' signifies scientific knowledge, as seen in several passages in the Word.
言う
As with many common verbs, the meaning of “to say” in the Bible is highly dependent on context. Who is speaking? Who is hearing? What...
軍
A host and an army come from the same Hebrew word and mean the same thing in Bible; when the Children of Israel were numbered...
エドム
'Edom' or 'Idumea,' as in Isaiah 34:5, signifies those who are in evil and in falsities thence derived.
デダン
Dedan (Gen. 10) signifies the knowledges of celestial things of an inferior order, such as consist in ritual observances. Dedan, in Jer. 49:8 signifies rituals...
住む
'Inhabit' refers to good.
エサウ
Esau (Gen. 28:5, etc.) signifies the truth of good in the natural principle. Esau (Gen. 32:3) signifies celestial good in the natural principle.
罰
Punishment' is the consummation of evil, because after punishment, reformation succeeds. This is why it says in Deuteronomy 25:3, 'that no more than forty stripes...
来た
As with common verbs in general, the meaning of “come” in the Bible is highly dependent on context – its meaning is determined largely by...
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...
裸
'Unclothed' signifies being deprived of the truths of faith.
兄弟
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...
兄
Brethren (Gen. 27:29) signify the affections of good.
誓った
'To sware' is a binding.
ボズラ
Bosrah, as in Isaiah 63:1 signifies a vintage, which is predicated concerning truth. Bozrah has respect to the divine truth, and Edom, to the divine...
のろい
The Lord is love itself, and his love for us never wavers and never changes. What does waver and change is the degree to which...
聞いた
'To hearken to father and mother,' as mentioned in Genesis 28:7, signifies obedience from affection. 'To hearken,' as mentioned in Genesis 30:22, signifies providence. See...
国
'A nation,' as in Genesis 21:18, signifies the spiritual church which should receive the good of faith. Nation from afar,' as in Jeremiah 5:17, signifies...
岩
'Rocks' signify the good and truth of faith.
心
The heart means love. A good heart means love to the Lord and to the neighbor while a hard or stony heart means the love...
高い
'Height' signifies what is inward, and also heaven.
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...
ヨルダン
The river Jordan separates the land of Canaan from the lands to the east. This separation represents the division of the human mind into an internal...
に
‘To grow’ signifies to be perfected.
前
ほとんどの場合、"before "の意味は簡単です。相対的な時間を評価する方法としても、"誰かの前で "という意味でも、"before "は使われます。しかし，主に関連して使われる場合には，より深い意味を持ちます。主の前に」いるということは、主の前にいるだけでなく、主から善の欲求と真理の理解を受けて、それに従って生きることを意味します。そして、主に関連して時間の評価として使われる場合、「前に」とは「永遠に」という意味であり、私たちが経験する時間ではなく、霊的な状態を指します。
聞く
Thanks to modern science, we now understand that hearing actually happens in the brain, not the ears. The ears collect vibrations in the air and...
群れ
A flock, as in Genesis 26, denotes interior or rational good. A flock signifies those who are in spiritual good. A flock signifies natural interior...
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,...
翼
'Wings' signify spiritual truths. 'Wings,' when related to the Lord, signify the divine spiritual. In the opposite sense, 'wings' relate to falsities and rationalizations from...
逃げた
Flight, as in Matthew 14:20, signifies removal from a state of the good of love and innocence. Flight, as in Mark 8:18, signifies the last...
城壁
'A wall' signifies truth in outer extremes. 'A wall,' as in Revelation 21, signifies the divine truth proceeding from the Lord, and so, the truth...
壁
'A wall' signifies truth in outer extremes. 'A wall,' as in Revelation 21, signifies the divine truth proceeding from the Lord, and so, the truth...
宮殿
'A palace,' as in Psalm 144:12, represents the understanding in which truths have a beautiful form. They have a beautiful form when they are from...
羊
A flock, as in Genesis 26, denotes interior or rational good. A flock signifies those who are in spiritual good. A flock signifies natural interior...
家畜
Animals in the Bible generally refer to spiritual activity, the things we actually do on a spiritual level. "Cattle," as typically used in the Bible,...
ユダ
City of Judah,' as in Isaiah 40:9, signifies the doctrine of love towards the Lord and love towards our neighbor in its whole extent.
エラム
Elam, mentioned in Isaiah 21:1, signifies faith originating in charity, consequently, the internal church. Elam, in Jeremiah 49:34, signifies the falsification of doctrine. In Jeremiah...
預言者
The idea of a "prophet" is very closely tied to the idea of the Bible itself, since the Bible was largely written by prophets. At...
預言
The idea of a "prophet" is very closely tied to the idea of the Bible itself, since the Bible was largely written by prophets. At...
エレミヤ
Jeremiah, in the Book of Jeremiah 1:1 and what follows, represents the Lord. (Arcana Coelestia 2838 [2]). In Jeremiah 13:7, he signifies the state of...
主の
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...
言葉
'Word,' as in Psalms 119:6-17, stands for doctrine in general. 'The Word,' as in Psalms 147:18, signifies divine good united with divine truth. 'Word,' as...
弓
A bow signifies falsity of doctrine destroying truth, and spear, the falsity of evil destroying good. (Jer. 6:23.)
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...
風
Because a nearer and stronger divine influx through the heavens disperses truths among the wicked, 'wind' signifies this dispersion of truth and the resulting conjunction...
敵
An enemy in the Bible refers to people who are in the love of evil and the false thinking that springs from evil. On a...
求める
The meaning of "to seek" in the Bible is pretty straightforward, but there is a bit of nuance: Swedenborg tells us that in most cases...
怒り
怒りは、それが定義を必要としないほど、人々にとって非常に一般的な感情です。しかし、興味のある点をいくつか挙げることができます。 1) 主は決して怒られません。怒りが主に帰するのは、この言葉が人間に意味を持たせるために書かれているからであり、人間が悪であるときには、主は怒るべきであるかのように思えるからです。そして、そのように考えることは人を傷つけることではありません。また、悪人が自分の計画がうまくいかない時に、主に怒りを感じて、それが返ってくると思っています。 2) 熱意はしばしば怒りのように見えますが、そうではなく、悪い動機ではなく、良い動機から来ています。怒りは利己的な愛が妨げられたり、攻撃されたりしたときに人に現れますが、熱意は善良な愛や価値ある真理が妨げられたり、攻撃されたりしたときに人に現れます。悪魔やサタンは怒りを感じ、それをよく感じ、攻撃しようとします。天使は熱意を感じ、しばしばそれを感じ、守ろうとすることがあります。
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