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1 又说:当玛代王大利乌元年,我曾起来扶助米迦勒,使他坚强。

2 现在我将真事指示你:波斯还有兴起,第四必富足远胜诸。他因富足成为强盛,就必激动众攻击希利尼国。

3 必有一个勇敢的王兴起,执掌大权,随意而行。

4 他兴起的时候,他的国必裂,向方(方:原文是风)分开,却不归他的後裔,治国的权势也都不及他;因为他的国必被拔出,归与他後裔之外的人。

5 方的王必强盛,他将帅中必有一个比他更强盛,执掌权柄,他的权柄甚大。

6 过些年後,他们必互相连合,方王的女儿必就了北方立约;但这女子帮助之力存立不住,王和他所倚靠之力也不能存立。这女子和引导他的,并生他的,以及当时扶助他的,都必交与死地。

7 但这女子的本家(原文是)必另生一子(子:原文是枝)继续王位,他必率领军队进入北方王的保障,攻击他们,而且得胜;

8 并将他们的像和铸成的偶像,与的宝器掠到埃及去。数年之内,他不去攻击北方的王。

9 北方的王(原文是他)必入方王的国,却要仍回本地。

10 北方王(原文是他)的二子必动干戈,招聚许多军兵。这军兵前去,如洪水泛滥,又必再去争战,直到南方王的保障。

11 方王必发烈怒,出来与北方王争战,摆列大军;北方王的军兵必交付他

12 他的众军傲,他的心也必自;他虽使数万人仆倒,却不得常胜。

13 北方王必回来摆列军,比先前的更多。满了所定的年数,他必率领军,带极多的军装

14 那时,必有许多起来攻击方王,并且你本国的强暴人必兴起,要应验那异象,他们却要败亡。

15 北方王必筑垒攻取坚固城;方的军兵必站立不住,就是选择的精兵(原文是民)也无力站住。

16 攻击他的,必任意而行,无人在北方王(原文是他)面前站立得住。他必站在那荣美之,用施行毁灭。

17 他必定意用全国之力而,立公正的约,照约而行,将自己的女儿南方王为妻,想要败坏他(或译:埃及),这计却不得成就,与自己毫无益处。

18 其後他必回夺取了许多。但有一大帅,除掉他令人受的羞辱,并且使这羞辱归他本身。

19 他就必向本的保障,却要绊跌仆倒,归於无有。

20 那时,必有人兴起接续他为王,使横征暴敛的人通行国中的荣美地。这王不多日就必灭亡,却不因忿怒,也不因争战。

21 必有一个卑鄙的人兴起接续为王,人未曾将国的尊荣他,他却趁人坦然无备的时候,用谄媚的话得国。

22 必有无数的军兵势如洪水,在他面前冲没败坏;同盟的君也必如此。

23 与那君结盟之後,他必行诡诈,因为他必上来以微小的军(原文是民)成为强盛。

24 趁人坦然无备的时候,他必到国中极肥美之地,行他列祖和他列祖之祖所未曾行的,将掳物、掠物,和财宝散给众人,又要设计攻打保障,然而这都是暂时的。

25 他必奋勇向前,率领军攻击方王;方王也必以极极强的军兵与他争战,却站立不住,因为有人设计谋害方王。

26 王膳的,必败坏他;他的军队必被冲没,而且被杀的甚多。

27 至於这,他们心怀恶计,同席谎,计谋却不成就;因为到了定期,事就了结。

28 北方王(原文是他)必带许多财宝回往本国,他的心反对约,任意而行,回到本

29 到了定期,他必返回方。後一次却不如前一次,

30 因为基提战船必攻击他,他就丧胆而回,又要恼恨约,任意而行;他必回来联络背弃约的人。

31 他必兴兵,这兵必亵渎圣地,就是保障,除掉常献的燔祭,设立那行毁坏可憎的。

32 作恶违背圣约的人,他必用巧言勾引;惟独认识的子民必刚强行事。

33 民间的智慧人必训诲多人;然而他们多日必倒在刀下,或被火烧,或被掳掠抢夺。

34 他们仆倒的时候,稍得扶助,却有许多人用谄媚的话亲近他们。

35 智慧人中有些仆倒的,为要熬炼其馀的人,使他们清净洁白,直到末了;因为到了定期,事就了结。

36 王必任意而行,自自大,超过所有的神,又用奇异的话攻击万神之神。他必行事亨通,直到主的忿怒完毕,因为所定的事必然成就。

37 他必不顾他列祖的,也不顾妇女所羡慕的,无论何他都不顾;因为他必自大,过一切。

38 他倒要敬拜保障的神,用、宝和可爱之物敬奉他列祖所不认识的神。

39 他必靠外邦神的帮助,攻破最坚固的保障。凡承认他的,他必将荣耀加给他们,使他们管辖许多人,又为贿赂分地与他们。

40 到末了,方王要与他交战。北方王必用战车、马兵,和许多,势如暴风攻击他,也必进入列国,如洪水泛滥。

41 又必进入那荣美之,有许多国就被倾覆,但以东人、摩押人,和一大半亚扪人必脱离他的

42 他必伸攻击列国;埃及也不得脱离。

43 他必把持埃及财宝和各样的宝物。吕彼亚人和古实人都必跟从他。

44 但从东方和北方必有消息扰乱他,他就发烈怒出去,要将多人杀灭净尽。

45 他必在和荣美的中间设立他如宫殿的帐幕;然而到了他的结局,必无人能帮助他。

   

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1045. Having in her hand a golden cup, full of abominations and the uncleanness of whoredoms, signifies having doctrine from profaned goods and truths. This is evident from the signification of a "cup," as being falsity from hell, for a "cup" has a similar signification as "wine," and "wine" signifies truth from heaven, and in the contrary sense falsity from hell (See n. 887, 960, 1022). And as a "cup" signifies truth or falsity, and the doctrine of every church is either of truth or of falsity, for all truth or falsity of the church is contained in doctrine, so a "cup" also signifies doctrine, and "a golden cup" the doctrine of falsity from evil.

[2] As in Jeremiah:

Babylon is a golden cup in the hand of Jehovah, making the whole earth drunken (Jeremiah 51:7).

It is called "a golden cup" for the same reason that the woman is said to be "arrayed in purple and scarlet, and inwrought with gold, precious stones and pearls," that is, from the appearance in externals; and yet in internals it is like a cup "full of abominations and uncleanness." For it is like what the Lord says of the externals and internals with the Scribes and Pharisees:

Woe unto you Scribes and Pharisees, who cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess. And ye make yourselves like unto whited sepulchers, which outwardly appear beautiful, but within are full of bones of the dead and all uncleanness (Matthew 23:25-27).

The above is evident also from the signification of "abominations," as being the profanations of good (of which presently); also from the signification of "the uncleanness of whoredom," as being the profanation of truth. For "whoredom" signifies falsification of truth (See above), therefore its "uncleanness" signifies profanation.

[3] In regard to the profanations that are signified by "abominations," they are perversions of the holy things of the church, thus conversions of its goods into evils, and of its truths into falsities. They are called "abominations" because the angels abominate them; for so far as they have been holy things of the church, derived from goods and truths from the Word, they ascend into heaven; but so far as they have been applied to evils, and thus profaned, they carry with them what is infernal, which lies hidden within; and consequently they are perceived as things dead, in which there was once a living soul; and this is why heaven abominates and detests them.

[4] That this is the meaning of "abominations" in the Word is evident from the account of the abominations of Jerusalem in Ezekiel:

As that she took of the garments of her adorning which were given to her, and made for herself high places of various colors, and committed whoredom upon them;

That of the gold and silver given to her, she made herself images of a male, and committed whoredom with them;

That the oil, incense, bread, fine flour, and honey, that were given to her, she gave for an odor of rest;

That they sacrificed their sons and daughters;

That she committed whoredom first in Egypt, and afterwards with the sons of Assyria, and finally with the Chaldeans; besides other things that are there called abominations. (Ezekiel 16:2-63).

All these things signify profanations of the Word, of the church, and of worship. So in other passages where abominations are either recounted or mentioned (as Jeremiah 7:9, 10; 16:18; 32:35; Ezekiel 5:11; 7:19, 20; 8:6-18; 11:21; 14:6; 20:7, 8; Deuteronomy 7:25, 26; 12:31; 18:9, 10; Matthew 24:15; Mark 13:14; Daniel 9:27; 11:31).

  
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