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以西结书 48

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1 众支派按名所得之地记在下面:从头,由希特伦往哈马口,到大马色地界上的哈萨以难。边靠着哈马地(各支派的地都有东西的边界),是但的分。

2 挨着但的地界,从东到西,是亚设的分。

3 挨着亚设的地界,从东到西,是拿弗他利的分。

4 挨着拿弗他利的地界,从东到西,是玛拿西分。

5 挨着玛拿西的地界,从东到西,是以法莲分。

6 挨着以法莲的地界,从东到西,是流便的分。

7 挨着流便的地界,从东到西,是犹大分。

8 挨着犹大的地界,从东到西,必有你们所当献的供地,宽二万五肘。从东界到西界,长短与各分之地相同,圣地当在其中。

9 你们献与耶和华的供地要长二万五肘,宽一万肘。

10 供地要归与祭司长二万五肘,西宽一万肘,东宽一万肘,长二万五肘。耶和华的地当在其中。

11 这地要归与撒督的子孙中成为祭司,就是那守我所吩咐的。当以色列人走迷的时候,他们不像那些利未人走迷了。

12 这要归与他们为供,是全中至的。供挨着利未人的界。

13 利未人所得的地要长二万五肘,宽一万肘,与祭司的地界相等,都长二万五肘,宽一万肘。

14 不可,不可换,初熟之物也不可归与别人,因为是归耶和华的。

15 这二万五肘前面所剩下五肘宽之地要作俗用,作为造城盖房郊野之地。城要在当中。

16 城的尺寸乃是如此:肘,肘,东面肘,西面肘。

17 城必有郊野,向北五十肘,向南五十肘,向东二五十肘,向西二五十肘。

18 靠着供地的馀地,东长一万肘,西长一万肘,要与供地相等;其中的土产要作城内工人的食物。

19 所有以色列支派中,在城内做工的,都要耕种这地。

20 你们所献的供地连归城之地,是方的:长二万五肘,宽二万五肘。

21 供地连归城之地,两边的馀地要归与王。供地东边,南北二万五肘,东至东界,西边南北二万五肘,西至西界,与各分之地相同,都要归王。供地和殿的地要在其中,

22 并且利未人之地,与归城之地的东西两边延长之地(这两地在王地中间),就是在犹大和便雅悯两界中间,要归与王。

23 论到其馀的支派,从东到西,是便雅悯的分。

24 挨着便雅悯的地界,从东到西,是西缅分。

25 挨着西缅的地界,从东到西,是以萨迦的分。

26 挨着以萨迦的地界,从东到西,是西布伦的分。

27 挨着西布伦的地界,从东到西,是迦得的分。

28 迦得地的界是从他玛到米利巴加低斯的水,延到埃及小,直到

29 这就是你们要拈阄分给以色列支派为业之,乃是他们各支派所得之分。这是耶和华的。

30 城的肘。出城之处如下;

31 城的各要按以色列支派的名字面有为流便犹大为利未

32 东面肘,有为约瑟为便雅悯为但

33 肘,有西缅为以萨迦为西布伦

34 西面肘,有为迦得为亚设为拿弗他利

35 城四围共一万八肘。从此以後,这城的名字必称为耶和华的所在。

   

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'North,' in Isaiah 14:31, signifies hell. 'The North,' as in Jeremiah 3:12, signifies people who are ignorant of truth, and yet have the life of good. 'North' signifies people in obscurity regarding truth.

(Odkazy: Arcana Coelestia 3708 [1-23]; Isaiah 14, 31; Jeremiah 3, 12)


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52. 6. Jehovah himself - that is, the Lord - spoke the Word through prophets.

We read of the prophets that they had visions and that Jehovah talked with them. When they had visions, they were not focused on their bodies but on the spirit, in which state they saw things of a heavenly nature. When Jehovah talked with them, though, they were conscious of their bodies and heard Jehovah speaking.

We need to draw a clear distinction between these two states. In a visionary state, the eyes of their spirit were open and the eyes of their body were closed; and at such times they seemed to themselves to be taken from place to place while their bodies stayed where they were. Ezekiel, Zechariah, and Daniel were in this state at times, and so was John when he wrote the Book of Revelation. They were then said to be in a vision or in the spirit. In fact, Ezekiel says,

The spirit lifted me up and brought me back into Chaldea, to the captivity, in a vision from God, in the spirit of God. In this way the vision that I saw came over me. (Ezekiel 11:1, 24)

He says that the spirit lifted him up and that he heard an earthquake and other things behind him (Ezekiel 3:12, 14). He also said that the spirit lifted him up between earth and heaven and took him off into Jerusalem in visions from God, and he saw abominations (Ezekiel 8:3 and following).

That is why (again in a vision of God or in the spirit) Ezekiel saw the four beasts that were angel guardians (chapters 1; 10), and he saw a new earth and a new temple with the angel measuring them, as we are told in chapters 40-48. He says in chapter 40:2, that he was then in visions from God; and in chapter 43:5, he says that the spirit lifted him up at that time.

The same thing happened with Zechariah. There was an angel inwardly present with him when he saw a man riding among myrtle trees (Zechariah 1:8 and following); when he saw four horns and then a man with a measuring line in his hand (Zechariah 1:18; 2:1); when he saw Joshua the high priest (Zechariah 3:1 and following); when he saw a lampstand and two olive trees (Zechariah 4:1 and following); when he saw a flying scroll and a measuring basket (Zechariah 5:1, 6); and when he saw four chariots coming from between two mountains, along with horses (Zechariah 6:1 and following).

Daniel was in the same kind of state when he saw four beasts come up from the sea (Daniel 7:3) and when he saw battles between a ram and a goat (Daniel 8:1 and following).

We read in Daniel 7:1-2, 7, 13; 8:2; 10:1, 7-8 that he saw these things in visions. We read in Daniel 9:21 that he saw the angel Gabriel in a vision and talked with him.

Much the same happened with John when he wrote the Book of Revelation. He says that he was in the spirit on the Lord’s day (Revelation 1:10), that he was carried away in the spirit into the wilderness (17:3), to a high mountain in the spirit (21:10), that he saw horses in a vision (9:17), and elsewhere that he saw what he described, being therefore in the spirit or in a vision (1:2; 4:1; 5:1; 6:1; and in the particular chapters that follow).

  
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