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耶利米书 31

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1 耶和华:那时,我必作以色列各家的;他们必作我的子民。

2 耶和华如此:脱离刀的就是以色列人。我使他享安息的时候,他曾在旷野蒙恩。

3 古时(或译:从远方)耶和华向以色列(原文是我)显现,说:我以永远你,因此我以慈爱吸引你。

4 以色列的民(原文是处女)哪,我要再建立你,你就被建立;你必再以击为美,与欢乐的人一同跳舞而出;

5 又必在撒玛利亚上栽种葡萄园,栽种的人要享用所结的果子。

6 日子必到,以法莲上守望的人必呼叫说:起来罢!我们可以上锡安,到耶和华我们那里去。

7 耶和华如此:你们当为雅各欢乐歌唱,因万国中为首的欢呼。当传扬颂赞耶和华啊,求你拯你的百姓以色列所剩下的人。

8 我必将他们从北方,从极招聚;同着他们的有瞎子、瘸子、孕妇、产妇;他们必成为帮回到这里

9 他们要哭泣。我要照他们恳求的引导他们,使他们在旁走正直的,在其上不致绊跌;因为我是以色列的父,以法莲是我的长子

10 列国啊,要耶和华的,传扬在远处的海:赶散以色列的必招聚他,又看守他,好像牧人看守羊群。

11 耶和华救赎了雅各,救赎他脱离比他更强之人的

12 他们要到锡安的处歌唱,又流归耶和华施恩之地,就是有五谷、新酒,和油,并羔、牛犊之地。他们的心必像浇灌的园子;他们也不再有一点愁烦。

13 那时,处女必欢乐跳舞;年少的、年老的,也必一同欢乐;因为我要使他们的悲哀变为欢喜,并要安慰他们,使他们的愁烦为快乐。

14 我必以肥油使祭司的心满足;我的百姓也要因我的恩惠知足。这是耶和华的。

15 耶和华如此:在拉玛见号啕痛哭的声音,是拉结哭他儿女,不肯受安慰,因为他们都不在了。

16 耶和华如此:你禁止声音不要哀哭,禁止眼目不要流泪,因你所做之工必有赏赐;他们必从敌国归回。这是耶和华的。

17 耶和华:你末後必有指望;你的儿女必回到自己的境界。

18 以法莲为自己悲叹说:你责罚我,我便受责罚,像不惯负轭的犊一样。求你使我回,我便回,因为你是耶和华─我的

19 我回就真正懊悔;受教以就拍叹息;我因担当幼年的凌辱就抱愧蒙羞。

20 耶和华以法莲是我的爱子麽?是可喜悦的孩子麽?我每逢责备他,仍深顾念他;所以我的心肠恋慕他;我必要怜悯他。

21 以色列民(原文是处女)哪,你当为自己设立指碑,竖起引柱。你要留向大,就是你所去的原;你当回,回到你这些城邑。

22 背道的民(原文是子)哪,你反来覆去要到几时呢?耶和华上造了一件新事,就是子护卫男子。

23 万军之耶和华以色列的如此:我使被掳之人归回的时候,他们在犹大和其中的城邑必再这样:公的居所啊,哪,愿耶和华赐福给你。

24 犹大和属犹大城邑的人,农夫和放羊的人,要一同在其中。

25 疲乏的人,我使他饱饫;愁烦的人,我使他知足。

26 先知说:我醒了,觉着睡得香甜!

27 耶和华:日子将到,我要把人的种和牲畜的种播种在以色列家和犹大家。

28 我先前怎样留意将他们拔出、拆毁、毁坏、倾覆、苦害,也必照样留意将他们建立、栽植。这是耶和华的。

29 当那些日子,人不再父亲吃了酸葡萄,儿子酸倒了。

30 但各必因自己的罪亡;凡酸葡萄的,自己的必酸倒。

31 耶和华:日子将到,我要与以色列家和犹大家另立新约,

32 不像我拉着他们祖宗的,领他们出埃及的时候,与他们所立的约。我虽作他们的丈夫,他们却背了我的约。这是耶和华的。

33 耶和华:那些日子以,我与以色列家所立的约乃是这样:我要将我的律法放在他们里面,在他们上。我要作他们的,他们要作我的子民。

34 他们各不再教导自己的邻舍和自己的弟兄:你该认识耶和华,因为他们从最小的到至的都必认识我。我要赦免他们的孽,不再记念他们的罪恶。这是耶和华的。

35 那使太阳白日发,使月有定例,黑夜发亮,又搅动大,使中波浪匉訇的,

36 这些定例若能在我面前废掉,以色列的後裔也就在我面前断绝,永远不再成国。这是耶和华的。

37 耶和华如此:若能量度,寻察根基,我就因以色列後裔一切所行的弃绝他们。这是耶和华的。

38 耶和华:日子将到,这城必为耶和华建造,从哈楠业楼直到角门

39 准绳要往外量出,直到迦立山,又到歌亚。

40 抛尸的全和倒灰之处,并一切田地,直到汲沦,又直到东方的拐角,都要归耶和华,不再拔出,不再倾覆,直到永远

   

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402. 'A city that was built' means all doctrinal or heretical teaching founded on that heresy. This is clear from the Word wherever the name of any city occurs. In the Word 'city' never means a city but something doctrinal or else something heretical. For angels are totally ignorant of what a city is or what the name of any city is. They never do nor can have any city in mind, for their ideas are of spiritual and celestial things, as shown already. Their perception is solely of what is meant spiritually by cities, and the names of them. For example, by the Holy City, which is also called the Holy Jerusalem, they understand nothing other than the Lord's kingdom in general, or as it exists with each individual who has the Lord's kingdom within him. And the city of Zion or Mount Zion they understand in a similar way, the latter being the celestial degree of faith, the former the spiritual.

[2] And the celestial and spiritual itself is also described by cities, palaces, houses, walls, the foundations of walls, ramparts, gates, bars, and by the temple at the centre, as in Ezekiel 48, and in Revelation 21:15-end. In Revelation 21:2, 10, it is called 'the Holy Jerusalem'; in Jeremiah 31:38 ['the city for Jehovah']; in David, Psalms 46:4, 'the city of God, the holy place of the dwellings of the Most High'; and in Ezekiel 48:35, it is called 'the city, Jehovah is there'. And in Isaiah,

The sons of the foreigner will build up your walls. They will bend down to the soles of your feet, all who disapprove of you, and they will call you the City of Jehovah, the Zion of the Holy One of Israel. Isaiah 60:10, 14.

In Zechariah,

Jerusalem [will be called] the city of truth, and Mount Zion the mountain of holiness. Zechariah 8:3

Here 'city of truth', which is Jerusalem, means the spiritual things of faith, and 'the holy mountain', which is Zion, the celestial things of faith. And whereas the celestial and spiritual things of faith were represented by a city, so all matters of doctrine were meant by the cities of Judah and Israel, each one, when mentioned by name, meaning some specific point of doctrine, though exactly which nobody can know except from the internal sense.

[3] As cities meant matters of doctrine, cities also meant heretical ideas, each one when mentioned by name meaning some specific heretical idea. But at this point solely the consideration that in general a city means doctrinal teaching or else heretical may be established from the following places:

[4] In Isaiah,

On that day there will be five cities in the land of Egypt which speak in the lip of Canaan and swear to Jehovah Zebaoth. One of these will be called the city Heres. Isaiah 19:18.

This refers to man's knowledge of spiritual and celestial things at the time of the Lord's Coming. In the same prophet,

Full of tumults, a tumultuous city, an exultant city. Isaiah 22:1, 2.

This refers to 'the valley of vision', which is delusion. In Jeremiah,

The cities of the south are shut up, with none opening them. Jeremiah 13:10.

This refers to people who are in 'the south', that is, who dwell in the light of truth, but blot it out. In the same prophet,

Jehovah thought to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion. He causes rampart and wall to mourn; they have languished together. Her gates have sunk into the ground, He has destroyed and broken in pieces her bars. Lamentations 2:8-9.

Here anyone may see that nothing else is meant by 'wall, rampart, gates and bars' than matters of doctrine.

[5] Similarly in Isaiah,

This song will be sung in the land of Judah, Ours is a strong city, salvation will establish walls and a rampart. Open the gates that the righteous nation that keeps faith may enter in. Isaiah 26:1-2.

In the same prophet,

I will exalt You, I will confess Your name. You have made the city into a heap, the fortified city into a ruin; let not a palace of aliens be built of the city for ever. Therefore a strong people will honour You, the city of terrifying nations will fear You. Isaiah 25:1-3.

Nor does this refer to any actual city. In Balaam's prophecy,

Edom will be an inheritance, and out of Jacob one will have dominion, and he will accomplish the destruction of the remnant of the city. Numbers 24:18-19.

Here anyone may see that 'the city' does not mean an actual city. In Isaiah,

The city of hollowness has been broken down, every house has been shut up so that none may enter in. There is an outcry in the streets over the wine. Isaiah 24:10-11.

Here 'city of hollowness' stands for hollowness of doctrine. In this and other places 'streets' means the things that constitute a city, namely falsities or truths. In John,

When the seventh angel poured out his bowl the great city was split into three parts and the cities of the nations fell. Revelation 16:17, 19.

That 'a great city' means something heretical, as do 'the cities of the nations', may be clear to anyone. The explanation is also given in Revelation 17:18 that the great city means the woman whom John saw, 'the woman', as shown already, being a Church of that nature.

  
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