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撒母耳記上 5

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1 非利士人的約櫃從以便以謝抬到亞實突。

2 非利士人的約櫃抬進大袞廟,放在大袞的旁邊。

3 次日清,亞實突人起來,見大袞仆倒在耶和華的約櫃前,臉伏於,就把大袞仍立在原處。

4 又次日清起來,見大袞仆倒在耶和華的約櫃前,臉伏於,並且大袞的和兩在門檻上折斷,只剩下大袞的殘體。

5 (因此,大袞的祭司和一切進亞實突、大袞廟的人都不踏大袞廟的門檻,直到今日。)

6 耶和華的重重加在亞實突人身上,敗壞他們,使他們生痔瘡。亞實突和亞實突的四境都是如此。

7 亞實突人見這光景,就以色列的約櫃不可留在我們這裡,因為他的重重加在我們我們大袞的身上;

8 就打發人去請非利士的眾首領來聚集,問他們:我們向以色列的約櫃應當怎樣行呢?他們回答:可以將以色列的約櫃運到迦特去。於是將以色列的約櫃運到那裡去。

9 運到之耶和華的攻擊那城,使那城的人驚慌,無論小都生痔瘡

10 他們就把的約櫃送到以革倫。的約櫃到了,以革倫人就喊嚷起說:他們將以色列的約櫃運到我們這裡,要害我們我們的眾民!

11 於是打發人去請非利士的眾首領來,:願你們將以色列的約櫃送回原處,免得害了我們我們的眾民!原來重重攻擊那城,城中的人有因驚慌而死的;

12 未曾的人都生了痔瘡。合城呼號,聲音上達於

   

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Smite

  

'To smite' signifies condemnation.

'To smite the earth with every plague as often as they will,' as in Revelation 11:6, signifies the destruction of the church by all kinds of evils and falsities.

Among the ancients, who lived in an age of representatives and meaningful signs, 'to smite the mother with the children' was a proverbial expression meaning the destruction of the Church and of everything that belonged to the Church either in general, or in particular with anyone who in himself is a Church. 'Mother' was used to mean the Church, and 'children' or 'sons,' truths which belonged to the Church. So 'to smite the mother with the children' means to perish completely, as a person also perishes completely when the Church and what belongs to the Church perishes in him, or when the affection for truth, which is the meaning of 'mother' and constitutes the Church in a person, is destroyed. 

'To smite,' as in Genesis 32:8, signifies destruction.

In Genesis 14:15, this signifies vindication.

(Odkazy: Arcana Coelestia 7871, Genesis 8, 14, 15, 32; Revelation 6, 11)