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但以理書 7

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1 巴比倫王伯沙撒元年,但以理在床上做夢,見了腦中的異象,就記錄這夢,述其中的大意。

2 但以理:我夜裡見異象,看見天的四風陡起,颳在大海之上。

3 有四個大獸從海中上來,形狀各有不同:

4 頭一個像獅子,有鷹的翅膀;我正觀看的時候,獸的翅膀被拔去,獸從地上得立起來,用兩腳站立,像人一樣,又得了人心。

5 又有一獸如,就是第二獸,旁跨而坐,口齒內啣著根肋骨。有吩咐這獸的起來吞吃多肉。

6 此後我觀看,又有一獸如豹,背上有鳥的四個翅膀;這獸有四個頭,又得了權柄。

7 其後我在夜間的異象中觀看,見第四獸甚是可怕,極其強壯,大有力量,有大鐵牙,吞吃嚼碎,所剩下的用腳踐踏。這獸與前三獸大不相同,頭有十角。

8 我正觀看這些角,見其中又長起一個小角;先前的角中有角在這角前,連根被他拔出來。這角有眼,像人的眼,有口說誇大的話。

9 我觀看,見有寶座設立,上頭坐著亙古常在者。他的衣服潔白如雪,頭髮如純淨的羊毛。寶座乃火燄,其乃烈火。

10 從他面前有火,像河發出;事奉他的有千千,在他面前侍立的有萬萬;他坐著要行審判,案卷都展開了

11 那時我觀看,見那獸因小角誇大話的聲音被殺,身體損壞,扔在火中焚燒。

12 其餘的獸,權柄都被奪去,生命卻仍存留,直到所定的時候和日期。

13 我在夜間的異象中觀看,見有一位像人子的,駕著天雲而來,被領到亙古常在者面前,

14 得了權柄、榮耀、國度,使各方、各國、各族的人都事奉他。他的權柄是永遠的,不能廢去;他的國必不敗壞。

15 至於我─但以理,我的靈在我裡面愁煩,我腦中的異象使我驚惶。

16 我就近一位侍立者,問他這一切的真情。他就告訴我,將那事的講解給我明。

17 這四個大獸就是四王將要在世上興起。

18 然而,至者的聖民,必要得國享受,直到永永遠遠。

19 那時我願知道第四獸的真情,他為何與那三獸的真情大不相同,甚是可怕,有牙銅爪,吞吃嚼碎,所剩下的用腳踐踏;

20 頭有十角和那另長的一角,在這角前有角被他打落。這角有眼,有誇大話的口,形狀強橫,過於他的同類。

21 我觀看,見這角與聖民爭戰,勝了他們。

22 直到亙古常在者來給至者的聖民伸冤,聖民得國的時候就到了。

23 那侍立者這樣:第四獸就是世上必有的第四國,與一切國大不相同,必吞吃全地,並且踐踏嚼碎。

24 至於那十角,就是從這國中必興起的十王,後來又興起一王,與先前的不同;他必制伏王。

25 他必向至誇大的話,必折磨至者的聖民,必想改變節期和律。聖民必交付他手一載、二載、半載。

26 然而,審判者必坐著行審判;他的權柄必被奪去,毀壞,滅絕,一直到底。

27 國度、權柄,和天諸國的大權必賜給至者的聖民。他的國是永遠的;一切掌權的都必事奉他,順從他。

28 那事至此完畢。至於我─但以理,心中甚是驚惶,臉色也改變了,卻將那事存記在心。

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 1990

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1990. 'Jehovah appeared to Abram' means manifestation. This is clear without explanation, for, as has been stated, Abram represents the Lord. No human being at all in the whole world has seen Jehovah, the Lord's Father; the Lord alone has done that, as He Himself has stated in John,

Nobody has ever seen God; the only begotten Son who is in the bosom of the Father, He has made Him known. John 1:18.

In the same gospel,

You have never heard His voice nor seen His shape. John 1:37.

And again in the same gospel,

No one has seen the Father except Him who is with the Father, He has seen the Father. John 6:46.

[2] The Infinite itself which stands above all the heavens and above man's inmost being cannot be manifested except by means of the Divine Human, which exists solely with the Lord. Communication of the Infinite with finite beings is not possible at all from any other source. This also explains why, when Jehovah appeared to members of the Most Ancient Church and subsequently to members of the Ancient Church which existed after the Flood, and also after that to Abraham and the prophets, He was manifested to them as a human being. That it was indeed the Lord, He Himself openly teaches in John,

Abraham your father rejoiced to see My day, and saw it and was glad. Truly, truly, I say to you, Before Abraham was, I am. John 8:56, 58.

This is also taught in the Prophets, for example in Daniel who saw Him as 'a son of man', Daniel 7:13.

[3] From these quotations it becomes clear that the Infinite Being (Esse), which is Jehovah, could not possibly be manifested to man except through the Human Essence, that is, through the Lord, and so has not been manifested to anyone except the Lord alone. So that He could be present with and be joined to mankind, after mankind had removed itself entirely from the Divine and had immersed itself in foul desires and so in merely bodily and earthly things, He adopted the Human Essence itself by being born. He did so in order that the Infinite Divine could be joined to man even though man was so remote. Otherwise mankind would have died the death of those for ever damned. As for all the other arcana concerning the manifestation of Jehovah in the Lord's Human, when His state was a state of humiliation, before He had fully united the Human Essence to the Divine Essence and glorified it, these will in the Lord's Divine mercy be explained later on, to the extent that they are capable of being understood.

  
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