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1 人子啊,你要對以色列發預言以色列哪,要耶和華的

2 耶和華如此:因仇敵:阿哈!這永久的山岡都歸我們為業了!

3 所以要發預言耶和華如此:因為敵人使你荒涼,四圍吞吃,好叫你歸與其餘的外邦人為業,並且多嘴多的人提起你來,百姓也你有臭名。

4 故此,以色列耶和華的。大小岡、水溝谷、荒廢之地、被棄之城,為四圍其餘的外邦人所佔據、所譏刺的,

5 耶和華對你們如此:我真發憤恨如,責備那其餘的外邦人以東的眾人。他們快樂滿懷,心存恨惡,將我的歸自己為業,又看為被棄的掠物。

6 所以,你要指著以色列預言,對大小岡、水溝耶和華如此:我發憤恨和忿怒,因你們曾受外邦人羞辱

7 所以我起誓:你們四圍的外邦人總要擔當自己的羞辱。這是耶和華的。

8 以色列哪,你必發枝條,為我的民以色列結果子,因為他們快要到。

9 看哪,我是幫助你的,也必向你意,使你得以耕種。

10 我必使以色列的人數在你上面增多,城邑有人居住,荒場再被建造

11 我必使人和牲畜在你上面加增;他們必生養眾多。我要使你照舊有人居住,並要賜福與你比先前更多,你就知道我是耶和華

12 我必使人,就是我的民以色列,行在你上面。他們必得你為業;你也不再使他們喪子。

13 耶和華如此:因為人對你:你是吞吃人的,又使國民喪子,

14 所以耶和華:你必不再吞人,也不再使國民喪子。

15 我使你不再見各國的羞辱,不再受萬民的辱罵,也不再使國民絆跌。這是耶和華的。

16 耶和華的又臨到我說:

17 人子啊,以色列在本地的時候,在行動作為上玷污那地。他們的行為在我面前,好像正在經期的婦人那樣污穢

18 所以我因他們在那上流人的血,又因他們以偶像玷污那,就把我的忿怒傾在他們身上。

19 我將他們分散在列國,四散在列邦,按他們的行動作為懲罰他們。

20 他們到了所去的列國,就使我的名被褻瀆;因為人談論他們,這是耶和華的民,是從耶和華的的。

21 我卻顧惜我的名,就是以色列家在所到的列國中所褻瀆的。

22 所以,你要對以色列耶和華如此以色列家啊,我行這事不是為你們,乃是為我的名,就是在你們到的列國中所褻瀆的。

23 我要使我的名顯為;這名在列國中已被褻瀆,就是你們在他們中間所褻瀆的。我在他們眼前,在你們身上顯為的時候,他們就知道我是耶和華。這是耶和華的。

24 我必從各國收取你們,從列邦聚集你們,引導你們歸回本

25 我必用清灑在你們身上,你們就潔淨了。我要潔淨你們,使你們脫離一切的污穢,棄掉一切的偶像

26 我也要賜你們一個新,將新靈放在你們裡面,又從你們的體中除掉,賜你們

27 我必將我的靈放在你們裡面,使你們順從我的律例,謹守遵行我的典章。

28 你們必在我所賜你們列祖之。你們要作我的子民,我要作你們的

29 我必你們脫離一切的污穢,也必命五穀豐登,不使你們遭遇饑荒。

30 我必使樹木多結果子,田地多出土產,好叫你們不再因饑荒受外邦人的譏誚。

31 那時,你們必追想你們的惡行和你們不善的作為,就因你們的罪孽和可憎的事厭惡自己。

32 耶和華:你們要知道,我這樣行不是為你們。以色列家啊,當為自己的行為抱愧蒙羞。

33 耶和華如此:我潔淨你們,使你們脫離一切罪孽的日子,必使城邑有人居住,荒場再被建造

34 過路的人雖看為荒廢之,現今這荒廢之仍得耕種。

35 他們必:這先前為荒廢之,現在成如伊甸園;這荒廢淒涼、毀壞的城邑現在堅固有人居住

36 那時,在你們四圍其餘的外邦人知道我─耶和華修造那毀壞之處,培植那荒廢之地。我─耶和華說過,也必成就。

37 耶和華如此:我要加增以色列家的人數,多如羊群。他們必為這事向我求問,我要給他們成就。

38 耶路撒冷在守節作祭物所獻的羊群怎樣多,照樣,荒涼的城邑必被人充滿。他們就知道我是耶和華

   

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Life # 86

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86. We have an earthly mind and a spiritual mind, the earthly mind below and the spiritual mind above. The earthly mind is our mind for this world and the spiritual mind is our mind for heaven. The earthly mind can be called the animal mind, while the spiritual mind can be called the human mind. We are differentiated from animals by our having a spiritual mind that makes it possible for us to be in heaven while we are in this world. It is also what makes it possible for us to live after death.

[2] We can use our faculty of understanding to be in the spiritual side of our mind, and thus to be in heaven, but we cannot use our faculty of willing to be so unless we turn our backs on evils because they are sins; and if our will is not in heaven as well [as our understanding], we ourselves are still not there, because our will drags our understanding back down and makes it just as earthly and animal as itself.

[3] We can be compared to a garden, our understanding to light, and our will to warmth. A garden has light in winter but no warmth, while it has both light and warmth in summer. So when all we have is the light of our understanding, we are like a garden in winter, but when we have both light in our understanding and warmth in our will we are like a garden in summer.

In fact, the wisdom in our understanding comes from spiritual light and the love in our will comes from spiritual warmth, for spiritual light is divine wisdom and spiritual warmth is divine love.

[4] If we fail to turn our backs on evils because they are sins, the cravings of our evils clog the deeper levels of our earthly mind on the side where our will resides and are like a thick veil, like black clouds beneath the spiritual mind, preventing it from opening. However, as soon as we turn our backs on evils because they are sins, the Lord flows in from heaven, takes the veil away, dispels the cloud, and opens the spiritual mind, thereby admitting us to heaven.

[5] As already noted, as long as cravings for evil behavior clog the deeper levels of the earthly mind, we are in hell, but as soon as those cravings are dispelled by the Lord, we are in heaven. Again, as long as cravings for evil behavior clog the deeper levels of the earthly mind we are earthly people, but as soon as those cravings are dispelled by the Lord, we are spiritual people. Again, as long as cravings for evil behavior clog the deeper levels of the earthly mind we are animals, differing from them only in that we are capable of thinking and talking, even about things we cannot see with our eyes (we can do this because of the ability of our understanding to be lifted up into heaven's light). As soon as those cravings have been dispelled by the Lord, though, we are human because we are thinking what is true in our understanding because of what is good in our will. And yet again, as long as cravings for evil behavior clog the deeper levels of the earthly mind we are like a garden in winter, but as soon as those cravings are dispelled by the Lord, we are like a garden in summer.

[6] In the Word, the union of our will and understanding is meant by "heart and soul" and by "heart and spirit," as when it says that we are to love God with all our heart and with all our soul (Matthew 22:37) and that God will give a new heart and a new spirit (Ezekiel 11:19; 36:26-27). Our "heart" means our will and its love, while our "soul" or "spirit" means our understanding and its wisdom.

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Foundation for the permission to use this translation.