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耶利米書 48

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1 摩押。萬軍之耶和華以色列的如此:尼波有禍了!因變為荒場。基列亭蒙羞被攻取。米斯迦蒙羞被毀壞;

2 摩押不再被稱讚。有人在希實本設計謀害他,說:來罷!我們將他剪除,不再成國。瑪得緬哪,你也必默默無聲;刀必追趕你。

3 從何羅念有喊荒涼毀滅的哀聲:

4 摩押毀滅了!他的孩童(或譯:家僮)發哀聲,使人見。

5 人上魯希坡隨走隨哭,因為在何羅念的下坡見毀滅的哀聲。

6 你們要奔逃,自性命,獨自居住,好像曠野的杜松。

7 你因倚靠自己所做的和自己的財寶必被攻取。基抹和屬他的祭司、首領也要一同被擄去。

8 行毀滅的必到各城,並無一城得免。山谷必致敗落,平原必被毀壞;正如耶和華的。

9 要將翅膀摩押,使他可以飛去。他的城邑必致荒涼,無人居住

10 (懶惰為耶和華行事的,必受咒詛;禁止刀不經血的,必受咒詛。)

11 摩押自幼年以來常享安逸,如酒在渣滓上澄清,沒有從這器皿倒在那器皿裡,也未曾被擄去。因此,他的原味尚存,香氣未變。

12 耶和華:日子將到,我必打發倒酒的往他那裡去,將他倒出,倒空他的器皿,打碎他的罈子。

13 摩押必因基抹羞愧,像以色列家從前倚靠伯特利的神羞愧一樣。

14 你們怎麼:我們是勇士,是有勇力打仗的呢?

15 摩押變為荒場,敵人上去進了他的城邑。他所特選的少年人去遭了殺戮;這是君王─名為萬軍之耶和華的。

16 摩押的災殃臨近;他的苦難速速到。

17 凡在他四圍的和認識他名的,你們都要為他悲傷,:那結實的杖和那美好的棍,何竟折斷了呢?

18 在底本的民哪(原文是女子),要從你榮耀的位上來,受乾渴;因毀滅摩押的上來攻擊你,毀壞了你的保障。

19 住亞羅珥的啊,要站在道旁觀望,問逃避的男人和逃脫的女人:是甚麼事呢?

20 摩押因毀壞蒙羞;你們要哀號呼喊,要在亞嫩旁報告說:摩押變為荒場!

21 刑罰臨到平原之的何倫、雅雜、米法押、

22 底本、尼波、伯•低比拉太音、

23 基列亭、伯迦末、伯•米恩、

24 加略、波斯拉,和摩押遠近所有的城邑。

25 摩押的角砍斷了,摩押的膀折斷了。這是耶和華的。

26 你們要使摩押沉醉,因他向耶和華誇大。他要在自己所吐之中打滾,又要被人嗤笑。

27 摩押啊,你不曾嗤笑以色列麼?他豈是在賊中查出來的呢?你每逢提到他便搖頭。

28 摩押居民哪,要離開城邑,在山崖裡,像鴿子在深淵上搭窩。

29 我們摩押人驕傲,是極其驕傲;說他自高自傲,並且狂妄,居自大。

30 耶和華:我知道他的忿怒是虛空的;他誇大的話一無所成。

31 因此,我要為摩押哀號,為摩押全地呼喊;人必為吉珥•哈列設人歎息。

32 西比瑪的葡萄樹啊,我為你哀哭,甚於雅謝人哀哭。你的枝子蔓延過,直長到雅謝。那行毀滅的已經臨到你夏天的果子和你所摘的葡萄。

33 肥田和摩押的歡喜快樂都被奪去;我使酒醡的酒絕流,無人踹酒歡呼;那歡呼卻變為仇敵的吶喊(原文是那歡呼卻不是歡呼)。

34 希實本人發的哀聲達到以利亞利,直達到雅雜;從瑣珥達到何羅念,直到伊基拉施利施亞,因為寧林的水必然乾涸。

35 耶和華:我必在摩押地使那在邱壇獻祭的,和那向他的燒香的都斷絕了。

36 腹為摩押哀鳴如簫,我腸為吉珥•哈列設人也是如此,因摩押人所得的財物都滅沒了。

37 各人上光禿,鬍鬚剪短,有劃傷,腰束麻布

38 摩押的各房頂上和街市上處處有人哀哭;因我打碎摩押,好像打碎無人喜悅的器皿。這是耶和華的。

39 摩押何等毀壞!何等哀號!何等羞愧背!這樣,摩押必令四圍的人嗤笑驚駭。

40 耶和華如此:仇敵必如大飛起,展開翅膀,攻擊摩押

41 加略被攻取,保障也被佔據。到那日,摩押的勇士中疼痛如臨產的婦人。

42 摩押必被毀滅,不再成國,因他向耶和華誇大。

43 耶和華摩押的居民哪,恐懼、陷坑、網羅都臨近你。

44 躲避恐懼的必墜入陷坑;從陷坑上的必被網羅纏住;因我必使追討之年臨到摩押。這是耶和華的。

45 躲避的人無力站在希實本的影;因為有從希實本發出,有燄出於西宏的城,燒盡摩押的角和鬨嚷人的頭頂。

46 摩押啊,你有禍了!屬基抹的民滅亡了!因你的眾子都被擄去,你的眾女也被擄去。

47 耶和華:到末後,我還要使被擄的摩押人歸回。摩押受審判的話到此為止。

   

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民數記 32:1

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Apocalypse Explained # 235

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235. I am about to vomit thee out of My mouth, signifies separation from the knowledges from the Word. This is evident from the signification of "vomiting out," when said by the Lord, as being separation; not that the Lord separates them from Himself, but they separate themselves from the Lord. It is said "to vomit out," because the "lukewarm" are treated of, and in the world what is lukewarm produces vomiting. And this is also from correspondence; for the food that man takes corresponds to knowledges, and thence in the Word signifies knowledges; therefore separation from knowledges means non-admission; but as those here treated of do admit something from the Word, it means ejection or vomiting. (That "food," from correspondence, signifies knowledges and intelligence therefrom, see Arcana Coelestia 3114, 4459, 4792, 5147, 5293, 5340, 5342, 5410, 5426, 5576, 5582, 5588, 5655, 8562; for the reason that knowledges nourish the internal man or spirit, as food nourishes the external man or body, n. 4459, 5293, 5576, 6277, 8418.) This is evident also from the signification of "out of My mouth," as being, in reference to the Lord, out of the Word. "Out of the mouth" signifies, in reference to the Lord, out of the Word, because the Word is Divine truth, and this proceeds from the Lord, and what proceeds from the Lord and flows in with man is said to be "out of the mouth," although it is not from the mouth, but is like light from the sun. For the Lord is seen above the heavens where the angels are as a sun, and light therefrom is Divine truth, from which angels and men have all their intelligence and wisdom (See in the work on Heaven and Hell 116-125, 126-140). From this it can be seen that "I will vomit thee out of My mouth" signifies to separate from Divine truth, or what is the same, from the knowledges from the Word.

[2] That those who are "lukewarm," that is, "neither cold nor hot," who are those that live according to the doctrine of faith alone and justification by faith (of which just above), are separated from the knowledges from the Word, is not known to themselves, for they believe that they are in knowledges more than others; but they are not, yea, they are in scarcely any knowledge; and this for the reason that the principles of their doctrine and religion are false, and from false principles nothing results but falsities; when therefore they read the Word, they keep their minds in their falsities, and as a consequence, either they do not see truths, or if they see them they pass them by or falsify them. These false principles are, that salvation is by faith alone, and that man is justified by faith. That they are separated from the knowledges from the Word and that they do not see truths therein, they may know if they will; for what is more frequently declared by the Lord, than that they ought to do His words, His commandments, His will, and that everyone shall be recompensed according to his deeds; also that the whole Word is based upon two commandments, which are to love God, and to love the neighbor; also that loving God is doing His commandments (John 14:21, 23, 24)? What men must do in order to be saved is said a thousand times in each Testament, also that hearing and knowing are nothing without doing. But do those who have confirmed themselves in faith alone and justification by faith, see these things? And if they see them do they not falsify them? Consequently they have no doctrine of life, but a doctrine of faith alone; when yet, life makes the man of the church, and those things come to be of his faith which are of his life.

[3] That such persons are separated from the knowledges from the Word, can be seen also from this, that they are not aware that they are to live as men after the death of the body; that they have a spirit that lives; that heaven is from the human race, and hell also; that they know nothing at all about heaven and heavenly joy; nothing about hell and infernal fire; thus nothing about the spiritual world; nothing about the internal or spiritual sense of the Word; nothing about the glorification of the Lord's Human; nothing about regeneration; nothing about temptation; about baptism, what it involves; about the Holy Supper, and what the flesh and blood, or the bread and wine in it signify; nothing about free will; nothing about the internal man; nothing about charity, about the neighbor, about good, about love; neither do they know what the remission of sins is; and many other things. Moreover, I have heard angels say that when they are permitted to look into the church, and to see those who believe themselves to be intelligent from doctrine, that they see nothing but mere thick darkness, and those so believing are seen as if deep down under waters.

[4] These are separated from the knowledges from the Word for two reasons; first, because they cannot be illustrated by the Lord, for the Lord flows into man's good, and from that illustrates him in truths, that is, He flows into man's love and therefrom into his faith; secondly, because they profane truths by falsifications, and those who do this are separated from truths themselves while they live in the world, that they may not know them, but in the other life they cast away from themselves all things they knew from the Word while in the world. Both these separations are meant by "being vomited out of the mouth." Like things are meant by "vomiting" and "vomit" elsewhere in the Word; as in the following passages. In Isaiah:

Jehovah hath mingled a spirit of perversities in the midst of Egypt; whence they have led Egypt astray in every work thereof, even as a drunkard goeth astray in his vomit (Isaiah 19:14).

"Egypt" signifies the knowledge [scientia] of things, both spiritual and natural; "mingling the spirit of perversities in the midst thereof" signifies to pervert and falsify these things; "a drunkard" signifies those who are insane in spiritual things; and as truths mingled with falsities are cast out, it is said "as a drunkard goeth astray in his vomit." (That "Egypt" signifies knowledge [scientia], see Arcana Coelestia 1164, 1165, 1186, 1462, 5700, 5702, 6015, 6651, 6679, 6683, 6692, 7296; also the knowledges [scientifica] of the church, n. 7296, 9340, 9391; that "drunkards" signify those who are insane in spiritual things, n. 1072.)

[5] In Jeremiah:

Drink ye, and be drunken, and vomit and fall, and rise not because of the sword (Jeremiah 25:27).

"To drink and be drunken" is to drink in falsities and mix them with truths, and thence to be insane; "to vomit and fall" is altogether to cast out things falsified; "the sword," because of which they shall not rise, signifies falsity destroying and laying waste truth (See Arcana Coelestia 2799, 4499, 7102); which shows clearly what is meant by "vomiting and falling." In the same:

Make Moab drunken, for he hath magnified himself against Jehovah, that he may clap the hands in his vomit (Jeremiah 48:26).

"Moab" signifies those who adulterate the goods of the church, therefore "vomiting" is predicated of them.

[6] In Habakkuk:

Woe unto him that maketh his companion to drink even making him drunken, that thou mayest look upon their nakednesses. Thou shalt be satiated with disgrace instead of glory; drink thou also, and let thy foreskin be uncovered; the cup of Jehovah shall go about unto thee, and disgraceful vomiting shall be on thy glory (Habakkuk 2:15-16).

"To drink even making him drunken" also signifies to drink in truths and mix them with falsities; the "nakednesses" upon which they look, signify the deprivation of truth and of intelligence therefrom (See Arcana Coelestia 1073, 5433, 9960). The "foreskin that shall be uncovered" signifies the defilement of good (See Arcana Coelestia 2056, 3412, 3413, 4462, 7225, 7245); "glory" signifies Divine truth, thus the Word (See Arcana Coelestia 4809, 5922, 8267, 8427, 9429); which shows what is meant by "disgraceful vomiting upon their glory."

[7] In Isaiah:

These err through wine, through strong drink they are gone astray; the priest and the prophet err through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they err among the seeing, they stumble in judgment; yea, even all tables are full of the vomit of filthiness; there is no place. Whom shall he teach knowledge? (Isaiah 28:7-9).

Here "wine" and "strong drink," by which they err, signify truths mixed with falsities; "priest" and "prophet" signify those who teach goods and truths, and in an abstract sense, the goods and truths of the church; "the seeing" among whom they err signify those who might be about to see truths; "to stumble in judgment" signifies insanity; "tables" signify all things that should nourish spiritual life, for tables mean the food that is on them, and "food" signifies all truths and goods, because these are what nourish spiritual life; therefore "tables full of the vomit of filthiness" signify the same things falsified and adulterated.

[8] In Moses:

Defile not yourselves with any of these things; for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you; whence the land is defiled; and the land hath vomited out her inhabitants; thus the land will not vomit you out, as it vomited out the nations that were before you (Leviticus 18:24-25, 28).

Adulteries of every kind are here treated of, by which in the spiritual sense all kinds of adulterations of good and falsifications of truth or profanations are meant; and as it is not possible for evils and goods, nor for the falsities of evil and the truths of good to exist together without being cast out, therefore it is said that "the land," that is, the church, "hath vomited them out." From this it can be seen what is signified by "vomiting out."

  
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