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耶利米書 49

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1 論亞捫人。耶和華如此以色列沒有兒子麼?沒有後嗣麼?瑪勒堪為何得迦得之地為業呢?屬他的民為何其中的城邑呢?

2 耶和華:日子將到,我必使人見打仗的喊聲,是攻擊亞捫人拉巴的喊聲。拉巴要成為亂堆;屬他的鄉村(原文是女子)要被焚燒。先前得以色列地為業的,此時以色列倒要得他們的地為業。這是耶和華的。

3 希實本哪,你要哀號,因為地變為荒場。拉巴的居民(原文是女子)哪,要呼喊,以麻布束腰;要哭號,在籬笆中跑來跑去;因瑪勒堪和屬他的祭司、首領要一同被擄去。

4 背道的民(原文是女子)哪,你們為何因有山谷,就是水流的山谷誇張呢?為何倚靠財寶:誰能到我們這裡呢?

5 ─萬軍之耶和華:我要使恐嚇從四圍的中臨到你們;你們必被趕出,各一直前往,沒有收聚逃民。

6 來我還要使被擄的亞捫人歸回。這是耶和華的。

7 以東。萬軍之耶和華如此:提幔中再沒有智慧麼?明哲人不再有謀略麼?他們的智慧盡歸無有麼?

8 底但的居民哪,要轉身逃跑在深密處;因為我向以掃追討的時候,必使災殃臨到他。

9 摘葡萄的若到他那裡,豈不剩下些葡萄呢?盜賊若夜間而,豈不毀壞直到夠了呢?

10 我卻使以掃赤露,顯出他的隱密處;他不能自藏。他的後裔、弟兄、鄰舍盡都滅絕;他也歸於無有。

11 你撇下孤兒,我必保全他們的命;你的寡婦可以倚靠我。

12 耶和華如此:原不該那杯的一定要。你能盡免刑罰麼?你必不能免,一定要

13 耶和華:我指著自己起誓,波斯拉必令人驚駭、羞辱、咒詛,並且荒涼。他的一切城邑必變為永遠的荒場。

14 我從耶和華那裡見信息,並有使者被差往列國去,:你們聚集攻擊以東,要起來爭戰。

15 我使你在列國中為最小,在世人中被藐視。

16 住在山穴中據守山頂的啊,論到你的威嚇,你因中的狂傲自欺;你雖如大搭窩,我卻從那裡拉你來。這是耶和華的。

17 以東必令人驚駭;凡經過的人就受驚駭,又因他一切的災禍嗤笑。

18 耶和華:必無在那裡,也無在其中寄居,要像所多瑪、蛾摩拉,和鄰近的城邑傾覆的時候一樣。

19 仇敵必像獅子從約但河邊的叢林上來,攻擊堅固的居所。轉眼之間,我要使以東人逃跑,離開這地。誰蒙揀選,我就派誰治理這地。誰能比我呢?誰能給我定規日期呢?有何牧人能在我面前站立得住呢?

20 你們要耶和華攻擊以東所說的謀略和他攻擊提幔居民所定的旨意。仇敵定要將他們眾微弱的拉去,定要使他們的居所荒涼。

21 因他們仆倒的聲音,就震動。人在紅那裡必見呼喊的聲音。

22 仇敵必如大飛起,展開翅膀攻擊波斯拉。到那日,以東的勇士中疼痛如臨產的婦人。

23 論大馬色。哈馬和亞珥拔蒙羞,因他們見凶惡的信息就消化了。上有憂愁,不得平靜

24 大馬色發軟,轉身逃跑。戰兢將他捉住;痛苦憂愁將他抓住,如產難的婦人一樣。

25 我所喜樂可稱讚的城,為何被撇棄了呢?

26 他的少年人必仆倒在街上;當那日,一切兵丁必默默無聲。這是萬軍之耶和華的。

27 我必在大馬色城中使著起,燒滅便哈達的宮殿

28 論巴比倫王尼布甲尼撒所攻打的基達和夏瑣的諸國。耶和華如此:迦勒底人哪,起來上基達去,毀滅東方人。

29 他們的帳棚和羊群都要奪去,將幔子和一切器皿,並駱駝為自己掠去。人向他們喊著說:四圍都有驚嚇。

30 耶和華:夏瑣的居民哪,要逃奔遠方,在深密處;因為巴比倫王尼布甲尼撒設計謀害你們,起意攻擊你們。

31 耶和華:迦勒底人哪,起來!上安逸無慮的居民那裡去;他們是無無閂、獨自居住的。

32 他們的駱駝必成為掠物;他們眾多的牲畜必成為擄物。我必將剃周圍頭髮的人分散四方(原文是),使災殃從四圍臨到他們。這是耶和華的。

33 夏瑣必成為野狗的處,永遠淒涼;必無在那裡,也無在其中寄居。

34 猶大王西底家登基的時候,耶和華論以攔的臨到先知耶利米說:

35 萬軍之耶和華如此:我必折斷以攔人的,就是他們為首的權力。

36 我要使風從方颳,臨到以攔人,將他們分散方(原文是風)。這被趕散的人沒有一國不到的。

37 耶和華:我必使以攔人在仇敵和尋索其命的人面前驚惶;我也必使災禍,就是我的烈怒臨到他們,又必使刀追殺他們,直到將他們滅盡。

38 我要在以攔設立我的寶座,從那裡除滅君和首領。這是耶和華的。

39 到末後,我還要使被擄的以攔人歸回。這是耶和華的。

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 1664

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1664. That the wars in this chapter mean in the internal sense nothing other than spiritual conflicts, which are temptations, has been stated already in the preliminary section. 1 Nor do the wars in the rest of the Word, especially in the Prophets, have any other meaning. Wars waged by men can have no place whatever in the internal parts of the Word, for such things as wars are not the spiritual and celestial things which alone constitute the Word. That 'wars' in the Word means conflicts with the devil, or what amounts to the same, with hell, becomes clear from the following places besides many others: In John,

They are spirits of demons, performing signs, to go out to the kings of the land and of the whole earth, to assemble them for the war of that great day of God Almighty. Revelation 16:14.

Here anyone may see that no other kind of war on the great day of God Almighty is meant.

[2] In the same book,

The beast that comes up from the Abyss will make war. Revelation 11:7.

Here 'the Abyss' is hell. In the same book,

The dragon was angry with the woman, and went off to make war with the rest of her seed, who kept the commandments of God and bear testimony to Jesus Christ. Revelation 12:17.

It 2 was allowed to make war on the saints. Revelation 13:7.

All these wars are conflicts such as constitute temptations. Nor are the wars of the kings of the south and of the north, and the other wars of Daniel 8, 11, and also those involving Michael, Daniel 10:13, 21; 12:1; Revelation 12:7, anything different.

[3] That wars have no other meaning is clear from the rest of the Prophets as well, as in Ezekiel,

You have not gone up into the breaches and made a hedge for the house of Israel, to stand in war on the day of Jehovah. Ezekiel 13:5.

This refers to the prophets. In Isaiah,

They will beat their swords into hoes, and their spears into pruning-hooks. Nation will not lift up sword against nation, neither will they learn war any more. Isaiah 2:4.

Clearly no other wars [than spiritual wars] are meant here, and therefore instruments of war, such as swords, spears, shields, and many others, mean nothing else in the Word than things that belong to such wars.

[4] In the same prophet,

To the thirsty bring water; O inhabitants of the land of Tema, meet with his bread the fugitive, 3 for they will flee 4 before the swords, before the drawn sword, and before the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war. Isaiah 21:14-15.

In Jeremiah,

Shepherds and their flocks will come against the daughter of Zion, they will pitch their tents against her round about; they will graze, each off his own space. Declare a sacred war against her; arise and let us go up at noon. Jeremiah 6:3-5.

Here, since it is waged against 'the daughter of Zion', that is, the Church, no other kind of war is meant.

[5] In the same prophet,

How is the city of praise not forsaken, the city of My joy? Therefore her young men will fall in her streets, and all the men of war will be cut down on that day. Jeremiah 49:25-26.

'The city of praise and of joy' stands for the things that belong to the Church, 'the men of war' for those who fight.

[6] In Hosea,

I will make for them a covenant on that day, with the wild animals of the field, and with the birds of the air, 5 and with the creeping things of the ground. And I will abolish 6 the bow, and the sword, and war from the land, and I will make them lie down in safety. Hosea 2:18.

Here similarly 'war' stands for conflicts, and the various instruments of war stand for the things belonging to spiritual conflict which are 'broken' when a person comes into the calmness of peace as evil desires and falsities come to an end.

[7] In David,

Behold the works of Jehovah who makes solitary places in the earth, making wars cease even to the end of the earth. He breaks the bow, and snaps the spear, He burns the chariots with fire. Psalms 46:8-9.

Here too the meaning is similar. In the same author,

In Salem is the dwelling-place of God, and His habitation in Zion. There He broke the bow's fiery arrows, the shield and the sword, and war. Psalms 76:2-3.

Because the priests represented the Lord who alone fights on man's behalf, their duties are called military service, Numbers 4:23, 35, 39, 43, 47.

[8] It is a constant truth that Jehovah alone, that is, the Lord, fights and overcomes the devil present with a person when he is involved in the conflicts brought by temptations, even though to that person this does not appear to be so. For evil spirits have no power at all to exert the slightest influence on man unless they are permitted to do so, and angels cannot act to avert anything at all unless enabled to do so by the Lord. Thus it is the Lord alone who endures every conflict and overcomes, something that was also represented at various times by the wars that the children of Israel waged against the nations. That He alone does so is also stated in Moses,

Jehovah your God is going 7 before you, He Himself will fight for you. Deuteronomy 1:30.

In the same book,

Jehovah your God is going 7 with you to fight for you with your enemies, to save you. Deuteronomy 20:4.

[9] So too in Joshua, such as 23:3, 5. For all the wars that were being waged at that time against the idolatrous inhabitants of the land of Canaan represented the Lord's conflicts with hell, and consequently the conflicts of His Church, and of members of the Church. This also accords with the following statements in Isaiah,

As the lion roars, and the young lion, over its prey (when a multitude of shepherds run towards him he is not dismayed by their voice nor daunted by the tumult they make) so Jehovah Zebaoth will come down to fight on Mount Zion and on its hill. Isaiah 31:4.

[10] For the same reasons also Jehovah, or the Lord, is called 'a Man of War', as in Moses,

Jehovah is a Man of War, Jehovah is His name. Exodus 15:3.

In Isaiah,

Jehovah will go forth as a Mighty Man, as a Man of Wars. He will stir up zeal; He will cry out, yes, He will shout aloud, He will prevail over His enemies. Isaiah 42:13.

This also is why many things that war entails are attributed to the Lord, such as 'crying out', and 'shouting aloud' here.

[11] Spirits and angels also appear as men of war, when a representation is being made, as in Joshua,

Joshua lifted up his eyes and saw, and behold, a man was standing before him, with his sword drawn in his hand. He said to Joshua, I am the Prince of the army of Jehovah; and Joshua fell on his face 8 to the earth. Joshua 5:13-14.

These things were seen taking the form they did because they were representative, and this also is why descendants of Jacob called their wars the Wars of ]Jehovah.

It was similar in the Ancient Churches among whom there were books which also were called The Wars of Jehovah, as is clear in Moses.

It is said in the Book of the Wars of Jehovah. Numbers 21:14-15.

These were written about in a way not unlike the wars described in this chapter; but wars involving the Church were meant. Such a manner of writing was common in those times, for they were interior men and their thoughts were of more exalted things.

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1. i.e. in 1659

2. i.e. the beast

3. literally, the wanderer

4. literally, they will wander

5. literally,. bird of the heavens (or the skies)

6. literally, break

7. literally, walking

8. literally, faces

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