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1 尼布甲尼撒王造了一个金像,六十肘,宽肘,立在巴比伦省杜拉平原。

2 尼布甲尼撒王差人将总督、钦差、巡抚、臬司、藩司、谋士、法官,和各省的官员都召了来,为尼布甲尼撒王所立的像行开光之礼。

3 於是总督、钦差、巡抚、臬司、藩司、谋士、法官,和各省的官员都聚集了来,要为尼布甲尼撒王所立的像行开光之礼,就站在尼布甲尼撒所立的像前。

4 那时传令的大声呼叫:各方、各国、各族(原文是舌:下同)的人哪,有令传与你们:

5 你们一见角、笛、琵琶、琴、瑟、笙,和各样乐器的声音,就当俯伏敬拜尼布甲尼撒王所立的金像。

6 凡不俯伏敬拜的,必立时扔在烈火的窑中。

7 因此各方、各国、各族的人民一见角、笛、琵琶、琴、瑟,和各样乐器的声音,就都俯伏敬拜尼布甲尼撒王所立的金像。

8 那时,有几个迦勒底人进前来控告犹大人。

9 他们对尼布甲尼撒:愿王万岁!

10 王啊,你曾降旨说,凡见角、笛、琵琶、琴、瑟、笙,和各样乐器声音的都当俯伏敬拜金像。

11 凡不俯伏敬拜的,必扔在烈火的窑中。

12 现在有几个犹大人,就是王所派管理巴比伦省事务的沙得拉、米煞、亚伯尼歌;王啊,这些人不理你,不事奉你的神,也不敬拜你所立的金像。

13 当时,尼布甲尼撒冲冲大怒,吩咐人把沙得拉、米煞、亚伯尼歌带过来,他们就把那些人带到王面前。

14 尼布甲尼撒问他们:沙得拉、米煞、亚伯尼歌,你们不事奉我的神,也不敬拜我所立的金像,是故意的麽?

15 你们再见角、笛、琵琶、琴、瑟、笙,和各样乐器的声音,若俯伏敬拜我所造的像,却还可以;若不敬拜,必立时扔在烈火的窑中,有何神能救你们脱离我手呢?

16 沙得拉、米煞、亚伯尼歌对王尼布甲尼撒啊,这件事我们不必回答你;

17 即便如此,我们所事奉的神能将我们从烈火的窑中救出来。王啊,他也必救我们脱离你的手;

18 即或不然,王啊,你当知道我们决不事奉你的神,也不敬拜你所立的金像。

19 当时,尼布甲尼撒怒气胸,向沙得拉、米煞、亚伯尼歌变了脸色,吩咐人把窑烧热,比寻常更加七倍;

20 又吩咐他军中的几个壮士,将沙得拉、米煞、亚伯尼歌捆起来,扔在烈火的窑中。

21 这三人穿着裤子、内袍、外衣,和别的衣服,被捆起来扔在烈火的窑中。

22 因为王命紧急,窑又甚热,那抬沙得拉、米煞、亚伯尼歌的人都被火焰烧死。

23 沙得拉、米煞、亚伯尼歌这个人都被捆着落在烈火的窑中。

24 那时,尼布甲尼撒王惊奇,急忙起来,对谋士:我捆起来扔在火里的不是个人麽?他们回答王:王啊,是。

25 :看哪,我见有四个人,并没有捆绑,在火中游行,也没有受伤;那第四个的相貌好像神子。

26 於是,尼布甲尼撒就近烈火窑门,:至神的仆人沙得拉、米煞、亚伯尼歌出来,上这里来罢!沙得拉、米煞、亚伯尼歌就从火中出来了。

27 那些总督、钦差、巡抚,和王的谋士一同聚集看这三个人,见火无力伤他们的身体,头发也没有烧焦,衣裳也没有变色,并没有火燎的气味。

28 尼布甲尼撒:沙得拉、米煞、亚伯尼歌的神是应当称颂的!他差遣使者救护倚靠他的仆人,他们不遵王命,舍去己身,在他们神以外不肯事奉敬拜别神。

29 现在我降旨,无论何方、何国、何族的人,谤讟沙得拉、米煞、埃布尔尼歌之神的,必被凌迟,他的房屋必成粪堆,因为没有别神能这样施行拯救。”

30 那时王在巴比伦省,高升了沙得拉、米煞、亚伯尼歌。

   

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Scriptural Confirmations # 37

  
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37. 9. From the Old Testament

God hath revealed what shall come to pass in the latter days (Daniel 2:28).

(The consummation of the church from its first foundation to its end is described by the image seen by Nebuchadnezzar, in like manner as the four ages by the ancients; the first, which was before the flood, by gold; the second, after the flood, by silver; the third, which was the Israelitish up to that time, by brass; and the fourth, which was the Christian, by iron mixed with clay (Daniel 2:32-33).

By "gold" is signified celestial good; by "silver" spiritual truth; by "brass" natural good; by "iron" natural truth; and by "iron mixed with clay" truth falsified, because it does not cleave together; by the seed of man the truth of the Word, which is also said of the feet of iron (Daniel 2:34-43).)

(A stone which was not [made] by hands, which smote and ground up the image, and which became a great rock, signifies the Lord, who in the Word is meant by "a stone" and by "the rock" which filled all the earth, whose kingdom shall stand for ages of ages (Daniel 2:34-35, 44-45).)

The fourth, seen in the furnace of fire, is said to be like the Son of man. It is not said man, because the Son of man signifies the Lord as to the Word; and this is also called an angel, whom God sent (Daniel 3:25, 28).

The "Son of man" when said of another, and a "prophet," signify Him as the truth of the church from the Word.

The consummation is also described by the tree growing to the end of the earth seen by Nebuchadnezzar, in a dream; and the coming of the Lord, by the Watcher and the Holy One who descended and commanded to hew down the tree utterly; and that they left the stump of the roots in the earth in a band of iron and of brass, signifies the Word by which the church revived; this also happened in the time of Nebuchadnezzar (Daniel 4:10-13, 17-31). The consummation of the whole, or the destruction of all things of the church, is described by the feast of Belshazzar, in which with magnates and concubines he drank the wine out of vessels of gold and silver from the temple of Jerusalem, and praised the gods of gold, of silver, etc., by which is signified the profanation of the holy things of the church, wherefore it was written on the wall that his kingdom was finished, and he was slain on that night (Daniel 5:1 to end).

(The consummation of the church is described by the four beasts out of the sea; also what the first was, what the second, third, and fourth, which was terrible because it broke in pieces all things of good and truth. What they signify may be seen in Apocalypse Revealed574. The complete consummation is meant by the slaying of the beast and the destruction of the body. That then the Lord will come and will reign unto ages of ages is evident from verses 13-14, 22, 27. His church is meant by the holy people, because they are in Divine truths from the Lord (Daniel 7:1 to end).

  
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