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1 尼布甲尼撒王晓谕住在全地各方、各国、各族的人说:愿你们大享平安!

2 我乐意将至的神向我所行的神迹奇事宣扬出来。

3 他的神迹何其大!他的奇事何其盛!他的国是永远的;他的权柄存到万代!

4 尼布甲尼撒安居在宫中,平顺在殿内。

5 我做了一梦,使我惧怕。我在床上的思念,并脑中的异象,使我惊惶。

6 所以我降旨召巴比伦的一切哲士到我面前,叫他们把梦的讲解告诉我。

7 於是那些术士、用法术的、迦勒底人、观兆的都进来,我将那梦告诉了他们,他们却不能把梦的讲解告诉我。

8 末後那照我神的名,称为伯提沙撒的但以理来到我面前,他里头有圣神的灵,我将梦告诉他说:

9 术士的领袖伯提沙撒啊,因我知道你里头有圣神的灵,甚麽奥秘的事都不能使你为难。现在要把我梦中所见的异象和梦的讲解告诉我。

10 我在床上脑中的异象是这样:我看见地当中有一棵树,极其大。

11 那树渐长,而且坚固,高得顶天,从地极都能看见,

12 叶子华美,果子甚多,可作众生的食物;田野的走兽卧在荫,天空的飞鸟宿在枝上;凡有血气的都从这树得食。

13 我在床上脑中的异象,见有一位守望的圣者从天而降。

14 大声呼叫:伐倒这树!砍枝子!摇掉叶子!抛散果子!使走兽离开树,飞鸟躲开树枝。

15 树墩却要留在地内,用铁圈和铜圈箍住,在田野的青草中让天露滴湿,使他与地上的兽一同吃草,

16 使他的心改变,不如人心;给他一个兽心,使他经过期(期:或译年;本章同)。

17 这是守望者所发的命,圣者所出的令,好叫世人知道至者在人的国中掌权,要将国赐与谁就赐与谁,或立极卑微的人执掌国权。

18 这是我─尼布甲尼撒王所做的梦。伯提沙撒啊,你要说明这梦的讲解;因为我国中的一切哲士都不能将梦的讲解告诉我,惟独你能,因你里头有圣神的灵。

19 於是称为伯提沙撒的但以理惊讶片时,心意惊惶。王:伯提沙撒啊,不要因梦和梦的讲解惊惶。伯提沙撒回答:我主啊,愿这梦归与恨恶你的人,讲解归与你的敌人。

20 你所见的树渐长,而且坚固,得顶天,从地极都能看见;

21 叶子华美,果子甚多,可作众生的食物;田野的走兽住在其;天空的飞鸟宿在枝上。

22 王啊,这渐长又坚固的树就是你。你的威势渐长及天,你的权柄管到地极。

23 王既看见一位守望的圣者从天而降,:将这树砍伐毁坏,树墩却要留在地内,用铁圈和铜圈箍住;在田野的青草中,让天露滴湿,使他与地上的兽一同吃草,直到经过七期。

24 王啊,讲解就是这样:临到我主我王的事是出於至者的命。

25 你必被赶出离开世人,与野地的兽同居,吃草如牛,被天露滴湿,且要经过七期。等你知道至者在人的国中掌权,要将国赐与谁就赐与谁。

26 守望者既吩咐存留树墩,等你知道诸天掌权,以後你的国必定归你。

27 王啊,求你悦纳我的谏言,以施行公断绝罪过,以怜悯穷人除掉罪孽,或者你的平安可以延长。

28 这事都临到尼布甲尼撒王。

29 过了十二个月,他游行在巴比伦王宫里(原文是上)。

30 :这大巴比伦不是我用大能大力建为京都,要显我威严的荣耀麽?

31 这话在王口中尚未完,有声音从天降下,尼布甲尼撒王啊,有话对你,你的国位离开你了。

32 你必被赶出离开世人,与野地的兽同居,吃草如牛,且要经过七期。等你知道至者在人的国中掌权,要将国赐与谁就赐与谁。

33 当时这话就应验在尼布甲尼撒的身上,他被赶出离开世人,吃草如牛,身被天露滴湿,头发长长,好像鹰毛;指甲长长,如同鸟爪。

34 日子满足,我─尼布甲尼撒举目望天,我的聪明复归於我,我便称颂至者,赞美尊敬活到永远的神。他的权柄是永有的;他的国存到万代。

35 世上所有的居民都算为虚无;在天上的万军和世上的居民中,他都凭自己的意旨行事。无人能拦住他手,或问他,你做甚麽呢?

36 那时,我的聪明复归於我,为我国的荣耀、威严,和光耀也都复归於我;并且我的谋士和大臣也来朝见我。我又得坚立在国位上,至大的权柄加增於我。

37 现在我─尼布甲尼撒赞美、尊崇、恭敬天上的王;因为他所做的全都诚实,他所行的也都公平。那行动骄傲的,他能降为卑。

   

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Apocalypse Explained # 649

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649. Verse 7. And when they shall have finished their testimony, signifies in the end of the church, when the Divine of the Lord is no longer acknowledged, and thence there is no longer any good of love or truth of doctrine. This is evident from the signification of "testimony," as being the acknowledgment of the Divine in the Lord, and thence of the good of love and truth of doctrine (of which presently), and from the signification of "to finish it," as being to bring to an end; and as this comes to an end at the end of the church; "to finish" here signifies the end of the church; and as there is then no longer any acknowledgment of the Divine in the Lord, there is therefore no good of love or truth of doctrine.

[2] That this is the signification of "testimony," can be seen from what has been thus far said about "the two witnesses," namely, that by them the good of love and charity and the truth of doctrine and faith are meant, because these are what especially testify concerning the Lord, for they are from the Lord, and are His with man; therefore "their testimony" signifies preaching concerning these. That "testimony" here signifies the acknowledgment of the Divine in the Lord is evident from what follows in Revelation:

That the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy (Revelation 19:10).

For unless a man acknowledges this from the heart, and believes it from spiritual faith, he can have no ability to receive the good of love or the truth of doctrine.

[3] At the end of the church indeed the Lord is preached, and from doctrine a Divine is also attributed to Him like the Divine of the Father; yet scarcely anyone thinks of His Divine, for the reason that they place it above or outside of His Human; therefore they do not look to the Lord when they look to His Divine, but to the Father as to another, and yet the Divine that is called the Father is in the Lord, as He Himself teaches in John 10:30, 38; 14:7. For this reason men think of the Lord in the same way as they think of a common man, and from that thought their faith flows, however much they may say with the lips that they believe in His Divine. Let anyone explore, if he can, the idea of his thought about the Lord, whether it be not such. But when it is such man cannot be conjoined to the Lord by faith and love, nor through conjunction receive any good of love or truth of faith. This, then, is why there is at the end of the church no acknowledgment of the Lord, that is, of the Divine in the Lord and from the Lord. It is believed that there is an acknowledgment of the Divine of the Lord, because such is the doctrine of the church; but so long as His Divine is separated from His Human, His Divine is yet not acknowledged interiorly but only exteriorly, and to acknowledge exteriorly is to acknowledge with the mouth only and not with the heart, or in speech only and not in faith.

[4] That this is so can be seen from Christians in the other life, where the thoughts of the heart are manifested. When they are permitted to speak from doctrine and from what they have heard from preaching they attribute a Divine to the Lord, and call it their belief; but when their interior thought and faith are explored they have no other idea of the Lord than as of a common man who has no Divine. It is man's interior thought that is the source of his faith; and as such is the thought and consequent faith of man's spirit, there is plainly no acknowledgment of the Divine in the Lord and from the Lord in the Christian world at the end of the church. In other words, there is an external acknowledgment of the Divine of the Lord, but no internal, and an external acknowledgment is of the natural man alone, while internal acknowledgment is of his very spirit; and after death the external acknowledgment is put to sleep, while the internal is the acknowledgment of his spirit. From this it can in some measure be seen how what follows is to be understood, namely, "the beast that cometh up out of the abyss shall overcome and kill the two witnesses," and their "bodies shall be seen upon the street of the city that is called Sodom and Egypt," and afterwards that "the spirit of life entered into them."

  
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6 I will strike the inhabitants of this city, both man and animal: they shall die of a great pestilence.