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1 耶和华的临到我说:

2 人子啊,你要向以色列家出谜语,设比喻,

3 耶和华如此:有一翅膀,翎毛长,羽毛丰满,彩色俱备,到利巴嫩,将香柏树梢拧去,

4 就是折去香柏树尽尖的嫩枝,叼到贸易之,放在买卖城中;

5 又将以色列的枝子栽於肥田里,插在大水旁,如插柳树,

6 就渐渐生长,成为蔓延矮小的葡萄树。其枝向那鹰,其在鹰以,於是成了葡萄树,生出枝子,发出小枝。

7 又有翅膀羽毛多。这葡萄树从栽种的畦中向这弯过来,发出枝子,好得他的浇灌。

8 这树栽於肥田多水的旁边,生枝子,结果子,成为佳美的葡萄树。

9 你要耶和华如此:这葡萄树岂能发旺呢?鹰岂不拔出他的来,芟除他的果子,使他枯乾,使他发的嫩叶都枯乾了麽?也不用力和多民,就拔出他的来。

10 葡萄树虽然栽种,岂能发旺呢?一经东,岂不全然枯乾麽?必在生长的畦中枯乾了。

11 耶和华的临到我说:

12 你对那悖逆之家:你们不知道这些事是甚麽意思麽?你要告诉他们,巴比伦王曾到耶路撒冷,将其中的君王和首领到巴比伦自己那里去。

13 从以色列的宗室中取一人与他立约,使他发誓,并将国中有势力的人掳去,

14 使国低微不能自强,惟因守盟约得以存立。

15 他却背叛巴比伦王,打发使者往埃及去,要他们马匹和多民。他岂能亨通呢?行这样事的人岂能逃脱呢?他背约岂能逃脱呢?

16 他轻看向王所起的誓,背弃王与他所立的约。耶和华:我指着我的永生起誓,他定要在立他作王、巴比伦王的京都。

17 敌人筑垒造台,与他打仗的时候,为要剪除多人,法老虽领军队群众,

18 他轻看誓言,背弃盟约,已经投降,却又做这一切的事,他必不能逃脱。

19 所以耶和华如此:我指着我的永生起誓,他既轻看指我所起的誓,背弃指我所立的约,我必要使这罪归在他上。

20 我必将我的撒在他身上,他必在我的罗中缠住。我必他到巴比伦,并要在那里因他干犯我的罪刑罚他。

21 他的一切军队,凡逃跑的,都必倒在刀下;所剩下的,也必分散四方(方:原文是)。你们就知道这话的是我─耶和华

22 耶和华如此:我要将香柏树梢拧去栽上,就是从尽尖的嫩枝中折一嫩枝,栽於极上;

23 以色列处的栽上。他就生枝子,结果子,成为佳美的香柏树,各类飞都必宿在其,就是宿在枝子的荫

24 田野的树木都必知道我─耶和华使矮小,矮大;青枯乾,枯发旺。我─耶和华如此,也如此行了。

   

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In Exodus 30:12, this signifies all things of the church. (Arcana Coelestia 10216)

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Arcana Coelestia # 10216

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10216. 'When you take the sum of the children of Israel' means all things of the Church. This is clear from the meaning of 'the sum' as all; and from the representation of 'the children of Israel' as the Church, dealt with in the places referred to in 9340. The reason why all things of the Church are meant by 'the sum of the children of Israel' is that the internal sense of the Word is the kind of meaning it has in the heavens. Names do not come through to those there, such as the names Israel, Moses, Aaron, and many others; for those names belong to things that are material, which exist solely for the benefit of human life on the level of the physical senses. Instead of those names things on a spiritual level that belong to heaven and the Church are perceived. For angels in heaven are spiritual, and the things that come to their attention they see according to the inner nature of those things, thus on a spiritual level. There in place of the children of Israel they understand the Church. They do so because in the inmost heaven, where the Lord's presence is more immediate than in the heavens below, the Lord Himself is understood by names in the Word, when they are used in a good sense, names such as Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Aaron, David, Joseph, Judah, or Israel. And since the angels there understand the Lord by these names, they also perceive - in accord with the train of thought in the Word - the Divine things which belong to heaven and the Church, and are derived from the Lord. The perception flows in from the Lord, who is the Word; for the Lord is the source of all intelligence and wisdom, and none at all exists without Him.

  
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