以赛亚书 42
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看哪，我的仆人─我所扶持所拣选、心里所喜悦的！我已将我的灵赐给他；他必将公理传给外邦。
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压伤的芦苇，他不折断；将残的灯火，他不吹灭。他凭真实将公理传开。
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他不灰心，也不丧胆，直到他在地上设立公理；海岛都等候他的训诲。
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创造诸天，铺张穹苍，将地和地所出的一并铺开，赐气息给地上的众人，又赐灵性给行在其上之人的神耶和华，他如此说：
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我─耶和华凭公义召你，必搀扶你的手，保守你，使你作众民的中保（中保：原文是约），作外邦人的光，
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我是耶和华，这是我的名；我必不将我的荣耀归给假神，也不将我的称赞归给雕刻的偶像。
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看哪，先前的事已经成就，现在我将新事说明，这事未发以先，我就说给你们听。
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航海的和海中所有的，海岛和其上的居民，都当向耶和华唱新歌，从地极赞美他。
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旷野和其中的城邑，并基达人居住的村庄都当扬声；西拉的居民当欢呼，在山顶上呐喊。
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耶和华必像勇士出去，必像战士激动热心，要喊叫，大声呐喊，要用大力攻击仇敌。
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我许久闭口不言，静默不语；现在我要喊叫，像产难的妇人；我要急气而喘哮。
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我要使大山小冈变为荒场，使其上的花草都枯乾；我要使江河变为洲岛，使水池都乾涸。
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我要引瞎子行不认识的道，领他们走不知道的路；在他们面前使黑暗变为光明，使弯曲变为平直。这些事我都要行，并不离弃他们。
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倚靠雕刻的偶像，对铸造的偶像说：你是我们的神；这等人要退後，全然蒙羞。
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你们这耳聋的，听罢！你们这眼瞎的，看罢！使你们能看见。
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谁比我的仆人眼瞎呢？谁比我差遣的使者耳聋呢？谁瞎眼像那与我和好的？谁瞎眼像耶和华的仆人呢？
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耶和华因自己公义的缘故，喜欢使律法（或译：训诲）为大，为尊。
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但这百姓是被抢被夺的，都牢笼在坑中，隐藏在狱里；他们作掠物，无人拯救，作掳物，无人说交还。
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谁将雅各交出当作掳物，将以色列交给抢夺的呢？岂不是耶和华麽？就是我们所得罪的那位。他们不肯遵行他的道，也不听从他的训诲。
Arcana Coelestia # 9281
9281. 'And your female slave's son and the sojourner may draw breath' means the state of life of those governed by truths and forms of good outside the Church. This is clear from the meaning of 'female slave's son' as those with an affection for external truth, for 'son' means truth, 489, 491, 533, 1147, 2623, 2803, 2813, 3373, 3704, 4257, and 'a female slave' means an external affection, 1895, 2567, 3835, 3849, 7780, 8993; from the meaning of 'the sojourner' as those who wish to receive instruction in the Church's truths and forms of good, dealt with in 1463, 8007, 8013, 9196, the reason why 'female slave's son and the sojourner' here means those outside the Church being that the preceding words in the present verse have referred to those within the Church, and therefore those outside the Church are meant by 'a female slave's sons' and those not born within the Church by 'sojourners' (the former are such because they are the offspring of an inferior marriage, the latter because they descend from an alien stock); and from the meaning of 'drawing breath' as the state of life in respect of the truths and forms of the good of faith. 'Drawing breath' means that state of life because the lungs, whose function is breathing, correspond to the life of faith springing from charity, which is spiritual life, 97, 1119, 3351, 3635, 3883-3896, 9229.
[2] The human being breathes outwardly and he breathes inwardly; outwardly he draws breath from the world, but inwardly from heaven. When a person dies he ceases to breathe outwardly, but his inward breathing, which is soundless and is undetectable by him while he lives in the world, continues. This breathing is regulated altogether by his affection for truth, thus by the life of his faith. Those without any faith at all, as those in hell are, do not draw breath from an inner source but from an outward one, thus from an opposite direction. Therefore also when they come near an angelic community, which draws breath from an inner source, they start to be suffocated and to become like deathmasks, 3894. As a result of this they hurl themselves headlong back into their hell, where they regain their former manner of breathing that is the opposite of the heavenly manner.
[3] Since breathing corresponds to the life of faith, this life is also meant by anima - a word for soul or breath, 9050 - because of the animation or life-giving power that lies in breathing. Breathing is referred to additionally as spiritus - which also means 'spirit' - in such phrases as 'taking a breath' and 'letting out breath', and therefore also the word for spirits in the original language comes from a word for 'wind', and in the Word they are compared to wind, as in John,
The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear its voice; but you do not know where it comes from, or where it goes away to. So is everyone who is born from the spirit. John 3:8.
From this also it is evident what the meaning is when it says that after the Resurrection, when the Lord spoke to the disciples, He breathed on them and said to them, Receive the Holy Spirit, John 20:22.
