7679. “耶和华使东风刮在地上” 表摧毁的手段. 这从 “东风” 的含义清楚可知, “东风” 是指摧毁的一种手段. “东风” 之所以具有这种含义, 是因为它是干燥, 猛烈的, 因而吹干那地上的出产, 并以它的力量击碎树木和海上的船只. 这就是为何作为一种手段的这风描述了神性能力所拥有的效果. 此外, “东” 表示爱与仁之良善, 因为就至高意义而言, 它表示主 (101, 1250, 3708节). 就其起源而言, 爱与仁之良善因是神性, 故是最柔和的, 因而在行进的过程中也是这样. 但当降至地狱时, 它就变得粗暴, 凶猛, 因为地狱居民使它变得如此. 因此, 这神性良善在那里的流注和出现不仅折磨他们, 还向他们施强暴 (devastation, 或译为荒凉). 这也解释了为何来自东方的风, 或 “东风” 表示摧毁的手段.

这 “风” 表示摧毁的一种手段, 这一点从圣言中提及它的经文明显看出来:

在仇敌面前, 我必如东风刮散他们. (耶利米书 18:17)

以西结书:

葡萄树虽然栽种, 岂能发旺呢? 东风一击打它, 它岂不全然枯干吗? (以西结书 17:10)

又:

这葡萄树因忿怒被拔出摔在地上, 东风吹干她的果子. (以西结书 19:12)

何西阿书:

他在弟兄中虽然凶猛, 必有东风刮来, 就是耶和华的风从旷野上来. 他的泉源必干, 他的源头必干涸. (何西阿书 13:15)

诗篇:

你用东风打破他施的船只. (诗篇 48:7)

以西结书:

荡桨的已经把你荡到多水之处, 东风在海中心将你打破. (以西结书 27:26)

从这些经文明显可知, “东风” 表示摧毁的一种手段, 因为它是干燥, 猛烈的. 它因此也表示施强暴 (devastation, 或译为荒凉) 的一种手段, 如何西阿书:

以法莲吃风, 且追赶东风, 终日增添虚谎和强暴. (何西阿书 12:1)

“以法莲” 表示教会的理解力 (5354, 6222, 6238节); “吃风” 就是 “增添虚谎”; “追赶东风” 就是 “增添强暴” (devastation, 或译为荒凉). 在以赛亚书 (27:7, 8), 荒凉和试探的状态也被称为 “东风的日子”.

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.