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1 第十年十十二日,耶和华的临到我说:

2 人子啊,你要向埃及法老预言攻击他和埃及全地,

3 耶和华如此埃及法老啊,我与你这卧在自己河中的鱼为敌。你曾:这河是我的,是我为自己造的。

4 我─耶和华必用钩子钩住你的腮颊,又使江河中的鱼贴住你的鳞甲;我必将你和所有贴住你鳞甲的鱼,从江河中拉上来,

5 把你并江河中的鱼都抛在旷野;你必倒在田间,不被收殓,不被掩埋。我已将你上野兽、空中飞作食物。

6 埃及一切的居民,因向以色列成了芦苇的杖,就知道我是耶和华

7 他们用手持住你,你就断折,伤了他们的;他们倚靠你,你就断折,闪了他们的腰。

8 所以耶和华如此:我必使刀临到你,从你中间将人与牲畜剪除。

9 埃及必荒废凄凉,他们就知道我是耶和华。因为法老:这河是我的,是我所造的,

10 所以我必与你并你的江河为敌,使埃及,从色弗尼塔直到古实境界,全然荒废凄凉。

11 人的的蹄都不经过,四十年之久并无人居住

12 我必使埃及在荒凉的国中成为荒凉,使埃及城在荒废的城中变为荒废,共有四十年。我必将埃及人分散在列国,四散在列邦。

13 耶和华如此:满了四十年,我必招聚分散在各国民中的埃及人

14 我必叫埃及被掳的人回来,使他们归回本巴忒罗。在那里必成为低微的国,

15 必为列国中最低微的,也不再自高於列国之上。我必减少他们,以致不再辖制列国。

16 埃及必不再作以色列家所倚靠的;以色列家仰望埃及人的时候,便思念罪孽。他们就知道我是耶和华

17 二十年正初一日,耶和华的临到我说:

18 人子啊,巴比伦王尼布甲尼撒使他的军兵效劳,攻打推罗,以致都光秃,都磨破;然而他和他的军兵攻打推罗,并没有从那里得甚麽酬劳。

19 所以耶和华如此:我必将埃及巴比伦王尼布甲尼撒;他必掳掠埃及群众,抢其中的财为掳物,夺其中的货为掠物,这就可以作他军兵的酬劳。

20 我将埃及他,酬他所效的劳,因王与军兵是为我勤劳。这是耶和华的。

21 当那日,我必使以色列家的角发生,又必使你─以西结在他们中间得以开;他们就知道我是耶和华

   

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De Verbo (The Word) # 10

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10. X. The ultimate sense of the Word, 1 which is the literal sense alone, corresponds to the beard and hair of the head of an angelic person.

It may seem surprising the first time it is said or we hear it said that the hair of the head and the beard correspond to the Word at its ultimate level. But this correspondence is due to the fact that everything in the Word corresponds to everything in heaven, and heaven corresponds to everything in a person. For heaven taken as a whole is like a single person in the Lord's sight; on this correspondence see Heaven and Hell [87-102, 307].

[2] I was allowed to perceive that everything in the Word corresponds to everything in heaven from the fact that each chapter in the books of the prophets corresponds to one particular community in heaven. For on reading through the prophetic parts of the word from Isaiah to Malachi, I was allowed to see that the communities of heaven were aroused one after the other, and they perceived the spiritual sense which corresponded to them. So from this and other proofs it was plain to me that the whole of heaven has, part by part, a correspondence to the Word. Now since there is such a correspondence of the Word to heaven, and heaven as a whole and in its parts corresponds to a person, this is why the ultimate level of the Word corresponds to the ultimate in a person. The ultimate level in the Word is the literal sense, and the ultimate level in a person is the hair of his head and his beard.

[3] This is why when people who have loved the Word even at its ultimate level after death become spirits, they are to be seen with a fair head of hair; and so are the angels. When these same people become angels, they also let their beards grow. On the other hand, all who have despised the literal sense of the Word, on becoming spirits after death, turn bald. This is also a sign that they are devoid of truths. So to avoid embarrassing others, they cover their heads with a head-dress.

[4] Since the hair and the beard mean the ultimate level of heaven, and so also the ultimate level of Divine Truth or the Word, the Ancient of Days is described as having the hair of his head like clean wool (Daniel 7:9). Likewise the Son of Man or the Lord as regards the Word (Revelation 1:14). For the same reason the strength of Samson lay in his hair, and he was weakened by having it cut off. The condition of a Nazarite also lay in his hair; for the Nazarite represented the Lord at His ultimate level, and so also heaven at its ultimate level. This was the reason why the forty-two children were torn in pieces by bears for calling Elisha bald (2 Kings 2:23-24).

[5] Elisha, like Elijah and the other prophets, represented the Lord as regards the Word; and the Word without its ultimate, that is, its literal sense, is no longer the Word. For the literal sense of the Word is like a bottle filled with fine wine; so if the bottle is broken, all the wine is lost. The literal sense of the Word is like the bones and skin of the human body; take them away and the whole person falls to pieces. That is why what holds the Word together and in fact gives it its power is its ultimate sense, the literal sense; for this sustains and holds together all the Divine truth it contains.

[6] Since baldness means the absence of truth, when the Jewish church, since it lacks the ultimate level, abandoned Jehovah and despised the Word, it was called bald, as in Jeremiah:

Every head is bald and every beard is shorn. Jeremiah 48:37.

In Isaiah:

Baldness on their heads, and a shorn beard. Isaiah 15:2.

In Ezekiel:

To shave his head and beard with a razor. Ezekiel 5:1.

Shame on all their faces, and baldness on all heads. Ezekiel 7:18.

Every head has been made bald. Ezekiel 29:18.

And in other places, such as Amos 8:10, Micah 1:16.

[7] But the sense of the Word known as the literal sense corresponds at its ultimate level to the hair of the head, but in other respects to various parts of the human body, as its head, chest, loins and feet. But where those correspondences occur in that sense, the Word is so to speak clothed, and so corresponds to the clothing of those parts. For in general clothes mean truths, and really correspond to them. But there are still many things in the literal sense of the Word which are bare and so to speak unclothed; and they correspond to a person's face and his hands, which are the parts left uncovered. Those parts of the Word serve for the teaching of the church, because they are in themselves spiritual-natural truths. From this it can be established that there is no obstacle to prevent a person being able to find and see bare truths there too.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. Added in the margin: 'As the result of the correspondence between natural and spiritual things the ultimate sense of the Word is to be understood by the twelve precious stones composing the foundations of the wall of the New Jerusalem'.

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.