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1 十一年初一日,耶和华的临到我说:

2 人子啊,你要向埃及法老和他的众人:在威势上谁能与你相比呢?

3 亚述王曾如利巴嫩中的香柏树,枝条荣美,影密如林,极其大,树尖插入云中。

4 众水使他生长;深水使他长大。所栽之地有江围流,汊出的水道延到田野诸

5 所以他高大超过田野诸;发旺的时候,枝子繁多,因得大水之力枝条长长。

6 空中的飞都在枝子上搭窝;田野的走兽都在枝条生子;所有大国的人民都在他荫居住

7 树大条长,成为荣美,因为在众水之旁。

8 园中的香柏不能遮蔽他;松不及他的枝子;枫不及他的枝条;园中的都没有他荣美。

9 我使他的枝条蕃多,成为荣美,以致伊甸园中的都嫉妒他。

10 所以耶和华如此:因他大,树尖插入云中,心骄气傲,

11 我就必将他交列国中大有威势的人;他必定办他。我因他的罪恶,已经驱逐他。

12 外邦人,就是列邦中强暴的,将他砍断弃掉。他的枝条落在间和一切谷中,他的枝子折断,落在的一切河旁。上的众民已经走去,离开他的荫

13 空中的飞都要宿在这败落的树上,田野的走兽都要卧在他的枝条下,

14 使旁的诸不因大而自尊,也不将尖插入云中,并且那些得滋润、有势力的,也不得大自立。因为他们在世人中,和的人都被交与死亡,到阴府去了。

15 耶和华如此:他阴间的那日,我便使人悲哀。我为他遮盖深渊,使江凝结,大水停流;我也使利巴嫩为他凄惨,田野的诸都因他发昏。

16 我将他扔到阴间,与的人一同去。那时,列国听见他坠落的响声就都震动,并且伊甸的一切─就是利巴嫩得滋润、最佳最美的─都在阴府受了安慰

17 他们也与他同阴间,到被杀的人那里。他们曾作他的膀,在列国中他的荫居住

18 在这样荣耀威势上,在伊甸园中,谁能与你相比呢?然而你要与伊甸的诸一同到阴府,在未受割礼的人中,与被杀的人一同躺卧。法老和他的群众乃是如此。这是耶和华的。

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 806

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806. 'Everything that was on the dry land' means the people in whom nothing of that kind of life existed any more, and 'they died' means that they breathed their last. This follows now from what has been said above. And because all the life that belongs to love and faith had been annihilated, 'the dry land' is referred to here. The dry land is where there is no water, that is, where nothing spiritual, let alone celestial, exists any more. Persuasion of falsity annihilates and so to speak suffocates everything spiritual and celestial, as anyone may recognize from much experience if he pays the matter any attention. Once people have adopted opinions, though utterly false, they cling to them so tenaciously that they will not even listen to anything to the contrary. That being so, they never allow themselves to be taught, even if the truth is placed before their very eyes. Still more is this the case when they reverence a false opinion because of some idea that is sacred. Such people spurn all truth, and what they do accept they pervert, and in so doing submerge in delusions. It is they who are meant here by 'the dry land' which has no water or grass on it, as in Ezekiel,

I will make the rivers dry land, and will sell the land into the hand of evil men, and I will make the land desolate and the fullness of it. Ezekiel 30:12.

'Making the rivers dry land' stands for what is spiritual being no more. And in Jeremiah,

Your land has become dry land. Jeremiah 44:22.

'Dry land' stands for land made desolate and laid waste so that there is no longer any good or truth at all.

  
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