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1 人子啊,你要拿一块砖,摆在你面前,将一座耶路撒冷城画在其上,

2 又围困这城,造台筑垒,安攻击,在四围安设撞锤攻城,

3 又要拿个鏊,放在你和城的中间,作为。你要对面攻击这城,使城被困;这样,好作以色列家的预兆。

4 你要向左侧卧,承当以色列家的罪孽;要按你向左侧卧的日数,担当他们的罪孽。

5 因为我已将他们作孽的年数定为你向左侧卧的日数,就是九十日,你要这样担当以色列家的罪孽。

6 再者,你满了这些日子,还要向右侧卧,担当犹大家的罪孽。我你定规侧卧四十日,一日顶一年。

7 你要露出膀,面向被困的耶路撒冷,说预言攻击这城。

8 我用绳索捆绑你,使你不能辗,直等你满了困城的日子。

9 你要取小麦、大麦、豆子、红豆、小米、粗麦,装在个器皿中,用以为自己做饼;要按你侧卧的九十日这饼。

10 你所的要按分两,每日二十舍客勒,按时而

11 也要按制子,每日分之一,按时而

12 这饼像大麦饼一样,要用人粪在众人眼前烧烤。

13 耶和华以色列人在我所赶他们到的各国中,也必这样不洁净的食物。

14 :哎!耶和华啊,我素未曾被玷污,从幼年到如今没有吃过自死的,或被野兽撕裂的,那可憎的也未曾入我的

15 於是他对我哪,我你牛粪代替人粪,你要将你的饼烤在其上。

16 他又对我:人子啊,我必在耶路撒冷折断他们的杖,就是断绝他们的粮。他们饼要按分两,忧虑而也要按制子,惊惶而

17 使他们缺粮缺,彼此惊惶,因自己的罪孽消灭。

   

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Apocalypse Revealed # 315

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315. "A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius." This symbolically means, because the value these people placed on goodness and truth was so little as to be scarcely anything.

This is the symbolic meaning because a quart, which is a measure and its contents, symbolizes the character of a thing, as shown in no. 313 above. Wheat and barley symbolize goodness and truth, and a denarius, being a very small coin, symbolizes a value so little as to be scarcely anything.

Three quarts of barley are specified because the number three symbolizes all and is predicated of truths (no. 400).

Wheat and barley symbolizes goodness and truth, here the goodness and truth of the church acquired from the Word, because everything connected with a field or vineyard symbolizes something having to do with the church - a field symbolizing the church in respect to its goodness and consequent truth, and a vineyard symbolizing the church in respect to its truth and consequent goodness. Therefore, where these are mentioned in the Word, angels, who perceive everything spiritually, have no other understanding of them - as for example in Joel:

The field is wasted, the land mourns, because the grain is wasted, the new wine is dried up, the oil fails. Ashamed are the farmers, the vinedressers wail, over the wheat and the barley, because the harvest of the field has perished. (Joel 1:10-12)

All of these things symbolize things having to do with the church.

[2] That wheat and barley symbolize the goodness and truth of the church can be seen from the following passages:

(John said of Jesus that He would) gather his wheat into the granary and burn the chaff with fire... (Matthew 3:11-12)

(Jesus said,) "Let (weed and wheat) grow together..., and at the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, 'First gather together the weeds... to burn them, but gather the wheat into my granary.'" (Matthew 23:24-30)

...I have heard from Jehovah God... a consummation and determination... Plant the measured wheat, and the appointed barley... (Thus) He instructs him for judgment; His God teaches him. (Isaiah 28:21-26)

...Jehovah... will bring you into... a land of wheat and barley... (Deuteronomy 8:7-8)

The land of wheat and barley here is the land of Canaan, which symbolizes the church.

They shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of Jehovah, for wheat and new wine... (Jeremiah 31:12)

(Jehovah) will fill you with the finest wheat. (Psalms 147:12-14, cf. Deuteronomy 32:13-14, Psalms 81:13, 16)

Jehovah told the prophet Ezekiel to make himself a cake of barleycorn mixed with dung and eat it (Ezekiel 4:12, 15). And He told the prophet Hosea to take to himself an adulterous woman, whom he bought for one and a half omers of barleycorn (Hosea 3:1-2). The prophets did these things to represent the falsifications of truth in the church, for barleycorns are truths, and barleycorns mixed with dung are truths falsified and profaned. An adulterous woman also symbolizes truth falsified (no. 134).

  
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Many thanks to the General Church of the New Jerusalem, and to Rev. N.B. Rogers, translator, for the permission to use this translation.