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以西结书 5

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1 人子啊,你要拿一把快刀,当作剃刀,用这刀剃你的发和你的胡须,用天平将须发平分。

2 围困城的日子满了,你要将分之一在城中用火焚烧,将分之一在城的四围用刀砍碎,将分之一任吹散;我也要拔刀追赶。

3 你要从其中取几根包在衣襟里,

4 再从这几根中取些扔在中焚烧,从里面必有出来烧入以色列全家。

5 耶和华如此:这就是耶路撒冷。我曾将他安置在列邦之中;列国都在他的四围。

6 他行恶,违背我的典章,过於列国;干犯我的律例,过於四围的列邦,因为他弃掉我的典章。至於我的律例,他并没有遵行。

7 所以耶和华如此:因为你们纷争过於四围的列国,也不遵行我的律例,不谨守我的典章,并以遵从四围列国的恶规尚不满意,

8 所以耶和华如此:看哪,我与你反对,必在列国的眼前,在你中间,施行审判;

9 并且因你一切可憎的事,我要在你中间行我所未曾行的,以後我也不再照着行。

10 在你中间父亲儿子,儿子要父亲。我必向你施行审判,我必将你所剩下的分散四方(方:原文是)。

11 耶和华:我指着我的永生起誓,因你用一切可憎的物、可厌的事玷污了我的圣所,故此,我定要使你人数减少,我眼必不顾惜你,也不可怜你。

12 你的民分之一必遭瘟疫,在你中间必因饥荒消灭;分之一必在你四围倒在刀下;我必将分之一分散四方(方:原文是),并要拔刀追赶他们。

13 我要这样成就怒中所定的;我向他们发的忿怒止息了,自己就得着安慰。我在他们身上成就怒中所定的那时,他们就知道我─耶和华的是出於热心;

14 并且我必使你在四围的列国中,在经过的众人眼前,成了荒凉和羞辱。

15 这样,我必以怒气和忿怒,并烈怒的责备,向你施行审判。那时,你就在四围的列国中成为羞辱、讥刺、警戒、惊骇。这是我─耶和华的。

16 那时,我要将灭人、使人饥荒的恶,就是射去灭人的,射在你们身上,并要加增你们的饥荒,断绝你们所倚靠的粮食;

17 又要使饥荒和恶兽到你那里,叫你丧子,瘟疫和流血的事也必盛行在你那里;我也要使刀临到你。这是我─耶和华的。

   

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Apocalypse Revealed # 440

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440. And they had as king over them the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon, but who in Greek has the name Apollyon. (9:11) This symbolically means that those caught up in falsities springing from lusts, who by a total falsification of the Word destroyed the church, are in a satanic hell.

The angel of the bottomless pit as king does not signify that some angel is king there, but that falsity reigns in it. For a king in its genuine sense symbolizes someone who possesses truths owing to an affection for goodness, and abstractly truth itself (no. 20); and in an opposite sense, therefore, a king symbolizes someone who is caught up in falsities owing to a lust for evil, and abstractly falsity itself. The bottomless pit symbolizes the satanic hell where such people reside (nos. 387, 421). A name symbolizes the character of someone's or something's state (nos. 81, 122, 165).

Abaddon in Hebrew is someone who destroys, or a destroyer, and likewise Apollyon in Greek, and this is falsity of the most fundamental sort, which by a total falsification of the Word has destroyed the church.

Abaddon in the Hebrew text means destruction in the following places:

Your truth in destruction? (Psalms 88:11)

Hell is naked before Him, and destruction has no covering. (Job 26:6)

For it will be a fire that consumes to destruction... (Job 31:12)

Destruction and death say... (Job 28:22)

Elsewhere hell and the devil are called destruction or a destroyer (Isaiah 54:16, Ezekiel 5:16; 9:1, Exodus 12:13), but by using another term.

  
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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.

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Apocalypse Revealed # 122

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122. "'And on the stone a new name written.'" This symbolically means that thus they will have a quality of good that they did not have before.

A name symbolizes the character of a thing, as may be seen in no. 81 above, and here therefore the character or quality of good. Good has all its character from the truths with which it is united, for good without truths is like bread without wine or food without water, which do not nourish. It is also like a fruit that contains no juice. Such goods appear, too, like trees stripped of their leaves, with wizened apples left hanging on them from autumn.

This, moreover, is the meaning of these words of the Lord:

...everyone will be salted with fire, and every sacrifice will be salted with salt. Salt is good, but if the salt loses its saltiness, how will you season it? Have salt in yourselves... (Mark 9:49-50)

The salt there is a desire for truth.

  
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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.