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耶利米书 31

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1 耶和华:那时,我必作以色列各家的;他们必作我的子民。

2 耶和华如此:脱离刀的就是以色列人。我使他享安息的时候,他曾在旷野蒙恩。

3 古时(或译:从远方)耶和华向以色列(原文是我)显现,说:我以永远你,因此我以慈爱吸引你。

4 以色列的民(原文是处女)哪,我要再建立你,你就被建立;你必再以击为美,与欢乐的人一同跳舞而出;

5 又必在撒玛利亚上栽种葡萄园,栽种的人要享用所结的果子。

6 日子必到,以法莲上守望的人必呼叫说:起来罢!我们可以上锡安,到耶和华我们那里去。

7 耶和华如此:你们当为雅各欢乐歌唱,因万国中为首的欢呼。当传扬颂赞耶和华啊,求你拯你的百姓以色列所剩下的人。

8 我必将他们从北方,从极招聚;同着他们的有瞎子、瘸子、孕妇、产妇;他们必成为帮回到这里

9 他们要哭泣。我要照他们恳求的引导他们,使他们在旁走正直的,在其上不致绊跌;因为我是以色列的父,以法莲是我的长子

10 列国啊,要耶和华的,传扬在远处的海:赶散以色列的必招聚他,又看守他,好像牧人看守羊群。

11 耶和华救赎了雅各,救赎他脱离比他更强之人的

12 他们要到锡安的处歌唱,又流归耶和华施恩之地,就是有五谷、新酒,和油,并羔、牛犊之地。他们的心必像浇灌的园子;他们也不再有一点愁烦。

13 那时,处女必欢乐跳舞;年少的、年老的,也必一同欢乐;因为我要使他们的悲哀变为欢喜,并要安慰他们,使他们的愁烦为快乐。

14 我必以肥油使祭司的心满足;我的百姓也要因我的恩惠知足。这是耶和华的。

15 耶和华如此:在拉玛见号啕痛哭的声音,是拉结哭他儿女,不肯受安慰,因为他们都不在了。

16 耶和华如此:你禁止声音不要哀哭,禁止眼目不要流泪,因你所做之工必有赏赐;他们必从敌国归回。这是耶和华的。

17 耶和华:你末後必有指望;你的儿女必回到自己的境界。

18 以法莲为自己悲叹说:你责罚我,我便受责罚,像不惯负轭的犊一样。求你使我回,我便回,因为你是耶和华─我的

19 我回就真正懊悔;受教以就拍叹息;我因担当幼年的凌辱就抱愧蒙羞。

20 耶和华以法莲是我的爱子麽?是可喜悦的孩子麽?我每逢责备他,仍深顾念他;所以我的心肠恋慕他;我必要怜悯他。

21 以色列民(原文是处女)哪,你当为自己设立指碑,竖起引柱。你要留向大,就是你所去的原;你当回,回到你这些城邑。

22 背道的民(原文是子)哪,你反来覆去要到几时呢?耶和华上造了一件新事,就是子护卫男子。

23 万军之耶和华以色列的如此:我使被掳之人归回的时候,他们在犹大和其中的城邑必再这样:公的居所啊,哪,愿耶和华赐福给你。

24 犹大和属犹大城邑的人,农夫和放羊的人,要一同在其中。

25 疲乏的人,我使他饱饫;愁烦的人,我使他知足。

26 先知说:我醒了,觉着睡得香甜!

27 耶和华:日子将到,我要把人的种和牲畜的种播种在以色列家和犹大家。

28 我先前怎样留意将他们拔出、拆毁、毁坏、倾覆、苦害,也必照样留意将他们建立、栽植。这是耶和华的。

29 当那些日子,人不再父亲吃了酸葡萄,儿子酸倒了。

30 但各必因自己的罪亡;凡酸葡萄的,自己的必酸倒。

31 耶和华:日子将到,我要与以色列家和犹大家另立新约,

32 不像我拉着他们祖宗的,领他们出埃及的时候,与他们所立的约。我虽作他们的丈夫,他们却背了我的约。这是耶和华的。

33 耶和华:那些日子以,我与以色列家所立的约乃是这样:我要将我的律法放在他们里面,在他们上。我要作他们的,他们要作我的子民。

34 他们各不再教导自己的邻舍和自己的弟兄:你该认识耶和华,因为他们从最小的到至的都必认识我。我要赦免他们的孽,不再记念他们的罪恶。这是耶和华的。

35 那使太阳白日发,使月有定例,黑夜发亮,又搅动大,使中波浪匉訇的,

36 这些定例若能在我面前废掉,以色列的後裔也就在我面前断绝,永远不再成国。这是耶和华的。

37 耶和华如此:若能量度,寻察根基,我就因以色列後裔一切所行的弃绝他们。这是耶和华的。

38 耶和华:日子将到,这城必为耶和华建造,从哈楠业楼直到角门

39 准绳要往外量出,直到迦立山,又到歌亚。

40 抛尸的全和倒灰之处,并一切田地,直到汲沦,又直到东方的拐角,都要归耶和华,不再拔出,不再倾覆,直到永远

   

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2135. PREFACE to Genesis 18

[Each chapter belonging to Volume Two of the Latin (Genesis 16-21) was published separately, and therefore this Preface belongs to Chapter 18 only.]

At the end of the previous chapter the subject dealt with was the Last Judgement, and there it was shown what is meant by it - not the destruction of the world, but the final period of the Church. When this is imminent, says the Lord, He will come in the clouds of heaven with power and glory, Matthew 24:30; Mark 13:26; Luke 21:27. Nobody until now has known what was meant by 'the clouds of heaven'. But it has been disclosed to me that nothing else is meant than the literal sense of the Word, and that by 'power and glory' is meant the internal sense of the Word; for the internal sense of the Word holds glory within itself, since everything within that sense has regard to the Lord and His kingdom; see Volume One, in 1769-1772. Something similar is meant by 'the cloud' which surrounded Peter, James, and John when the Lord appeared to them in glory, concerning which the following is said in Luke,

A voice came out of the cloud, saying, This is My beloved Son; listen to Him! When however the voice had gone Jesus was found alone. Luke 9:35-36.

Moses and Elijah there who conversed with the Lord represented the Old Testament Word, which is also called Moses and the Prophets - 'Moses' representing the books by him, together with the historical books, 'Elijah the prophet' representing all the Prophets. Peter, James, and John however represented, as they do wherever else they are mentioned in the Gospels, faith, charity, and good flowing from charity. Their presence alone on that occasion meant that no others are able to see the glory of the Lord which is present in His Word than those with whom faith, its partner charity, and good flowing from charity are present. All others do indeed have the ability to see; nevertheless they do not see because they do not believe. Such is the internal sense of these two passages. In various places in the Prophets as well, 'cloud' means the Word as to its letter, and 'glory' the Word as to its life. What the internal sense of the Word is, and the nature of it, has been stated in many places, and has been shown in the word-by-word explanation that has been given. Those expert in the Law in the Lord's time had least belief of all in the idea that anything in the Word had been written regarding the Lord. Today such experts do, it is true, recognize this, but they perhaps will have least belief of all in the idea that any glory is present in the Word other than that visible in the letter - though the letter is in fact the cloud which has the glory within it.

From this chapter especially do the nature of the internal sense of the Word and the manner in which angels perceive the Word when it is read by man become clear. From the historical sense that belongs to the letter nothing else is understood than that Jehovah appeared to Abraham in the guise of three men, and that Sarah, Abraham, and his servant prepared food for them, namely cakes of fine flour, a young bull, and also butter and milk. Although these are historically true descriptions of things which actually took place, they are nevertheless not perceived by angels in any such historical manner. Instead the angels perceive abstractedly, quite apart from the letter, the things which are represented and are meant spiritually by such descriptions; that is to say, they perceive them according to the explanation set out in the Contents. In place of the historical details stated in this chapter they perceive the state of the Lord's perception within the Human, and also the communication at that time with the Divine, before the perfect union existed of His Divine Essence with His Human Essence and of His Human Essence with His Divine Essence, which state is also what the Lord is referring to when He says,

Nobody has even seen God; the only begotten Son who is in the bosom of the Father, He has made Him known. John 1:18.

[2] Also, by the different kinds of food mentioned in this chapter angels perceive nothing else than celestial and spiritual goods, details of which goods are given in the explanation of the chapter. And by what is said further on in it about a son whom Sarah would bear at the appointed time in the following year, angels perceive nothing else than this, that the Lord's human rational would be made Divine. By what is stated at the end of the chapter about Abraham speaking to Jehovah concerning the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah they perceive nothing else than the Lord's interceding on behalf of the human race. By the numbers fifty, forty-five, forty; thirty, twenty, and ten mentioned there they perceive His interceding on behalf of those with whom truths were to be allied to goods, and to whom goods were to come through temptations and conflicts, or through other states. And their perception is the same with everything else in the Word, as may become clearer still from the word-by-word explanation that is given, where it is shown that similar things are embodied within each individual expression in the Word, both in the historical part and in the prophetical part.

[3] That such an internal sense is present everywhere in the Word, which deals solely with the Lord, with His kingdom in heaven, with His Church on earth, and in particular with every individual, and so deals with the goods of love and the truths of faith, may also become clear to anyone from Old Testament texts quoted in the Gospels, as in Matthew,

The Lord said to My Lord, Sit at My right hand, till I make Your enemies Your footstool. Matthew 22:44; Psalms 110:1.

That these words refer to the Lord cannot be seen from the literal sense of them as they stand in David; yet that no one other than the Lord is meant, He himself teaches at this point in Matthew.

[4] In the same gospel,

You, Bethlehem, land of Judah, are by no means least among the leaders of Judah, for from you will come a leader who will shepherd my people Israel. Matthew 2:6; Micah 5:2.

Those who confine themselves to the literal sense, as Jews do, do indeed know from this that the Lord was to be born there; but because they are waiting for a leader and king who will lead them back into the land of Canaan they therefore explain the words here literally. That is to say, they take 'the land of Judah' to mean the land of Canaan and '[My people] Israel' to mean [the tribes of] Israel, even though they do not know where the latter are now; and 'a leader' they still take to mean their Messiah. But in fact 'Judah' and 'Israel' are used to mean things other than Judah and Israel; that is to say, 'Judah' means those who are celestial and 'Israel' those who are spiritual, in heaven and on earth. And 'a leader' is used to mean the Lord.

[5] In the same gospel,

A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, crying out, and much wailing; Rachel weeping for her children, and she refused to be consoled because they are not. Matthew 2:18; Jeremiah 31:15.

Those who confine themselves to the literal sense cannot possibly gain from it that sense which is the internal meaning of these words. Yet the existence of this internal sense is evident from the gospel itself. In the same gospel,

Out of Egypt have I called My son. Matthew 2:15; Hosea 11:1.

In Hosea the wording is,

When Israel was a boy I loved him, and out of Egypt I called My son. [As] they called them, so they went away from their presence. And I taught Ephraim to walk. Hosea 11:1-3.

Those who have no knowledge of the existence of the internal sense cannot know otherwise than that here Jacob is meant when he entered Egypt, and his descendants when they left, and that 'Ephraim' is used to mean the tribe of Ephraim - thus the same things as occur in historical sections of the Word. Nevertheless it is clear from the Word of the Evangelists that they mean the Lord, though what each detail means could not possibly be known unless it were disclosed by means of the internal sense.

  
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