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那鸿书 3

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1 祸哉!这流人血的城,充满谎诈和强暴,抢夺的事总不止息。

2 鞭声响亮,车轮轰轰,马匹踢跳,车辆奔腾,

3 马兵争先,刀发光,枪矛闪烁,被杀的甚多,尸首成了大堆,尸骸无数,人碰着而跌倒,

4 都因那美貌的妓女多有淫行,惯行邪术,藉淫行诱惑列国,用邪术诱惑(原文是)多族。

5 万军之耶和华:我与你为敌;我必揭起你的衣襟,蒙在你脸上,使列国见你的赤体,使列邦观你的丑陋。

6 我必将可憎污秽之物抛在你身上,辱没你,为众目所观。

7 见你的,都必逃跑离开你,尼尼微荒凉了!有谁为你悲伤呢?我何处寻得安慰你的人呢?

8 你岂比挪亚们(或)强呢?挪亚们坐落在众河之间,周围有水;(指尼罗河)作他的濠沟,又作他的城墙

9 古实和埃及是他无穷的力量;弗人和路比族是他的帮手。

10 但他被迁移,被掳去;他的婴孩在各市口上也被摔死。人为他的尊贵人拈阄;他所有的人都被炼子锁着。

11 你也必喝醉,必被埋藏,并因仇敌的缘故寻求避难所。

12 你一切保障必像无花果树上初熟的无花果,若一摇撼就落在想吃之人的中。

13 上的人民如同妇女;你国中的关口向仇敌敞开;你的闩被焚烧。

14 你要打预备受困;要坚固你的保障,踹土和泥,修补砖

15 在那里,必烧灭你;刀必杀戮你,吞灭你如同蝻子。任你加增人数多如蝻子,多如蝗虫罢!

16 你增添商贾,多过上的;蝻子吃尽而去。

17 你的首领多如蝗虫;你的军长彷佛成群的蚂蚱,凉的时候齐落在篱笆上,日头一出便都飞去,人不知道落在何处。

18 亚述王啊,你的牧人睡觉;你的贵胄安歇;你的人民散在间,无人招聚。

19 你的损伤无法医治;你的伤痕极其重大。凡你信息的必都因此向你拍掌。你所行的恶谁没有时常遭遇呢?

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 8908

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8908. 'You shall not answer as a witness of a lie against your neighbour' means that good must not be called evil, nor truth falsity, and conversely that evil must not be called good, nor falsity truth. This is clear from the meaning of 'witness of a lie' as the confirmation of falsity. For the meaning of 'witness' as confirmation, see 4197; and the meaning of 'a lie' as falsity of faith will be evident from what follows below. 'Answering against the neighbour' is speaking to someone in that manner; for 'neighbour' means any and every person, in particular everyone governed by good, and in the abstract sense good itself, 3419, 5025, 6704, 6706-6711, 6818, 8123, so that in the internal sense 'you shall not answer as the witness of a lie against your neighbour' means not saying what is false to anyone, that is, not saying that good is evil and truth is falsity, or vice versa.

[2] What this implies must be explained briefly. None who are ruled by self-love or by love of the world, that is, whose end in view is either to have high and honoured positions or to possess wealth and gain, care when they tell and persuade others that something just is unjust or something unjust is just, and by doing this behave as 'witnesses of a lie'. The reason why they are like this is that their will is in complete subjection to those loves and accompanying desires; it is completely possessed and dominated by them. At the same time the understanding, which is the other part of the mind, indeed has the ability to see what is just or unjust but has no wish to see it. For the will prevails over the understanding; it flows into and persuades it, and at length also makes it blind. Those same people possess no conscience, nor do they know that conscience consists in saying that something just is just, and for no other reason than because it is so, that is, from a love of what is just. People who are like this in the world are also like it in the next life, except for the difference that they do not then say something just is unjust. Instead they call the good of faith evil, and truth falsity, since what is just in dealings with people in the world corresponds to what is good and true in the spiritual world. This is done by them without conscience and also without any shame because it was something they had learned to do during their lifetime and grown accustomed to.

[3] Many times in the Word the expression 'a lie' is used, and wherever it occurs the falsity and evil of faith is meant in the internal sense. And 'the witness of a lie', who is also called 'the witness of violence', means confirming something false, whether before a judge, or before someone else, or before oneself by convincing oneself in one's inner thinking, as in Exodus 23:1ff; Leviticus 19:11-12ff; Deuteronomy 19:16-20. The fact that 'a lie' in the spiritual sense is the evil and falsity of faith is clear from the following places: In John,

You are from your father the devil, and the desires of your father you will to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and has not stood in the truth because the truth is not in him. When he speaks a lie he speaks from the things that are his own, for he is the teller of a lie and the father of it. John 8:44.

Here 'a lie' stands for falsity of faith, for it refers to the unwillingness of the Jews to acknowledge the Lord. 'The devil' in the spiritual sense here is falsity, and 'the father of it' is evil; for falsity springs from evil like son from father. The falsity that is the devil's is the falsity of faith, the evil that is his is the evil of self-love and love of the world.

[4] In Isaiah,

Moab is exceedingly proud; his haughtiness, and his pride, and his anger - his lies are not firm. Isaiah 16:6.

'Lies' stands for falsities of faith, since 'Moab' is those who, ruled by the evil of self-love, therefore falsify truths, 2468, 8315. In the same prophet,

We have made a covenant with death, and with hell we have shaped a vision. We have put our trust in a lie, and we have hidden in falsity. Isaiah 28:15.

In the same prophet,

They were a rebellious people, lying sons, sons who did not wish to hear the law of Jehovah. Isaiah 30:9.

In Jeremiah,

They deceive one another, 1 and do not speak the truth. They have taught their tongue to speak a lie Jeremiah 9:5.

In the same prophet,

Behold, I am against those that prophesy lying dreams 2 and tell them in order that they may mislead My people by their lies. Jeremiah 23:32.

In the same prophet,

O sword, [be] against the liars, that they may become foolish. Jeremiah 50:36.

In Ezekiel,

They have seen vanity and lying divination, 3 saying, Jehovah has said! when Jehovah has not sent them. Therefore thus has the Lord Jehovih said, Because you speak vanity and see a lie, therefore behold, I am against you. Ezekiel 13:6-9.

In Nahum,

Woe to the city of blood! 4 It is all full of lies and plunder. Nahum 3:1.

In Zephaniah,

The remnant of Israel will not do iniquity or speak any lie; nor will a fraudulent tongue be found in their mouth. They will feed and rest. Zephaniah 3:13.

In John,

Outside are dogs, and sorcerers, and fornicators, and murderers, and idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices a lie. Revelation 22:15.

In these as in many other places 'a lie' stands for the falsity and evil of faith.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. literally, They deceive, a man his companion

2. literally, dreams of a lie

3. literally, divination of a lie

4. literally, bloods

  
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