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但以理書 10

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1 波斯王古列第年,有事顯給稱為伯提沙撒的但以理。這事是真的,是指著爭戰;但以理通達這事,明白這異象。

2 當那時,我─但以理悲傷了個七日。

3 美味我沒有,酒沒有入我的,也沒有用油抹我的身,直到滿了個七日。

4 二十日,我在底格里斯邊,

5 舉目觀,見有身穿細麻衣,腰束烏法精金帶。

6 他身體如水蒼玉,面貌如閃電,眼目如把,手和腳如光明的銅,說的聲音如大眾的聲音。

7 這異象惟有我─但以理一人見,同著我的人沒有見。他們卻戰兢,逃跑隱藏,

8 只剩下我一人。我見了這異象便渾身無力,面貌失色,毫無氣力。

9 我卻見他說的聲音,一見就面伏在沉睡了。

10 忽然,有一按在我身上,使我用膝和掌支持微起。

11 他對我:大蒙眷愛的但以理啊,要明白我與你所,只管站起來,因為我現在奉差遣來到你這裡。他對我,我便戰戰兢兢地立起來。

12 他就:但以理啊,不要懼!因為從你第一日專求明白將的事,又在你面前刻苦己,你的言語已蒙應允;我是因你的言語而

13 但波斯國的魔君攔阻我二十日。忽然有大君(就是使長;二十節同)中的位米迦勒幫助我,我就停留在波斯諸那裡。

14 現在我,要使你明白本國之民日後必遭遇的事,因為這異象關乎後許多的日子。

15 他向我這樣,我就臉面朝,啞口無聲。

16 不料,有一位像人的,摸我的嘴唇,我便開向那站在我面前的:我啊,因見這異象,我大大愁苦,毫無氣力。

17 僕人怎能與我說話呢?我一見異象就渾身無力,毫無氣息。

18 有一位形狀像人的又摸我,使我有力量。

19 :大蒙眷愛的哪,不要懼,願你平安!你總要堅強。他一向我說話,我便覺得有力量,:我,因你使我有力量。

20 他就:你知道我為何見你麼?現在我要回去與波斯的魔君爭戰,我去後,希利尼(原文是雅完)的魔君必

21 但我要將那錄在真確書上的事告訴你。除了你們的大君米迦勒之外,沒有幫助我抵擋這兩魔君的。

   

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Apocalypse Revealed # 671

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671. Clothed in clean bright linen, and having their chests girded with golden sashes. This symbolically means, this [a preparation by the Lord for influx into the church] 1 in accordance with the pure and genuine truths and goods in the Word.

Clean bright linen symbolizes pure, genuine truth, as we will show below. A golden sash about the breast symbolizes the emanating Divinity that at the same time conjoins, namely Divine good (no. 46 above). To be clothed and girded means, symbolically, to appear and be seen in this truth and goodness, for garments symbolize truths that clothe goodness (no. 166). Sashes or girdles then symbolize truths and goods that hold everything in their order and connection (no. 46).

It is apparent from this that angels clothed in clean bright linen and girded about their breasts with golden sashes symbolize pure and genuine truths and goods, and because these come only from the Word, they symbolize truths and goods in the Word.

[2] That linen symbolizes Divine truth can be seen from the following, as that Aaron wore linen breeches when he entered the Tabernacle or approached the altar (Exodus 28:42-43). That the priests wore linen ephods (1 Samuel 22:18). That when Samuel as a child ministered before Jehovah, he wore a linen ephod (1 Samuel 2:18). That when David was transporting the Ark into his city he was girded with a linen ephod (2 Samuel 6:14).

It can be seen from this why, when the Lord washed the disciples' feet, He girded Himself in linen and wiped their feet with linen 2 (John 13:4-5).

Moreover, the angels seen in the Lord's sepulcher appeared in dazzling bright white clothing (Matthew 28:3 [cf. Luke 24]).

[4]. The angel who measured the new temple had in his hand a line of linen (Ezekiel 40:3). In order that he might represent the state of the church with respect to truth, Jeremiah was told to buy a linen sash and hide it in a hole in the rock by the Euphrates, and later he found it ruined (Jeremiah 13:1-7). We read, too, in Isaiah:

A bruised reed He will not break, and smoking linen He will not quench; He will bring forth justice in truth. (Isaiah 42:3)

By linen in these places nothing else is meant but truth.

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1. I.e., a preparation by the Lord for influx from the inmost of heaven into the church, to expose its evils and falsities in their entirety and so to separate evil people from the good (no. 670 above).

2. The writer here follows the Latin translation of Sebastian Schmidt, who mistakes the Greek lention (levntion, a towel) to have the same meaning as the Latin linteum (linen).

  
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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.