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1 瑪代族亞哈隨魯的兒子大利烏立為迦勒底國的王元年,

2 就是他在位第一年,我但以理從上得知耶和華的臨到先知耶利米,論耶路撒冷荒涼的年數,七十年為滿。

3 我便禁食,披麻蒙灰,定意向主祈禱懇求。

4 我向耶和華─我的祈禱、認罪,啊,而可畏的,向、守誡命的人守約施慈愛

5 我們犯罪作孽,行惡叛逆,偏離你的誡命典章,

6 沒有聽從你僕人先知奉你名向我們君、首領、列祖,和國中一切百姓所的話。

7 主啊,你是公的,我們是臉上蒙羞的;因我們猶大耶路撒冷居民,並以色列,或在近處,或在遠處,被你趕到各國的,都得罪了你,正如今日一樣。

8 主啊,我們我們的君、首領、列祖因得罪了你,就都臉上蒙羞。

9 主─我們的是憐憫饒恕人的,我們卻違背了他,

10 也沒有聽從耶和華我們的話,沒有遵行他藉僕人先知我們所陳明的律

11 以色列眾人都犯了你的律法,偏行,不從你的話;因此,在你僕人摩西律法上所的咒詛和誓言都傾在我們身上,因我們得罪了

12 他使災禍臨到我們,成就了警戒我們和審判我們官長的;原來在普未曾行過像在耶路撒冷所行的。

13 這一切災禍臨到我們身上是照摩西律法上所的,我們卻沒有求耶和華我們的恩典,使我們回頭離開罪孽,明白你的真理。

14 所以耶和華留意使這災禍臨到我們身上,因為耶和華我們在他所行的事上都是公我們並沒有聽從他的話。

15 主─我們的啊,你曾用大能的領你的子民出埃及,使自己得了名,正如今日一樣。我們犯了罪,作了惡。

16 主啊,求你按你的大仁大,使你的怒氣和忿怒離你的城耶路撒冷,就是你的耶路撒冷和你的子民,因我們罪惡我們列祖的罪孽被四圍的人羞辱。

17 我們的啊,現在求你垂僕人的祈禱懇求,為自己使臉光你荒涼的聖所。

18 我的啊,求你側耳而,睜眼而,眷顧我們荒涼之地和稱為你名下的城。我們在你面前懇求,原不是因自己的,乃因你的大憐憫。

19 求主垂,求主赦免,求主應允而行,為你自己不要遲延。我的啊,因這城和這民都是稱為你名下的。

20 我說話,禱告,承認我的和本國之民以色列的,為我,在耶和華─我面前懇求。

21 我正禱告的時候,先前在異象中所見的那位加百列,奉命迅速飛來,約在獻晚祭的時候,按手在我身上。

22 他指教我:但以理啊,現在我出來要使你有智慧,有聰明。

23 你初懇求的時候,就發出命令,我告訴你,因你大蒙眷愛;所以你要思想明白這以下的事和異象。

24 為你本國之民和你城,已經定了十個。要止住罪過,除淨罪惡,贖盡孽,引進(或譯:彰顯)永,封住異象預言,並者(者:或譯所)。

25 你當知道,當明白,從出令重新建造耶路撒冷,直到有受膏君的時候,必有六十。正在艱難的時候,耶路撒冷城連街帶濠必重新建造

26 過了六十個七,那(或譯:有)受膏者必被剪除,一無所有;必有一王的民毀滅這城和所,至終必如洪水沖沒。必有爭戰,一直到底,荒涼的事已經定了。

27 七之內,他必與許多人堅定盟約;七之半,他必使祭祀與供獻止息。那行毀壞可憎的(或譯:使地荒涼的)如飛而來,並且有忿怒傾在那行毀壞的身上(或譯:傾在那荒涼之地),直到所定的結局。

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 1153

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1153. That 'the sons of Gomer' also means those who possessed external worship, but an external worship derived from that which existed with the nation Gomer, follows from what has been stated and shown several times already about the meaning of 'sons', as well as from the fact that Gomer is one of those nations which possessed external worship corresponding to internal. Seven nations which possessed such worship are mentioned by name in the previous verse, and seven again, called 'the sons of Gomer and of Javan', in this. The specific differences however between one nation and another cannot be stated, as only their names are given here. In the Prophets however when the subject is specifically this or that type of Church-worship the differences can be established. In general all variations of external worship, as also of internal, arise according to the adoration of the Lord in the worship, and the adoration is according to the love to the Lord and love towards the neighbour that exist there. For it is within love that the Lord is present, and thus within worship. The differences of worship therefore existing among the nations mentioned here depend on the nature of His presence within.

[2] To make it easier to talk about how types of worship differ and how they did so in the Ancient Church among various nations, let it be realized that all true worship consists in adoration of the Lord. Adoration of the Lord consists in being humble; and being humble consists in the self-acknowledgement that with oneself there is nothing living and nothing good, but that with oneself everything is dead, indeed corpse-like. Being humble also consists in the acknowledgement that everything living and everything good come from the Lord. The more a person acknowledges these things not just with the lips but in his heart, the more humility he has; and consequently the more adoration - which is true worship - and the more love and charity, and the more happiness. The first contains the second, and they are so linked together as to be inseparable. This shows what these differences of worship are and the nature of them.

[3] Those who are mentioned here and are called 'the sons of Gomer and of Javan' are people who likewise possessed external worship corresponding to internal, but it was somewhat more remote than that of the people mentioned in the previous verse. This also is why they are called 'sons'. Generations descending one after another, or derivatives, here progress from what is interior towards things that are exterior. The more someone relies on the senses, the more exterior he becomes, and consequently becomes further removed from true worship of the Lord. For when it is more concerned with the world, the body, and the earth, and less with the spirit, it consequently becomes more remote. Because these people called the sons of Gomer and of Javan relied more on the senses, they focused worship even more on external things than those referred to as their parents and cousins had done. Consequently they form a second group here.

  
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