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33 妓女是得人贈送,你反倒贈送你所的人,賄賂他們從四圍與你行淫。

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属天的奥秘 # 10540

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10540. “现在你们要把妆饰从身上摘下来” 表他们的外在的性质, 即它缺乏神性之物. 这从 “妆饰” 和 “把妆饰从身上摘下来” 的含义清楚可知: 当论述的主题是教会时, “妆饰” 是指神圣真理, 或外在事物中的神性之物, 如前所述 (10536节); “把妆饰从身上摘下来” 是指除去它, 因而是指没有它. “妆饰” 表示外在事物中的神性之物或神圣真理, 这一点从下列经文明显看出来, 以西结书:

我使你身穿绣花衣服, 脚穿獾皮鞋, 并用细麻布给你束腰, 用丝绸给你遮身. 又用妆饰打扮你, 将镯子戴在你手上, 将链子戴在你颈上. 我也将鼻环戴在你鼻子上, 将耳环戴在你耳朵上, 将华冠戴在你头上. 这样, 你就有金银的妆饰; 你的服装是细麻, 丝绸, 刺绣的衣服; 吃的是细面, 蜂蜜并油. 你也极其美貌, 发达到君王的尊荣. 因此你美貌的名声传在列族中; 因我加在你身上的妆饰使你完美. (以西结书 16:10-14)

这论及耶路撒冷, 耶路撒冷表示大洪水之后主所建立的教会, 继这个教会之后就是以色列和犹太教会. 这一章还描述了以色列和犹太教会的品质. 但刚才所引用的这几节经文描述的是这个古教会的品质, 其中提到的妆饰描述了该教会的神圣真理. 谁都能看出, 特别提到的事物表示诸如与教会有关的那类事物, 每一个都表示某种具体事物. 否则, 如此描述耶路撒冷又有什么目的呢?

至于每个具体的东西表示教会的哪个方面, 这只能从内义清楚可知. 因为内义教导, 在灵界, 与所描述的每个具体事物相对应的, 究竟是什么. 凭内义能清楚知道: “刺绣的衣服” 表示记忆真理或真正的记忆知识 (参看9688节); “细麻” 表示来自神性的知识真理 (intellectual truth, 5319, 9469, 9596, 9744节); “手镯” 表示真理的能力 (3103, 3105节); “链子” 表示源于良善的真理的流入, 以及随之而来内层事物与外层事物的结合 (5320节); “鼻环” 表示对真理的感知, “耳环” 是指对真理的顺从 (4551, 10402节); “华冠” 表示属灵良善, 或真理的良善, “冠” 表示良善 (9930节), “华” (华美或荣美) 表示属灵之物 (参看9815节); “金和银” 表示总体上的良善和真理 (参看113, 1551, 1552, 5658, 6914, 6917, 9874节); “细面, 蜜和油” 表示外在和内在的真理和良善, “细面” 表示源于良善的真理 (9995节); “蜜” 表示外在良善 (10530节), “油” 表示内在良善 (886, 4582, 4638, 9474, 9780, 10254, 10261节); “美貌” 表示源于良善的真理所取的外在形式 (3080, 3821, 4985, 5199节). 这些事物所论及的 “耶路撒冷” 表示教会 (参看402, 2117, 3654节). 由此明显可知 “妆饰” 表示什么, 即整体上的神圣真理.

以赛亚书中所列举的 “锡安女儿的妆饰” 具有同样的含义:

到那日, 主必除掉她们脚钏, 发网, 月牙圈, 香水瓶, 小链子, 金盘, 头饰, 足链, 华带, 香盒, 符囊, 戒指, 鼻环, 吉服, 长袍, 云肩, 荷包, 镜子, 细棉衣, 裹头巾, 亚麻衣的妆饰. 必有臭烂代替馨香, 分裂代替腰带, 光秃代替美发, 麻衣系腰代替长袍, 烙伤代替美容. 你的男丁必倒在剑下; 在战场上没有力量. (以赛亚书 3:18-25)

那些局限于字义的人不可避免地以为, 经上所说的锡安女儿所妆饰的这一切物品必须照字面来理解; 正是由于这些妆饰, 以及随之而来的傲慢自大才造成这个国家的人民将要灭亡, 因为经上说 “你的男丁必倒在剑下; 在战场上没有力量”. 但那些稍微提升心智超越字面的人就能看出不可按字面来理解这类事物.

他们能从圣言的各个地方看出, “锡安的女儿” 不是指锡安的女儿, 而是指诸如属于教会的那类事物; 这类事物也由 “耶路撒冷的女儿”, “以色列的女儿”, “犹大的女儿” 和其他许多女儿来表示. “女儿” 表示教会和属于教会的事物 (参看6729, 9055末尾节). 因此, 由于 “锡安的女儿” 表示教会和属于教会的事物, 故可推知, 如此处所列举的她们的妆饰表示教会的真理和良善, 每种妆饰都表示某种具体的真理和良善; 因为出现在圣言中的任何东西, 甚至一个小小的词语, 都不是没有意义的.

由于这个教会将失去这些妆饰所表示的其真理和良善, 故经上说 “必有臭烂代替馨香, 分裂代替腰带, 光秃代替美发, 麻衣系腰代替长袍, 烙伤代替美容. 你的男丁必倒在剑下; 在战场上没有力量”; 因为 “馨香” 或 “香料” 表示对神性真理的感知 (10199, 10291节); “臭烂” 表示剥夺它; “腰带” 表示将真理和良善彼此联系在一起的纽带 (9341末尾, 9828, 9837节); “取代它的分裂” 表示对它们的瓦解和分散; “美发” 表示记忆真理或真正的记忆知识 (2831节); “光秃” 是指被剥夺对真理的聪明理解和对良善的智慧洞察 (9960节); “烙伤” 表示通过自我之爱的邪恶对它们的毁灭 (1297, 2446, 7852, 9055, 9141节); “美貌” 表示源于良善的真理在教会里面所取的外在形式, 因而它的完美 (3080, 3821, 4985, 5199节); “男丁必倒在” 的 “剑” 表示摧毁真理和良善的虚假 (2799, 4499, 6353, 7102, 8294节); “在战场上没有力量” 表示对邪恶和虚假没有任何抵抗力, 因为 “战场或战争” 是指属灵的争战, 以及试探 (1659, 1664, 2686, 8273, 8295, 10455节). 由此明显可知, “妆饰” 一般表示教会所拥有的神性真理.

下列经文中的 “妆饰” 所表相同:

以色列的女儿啊, 当为扫罗哭号! 他曾使你们穿染过两次的美衣, 给你们衣服佩上黄金的妆饰. (撒母耳记下 1:24)

这些话出现在大卫为扫罗所作的哀歌中, 他将这教导犹大人的歌称为弓歌 (撒母耳记下 1:18). 在本节经文中, “弓” 表示与邪恶的虚假争战的真理的教义 (2686, 2709, 6422节). 因此, “以色列的女儿” 表示教会对真理的情感 (2362, 3963, 6729, 6775, 6788, 8994节); “穿染过两次的美衣” 表示被赋予源于良善的教会的内层真理 (4922, 9468节); “给衣服佩上黄金的妆饰” 表示赋予源于良善的真理以美丽的表象, “黄金” 表示良善 (参看9874节提到的地方), “衣服或服装” 一般表示真理 (参看10536末尾节提到的地方). 大卫为扫罗所作的哀歌之所以论述与邪恶的虚假争战的真理的教义, 这教义由 “弓” 来表示, 是因为 “王” 或属于扫罗的王权表示保护和审判方面的神性真理 (1672, 2015, 2069, 3009, 4575, 4581, 4966, 5044, 5068, 6148节).

其它地方的 “妆饰” 所表相同, 如诗篇:

要将耶和华之名的荣耀归给祂, 以圣洁的妆饰向耶和华下拜. (诗篇 29:2)

“以圣洁的妆饰” 表示以教会的真正真理. 在以赛亚书也一样:

你的儿子必急速归回. 你举目向四围观看, 他们都聚集起来. 耶和华说, 我是活着的那一位; 你必要将他们都披上如妆饰, 给他们束腰像新妇一样. (以赛亚书 49:17, 18)

这些话论及锡安, 锡安表示属天教会; “必急速归回” 的儿子表示这个教会的真理, “儿子” 表示真理 (参看489, 491, 2623, 2803, 2813, 3373, 3704, 4257, 9807节). 这解释了为何经上说锡安 “必要将他们都披上如妆饰, 给他们束腰像新妇一样”; 这种话能论及教会的真理, 但不能论及锡安的儿子.

由于在圣言中, 几乎每个事物都有一个反面意义, 那些构成妆饰的东西也是如此. 就反面意义而言, 它们表示已经被歪曲的真理, 如下列经文, 耶利米书:

你荒废的时候要怎样行呢? 你虽穿上染过两次的衣服, 佩戴黄金装饰, 用颜料修饰眼目, 这样标致是枉然的! (耶利米书 4:30)

何西阿书:

我必追讨她给诸巴力烧香, 佩带耳环和妆饰, 随从她的爱人, 却忘记我的日子. (何西阿书 2:13)

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Ezekiel 23

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1 The word of Yahweh came again to me, saying,

2 Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother:

3 and they played the prostitute in Egypt; they played the prostitute in their youth; there were their breasts pressed, and there was handled the bosom of their virginity.

4 The names of them were Oholah the elder, and Oholibah her sister: and they became mine, and they bore sons and daughters. As for their names, Samaria is Oholah, and Jerusalem Oholibah.

5 Oholah played the prostitute when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians [her] neighbors,

6 who were clothed with blue, governors and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding on horses.

7 She bestowed her prostitution on them, the choicest men of Assyria all of them; and on whoever she doted, with all their idols she defiled herself.

8 Neither has she left her prostitution since [the days of] Egypt; for in her youth they lay with her, and they handled the bosom of her virginity; and they poured out their prostitution on her.

9 Therefore I delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, on whom she doted.

10 These uncovered her nakedness; they took her sons and her daughters; and her they killed with the sword: and she became a byword among women; for they executed judgments on her.

11 Her sister Oholibah saw this, yet was she more corrupt in her doting than she, and in her prostitution which were more than the prostitution of her sister.

12 She doted on the Assyrians, governors and rulers, [her] neighbors, clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding on horses, all of them desirable young men.

13 I saw that she was defiled; they both took one way.

14 She increased her prostitution; for she saw men portrayed on the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed with vermilion,

15 dressed with girdles on their waists, with flowing turbans on their heads, all of them princes to look on, after the likeness of the Babylonians in Chaldea, the land of their birth.

16 As soon as she saw them she doted on them, and sent messengers to them into Chaldea.

17 The Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their prostitution, and she was polluted with them, and her soul was alienated from them.

18 So she uncovered her prostitution, and uncovered her nakedness: then my soul was alienated from her, like as my soul was alienated from her sister.

19 Yet she multiplied her prostitution, remembering the days of her youth, in which she had played the prostitute in the land of Egypt.

20 She doted on their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of donkeys, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.

21 Thus you called to memory the lewdness of your youth, in the handling of your bosom by the Egyptians for the breasts of your youth.

22 Therefore, Oholibah, thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will raise up your lovers against you, from whom your soul is alienated, and I will bring them against you on every side:

23 the Babylonians and all the Chaldeans, Pekod and Shoa and Koa, [and] all the Assyrians with them; desirable young men, governors and rulers all of them, princes and men of renown, all of them riding on horses.

24 They shall come against you with weapons, chariots, and wagons, and with a company of peoples; they shall set themselves against you with buckler and shield and helmet all around; and I will commit the judgment to them, and they shall judge you according to their judgments.

25 I will set my jealousy against you, and they shall deal with you in fury; they shall take away your nose and your ears; and your residue shall fall by the sword: they shall take your sons and your daughters; and your residue shall be devoured by the fire.

26 They shall also strip you of your clothes, and take away your beautiful jewels.

27 Thus will I make your lewdness to cease from you, and your prostitution [brought] from the land of Egypt; so that you shall not lift up your eyes to them, nor remember Egypt any more.

28 For thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will deliver you into the hand of them whom you hate, into the hand of them from whom your soul is alienated;

29 and they shall deal with you in hatred, and shall take away all your labor, and shall leave you naked and bare; and the nakedness of your prostitution shall be uncovered, both your lewdness and your prostitution.

30 These things shall be done to you, because you have played the prostitute after the nations, and because you are polluted with their idols.

31 You have walked in the way of your sister; therefore will I give her cup into your hand.

32 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: You will drink of your sister's cup, which is deep and large; you will be ridiculed and held in derision; it contains much.

33 You shall be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and desolation, with the cup of your sister Samaria.

34 You shall even drink it and drain it out, and you shall gnaw the broken pieces of it, and shall tear your breasts; for I have spoken it, says the Lord Yahweh.

35 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because you have forgotten me, and cast me behind your back, therefore you also bear your lewdness and your prostitution.

36 Yahweh said moreover to me: Son of man, will you judge Oholah and Oholibah? then declare to them their abominations.

37 For they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands; and with their idols have they committed adultery; and they have also caused their sons, whom they bore to me, to pass through [the fire] to them to be devoured.

38 Moreover this they have done to me: they have defiled my sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned my Sabbaths.

39 For when they had slain their children to their idols, then they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it; and behold, thus have they done in the midst of my house.

40 Furthermore you have sent for men who come from far, to whom a messenger was sent, and behold, they came; for whom you did wash yourself, paint your eyes, and decorate yourself with ornaments,

41 and sit on a stately bed, with a table prepared before it, whereupon you set my incense and my oil.

42 The voice of a multitude being at ease was with her: and with men of the common sort were brought drunkards from the wilderness; and they put bracelets on the hands of them [twain], and beautiful crowns on their heads.

43 Then I said of her who was old in adulteries, Now will they play the prostitute with her, and she [with them].

44 They went in to her, as they go in to a prostitute: so went they in to Oholah and to Oholibah, the lewd women.

45 Righteous men, they shall judge them with the judgment of adulteresses, and with the judgment of women who shed blood; because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands.

46 For thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will bring up a company against them, and will give them to be tossed back and forth and robbed.

47 The company shall stone them with stones, and dispatch them with their swords; they shall kill their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire.

48 Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not to do after your lewdness.

49 They shall recompense your lewdness on you, and you shall bear the sins of your idols; and you shall know that I am the Lord Yahweh.