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以西結書 17

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1 耶和華的臨到我說:

2 人子啊,你要向以色列家出謎語,設比喻,

3 耶和華如此:有一翅膀,翎毛長,羽毛豐滿,彩色俱備,到利巴嫩,將香柏樹梢擰去,

4 就是折去香柏樹儘尖的嫩枝,叼到貿易之,放在買賣城中;

5 又將以色列的枝子栽於肥田裡,插在大水旁,如插柳樹,

6 就漸漸生長,成為蔓延矮小的葡萄樹。其枝向那鷹,其在鷹以,於是成了葡萄樹,生出枝子,發出小枝。

7 又有翅膀羽毛多。這葡萄樹從栽種的畦中向這彎過來,發出枝子,好得他的澆灌。

8 這樹栽於肥田多水的旁邊,生枝子,結果子,成為佳美的葡萄樹。

9 你要耶和華如此:這葡萄樹豈能發旺呢?鷹豈不拔出他的來,芟除他的果子,使他枯乾,使他發的嫩葉都枯乾了麼?也不用力和多民,就拔出他的來。

10 葡萄樹雖然栽種,豈能發旺呢?一經東,豈不全然枯乾麼?必在生長的畦中枯乾了。

11 耶和華的臨到我說:

12 你對那悖逆之家:你們不知道這些事是甚麼意思麼?你要告訴他們,巴比倫王曾到耶路撒冷,將其中的君王和首領到巴比倫自己那裡去。

13 從以色列的宗室中取一人與他立約,使他發誓,並將國中有勢力的人擄去,

14 使國低微不能自強,惟因守盟約得以存立。

15 他卻背叛巴比倫王,打發使者往埃及去,要他們馬匹和多民。他豈能亨通呢?行這樣事的人豈能逃脫呢?他背約豈能逃脫呢?

16 他輕看向王所起的誓,背棄王與他所立的約。耶和華:我指著我的永生起誓,他定要在立他作王、巴比倫王的京都。

17 敵人築壘造臺,與他打仗的時候,為要剪除多人,法老雖領軍隊群眾,還是不能幫助他。

18 他輕看誓言,背棄盟約,已經投降,卻又做這一切的事,他必不能逃脫。

19 所以耶和華如此:我指著我的永生起誓,他既輕看指我所起的誓,背棄指我所立的約,我必要使這罪歸在他上。

20 我必將我的撒在他身上,他必在我的羅中纏住。我必他到巴比倫,並要在那裡因他干犯我的罪刑罰他。

21 他的一切軍隊,凡逃跑的,都必倒在刀下;所剩下的,也必分散四方(方:原文是)。你們就知道這話的是我─耶和華

22 耶和華如此:我要將香柏樹梢擰去栽上,就是從儘尖的嫩枝中折一嫩枝,栽於極上;

23 以色列處的栽上。他就生枝子,結果子,成為佳美的香柏樹,各類飛都必宿在其,就是宿在枝子的蔭

24 田野的樹木都必知道我─耶和華使矮小,矮大;青枯乾,枯發旺。我─耶和華如此,也如此行了。

   

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属天的奥秘 # 1857

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1857. “因为亚摩利人的罪恶到现在还没有满盈” 表不再有任何良善之时的末期. 这从 “亚摩利人” 和 “满盈” 的含义清楚可知. 在圣言中, “亚摩利人” 表总体上的邪恶, 原因在于, 迦南地被被称为 “亚摩利人之地”, 这清楚可见于以西结书 (16:3, 4) 和阿摩司书 (2:9, 10). 因此, “亚摩利人” 在此表迦南地的所有民族, 就象前面说的, 这些民族尤表恶与假. 所以, “亚摩利人” 表总体上的一切邪恶. “满盈” 表不再有任何良善之时的末期.

不过, “亚摩利人的罪恶到现在还没有满盈” 这句话的内义是一个奥秘. 在来世, 恶者的情况是这样: 在其罪恶尚未达到顶点之前, 他们不会受到惩罚. 这既适用于总体的罪恶, 也适用于具体的罪恶. 因为在来世, 一切事物都处于这样的平衡: 邪恶自我惩罚, 也就是说, 只有当罪恶达到顶点时, 恶者才会面临罪恶的惩罚. 每一种罪恶都有自己的极限, 这极限因人而异, 超过这个极限是不可以的. 恶者一旦越过这个极限, 就会面临惩罚. 具体情况就是如此.

总体上也是这样. 恶者不是立刻, 而是逐渐将自己推入地狱. 这源于主所确立的秩序的普遍法则: 主从不将任何人送入地狱, 而是在罪恶满盈, 没有一丝良善出现时, 罪恶本身, 或这个恶人将自己逐渐扔进地狱. 只要尚有一丝良善, 他就会从地狱被提升上来. 不过, 当只有罪恶时, 他就被自己推入地狱. 善与恶必须首先彼此分离, 因为它们是对立面, 人不可以向这两边倾斜. 这就是 “亚摩利人的罪恶到现在还没有满盈” 的含义. 但善者的情形则不然, 他们不断被主提升向天堂, 而他们的罪恶也会逐渐被抹除.

教会的状态也是这样. 只有等到它的罪恶达到完结, 即仁之善和信之真不复存在之时, 处罚才会到来. 先知书经常提及这种完结 (或结局, 终结, 满了, 满盈等). 如以赛亚书:

我从主万军之耶和华那里听见, 已经决定在全地上施行清算, 终结的事. (以赛亚书 28:22)

耶利米书:

巴比伦啊, 你这住在众水之上多有财宝的, 你的结局到了! 你贪婪之量已满盈! (耶利米书 51:13)

但以理书:

为你本国之民和你圣城, 已经定了七十个七, 要终止罪过, 除净罪恶, 赎尽罪孽, 引进永义, 封住异象和预言, 并膏至圣所. (但以理书 9:24)

最终, 那荒凉必临到可憎的飞鸟身上, 直到所定的结局, 它必倾在那行毁坏的身上. (但以理书 9:27)

主自己也在路加福音中以这些话预言了结局:

他们要倒在刀下, 又被掳到各国去. 耶路撒冷最终要被外邦人践踏, 直到外邦人的日期满了. (路加福音 21:24)

“要倒在刀下” 表虚假, 因为在圣言中, “刀” 是指对虚假的惩罚. “耶路撒冷” 表主的国度和教会 (402节), “外邦人” 表邪恶 (1260节). 因此, 这段经文的意思是, 当教会被恶与假所占据, 从而自行毁灭时, “结局” 就到了.

  
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Arcana Coelestia # 7836

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7836. 'By the number of the souls, [each of them] according to the mouth of his eating, you shall make your count for the member of the flock' means making the good sufficient for innocence by filling it out with truths of good in the exact quantity needed for assimilating innocence. This is clear from the meaning of 'the number of the souls' as the exact quantity of the truths of good, since 'the number' in the Word has reference to truth, and 'a soul' to spiritual good; from the meaning of 'according to the mouth of his eating' as the amount needed for assimilating it, 'eating' meaning assimilating or making one's own, see 3168, 3517, 3596, 3832; and from the meaning of 'the member of the flock' as innocence, dealt with above in 7832. Making the good sufficient for innocence by filling it out is meant by the command to take from the house of an immediate neighbour the number that would be enough for the member of the flock, 'the house' meaning good, see above in 7873. When the expression 'the truth of good' is used here truth springing from good is meant. For when those who belong to the spiritual Church are being regenerated they are brought to the good of charity by means of the truth of faith; but once they have been brought to the good of charity, the truths born from it subsequently are called the truths of good.

[2] But how to understand these matters contained in this verse no one can possibly know unless he knows how the communities in heaven exist in relation to one another; for those communities were represented by the ways in which the children of Israel lived in association with one another according to tribes, families, and households. The communities of heaven are interrelated in a similar way, as follows: Heaven as a whole is one community, which the Lord governs as a single human being. The general communities there are the same in number as the members and various organs a person has, while the specific communities are the same in number as the component parts of each organ or member. And the individual communities are just so many as the smaller parts constituting larger ones. The truth of this is evident from the correspondences of the human being and of his members and various organs with the Grand Man, that is, with heaven, which have been described from experience at the ends of quite a number of chapters. From all this one may see what heaven is like so far as its organization into separate communities is concerned.

[3] But as regards what each community individually is like, it consists of a large number of angels who accord with one another in their types of good. The types of good are varying, for each one's good is peculiar to himself; yet those varying types of good that are in accord with one another are organized by the Lord into the kind of form in which they stand together as a single body of good. Such communities were represented by the fathers' houses among the children of Israel. This is the reason why the children of Israel were divided not only into tribes but also into families and households. And it is also why, when people are mentioned by name [in the Word], the names of their fathers are mentioned in order, right back to the tribe they belong to. It says, for example, of Samuel's father in 1 Samuel 1:11 that he was from Mount Ephraim, and that his name was Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph; and 1 Samuel 9:1 states that Saul's father was from Benjamin, and that his name was Kish, the son of Abiel, the son of Zeror, the son of Bechorath, the son of Aphiah, the son of a Jeminite man. 1 Similar details concerning very many other fathers are given. When such were mentioned it was to the end that heaven might know the particular nature of the kind of good represented by that father, as it derived in consecutive degrees from the first.

[4] In heaven furthermore, if a community is not complete as it ought to be, then new members are taken from elsewhere, from some neighbouring community, just the number that will complete the form of that good. As many are taken as are needed in each state and in the changes it undergoes; for the form of good varies as the state changes. It should nevertheless be recognized that in the third or inmost heaven - which is immediately above the heaven where those who are spiritual are, since these constitute the middle or second heaven - innocence reigns. For the Lord, who is perfect innocence, flows directly into that heaven.

[5] But in the second heaven, where those who are spiritual are, the Lord flows in with innocence indirectly, that is to say, by way of the third heaven. This inflow is the means by which the communities in the second heaven are organized or arranged into order in respect of their types of good. Therefore the inflow of innocence is what leads to changes in the states of good and to consequent variations of the patterns linking communities to one another there. From this it becomes clear how one ought to understand the contents of this verse in the internal sense, namely as follows: If someone's individual type of good is insufficient for innocence, it must be joined to the nearest good of truth, in order to make the good sufficient for the innocence by filling it out with truths of good in the exact quantity needed for assimilating innocence.

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1. i.e. a Benjaminite

  
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