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1 耶和華的又臨到我說:

2 人子啊,你要審問審問這流人血的城麼﹖當使他知道他一切可憎的事。

3 你要耶和華如此:哎!這城有流人血的事在其中,叫他受報的日期到,又做偶像玷污自己,陷害自己。

4 你因流了人的血,就為有罪;你做了偶像,就玷污自己,使你受報之日臨近,報應之年到。所以我叫你受列國的凌辱和列邦的譏誚。

5 你這名臭、多亂的城啊,那些離你近、離你遠的都必譏誚你。

6 看哪,以色列的首領各逞其能,在你中間流人之血。

7 在你中間有輕慢父母的,有欺壓寄居的,有虧負孤兒寡婦的。

8 你藐視了我的物,干犯了我的安息日。

9 在你中間有讒謗人、流人血的;有在吃過祭偶像之物的,有行淫亂的。

10 在你中間有露繼母下體羞辱父親的,有玷辱月經不潔淨之婦人的。

11 與鄰舍的妻行可憎的事;那貪淫玷污兒婦;還有玷辱同父之姊妹的。

12 在你中間有為流人血受賄賂的;有向借錢的弟兄取利,向借糧的弟兄多要的。且因貪得無饜,欺壓鄰舍奪取財物,竟忘了我。這是耶和華的。

13 看哪,我因你所得不義之財和你中間所流的血,就拍掌歎息。

14 到了我懲罰你的日子,你的還能忍受麼﹖你的還能有力麼﹖我─耶和華了這話,就必照著行。

15 我必將你分散在列國,四散在列邦。我也必從你中間除掉你的污穢

16 你必在列國人的眼前因自己所行的被褻瀆,你就知道我是耶和華

17 耶和華的臨到我說:

18 人子啊,以色列家在我看為渣滓。他們都是爐中的銅、、鉛,都是渣滓。

19 所以耶和華如此:因你們都成為渣滓,我必聚集你們在耶路撒冷中。

20 人怎樣將、銅、、鉛、聚在爐中,吹鎔化;照樣,我也要發怒氣和忿怒,將你們聚集放在城中,鎔化你們。

21 我必聚集你們,把我烈怒的吹在你們身上,你們就在其中鎔化。

22 子怎樣鎔化在爐中,你們也必照樣鎔化在城中,你們就知道我─耶和華是將忿怒倒在你們身上了。

23 耶和華的臨到我說:

24 人子啊,你要對這:你是未得潔淨之,在惱恨的日子也沒有雨下在你以上。

25 其中的先知同謀背叛,如咆哮的獅子抓撕掠物。他們吞滅人民,搶奪財寶,使這地多有寡婦。

26 其中的祭司強解我的律法,褻瀆我的物,不分別的和俗的,也不使人分辨潔淨的和不潔淨的,又遮眼不顧我的安息日;我也在他們中間被褻慢。

27 其中的首領彷彿豺抓撕掠物,殺人流血,傷害人命,要得不義之財。

28 其中的先知為百姓用未泡透的灰抹牆,就是為他們見虛假的異象,用謊詐的占卜,耶和華如此,其實耶和華沒有

29 國內眾民一味欺壓,慣行搶奪,虧負困苦窮乏的,背理欺壓寄居的。

30 我在他們中間尋重修垣,在我面前為這國站在破口防堵,使我不滅絕這國,卻不著一個。

31 所以我將惱恨倒在他們身上,用烈怒的滅了他們,照他們所行的報應在他們上。這是耶和華的。

   

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#159 One Breach in the Wall: Gender Issues | Gender Equality in the Bible

Napsal(a) Jonathan S. Rose

Title: One Breach in the Wall: Gender Issues

Topic: Second Coming

Summary: We examine an issue that makes Scripture repellent to some people--an apparent gender tilt.

Use the reference links below to follow along in the Bible as you watch.

References:
Genesis 2:21-24
1 Chronicles 1:32, 39, 50; 3:10
Matthew 7:12
Zechariah 2:1-2
Leviticus 25:17
Psalms 9:9; 72:1-4
Isaiah 16:4; 58:6; 61:1
Jeremiah 30:20
Ezekiel 22:26-31
Jeremiah 8:18-22

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Spirit and Life Bible Study broadcast from 11/6/2013. The complete series is available at: www.spiritandlifebiblestudy.com

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Apocalypse Explained # 238

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238. And miserable and poor, signifies that they do not know that they have neither knowledges of truth nor knowledges of good. This is evident from the signification of "miserable" or "pitiable," as meaning those who are in no knowledges of truth; and from the signification of "poor" as meaning those who are in no knowledges of good. That this is the meaning of "miserable" and "poor" is evident from many passages in the Word, and also from this, that spiritual misery and poverty are nothing else than a lack of the knowledges of truth and good, for the spirit is then miserable and poor; but when the spirit possesses these it is rich and wealthy; therefore also "riches" and "wealth" in the Word signifies spiritual riches and wealth, which are the knowledges of truth and good (as was shown just above, n. 236).

[2] "Miserable and poor" are terms used in many passages in the Word. He who is ignorant of the spiritual sense of the Word believes that by these no others are meant than the miserable and poor in the world. These, however, are not meant, but those who are not in truths and goods and in the knowledges thereof; and by the "miserable" indeed, those who are not in truths because not in the knowledges of truths, and by the "poor" those who are not in goods because not in the knowledges of goods. As these two, truths and goods, are meant by these two expressions, the two in many places are mentioned together; as in the passages that now follow. In David:

I am miserable and poor, Lord, remember me (Psalms 40:17; 70:5). Incline thine ear, O Jehovah, answer me, for I am miserable and poor (Psalms 86:1).

The "miserable and poor" here mean evidently those who are miserable and poor, not in respect to worldly riches but in respect to spiritual riches, as David says this of himself; therefore he also said, "Jehovah, incline thine ear, and answer me."

[3] In the same:

The wicked draw out the sword and bend their bow, to cast down the miserable and poor (Psalms 37:14).

Here also "the miserable and poor" mean evidently those who are spiritually such and yet long for the knowledges of truth and good, for it is said that "the wicked draw out the sword and bend the bow," "sword" signifying falsity combating against truth and striving to destroy it, and "bow" the doctrine of falsity fighting against the doctrine of truth; therefore it is said that they do this "to cast down the miserable and poor." (That "sword" signifies truth combating against falsity, and in a contrary sense, falsity combating against truth, see above, n. 131; and that "bow" signifies doctrine in both senses, see Arcana Coelestia 2686, 2709)

[4] So in another place in the same:

The wicked man hath persecuted the miserable and poor and the broken in heart, to slay them (Psalms 109:16).

In Isaiah:

The fool speaketh folly, and his heart doeth iniquity to practice hypocrisy and to speak error against Jehovah, to make empty the hungry soul, and to make him who thirsteth for drink to want. He counseleth wicked devices to destroy the miserable by words of a lie, even when the poor speaketh judgment (Isaiah 32:6-7).

Here likewise "the miserable and poor" mean those who are destitute of the knowledges of truth and good; therefore it is said that "the wicked counseleth wicked devices to destroy the miserable by the words of a lie, even when the poor speaketh judgment;" "by the words of a lie" means by falsities, and "to speak judgment" is to speak what is right. Because such are treated of, it is also said that he "practices hypocrisy and speaketh error against Jehovah, to make empty the hungry soul and to make him who thirsteth for drink to want." "To practice hypocrisy and to speak error" is to do evil from falsity, and to speak falsity from evil; "to make empty the hungry soul" is to deprive those of the knowledges of good who long for them, and "to make him who thirsteth for drink to want" is to deprive those of the knowledges of truth who long for them.

In the same:

The miserable shall have joy in Jehovah, and the poor of men shall exult in the Holy One of Israel (Isaiah 29:19).

Here also "the miserable and poor" signify those who are in lack of truth and good and yet long for them; of these, and not of those who are miserable and poor in respect to worldly wealth, it is said that they "shall have joy in Jehovah, and shall exult in the Holy One of Israel."

[5] From this it can be seen what is signified by the "miserable and poor" in other passages of the Word, as in the following. In David:

The poor shall not always be forgotten; and the hope of the miserable shall not perish for ever (Psalms 9:18).

In the same:

God shall judge the miserable of the people, He shall save the sons of the poor. He shall deliver the poor when he crieth, and the miserable. He shall spare the weak and the poor, and the souls of the poor He shall save (Psalms 72:4, 12-13).

In the same:

The miserable shall see, they that seek Jehovah 1 shall be glad. For Jehovah heareth the poor (Psalms 69:32-33).

In the same:

Jehovah deliverest the miserable from him that is too strong for him, the poor from them that despoil him (Psalms 35:10).

In the same:

The miserable and the poor praise Thy name (Psalms 74:21; 109:22).

In the same:

I know that Jehovah will maintain the cause of the miserable, and the judgment of the poor (Psalms 140:12).

Also elsewhere (as Isaiah 10:2; Jeremiah 22:16; Ezekiel 16:49; 18:12; 22:29; Amos 8:4; Deuteronomy 15:11; 24:14). "The miserable" and "the poor" are both mentioned in these passages, because it is according to the style of the Word that where truth is spoken of, good is also spoken of; and in a contrary sense, where falsity is spoken of, evil is also spoken of, since they make a one, and as if it were a marriage; this is why "the miserable and the poor" are mentioned together; for, by "the miserable" those deficient in the knowledges of truth are meant, and by "the poor" those deficient in the knowledges of good. (That there is such a marriage almost everywhere in the prophetical parts of the Word, see Arcana Coelestia 683, 793, 801, 2516, 2712, 3004, 3005, 3009, 4138, 5138, 5194, 5502, 6343, 7022, 7945, 8339, 9263, 9314.)

For the same reason it is said in what follows, "and blind and naked;" for by "the blind" one who is in no understanding of truth is meant, and by "the naked" one who is in no understanding and will of good. So in the following verse, "I counsel thee to buy of Me gold tried by fire, and white garments that thou mayest be clothed;" for by "gold tried by fire" the good of love is meant, and by "white garments" the truths of faith. And further, "That the shame of thy nakedness be not manifest; and anoint thine eyes with eye-salve, that thou mayest see," which means, lest evils and falsities be seen. So also elsewhere. But that there is such a marriage in the particulars of the Word, none but those who know its internal sense can see.

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1. For "Jehovah" the Hebrew has "God."

  
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