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以西結書 22

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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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862. Verse 4. These are they that were not defiled with women, signifies those who have not falsified the truths of the Word. This is evident from the signification of "to be defiled and contaminated with women," as being to falsify the truths of the Word, since this has the same signification as "to commit whoredom" and "to play the harlot." That "whoredoms," "harlotries," and "adulteries," which are so often mentioned in the prophecies of the Word, signify falsifications and adulterations of the truth and good of the doctrine of the church, thus of the Word, may be seen above (n. 141, 161, 511, 695, 803); therefore it is added "for they are virgins," which signifies that they are in the affection or love of truth for the sake of truth. It is said that these hundred forty-four thousand "are not defiled with women, for they are virgins," because these hundred forty-four thousand mean all who are in truths from good; and those who are in truths from good cannot falsify truths, because good opens the spiritual mind, which receives light from heaven and enlightens the natural mind; therefore when truths appear they are acknowledged and received, and falsities are rejected. It is altogether different with those who are in truths without good. Such are in falsities, although they believe themselves to be in truths. For truths without good have no light or life; consequently they are inwardly as it were black and dead; and therefore when interiorly regarded by such they are either falsified or are scattered as if they were nothing. Such are the truths of the Word with those who are in faith separated from charity. When these speak from the sense of the letter of the Word they can speak nothing else than truths, since all things of the Word are truths; and yet those things that constitute the sense of the letter are appearances of truth because they are for the simple and for little children, and therefore are adapted to their apprehension. But when one who is in faith separated from charity interiorly examines these appearances of truth and undertakes to draw forth their genuine meaning or genuine truth he falls into falsities, by which he destroys the very truths of heaven, and thus closes heaven to himself. It is otherwise with those who are in truths from good; for these are continually enlightened by the Lord; for the Lord flows into good, and through good into truths with man; but not into truths without good, thus not into faith without charity.

  
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Isaiah 62:5

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5 For as a young man marries a virgin, so your sons shall marry you; and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so your God will rejoice over you.