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何西阿書 2

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1 你們要稱你們的弟兄為阿米(就是我民的意思),稱你們的姊妹為路哈瑪(就是蒙憐憫的意思)。

2 你們要與你們的母親大大爭辯;因為她不是我的妻子,我也不是她的丈夫。叫她除掉臉上的淫像和胸間的淫態,

3 免得我剝她的衣服,使她赤體,與才生的時候一樣,使她如曠野,如乾旱之,因渴而

4 我必不憐憫她的兒女,因為他們是從淫亂而生的。

5 他們的母親行了淫亂,懷他們的母做了可羞恥的事,因為她:我要隨從所的;我的餅、、羊毛、麻、、酒都是他們的。

6 因此,我必用荊棘堵塞她的道,築擋住她,使她不著

7 她必追隨所的,卻追不上;她必尋找他們,卻尋不見,便:我要歸回前夫,因我那時的光景比如今還好。

8 她不知道是我她五穀、新酒,和油,又加增她的;她卻以此供奉(或譯:製造)巴力。

9 因此到了收割的日子,出酒的時候,我必將我的五穀新酒收回,也必將她應當遮體的羊毛和麻奪回來

10 如今我必在她所的眼前顯露她的醜態;必無能救她脫離我的

11 我也必使她的宴樂、節期、朔、安息日,並她的一切大會都止息了。

12 我也必毀壞她的葡萄樹和無花果樹,就是她這是我所我為賞賜的。我必使這些樹變為荒林,為田野的走獸所

13 我必追討她素日給諸巴力燒香的罪;那時她佩帶耳環和別樣妝飾,隨從她所的,卻忘記我。這是耶和華的。

14 後來我必勸導她,領她到曠野,對她安慰的話。

15 她從那裡出來,我必賜她葡萄園,又賜她亞割作為指望的。她必在那裡應聲(或譯:歌唱),與幼年的日子一樣,與從埃及上來的時候相同。

16 耶和華:那日你必稱呼我伊施(就是我夫的意思),不再稱呼我巴力(就是我主的意思);

17 因為我必從我民的中除掉諸巴力的名號,這名號不再提起。

18 當那日,我必為我的民,與田野的走獸和空中的飛,並上的昆蟲立約;又必在國中折斷刀,止息爭戰,使他們安然躺臥。

19 我必聘你永遠歸我為妻,以仁、公平、慈愛、憐憫聘你歸我;

20 也以誠實聘你歸我,你就必認識我─耶和華

21 耶和華:那日我必應允,我必應允必應允

22 必應允五穀、新酒,和油,這些必應允耶斯列民。〔耶斯列就是神栽種的意思〕

23 我必將她種在這。素不蒙憐憫的,我必憐憫;本非我民的,我必對他:你是我的民;他必:你是我的

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 9470

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9470. 'And wool of she-goats' means the good from this, that is to say, from the good of mutual love. The reason why 'wool of she-goats' means this good is that 'a she-goat' means the good of innocence in the external or natural man, 3519, 7840, and therefore 'wool' means the truth belonging to that good. However, since not truth but good is meant, the original language does not actually say 'wool of she-goats', only 'she-goats', as is also the case in other places, such as in the following words in Exodus,

All the skilled 1 women brought what they had spun, violet, purple, twice-dyed scarlet, [and] fine linen thread; and all the women whose heart stirred them up in wisdom spun she-goats. Exodus 35:25-26.

'Spinning she-goats' stands for producing things woven from the wool of she-goats.

[2] The fact that 'wool' means truth from a celestial origin, which in itself is good, is clear from places in the Word where the actual word is used, as in Hosea,

[Their mother has committed whoredom.] She said, I will go after my lovers, those giving me my bread and my water, my wool and my linen. Therefore I will return and take back My grain in its season, and I will snatch away My wool and My linen. Hosea 2:5, 9.

This refers to a corrupted Church, meant here by 'mother'. 'The lovers' with whom she is said to have committed whoredom are those who pervert forms of good and truths. 'Bread' and 'water' mean internal forms of the good of love, and the internal truths of faith; 'wool' and 'flax' mean external ones.

[3] In Daniel,

I saw until thrones were placed, and the Ancient of Days was seated. His clothing was white as snow, and the hair of His head like pure wool. Daniel 7:9.

This refers to the Church laid waste so far as every truth of faith was concerned, and then restored by the Lord, its having been completely laid waste being meant in the words 'thrones were placed'. 'The Ancient of Days' is the Lord in respect of celestial good as this existed in the Most Ancient Church, which was a celestial Church. In the Word that good is called 'ancient', its external truth being meant by clothing which was 'white as snow', and its external good by hair of the head which was 'like pure wool'. Similar words occur in John,

... in the midst of the seven lampstands one like the Son of Man. His head and hair were white, like white wool, like snow. Revelation 1:13-14.

[4] This kind of truth, being in itself good because it is the outward form of celestial good, is again meant by 'wool' in Ezekiel,

Damascus was your merchant in the wine of Helbon and the wool of Zachar. 2 Ezekiel 27:18.

And in Isaiah,

Though your sins are like twice-dyed, they will be as white as snow. Though they are as red as scarlet, they will be as wool. Isaiah 1:18.

[5] Because Aaron's garments represented the kinds of realities that belong to the Lord's spiritual kingdom, thus the spiritual realities that belong to truth, his 'holy garments' were made of linen and not of wool. For 'linen' is spiritual truth, whereas 'wool' is celestial truth, which in comparison is good. On this account it says in Ezekiel,

The priests, the Levites, the sons of Zadok, when they enter the gates of the inner court they shall put on the linen garments, and no wool shall come upon them. The linen turbans shall be on their heads, the linen undergarments shall be over their loins. Ezekiel 44:17-18.

The fact that Aaron's garments were made not of wool but of linen is clear from Leviticus 16:4, 32.

[6] From all this it becomes clear that 'linen' means spiritual truth, which is the truth of the good of faith, whereas 'wool' means celestial truth, which is the truth of the good of love. And since those endued with the latter kind of truth cannot be endued with the former, because the two are as different as the light of the sun is from the light of the stars, it was laid down that no one should wear a garment made of wool and linen mixed together, Deuteronomy 22:10-11. The fact that between what is celestial and what is spiritual there is such a difference, and that both cannot be together in one and the same person, see the places referred to in 9277.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. literally, wise

2. The Hebrew word which Swedenborg, following the Latin version of Sebastian Schmidt, renders Zachar is not usually considered to be a proper name.

  
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