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約珥書 3

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1 到那日,我使猶大耶路撒冷被擄之人歸回的時候,

2 我要聚集萬民,帶他們約沙法,在那裡施行審判;因為他們將我的百姓,就是我的產業以色列,分散在列國中,又分取我的土,

3 且為我的百姓拈鬮,將童子換妓女童女買酒

4 推羅、西頓,和非利士四境的人哪,你們與我何干?你們要報復我麼?若報復我,我必使報應速速歸到你們的上。

5 你們既然奪取我的,又將我可愛的寶物帶入你們宮殿(或譯:廟中),

6 並將猶大人和耶路撒冷給希利尼人(原文是雅完人),使他們遠離自己的境界。

7 我必激動他們離開你們所到之地,又必使報應歸到你們的上。

8 我必將你們的兒女猶大人的中,他們必給遠方示巴國的人。這是耶和華的。

9 當在萬民中宣告說:要預備打仗;激動勇士,使一切戰士上前來。

10 要將犁頭打成刀,將鐮刀打成戈矛;軟弱的要:我有勇力。

11 四圍的列國啊,你們要速速地,一同聚集。耶和華啊,求你使你的大能者降臨。

12 萬民都當興起,上到約沙法;因為我必在那裡,審判四圍的列國。

13 開鐮罷!因為莊稼熟了;踐踏罷!因為酒醡滿了。酒池盈溢;他們的罪惡甚大。

14 許多許多的人在斷定,因為耶和華的日子臨近斷定

15 日月昏暗,宿無光。

16 耶和華必從錫安吼叫,從耶路撒冷發聲,就震動。耶和華卻要作他百姓的避難所,作以色列人的保障。

17 你們就知道我是耶和華─你們的,且又住在錫安─我的。那時,耶路撒冷必成為;外邦人不再從其中經過。

18 到那日,大要滴甜酒;小奶子;猶大都有。必有泉源從耶和華的殿中出來,滋潤什亭谷。

19 埃及必然荒涼,以東變為悽涼的曠野,都因向猶大人所行的強暴,又因在本流無辜人的血。

20 猶大必存到永遠耶路撒冷必存到萬

21 我未曾報復(或譯:洗除;下同)流血的罪,現在我要報復,因為耶和華住在錫安。

   

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Apocalypse Revealed # 643

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643. Having on His head a golden crown, and in His hand a sharp sickle. This symbolizes the Divine wisdom emanating from the Lord's Divine love, and the Divine truth in the Word.

That a crown on the head symbolizes wisdom may be seen in nos. 189, 252 above, and a golden crown wisdom springing from love in no. 235. And because the crown was seen on the head of the Son of Man, or the Lord, the golden crown symbolizes the Divine wisdom emanating from His Divine love.

A sickle symbolizes the Divine truth in the Word because a harvest symbolizes the state of the church in respect to Divine truth - here its last state - and therefore to harvest, which is what a sickle is used for, here means, symbolically, to put an end to the state of the church and to execute judgment. Moreover, because these actions are accomplished by means of the Word's Divine truth, therefore this is what is symbolically meant by a sickle, and by a sharp sickle its being accomplished perfectly and flawlessly.

A sickle has the same symbolic meaning as swords, but a sickle is specified when the subject has to do with harvesting, while a sword is specified when the subject has to do with war.

That swords symbolize Divine truth combating falsities, and the converse, may be seen in nos. 52, 108, 117 above.

  
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Many thanks to the General Church of the New Jerusalem, and to Rev. N.B. Rogers, translator, for the permission to use this translation.