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彌迦書 3

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1 雅各的首領,以色列家的官長啊,你們要!你們不當知道公平麼?

2 你們惡善惡,從人身上剝,從人骨頭上剔肉,

3 我民的,剝他們的,打折他們的骨頭,分成塊子像要下,又像釜中的

4 到了遭災的時候,這些人必哀求耶和華,他卻不應允他們。那時他必照他們所行的惡事向他們掩面。

5 論到使我民走差先知─他們牙齒有所嚼的,他們就呼喊:平安了!凡不供他們吃的,他們就預備攻擊他(預備攻擊他:或譯必遭遇刀兵)─耶和華如此

6 你們必遭遇黑夜,以致不見異象;又必遭遇幽暗,以致不能占卜。日頭必向你們沉落,白晝變為黑暗。

7 先見必抱愧,占卜的必蒙羞,都必摀著嘴唇,因為不應允他們。

8 至於我,我藉耶和華的靈,滿有力量、公平、才能,可以向雅各說明他的過犯,向以色列指出他的惡。

9 雅各家的首領、以色列家的官長啊,當我的話!你們厭惡公平,在一切事上屈枉正直;

10 以人血建立錫安,以罪孽建造耶路撒冷

11 首領為賄賂行審判;祭司為雇價施訓誨;先知行占卜。他們卻倚賴耶和華耶和華不是在我們中間麼?災禍必不臨到我們

12 所以因你們的緣故,錫安必被耕種像一塊田,耶路撒冷必變為亂堆;這殿的必像叢林的處。

   

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Teeth

  

In Genesis 49:12, "teeth whiter than milk" signify the Celestial Spiritual [milk] in the Lord's Natural [teeth], where Judah is here representing the Lord. (Arcana Coelestia 2184-2185).

In Psalms 3:7; 37:12, 58:6; Matthew 8:12, teeth signify the lowest natural things in man: in the genuine sense, their truths, in the opposite sense, their falsities. So the gnashing of teeth signifies the collision of falsities with truths. (Arcana Coelestia 4424[3])

In Exodus 21:27, this signifies truth in the natural, here the ultimate, which is the sensuous. (Arcana Coelestia 9062)

The tooth signifies the corporeal proprium, which is the lowest degree of man. (Arcana Coelestia 10283[12])

'Teeth,' as in Genesis 49:12, in the genuine sense, signify the natural level of life. Any hard part of the body, like bones and cartilage, corresponds to the truths and goods of the lowest natural level. 'Teeth' signify the outer edges of the life of the natural self, or the sensory level. There is a natural sensory will, and a natural sensory understanding. When the sensory levels are separated from the interior of the mind, their supposed truths are really mere falsities, and do violence to truths and destroy them. This situation appears in many passages, because sensory people do not see any truth in its own light, but engage in reasoning and altercations about everything... These altercations are heard in the hells as the gnashing of teeth. Viewed in itself, this is the collision of falsity and truth. This is the meaning of 'gnashing of teeth' in Matthew 8:12, 13:42, 50, 22:13, 24:51, 25:30, and Luke 13:28.

(Odkazy: Apocalypse Revealed 435)