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Ezekijel 47

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1 Zatim me odvede natrag k vratima Doma. I gle: voda izvirala ispod praga Doma, prema istoku - jer pročelje Doma bijaše prema istoku - i voda otjecaše ispod desne strane Doma, južno od žrtvenika.

2 Zatim me izvede na sjeverna vrata i provede me uokolo vanjskim putem k vanjskim vratima koja gledaju na istok. I gle, voda izvirala s desne strane.

3 Čovjek pođe prema istoku s užetom u ruci, izmjeri tisuću lakata i prevede me preko vode, a voda mi sezaše do gležanja.

4 Ondje opet izmjeri tisuću lakata i provede me preko vode, a voda bijaše do koljena. I opet izmjeri tisuću lakata i prevede me preko vode što bijaše do bokova.

5 Opet izmjeri tisuću lakata, ali ondje bijaše potok koji ne mogoh prijeći jer je voda nabujala te je trebalo plivati: bijaše to potok koji se ne može prijeći.

6 I upita me: "Vidiš li, sine čovječji?" I odvede me natrag, na obalu potoka.

7 I kad se vratih, gle, na obali s obje strane mnoga stabla.

8 I reče mi: "Ova voda teče u istočni kraj, spušta se u Arabu i teče u more; a kad se u more izlije, vode mu ozdrave.

9 I kuda god potok protječe, sve živo što se miče oživi; i bit će vrlo mnogo riba, jer kamo god dođe ova voda, sve ozdravi i oživi - kuda god protječe ovaj potok.

10 I ribari će ribariti duž mora: od En Gedija do En Eglajima sušit će se mreže; i bit će vrlo mnogo svakovrsnih riba kao u Velikom moru.

11 A močvare onoga mora i njegove bare neće ozdraviti: bit će za sol.

12 Duž potoka na obje strane rast će svakovrsne voćke: lišće im neće otpadati i s njih neće nestajati ploda; svakog će mjeseca roditi novim plodom jer im voda dotječe iz Svetišta. Plod će njihov biti za jelo, a lišće za lijek'.

13 Ovako govori Jahve Gospod: 'Ovo su granice u kojima ćete podijeliti zemlju u baštinu među dvanaest plemena Izraelovih - Josipu dva dijela.

14 Svakom će od vas pripasti podjednako od zemlje koju se zakleh dati vašim ocima, a vama će pripasti u baštinu.

15 Ovo su, dakle, granice zemlje: na sjeveru, od Velikoga mora put Hetlona do Ulaza u Hamat: Sedad,

16 Berota, Sibrajim, između kraja damaščanskog i hamatskoga, i Haser Enon, prema granici hauranskoj.

17 Granica će se, dakle, protezati od mora do Haser Enona, kojemu je na sjeveru kraj damaščanski i hamatski - sjeverna strana.

18 Istočna strana: između Haurana i Damaska, između Gileada i zemlje izraelske, pa Jordanom kao granicom prema istočnomu moru do Tamara - istočna strana.

19 Južna strana: prema jugu od Tamara do Meripskih voda i Kadeša pa potokom prema Velikomu moru - južna strana, prema jugu.

20 A zapadna strana: granica je Veliko more pa do nadomak Ulaza u Hamat - zapadna strana.

21 Tu zemlju razdijelite među sobom po plemenima Izraelovim.

22 Razdijelit ćete je ždrijebom u baštinu između sebe i između došljaka koji žive među vama i koji među vama djecu narodiše: i njih ćete smatrati domorocima među Izraelovim sinovima, da i oni dobiju ždrijebom baštinu među Izraelovim sinovima.

23 Svakome tom došljaku dodijelite baštinu u plemenu u kojem živi - riječ je Jahve Gospoda.

   

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Apocalypse Revealed # 935

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935. Yielding its fruit according to the month. This symbolically means that the Lord produces the goods in a person in accordance with every state of truth in him.

A month symbolizes a person's state of life in respect to truth, as will be seen below. To yield fruit means, symbolically, to produce goods. That fruits are goods of love and charity is something we just showed in no. 934 above. Moreover, because it is the Lord who essentially produces these in a person - even though the person does them as though of himself, thus apparently, as we said in no. 934 above - it follows that the symbolic meaning here is that the Lord produces them inmostly when He is present there.

But we must say how one is to understand the Lord's producing goods of charity in a person in accordance with every state of truth in him.

Someone who believes that a person does good acceptable to the Lord, good that is called spiritual good, without possessing in him truths from the Word, is much mistaken. Goods without truths are not good, and truths without goods are not true in the person, even though they are true in themselves. For good without truth is like something a person wills without understanding, a volition that is not human, but one like that of an animal, or like that of a robot that an operator causes to function.

On the other hand, volition together with comprehension becomes human in accordance with the state of the intellect by which it finds expression. For the condition of everyone's life is such that a person's will can do nothing without the instrumentality of the intellect, nor can the intellect entertain any thought without doing so from the will. The case is the same with goodness and truth, since goodness has to do with the will, and truth with the intellect.

[2] It is apparent from this that the good that the Lord produces in a person accords with the state of truth in him that forms his understanding.

This is what the tree of life yielding its fruit every month symbolizes, because a month symbolizes the state of truth in a person.

All periods of time, such as hours, days, weeks, months, years, and centuries, symbolize states of life, as may be seen in nos. 476, 562. Months symbolize states of life in respect to truths, because months mean times determined by the moon, and the moon symbolizes the truth of the intellect and of faith (nos. 332, 413, 414, 919).

Months have the same meaning in the following:

Blessed of Jehovah is (Joseph's) land..., with the precious fruits of the sun, and with the precious produce of the months... (Deuteronomy 33:13-14)

It shall come to pass that from month to month, and from Sabbath to Sabbath, all flesh shall come to bow down before (Jehovah).... (Isaiah 66:23)

Because of the symbolic meaning of a month, which is the same as that of the moon, sacrifices were made at the beginnings of each month or new moon (Numbers 29:1-6, Isaiah 1:14). The Israelites also sounded the trumpets then (Numbers 10:10, Psalms 81:3). And they were commanded to observe the month of Abib, in which they celebrated Passover (Exodus 12:2, Deuteronomy 16:1).

Months symbolize states of truth in a person, and in an opposite sense states of falsity in him, as may also be seen above in Revelation 9:5, 10, 15; 11:2, and 13:5.

A month has the same symbolic meaning here as in Ezekiel 47:12.

  
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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.