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1 Podigoh opet oči i vidjeh: leti svitak knjige.

2 Anđeo me upita: "Što vidiš?" Odgovorih: "Vidim svitak knjige gdje leti: dužina joj je dvadeset lakata, a širina deset."

3 On mi tad reče: "To je prokletstvo koje će zahvatiti svu zemlju; odsad, svaki koji krade bit će po njem izgnan odavde i svaki koji krivo priseže bit će po njem odavde protjeran.

4 Ja ću ga izvesti - riječ je Jahve nad Vojskama - da uđe u kuću lupežu i u kuću onome koji se krivo kune mojim imenom te da boravi usred njegove kuće i uništi je skupa s njenim drvljem i kamenjem."

5 Anđeo koji je govorio sa mnom iziđe i reče mi: "Podigni oči i pogledaj što se to pojavljuje."

6 Ja ga upitah: "Što je to?" On reče: "To se pojavljuje efa." I nastavi: "To je opća pokvarenost na zemlji."

7 I gle, podiže se olovan poklopac i jedna žena sjedi usred efe.

8 On reče: "To je zloća." I gurnu je u efu i baci joj na otvor olovni poklopac.

9 Podigavši oči, vidjeh: dvije žene izlaze s vjetrom u krilima, a krila im bijahu kao krila rode; one podigoše efu između zemlje i neba.

10 Upitah tad anđela koji je govorio sa mnom: "Kamo odnose efu?"

11 On mi odgovori: "Da joj sagrade hram u zemlji šinearskoj i da joj pripreme postolje na koje će je postaviti."

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 1183

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1183. The specific meaning of 'Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar' is not so clear because, with the exception of Calneh in Amos 6:2, these names are not mentioned anywhere else in the Word; but they are different forms of such worship. As for the land of Shinar however in which these forms of worship existed, it is clear that in the Word it means external worship which has within it that which is unholy. This is clear from its meaning in verse 2 of the next chapter, also in Zechariah 5:11, and especially in Daniel, where the following words appear,

The Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babel, and part of the vessels of the house of God; and he took them away into the land of Shinar, into the house of his god, and he brought the vessels into the house of the treasury of his god. Daniel 1:2.

This reference means that holy things were profaned. 'The vessels of the house of God' are holy things, 'the house of the god of the king of Babel in the land of Shinar' the unholy into which the holy were brought. Although these are historical events they nevertheless embody those arcana within them, as do all the historical narratives of the Word. The matter is made clearer still by the profanation of the same vessels, referred to in Daniel 5:3-5. Unless those events had represented holy things they would never have taken place.

  
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